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This is a list of Nicaraguans and people of Nicaraguan ethnicity:
[edit] Entertainment
Cristiana Frixione; Miss Nicaragua 2006.
- Pedro Miguel Arce (1976), actor, notable roles include Land of the Dead and Get Rich or Die Tryin'.
- David Vida (1982), Singer and song writer.
- Maurice Benard (1963), actor on American soap operas All My Children and General Hospital.
- Barbara Carrera (1951), film, TV actress, former model.
- Oswaldo Castillo, actor, most notable role includes the one in The Hammer.
- Edward'O, notable astroanalyst and co-host of Telemundo's dating show, 12 Corazones.
- Jade Jagger (1971), model
- Lillian Molieri, actress
- Gabriel Traversari, actor, director, writer, singer, songwriter and painter.
[edit] Beauty queens
[edit] Businesspeople
- José Cardenal (1940), businessman
- Michael Cordúa (1961), restaurateur, entrepreneur, businessman, award winning self-taught chef.
- Alfonso Robelo (1939), businessman, politician, diplomat who served as ambassador to Costa Rica.
- Lya Barrioz, singer and actress
- Katia Cardenal, singer/song writer from Duo Guardabarranco.
- Dimension Costeña, musicians
- Carlos Mejia Godoy (1943), musician, composer, singer.
- Tony Melendez (1962), guitar player, singer and Christian rock songwriter who was born without arms.
- Torombolo (1985), reggaeton and hip hop singer.
- J Smooth, bilingual Hip Hop and Reggaeton singer.
- José Areas, percussionist, former drummer for Santana.
- Erwin Krüger (1915-1973), singer and Nicaraguan folklore poet.
- David Vida (1982), singer/song writer
- Hernaldo Zúñiga (1955), singer and music composer.
- DJs
- DJ Craze, only DJ in history to win 3 consecutive World DMC Champion titles.
[edit] Government, military and politics
- See also: List of Nicaraguan presidents
President Daniel Ortega celebrating
May 1,
2005, in the Plaza of the Revolution in
Havana,
Cuba.
- Reinaldo Aguado Montealegre, President of the International Society for Human Rights in Nicaragua.
- Arnoldo Alemán (1946), former President of Nicaragua from 1997-2002.
- Leonardo Arguello Barreto (1895-1947), former President of Nicaragua (1947)
- Fernando Agüero (1920), politician
- Enrique Bolaños (1928), former President of Nicaragua from 2002 to 2007
- Juan Bautista Sacasa (1874-1946) , former President of Nicaragua from 1933-1936
- Claudia Bermúdez, Nicaragua-American politician and entrepreneur; first Nicaraguan American to be the nominee of a major party for a seat in the United States Congress.
- Róger Calero (1969), Nicaraguan American who ran for U.S. President in the 2004 elections.
- Emiliano Chamorro (1871-1966), former President of Nicaragua from 1917-1920 and part of 1926
- Fernando Chamorro Alfaro (1824-1863), General and member of the governing junta of Nicaragua (1860 – 1863).
- Fruto Chamorro (1804-1855), first President of Nicaragua 1854-1855
- Arturo Cruz (1923), politician and diplomat
- Pedro Chamorro (1875-1879), former President of Nicaragua from 1875-1879.
- Violeta Chamorro (1929), first female president in Latin America, second in North America and 48th President of Nicaragua
- Adolfo Díaz (1875-1964), President of Nicaragua in 1911-1917 and 1926-1929
- Aminta Granera, Sandinista and Police chief of Nicaragua
- George William Albert Hendy (1879-1888), Hereditary Chief of Miskito Nation.
- Edmundo Jarquín (1946), politician, candidate for president of Nicaragua in 2006
- Herty Lewites (1939-2006), politician
- Eduardo Montealegre (1955), politician, businessman
- Oldman (?-1687), King of the Miskito Nation from 1625 - 1687
- Daniel Ortega (1945), current President of Nicaragua, leader of the FSLN
- Edén Pastora (1937), politician
- Sergio Ramírez (1943), Vice President of Nicaragua during the Junta, writer, intellectual
- José Santos Zelaya (1853-1919), former President of Nicaragua from 1893-1909
- Anastasio Somoza García (1896-1956), dictator, 34th and 39th President of Nicaragua
- Anastasio Somoza Debayle (1925-1980), 44th and 45th President of Nicaragua from 1967 to 1972 and from 1974 to 1979.
- Luis Somoza Debayle (1922-1967), 40th President of Nicaragua from 1956–1963, but was effectively dictator from 1956 until his death.
- Anastasio Somoza Portocarrero (1951), former commander of the National Guard.
[edit] Revolutionaries, heroes and martyrs
Bianca Jagger; Political activist.
- Patrick Argüello (1943-1970), considered a martyr of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine PFLP
- Nora Astorga (1948-1988), Sandinista revolutionary, lawyer, politician, judge and Nicaraguan ambassador to the UN
- Tomás Borge (1930), co-founder of the FSLN
- Adolfo Calero, leader of the contras
- Antonio Cardenal Caldera (1951-1991), also known by the nom de guerre Jesus Rojas, major leader of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front.
- Arturo Cruz, Jr. (1954), revolutionary, writer, professor and diplomat
- Rigoberto Cruz, one of the founder of the FSLN
- Ayax Delgado, martyr of the Sandinista revolution
- José Dolores Estrada (1792-1869), national hero, famed for his part in the battle Hacienda San Jacinto in 1856
- Carlos Fonseca (1936-1976), teacher, founder of FSLN
- Israel Lewites, a Sandinista leader
- Augusto César Sandino (1895-1934), revolutionary, symbol of the FSLN
- Arlen Siu (1952-1972), martyr of the Sandinista revolution
- Dora María Téllez (1947), Commandante during the Sandinista revolution, founded the MRS, historian
[edit] Political activists
[edit] Sports
José Alfaro, boxer; world champion
- Boxing
- José Alfaro, boxer, world champion.
- Rosendo Alvarez (1970), boxer, former world champion, only person to hold the undefeated flyweight champion to a draw.
- Alexis Argüello (1952), boxer, former world champion
- Ricardo Mayorga (1973), boxer, former WBA/WBC Welterweight champion and WBC Junior Middleweight world champion
- David Obregon (1978), professional boxer
- Luis Alberto Pérez (1978), boxer, current IBF world junior-bantamweight champion
- Adonis Rivas (1972), boxer, former world champion.
- Baseball
- Porfi Altamirano (1952), former Major League Baseball player
- Marvin Benard (1970), former Major League Baseball player
- Tony Chévez, Major League Baseball player
- David Green (1960), former Major League Baseball player
- Devern Hansack (1978), current Major League Baseball player
- Oswaldo Mairena, Major League Baseball player
- Dennis Martínez (1955), first Nicaraguan to play in Major League Baseball, pitched the 13th perfect game in major league history.
- Vicente Padilla (1977), current Major League Baseball player
- Albert Williams (1954), Major League Baseball player
- Football (Soccer)
- Other
[edit] Literature
-
Gioconda Belli, designated amongst the 100 most important poets during the 20th century.
Christianne Meneses Jacobs, publisher of
Iguana, the
United State's only Spanish-language magazine for children.
- Rosario Aguilar (1938), novelist
- Claribel Alegría (1924), poet, she received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2006.
- Emilio Alvarez Lejarza (1884-1969), writer
- Emilio Alvarez Montalván (1919), political writer
- Héctor Avellán (1973), poet
- Gioconda Belli (1948), poet
- Beltrán Morales (1945-1986) poet, essayist, critic and narrator.
- Erick Blandón Guevara (1951), poet
- Yolanda Blanco (1954), poet and translator.
- Tomás Borge (1930), writer, poet, and essayist.
- Carola Brantome (1961), poet and journalist.
- Omar Cabezas (1950), writer
- Blanca Castellón (1961), poet
- Ernesto Cardenal (1925), poet
- Blanca Castellón (1958), poet
- Xavier Chamorro Cardenal, co-founder, director and editor of El Nuevo Diario.
- Lizandro Chávez Alfaro (1929), poet, essayist and narrator.
- Juan Chow (1956), poet
- José Coronel Urtecho (1906-1994), poet, translator, essayist, critic, narrator, playwright, and historian.
- Alfonso Cortés (1893-1969), poet
- Arturo Cruz (1954), writer
- Manolo Cuadra (1907-1957), writer
- Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1912-2002), poet
- Rubén Darío (1867-1916), poet, referred to as The Father of Modernism.
- Gloria Gabuardi (1945), poet and writer.
- Mercedes Gordillo (1938), poet, writer and critic.
- Salomón Ibarra Mayorga (1887-1985), poet and lyricist of "Salve a ti, Nicaragua", the Nicaraguan national anthem.
- Erwin Krüger (1915-1973), poet and composer.
- Marta Leonor González (1973), poet, narrator and journalist.
- Danilo López (1954), poet
- Tino López Guerra (1906-2001), poet
- Rigoberto López Pérez (1929-1936), poet and writer.
- María Lourdes Pallais (1954), narrator and journalist.
- Carlos Martínez Rivas (1924-1998), poet
- Francisco Mayorga (1949), writer
- Ernesto Mejía Sánchez (1923-1985), poet
- Christianne Meneses Jacobs (1971), writer, editor, and publisher.
- Vidaluz Meneses (1944) poet
- Tania Montenegro (1969), poet and journalist.
- Rosario Murillo (1951), poet
- Michèle Najlis (1948), poet
- Daniel Ortega (1945), poet
- Azarias H. Pallais (1884–1954), poet
- Raphael Pallais (1952), irredento, ignoto, trilingual poet, novelist, radical essayist.
- Joaquin Pasos (1914-1947), poet
- Horacio Peña (1946), writer and poet.
- Rodrigo Peñalba Franco (1981), narrator and author.
- Sergio Ramírez (1942), writer
- Guillermo Rothschuh Tablada (1926), poet
- María Teresa Sánchez (1918-1994), poet
- Mariana Sansón Argüello (1918), poet
- Eunice Shade (1980), writer
- Arlen Siu (?-1972), essayist
- Juan Sobalvarro (1966), poet
- Milagros Terán (1963), writer, poet, and essayist.
- Julio Valle Castillo (1952), poet, novelist, essayist, literary critic and art critic
- Daisy Zamora (1950), poet
[edit] Religion
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