This is a list of notable individuals from the
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Authors
- Julia Alvarez
Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York of Dominican descent, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, until her father's involvement in a political rebellion forced her family to flee the country.Alvarez rose to...
- Arambilet
Angel Luis Arambilet Alvarez [ARAMBILET] is a writer, screenplayer, painter, graphic artist, filmmaker and systems engineer....
- Aída Cartagena Portalatín
Aída Cartagena Portalatín was a prolific poet, fiction writer and essayist. She wrote in Spanish. Some of her work has been translated into English and other languages....
- Hilma Contreras
Hilma Contreras Castillo was a Dominican writer, born in San Francisco de Macorís.Educated in Paris, where she studied French and English, as well as literature and archaeology. She returned to the Dominican Republic in 1933...
- Junot Diaz
Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer and creative writing professor at MIT. Central to Díaz's work is the duality of the immigrant experience. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao in 2008.-Early years:Díaz was born in Villa Juana, a...
- Pedro Henríquez Ureña
Pedro Henríquez Ureña was an intellectual, essayist, philosopher, humanist, philologist and literary critic, considered one of the foremost figures of Dominican literature and leading man of letters in the Latin America.-Biography and early works:...
- Leopoldo Minaya
Leopoldo Minaya is a Dominican poet. He is well known as a member of the Generation of 1980 literary movement in the Dominican Republic....
- Pedro Mir
Pedro Julio Mir Valentín was a Dominican poet and writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984, and a member of the generation of "Independent poets of the 1940s" in Dominican poetry.His father, a Cuban mechanical engineer, migrated from Cuba to the Dominican Republic...
- Samuel Nina Ortiz
Samuel Nina Ortiz is a Dominican writer, best known for his books Quién Pudiera Escribir . He has also written El Ensayo de un Ensayista and two unpublished books — Fundamentos de Gramática Aplicada and Isagoge Al Estudio de la Lógica Simbólica....
- Arturo Rodriguez Fernandez
Arturo Rodriguez Fernandez is an author, film critic, and playwright.Born in Santo Domigno, he attended high school in Spain, and went on to receive degrees in law from National University Pedro Henríquez Ureña and from universities in Strasbourg, France and Italy...
- Salomé Ureña
Salomé Ureña de Henríquez better known as Salomé Ureña, was a revered poet and pedagogist of the Dominican Republic. Born in Santo Domingo in 1850, she was one of the central figures of lyrical poetry of the 19th century and an innovator of the feminine education in her country.-Biography:Ureña...
Fashion and beauty pageant personalities
- Mariasela Alvarez
Mariasela Margarita Alvarez Lebrón, was born January 31, 1960 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She became the first Dominican woman to win an international beauty title. She was crowned 32nd Miss World 1982, on November 18, at the Royal Albert Hall, London...
- Miss WorldThe Miss World pageant is the oldest surviving major international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951. Since his death in 2000, Morley's wife, Julia Morley, co-chairs the pageant.....
1982
- Susie Castillo
Susie Cintron Castillo , is a former beauty queen who has held the Miss USA title and who has competed in the Miss Teen USA and Miss Universe pageants...
- Miss USAThe Miss USA beauty contest has been held annually since 1952 to select the United States entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA.-History:...
2003
- Claudia Cruz
Claudia Julissa Cruz Rodríguez , commonly referred to as Claudia Cruz represented Dominican Republic in the Miss World pageant in 2004....
- Miss World 2004 first runner-up
- Marianne Cruz
Marianne Cruz González is the 2008 Miss Dominican Republic and was the second runner-up in the Miss Universe 2008. She was born in Salcedo, Dominican Republic.- Personal life :...
- Miss UniverseMiss Universe is an annual international beauty contest run by the Miss Universe Organization.The contest was founded in 1952 by California clothing company Pacific Mills...
2008 second runner-up, Miss Continente AmericanoMiss Continente Americano, also known in English as Miss American Continent, is an international beauty contest held annually, held for the first time in 2006...
- Magali Febles
Magali Esperanza de Jesus Moretta Febles is a beautician and beauty pageant circuit personality...
- owner of the Miss Dominican RepublicMiss Dominican Republic, or Miss República Dominicana in Spanish, is a pageant where women ranging the ages from 18 to 26 compete and each get to represent a Dominican province, city, or community. Miss Dominican Republic organization is managed by Magali Febles...
pageant franchise
- Denny Méndez
Denny Andreina Méndez de la Rosa was a former beauty queen turned model and actress who represented Italy in the 1997 Miss Universe pageant....
- Miss Italy 1997
- Ruth Ocumárez
Ruth Ocumárez is a former beauty queen, actress and model.Born and raised in Santo Domingo, Ocumárez became a celebrity in her nation by becoming the first woman of predominantly African heritage to represent the Dominican Republic in the Miss Universe pageant...
- beauty queen
- Renata Soñé
Renata María de Jesús Soñé Savery is a former Dominican beauty queen who competed in the Miss Universe 2005 pageant, finishing second runner-up after winning Miss Dominican Republic Universe 2005...
- Miss Universe 2005 second runner–up
- Arlenis Sosa
Arlenis Sosa is an Dominican model. She appeared in the 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.-Early Life and Discovery:She was born in Montecristi, Dominican Republic, she moved to New York when she finished high school. Arlenis was discovered when she was walking with her family, and a designer...
- fashion model
- Austria Ulloa - fashion model
- Amelia Vega
Amelia Vega Polanco became the first Dominican woman to be named Miss Universe, in 2003. At the age of 18, she was the youngest winner since 1994....
- Miss Universe 2003, actress and model
Motion picture and television personalities
- Nancy Alvarez
Nancy Álvarez is an Argentine triathlete who represented her country in the second Olympic triathlon at the 2004 Summer Olympics....
- psychologist/television talk show host
- Tina Aumont
Maria Christina Aumont , best known as Tina Aumont, was an American actress of French, and Dominican descent.She was born in Hollywood, California, the daughter of actors Jean-Pierre Aumont and Maria Montez...
- film actress; daughter of Maria Montez
- Lourdes Benedicto
Lourdes Benedicto is an American actress of Filipino / Dominican descent. She is most well known for her starring role as Eva Rios on The Nine, and for her role as Alicia Lawson on the short-lived series Cashmere Mafia...
- actress
- Julissa Bermudez
Julissa Bermudez is a Dominican actress. She is best known for her work as co-host on BET's most popular music video countdown show 106 & Park.- Early life :...
- television personality (BETBlack Entertainment Television is an American cable network based in Washington D.C., and targets young African-American audiences in the United States. Robert L. Johnson founded the network in 1980...
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- Monica Boyar
Monica Boyar is a Dominican nightclub club singer who was popular in the 1940s and 1950s.-Musical Influence:Boyar became a United States citizen after residing in the country from the age of six. She is a dedicated student of the folk music of all countries....
- actress/singer
- Juan Castillo
- BIOGRAPHY :Award-winning filmmaker from the Dominican Republic, grew up in New York City. First Dominican admitted to New York University's graduate film school, where he was Spike Lee's Teaching Assistant and his thesis film, Secuestro, won the Spike Lee Fellowship...
- filmmaker
- Charytin
Charytín Goyco , better known in the show business plainly as Charytín, is a singer, TV presenter and actress from the Dominican Republic...
- actress/singer/television host
- Alexandra Cheron
Alexandra Beauvoir Cheron Tavarez is a Dominican actress, model, businesswoman and socialite. She is perhaps best known for her social life, her several minor film roles, and her work in modeling.-Selected Filmography:...
- actress/model
- Nelson de la Rosa
Nelson Aquino de la Rosa , a.k.a. Mahow, was one of the shortest men of the twentieth and twenty first centuries and an actor from the Dominican Republic. Nelson measured 71 centimeters tall .-Acting career:De la Rosa starred in a 1987 feature Italian horror film made in Dominican Republic called...
- actor/comedian
- Juan Fernández (actor)
Juan de Jesus Fernández de Alarcon is a Latino actor best known for his roles as the "bad-guy" character in his movies....
- actor
- Andrés García
Andrés García is a Dominican-born actor known throughout Latin America and among Hispanics in the United States....
- actor
- Rick Gonzalez
Rick Gonzalez is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles in the films Old School, Coach Carter, Biker Boyz, Pulse and Roll Bounce, and in the TV show Reaper.-Early life:...
- actor
- Arthur Lithgow
Arthur Washington Lithgow was an American actor and director.Lithgow was born in the Dominican Republic, the son of Ina Berenice , a nurse, and Arthur Washington Lithgow II, an entrepreneur. Lithgow, the father of actor John Lithgow, helped pioneer the regional theater movement and founded two...
- actor
- Yorlin Madera
Yorlin Madera is an actor known for his portrayal of the first Cristian Vega on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live from June 1995 to January 1998....
- actor (television series One Life to LiveOne Life to Live is an American soap opera which has been broadcast on the ABC television network since July 15, 1968. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
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- Judy Marte
Judy Marte is a Dominican American actress who can be seen in films such as Raising Victor Vargas and On the Outs...
- actress
- Agliberto Meléndez
Agliberto Melendez is a Dominican film director best known as the director of A One Way Ticket , the Dominican Republic's first feature length film,produced entirely in the Dominican Republic by a Dominican cast and crew. The film became known to American audiences after its 1989 debut in New York...
- film director
- Maria Montez
María Montez was a Dominican-born motion picture actress who gained fame and popularity in the 1940s as an exotic beauty starring in a series of filmed-in-Technicolor costume adventure films. Her screen image was that of a hot-blooded Latin seductress, dressed in fanciful costumes and sparkling...
- actress
- Omahyra Mota
Omahyra Mota is a Dominican model and actress. She made a name for herself in the fashion industry as a chic punk model.-Biography:...
- actress/model
- Patricia Mota
Patrícia Mota is an actress and film producer of Dominican Republic descent. She played a lead role in the critically acclaimed film GI Jesús that premiered at the "Grauman's Egyptian Theatre", on January 23, 2007. GI Jesús took the Grand Jury Prize at CineVegas 06 film festival...
- actress (sister of Omahrya Mota)
- Amaury Nolasco
Amaury Nolasco is a Puerto Rican actor, best known for the role of Fernando Sucre on the television series Prison Break.- Career :...
- Prison BreakPrison Break is a drama television series created by Paul Scheuring, which premiered on the Fox Broadcasting Company on August 29, 2005. The series revolves around two brothers; one has been sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit, and the other devises an elaborate plan to help his...
actor
- Karen Olivo
Karen Olivo is a Tony Award–winning stage and television actress, who is known for originating the role of Vanessa in the Tony Award–winning musical In the Heights both on and off Broadway...
- Tony award-winning actresss
- Manny Perez
Manuel "Manny" Perez Batista is a Dominican actor, who has appeared in the television series Third Watch and in the film Washington Heights. Perez was born in Santiago, Dominican Republic, and currently resides in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood.Perez is one of 6 siblings...
- actor (films Party Monster and El CantanteEl Cantante is a American film released in the United States on August 3, 2007. The biopic stars real life couple singer Marc Anthony and his wife, actress-singer Jennifer Lopez . The film is based on the life story of salsa singer Héctor Lavoe...
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- Dania Ramirez
Dania Ramirez is a Dominican TV film actress.She is most recently known for playing a recurring character during the last season of The Sopranos and as Maya Herrera in Heroes. She also played female antagonist Callisto in X-Men: The Last Stand.-Early life:Ramirez was born in Santo Domingo,...
- actress (television show HeroesHeroes is an American fantasy television drama series created by Tim Kring, which premiered on NBC on September 25, 2006. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the characters' lives...
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- Victor Rasuk
Victor Rasuk is an American actor.Rasuk was born in Harlem, New York to Dominican parents. He has one brother, Silvestre. Rasuk attended performing arts school as a teenager, and began acting at 14...
- actor
- Birmania Rios
Birmania Ríos , is a Dominican American television news journalist.Birmania . She resided in New York until the age of four, when her family decided to relocate to Puerto Rico...
- television personality (television show Despierta America¡Despierta América! is a popular Spanish language morning show which has aired on the Univision television network since 1997. It is broadcast from the network's studios in Miami, Florida, and is hosted by Fernando Arau, Ana María Canseco, Neida Sandoval, and Raúl González...
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- Michelle Rodriguez
Mayte Michelle Rodriguez , better known as Michelle Rodriguez, is an American actress, mostly known for playing tough-girl roles and starring in Hollywood blockbusters such as The Fast & the Furious, Resident Evil, and S.W.A.T. as well as her role as Ana Lucia Cortez in the television series Lost...
- actress
- Zoe Saldana
Zoe Saldaña is an American actress. She is also known as Zoë Saldana, Zoe Saldaña, and Zoë Saldaña...
- actress
- Ludo Vika
Ludo Vika is a Dominican-born actress and comedian.Born in the Dominican Republic, Ludo came from a working middle-class family. At age nine, she and her family relocated to Puerto Rico in search of better opportunities and a new life...
- actress/comedienne
- Sandra Zaiter
Sandra Zaiter is an actress and television children's show host in Puerto Rico. She is also a singer and composer, and is a former athlete....
- actress, singer, composer, athlete
Political and military figures
- Buenaventura Báez Méndez
Buenaventura Báez Méndez was the President of the Dominican Republic five times. He is notable for attempting to have his country annexed by other countries multiple times....
- former president
- Joaquín Balaguer Ricardo
Joaquín Antonio Balaguer Ricardo was the President of the Dominican Republic from 1960 to 1962, from 1966 to 1978, and again from 1986 to 1996.-Early life and introduction to politics:...
- former president (1960-1962, 1966-1978, 1986-1996)
- Salvador Jorge Blanco
Salvador Jorge Blanco is a politician, lawyer and a writer. He was the 41st President of the Dominican Republic, from 1982 –1986. He was a Senator running for the PRD party...
- former president (1982-1986)
- Juan Bosch y Gaviño
Juan Emilio Bosch Gaviño was a politician, historian, short story writer, essayist, educator, and the first cleanly elected president of the Dominican Republic for a brief time in 1963. Previously, he had been the leader of Dominican opposition in exile to the dictatorial regime of Rafael...
, former president
- Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó, former president
- Margarita Cedeño de Fernández
Margarita Cedeño de Fernández is the present First Lady of the Dominican Republic. She is the wife of President Leonel Fernández. As First Lady, she and her staff coordinate social policies for her husband's administration, generating programs of health and education for children, young people,...
- current First LadyFirst Lady or First Gentlemanis the unofficial title used in some countries for the spouse of an elected head of state. In the United States, it is also used for the spouse of the governor.-Origin:...
of the Dominican Republic
- Juan Pablo Duarte
Juan Pablo Duarte y Díez was a 19th century visionary and liberal thinker along with Francisco del Rosario Sanchez and Ramón Matías Mella, is widely considered the architect of the Dominican Republic and its independence from Haitian rule in 1844...
- one of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic
- Adriano Espaillat
Adriano Espaillat was born in the Dominican Republic and emigrated to New York City. In 1996, he became the first Dominican to be elected to the New York State Assembly, representing the Washington Heights and Inwood neighborhoods of Manhattan. This also made him the first Dominican American...
- New York State Assemblyman; first Dominican American to be elected to a State House in the United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
- Leonel Fernández Reyna - former President (1996-2000, 2004-2008, 2008-2012)
- Pedro Florentino
General Pedro Florentino was an officer in the army of the Dominican Republic during the struggle to restore Dominican independence from Haiti. He was the hero of the important Battle of Jacuba...
- hero of the Battle of Jacuba, during the War of IndependenceThe Dominican Independence War gave the Dominican Republic independence from Haiti. Prior to the war, the whole island of Hispaniola had been Haitian for 22 years when Haiti occupied the newly independent state of Spanish Haiti....
from Haiti
- Maximiliano Gómez
Maximiliano Gómez Horacio "El Moreno" was the leader of the Maoist Movimiento Popular Dominicano , a militant organization opposed to the Joaquín Balaguer government and to U.S. presence in the Dominican Republic...
- revolutionary political leader
- Máximo Gómez
Máximo Gómez y Báez was a Major General in the Ten Years' War and Cuba's military commander in that country's War of Independence ....
- military commander of the Cuban War of IndependenceThe Cuban War of Independence was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Ten Years' War and the Little War...
- Antonio Guzmán Fernández
Silvestre Antonio Guzmán Fernández was a Dominican business man and a politician. He was the 46th President of the Dominican Republic, from 1978 to 1982.-Early life:Antonio Guzmán was born in the town of La Vega...
- former president
- Salvador Jorge Blanco
Salvador Jorge Blanco is a politician, lawyer and a writer. He was the 41st President of the Dominican Republic, from 1982 –1986. He was a Senator running for the PRD party...
- former president, author
- Gregorio Luperón
Gregorio Luperón , is best known for being a Dominican military and state leader who was the main leader in the restoration of the Dominican Republic after the Spanish annexation in 1863....
- former president
- Ramón Matías Mella
Matías Ramón Mella, born 25 February 1816, is regarded as a national hero in the Dominican Republic. The Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and Mella is partially named in his honor....
- one of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic.
- Hipólito Mejía
Rafael Hipólito Mejía Domínguez , is a former President of the Dominican Republic. He served from August 16, 2000 to August 16, 2004.- Early life :...
- former president (2000-2004)
- The Mirabal sisters
The Mirabal sisters were four Dominican sisters, three of whom were assassinated by the dictator Rafael Trujillo.-History:Patria Mercedes Mirabal , María Argentina Minerva Mirabal and Antonia María Teresa Mirabal — were citizens of the Dominican...
- political dissidents
- José Francisco Peña Gómez
José Francisco Peña Gómez was a politician from the Dominican Republic. He was the leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party , a three-time candidate for president of the Dominican Republic and former Mayor of Santo Domingo...
- mayor of Santo Domingo (1982-1986)
- Joseline Peña-Melnyk
Joseline Peña-Melnyk is an American politician who represents District 21 in the Maryland House of Delegates.-Background:Born in the Dominican Republic, Joseline Peña attended John F. Kennedy High School and graduated from Buffalo State College with a B.S. in Criminal Justice...
- member of the Maryland General AssemblyThe Maryland General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland. It is a bicameral body. The upper chamber, the Maryland State Senate, has 47 representatives and the lower chamber, the Maryland House of Delegates, has 141 representatives...
- Tilo Rivas
Tilo Rivas represents on the Hudson County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders, one of nine members who serve in a legislative role administering all county business. District 6 includes Union City...
- Union CountyUnion City is a city in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. According to the United States 2000 Census, the city had a total population of 67,088, living on a land area of 3.28 km² . It is the most densely populated city in the United States, with a density of 52,977.8 per square mile -...
, New JerseyNew Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, and to the east by the Hudson River, Upper New York Bay, the Kill Van Kull, Newark Bay, the Arthur Kill, Raritan Bay, Sandy Hook Bay, Westchester County, New York City, Long Island, and...
Commissioner of Public AffairsThe Commissioner of Public Affairs heads one of the departments in those local governments in New Jersey that operate under the Walsh Act form of municipal governance. This is a standalone position in Walsh Act municipalities with a five-member commission...
and Hudson CountyHudson County is in New Jersey, United States. Its county seat is Jersey City.-Geography and topography:According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 62 square miles , of which, 47 square miles is land and 16 square miles is water...
politician
- José Antonio (Pepillo) Salcedo - first president after the Restoration
The Dominican Restoration War was a guerrilla war between 1863 and 1865 in the Dominican Republic between nationalists and Spain, who had recolonized the country 17 years after its independence.- Background :...
of the Dominican Republic
- Francisco del Rosario Sánchez
Francisco Del Rosario Sánchez was a politician and founding father of the Dominican Republic. He is considered by Dominicans as the second leader of the 1844 Dominican War of Independence, after Juan Pablo Duarte and before Ramón Matías Mella. The Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and Mella is...
- one of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic
- Jose Santana
José Manuel Santana Silvestre, is the Executive Director of the Dominican Republic Presidential Commission of Science and Technology and Research Associate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
- former government minister
- Pedro Santana Familias
Pedro Santana Familias was a wealthy cattle rancher, soldier, politician and dictator of the Dominican Republic born in the border community of Hincha...
- first president (1844)
- Rafael Leónidas Trujillo
Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina or "El Jefe" ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961. He officially served as president from 1930 to 1938 and again from 1942 to 1952, ruling for the rest of his tenure in office as an unelected military strongman...
- dictator (1930–1961)
- Ramfis Trujillo
Lieutenant General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Martínez in Madrid, Spain), better known as Ramfis Trujillo, was the son of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina and María Martínez...
- general and son of dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo
For a complete list, please refer to List of Presidents of the Dominican Republic
Scientists and scholars
- Victor A. Carreño
Dr. Victor A. Carreño is a NASA Aerospace Engineer and Aerospace Technologist. He holds the patent for the Single Frequency Multitransmitter Telemetry System.-Early years:...
- NASAThe National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an agency of the United States government, responsible for the nation's public space program. NASA was established by the National Aeronautics and Space Act on July 29, 1958, replacing its predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for...
aerospace engineer
- Héctor Valdez Albizu
Héctor Valdez Albizu is the current Governor of the Banco Central de la República Dominicana , a position he has held since August 31, 1994...
- economist
Singers and musicians
- Manny Albam
Manny Albam was a jazz baritone saxophone player who eventually put the instrument down in favour of a long and respected career as an arranger, writer, and teacher.-Biography:The son of Lithuanian immigrants, who was born in the Dominican Republic when his mother went into labour en route...
- jazz musician
- José Alberto
José Alberto is a Dominican salsa singer. Jose Alberto moved to Puerto Rico with his family at the age of 7, and inspired by Latin music went on to polish his singing at Las Antillas Military Academy...
(aka El Canario) - salsa singer
- Anaís
Anaís is the winner of the second season of Objetivo Fama, a Puerto Rican reality-show-contest that airs on Univision Puerto Rico in Puerto Rico and on the Telefutura network in the U.S. mainland...
- pop singer
- Arcangel
Austin Santos , better known by his stage name Arcángel, is a Puerto Rican/Dominican singer-songwriter, . He was born in New York and moved to Puerto Rico some years later. While living in Puerto Rico, he would eventually form part of a popular then-underground reggaeton act, Arcángel & De La Ghetto...
- reggaeton artist
- Alex Bueno
Alex Bueno is a Dominican singer and guitarist. He moved from his native San Jose de las Matas to Santo Domingo when he was a teenager, looking for a better chance to get involved in show business....
- merengue/bachata singer
- Aventura
Aventura is a Bachata music group formed in The Bronx, New York in 1994. The group comprises lead singer and featured composer Anthony "Romeo" Santos, guitarist and producer Lenny Santos, bassist Max Santos, and singer and composer Henry Santos Jeter...
- bachata group
- Nini Caffaro
Nini Cáffaro, Erasmo Alfonso Cáffaro Durán is an international Dominican Republic singer.-Biography:Cáffaro began singing gospel while attending elementary school...
- singer
- Michel Camilo
Michel Camilo is a pianist and composer from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is known as a great jazz, Latin and classical pianist with superb technical ability, and has played and recorded with many world-famous musicians...
- jazz pianist
- Angela Carrasco
Angela Carrasco is a Dominican singer. Carrasco was one of a group of Latin American divas in the 1970s. This group also included Susana Gimenez, Charytin, Iris Chacon, Ednita Nazario, Yolandita Monge and Rocío Dúrcal....
- singer
- Aisha Syed Castro
Aisha Syed Castro was born in the city of Santiago, Dominican Republic, September 15, 1989 , she is a young virtuoso Violinist and a concertina of the school orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin School in London.-Biography:...
- violinist
- Las Chicas Del Can
Las Chicas Del Can is a famous and extremely successful all-female merengue group from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Originally created by Wilfrido Vargas, several teams of female vocalists and musicians have alternately performed under the name Las Chicas del Can throughout the group's...
- Angel Clivillés
Angel Clivillés is the stage name used by Louise Angel Sabater, a Latina dance music singer of Dominican and Puerto Rican descent. She was born in the Bronx, New York.-Music career:...
- singer/lead member of The Cover GirlsThe Cover Girls is a New York City-based freestyle-urban-dance-pop girl group that achieved the majority of its chart success in the late 1980s and early 1990s...
- Coro - freestyle
Freestyle rap commonly refers to rap lyrics which are improvised, i.e. performed with few or no previously composed lyrics, off the top of the head...
singer/actor
- Cristal Marie
Cristal Marie is a Dominican singer, songwriter, actress and performer who is best known for being the first Dominican to sing the opening theme of a North American telenovela, Telemundo's "Pecados Ajenos" alongside Cuban-American singer Jencarlos Canela.Nominated for two consecutive years as...
- Latin Pop singer, songwriter
- Kat Deluna
Kathleen Emperatriz DeLuna is an American Pop and R&B singer of Dominican heritage, better known by her stage name Kat DeLuna. She is currently signed to Universal Motown, after previously being signed to Epic...
- singer
- Don Miguelo
Don Miguelo is a Dominican rapper in the Reggaeton genre. He became famous with his smash hit "La Cola De Motora" and "Ay Que Tu Quiere". He has recently traveled to the United States in hopes that his new album will be an even better seller than before....
- reggaeton artist
- El Jeffrey
El Jeffrey is a merengue artist from the Dominican Republic. A major album of his is "Mi Tierra"....
- merengue singer
- Jackeline Estevez
Jackeline Estevez is a popular female singer in the Dominican Republic. She wasborn in San Francisco de Macoris, Dominican Republic. She has been performing for more than 27 years and recently won the 2008 Casandra Award for best female artist....
- pop singer
- Fabolous
John David Jackson , better known by his stage name Fabolous, is an American recording artist. Growing up in the Brooklyn area of New York City, he was among the first east coast rappers influenced by Southern hip hop sounds and secondly became popular through his hit single "Can't Deny It" in...
- rapper
- Zacarias Ferreira
Zacarías Ferreira is a Bachata artist from the Dominican Republic. He was born in the 1970s in the Dominican Republic.-Biography:Ferreira was born in the cigar-manufacturing town of Tamboril, near Santiago in the Cibao region of the north-western Dominican Republic...
- bachata singer
- Billo Frómeta
Billo Frómeta was a Dominican Republic orchestra conductor, arranger and composer who lived and worked most of his life in Venezuela, where he is remembered.- Early career :...
- singer
- Irv Gotti - producer
- Juan Luis Guerra
Juan Luis Guerra-Seijas is a Dominican singer, songwriter, and self-producer who has sold 20 million records, and won numerous awards including nine Latin Grammy Awards two Grammy Awards, and two Latin Billboard Music Awards. He won 5 Latin Grammy awards in 2007 tying him with Juanes for the...
- merengue/bachata/salsa singer
- Tatico Henriquez
Tatico Henriquez, considered by many to be the best accordionist of merengue tipico, was an accordionist hailing from Nagua, Dominican Republic whose career was most prominent in the 1960s into the early 1970s...
- godfather of merengue tipico
- Julio Alberto Hernández
Julio Alberto Hernández is a Dominican composer specializing in folk-music based compositions.He was born in Santiago de los Caballeros and is the nephew of P.T. Camejo. In addition to studying suffrage with his uncle, he also studied saxophone, piano, and the organ, eventually becoming a teacher...
- composer
- Maridalia Hernandez
Maridalia Hernández is a singer from the Dominican Republic.-Early life and education:Maridalia Hernández was born in Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic, in 1959...
- Eddy Herrera
Eddy Jose Herrera de los Rios, also known as Eddy Herrera, is a merengue singer and winner of more than seven Casandra Awards. Born on [April 30] 1964 in the Dominican Republic, in the city of Santiago de Los Caballeros.-History :...
- merengue singer
- Nicky Jam
Nick Rivera Caminero is known artistically as Nicky Jam. He was born to a Dominican mother and a Puerto Rican father...
- reggaeton artist
- Krisspy
Krisspy is a well-known Dominican Merengue singer who has appeared on a number of compilations, including 100% Dominicano: La Nueva Sangre del Reggaeton and Bachata Tipico. He has also performed with Ingco Crew, a prominent Dominican reggaeton group, and Grupo Aguakate, another merengue tipico gorup...
- merengue singer
- Ñico Lora
Francisco Antonio Lora Cabrera popularly known as Ñico Lora was a Dominican folk musician consider as one of the fathers of Merengue....
- known as the "Father of Merengue" music, singer
- Los Hermanos Rosario
Los Hermanos Rosario is a merengue music band, originally consisting of siblings Toño Rosario, Pepe, Rafa and Luis.- History :Since childhood, the brothers showed interest in music, even playing self-created instruments like bottle caps, plastic containers, and other items. Soon, they started...
- merengue group
- Luny Tunes
Luny Tunes are a Dominican reggaeton production duo consisting of Francisco Saldaña and Víctor Cabrera , who have been known for creating unique musical rhythms for some of the most popular reggaeton artists since the early 2000s.-Biography:...
- reggaeton producers/artists
- Noztra
Martin Rivera , better known as Noztra, is a reggaeton musician. Born in San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic, his family moved to New York looking for work when he was seven. At the age of 16, Noztra began composing his own lyrics and music.- History :In 2002 he conducted one of the first...
- reggaeton artist
- Nova
Pacha Massive , is a creative collaboration between Dominican-born Nova and Colombian-born Maya . The band, from the Bronx, New York City, was Nacional Records’ first U.S.-based signing...
- singer
- Shalim Ortiz
Shalim Gerardo Ortiz Goyco , is a singer/actor. He is the eldest son of Puerto Rican entertainer Elin Ortiz and his wife, the Dominican singer across Charytin Goyco.-Television:...
- singer
- Johnny Pacheco
Johnny Pacheco is a Dominican producer, musician, bandleader, and one of the most influential figures in American salsa music.-Early history:Johnny Pacheco was born on March 24, 1935 in Santiago de los Caballeros. Pacheco inherited his passion for music from his father, Rafael Azarias Pacheco, who...
- salsa singer/producer/bandleader
- Leonardo Paniagua
Leonardo Panigua is one of the Dominican Republic's most popular bachata musicians. Paniagua emerged from obscurity to overnight stardom in the 1970s when he recorded his first 45rpm record, "Amada, Amante" for Discos Guarachita....
- bachata artist
- Chichi Peralta
Chichi Peralta is a musician, arranger and producer, from the Dominican Republic.-Biography:Chichi Peralta was born on July, 9th 1966 in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic. His musical career began at the age of four, when he built his first drum...
- singer, bandleader, percussionist
- Geovanny Polanco
Geovanny Polanco is a merengue tipico accordionist from Maria Trinidad Sanchez, Nagua, Dominican Republic...
- merengue singer
- Milly Quezada
"Milagros Quezada Borbón", much better known in the musical entertainment world as Milly Quezada, is a Latin Grammy-winning Dominican Merengue music singer...
- singer, dubbed the "Queen of Merengue"
- Ramon Orlando
Ramón Orlando Valoy is a merengue musician and son of Cuco Valoy.Ramón Orlando was born in Manoguayabo, then part of Santo Domingo, D.N. and now part of Santo Domingo Province...
- merengue singer (son of Cuco Valoy)
- Fausto Rey
Fausto Ramón Sepúlveda, better known by his stage name Fausto Rey, was born December 1, 1950 in the Higuey province, on the east coast of the Dominican Republic....
- singer/composer
- Frank Reyes
Frank Reyes , born Francisco López Reyes, is one of the best known bachata artists, who is famous throughout Latin America. He was born in the town of Tenares in Boba Arriba, Dominican Republic. Reyes discovered his musical talent when he was a young boy. He and his brothers started their own...
- bachata singer
- Mario Rivera
Mario Rivera was a musician, composer and arranger. He was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.- References :* * *...
- jazz composer/artist
- Raulin Rodriguez
Born in San Fernando de Monte Cristi, Monte Cristi in the Dominican Republic on June 16 1970,related to the Zapata family of Monte cristi is one of the first major bachata artists to have national success and popularize this style of music in his country. Born in the northwest coast of the island,...
- bachata singer
- Tito Rodriguez
Tito Rodríguez , was a popular 1950s and 1960s Puerto Rican singer and bandleader. He is known by many fans as "El Inolvidable" , a moniker based on his most popular interpretation, a song written by composer Julio Gutierrez.-Early years:Rodríguez , born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, to...
- singer
- Toño Rosario
Máximo Antonio del Rosario , commonly known as Toño Rosario, is a Merengue musician born in the Dominican Republic. Toño is well-known throughout Latin American, the US, and Europe. When Toño was a child, others would tease him by calling him "El Cuco"...
- merengue singer
- Raulin Rosendo
A Dominican Republic-born singer transplanted to New York City, salsa star Raulín Rosendo was born in Santo Domingo on August 30, 1957. Steeped in the rhythms of Afro-Antilles music throughout his childhood, he began his performing career at the age of 12 as a member of the merengue group “El Chivo...
- salsa singer
- Roger Sanchez
Roger Sanchez, also known as Roger S. and The S Man, is a Grammy award-winning American House music DJ who has scored many hits in the European and World Charts.-Biography:...
- DJ/house music producer
- Daniel Santacruz
Daniel Santacruz Singer/songwriter born in New Jersey but raised in Dominican Republic. His father is Cuban and his mother Dominican. He started his solo career in 2003, and released his first self produced album Por un beso that year...
- singer/songwriter
- Juelz Santana
Laron Louis James , better known by his stage name Juelz Santana, is an American rapper, producer and actor. He came to fame following his appearances on Cam'ron's 2002 singles, "Oh Boy" and "Hey Ma"...
- rapper
- Antony Santos
Antony Santos is a bachata musician from the Dominican Republic, renowned for his role in redefining the genre to include romantic music.He entered onto the scene in the early 1990s. being the first rural bachatero to reach a mainstream audience with his hit "Voy pa'lla", shortly after Blas Durán...
- bachata singer
- Yoskar Sarante
Yoskar "El Prabu" Sarante is a prominent Dominican bachatero. He works with the nueva bachata movement, and has been on compilations such as Bachata Tipico and The Rough Guide to Bachata. During his career, he was invited to sing for the Mayor at the New York Mets Stadium, which gained him some...
- bachata singer
- Luis Segura
Luis Segura is a Dominican-born in mao city ;singer known as "The Father of the Bachata." He is considered one the best at his art with hits like Pena por ti, Dicen, and No me celes tanto; and is known worldwide. He is also known for the use of double entendre in his songs, like "El Salon" ....
- singer
- Triple Seis - rapper
- Cuco Valoy
Cuco Valoy Popularly known as "El Brujo"--the sorcerer--the Dominican salsero and merenguero Valoy first attracted attention in the 50s in the duo Los Ahijados, with his brother Martín Valoy...
- merengue singer/bandleader
- Luis Vargas
Luis Vargas is one of the Dominican Republic's most popular bachata musicians. When he began in the early 1990s, Antony Santos, considered by some to be one of the most influential bachata musicians of all time, was his güira player....
- bachata singer
- Sergio Vargas
For the Chilean football goalkeeper with the same name see Sergio Vargas Sergio Vargas is a famous merengue singer from the Dominican Republic who became a politician in 2006...
- merengue singer
- Wilfrido Vargas
Wilfrido Radamés Vargas Martínez was born in Altamira, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, Vargas began his musical studies early, attending the Municipal Academy of Music beginning at age 10. He has been a trumpeter and a vocalist, but has also arranged, composed, and led his band, and is also a...
- merengue singer
- Johnny Ventura
Juan de Dios Ventura Soriano, better known by his stage name, Johnny Ventura, was born in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic, on the 8th of march in 1940. Son of a modest family, he dreamt in his childhood to become the best Dominican architect, however, the 2nd of june the year 1965...
- merengue singer
- Fernando Villalona
Fernando Villalona, "The first artist named "El Mayimbe" is a Dominican merengue singer whose popularity started to grow in the early 1980s and has not declined ever since....
- singer
Sports figures
- Manny Acta
Manuel Elias Acta is a former manager of the Washington Nationals in Major League Baseball. In the Dominican Winter League, he managed the Tigres del Licey from 2002–2004, including leading them to victory at the 2003 Caribbean Series...
- Manager of the Washington NationalsThe Washington Nationals are a professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C. The Nationals are a member of the Eastern Division of the National League of Major League Baseball . The team moved into the newly-built Nationals Park in 2008, after playing their first three seasons in RFK...
- Antonio Alfonseca
Antonio Alfonseca is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Lancaster Barnstormers of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He last pitched in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies, and is also known for having an extra digit on each hand and foot...
- baseball player
- Carlos Almanzar
Carlos Manuel Almanzar Girón is a Major League Baseball pitcher. He has pitched for the Toronto Blue Jays, San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, and Texas Rangers...
- baseball player
- Danny Almonte
Danny Almonte Rojas is a former Little League baseball pitcher, the subject of a media circus in 2001. Considered a phenom as he led his Bronx team to third place in the 2001 Little League World Series, Almonte was revealed to have actually been two years too old to play Little League baseball...
- Little Leaguer
- Felipe Alou
Felipe Rojas Alou , is a former outfielder and first baseman in Major League Baseball and the former manager of the San Francisco Giants and Montreal Expos...
- baseball manager and player
- Jesús Alou
Jesús María Rojas Alou is a former professional baseball player for the San Francisco Giants, Houston Astros, Oakland Athletics, and New York Mets...
- baseball player
- Matty Alou
Mateo Rojas "Matty" Alou is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball for the San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, and San Diego Padres...
- baseball player
- Moisés Alou
Moisés Rojas Alou is a former outfielder in Major League Baseball. His father Felipe, who managed Moises with the Expos from 1992 to 1996 and the Giants from 2005 to 2006, as well as uncles Matty and Jesús, and cousin Mel Rojas, all had long careers in Major League Baseball...
- baseball player
- Joaquín Andújar
Joaquín Andújar [an-DOO-har] is a former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher who played for the Houston Astros , St...
- baseball player
- Greg Aquino
Gregori Emilio Aquino Valera is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Cleveland Indians.Aquino was originally signed as a 16-year-old infielder in , by the Arizona Diamondbacks....
- baseball player
- Joaquin Arias
Joaquín Árias is a Major League Baseball second baseman for the Texas Rangers.-Baseball career:...
- baseball player
- Miguel Batista
Miguel Descartes Batista Jerez is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Seattle Mariners and author.-Arizona Diamondbacks:...
- baseball player
- Tony Batista
Leocadio Francisco "Tony" Batista is a former Major League Baseball infielder who is currently a free agent. He played in the major leagues from to and to , and with the Softbank Hawks of the Japanese Pacific League in...
- baseball player
- Danny Bautista
Daniel Bautista Alcántara is a former MLB baseball outfielder. He is more commonly known as Danny Bautista....
- baseball player
- Denny Bautista
Denny M. Bautista is a Major League Baseball pitcher in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization.-Florida Marlins:...
- baseball player
- George Bell - baseball player
- Ronnie Belliard
Ronald "Ronnie" Belliard is a second baseman of Dominican descent who currently plays for the Los Angeles Dodgers...
- baseball player
- Francis Beltran
Francis LeBron Beltrán is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher who is currently a Free Agent.-Chicago Cubs:...
- baseball player
- Adrián Beltré
Adrián Beltré Pérez is a Major League Baseball third baseman who plays for the Seattle Mariners. Previously, he played for the Los Angeles Dodgers . He bats and throws right-handed....
, baseball player
- Esteban Beltre
Esteban Valera Beltré is a former shortstop in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago White Sox , Texas Rangers and Boston Red Sox...
- baseball player
- Armando Benitez
Armando Germán Benítez is a relief pitcher for the Newark Bears in the Atlantic League and a former Major League closer. He is known for his once lively fastball, which in the past reached over 100 MPH, and his crafty splitter...
- baseball player
- Joaquin Benoit
Joaquín Antonio Benoit Peña is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Texas Rangers.-Baseball career:...
- baseball player
- Angel Berroa
Ángel Maria Berroa Selmo is a Dominican-American professional baseball player. A shortstop and third baseman, he is a [free agent]. Berroa was selected as the American League Rookie of the Year.-Early career:Berroa was originally signed as an undrafted free agent by the Oakland Athletics in 1997...
- baseball player
- Wilson Betemit
Wilson Betemit is a 6' 3" switch-hitting Major League Baseball infielder who is currently a free agent.-Baseball career:...
- baseball player
- Tony Blanco
Tony Hemiphere Blanco is a professional baseball third baseman and outfielder, He last played in Major League Baseball for the Washington Nationals. During , his rookie season, he hit .177 with one home run and seven RBI.Blanco began his career in the farm system of the Boston Red Sox...
- baseball player
- Yhency Brazoban
Yhency José Brazobán is a Major League Baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He throws and bats right-handed.-Minor league career:...
- baseball player
- Juan Brito
Juan Ramon Brito is a Major League Baseball catcher. Brito made his MLB debut with the Kansas City Royals in...
- baseball player
- Daniel Cabrera
Daniel Alberto Cabrera Cruz is a right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who is in the Arizona Diamondbacks. He is one of the taller pitchers in the league, standing at 6' 9" and 270 lb.-Professional career:Cabrera was signed by the Baltimore Orioles as an amateur in...
- baseball player
- Francisco Cabrera
Francisco Cabrera is a former Major League Baseball catcher/first baseman who played five seasons with two different teams, the Toronto Blue Jays and the Atlanta Braves, from to...
- baseball player, hero of the 1992 NLCS for the Atlanta BravesThe Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. From to the present, the Braves have played in Turner Field....
- Melky Cabrera
Melky Astacio Cabrera is a center fielder for the New York Yankees, a Major League Baseball team.-Minors:Cabrera was signed by the New York Yankees on November 13, 2001, at age 17...
- baseball player
- Robinson Canó
Robinson José Canó is a second baseman in Major League Baseball, who currently plays for the New York Yankees.He was named after baseball legend Jackie Robinson.-Family & early life:...
- baseball player
- Fausto Carmona
Fausto C. Carmona is a right-handed pitcher for the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball. Carmona made his major league debut with the Indians on April 15,...
- baseball player
- Rico Carty
Ricardo Adolfo Jacobo Carty was a major league baseball player with a 15 year career from 1963-1967, 1969-1970, 1972-1979. He missed the 1968 season with tuberculosis and the 1971 season with a knee injury...
- baseball player
- Bernie Castro
Bernabel "Bernie" Castro is a Major League Baseball second baseman. He has played two major league seasons, one with each the Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles.-Career:...
- baseball player
- Fabio Castro
Fabio Enrique Castro is a relief pitcher with the Toronto Blue Jays organization. Castro was the first pick in the Rule 5 Draft. He was selected by the Kansas City Royals, who then traded Castro to the Texas Rangers for second baseman Esteban German...
- baseball player
- Alberto Castillo - baseball Player
- Luis Castillo - baseball Player
- Luis Castillo - football player
- César Cedeño
César Cedeño Encarnación is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball who played with the Houston Astros , Cincinnati Reds , St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers...
- baseball player
- Stalin Colinet
Stalin D. Colinet is a former defensive tackle/defensive end in the NFL. He played for 3 teams over his 6 year career. He played for the Minnesota Vikings, Cleveland Browns, and Jacksonville Jaguars. He played college ball at Boston College....
- Former NFL player
- Jesus Colome
Jesús Colomé de la Cruz is a Major League Baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent.-Oakland Athletics:...
- baseball player
- Bartolo Colón
Bartolo Colón is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher who is currently a free agent. He won the American League Cy Young Award with the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in .-Early life:...
- baseball player
- Roman Colon
Román Benedicto Colón is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals. He is 6 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs 225 pounds . Colón bats and throws right-handed....
- baseball player
- Francisco Cordero
Francisco Javier Cordero is a Major League Baseball closer for the Cincinnati Reds. Cordero is frequently referred to by his nickname, CoCo, which is an alliteration of the last two letters of his first name and the first two letters of his last name.Cordero throws a hard fastball—capable of...
- baseball player
- Carlos Cruz (1937-1970) - world boxing
Boxing is a combat sport where two participants, generally of similar weight, fight each other with their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee and is typically engaged in during a series of one to three-minute intervals called rounds. There are three ways to win...
champion
- Deivi Cruz
Deivi Cruz Garcia , is a former baseball shortstop who last played for the Bridgeport Bluefish of the independent Atlantic League.He was released by the St...
- baseball player
- Leo Cruz
Leonardo Cruz , better known in the world of boxing as Leo Cruz, was a world Jr. Featherweight champion from the Dominican Republic.-Personal:...
- world boxing champion (brother of Carlos Cruz)
- Johnny Cueto
Johnny Cueto [KWAY-toe] is a right-handedMajor League Baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds.-Minor league career:...
- baseball player
- Octavio Dotel
Octavio Eduardo Dotel is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Chicago White Sox.-New York Mets:...
- baseball player
- Edwin Encarnacion
Edwin Elpidio Encarnación , is a third baseman in Major League Baseball who plays for the Toronto Blue Jays. The 6 ft 1 in, 195-pound Encarnación bats and throws right-handed....
, baseball player
- Juan Encarnacion
Juan De Dios Encarnación is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. His last major league team was the St. Louis Cardinals...
, baseball player
- Edward Vinicio Espinal
Eduards Vinicio Espinal Marte is a football player from the Dominican Republic.-Club career:Espinal emigrated to Italy in 1991, where he played with Serie A team Atalanta B.C....
, soccer player
- Pedro Feliz
Pedro Julio Feliz is a Dominican Major League Baseball third baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies. Feliz has hit 20 or more home runs in four of his first five seasons as a starting third baseman and is an above average fielder at third base...
- baseball player
- Mary Joe Fernández
Mary Joe Fernandez Godsick is a former professional tennis player from the United States and is of Spanish and Cuban descent...
- tennis player
- Bartolome Fortunato
Bartolomé Araujo Fortunato is a Major League Baseball pitcher who currently plays for the St. George Roadrunners of the Golden Baseball League....
- baseball player
- Rafael Furcal
Rafael Antonio Furcal , is a Major League Baseball shortstop for the Los Angeles Dodgers.-Early career:...
- baseball player
- Julio Franco
Julio César Robles Franco is a retired Major League Baseball infielder. In , Franco was the oldest active player in the major leagues at the age of 49....
- baseball player
- Francisco Garcia
Francisco García is a Dominican professional basketball player who currently plays for the Sacramento Kings of the NBA. A 6'7", 195-pound guard–forward from the University of Louisville, García was selected by the Kings in the first round of the 2005 NBA Draft...
- basketball player NBAThe National Basketball Association is a professional basketball league, composed of thirty teams in North America . It is an active member of USA Basketball , which is recognized by the International Basketball Federation as the National Governing Body for basketball in the United States...
- Jerry Gil
Jerry Bienvenido Gil Manzanillo is a Major League Baseball pitcher in the Cincinnati Reds organization. Gil made his MLB debut in with the Arizona Diamondbacks....
- baseball player
- Carlos Gomez
Carlos Argelis Gómez Pena is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Minnesota Twins.-New York Mets:...
-baseball player
- Vladimir Guerrero
Vladimir Alvino Guerrero is a Major League Baseball right fielder who plays for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. In , he was voted the American League MVP...
- baseball player
- Jose Guillen
José Manuel Guillén is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Kansas City Royals. Guillen is viewed as somewhat of a controversial player.-Pittsburgh Pirates:...
- baseball player
- Cristian Guzman
Cristian Antonio Guzmán is a Dominican baseball player who plays shortstop for the Washington Nationals.-Professional career:...
- baseball player
- Freddy Guzmán
Freddy Antonio Guzmán is a Major League Baseball center fielder for the New York Yankees.-Baseball career:Guzmán was signed as a non-drafted free agent by the San Diego Padres on April 17, . In 2004 he led all minor leaguers in stolen bases, with 90.He made his major league debut on August 17, ,...
- baseball player
- Joan Guzman
Joan Guzmán is a Dominican professional boxer who was the WBO's super featherweight champion. His nicknames are "The Little Tyson" and "The Sycuan Warrior." Former boxer Floyd Mayweather, Sr. is Guzmán's trainer.- Beginnings :...
- world boxing champion
- Felix Heredia
Félix Heredia Pérez is a former Major League Baseball starting pitcher who currently plays for Dorados de Chihuahua of the Mexican League. On October 18, 2005, he became the 11th MLB player to be suspended for testing positive for steroids...
- baseball player
- Runelvys Hernandez
Runelvys Antonio Hernandez is a former right-handed Major League Baseball starting pitcher .Hernandez made his major league debut July 15, , with Kansas City Royals...
, baseball player
- Al Horford
Alfred Joel Horford Reynoso is a Dominican basketball player for the NBA's Atlanta Hawks. He is the son of former NBA player Tito Horford and journalist Arelis Reynoso. Horford played collegiately for the University of Florida Gators...
, basketball player
- Tito Horford
Tito Horford is a retired Dominican professional basketball player who was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2nd round of the 1988 NBA Draft...
- basketball player
- Stan Javier
Stanley Julián Antonio Javier [hah-ve-ERR] is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and switch-hitter who played with the New York Yankees , Oakland Athletics , Los Angeles Dodgers , Philadelphia Phillies , California Angels , San Francisco Giants , Houston...
- baseball player
- Luis Ernesto José
Luis Ernesto José is a lightweight boxer from the Dominican Republic, who won a bronze medal at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina. He made his professional debut on May 14, 2000....
- boxer
- Jose Lima
José Desiderio Rodriguez Lima is a right-handed pitcher who last pitched in Major League Baseball for the New York Mets. He plays for the Edmonton Capitals.-MLB career:...
- baseball player
- Francisco Liriano
Francisco Casillas Liriano is a left-handed Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Minnesota Twins.-Professional career:...
- baseball player
- Pedro Liriano
Pedro Antonio Liriano is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher who is currently a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball for the Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phillies ....
- baseball player
- Felipe López
Luis Felipe López is a Dominican professional basketball player.He starred in United States high school and university basketball. López then played for four seasons in the National Basketball Association , but with far less success...
- NBAThe National Basketball Association is a professional basketball league, composed of thirty teams in North America . It is an active member of USA Basketball , which is recognized by the International Basketball Federation as the National Governing Body for basketball in the United States...
basketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of 5 players try to score points against one another by placing a ball through a
10 foot high hoop under organized rules...
player
- Mendy Lopez
Mendy López Aude is a utility player who has played for many professional baseball teams including in the United States, South Korea, and the Dominican Republic.-Career summary:...
- baseball player
- Julio Lugo
Julio Cesar Lugo is a major league shortstop who currently plays for the St. Louis Cardinals. He bats and throws right-handed. Lugo is the older brother of baseball pitcher Ruddy Lugo....
- baseball player
- Ruddy Lugo
Ruddy Joraider Lugo is a Dominican-American Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher in the Detroit Tigers organization. Lugo is the younger brother of St. Louis Cardinals shortstop Julio Lugo...
- baseball player
- Hector Luna
Héctor R. Luna is a Major League Baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers organization...
- baseball player
- Henry Mateo
Henry Antonio Mateo is a shortstop who is currently in the Tampa Bay Rays organization. He was released by the Detroit Tigers on April 21, . Later in 2008 signed with the Bridgeport Bluefish of the Atlantic Baseball League...
- baseball player
- Julio Mateo
Julio Cesar Mateo is a Major League Baseball pitcher. The 6’ tall 220 lb Mateo bats and throws right-handed...
- baseball player
- Juan Marichal
Juan Antonio Marichal Sánchez is a former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. Playing for the San Francisco Giants most of his career, Marichal was known for his high leg kick, dominating stuff and intimidation tactics, which included aiming pitches directly at the opposing batters'...
- baseball player
- Damaso Marte
Dámaso Sabinon Marté is a left-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. He previously played for the Seattle Mariners , Pittsburgh Pirates , and Chicago White Sox .-Seattle Mariners:Marte was signed as an amateur free agent by the Seattle Mariners in...
- baseball player
- Pedro Martínez
Pedro Jaime Martínez is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. He is a three time Cy Young Award winner. At the time of his 200th win in April , Martínez had the highest winning percentage of any 200-game winner in modern baseball history...
- Cy Young AwardThe Cy Young Award is an honor given annually in baseball to the best pitchers in Major League Baseball , one each for the American League and National League . The award was first introduced in 1956 by Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955...
–winning baseball player
- Victor Martinez
Victor Martinez , is an International Federation of BodyBuilders professional bodybuilder, the second Dominican bodybuilder to turn professional. The first being Tony Domenench from Puerto Plata, who turned pro in 1995...
- professional bodybuilder, Mr Olympia runner–up
- Sammy Mejia
Sammy Jose Mejia is a Dominican American professional basketball player who played college basketball at DePaul University.-Amateur career:Mejia attended Theodore Roosevelt High School in the Bronx...
- basketball player
- Eleoncio Mercedes
Eleoncio Mercedes was a Dominican boxer, who was world champion in the Flyweight division.-Amateur career:As an amateur he competed for his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada...
- world boxing champion in 1985
- Jose Mesa
José Ramón Nova Mesa [MAY-sah] , is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. Nicknamed "Joe Table", he pitched right-handed.-Baseball career:...
- baseball player
- Omar Minaya
Omar Teodoro Antonio Minaya y Sanchez , best known as Omar Minaya, is a baseball executive who is currently the General Manager of the New York Mets.-Early life:...
- General Manager of the New York MetsThe New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. The Mets are a member of the East Division of Major League Baseball's National League....
- Raúl Mondesí
Raúl Ramón Mondesí Avelino is a former Major League Baseball player and current Dominican member of congress. He was the National League Rookie of the Year in 1994 as a right fielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers...
- baseball player
- Agustin Montero
Agustín Alcantara Montero is a minor-league pitcher for the Northwest Independent League....
- baseball player
- Juan Morillo
Juan Bautista Morillo is a Major League Baseball pitcher, who plays for the Minnesota Twins...
- baseball player
- Abraham Núñez - baseball player
- Leo Núñez
Leonel Núñez is a pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the Florida Marlins. He bats and throws right-handed....
- baseball player
- Jose Offerman
José Antonio Offerman Dono was a professional baseball player who played professional baseball for nearly 20 years. He played for 15 seasons in the Major League Baseball and has played 4 seasons of independent and Mexican League baseball since leaving MLB...
- baseball player
- Miguel Olivo
Miguel Eduardo Olivo is a Major League Baseball catcher for the Kansas City Royals. Olivo is 6' 0" tall and weighs 220 pounds. He bats and throws right-handed....
- baseball player
- David Ortiz
David Ortiz is a Dominican Major League Baseball designated hitter who has played for the Boston Red Sox since . Previously, Ortiz played for the Minnesota Twins . Nicknamed "Big Papi," Ortiz is a five-time All-Star and holds the Red Sox single-season record for home runs with 54, set during the ...
- baseball player
- Ramon Ortiz
Ramón Diogenes Ortiz is a professional baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants organization. He has previously pitched in Major League Baseball for the Anaheim Angels, Cincinnati Reds, Washington Nationals, Minnesota Twins, and Colorado Rockies...
- baseball player
- Pablo Ozuna
Pablo Jose Ozuna is a Major League Baseball utility player who is currently a free agent. During his career he has played for the Florida Marlins the Colorado Rockies , the Chicago White Sox , and the Los Angeles Dodgers.-St. Louis Cardinals:Originally signed by the St...
- baseball player
- Ronny Paulino
Ronny Leonel Paulino is a Major League Baseball catcher for the Florida Marlins.Paulino signed as a non-drafted free agent with the Pittsburgh Pirates organization on December 29, , at the age of 16...
- baseball player
- Carlos Peña
Carlos Felipe Peña is a left-handed first baseman for the Tampa Bay Rays.-Early life:Peña is the eldest of four children born to Felipe and Juana Peña...
- baseball player
- Tony Peña
Antonio Francisco Peña Padilla, widely known as Tony Peña [PAY-nyah] is a former Major League Baseball catcher....
- baseball player
- Wily Mo Peña
Wilfredo Modesto "Wily Mo" Peña ,but grew up in Santiago, Dominican Republic is a Major League Baseball player who is currently a free agent...
- baseball player
- Jhonny Peralta
Jhonny Antonio Peralta is a baseball player who is currently the starting third baseman for the Cleveland Indians. He signed with the Indians in as an undrafted free agent.-Biography:...
, baseball player
- Antonio Perez
]Antonio Pérez was a Spanish statesman, born in Aragon and secretary of king Philip II of Spain.- Early years :Antonio Pérez's birth is obscure but he was legalized as son of Gonzalo Pérez, Secretary of the Council of State of king Charles I of Spain...
- baseball player
- Melido Perez
Mélido Turpen Gross Pérez , is a former right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher from through for the Kansas City Royals, Chicago White Sox, and New York Yankees. He made his major league debut for the Kansas City Royals on September 4, 1987. In that game, Pérez pitched seven innings of shutout...
- baseball player
- Neifi Perez
Neifi Neftali Pérez is a Major League baseball player who most recently played for the Detroit Tigers and is currently a free agent. He has played with the Colorado Rockies , Kansas City Royals , San Francisco Giants , and the Chicago Cubs...
- baseball player
- Odalis Perez
Odalis Amadol Pérez is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher who is currently a free agent...
- baseball player
- Rafael Perez
Rafael Pérez Pareja was acting President of Ecuador 15 October 1883 to 23 November.-External links:*...
- baseball player
- Timo Pérez
Timoniel M. "Timo" Pérez is a former Major League Baseball outfielder.Pérez played for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of the Japanese Central League from -....
- baseball player
- Plácido Polanco
Plácido Enrique Polanco is a Major League Baseball player for the Detroit Tigers who has also played for the St. Louis Cardinals and Philadelphia Phillies...
- baseball player
- Albert Pujols
José Alberto Pujols Alcántara , better known as Albert Pujols , is a professional baseball player who has played his entire career in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Cardinals...
- baseball player
- Aramis Ramirez
Aramis Nin Ramírez is an All-Star Major League Baseball third baseman for the Chicago Cubs. He started his professional career with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1998 before being traded to the Cubs in 2003...
- baseball player
- Hanley Ramirez
Hanley Ramírez is a shortstop in Major League Baseball for the Florida Marlins. Ramírez was named NL Rookie of the Year by the Baseball Writers Association of America...
- baseball player
- Manny Ramírez
Manuel "Manny" Aristides Ramírez Onelcida is a Dominican-American Major League Baseball left fielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers. A nine-time Silver Slugger, and one of 25 people to have hit over 500 career home runs, he is well recognized for his strong offensive abilities...
- baseball player
- José Reyes - baseball player
- Roberto A Reyes
Roberto Antonio Reyes is a retired football striker from Dominican Republic, who obtained a lot of fame in his days as a football player...
- Soccer player
- Fernando Rodney
Fernando Rodney is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Detroit Tigers. Rodney is currently the Tigers closer. Rodney throws a fastball in the mid to upper-90 miles per hour and a changeup in the low 80s.-Minor leagues:Rodney was signed by the Detroit Tigers as an amateur free agent in...
- baseball player
- Alex Rodriguez
Alexander Emmanuel Rodriguez is a Dominican and American professional baseball player. Nicknamed "Alex" or "A-Rod," he currently plays third base for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball. He previously played shortstop for the Seattle Mariners and the Texas Rangers.Rodriguez is considered...
- baseball player
- Félix Rodríguez
Félix Antonio Rodríguez is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Camden Riversharks....
, baseball player
- Henry Rodriguez
Henry Anderson Rodríguez Lorenzo is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who played for the Montreal Expos, Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, and Florida Marlins from 1992 to 2002.Rodríguez was a member of the 1996 National League All-Star team as a member of the Expos,...
- baseball player
- Duaner Sanchez
Duaner Sánchez is a Dominican-American professional baseball player. He is a right handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who is currently a free agent. During his MLB career, Sánchez pitched for Arizona Diamondbacks, Pittsburgh Pirates, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets, and San Diego...
- baseball player
- Félix Sánchez
Félix Sánchez —nicknamed Super Felix, the Invincible and the Dictator— is a track and field athlete from New York City, United States...
- Olympic gold medal–winning hurdler
- Victor Santos
Víctor Irving Santos is a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball.-Career:Santos signed with the Detroit Tigers as a non-drafted free agent in 1995...
- baseball player
- Alfonso Soriano
Alfonso Soriano is a professional Major League Baseball outfielder for the Chicago Cubs....
- baseball player
- Edgar Sosa
Edgar Sosa is starting point guard for the University of Louisville Cardinals.Sosa played high school basketball at Rice High School in New York City where he received all-American honors. His high school teammates include Curtis Kelly and Kashif Pratt...
, basketball player
- Jorge Sosa
Jorge Bolivar Sosa is a Major League Baseball pitcher who is currently a Free Agent.. Sosa stands at 6'2" tall and reportedly weighs 218 pounds...
, baseball player
- Sammy Sosa
Samuel Peralta Sosa is a retired Major League Baseball right fielder.Sosa's Major League career began when he broke in with the Texas Rangers in . After a stint with the Chicago White Sox, Sosa became a member of the Chicago Cubs in 1992 and subsequently became one of the league's best hitters...
, baseball player
- Julian Tavarez
Julián Tavárez Carmen is a Major League Baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent.-Minor leagues:...
- baseball player
- Willy Taveras
Willy Taveras is a center fielder for the Cincinnati Reds. He bats and throws right-handed.-Houston Astros:Taveras played in 10 games at the end of the Astros season, mostly as a pinch runner....
- baseball player
- Miguel Tejada
Miguel Odalis Tejada Martinez is a Major League Baseball shortstop for the Houston Astros. He began his first six seasons of his career with the Oakland Athletics, where he began his streak of 1,152 consecutive games, that ended with the Baltimore Orioles on June 22, 2007...
- baseball player
- Robinson Tejeda
Robinson Garcia Tejeda is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Kansas City Royals.-Baseball career:...
- baseball player
- Luis Terrero
Luis Enrique Terrero is a Major League Baseball outfielder who is currently a free agent. Terrero debuted with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2003 and remained with the team until 2005. He has also played for the Baltimore Orioles in 2006 and the Chicago White Sox in 2007. In his first game for the...
- baseball player
- Salomon Torres
Salomón Torres Ramirez is a former Major League Baseball player. He began his career in with the San Francisco Giants, and also played for the Seattle Mariners, Montreal Expos, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Milwaukee Brewers.-San Francisco Giants:Torres is best-known for starting the last game of the...
- baseball player
- Juan Uribe
Juan C. Uribe is a Major League Baseball infielder for the San Francisco Giants.-Minor league career:...
- baseball player
- Wilson Valdez
Wilson Antonio Valdéz is a Major League Baseball shortstop for the New York Mets.Valdez was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Montreal Expos on February 4, 1997...
- baseball player
- Jose Valverde
José Rafael Valverde is a closer in Major League Baseball for the Houston Astros...
- baseball player
- Claudio Vargas
Claudio Vargas Almonte is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers...
- baseball player
- Jack Veneno
Jack Veneno is a famous Dominican wrestler who worked for many years on Colorvision channel 9 during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, on a wrestling show called Lucha Libre Internacional. He was the main star of the show as well as the owner of the production company Dominicana de Espectaculos...
- professional wrestler
- Charlie Villanueva
Charlie Alexander Villanueva is an American-Dominican National Basketball Association player who currently plays for the Detroit Pistons....
- basketball player
- Jose Vizcaino
José Luis Vizcaíno Pimental is a former Major League Baseball player. He was a backup infielder for most of his MLB career. In , he played a significant role with the Chicago Cubs, having 551 at-bats and being 9th in the National League with 131 singles as well as second in the NL with 9 sacrifice...
- baseball player
- Luis Vizcaino
Luis Vizcaíno Arias is a Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher who is currently a free agent.-Career:Vizcaíno was signed by the Oakland Athletics as an amateur free agent in...
- baseball player
- Edinson Volquez
Edinson Volquez [VOL-kays] , is a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds. He bats and throws right-handed....
- baseball player
- Hector Wagner
Héctor Raul Guerrero Wagner is a former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals, from to .Wagner was the youngest player in Major League Baseball in 1990....
- baseball player
Other personalities
- Felix Acosta-Nunez
Félix Acosta-Núñez is a retired journalist, the former sports editor of one of the major newspapers in the San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic, Listin Diario....
- journalist
- Oscar de la Renta
Oscar de la Renta is one of the world's leading fashion designers.-Early years:Oscar de la Renta was born in Santiago de los Caballeros in Dominican Republic, to a Dominican mother and a Puerto Rican father...
- fashion designer
- Ralph Mercado
Ralph Mercado Jr. was an Puertorrican and Dominican promoter of Latin American music — Latin Jazz, Latin rock, merengue and salsa — who established a network of businesses that included promoting concerts, managing artists, a record label, film company, nightclubs and...
- founder of RMM Records and music producer
- Providencia Paredes
Providencia Paredes was a former personal assistant to former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. A native of San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, Parades arrived in the United States in 1948 with Francisco Thomen, Ambassador to the United States from the Dominican Republic...
, assistant/confidante to Jacqueline Kennedy OnassisJacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was the wife of the 35th president of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and served as First Lady during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. She was later married to Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis from 1968 until his death in...
- Ilka Tanya Payan
Ilka Tanya Payán was a Dominican actress and attorney who later became a prominent AIDS/HIV activist in the United States....
- actress, AIDS/HIV activist
- Pedro Saúl Pérez
Pedro Saúl Pérez was a Dominican advocate for the rights of Dominican immigrants and migrants in Puerto Rico. Pérez was the founder and president of the Dominican Committee for Human Rights of Puerto Rico....
- Dominican activist
- Camille Pissarro
Camille Pissarro was a French Impressionist painter. His importance resides not only in his visual contributions to Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, but also in his patriarchal standing among his colleagues, particularly Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin.-Early life and work:Jacob-Abraham-Camille...
- painter
- Santiago Luis Polanco Rodríguez
Santiago Luis Polanco Rodríguez is a Dominican American former drug dealer considered to be the first mass marketer of crack cocaine in United States. Better known by his street name, Yayo, he carries a special distinction among drug dealers, according to experts in the drug trade...
- drug dealer
- Porfirio Rubirosa
Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza , was a Dominican diplomat, polo player and race car driver who competed in the 1950 and 1954 24 Hour of Le Mans, but was best known as an international playboy for his jet setting lifestyle and legendary prowess with women.Born to an upper middle-class...
- socialite