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list of Panamanians who are famous or notable and were either born in
PanamaPanama , officially the Republic of Panama , is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The...
or have Panamanian ancestry.
Arts
- Carlos Francisco Chang Marín
Carlos Francisco Chang Marín or Changmarín is a Panamanian folklorist, painter, musician, journalist, activist and writer of poetry, essays and children's literature....
, folk artist
- Manuel Chong Neto
Manuel Chong Neto is a Panamanian artist. The son of a Chinese man and Panamanian lady, he was born on November 16, 1927, in Panama City. He was an innate artists, drawing and painting since very young. At age 19 he became an arts teacher at the Girls' Lyceum of Panama, and kept teaching art for...
, painter
- José Luis Rodríguez Pittí
José Luis Rodríguez Pittí is a contemporary writer and documentary photographer. He was born in Panamá.He is the author of short stories, poems and essays and published the books "Panamá Blues" , "miniTEXTOS" , "Sueños urbanos" , "Crónica de invisibles" José Luis Rodríguez Pittí (born 29 March...
, photographer
- Alfredo Sinclair
Alfredo Sinclair is a Panamanian artist. He was born in Panama City. He was the first to explore abstraction. He studied with Humberto Ivaldi at the National School of Painting and later in Argentina, between 1947 and 1951....
, painter
- Olga Sinclair
Olga Sinclair is an artist and figurative painter.She participated for the first time in a collective exhibition amongst professional painters at the age of just 14....
, painter
- Antonio Jose Guzman
' aka , is a Dutch-Panamanian artist.He lives and works in Amsterdam, Panama City and Dakar. Guzman’s work includes films, documentaries, photography, installations and publications. Besides his individual art practice, is the founder and director of the Pan African art collective , a collective...
Audiovisual Artist
Beauty queens and fashion models
- Ester Cordet, former Playboy
Playboy is an American men's magazine that features photographs of nude women as well as journalism and fiction. It was founded in Chicago in 1953 by Hugh Hefner and his associates, and funded in part by a $1,000 loan from Hefner's mother. The magazine has grown into Playboy Enterprises, Inc., with...
Playmate of the Month
- Justine Pasek
Yostin "Justine" Lissette Pasek Patiño is a Panamanian model, FAO Goodwill Ambassador, and Miss Universe 2002.-Early life:Pasek was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine, the daughter of a Panamanian homemaker and Polish engineer...
, former Miss UniverseMiss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers....
Business
- Ursula M. Burns, CEO of Xerox
Xerox Corporation is an American multinational document management corporation that produced and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies...
- Pedro Heilbron
Pedro Heilbron is, since 1988, the CEO of Copa Holdings S.A., the parent company of Panamanian carrier Copa Airlines and Colombian carrier AeroRepública....
, CEO of Copa AirlinesCompañía Panameña de Aviación, S.A., operating as Copa Airlines ', is an airline based in Panama City, Panama, and serves as Panama's flag carrier...
- Karl Kani
Karl Kani is the fashion designer, founder and CEO of the Hip Hop fashion brand Karl Kani. Karl Kani was launched in 1989 as a fashion forward and Hip Hop influenced clothing line...
, urban fashion designer
- Julio Mario Santo Domingo
Julio Mario Santo Domingo Pumarejo was a Colombian businessman and patriarch of the wealthy Santo Domingo family. He was the son of Mario Santo Domingo and Beatriz Pumarejo...
. Colombian businessman (born in Panama)
Entertainment
- Tatyana Ali
Tatyana Marisol Ali is an American actress and R&B singer, best known for her childhood role as Ashley Banks on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air...
, actress (Panamanian mother)
- Jesus Almenas
Jesus Vicente Almenas is a Panamanian-American guitarist. Jesus Vicente Almenas was born at Gorgas Hospital in Ancón, Panama on May 1, 1980. Second son of the marriage between Vicente Almenas and Catalina Concepción. Jesus started his musical training around 1984 with his father, Vicente Almenas,...
, guitarist and composer
- Pedro Altamiranda
Pedro Altamiranda is a Panamanian singer and composer known for his Carnival songs. Altamiranda sings about the culture and politics of Panama using humorous Panamanian slang. This attracts the attention of crowds, not only of adults but also young people who identify with his songs...
, singer/composer
- Nancy Ames, singer
- Tanya Aparicio
Tanya Aparicio is a pianist from Panama; known for having won several contests in her country.- References :* * - External links :...
, pianist
- Tyson Beckford
Tyson Craig Beckford is an American male model and actor, best known as a Ralph Lauren model. He was also the host of both seasons of the Bravo program Make Me a Supermodel.-Biography:...
, Model, (maternal grandmother born in Panama)
- Rubén Blades
Rubén Blades Bellido de Luna is a Panamanian salsa singer, songwriter, lawyer, actor, Latin jazz musician, and politician, performing musically most often in the Afro-Cuban and Latin jazz genres...
, singer,actor, former Minister of Tourism
- Miguel Bosé
Miguel Dominguín Bosé is a Latin Grammy-winning Spanish/Italian musician and actor.-Early life:Bosé was born in San Fernando Hospital in Panama City, Panama, the son of the famous Italian actress Lucia Bosé and the legendary bullfighter Luis Miguel Dominguín. He is also a cousin of Carmen...
, actor and singer (born in Panama)
- Jordana Brewster
Jordana Brewster is an American actress. She began her acting career in her late teens, with a 1995 one-episode role in the soap opera All My Children. She followed that appearance with the recurring role as Nikki Munson in As the World Turns, for which Brewster was nominated for Outstanding Teen...
, actress
- Jeff Buckley
Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley , raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician...
, singer-songwriter
- Billy Cobham
William C. Cobham is a Panamanian American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader, who has called Switzerland home since the late 1970s....
, drummer, for Mahavishnu Orchestra
- Melissa De Sousa
Melissa De Sousa is an American actress. De Sousa was born in New York City, New York of Panamanian descent. She is an Afro-Latino.-Early life:...
, actress (film The Best ManThe Best Man is a 1999 romantic comedy-drama film, written and directed by Malcolm D. Lee. It was produced by Spike Lee's production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks. The film stars Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut and Sanaa Lathan, and is considered to be a male-centered answer to...
)
- Ingrid De Ycaza
Ingrid De Ycaza García De Paredes, better known as Ingrid De Ycaza is a Panamanian singer.-References:...
, singer
- El General
El General is a Panamanian Reggae artist considered by some to be one of the Fathers of Reggaeton. During the early 1990s, he initiated the Spanish spoken dancehall that would later become reggaeton...
, ReggaetónReggaeton is a form of Puerto Rican and Latin American urban and Caribbean music. After its mainstream exposure in 2004, it spread to North American, European and Asian audiences. Reggaeton originated in Puerto Rico but is also has roots from Reggae en Español from Panama and Puerto Rico and...
artist
- La Factoria
La Factoría is a Panamanian Reggaeton and Reggae en Español group led by Marlen Romero better known by her stage name Demphra. Initially the group was formed by Marlen Romero , Johanna Mendoza , Edgardo Miranda and Pablo Maestre...
, Reggeaton duo
- Flex
Félixer Danilo Gómez , known by his stage name DJ Flex and Nigga, is a Panamanian Latin Grammy Award winning reggaeton artist...
, Reggaetón artist
- Carlos Garnett
Carlos Garnett is a Panamanian-American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and jazz group leader.Garnett was born on December 1, 1938, in Red Tank, Panama Canal Zone. He became interested in jazz music after hearing Louis Jordan's and James Moody's music in film shorts...
, jazz saxofonist
- Margarita Henríquez
Margarita Henríquez is the winner of the third season of Latin American Idol which she won on October 9, 2008.- Biography :...
, singer
- Clark Kent
Clark Kent is a hip hop DJ, record producer and music executive of Panamanian descent . His crew of DJs is called "The Supermen", and his DJ moniker is derived from the name of Superman's alter ego....
, rap music producer
- Vincent Laresca
Vincent Laresca is an American actor.Laresca first appeared in film in 1992, in the movie Juice as Radames. Since then, he has appeared in many popular films, including The Devil's Advocate, The Aviator, Empire, Coach Carter, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift and Baz Luhrmann's William...
, Actor
- Makano
Ernán Enrique Jiménez , is a Panamanian singer better known by his stage name Makano. At the age of 12, Jiménez was part of a reggaeton group called "Los Makanos". The members of the group made a promise that the first of them to record a full disc would carry on the group's name...
, Reggaetón artist
- Jaime Murrell
Jaime Murrell is a prolific Christian music composer in Latin-America. He was a secular music national talent in 1970s. He sang leads for a group by the name Mozambiques in Panama City.- References :...
, singer
- Nando Boom
Nando Boom is a Reggaeton and Reggae en Español group from Panamá led by Fernando Brown.Brown began singing in 1977, and Nando Boom started in 1985...
, Reggae artist
- Danilo Pérez
Danilo Pérez is a Panamanian pianist and composer.-Early life:Danilo Pérez was born in Panama in 1965. He is considered one of the finest contemporary pianists and jazz composers of our era....
, jazz pianist
- José Quintero
José Benjamin Quintero was a Panamanian theatre director, producer and pedagogue best known for his interpretations of the works of Eugene O'Neill.-Early years:...
, Broadway director
- Los Rabanes
Los Rabanes is a Latin Grammy winner Rock band from Chitré, Herrera, Republic of Panama. Originated in the year 1992 after the end of the bands "Rum & Coke" and "El Decimo Piso". They formed the band with the idea to play in small pubs and bars at weekends. Soon the group won international...
, reggae-rock band
- J. August Richards
Jaime Augusto Richards III is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of vampire hunter Charles Gunn on the WB cult television series Angel.-Early life and education:...
, actor
- Daphne Rubin-Vega
Daphne Rubin-Vega is a dancer, singer, and actress. She is best known for originating the role of Mimi Marquez in the Broadway musical Rent, and the role of Lucy, in the Off-Broadway play Jack Goes Boating.-Biography:Rubin-Vega was born in Panama City, Panama, the daughter of Daphine Vega, a...
, actress and singer
- Luis Russell
Luis Russell was a jazz pianist and bandleader.Luis Carl Russell was born on Careening Cay, near Bocas del Toro, Panama, in a family of Afro-Caribbean ancestry. His father was a music teacher, and young Luis learned to play violin, guitar, trombone, and piano...
, jazz musician
- Marc Anthony Thompson, actor/musician
- Aaron Zebede
Aaron Zebede is a Panamanian actor and producer. He has won the 'Premio Escena' Best Actor award in three different years for his roles as Tevye the Milkman in Fiddler on the Roof, Otto Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank and as Toddy in the musical Victor Victoria.Also won several awards as producer...
, actor & producer
- Antonio Jose Guzman
' aka , is a Dutch-Panamanian artist.He lives and works in Amsterdam, Panama City and Dakar. Guzman’s work includes films, documentaries, photography, installations and publications. Besides his individual art practice, is the founder and director of the Pan African art collective , a collective...
Audiovisual Artist
- Gonzalo Horna, singer & songwriter
Historical figures
- Bayano
Bayano, also known as Ballano or Vaino, was an African enslaved by Spaniards who led the biggest of the slave revolts of 16th century Panama. Captured from the Mandinka tribe in West Africa, it is alleged that he and his comrades were Muslim...
, rebel slave
- Floyd Britton
Floyd Britton, perhaps Panama's most important leftist leader of the twentieth century, came from a Black West Indian family that had gone to Panama for jobs, one of the two sources of Panama's Black population...
, political dissident
- Edward Ashton Gaskin Stuart, educator and labor leader
- Victoriano Lorenzo
Victoriano Lorenzo is considered one of the great heroes of Panamanian history, although his story and motives are sometimes debated by different sectors in his homeland...
, patriot
- Luis Anderson McNeil
Luis Alejandro Anderson McNeil was born on February 9, 1941 in Colon, Republic of Panama. He was the first Panamanian Secretary General of CIOSL/ORIT Inter-American Regional Organization of Labor...
, former labor minister
- Belisario Porras, former president
- Urracá
Urracá was an indigenous Guaymí chieftain or cacique who fought effectively against the Spanish conquistadors. Captured at one point by conquistadors, Urracá managed to escape a Spanish bound ship and rejoin his own people, and continue leading the fight against the Spanish until his death in 1531...
, chieftain
Journalism
- Escolastico Calvo
Escolastico Calvo was a Panamanian journalist and editor. He was an editor of the Panamanian newspaper La Hora when he was shot by politician Aquilino Boyd after running a scathing editorial. Under Manuel Noriega, he managed government controlled media. After the United States invasion of Panama,...
, journalist
- Gwen Ifill
Gwendolyn L. "Gwen" Ifill is an American journalist, television newscaster and author. She is the managing editor and moderator of Washington Week and a senior correspondent for the PBS NewsHour, both of which air on PBS. She is a political analyst, and moderated the 2004 and 2008 Vice...
, television correspondent and host
- Juan Williams
Juan Williams is an American journalist and political analyst for Fox News Channel, he was born in Panama on April 10, 1954. He also writes for several newspapers including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal and has been published in magazines such as The Atlantic...
, television correspondent
Literature
- Consuelo Tomás
Consuelo Tomás Fitzgerald is a Panamanian actress in puppet shows, playwright, poet, novelist and radio and television co-ordinator....
, writer
- Rosa María Britton
Rosa María Britton is a Panamanian novelist born on July 28, 1936 in Panama City.-Background and education:Her father was Cuban and her mother was Panamanian. She attended school in Panama City and her secondary studies in Havana, Cuba...
, writer
- Carlos Fuentes
Carlos Fuentes Macías is a Mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. He has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages.-Biography:Fuentes was born in...
, writer
- Gloria Guardia
Gloria Guardia is a Panamanian novelist, essayist and journalist. A Fellow of the Panamanian Academy of Letters and Associate Fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy, the Colombian and the Nicaraguan Academy of Letters.-Education:...
novelist and essayist
- Ricardo Miro
Ricardo Miró , is a Panamanian writer and is considered to be the most noteworthy poet of this country....
, poet
- José Luis Rodríguez Pittí
José Luis Rodríguez Pittí is a contemporary writer and documentary photographer. He was born in Panamá.He is the author of short stories, poems and essays and published the books "Panamá Blues" , "miniTEXTOS" , "Sueños urbanos" , "Crónica de invisibles" José Luis Rodríguez Pittí (born 29 March...
, writer
Politics
- Arnulfo Arias Madrid, former president
- Harmodio Arias Madrid
Harmodio Arias Madrid was Panamanian politician. He served as acting President of Panama in January 1931 and again from June 5, 1932 to October 1, 1936 after winning presidential election....
, former president
- Nicolás Ardito Barletta, former president
- Guillermo Endara
Guillermo David Endara Galimany was the President of Panama from 1989 to 1994. He ran for office in 2004 and 2009 but lost to the former President Martin Torrijos and to the incumbent President Ricardo Martinelli....
, former president
- Adrian Fenty
Adrian Malik Fenty was the sixth, and at age 36, the youngest, mayor of the District of Columbia. He served one term—from 2007 to 2011—losing his bid for reelection at the primary level to Democrat Vincent C. Gray...
, former mayor of Washington, D.C.Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
(Panamanian father)
- Esteban Huertas
Esteban Huertas López was a Colombian and later Panamanian military commander.He was born in Boyacá, Colombia. When he was 8 years old he ran away from home to join the army. Fighting in the civil war, he won many medals. In 1900 he lost his left arm when he fired a cannon. It was replaced by a...
, independence fighter
- Jorge Illueca
Jorge Enrique Illueca is a Panamanian politician and diplomat who served as President of Panama in 1984.Illueca was born in Panama City, Panama. He attended the University of Panama, Harvard University and the University of Chicago...
diplomat and politician
- Julio E. Linares, former Treasury Minister (1963–1964) and Foreign Minister (1989–1993)
- John McCain
John Sidney McCain III is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election....
, United States politician
- Mireya Moscoso
Mireya Elisa Moscoso Rodríguez de Arias is a Panamanian political figure. She was the President of Panama from 1999 to 2004, representing the Arnulfista Party...
, former president
- Manuel Antonio Noriega, former dictator
- Ernesto Pérez Balladares
Ernesto Pérez Balladares González-Revilla was the President of Panama between 1994 and 1999. Nicknamed "El Toro" , Ernesto Pérez Balladares is married to Dora Boyd Preciado, with 3 daughters.-Studies :...
, former president
- Belisario Porras, former president
- Martín Torrijos Espino
Martín Erasto Torrijos Espino is a Panamanian politician and the former President of the Republic of Panama.Torrijos was elected President on May 2, 2004...
, former president
- Omar Torrijos
Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera was the Commander of the Panamanian and National Guard and the de facto leader of Panama from 1968 to 1981...
, former dictator
Sports
- Felipe Baloy
Felipe Abdiel Baloy Ramírez is a football defender who currently plays in Mexico for Primera División de México team Santos Laguna and is the current captain of the Panama national football team.-Early life:...
, soccer player
- Leonardo Barker, professional football player
- Reginald Beckford
Reginald Beckford was a Panamanian sprinter and businessman. In 1930, during the Central American Games in Havana, Cuba, Beckford distinguished himself as the first Panamanian to obtain a gold medal at an international sporting event.- Sources :* * *...
, sprinter
- William Bedford
William Bedford is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the Phoenix Suns in the 1st round of the 1986 NBA Draft after playing at Memphis State University...
, former basketball player
- Juan Berenguer
Juan Bautista Berenguer was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the New York Mets, Atlanta Braves, Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins and other teams. He had a career record of 67 wins and 62 losses. A mean-looking, husky Panamanian with long hair and a mustache, he was called "Pancho Villa" by his...
, professional baseball player
- Rolando Blackman
Rolando Antonio Blackman is a retired professional basketball player. He was an All-Star who spent most of his career with the Dallas Mavericks...
, former basketball player
- Rod Carew
Rodney Cline "Rod" Carew is a former Major League Baseball first baseman, second baseman and coach. He played from 1967 to 1985 for the Minnesota Twins and the California Angels and was elected to the All-Star game every season except his last. In 1991, Carew was inducted into the National...
, professional baseball player
- Bruce Chen
Bruce Kastulo Chen is a Panamanian professional baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals.-Background:...
, professional baseball player
- Roberto Corbin
Roberto Corbin is a Panamanian soccer player who is known for being the first Panamanian player to play in Europe.He currently works for Panama's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.- Club :...
, soccer player
- Eileen Coparropa
Eileen Mary Coparropa Alemán is a female freestyle swimmer from Panama, who won a silver and a bronze medal in the women's 50m freestyle event at the Pan American Games. Nicknamed "La Sirena de Oro" she represented her native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in...
, Olympic swimmer
- Manuel Corpas
Manuel "Manny" Corpas is a Major League Baseball pitcher who is currently in the Texas Rangers organization.-Colorado Rockies:...
, professional baseball player
- Ed Cota
Eduardo Enrique Cota is an American professional basketball player. The 6' 0", 195-lb. point guard played for Atlas Stal Ostrów Wielkopolski in Poland. He is currently living in Chapel Hill, North Carolina....
, basketball player
- Frank Davis, professional football player
- Jorge Dely Valdes
Jorge Luis Dely Valdés is a Panamanian football player. He is a twin brother of Julio Dely Valdés and younger brother of Armando Dely Valdés....
, soccer player
- Julio César Dely Valdes, soccer player
- Einar Díaz
Einar Antonio Díaz is a former Major League Baseball catcher.Díaz was called up in by the Cleveland Indians to back up then-starting catcher Sandy Alomar, Jr. He played sparingly from 1996-, and in he got his first starting job with the Indians due to an injury to Alomar...
, professional baseball player
- Roberto Durán
Roberto Durán Samaniego is a retired professional boxer from Panama, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. A versatile brawler in the ring, he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra" during his career....
, world boxing champion
- Rommel Fernandez
Rommel Fernández Gutiérrez was a Panamanian footballer who played as a striker.The second Panamanian footballer to play in Europe, he played almost his entire professional career in Spain, amassing La Liga totals of 104 games and 32 goals - 162/56 both major levels combined - in representation of...
, soccer player
- Gary Forbes
Gary Orlando Forbes is a Panamanian professional basketball player who plays for the Denver Nuggets. The 6 ft 7 in, swingman played college basketball initially at the University of Virginia, then transferred to the University of Massachusetts following his sophomore season at Virginia.-High...
, professional basketball player
- Alfonso Frazier, world champion boxer
- Ruben Garces
Rubén Santiago Garcés Riquelme is a Panamanian professional basketball player. He currently plays for Pamesa Valencia in the Spanish ACB...
, former basketball player
- Stuart Gray, professional basketball player
- George Headley
George Alphonso Headley was a West Indian cricketer who played 22 Test matches, mostly before the Second World War. Considered one of the best batsmen to play for West Indies and one of the greatest cricketers of all time, Headley also represented Jamaica and played professional club cricket in...
, cricket player
- Leroy Jackson
Leroy Jackson is a former American football running back in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at Western Illinois University....
, professional basketball player
- Roberto Kelly
Roberto Conrado Kelly is a former Outfielder in Major League Baseball and is currently the first base coach for the San Francisco Giants. He previously managed the Giants' single-A team, the Augusta GreenJackets. Kelly played for several major league clubs...
, baseball player
- Kevin Kuranyi
Kevin Dennis Kurányi is a German footballer who plays in Russia for Dynamo Moscow. He is a striker who possesses great aerial ability and finishing skills.- Early life :...
,German soccer player
- Lloyd LaBeach
Lloyd Barrington La Beach is a former sprinter from Panama, who won two bronze medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics, the first Olympic medals for Panama...
, first Olympic medal winner from Panama.
- Bobby Lashley, professional wrestler
- Carlos Lee
Carlos Noriel Lee is a first basemen in Major League Baseball who plays for the Houston Astros. He bats and throws right-handed....
, professional baseball player
- Héctor López
Héctor Headley López Swainson is a former left fielder and third baseman in Major League Baseball who played for the Kansas City Athletics and New York Yankees from to...
, professional baseball player
- Jorge Luján
Jorge Luján was born in Córdoba, Argentina and lives in Mexico City where he writes, sings and runs workshops on creative writing. He has published poetry and children's literature , as well as a short story and a book that teaches a method of writing based on images...
, boxer
- José Macías
José Prado Macías Salazar is a Major League Baseball player. He currently plays for the Piratas de Campeche in the Mexican League...
, professional baseball player
- Ramiro Mendoza
Ramiro Mendoza , nicknamed "El Brujo" , is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. Mendoza played with the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox . He batted and threw right-handed. Although Mendoza made 62 starts in his major league career, he was primarily known as a middle relief pitcher...
, professional baseball player
- Orlando Miller
Orlando Miller Salmon , is a former professional baseball player who played in Major League Baseball primarily as a shortstop from 1994-97.Orlando Miller got his pro career started in the minor leagues in 1991...
, professional baseball player
- Omar Moreno
Omar Renan Moreno Quintero was a Major League Baseball outfielder from 1975 to 1986. He was best known for his years with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and was the starting center fielder and leadoff hitter on their 1979 World Series-winning team.Moreno made his first appearance with the Pirates in...
, professional baseball player
- Ben Oglivie
Benjamin Ambrosio Oglivie Palmer is a former Major League Baseball left fielder for the Boston Red Sox , Detroit Tigers , and the Milwaukee Brewers . He also played two seasons in Japan for the Kintetsu Buffaloes...
, professional baseball player
- Panama Al Brown
Alfonso Teofilo Brown , better known as Panama Al Brown, was a bantamweight boxer from Panama who made history by becoming boxing's first Hispanic world champion. Brown was a native of the city of Colón....
, world boxingBoxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
champion, first HispanicHispanic is a term that originally denoted a relationship to Hispania, which is to say the Iberian Peninsula: Andorra, Gibraltar, Portugal and Spain. During the Modern Era, Hispanic sometimes takes on a more limited meaning, particularly in the United States, where the term means a person of ...
world champion in history
- Eusebio Pedroza
Eusebio Pedroza is a native of Panama who holds two records in boxing: His 19 defenses as world featherweight champion are a record for that division, and his seven years as world champion non-stop are a division record too...
, boxer
- Jaime Penedo
Jaime Penedo is a Panamanian football goalkeeper who currently plays for Liga Nacional de Guatemala team CSD Municipal-Club career:Back in Panamá, he used to play for Árabe Unido...
, soccer player
- Laffit Pincay Jr., horse jockey
- Mariano Rivera
Mariano Rivera is a Panamanian right-handed baseball pitcher who has played 17 years in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. Nicknamed "Mo", Rivera has served as a relief pitcher for most of his career, and since 1997, he has been the Yankees' closer...
, professional baseball player
- Rubén Rivera
Rubén Rivera Moreno is a professional baseball player, who is currently an outfielder for the Piratas de Campeche of the Mexican League. He played Major League Baseball for five different teams, from to...
, professional baseball player
- Davis Romero
Davis Javier Romero is a pitcher who is currently a free agent.Davis made his Major League debut on August 18, 2006 against the Baltimore Orioles, pitching 2.2 innings, allowing one hit, no runs, no walks, and getting two strikeouts...
, professional baseball player
- Carlos Ruiz, professional baseball player
- Olmedo Sáenz
Olmedo Sáenz Sánchez is a former Major League Baseball player. Though primarily a pinch hitter, he occasionally played first base or third base.-Chicago White Sox:...
, professional baseball player
- Irving Saladino
Irving Jahir Saladino Aranda is a Panamanian long jumper. He is the current Olympic champion, and Panama's first and only Olympic gold medallist.Saladino was born in Colón, Panama....
, current World and Olympic champion
- Manny Sanguillen
Manuel De Jesus Sanguillen Magan, better known as Manny Sanguillen or "Sangy" , is a former professional baseball player who was a catcher in the Major Leagues. He was named to the All-Star team three times, in , , and . He played primarily for the Pittsburgh Pirates, but also for the Oakland...
, professional baseball player
- Rennie Stennett
Renaldo Antonio Stennett Porte , is a former second baseman in Major League Baseball. Stennett played with the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Francisco Giants . He batted and threw right-handed...
, professional baseball player
- Luis Tejada
Luis "Matador" Tejada is a Panamanian professional association football striker. He currently plays for Juan Aurich of the Peruvian Primera División and the Panamanian national team.-Club career:...
, soccer player
- Oscar Willis Layne
Oscar Willis Layne is a Panamanian racing cyclist born in Panama City of Barbadian parents. He is the winner of three gold medals, from the Central American and Caribbean Games in 1938, 1946 and 1950. On May 30, 2002, Panama City mayor Juan Carlos Navarro presented him with the key to the...
, cyclist
- Roberto Vásquez
Roberto Vásquez is a southpaw boxer. Fighting in the flyweight division, his record is 24-1 . He is currently the WBA world flyweight interim champion....
, world champion boxer
- Hilario Zapata
Hilario Zapata is a former boxer who was a two time world Jr. Flyweight champion and a one time world flyweight champion. Zapata is a Panamanian....
, world champion boxer
Other
- Jorge Cham
Jorge Cham is a Chinese Panamanian cartoonist and roboticist best known for his popular newspaper and web comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper . Cham lives in the United States, where he started drawing PhD Comics as a graduate student at Stanford University...
, webcomics producer, author of PhD Comics
- David Iglesias
David Claudio Iglesias is an American attorney from Albuquerque, New Mexico.He was appointed by President George W. Bush as the United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico in August 2001 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in October 2001. He served for 6 years. He was one of eight U.S...
, American lawyer
- Katie Sierra
The Katie Sierra suspension controversy began in October 2001 when high school student Katie Sierra was suspended from Sissonville High School for her activism in opposition to the bombing of Afghanistan. The fifteen-year old Sierra was engaged in anti-war activism at her school, near Charleston,...
, activist
- Princess Angela of Liechtenstein
Princess Angela of Liechtenstein is the wife of Prince Maximilian of Liechtenstein. Princess Angela and her son, Prince Alfons , are the highest ranked black members of a reigning European dynasty.-Early life:Princess Angela was born Angela Gisela Brown, the daughter of Javier Francisco Brown and...
, member of the Royal House of Liechtenstein
- Sue Sylvester
Susan "Sue" Sylvester is a fictional character of the Fox musical comedy-drama series, Glee. The character is portrayed by actress Jane Lynch, and has appeared in Glee from its pilot episode, first broadcast on May 19, 2009. Sue was developed by Glee creators Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, and Ian...
, Cheerios Coach on GleeGlee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States, and on GlobalTV in Canada. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues...