List of Afro–Puerto Ricans

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List of Puerto Ricans of African descent
style="text-align:center;" Template:Bg-gold colspan=5|Notable Puerto Ricans of African Ancestry
First row Arturo Alfonso Schomburg • José Celso Barbosa • Pedro Albizu Campos Second row Juan Morel Campos • Juano Hernández

This is a list of notable Afro-Puerto Ricans. This list contains the names of persons who meet the pre-established Notability criteria, even if the person does not have an article yet. Additions to the list must be listed in alphabetical order by surname.

Each addition to the list must also provide a reliable verifiable source which cites the person's notability and/or the person's link to Puerto Rico, otherwise the name will be removed.

Note:

• Tite Curet Alonso - composer, composer of over 2,000 salsa songs.^[1]
• Carmelo Anthony - Professional Basketball Player, currently playing for the New York Knicks
• Alani "La La" Anthony - Entertainer and Actress, MTV V.J.
• Rick Aviles, actor and comedian
• Dr. Jose Celso Barbosa - was a medical Physician, sociologist, and political leader of Puerto Rico, statehood advocate, first Puerto Rican with a U.S. medical degree.^[2]
• Dr. Pilar Barbosa - was an educator, historian and political activist.^[3]
• Dr. Yosef Alfredo Antonio Ben-Jochannan - also known as Dr. Ben, is a writer and historian
• Wilfred Benítez - boxer who won world championships in three separate weight divisions, and was the youngest world champion in boxing history.^[4]
• Juan Boria - poet, writer of the Afro-Caribbean genre of poetry
• Tego Calderón - reggaeton artist
• Jose Campeche - Puerto Rican rococo artists.^[5]
• Juan Morel Campos - composer, in the genre of danza.^[6]
• Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos - lawyer, advocate of Puerto Rican independence from the United States, and president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party from 1930 until his death.^[7]
• Dr. José Ferrer Canales - educator, writer and a pro-independence political activist.^[8]
• Bobby Capó - internationally known singer and songwriter.^[9]
• Orlando "Peruchin" Cepeda - baseball player, inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee.^[10]
• Pedro Cepeda—baseball player, father of Orlando, considered one of the greatest players of his generation.^[11]
• Rafael Cepeda - folk musician and composer, patriarch of the Cepeda family, Puerto Rican-African folk music, especially Bomba.^[12]
• Nero Chen - professional boxer.^[13]
• Roberto Clemente - baseball player, first Latin American to be selected and the only current Hall of Famer for whom the mandatory five-year waiting period was waived .^[14]
• Carlitos Colón, former WWE wrestler
• Jesús Colón - writer and politician known as the Father of the Nuyorican Movement.^[15]
• Celestina Cordero - educator, established the first school for girls in San Juan.
• Rafael Cordero - known as "The Father of Public Education in Puerto Rico", self-educated man who provided free schooling to children regardless of race.^[16]
• Rafael Cortijo - percussionist, Plena artist, composer
• Maritza Correia - first Afro-Puerto Rican to be on the USA Olympic Swimming Team. She was the first Black US swimmer to set an American and World swimming record.^[17]
• Eva Cruz - volleyball player
• José "Cheo" Cruz - baseball player, honored by the Astros, when the team retired his number, #25.^[18]
• Victor Cruz - NFL wide receiver for New York Giants.
• Carlos Delgado - baseball player, a Major League Baseball first baseman.^[19]
• Jaime Espinal - professional wrestler
• Jose "Cheo" Feliciano - New York-based composer and singer of salsa and bolero music.^[20]
• Ruth Fernández - singer and actress, the first Latina singer of romantic music to sing in the Scandinavian countries and the first Latina to record with a North American band.^[21]
• Pedro Flores - composer of Ballads and Boleros.^[22]
• Reagan Gomez-Preston - actress
• Herbert Lewis Hardwick a.k.a. "Cocoa Kid", boxer who won the world colored welterweight and world colored middleweight championships and was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2012
• Juano Hernandez - actor, the first Afro-Puerto Rican to become a major star in the US and among the "new style" black screen actors, who played straight dramatic roles.^[23]
• Aideliz Hidalgo - the first black woman to compete in Miss International beauty pageant as Miss Puerto Rico
• Reggie Jackson - Hall of Fame baseball player, known as "Mr. October"
• Esteban De Jesús - boxer, first to defeat Roberto Durán.^[24]
• Rafael José - actor, singer, television host
• Erick Kolthoff - Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
• Benjamin LaGuer - US soldier and convicted criminal
• Evelyn Lozada - Actress, Basketball wives
• Isabel Luberza - known as "la Negra", she was a madame of a brothel
• Felipe Luciano - poet and activist
• Rafael Hernández Marín - musician and composer, who wrote Lamento Borincano.^[25]
• Luis Palés Matos - poet
• Jerome Mincy - basketball player
• Emilio "Millito" Navarro - baseball player, the first Puerto Rican to play baseball in the Negro Leagues.^[26]
• Don Omar - reggaeton artist
• Claudette Ortiz - model and R&B singer
• Victor Pellot - baseball player, the second black Puerto Rican to play in Major League Baseball, and the first Puerto Rican to play in the American League.^[27]
• Rosie Perez - actress, activist, and choreographer
• Ernesto Ramos Antonini - was the President of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico and co-founder of the "Partido Popular Democrático de Puerto Rico" (Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico).^[28]
• Carmen Belen Richardson - actress and comedian who was a pioneer of Puerto Rican television.^[29]
• Ismael Rivera - salsa artist and singer
• Pedro Rosa Nales - journalist, news anchor/ reporter; he has received over 200 awards.^[30]
• Zoe Saldana - actress
• Mayra Santos-Febres - writer, poet, essayist, screenwriter, and college professor.^[31]
• Arturo Alfonso Schomburg - historian, writer and activist in New York, who researched and raised awareness of Afro-Latin aAmerican and African American history and contributions.^[32]
• Pedro Telemaco, first black male leading man to star in a Puerto Rican telenovela
• Piri Thomas - writer, author of Down These Mean Streets
• José Torres - boxer, in the Boxing Hall of Fame
• Félix Trinidad - professional boxer,world boxing champion.^[33]
• Juan Evangelista Venegas - boxer, the first Puerto Rican to win an Olympic medal.^[34]
• Sylvia del Villard - actress, dancer, choreographer and political activist.^[35]
• Otilio "Bizcocho" Warrington - comedian and actor, best known for his roles of "Bizcocho" and "Cuca Gomez".^[36]
• Bernie Williams - former Major League Baseball outfielder and a professional jazz musician.^[37]
• Lauren Vélez - actress
• Marcos Xiorro - a slave who, in 1821, planned and conspired to lead a slave revolt against the sugar plantation owners and the Spanish Colonial government in Puerto Rico.^[38]
• Pedro "Peedi Crakk" Zayas - rapper

• List of Puerto Ricans
• African immigration to Puerto Rico
• Afro-Latin American - Central and South America
• Black Hispanic and Latino Americans - United States of America
• List of topics related to Black and African people

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)