Category: Outstanding Hispanics

Voted best dancer and most handsome in high school, Cesar Romero made his motion picture debut in...

Born in 1923 in Spanish Harlem, Tito Puente spent his youth singing on street corners and...

Chita Rivera was born in 1933 in Washington, D.C., and made her Broadway debut in “Guys and Dolls”...

Considered one of the Chicano movement’s most renowned poets, Alurista used his work to draw...

At age 9, George Santayana with his father left Spain for Boston. He received his B.A., M.A. and...

Known as “El Cid” to die-hard football fans, Joe Kapp led the University of California to the Rose...

Over the course of his life, pioneer and explorer Manuel Lisa founded the Missouri Fur Co. and led...

Born in Socorro County, N.M., in 1865, Elfego Baca grew up in Kansas during the turmoil of the...

Invited by Emilo Estefan to join the Miami Latin Boys in 1975, renamed the Miami Sound Machine,...

Born 10 years after his parents crossed the Rio Grande in search of a better life, Trinidad Lopez...

Born Florencia Bicenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona in 1940 in El Paso, Texas, Vikki Carr is one...

On the verge of being launched as the next Latina crossover singer, Selena Quintanilla Perez was...