List of Famous Afro-Latinos
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This is a list of people of Afro-Latino
Afro-Latin American
An Afro-Latin American is a Latin American person of at least partial Black African ancestry; the term may also refer to historical or cultural elements in Latin America thought to emanate from this community...

 descent. An Afro-Latin American (also Afro-Latino) is a Latin American
Latin Americans
Latin Americans are the citizens of the Latin American countries and dependencies. Latin American countries are multi-ethnic, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds. As a result, some Latin Americans don't take their nationality as an ethnicity, but identify themselves with...

 person of at least partial Black African
Black people
The term black people is used in systems of racial classification for humans of a dark skinned phenotype, relative to other racial groups.Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified as "black", and often social variables such as class, socio-economic status also plays a...

 ancestry; the term may also refer to historical or cultural elements in Latin America
Latin America
Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages  – particularly Spanish and Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,500 km² , almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area...

 thought to emanate from this community. People included here must have at least one source asserting that they are Afro-Latinos; that is, that the persons or their ancestors hail from Latin America, have lived a substantial part of their life there, and are of at least partial Black African ancestry.

  • Graciela Dixon
    Graciela Dixon
    Graciela Dixon is an attorney and former Chief Justice of the Corte Suprema de Justicia de Panamá . She is widely considered to be the first woman of African descent to hold that position....

     - Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Panama.
  • Marion Jones
    Marion Jones
    Marion Lois Jones , also known as Marion Jones-Thompson, is a former world champion track and field athlete, and a former professional basketball player for Tulsa Shock in the WNBA...

     - American track and field Olympian
  • Soledad O'Brien
    Soledad O'Brien
    María de la Soledad Teresa O'Brien is an American Broadcast journalist. She is currently the host of the "In America" documentary unit on CNN, and is best known for anchoring the CNN marquee morning newscast American Morning from July 2003 to April 2007, with Miles O'Brien...

     - American TV journalist.
  • Milt Palacio
    Milt Palacio
    Milton Sigmund Palacio , referred to as Milt Palacio, is a Belizean American professional basketball player. He currently plays with the pro club Obradoiro CAB in Spain. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, to Belizean parents and is a Belizean citizen.-College career:Palacio attended...

     - American NBA player
  • Mariah Carey

Zoe Saldana

Alex Rodriguez

See also

  • Lists of people:
    • Afro Argentine#Notable Afro Argentines
    • Afro Bolivian#Notable Afro Bolivians
    • Afro-Brazilian#Important or famous Black Brazilians
    • Afro-Chilean#Notable Afro-Chileans
    • Afro-Cuban#List of Famous Afro-Cubans
    • Afro-Ecuadorian people#Notable Afro-Ecuadorians
    • Afro-Mexican#Notable Afro-Mexicans
    • Afro-Peruvian#List of Renowned Afro-Peruvians
    • African immigration to Puerto Rico#Notable Puerto Ricans of African ancestry
    • Afro-Uruguayan#Notable Afro-Uruguayans

  • Afro-Latin American
    Afro-Latin American
    An Afro-Latin American is a Latin American person of at least partial Black African ancestry; the term may also refer to historical or cultural elements in Latin America thought to emanate from this community...

  • African Diaspora
    African diaspora
    The African diaspora was the movement of Africans and their descendants to places throughout the world—predominantly to the Americas also to Europe, the Middle East and other places around the globe...

  • Afro Americans in the Americas
    Afro Americans in the Americas
    Afro-American peoples of the Americas is used to refer to people born in the Americas who have African ancestors. Most are descendants of people enslaved and transferred from the Sub-Saharan Africa to America by the Europeans to work in their colonies, mostly in mines and plantations as slaves,...

  • List of topics related to Black and African people
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