List of Spanish Americans
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Spanish Americans are European Americans who have predominately Spanish (European) ancestry. People of both European (Spanish) and (Amerindian) ancestry are called Mestizos & Castizos. Also, people who claim "Spanish" or "Spaniard" as one of their two ethnic ancestries will be included in this list..eg: Martin Sheen
This article includes Isleños or Canary Islanders and Balearic islanders.
There are also many people of other Hispanic "national" origin, eg: Cuban Americans, Mexican Americans and Puerto Rican Americans who ultimatly trace their roots to Spain and form part of the Spanish American population.
This is a list of notable Spanish Americans, ordered by surname (Apellido) within section.
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[edit] List
[edit] Artists
- Mabel Alvarez - Prominent American artist.
[edit] Business
- John Casablancas - Founder and Chairman of Elite Modeling Agency and the world's largest modeling school. Spanish parents.
- Marisol Deluna - American fashion designer, family lineage traces to Spanish-Basque and Castilian origin.
- Frank Lorenzo - Airline executive who founded Continental Airlines.
- Don Prudencio Unanue Ortiz - and Doña Carolina Casal Unanue, founders of Goya Foods
- Andy Unanue - Former vice president of Goya Foods
- Joseph A. Unanue - Served 27-year tenure as president of Goya Foods, the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the United States.
- Vicente Martinez Ybor (September 7, 1818 - December, 1896) was a Spanish-American industrialist and Cuban cigar manufacturer.
- Andres Soriano III - former Chairman of San Miguel Corporation, the leading food and beverage conglomerate in the Philippines.
[edit] Entertainment
[edit] Actors and actresses
- Trini Alvarado - American Actress, Spanish father.
- Eliska Amor - American model and actress.
- Stella del Carmen Banderas - actress, Daughter of Antonio Banderas.
- Lynda Carter - Actress best known as the title character in popular 1970 television series Wonder Woman. Born Linda Jean Córdova Carter.
- Emilio Estévez - American actor, director, writer. Spanish grandfather from Galicia, Spain.
- Leo Carrillo - actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist.
- Greg Giraldo American Stand-up comic
- Rita Hayworth - American actress and icon. Spanish father born in Seville, Spain.
- Lainie Kazan (born May 15, 1940) is an American actress and singer of half Spanish ancestry.
- Kyndra Mayo- actor on Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County (part Hispanic)
- Antonio Moreno - Spanish born ,American educated actor; he was a leading silent film star of the 1920s.
- Margaret O'Brien - Renowned child actress, Spanish mother.
- Joaquin Phoenix - American actor, 1/4 Spanish from father's side
- River Phoenix - American actor, father of Spanish/Irish descent.
- Nathalia Ramos - American Actress & Singer. Spanish father. Played the leading role of Yasmin in Bratz: The Movie.
- Sarah Shahi - is an American actress, model has Spanish mother.
- Martin Sheen - Born 'Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez', father from Galicia, Spain.
- Charlie Sheen - American actor, Spanish grandfather.
- Raquel Welch - Born 'Jo Raquel Tejada', American actress of Spanish-Bolivian descent.
- Elena Verdugo - 1940s Spanish-American actress.
[edit] Other Models & Actresses
- Alley Baggett- American model and presenter, Half Spanish.
- Jo Collins - Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for December 1964 and Playmate of the Year for 1965. Half Spanish.
- Danielle Gamba - is an American model and dancer of Italian and Spanish descent.
- Paulina James - is an American pornographic actress of Spanish and Portuguese ancestry.
- Pilar Lastra - American model and presenter, Spanish father.
- Dillan Lauren - American Pornographic actress with Spanish heritage.
- Nina Mercedez American Pornographic actress with Spanish heritage.
- Nadia Styles - American Pornographic actress of Spanish ancestry.
[edit] Models
- Ali Landry - a former Miss USA (1996), model and actress. French and Spanish (Cajun) descent.
[edit] Music
- Julian Casablancas - The vocalist and songwriter of the New York band The Strokes.
- Nichole Cordova - is a singer and dancer. Cordova is a member of the musical group Girlicious.
- Jerry Garcia - Guitarist and singer for the Grateful Dead. Father was born in La Coruña, Spain.
- Kaci - (prounounced Kah-chee), is a singer, dancer and occasional actress.
- Irvan Perez - Isleño Singer
[edit] Government and Military
- Terry de la Mesa Allen, Sr. - Major General, U.S. Army. Decorated World War II Division commander.
- Terry de la Mesa Allen, Jr. - Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army. Killed in Vietnam War.
- Juan José Carrillo - the first mayor of Santa Monica, California
- David Farragut - First senior officer of the U.S. Navy during the Civil War. Coined phrase "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"
- Joseph Montoya - Democratic U.S. Senator from the State of New Mexico.
- Bob Martinez - Former and first Hispanic Governor of Florida, grandson of Spanish immigrants.
- Sammy Nunez - Louisiana politician of Canarian, or Isleño descent.
- Leander Perez - Louisiana judge and politician of Isleño descent.
- Pío Pico - was the last Mexican Governor of Alta California.
- Junior Rodriguez - Politician from St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, of Isleño descent.
- Manuel Lujan Jr. - Republican Congressman from New Mexico & Secretary of Interior.
- Fernando C. De Baca - First Assistant to the President of the US (Nixon/Ford) of Hispanic descent.
- Esequiel C. De Baca - Second Governor of New Mexico after statehood (1915-17)
- Jerry Apodaca - Democratic Governor of New Mexico (1974-78).
- Dennis Chavez - Democratic U.S. Senator from the State of New Mexico.
[edit] Inventors, Engineers and Academics
- Luis F. Alvarez - Developed diagnosis for macular leprosy.
- Luis W. Alvarez - Nobel Prize-winning physicist and key participant in the Manhattan Project.
- Walter Alvarez - Geologist who first proposed the asteroid-impact theory to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs.
- Walter C. Alvarez - Referred to as "America’s Family Doctor" for his syndicated medical column in hundreds of newspapers.
- Severo Ochoa - Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who worked on the synthesis of RNA
[edit] Sports
- Mary Joe Fernández - Professional tennis player and two-time Olympic gold medal winner. Father from Spain.
- Lefty Gomez - Born Vernon Louis Gomez, New York Yankees Hall of Fame pitcher.
- Keith Hernandez - MVP-winning baseball player, grandfather from Malaga, Spain.
- Manuel Hernandez - Spanish-US soccer player. Born in Spain.
- Al Lopez - Hall-of-Fame baseball player and manager. Spanish parents.
- Lou Piniella - Baseball player and manager, Asturian grandparents
[edit] Writers
- Mercedes de Acosta - Poet and playwright, also known for her lesbian affairs with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich.
- George Santayana- Spanish born, philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist.
[edit] Other
- Michael Lopez-Alegria - American astronaut. Holds American record for most EVA hours (spacewalks or moonwalks) Born in Madrid.
- Wenceslao Moreno - Known to his American fans as "Senor Wences," Moreno was for decades a top ventriloquist in Spain, elsewhere in Europe, as well as in Latin America and the United States. In the US, he was a favorite in vaudeville and, later, television, especially on "The Ed Sullivan Show." He was born in Salamanca and died at the age of 103 in New York City.
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