Portal:Caribbean/Notable People
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Arts
Jose Campeche (Puerto Rico) - Michel-Jean Cazabon (Trinidad and Tobago) - Francisco Oller (Puerto Rico) - Wilfredo Lam (Cuba)- Agustin Cárdenas (Cuba)
Education
Sir Arthur Lewis (Saint Lucia) - Ana G. Mendez (Puerto Rico) - Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (Puerto Rico)
Entertainment
Desi Arnaz (Cuba) - Geoffrey Holder (Trinidad and Tobago)- Andy Garcia (Cuba)
Industry
Angel Ramos (Puerto Rico)
Journalism
Jose Julian Acosta (Puerto Rico) - Maria Celeste Arraras (Puerto Rico) - Marcus Garvey (Jamaica)- Nicolás Guillén (Cuba) - CLR. James (Trinidad and Tobago) - Trevor McDonald (Trinidad and Tobago) - Cristina Saralegui (Cuba)
Literature
Aimé Césaire (Martinique) - Enrique Laguerre (Puerto Rico) - José Martí (Cuba) - V.S. Naipaul (Trinidad and Tobago) - Jean Rhys (Commonwealth of Dominica)- Derek Walcott (St. Lucia) - Julia Álvarez (Dominican Republic)- Alejo Carpentier (Cuba)
Military
Johnson Beharry (Grenada) - Antonio Valero de Bernabe (Puerto Rico) - Horacio Rivero (Puerto Rico) - Toussaint L'Ouverture (Haiti) - Francisco Caamaño (Dominican Republic)
Music
Celia Cruz (Cuba) - Los Chicos (Puerto Rico) - El Gran Combo (Puerto Rico) - Lord Kitchener (Trinidad) - Bob Marley (Jamaica) - Prince Buster (Jamaica) - Ricky Martin (Puerto Rico) - Menudo (Puerto Rico) - Benny Moré (Cuba) - Lee "Scratch" Perry (Jamaica)- Juan Luis Guerra (Dominican Republic)- Gloria Estefan (Cuba)
Politics
Sir Grantley Adams (Barbados) - Joaquín Balaguer (Dominican Republic) - Maurice Bishop (Grenada) - Alexander Bustamante (Jamaica) - Fidel Castro (Cuba) - Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Haiti) - François Duvalier (Haiti) - Norman Washington Manley (Jamaica) - Luis Muñoz Marin (Puerto Rico) - Toussaint L'Ouverture (Haiti) - Rafael Leónidas Trujillo (Dominican Republic) - Eric Williams-Trinidad and Tobago
Religion
Cardinal Luis Aponte Martinez (Puerto Rico) - St. Charlie (Puerto Rico) - Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino (Cuba)- beatified priest, candidate for sainthood Félix Varela (Cuba)
Science
Agustin Stahl (Puerto Rico)- Carlos Juan Finlay (Cuba)- Celia Hart (Cuba)- Luis Alvarez (Cuba)- Juan Gundlach (Cuba)- Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez (Cuba)
Sports
Wilfred Benitez (Puerto Rico) - Félix Savón (Cuba)- Ato Boldon (Trinidad and Tobago) - Roberto Clemente (Puerto Rico) - Minnie Miñoso (Cuba)- Wilfredo Gomez (Puerto Rico) - Brian Lara (Trinidad and Tobago) - Asafa Powell (Jamaica) - Sir Viv Richards (Antigua and Barbuda) - Sir Garfield Sobers (Barbados) - Sammy Sosa (Dominican Republic) - Teofilo Stevenson (Cuba) - Felix Trinidad (Puerto Rico) - Sir Frank Worrell (Jamaica) - Marie-José Pérec (Guadeloupe) - Dwight Yorke (Trinidad and Tobago)- Javier Sotomayor (Cuba)-