List of Afro-Latinos
Afro-Latinos or Afro–Latin Americans are Latin Americans who are descended from African slaves brought to Latin America and the Caribbean region during the trans-Atlantic slave trade, who made up 95% of all Africans brought to the Americas.Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Cubans, Afro-Dominicans, Afro-Hondurans, Afro-Panamanians, Afro–Puerto Ricans, Afro-Colombians, Afro-Mexicans and other Latin Americans are from these African slaves.The first Africans brought to the New World arrived on the island of Hispaniola. The majority were taken to Brazil. Only 5% of the Africans brought to the Americas went to North America, from whom African Americans are descended.
Notable Afro–Latin Americans and Afro-Latinos
- 40 Cal – American rapper, member of Harlem-based hip-hop group The Diplomats
- Jose Acevedo – Venezuelan track-and-field athlete
- Elizabeth Acevedo – poet
- Miguel Algarín – poet
- Roberto Alomar – former Major League Baseball player, regarded highly as a second baseman
- Laz Alonso – American film and television actor, best known for playing Tsu'tey in James Cameron-directed sci-fi film Avatar and Fenix Calderon in the film Fast & Furious
- Anitta (singer) – Brazilian singer, half Afro-Brazilian
- La La Anthony – former MTV VJ, television personality and actress, wife of NBA basketball player Carmelo Anthony
- Karan Ashley – American actress and talk show host, best known for her role as Aisha on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
- Taís Araújo – Brazilian actress and model
- Eva Ayllón – composer and singer
- AZ – rapper
- Cardi B – rapper
- Josefina Báez – performance artist, theater director, poet, educator, and writer
- Lloyd Banks – rapper
- Ivan Barias – Dominican music producer and songwriter
- Jean-Michel Basquiat – artist, musician
- Swizz Beatz – rapper, producer
- Aloe Blacc – American singer-songwriter
- Elijah Blake – singer-songwriter
- Ariana Brown – poet
- Karamo Brown – American television host
- J.I the Prince of NY – Puerto Rican rapper
- Julia de Burgos – poet and activist for Puerto Rican independence
- Ursula Burns – business executive
- Miguel Cabrera – Venezuelan baseball player
- Ilia Calderón – journalist
- Tego Calderón – reggaeton singer-songwriter, rapper, and actor
- Mariah Carey – American musician and actress
- John Carlos – former track and field champion, best known for his 1968 Olympics Black Power salute
- Matt Cedeño – actor and former model
- Orlando Cepeda – former Puerto Rican baseball player
- Keshia Chanté – Canadian singer
- Aroldis Chapman – Cuban baseball player
- Hugo Chavez – former Venezuelan President
- Roberto Clemente – former Puerto Rican baseball player
- Jesús Colón – author, founder of Nuyorican movement
- Ismael Cruz Córdova – Puerto Rican actor
- Kid Cudi – rapper
- Celia Cruz – Cuban salsa singer and performer
- Victor Cruz – football player and former NFL wide receiver for the New York Giants
- Wilson Cruz – actor
- Yaya DaCosta – American model
- Rosario Dawson – actress and musician
- Kristinia DeBarge – American singer
- Ariana DeBose – singer and actress
- Melissa De Sousa – actress
- Sylvia del Villard – actress, dancer, choreographer and activist
- Carlos Delgado – former Puerto Rican baseball player
- Kat DeLuna – musician
- Rocsi Diaz – American model and former BET television personality
- Samantha Diaz – singer-songwriter
- Graciela Dixon – former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Panama
- Rudy Duthil – advertising executive
- Sheila E. – American percussionist and singer
- Dave East – rapper
- Dina Ruiz Eastwood – reporter and actress
- Alfred Enoch – actor
- Arlen Escarpeta – Belizean-born actor, best known for playing Sam Walker in the television drama American Dreams
- Adriano Espaillat – New York congressman
- Sandra María Esteves – poet
- Fabolous – rapper
- Antonio Fargas – actor
- Cheo Feliciano – Puerto Rican singer of salsa and bolero music
- Leonel Fernández – former President of the Dominican Republic
- Tony Fernández – former Dominican baseball player
- Dom Flemons – American musician and singer-songwriter
- Brian Flores - Honduran-American NFL Head Coach
- Juan Flores – historian, professor, Afro-Latino Studies scholar
- Shaggy Flores – poet and writer
- Arian Foster – NFL football player, running back for the Houston Texans
- Antonio Fresco – DJ, record producer and radio personality
- Kevin Gates – rapper
- O.T. Genasis – Garifuna American rapper
- Gilberto Gil – Brazilian singer, political activist and former Minister of Culture
- Aracelis Girmay – poet
- Meagan Good – American actress
- Herizen Guardiola – actress and singer
- Gunplay – rapper
- Edward W. Hardy – composer and musician
- Severiano de Heredia – Cuban-born French politician, president of the municipal council of Paris from 1879 to 1880, first mayor of African descent of a Western world capital
- Al Horford – Dominican basketball player and is the son of Tito Horford
- Sunny Hostin – American lawyer, journalist, and television host
- Gwen Ifill – journalist, television newscaster and author
- Iza – Brazilian pop singer
- Ro James – singer
- Reggie Jackson – baseball player
- Shar Jackson – American actress, best known for her role as Niecy Jackson on the UPN sitcom Moesha
- Skai Jackson – American actress
- Jharrel Jerome – actor, best known for his role in Moonlight
- Julissa – former BET television personality
- Kelis – singer-songwriter
- Tori Kelly – American musician
- Erick Kolthoff – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
- Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes – member of R&B girl group TLC
- Amara La Negra – singer
- Toña la Negra – singer
- Tato Laviera – poet
- Kiana Ledé – American singer and actress
- Jorge Lendeborg Jr. – actor
- Selenis Leyva – actress
- Adriana Lima – model
- Olivia Longott – American singer
- Sessilee Lopez – model
- Faizon Love – Cuban-born actor and comedian
- Héritier Lumumba – Australian footballer of Afro-Brazilian descent
- La Lupe – singer
- Maluca Mala – singer and rapper
- EJ Manuel – NFL quarterback
- Kalimba Marichal – Mexican singer
- Juan Marichal – former Dominican baseball pitcher
- Toya Martin – American singer
- Pedro Martínez – former Dominican baseball pitcher
- Tony Medina – poet and graphic novelist
- Jesús Papoleto Meléndez – poet
- Miguel – singer-songwriter
- Christina Milian – singer and actress
- E. Ethelbert Miller – writer and poet
- Minnie Miñoso – former Cuban baseball player
- Carlos Moore – Cuban writer, journalist and activist
- Aja Monet – poet
- Naima Mora – model
- Benny Moré – Cuban singer, bandleader and songwriter
- Nancy Morejón – Cuban poet, critic, essayist
- Lamorne Morris – actor
- Rico Nasty – rapper
- N.O.R.E. – rapper
- Amaury Nolasco – actor
- Lupita Nyong'o – Kenyan-Mexican actress
- Soledad O'Brien – broadcast journalist, executive producer and philanthropist
- Don Omar – reggaeton singer-songwriter and actor
- Claudette Ortiz – singer
- David Ortiz – Dominican baseball player
- Ozuna – Puerto Rican Reggaeton and Latin trap singer
- Johnny Pacheco – Dominican musician, founder of the Fania All-Stars, coined the term "Salsa"
- Peedi Peedi – rapper
- Tony Peña – former Dominican baseball player
- Willie Perdomo – writer and poet
- Jacob "Princeton" Perez – singer and dancer
- Rosie Perez – actress, dancer, choreographer, director and community activist
- Miguel Piñero – playwright and poet, co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café
- Dascha Polanco – Dominican actress, best known for her role as Dana Diaz in the Netflix dramedy Orange is the New Black
- Reagan Gomez-Preston – American actress
- Princess Nokia – rapper
- Albert Pujols – Dominican baseball player
- Dania Ramirez – actress
- Manny Ramirez – Dominican baseball player
- Charles Rangel – former New York congressman
- Gina Ravera – actress
- Judy Reyes – actress
- Lais Ribeiro – model
- Lauren Ridloff – American deaf actress
- Mychal Rivera – football player, tight end, Oakland Raiders
- Naya Rivera – American actress, best known for her role as Santana Lopez in the musical comedy Glee
- Alex Rodriguez – Dominican-American baseball player
- Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez – Puerto Rican salsa singer
- Sabi – singer-songwriter
- Zoe Saldaña – actress
- Manny Sanguillén – former Panamanian baseball player
- Juelz Santana – rapper
- Antony Santos – Dominican bachata singer
- Neymar Jr – Brazilian footballer
- Mayra Santos-Febres – poet
- Romeo Santos – singer
- Jon Secada – singer
- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg – Puerto Rican historian, writer, and activist in the United States; founder of the Schomberg Center for Black Research
- Sech (singer) – Panamanian Reggaeton artist
- Shyne – Belizean rapper
- Luis Guillermo Solís – Costa Rican president and mulatto
- Pop Smoke – American rapper of Afro-Panamanian descent
- Esperanza Spalding – musician
- Arlenis Sosa – model
- Sammy Sosa – former Dominican baseball player
- Vince Staples – rapper
- Jeremy Suarez – former child actor
- Schoolboy Q – American rapper
- Cecilia Tait – politician and former volleyball player
- Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez – Cuban cosmonaut
- Lorenzo Thomas – poet
- Piri Thomas – creative writer
- Tessa Thompson – American actress
- Anuel AA – Puerto Rican Reggaeton artist born to an Afro-Puerto Rican father and White Puerto Rican mother
- Melody Thornton – singer-songwriter and dancer
- Luis Tiant – former MLB starting pitcher, Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox
- Gina Torres – actress
- Trina – American female rapper
- Karl-Anthony Towns – Dominican-American basketball player
- María Urrutia – former weightlifter, athlete and politician
- Salvador Valdés Mesa – First Vice President of Cuba, former trade union leader, Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba
- Amirah Vann – actress
- Danielle Vega – actress
- Lauren Velez – actress
- Cassie Ventura – American singer and actress
- Johnny Ventura – Dominican singer
- Fred Warner – Mexican & Panamenian American Football player for the San Francisco 49ers
- Tristan Wilds – actor and singer
- Hype Williams – music video director
- Juan Williams – journalist and political analyst
- Joaquín Zihuatanejo – poet
- Daddy Yankee – Puerto Rican Reggaeton artist and pioneer in Reggaeton music born to an Afro-Puerto Rican father and White Puerto Rican mother
- Rónald Gómez – current Manager for Gamma Ethniki club Apollon Smyrnis
- Susana Baca – Peruvian singer-songwriter and ethnomusicologist