This is a list of notable Mexican-Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article, including references, showing they are Mexican American and are notable. Mexican-born persons should not be included here simply because they have worked in the United States

United States

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, unless they are known to have become U.S. citizens

Citizenship in the United States

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 through naturalization

Naturalization

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.

Baseball players

• Alfredo Aceves
  Alfredo Aceves
  Alfredo Aceves Martínez is a Mexican professional baseball pitcher with the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball. He uses a fastball, which can reach the mid 90s, a curveball, a changeup, and a cut fastball. He is known for his control and his ability to throw any pitch in any count...
  
  - MLB Pitcher
• Hank Aguirre
  Hank Aguirre
  Henry John "Hank" Aguirre was a Major League Baseball pitcher who played with the Cleveland Indians , Detroit Tigers , Los Angeles Dodgers , and Chicago Cubs...
  
   - MLB All-Star Pitcher
• Armando Almanza
  Armando Almanza
  Armando N. Almanza is a former left-handed relief pitcher, who last played for the Arizona Diamondbacks. He also played for the Florida Marlins and the Atlanta Braves in his career....
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Mel Almada
  Mel Almada
  Baldomero "Mel" Almada was a center fielder in Major League Baseball who played from through for the Boston Red Sox , Washington Senators , St. Louis Browns and Brooklyn Dodgers...
  
   - MLB Outfielder
• Abe Alvarez
  Abe Alvarez
  Abraham Alvarez, , is an American former professional baseball pitcher with the Palfinger Reggio Emilia of Italy's Serie A1. He bats and throws left-handed.-College career:...
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Rubén Amaro, Jr.
  Rubén Amaro, Jr.
  Rubén Amaro, Jr. is the general manager of the Philadelphia Phillies.He is also a former Major League Baseball outfielder who played from to . He is the son of former infielder Rubén Amaro, Sr....
  
   - MLB Outfielder
• Bob Apodaca
  Bob Apodaca
  Robert John Apodaca, otherwise known as Bob Apodaca is the pitching coach for the Colorado Rockies.Apodaca, who is of Mexican American descent, attended Cerritos College and California State University, Los Angeles...
  
   - MLB pitcher and coach
• Frank Arellanes
  Frank Arellanes
  Frank Julián Arellanes [ah-ray-yah'-ness] was a professional baseball starting pitcher. He played three seasons in Major League Baseball for the Boston Red Sox from 1908 through 1910...
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Fernando Arroyo
  Fernando Arroyo
  Fernando Arroyo was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Detroit Tigers , Minnesota Twins , and Oakland Athletics ....
  
   - MLB pitcher
• Rod Barajas
  Rod Barajas
  Rodrigo Richard Barajas is a Mexican American professional baseball catcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball. He came up to the majors with the Arizona Diamondbacks in...
  
   - MLB Catcher
• Cuno Barragan
  Cuno Barragan
  Facundo Anthony "Cuno" Barragan was a catcher in Major League Baseball for the Chicago Cubs from to .Cuno Barragan's only Major League career home run came on his very first major league at bat, on September 1, 1961...
  
   - MLB catcher
• Freddie Benavides
  Freddie Benavides
  Alfredo Benavides is a former Major League Baseball infielder of Mexican American descent. He is an alumnus of Texas Christian University....
  
   - MLB infielder
• Jorge Cantú
  Jorge Cantú
  Jorge Luís Cantú Guzmán is an American professional baseball first baseman.Cantú bats and throws right-handed. He was born in McAllen, Texas, went to Sharyland High School, but was raised and makes his home in Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico.-Tampa Bay Devil Rays:Cantú was spotted by a scout while...
  
   - MLB Infielder
• Cam Carreon
  Cam Carreon
  Camilo Carreon was an American Major League Baseball player from 1959 to 1966 for the Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians and Baltimore Orioles. His son Mark was also a Major League player....
  
   - MLB Catcher
• Mark Carreon
  Mark Carreon
  Mark Carreon is a former first baseman / outfielder in Major League Baseball.-Career:From through , Carreon played for the New York Mets , Detroit Tigers , San Francisco Giants and Cleveland Indians . He also played two seasons in Japan for the Chiba Lotte Marines in and...
  
   - MLB First Baseman
• Cesar Carrillo
  Cesar Carrillo
  Cesar Carrillo is an American Major League Baseball player who is a free agent. Carrillo was drafted in 2005 by the San Diego Padres 18th overall. He played college baseball at the University of Miami between 2002-2005.- High school :Carrillo attended Mt...
  
   - MLB pitcher
• Bobby Castillo
  Bobby Castillo
  Robert Ernie Castillo Jr. is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball. He played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Minnesota Twins between and . He was in the bullpen for the Dodgers in the 1981 World Series, pitching one inning against the New York Yankees. He also pitched one season in Japan for...
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Frank Castillo
  Frank Castillo
  Frank Anthony Castillo is a retired Major League Baseball starting pitcher. Castillo has played for the Chicago Cubs , Colorado Rockies , Detroit Tigers , Toronto Blue Jays , Boston Red Sox , and Florida Marlins , In his 13-year career, he has had 82 wins and 104 losses, 1101 strike outs, and a...
  
   - MLB Starting Pitcher
• Marty Castillo - MLB catcher and third baseman
• Jaime Cerda
  Jaime Cerda
  Jaime Magana Cerda is a retired left-handed Major League Baseball relief pitcher. Cerda played previously with the New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals...
  
   - MLB pitcher
• Eric Chavez
  Eric Chavez
  Eric Cesar Chavez is an American Major League Baseball infielder. Chavez has played for the Oakland Athletics and New York Yankees...
  
   - MLB Third Baseman
• Jesse Chavez
  Jesse Chavez
  Jesse David Chavez is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball. He bats and throws right-handed....
  
   - MLB pitcher
• Chad Cordero
  Chad Cordero
  Chad Patrick Cordero is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher. He broke into the big league ranks with the Montreal Expos...
  
   - MLB Relief Pitcher
• Pat Corrales
  Pat Corrales
  Patrick Corrales , is a former catcher and manager in Major League Baseball who played from 1964–1973, primarily for the Cincinnati Reds, but also for the Philadelphia Phillies, St...
  
   - MLB Catcher & Coach
• Jacob Cruz
  Jacob Cruz
  Jacob Antonio Cruz , is a professional baseball player for the Potros de Tijuana of the Mexican Baseball League. Cruz, who is of Mexican American descent, played outfield in Major League Baseball from -...
  
   - MLB outfielder
• Bobby Cuellar
  Bobby Cuellar
  Robert "Bobby" Cuellar is the pitching coach of the Rochester Red Wings of the International League, the Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins. He is a former professional baseball player who played briefly with the Texas Rangers in as a relief pitcher. He is a graduate from the University...
  
   - MLB pitcher and coach
• Chuck Estrada
  Chuck Estrada
  Charles Leonard Estrada is a former American baseball player. Estrada was a 6 feet, one inch tall right-handed pitcher in the Major Leagues from to , playing for the Baltimore Orioles, Chicago Cubs, and New York Mets...
  
   - MLB pitcher
• Johnny Estrada
  Johnny Estrada
  Johnny Pulado Estrada III is a former American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks, Milwaukee Brewers and the Washington Nationals.Estrada was selected in the 17th round of the 1997 Major...
  
   - MLB Catcher
• Fernando Cortez
  Fernando Cortez
  Fernando Cortez is a Major League Baseball infielder who is currently with the Somerset Patriots in the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. His most recent Major League Baseball team was the Kansas City Royals.Cortez was selected by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 9th round of the 2001 Major...
  
   - MLB infielder
• Marco Estrada
  Marco Estrada (baseball)
  Marco René Estrada is a Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers.-Early life:...
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Andre Ethier
  Andre Ethier
  Andre Everett Ethier , is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers.In 2009, Ethier hit six walk off hits , which was the most by any player in the Major Leagues since 1974. His four walk-off home runs tied the Major League record for most in a season...
  
   - MLB Outfielder
• Jesse Flores
  Jesse Flores
  Jesse Sandoval Flores was a Major League Baseball pitcher. The 5'10", 175 lb. right-hander was a native of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He played for the Cubs , Philadelphia Athletics , and Cleveland Indians .-Career:Flores was originally signed by the Chicago Cubs as an amateur free agent...
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Randy Flores
  Randy Flores
  Randy Alan Flores is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher who is currently a free agent. Flores is a career left-handed relief specialist.-Early life and career:...
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Ron Flores
  Ron Flores
  Ronald Joel Flores is a left-handed relief pitcher who is currently a free agent. He was selected by the Oakland Athletics in the 29th round of the 2000 Major League Baseball Draft. He is the younger brother of Colorado Rockies pitcher, Randy Flores...
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Brian Fuentes
  Brian Fuentes
  Brian Christopher Fuentes is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher who currently plays for the Oakland Athletics. Previously, he played for the Seattle Mariners, the Colorado Rockies, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and the Minnesota Twins...
  
   - MLB All-Star Relief Pitcher
• Yovani Gallardo
  Yovani Gallardo
  Yovani Gallardo is a Mexican-American right-handed starting pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers. He was selected in the second round of the 2004 Major League Baseball Draft out of Trimble Technical High School in Fort Worth, Texas....
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Mike Gallego
  Mike Gallego
  Michael Anthony Gallego is the Oakland Athletics third base and infield coach, and a former Major League Baseball infielder who played for the Athletics, New York Yankees, and St. Louis Cardinals from 1985 to 1997.-Baseball career:Gallego was the A's starting second baseman during their three-year...
  
   - MLB outfielder and coach
• Kiko Garcia
  Kiko Garcia
  Alfonso Rafael "Kiko" Garcia is a former Major League Baseball infielder. He played ten seasons in the major leagues from until...
  
   - MLB infielder
• Mike Garcia - MLB All-Star Pitcher
• Nomar Garciaparra
  Nomar Garciaparra
  Anthony Nomar Garciaparra is a former Major League Baseball player. After playing parts of 9 seasons as an All-Star shortstop for the Boston Red Sox, he played third base, first base, and designated hitter for the Oakland Athletics, first base and third base for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and...
  
   - MLB All-Star Shortstop
• Matt Garza
  Matt Garza
  Matthew Scott Garza is a United States professional baseball pitcher with the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball.-Amateur career:He attended Washington Union High School and Fresno State.-Minnesota Twins:...
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Lefty Gomez
  Lefty Gómez
  Vernon Louis "Lefty" Gomez was an American left-handed major league pitcher who played in the American League for the New York Yankees between 1930 and 1942. Considered one of the great pitchers of the day, Gomez was a seven-time All-Star and a five-time World Series Champion with the Yankees...
  
   - Hall of Fame Pitcher
• Luis Gómez - MLB Infielder
• Adrian Gonzalez
  Adrián González
  Adrian Gonzalez is an American professional baseball first baseman with the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball.Gonzalez was the first overall pick in the 2000 Major League Baseball Draft by the Florida Marlins. He was traded to the Texas Rangers, and later to the San Diego Padres, where he...
  
   - MLB First Baseman
• Edgar Gonzalez
  Edgar Gonzalez (infielder)
  Edgar Victor Gonzalez is a Major League Baseball infielder who is currently in the San Francisco Giants organization.-Tampa Bay Devil Rays:...
  
   - MLB Infielder
• Michael Gonzalez - MLB closer/pitcher
• Bob Greenwood - MLB Pitcher
• Eddie Guardado
  Eddie Guardado
  Edward Adrian Guardado is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher. Throughout his career, Guardado had played with the Minnesota Twins , Seattle Mariners , Cincinnati Reds , and the Rangers .His common nickname is "Everyday Eddie", a testament to his durable arm during his first stint with the...
  
   - MLB All-Star Pitcher
• Jerry Hairston, Jr.
  Jerry Hairston, Jr.
  Jerry Wayne Hairston, Jr. is a Mexican-American professional baseball utility player.-Professional career:...
  
   - MLB Player players
• Scott Hairston
  Scott Hairston
  Scott Alexander Hairston is an outfielder in Major League Baseball. Hairston bats and throws right-handed.-High school years:...
  
   - MLB Outfielder
• Dan Haren
  Dan Haren
  Daniel John Haren is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.- High-school and college career :...
  
   - MLB All-Star Pitcher
• David Hernandez
  David Hernandez (baseball)
  David Jose Hernandez is a Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher for the Arizona Diamondbacks...
  
   - MLB Starting Pitcher
• Jeremy Hernandez
  Jeremy Hernandez
  Jeremy Stuart Hernandez is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. Hernandez, who is of Mexican descent, played in five seasons in the major leagues, from until . During that time, he pitched in 133 games, all in relief.-External links:...
  
   - MLB pitcher
• Rudy Jaramillo
  Rudy Jaramillo
  Rudolpho "Rudy" Jaramillo [ha-dah-MEE-yoh] is the hitting coach for the Chicago Cubs. During his time with the Texas Rangers, Jaramillo was the first individual in Rangers history to serve more than eight seasons on their major league coaching staff. He served as the Texas Rangers' major league...
  
   - Hitting Coach
• Jason Jaramillo
  Jason Jaramillo
  Jason Cory Jaramillo is a catcher for the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. He played collegiately at Oklahoma State University. Jaramillo was drafted by the Philadelphia Phillies in the second round of the 2004 MLB Draft. He was also ranked one of the top ten prospects in the Phillies system for...
  
   - MLB Catcher
• Jason Jiménez
  Jason Jiménez
  Jason Jon Jiménez is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. Jimenez, who is of Mexican descent, made his Major League Baseball debut on June 3, 2002. He pitched in five games for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and one game for the Detroit Tigers.-External links:...
  
   - MLB pitcher
• Gerald Laird
  Gerald Laird
  Gerald Lee Laird III is an American professional baseball catcher for the Detroit Tigers. He graduated La Quinta High School in 1998, and played college baseball at Cypress College...
  
   - MLB Catcher
• Adam LaRoche
  Adam LaRoche
  David Adam LaRoche , is a Major League Baseball first baseman. In 2011, the Washington Nationals signed him to a two-year deal...
  
   - MLB First Baseman
• Andy LaRoche
  Andy LaRoche
  Andrew Christian LaRoche is an American professional baseball third baseman who is a free agent....
  
   - MLB Infielder
• Eddie Leon
  Eddie Leon
  Eduardo Antonio Leon is a former Major League Baseball infielder of Mexican American descent, who played for eight seasons, splitting time as a shortstop and second baseman...
  
   - MLB infielder
• Nick Leyva
  Nick Leyva
  Nicholas Tomas Leyva is the current third base coach of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Leyva, who is of Mexican American descent, is a former minor league player and manager, and has spent over a decade as a Major League Baseball coach...
  
   - MLB manager
• Evan Longoria
  Evan Longoria
  Evan Michael Longoria is a Major League Baseball third baseman for the Tampa Bay Rays. Formerly, Longoria was a star infielder for the Long Beach State University baseball team, the Cape Cod League MVP, and the Big West Co-Player of the Year.He made his major league debut for the Rays in , and...
  
   - MLB All-Star Infielder, 2008 Rookie of the Year
• Albie Lopez
  Albie Lopez
  Albert Anthony "Albie" Lopez is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He graduated from Mesa Community College. He was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the 20th round of the 1991 Major League Baseball Draft. Lopez was selected by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the second round of the expansion...
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Alfonso Márquez
  Alfonso Márquez
  Alfonso Márquez is an umpire in Major League Baseball who has worked in the National League in 1999 and throughout both major leagues since 2000.-MLB career:...
  
   - MLB Umpire
• Buck Martinez - MLB Manager, Catcher and Commentator
• Sergio Mitre
  Sergio Mitre
  Sergio Armando Mitre is a American professional baseball pitcher.-Background:Mitre is of Mexican American descent. He grew up in Tijuana, Mexico, where he trained in the arts of kenpo, boxing and wrestling due to frequent street fights.Mitre graduated from Montgomery High School in San Diego,...
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Sid Monge
  Sid Monge
  Isidro "Sid" Monge Pedroza is a retired Major League Baseball relief pitcher with a ten-year career from 1975 to 1984...
  
   - MLB All-Star Relief Pitcher
• Carlos Muñiz
  Carlos Muñiz
  Carlos Javier Muñiz is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the New York Mets organization.Muñiz made his major league debut on September 25, . He threw 1.1 innings and gave up 2 earned runs....
  
   - MLB Relief Pitcher
• Sandy Nava
  Sandy Nava
  Vincent Irwin "Sandy" Nava was an American 19th century Major League Baseball player for five seasons from through...
  
   - MLB Infielder
• Ricky Nolasco
  Ricky Nolasco
  Carlos Enrique "Ricky" Nolasco is an American Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher for the Miami Marlins. He is listed as 6'2" and 220, and made his major league debut on April 5,...
  
   - MLB pitcher
• Augie Ojeda
  Augie Ojeda
  Octavio "Augie" Ojeda is an American professional baseball infielder who is a free agent...
  
   - MLB Infielder
• Steve Ontiveros (infielder) - MLB infielder
• Jesse Orosco
  Jesse Orosco
  Jesse Russell Orosco is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who holds the major league record for career pitching appearances. He pitched most notably for the New York Mets in the 1980s. He won a World Series in 1986 with the Mets and in 1988 with the Dodgers. He threw left-handed,...
  
   - MLB All-Star Pitcher
• Jorge Orta
  Jorge Orta
  Jorge Orta Núñez is a retired professional baseball player.He made his debut with the Chicago White Sox on April 15, 1972. Through the 1970s, he played usually second baseman but also third baseman and also some outfield...
  
   - MLB All-Star Second Baseman
• Russ Ortiz
  Russ Ortiz
  Russell Reid Ortiz is a retired Major League baseball pitcher. Ortiz played for the Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks, Baltimore Orioles, San Francisco Giants, Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers...
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Manny Parra
  Manny Parra
  Manuel Alex "Manny" Parra is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers.-Early life:...
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Óliver Pérez
  Oliver Pérez
  Óliver Pérez Martínez is a left-handed pitcher currently in the Washington Nationals organization.-San Diego Padres:...
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Carlos Quentin
  Carlos Quentin
  Carlos Josè Quentin is an American outfielder who plays for the Chicago White Sox. In 2008 and in 2011, Quentin was selected as an All-Star.-Early career:...
  
   - MLB All-Star Outfielder
• Omar Quintanilla
  Omar Quintanilla
  Omar Quintanilla is an American professional baseball infielder who is a free agent.-Early life:He attended Socorro High School in El Paso, Texas, where he led the city of El Paso in home runs, RBI, and was elected to the Texas All-State shortstop...
  
   - MLB Shortstop
• Erasmo Ramirez
  Erasmo Ramirez
  Erasmo Ramírez is a Major League Baseball left-handed relief pitcher for the Chicago White Sox organization. His nickname is "The Eraser"....
  
   - MLB relief pitcher
• Horacio Ramírez
  Horacio Ramírez
  Horacio Ramírez is a Major League Baseball pitcher. His parents emigrated from Jalostotitlan, Jalisco, Mexico.-Career:...
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Rudy Regalado
  Rudy Regalado
  Rudolph Valentino Regalado is a former Major League Baseball player. He was an infielder for the Cleveland Indians from 1954 to 1956, and played in the 1954 World Series. He was born in Los Angeles, California and is of Mexican descent....
  
   - MLB Infielder
• Rick Renteria
  Rick Renteria
  Richard Avina Renteria is currently the bench coach for the San Diego Padres. During his playing career, he was usually called "Rich", but now goes by "Rick"....
  
   - MLB infielder and coach
• Anthony Reyes
  Anthony Reyes
  Anthony Loza Reyes is a right-handed pitcher who is currently a free agent.Reyes has a younger brother, Erik, who pitched for Concordia University Irvine in .-High School:...
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Rich Rodriguez
  Rich Rodriguez (baseball)
  Richard Anthony Rodriguez , a graduate of Mountain View High School in the city of El Monte, California, is a retired professional baseball player who pitched in the Major Leagues from -....
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Ricky Romero - MLB Starting Pitcher
• Sergio Romo
  Sergio Romo
  Sergio Francisco Romo is a American right-handed professional baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants of Major League baseball.-Early life:Romo was born in Brawley, California to Mexican immigrant parents...
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Adam Rosales
  Adam Rosales
  Adam M. Rosales is an American Major League Baseball infielder for the Oakland Athletics.He made his major league debut as a pinch hitter for the Cincinnati Reds on August 9, 2008...
  
   - MLB infielder
• Mark Salas
  Mark Salas
  Mark Bruce Salas is a former professional catcher who played in Major League Baseball from -. Salas, who is of Mexican descent, currently works for the Chicago White Sox as a bullpen catcher....
  
   - MLB catcher
• Freddy Sanchez
  Freddy Sanchez
  Frederick Phillip "Freddy" Sanchez, Jr. is a Major League Baseball second baseman for the San Francisco Giants. Sanchez has previously played for the Boston Red Sox and the Pittsburgh Pirates and the San Francisco Giants...
  
   - MLB All-Star Infielder & Batting Champion
• Rudy Seánez
  Rudy Seanez
  Rudy Caballero Seánez [SEE-ah-nez] is a former relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. He was the prototypical major league journeyman....
  
   - MLB pitcher
• José Silva
  José Silva (baseball)
  José Leonel Silva is a right-handed pitcher. He currently plays for the Dorados de Chihuahua of the Mexican League...
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Mike Torrez
  Mike Torrez
  Michael Augustine Torrez is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball.-Career:Torrez had an 18-year career from 1967 to 1984. He played for the St...
  
   - MLB Pitcher
• Randy Velarde
  Randy Velarde
  Randy Lee Velarde is a former Major League Baseball infielder who played for the New York Yankees, California/Anaheim Angels, Oakland Athletics, and Texas Rangers from to...
  
   - MLB infielder
• Fernando Viña
  Fernando Viña
  Fernando Viña is a retired Cuban-American Major League Baseball second baseman and current MLB analyst for Oakland Athletics...
  
   - MLB All-Star Second Baseman
• Ted Williams
  Ted Williams
  Theodore Samuel "Ted" Williams was an American professional baseball player and manager. He played his entire 21-year Major League Baseball career as the left fielder for the Boston Red Sox...
  
   - MLB Left Fielder & Hall of Fame legend
• Michael Young - MLB All-Star MVP, Shortstop & Batting Champion
• Joel Zumaya
  Joel Zumaya
  Joel Martin Zumaya is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher known for his record-breaking fastballs.-Baseball career:...
  
   - MLB Pitcher

Boxers

• Oscar Albarado
  Oscar Albarado
  Oscar Albarado was an American boxer. He competed in the light middleweight division.- Professional career :...
  
   - Light Middleweight Champion
• Chris Arreola
  Chris Arreola
  Cristobal Arreola is a Mexican-American professional Heavyweight boxer. Arreola is the former NABF, WBC Continental Americas, and current WBC FECOMBOX Heavyweight Champion. Chris is promoted by Goossen Tutor and trained by Henry Ramírez....
  
   - Heavyweight Boxer
• Paulie Ayala
  Paulie Ayala
  Paul Anthony Ayala is a Mexican-American former boxer and two time world champion. Ayala is a born-again Christian, and he professed so by thanking God for his success after virtually every fight...
  
   - WBA Bantamweight Champion
• Tony Ayala, Jr.
  Tony Ayala, Jr.
  Antonio Ayala Jr. is a former Mexican-American boxer in the Light Middleweight division. He began his professional career in 1980, and by 1982 he had compiled a record of 22 wins and no losses, with 19 knockouts. Ayala has two brothers who were boxers, Mike Ayala and Sammy Ayala.-Early life:Ayala...
  
   - Junior Middleweight Boxer
• Tony Baltazar
  Tony Baltazar
  Antonio Baltazar is a former Mexican-American boxer. He competed in the Lightweight division. After an amateur career where he won various titles, he turned professional in the late 1970s, and has boxed the likes of Robin Blake, former world champion Roger Mayweather, Hector Macho Camacho and...
  
   - Professional Boxer
• Jose Benavidez
  Jose Benavidez
  José Luis Benavidez is an undefeated Mexican-American professional boxer in the Light Welterweight division. He is the son of boxing trainer Jose Benavidez, Sr. of Arcelia, Guerrero, Mexico. From two years old until he was 17, Jose jr. was raised in Phoenix, Arizona.-Amateur career:Benavidez Jr...
  
   - Boxing's Top Light Welterweight Prospect
• Norberto Bravo
  Norberto Bravo
  Norberto Bravo is a Mexican-American professional boxer, and is a contestant on the ESPN reality show "Contender Season 2". As was revealed on the show in a web clip, Bravo suffers from colorblindness...
  
   - Professional Boxer
• Gaby Canizales
  Gaby Canizales
  Jose 'Gaby' Canizales is a retired American boxer who won world championships in the bantamweight division. -Pro career:Canizales turned pro in 1979 and in 1983 challenged Jeff Chandler for the World Boxing Association bantamweight title but lost a decision. In 1986 he landed a shot at Richie...
  
   - Bantamweight World Champion Boxer
• Orlando Canizales
  Orlando Canizales
  Orlando Canizales is an American boxer who won the International Boxing Federation bantamweight title and defended it a record sixteen consecutive times.-Boxing career:...
  
   - Bantamweight World Champion Boxer, Hall of Famer
• Michael Carbajal - Four-Time Light Flyweight Champion Boxer, Hall of Famer
• Ruben Castillo - Professional Boxer
• Bobby Chacon
  Bobby Chacon
  Bobby Chacon is an American former, two-time, world boxing champion.-Career:Chacon turned professional in 1972 and won his first 19 fights, including a win against former champion Jesus Castillo...
  
   - Two-Time Champion Boxer, Hall of Famer
• Jackie Chavez
  Jackie Chavez
  Jackie Chavez is an American female boxer in the Super Bantamweight division. She is the IFBA world Super Bantamweight champion, and considered by many to be one of women's boxing's future stars...
  
   - Female Boxer & IFBA World Super Bantamweight Champion
• Rudy Cisneros
  Rudy Cisneros
  Rudy Cisneros is a professional boxer, and was a contestant on the ESPN reality show "Contender Season 2". He is also studying architecture at Northern Michigan University....
  
   - Boxer, Contender Contestant
• Diego Corrales
  Diego Corrales
  Diego "Chico" Corrales was an American boxer.He was the WBC, WBO, & The Ring lightweight champion, and the WBO & IBF super featherweight champion....
  
   - Super Featherweight & Lightweight Champion
• Steve Cruz - Featherweight Champion
• Alberto Davila
  Alberto Davila
  Albert "Alberto" Dávila is a Mexican-American boxer who boxed during the 1970s and 1980s in the bantamweight division. During parts of 1983 and 1984, he held the World Boxing Council championship. Dávila lost world bantamweight championships matches three times, and temporarily left the sport...
  
   - Bantamweight Champion
• Oscar De La Hoya
  Oscar de la Hoya
  Oscar De La Hoya is a retired American boxer of Mexican descent. Nicknamed "The Golden Boy", De La Hoya won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympic Games shortly after graduating from Garfield High School. De La Hoya comes from a boxing family. His grandfather Vicente, father Joel Sr., and brother...
  
   - Ten-Time World Champion
• David Díaz - WBC Lightweight Champion
• Joe Diaz
  Joe Diaz
  Joe Diaz is a Phoenix boxing trainer.In the late 1990s, he opened Joe Diaz Top Level Boxing gym in Phoenix that he was given ownership to from Tom Gaffney...
  
   - Professional Boxing Trainer
• Juan Díaz - WBA & WBO & IBF World Lightweight Champion
• Louie Espinoza
  Louie Espinoza
  Louie Espinoza is an American boxer in the Featherweight division. He now resides in Chandler, Arizona....
  
   - WBA Featherweight Champion
• B. J. Flores
  B. J. Flores
  Benjamin Flores is a Mexican-American professional boxer and mixed martial artist.-Personal life:Flores is the grandson of Ralph Flores, the pilot who crashed his small plane in the wilds of Canada's Yukon Territory in February 1963 and survived, along with his passenger Helen Klaben, for 49 days,...
  
   - Professional Boxer
• Arturo Frias
  Arturo Frias
  Arturo Frias is a retired American boxer. He is a native of Montebello, California.-Boxing career:Frias began his professional boxing career on February 7, 1975, one month and a half after he had turned eighteen years old. He beat Alfredo Medrano by a six round decision in San Diego that night...
  
   - World Champion
• Alex Garcia
  Alex Garcia (boxer)
  Alex García is a former US-American heavyweight boxer best known to be a contender in the 1990s. A San Fernando native, and former gang member, he served five years in San Quentin State Prison for stabbing a rival gang member. Upon his release, he found himself training at the Jet Center, where...
  
   - Heavyweight Boxer
• Becky Garcia
  Becky Garcia
  Becky Garcia is a flyweight female boxing prospect from Mesa, Arizona. Her nickname is La Guerrera...
  
   - Flyweight Female Boxer
• Roberto Garcia
  Roberto García (boxer)
  Roberto García is a Mexican professional boxer. He was nicknamed "La Amenaza" as a young boy by his father, because he destroyed everything in his path.-Early life:...
  
   - IBF Super Featherweight Champion
• Roberto Garcia Cortez
  Roberto Garcia Cortez
  Roberto García Cortez, , is a retired Mexican-American professional boxer in the Lightweight division and is currently considered one of the best trainers in boxing. He is also the former IBF Super Featherweight Champion and was trained by his father Eduardo Garcia at the popular La Colonia Youth...
  
   - IBF Featherweight Champion
• Miguel Angel Garcia
  Miguel Angel Garcia
  Miguel Ángel García Cortez is an undefeated Mexican-American boxer in the Featherweight division. García's the current USBA, WBO NABO, and NABF Featherweight champion. Miguel Ángel is trained by his father Eduardo Garcia and former World Champion, his brother Roberto García.-Early life:García is...
  
   - Brother of Roberto Garcia and Top Featherweight Boxing Prospect
• Frankie Gomez
  Frankie Gomez
  Jesús Francisco Gómez , is an undefeated Mexican-American Professional boxer. He's currently signed with Oscar De La Hoya's company Golden Boy Promotions.-Amateur career:...
  
   - Boxing's Top Lightweight Prospect
• Delia Gonzalez
  Delia Gonzalez
  Delia 'Chikita' Gonzalez is a flyweight female boxer. Born November 20, 1970 in New Mexico, she sports a record of 13-9-4 with 3 knockout wins, although several of her losses have been controversial....
  
   - Flyweight Female Boxer
• Jesús González - an amateur champion and Super Middleweight contender
• Paul Gonzales
  Paul Gonzales
  Paul Garza Gonzales was a Mexican American boxer, who won the light flyweight gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics.-Amateur career:...
  
   - Flyweight Olympic Gold Medalist
• Rodolfo Gonzales
  Rodolfo Gonzales
  Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzáles was a Mexican American boxer, poet, and political activist. He convened the first-ever Chicano youth conference in March 1969, which was attended by many future Chicano activists and artists. The conference also promulgated the Plan Espiritual de Aztlán, a manifesto...
  
   - Boxer, Poet, & Leader of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement
• Robert Guerrero
  Robert Guerrero
  Robert Joseph Guerrero is a professional American boxer of Mexican descent. He is the former IBF Super Featherweight champion and a former two-time IBF featherweight champion of the world. Nicknamed The Ghost, Guerrero's record is 29 wins, 1 loss, and 1 draw, and 2 no contest, with 18 of his wins...
  
   - IBF Featherweight and Super Featherweight champion
• Genaro Hernandez
  Genaro Hernandez
  Genaro Hernández was a Mexican-American boxer from South Central Los Angeles. Hernández was the former WBC, WBA, & Lineal super featherweight champion.-Pro career:...
  
   - Super Featherweight Champion & World Champion
• Jesse James Leija
  Jesse James Leija
  James Leija , is a retired professional boxer from Texas.-Amateur career:Leija had an amateur career that spanned three years, going 23-5 during this time. He won the San Antonio Golden Gloves in 1988...
  
   - World Champion Boxer
• Willie Jorrin
  Willie Jorrin
  Guillermo Jaime Jorrin , better known as Willie Jorrin, is a boxer from Sacramento, California. Jorrin is a Mexican American. He is best known for squandering his championship with dubious decisions and inactivity. He ended his once promising career by losing to a journeyman...
  
   - WBC Super Bantamweight Champion
• Rocky Juarez
  Rocky Juarez
  Ricardo Rocky Juarez is a professional Mexican-American boxer. Juarez has a current professional record of 28 wins, 7 losses and 1 draw, with 19 wins coming by way of knockout.- Professional career :...
  
   - Olympic Silver Medalist
• Danny Lopez
  Danny Lopez
  Danny Lopez is a former American boxer from Fort Duchesne, Utah. He was world Featherweight champion, and a very popular fighter both in television and Southern California, during the 1970s. His nickname is Little Red.-Background:...
  
   - World Featherweight Champion, Hall of Famer
• Tony Lopez - Three-Time World Champion
• Steve Luevano - WBO Featherweight Champion
• Raúl Márquez
  Raul Marquez
  Raúl Márquez is a former American professional boxer in the Light Middleweight division and is the former IBF Light Middleweight Champion. Márquez also represented the U.S...
  
   - World Champion Boxer & Boxing Announcer
• Sergio Mora
  Sergio Mora
  Sergio "The Latin Snake" Mora is a Mexican American professional boxer trained by Dean Campos. He is the former WBC Light Middleweight Champion and also the first champion of NBC's The Contender....
  
   - WBC Super Welterweight World Champion
• Manuel Ortiz
  Manuel Ortiz (boxer)
  Manuel Ortiz was one of the very best boxers of the 1940s, and was named to Ring Magazine's list of the 80 Best Fighters of the Last 80 Years. In 1996, he was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame....
  
   - World Bantamweight Champion, Hall of Famer
• Victor Ortíz
  Victor Ortíz
  Victor Ortiz is an American professional boxer of Mexican descent and the former WBC welterweight champion.He was previously in the light welterweight division, where he held the USBA & NABO title....
  
   - WBC Welterweight Champion
• Bobby Pacho
  Bobby Pacho
  Robert Pacho was an Mexican-American professional boxer from Yuma, Arizona. After Bert Colima's career was over, Pacho was Mexican fans most popular boxer.-Early life:...
  
   - Professional Boxer
• Zack Padilla
  Zack Padilla
  Zack Padilla is a retired American boxer and a former WBO Light Welterweight champion.-Professional career:Padilla turned pro in 1985 and retired shortly thereafter in 1986 after a TKO loss to Dwayne Prim....
  
   - Light Welterweight Champion
• Carlos Palomino
  Carlos Palomino
  Carlos Palomino a retired Mexican professional boxer. Palomino is a former WBC Welterweight Champion and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Palomino is also an actor who has been featured in several television shows and films...
  
   - WBA Welterweight Champion, Hall of Famer
• Robert Quiroga
  Robert Quiroga
  Robert Quiroga was the International Boxing Federation Super flyweight champion from 1990 to 1993. Quiroga successfully defended his title five times and retired in 1995...
  
   - IBF Superflyweight Champion
• Mando Ramos
  Mando Ramos
  Armando Ramos was a Mexican-American professional boxer and the former two-time WBC and WBA Lightweight Champion. He was born in Long Beach, California. Armando "Mando" Ramos was one of the most popular and exciting fighters in Southern California during the 1960s. Ramos was an outstanding amateur...
  
   - Lightweight Champion
• Danny Romero
  Danny Romero
  Daniel Gregorio Romero was a former world champion professional boxer. His nickname is "Kid Dynamite".Romero is a devoted Catholic...
  
   - World Champion Boxer
• Brandon Rios
  Brandon Rios
  Brandon Lee Ríos is an undefeated Mexican-American/Native American boxer and the current WBA lightweight champion. Brandon is trained by former IBF super featherweight champion Roberto García.-Amateur career:...
  
   - WBA Lightweight champion
• David Rodriguez
  David Rodriguez (heavyweight boxer)
  David "Nino" Rodriguez he is a Mexican American heavyweight boxer with a 34-0 Currently ranked #18 in the world in the WBC and # 5 in the world in the IBA after a very impressive win over Owen Beck in El Paso over a sellout crowd to win the WBC FECOMBOX Mexican Heavyweight...
  
   - an undefeated Heavyweight Boxer
• Raul Rojas
  Raul Rojas
  Raul Rojas is a retired Mexican American featherweight boxer.He accumulated a record of 38 wins , 7 losses and 2 draws. On March 28, 1968, Rojas defeated Enrique Higgins to win the WBA Featherweight title, which Vicente Saldivar had vacated after announcing his retirement. He lost the title on...
  
   - WBA Featherweight champion
• Joseph Salas
  Joseph Salas
  Joseph I. Salas was an American featherweight professional boxer who competed in the 1920s. He won a silver medal in Boxing at the 1924 Summer Olympics, losing against Jackie Fields in the final bout.-References:...
  
   - Featherweight Olympic Silver Medalist
• Richie Sandoval
  Richie Sandoval
  Richard Sandoval was a Mexican-American professional boxer and is the former WBA Bantamweight Champion. Richard won a silver medal at the 1979 Pan American Games and was a U.S. Olympian during his amateur career...
  
   - Bantamweight Champion
• Solly Smith
  Solly Smith
  Solomon Garcia Smith was a Mexican-American boxer in the Featherweight division...
  
   - First Latino Featherweight Champion of the world
• Mia St. John
  Mia St. John
  Mia Rosales St. John is a Mexican-American professional boxer in the Light Welterweight division. Mia is the former WIBA and WIBF Lightweight Champion. She is also a model, businesswoman, and Tae Kwon Do Champion.-Early life:...
  
   - Professional Female Boxer
• Johnny Tapia
  Johnny Tapia
  John Lee "Johnny" Tapia is a Mexican-American five-time world boxing champion.-Childhood:Johnny Tapia's life began with tragedy. His father had reportedly been murdered while his mother was pregnant with him. At the age of 8, his mother Virginia was kidnapped, raped, hung, repeatedly stabbed, and...
  
   - Five-Time Flyweight, Bantamweight & Featherweight Champion
• Jesse Valdez
  Jesse Valdez
  Jesse Valdez is a former boxer.-Amateur career:At sixteen years-old, Valdez won the National AAU Welterweight Championship in 1964 by upsetting Olympic bronze medalist Quincey Daniels. That same year, he qualified for the U.S. Olympic team as an alternate. In 1967, he won a bronze medal at the...
  
   - Olympic Bronze Medalist (1972)
• Fernando Vargas
  Fernando Vargas
  Fernando Vargas is a retired Mexican American boxer and two-time world champion, who won a bronze medal as an amateur at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata. His nicknames include "Ferocious", "The Aztec Warrior" and "El Feroz"...
  
   - Two-Time Light Middleweight Champion
• Jesse Vargas
  Jesse Vargas
  Jessie Vargas is an undefeated Mexican-American boxer in the Light Welterweight division. Vargas is trained by Robert Alcazar and is signed to Floyd Mayweather Jr.'s boxing company, Mayweather Promotions....
  
   - Welterweight Boxer

Football players

• Joe Aguirre
  Joe Aguirre
  Joseph A. Aguirre was an American football tight end in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins, as well as for the Los Angeles Dons of the All-America Football Conference . He also spent time in the Canadian Football League with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Edmonton Eskimos, and...
  
   - NFL tight end
• Raul Allegre
  Raul Allegre
  Raul Enrique Allegre is a former football placekicker in the National Football League. In his career he kicked for the Baltimore Colts, Indianapolis Colts, New York Giants, and the New York Jets. Although he was not known for a having a strong leg, he was a clutch kicker for the Giants from...
  
   - NFL Placekicker
• Leo Araguz
  Leo Araguz
  Leobardo Jaime Araguz is a former professional American football punter and kicker in the National Football League and the XFL. He has played since 1996 with the Oakland Raiders, the Detroit Lions, the Minnesota Vikings, and the Seattle Seahawks in the NFL and with the New York/New Jersey Hitmen...
  
   - NFL Kicker & Punter
• Joe Arenas
  Joe Arenas
  Guadalupe Joseph Arenas , also known as "Lupe Joe" Arenas and "Little Joe" Arenas, is a former American football player. He was a halfback and defensive back for the San Francisco 49ers from the 1951 to 1957. He was best known as a kickoff and punt returner...
  
   - NFL running back, safety, punt returner and kick returner
• Marc Bulger
  Marc Bulger
  Marc Robert Bulger [] is a former American football quarterback. He was drafted by the New Orleans Saints in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft. He played college football at West Virginia....
  
   - NFL Quarterback
• Anthony Calvillo
  Anthony Calvillo
  Anthony Calvillo is a Canadian Football League quarterback, currently playing for the Montreal Alouettes. He is the all-time professional football passing yards leader and first in all-time CFL passing yards...
  
   - CFL Quarterback
• Greg Camarillo
  Greg Camarillo
  Greg Camarillo is an American football wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League.He played college football at Stanford. He was signed by the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted free agent in 2005....
  
   - NFL Wide Receiver
• Tony Casillas
  Tony Casillas
  Tony Steven Casillas is a former American football defensive lineman in the National Football League from 1986 through 1997. While at the University of Oklahoma he helped win the 1985 NCAA National Championship. He also won the Lombardi Award in 1985 and was the 1985 UPI Lineman of the Year...
  
   - NFL Defensive Lineman
• Jorge Cordova
  Jorge Cordova
  Jorge Cordova is an American football linebacker who is currently a free agent. Cordova, who is of Mexican American descent, was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the third round of the 2004 NFL Draft. He attended Murrieta Valley High School in Murrieta, California and graduated class of 1999...
  
   - NFL linebacker
• Ronnie Cruz
  Ronnie Cruz
  Ronnie Valentin Cruz is an American football fullback who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Kansas City Chiefs as an undrafted free agent in 2004...
  
   - NFL Fullback
• Jack Del Rio
  Jack Del Rio
  Jack Del Rio is an American football coach and former player. Del Rio played both football and baseball for the University of Southern California Trojans, and then spent eleven years playing linebacker in the National Football League . He retired from playing in 1996 and went into coaching,...
  
   - NFL Linebacker & Coach
• Donnie Edwards
  Donnie Edwards
  Donnie Edwards is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fourth round of the 1996 NFL Draft...
  
   - NFL linebacker
• Tom Fears
  Tom Fears
  Thomas Jesse Fears was a Mexican-American football wide receiver for the Los Angeles Rams in the National Football League, playing nine seasons from 1948 to 1956.-Early life:...
  
   - NFL Wide Receiver
• Manny Fernandez (American football)
  Manny Fernandez (American football)
  Manuel Jose Fernandez is a former American football player of who played eight seasons for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League...
  
   - NFL defensive tackle
• Tom Flores
  Tom Flores
  Thomas R. "Tom" Flores is a retired American football quarterback and coach. Flores and Mike Ditka are the only two people in the National Football League history to win a Super Bowl as a player, as an assistant coach, and as a head coach...
  
   - NFL Coach
• Aaron Garcia - College & Arena Football Quarterback
• Jeff Garcia
  Jeff Garcia
  Jeffrey Jason "Jeff" Garcia is an American football quarterback who is currently a free agent. He played college football at San Jose State University....
  
   - NFL Quarterback
• Norberto Garrido
  Norberto Garrido
  Norberto Davidds-Garrido Jr. is a former American football offensive lineman.Both his Parents are from Mexico making him a first generation Mexican American.-Pro career:...
  
   - NFL Offensive Lineman
• Roberto Garza
  Roberto Garza
  Roberto Garza is an American football center and guard for the Chicago Bears of the NFL.-High School Years:Garza attended Rio Hondo High School in Rio Hondo, Texas and was a Letterman in football and track and field...
  
   - NFL Offensive Guard
• Joe Hernandez (wide receiver)
  Joe Hernandez (wide receiver)
  Jose M. Hernandez is a former American and later Canadian football wide receiver who has played in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins and the Edmonton Eskimos in the Canadian Football league.-Career:Hernandez played college football at the University of Arizona and was...
  
   - NFL wide receiver
• Joe Kapp
  Joe Kapp
  Joseph Robert Kapp is a former professional American and Canadian football quarterback. He is also a former college football head coach of the University of California, and a former general manager of the CFL's BC Lions. Kapp played primarily with the NFL's Minnesota Vikings and the CFL's BC Lions...
  
   - NFL Quarterback
• J. P. Losman - NFL Quarterback
• Max Montoya
  Max Montoya
  Max Montoya is a former professional U.S. football player as a guard who played sixteen seasons in the National Football League. He is a four-time Pro Bowl guard who played in two Super Bowls with the Cincinnati Bengals. this man was one of the best that ever played the game....
  
   - NFL Guard
• Knowshon Moreno
  Knowshon Moreno
  Knowshon Rockwell Moreno is an American football running back for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. He was selected 12th overall in the 2009 NFL Draft by the Broncos. He played college football at the University of Georgia.-Early years:Moreno grew up in Belford, a neighborhood in...
  
   - NFL runningback
• Moses Moreno
  Moses Moreno
  Moses Moreno was an American football quarterback. His brother, Zeke Moreno, also played in the National Football League as a middle linebacker....
  
   - NFL quarterback
• Zeke Moreno
  Zeke Moreno
  Ezekiel Aaron Moreno is a professional American football linebacker.-Early years:Moreno attended Castle Park High School in Chula Vista and was a letterman in football and baseball. In football, as a senior, he led his team to a state championship in 1996...
  
   - NFL Linebacker
• Anthony Muñoz
  Anthony Muñoz
  Michael Anthony Muñoz , is a Pro Football Hall of Fame offensive tackle who played most of his career for the National Football League's Cincinnati Bengals...
  
   - Hall of Fame NFL Offensive Guard
• Mike Perez (American football)
  Mike Perez (American football)
  Michael Paul Perez is a former American football quarterback. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the seventh round of the 1988 NFL Draft...
  
   - NFL quarterback
• Jim Plunkett
  Jim Plunkett
  James William "Jim" Plunkett is a former American football quarterback who played college football for Stanford University, where he won the Heisman Trophy, and professionally for three National Football League teams: the New England Patriots, San Francisco 49ers and Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders. ...
  
   - NFL Quarterback
• Manny Ramirez - NFL Offensive Lineman
• Ron Rivera
  Ron Rivera
  Ronald Eugene Rivera is the head coach of the NFL's Carolina Panthers. Rivera was a linebacker on the 1985 Chicago Bears, who won Super Bowl XX. Rivera was the defensive coordinator for the 2006 Chicago Bears, who won the National Football Conference championship and competed in Super Bowl XLI...
  
   - NFL linebacker
• Tony Romo
  Tony Romo
  Antonio Ramiro "Tony" Romo is a professional American football quarterback in the NFL for the Dallas Cowboys. Romo's career passer rating - at 95.8 - ranks third-best all time. Tony Romo didn't play in the regular season in 2003, 2004, or 2005...
  
   - NFL Quarterback
• Juan Roque
  Juan Roque
  Juan Armando Roque is a former American football offensive tackle who played three years for the National Football League's Detroit Lions and played one season for the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League...
  
   - NFL offensive tackle
• Eddie Saenz
  Eddie Saenz
  Edwin Matthew Saenz was an American football running back for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League. He played college football at the University of Southern California and was drafted in the 15th round of the 1945 NFL Draft...
  
   - NFL running back
• Lupe Sanchez - NFL Defensive Back
• Mark Sanchez
  Mark Sanchez
  Mark Travis John Sanchez is an American football quarterback for the New York Jets of the National Football League . He was drafted in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft as the fifth overall selection by the Jets and the second quarterback taken overall...
  
   - NFL Quarterback
• Daniel Sepulveda
  Daniel Sepulveda
  Daniel Wade Sepulveda is an American football punter for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the fourth round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at Baylor. He is the only two-time Ray Guy Award winner.-College career:He was an All-American at Baylor...
  
   - NFL Punter
• Louis Vasquez
  Louis Vasquez (American football)
  Louis N. Vasquez is an Mexican-American football offensive guard for the San Diego Chargers. He played college football for Texas Tech.-College awards and honors:*2007 All-Big 12 honorable mention...
  
   - NFL Offensive Lineman
• Danny Villanueva
  Danny Villanueva
  Daniel Dario Villanueva is a former American football placekicker and punter in the National Football League for the Los Angeles Rams and the Dallas Cowboys. Villanueva, who was of Mexican American descent, played college football at New Mexico State University....
  
   - NFL punter/place kicker

Golfers

• Homero Blancas
  Homero Blancas
  Homero Blancas, Jr. is an American professional golfer who has played on both the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour ....
  
   - PGA tour winner
• Abe Espinosa
  Abe Espinosa
  Abelard George "Abe" Espinsosa was an American professional golfer who is best known as the first Hispanic-American to win a significant professional championship.Espinosa was born in Monterey, California...
  
   - first Hispanic-American to win a championship
• Al Espinosa - PGA tour winner
• Robert Gamez - PGA tour winner
• Ernie Gonzalez (golfer)
  Ernie Gonzalez (golfer)
  Ernie Gonzalez is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour in the 1980s.Gonzalez was born in San Diego, California. His father was of Mexican descent and his mother was Puerto Rican. He attended the United States International University, where he played on the golf team...
  
   - PGA tour winner
• Tony Holguin
  Tony Holguin
  Tony Holguin was an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour and the Senior PGA Tour.Holguin learned the game of golf while growing up in San Antonio, Texas during the Great Depression. His family, which was of Mexican descent, had no money and could not afford an automobile...
  
   - PGA tour winner
• Joe Jimenez
  Joe Jimenez
  Joe Jimenez was an American professional golfer best known for winning the 1978 PGA Seniors' Championship....
  
   - PGA Senior's champion
• Pat Perez
  Pat Perez
  Patrick P. Perez is an American professional golfer.Perez was born in Phoenix, Arizona and is of Mexican American descent. He experienced his first PGA Tour victory in 2009 at the Bob Hope Classic...
  
   - PGA tour winner
• Nancy Lopez
  Nancy Lopez
  Nancy Marie Lopez is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1977 and won 48 LPGA Tour events during her LPGA career, including three major championships.-Amateur career:...
  
   - Hall of Fame American Professional Golfer
• Lee Trevino
  Lee Trevino
  Lee Buck Trevino is an American professional golfer. He is an icon for Mexican Americans, and is often referred to as "The Merry Mex" and "Supermex". He won six major championships over the course of his career.-Early life:...
  
   - Hall of Fame American Professional Golfer

Martial Artists

• Eddie Bravo
  Eddie Bravo
  Eddie Bravo is a Mexican-American practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu who holds a second degree black belt under Jean-Jacques Machado...
  
   - Mixed Martial Arts, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu -
• Paul Buentello
  Paul Buentello
  |-| Loss|align=center| 29–14| Cole Konrad| Decision | Bellator 48| |align=center| 3|align=center| 5:00|Uncasville, Connecticut, United States| Non-title bout.|-| Win|align=center| 29–13| Kerry Schall| Decision...
  
   - UFC, Mixed Martial Arts
• Carlos Condit
  Carlos Condit
  Carlos Joseph Condit is an American mixed martial artist currently fighting for the Ultimate Fighting Championship as a welterweight.Condit initially received national attention for his run as the final WEC Welterweight Champion...
  
   - UFC, Mixed Martial Arts
• Dominick Cruz
  Dominick Cruz
  Dominick Cruz is an American mixed martial artist of Mexican descent, who competes as a bantamweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship and is the current UFC Bantamweight Champion...
  
   - UFC, Mixed Martial Arts
• Nathan Diaz
  Nathan Diaz
  Nathan Donald Diaz is an American mixed martial artist, currently competing for the UFC in the welterweight and lightweight divisions. He is well known as the Ultimate Fighter Season 5 champion and has amassed victories in Strikeforce, Pancrase, and the World Extreme Cagefighting promotions...
  
   - UFC, Mixed Martial Arts
• Nick Diaz
  Nick Díaz
  Nicholas Robert Diaz is an American mixed martial artist. He is the former Strikeforce Welterweight Champion, WEC and IFC Welterweight Champion. He has competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship, Pride Fighting Championships and Elite Xtreme Combat. Diaz was promoted to black belt in Brazilian...
  
   - UFC, Mixed Martial Arts
• Efrain Escudero
  Efrain Escudero
  Efrain Escudero is a Mexican professional mixed martial artist. He trains under Drew Fickett and competes in the 155 lb weight class...
  
   - Mixed Martial Arts
• Roger Huerta
  Roger Huerta
  Roger Huerta , is an American mixed martial artist. He initially gained exposure by competing in the lightweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship and later Bellator Fighting Championships.-Early life:...
  
   - UFC, Mixed Martial Arts
• Juanito Ibarra
  Juanito Ibarra
  Juanito Ibarra is a Mexican-American boxing and mixed martial arts trainer, predominantly known for his work with champions in boxing and MMA such as Oscar de la Hoya and until 2008 Quinton "Rampage" Jackson. Ibarra and Jackson parted ways after his loss at UFC 86.Ibarra was ranked #469 on the...
  
   - Mixed Martial Arts & Boxing Trainer
• Gilbert Melendez
  Gilbert Melendez
  Gilbert Melendez is an American mixed martial artist of Mexican descent. Currently fighting out of San Francisco, California, he formerly competed in the lightweight division of PRIDE Fighting Championships and now competes in Strikeforce...
  
   - Mixed Martial Arts
• Tito Ortiz
  Tito Ortiz
  Jacob Christopher "Tito" Ortiz is a Mexican-American mixed martial artist and former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, having held the title from April 14, 2000 to September 26, 2003. Along with fighters like Randy Couture and Chuck Liddell, he was one of the sport's early stars...
  
   - UFC, Mixed Martial Arts
• Damacio Page
  Damacio Page
  Damacio James Page is an American mixed martial arts fighter and who currently competes in the bantamweight division for the Ultimate Fighting Championship...
  
   - UFC, Mixed Martial Arts
• Hector Ramirez
  Hector Ramirez (fighter)
  Hector Ramirez is a Mexican American mixed martial artist's who has fought inside the UFC.-MMA career:Ramirez made his Octagon debut at UFC 65 – Bad Intentions in a losing effort against James Irvin. He won his most recent fight against famed K-1 legend Rick Roofus at A Night of Combat II...
  
   - Mixed Martial Arts
• Manny Rodriguez - Mixed Martial Arts, Heavyweight Champion
• Ricco Rodriguez
  Ricco Rodriguez
  Ricco Rodriguez is an American mixed martial artist and former Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight champion. He has also competed in Pride Fighting Championship, EliteXC, International Fight League, BAMMA, World Extreme Cagefighting and King of the Cage.-Early life:Rodriguez grew up in the...
  
   - Mixed Martial Arts
• Mia St. John
  Mia St. John
  Mia Rosales St. John is a Mexican-American professional boxer in the Light Welterweight division. Mia is the former WIBA and WIBF Lightweight Champion. She is also a model, businesswoman, and Tae Kwon Do Champion.-Early life:...
  
   - Tae Kwon Do Champion
• Diego Sanchez
  Diego Sánchez
  Diego J. Sanchez is an American mixed martial artist of Mexican descent, with a background in wrestling and Gaidojutsu, system of submission wrestling developed by his longtime trainer Greg Jackson...
  
   - UFC, Mixed Martial Arts
• Eddie Sanchez
  Eddie Sanchez
  Eduardo Arturo Sanchez is an American mixed martial arts fighter.-Ultimate Fighting Championship:On February 3, 2007 at the Ultimate Fighting Championship's UFC 67, he lost to Mirko "Cro Cop" Filipović by technical knockout due to punches at 4:33 of the first round, in Filipović's debut fight in...
  
   - Mixed Martial Arts
• Frank Shamrock
  Frank Shamrock
  Frank Shamrock is a retired mixed martial arts fighter. Shamrock was the first to hold the UFC Middleweight Championship and retired as the four-time defending undefeated champion...
  
   - UFC, Mixed Martial Arts
• Joe Stevenson
  Joe Stevenson
  Joseph Christopher Stevenson is an American mixed martial artist fighting out of Las Vegas, Nevada. Competing as a welterweight, he won The Ultimate Fighter 2 welterweight tournament. Stevenson fought most of his UFC career as a lightweight, and made his featherweight debut at UFC Live: Kongo vs....
  
   - UFC, Mixed Martial Arts
• Manny Tapia
  Manny Tapia
  Manny Tapia is an American professional mixed martial arts fighter from Chino, California who trains out of Millennia MMA in Rancho Cucamonga, California...
  
   - Mixed Martial Arts
• Josh Thomson
  Josh Thomson
  Joshua Joseph Thomson is an American mixed martial arts fighter training with American Kickboxing Academy. He has fought in Japan's PRIDE Fighting Championships and America's UFC, as well as Strikeforce and the World Fighting Alliance. Thomson is a former Strikeforce World Lightweight Champion...
  
   - Mixed Martial Arts
• Miguel Torres
  Miguel Torres (fighter)
  Miguel Angel Torres is an American mixed martial artist who fights for the Ultimate Fighting Championship organization. He is a former WEC Bantamweight champion. Prior to fighting with the WEC, Torres also held the bantamweight title for the US Shooto organization, as well as for the Ironheart Crown...
  
   - Mixed Martial Arts
• Charlie Valencia
  Charlie Valencia
  Carlos Enrique Valencia is an American mixed martial artist . He has fought for the WEC and UFC in their bantamweight divisions..-Early life:...
  
   - Mixed Martial Arts
• Cain Velasquez
  Cain Velasquez
  Cain Ramirez Velasquez is an American mixed martial artist fighting in the Ultimate Fighting Championship where he is a former UFC Heavyweight Champion. He is a two-time All-American collegiate wrestler from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, and a Junior College National Champ at Iowa...
  
   - Mixed Martial Arts/UFC Heavyweight Champion
• Joey Villasenor
  Joey Villasenor
  Joey Villaseñor is a Mexican American mixed martial arts fighter. He is a PRIDE Fighting Championships veteran, as well as the middleweight champion in King of the Cage. Joey has also fought in Showtime's EliteXC promotion and took part in PRIDE's welterweight grand prix. He currently trains...
  
   - Mixed Martial Arts

Soccer players

• Esteban Arias
  Esteban Arias
  Esteban Arias is an American soccer player of Mexican heritage, currently without a club.-College:Arias began his college soccer career at Albert Magnus College in 2001...
  
   - Defender
• Ivan Becerra
  Ivan Becerra
  Ivan Becerra is a Mexican footballer currently playing for Wilmington Hammerheads in the USL Professional Division.-College:...
  
   - Forward
• Carlos Bocanegra
  Carlos Bocanegra
  Carlos Manuel Bocanegra is an American soccer player who plays for Scottish Premier League club Rangers and is the captain of the United States national team.-Chicago Fire:...
  
   - Center Back & Captain of the US National Team
• Jonathan Bornstein
  Jonathan Bornstein
  Jonathan Rey Bornstein is an American soccer player who currently plays for UANL of the Primera División de México and for the United States national team.-Youth and College:...
  
   - Defender & Midfielder
• Jose Burciaga Jr.
  Jose Burciaga Jr.
  José Luis Burciaga, Jr. is an American soccer player, who last played for the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. He played for the Dallas Texans Soccer Club during his youth years...
  
   - Defender
• Edgar Castillo - Defender
• Ramiro Corrales
  Ramiro Corrales
  Ramiro Corrales is an American soccer player who currently plays for San Jose Earthquakes in Major League Soccer.-Professional:...
  
   - Midfielder
• Stephanie Cox - Defender, Olympic Gold Medalist
• Antonio De La Torre
  Antonio de la Torre
  Antonio de la Torre is a Mexican-American soccer defender, who recently played for the Atlanta Silverbacks of the USL First Division. De la Torre holds dual citizenship in Mexico and the United States....
  
   - Defender
• Jorge Flores - Midfielder
• Irving Garcia
  Irving Garcia
  Irving Garcia is an American soccer player who is currently without a club.-College and Amateur:Garcia attended San Luis High School and played college soccer at Yavapai College from 2006 to 2007 before transferring to UC Irvine in 2008...
  
   - Midfielder
• Francisco Gomez
  Francisco Gomez
  Francisco Gomez is a retired American soccer player.-Club career:Gomez joined the Kansas City Wizards in 1999, after playing briefly with the California Jaguars of the A-League...
  
   - Midfielder
• Herculez Gomez
  Herculez Gomez
  Herculez Gomez Hurtado is an American soccer player who currently plays for Estudiantes Tecos in the Primera División de México.-Early life:...
  
   - Forward
• Miguel Gonzalez
  Miguel Gonzalez
  Miguel Gonzalez is an American soccer player. He currently plays for Bradenton Academics in the USL Premier Development League.-Youth and Amateur:...
  
   - Midfielder
• Sonny Guadarrama
  Sonny Guadarrama
  Sonny Alejandro Guadarrama Bermúdez is an American soccer midfielder who currently plays for Atlante in the Primera División de Mexico. Sonny played soccer for Campbell University before going pro. Sonny's brother, Willy played soccer for the Kansas City Wizards, an MLS team.-External links:...
  
   - Midfielder
• Daniel Hernández - Defender
• Christian Jimenez
  Christian Jimenez
  Christian Jimenez is an American soccer player of Mexican descent. He is currently without a club, having been waived by Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer in 2007.-Career:...
  
   - Midfielder
• Rodrigo López
  Rodrigo Lopez (soccer)
  Rodrigo López is a Mexican-born American soccer player who is currently without a club.-Youth:López grew up in Harbor City, California, and began his career in 2003 when he joined the Chivas de Guadalajara youth system, where he played for a year and a half.-Professional:López turned professional...
  
   - Midfielder
• Antonio Martínez
  Antonio Martínez
  Antonio "Chivas" Martínez is a footballer. He last played midfielder for C.D. Chivas USA of Major League Soccer....
  
   - Midfielder
• Mike Muñoz - Midfielder
• Michael Orozco Fiscal - Defender
• Jesús Padilla
  Jesús Padilla
  Jesús Padilla is an American-born Mexican footballer, currently playing for CF La Piedad on loan from C.D. Guadalajara.-Career:...
  
   - Forward, Striker
• Orlando Perez
  Orlando Perez
  Orlando Perez is an American soccer defender, who is currently without a club, having been waived by Chivas USA of Major League Soccer....
  
   - Defender
• José Francisco Torres
  José Francisco Torres
  José Francisco Torres is an American soccer player. He currently plays as a midfielder for Pachuca in the Primera División de México and the United States national team.-Personal:...
  
   - Midfielder
• Martin Vasquez
  Martin Vasquez
  Martin Vasquez is a Mexican-born American former professional soccer player. He was most recently the head coach of C.D. Chivas USA in Major League Soccer....
  
   - Midfielder & head coach

Wrestlers

• Aaron Aguilera
  Aaron Aguilera
  Aaron Aguilera , is a Mexican American professional wrestler and actor best known as Jesús and Uno on World Wrestling Entertainment and MTV's Wrestling Society X...
  
   - Professional Wrestler
• The Bella Twins
  The Bella Twins
  Brianna Monique Garcia and Stephanie Nicole Garcia are American twin professional wrestlers. The twins are a professional wrestling tag team under the ring names Brie Bella and Nikki Bella, collectively referred to as The Bella Twins, and work for WWE on the Raw brand.Before being promoted to the...
  
   - Professional Wrestlers
• Chavo Guerrero Jr. Professional Wrestler
• Eddie Guerrero
  Eddie Guerrero
  Eduardo Gory "Eddie" Guerrero was a Mexican-American professional wrestler born into the Guerrero wrestling family. He wrestled in Mexico and Japan for several major professional wrestling promotions...
  
   - Professional Wrestler
• Gory Guerrero
  Gory Guerrero
  Salvador Guerrero Quesada , better known as Gory Guerrero, was one of the premier Hispanic professional wrestlers in the early days of Lucha Libre when most wrestlers were imported from outside of Mexico. He wrestled primarily in Empresa Mexicana de la Lucha Libre between the 1940s and 1960s...
  
   - Professional Wrestler
• Hector Guerrero
  Hector Guerrero
  Héctor Manuel Guerrero Llanes is a Mexican-American professional wrestler, better known simply by his paternal name, Héctor Guerrero...
  
   - Professional Wrestler
• Mando Guerrero
  Mando Guerrero
  Armando Guerrero Llanes , better known as Mando Guerrero, is a retired professional wrestler. He also was the trainer for the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, an all female professional wrestling promotion.-Movie stuntman career:...
  
   - Professional Wrestler
• Gino Hernandez
  Gino Hernandez
  Charles Eugene Wolfe, Jr. was a professional wrestler better known by his ring name Gino Hernandez. His in-ring nickname was "The Handsome Half-Breed" -Career:...
  
   - Professional Wrestler
• Shawn Hernandez
  Shawn Hernandez
  Shawn Hernandez is an American professional wrestler of Mexican and Puerto Rican descent, better known by his ring names, "Hotstuff Hernandez" and "Hernandez"....
  
   - Professional Wrestler
• Incognito
  Incognito (wrestler)
  Jorge Arias is an American professional wrestler, who is currently signed by WWE wrestling on its SmackDown brand while also wrestling in Florida Championship Wrestling under the ring name Hunico...
  
   - Professional Wrestler
• Lady Victoria
  Lady Victoria
  Victoria Ann Moreno , better known by her ring name Lady Victoria, is a Mexican American female professional wrestler/luchadora, manager/valet, and actress. She began training to wrestle in 1991 and made her American professional wrestling debut on January 16, 1993...
  
   - Professional Wrestler
• Paul London
  Paul London
  Paul Michael London is an American professional wrestler best known for his time with World Wrestling Entertainment ....
  
   - Professional Wrestler
• Rey Mysterio Jr. - Professional Wrestler
• Melina Perez
  Melina Perez
  Melina Nava Perez is an American professional wrestler currently signed to Women Superstars Uncensored. She is best known for her time with World Wrestling Entertainment under the ring mononym Melina....
  
   - Professional Wrestler
• Tito Santana
  Tito Santana
  Merced Solis better known by his ring name Tito Santana, is an American professional wrestler whose heyday spanned from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, though he continues to appear on the independent circuit. He is best known from his time in the World Wrestling Federation...
  
   - Professional Wrestler
• José Luis Jair Soria
  José Luis Jair Soria
  José Luis Jair Soria is a Mexican professional wrestler, who wrestles under the name Shocker. He has in the past branched out into the United States, working for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling.-Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre :...
  
   - Professional Wrestler
• Enrique Torres
  Enrique Torres
  Enrique Torres was a Mexican-American professional wrestler, the oldest three Torres brothers in wrestling, and a major star in the late 1940s and 1950s.-Personal Background:...
  
   - Professional Wrestler
• Eve Torres
  Eve Torres
  Eve Marie Torres is an American dancer, model, and professional wrestler. She is working for WWE on Raw brand. She is a two time WWE Divas Champion.Torres began her career as a model and dancer...
  
   - Actress, Dancer, Model and Professional Wrestler

Other sportspersons

• Mark Aguirre
  Mark Aguirre
  Mark Anthony Aguirre is a retired American basketball player in the National Basketball Association. Aguirre played from 1981–1994 and won two championships with the Detroit Pistons after being sent to Detroit from the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for Adrian Dantley...
  
   - USBWA College Basketball Player of the Year, 3-Time NBA All-Star, & 2-Time NBA Champion
• Tony Alva
  Tony Alva
  Tony Alva , is one of the original Z-Boys and is considered to be one of the most influential skateboarders of all time. He was professional skateboarding's first world champion in history, a title he won in 1977.-Career:...
  
   - Professional skateboarder, founding member of the Z-Boys
  Z-Boys
  The Z-Boys was a group of skateboarders in the mid-1970s from Santa Monica and Venice, California. The aerial and sliding skate moves that the Z-Boys invented were the basis for aerial skateboarding today.-History:...
  
  .
• Olga Appell
  Olga Appell
  Olga Appell is a retired long-distance runner from Mexico, best known for winning the gold medal in the women's marathon at the 1991 Pan American Games in Havana, Cuba. She ran at the 1992 Summer Olympics the following year, but failed to finish the race...
  
   - Olympic Track & Field Athlete, Winner of the LA Marathon
• Crystl Bustos
  Crystl Bustos
  |- align=center bgcolor=white valign=middle| 1st || 2006 Oklahoma City|- align=center bgcolor=white valign=middle| 1st || 2007 Oklahoma City|- align=center bgcolor=white valign=middle| 1st || 2005 Akron Racers...
  
   - Softball Player, Two-Time Olympic Gold & Silver Medalist
• Patricia Cardenas
  Patricia Cardenas
  Patricia Cardenas is a female water polo player from the United States, who won the gold medal with the United States women's national water polo team at the 2007 Pan American Games. Majoring in sociology she made her debut for the national team in 2006. Cardenas is of Mexican American...
  
   - World Champion Water Polo Gold Medalist
• Henry Cejudo
  Henry Cejudo
  Henry Cejudo is a freestyle wrestler, Olympic gold medalist, and author. Cejudo became an Olympic gold medalist at just 21 years old, the youngest American wrestler to win a gold medal....
  
   - Freestyle Wrestler & Olympic Gold Medalist
• Ronnie Deleon
  Ronnie Deleon
  Ronnie "Diamond" Deleon, from Corpus Christi, Texas, is a two-time World Kickboxing Champion. He has won the following professional titles:*1987 W.K.A. Super Welterweight North American Champion*1989 W.K.A. Super Welterweight World Champion...
  
   - Two-Time World Kickboxing Champion
• Donna de Varona
  Donna de Varona
  Donna Elizabeth de Varona is a former American swimmer of Mexican and Irish descent.-Swimming career:...
  
   - Swimmer & Two-Time Olympic Gold Medalist
• Angélica Gavaldón
  Angélica Gavaldón
  Angélica Gavaldón Loaiza is a retired tennis player from Mexico.Gavaldón was born in the United States but comes from a Mexican family and turned pro in 1990. That same year, she qualified for the quarter-finals in the 1990 Australian Open, from which she was eliminated in a match against Claudia...
  
   - tennis player
• Memo Gidley
  Memo Gidley
  José Guillermo "Memo" Gidley is a Mexican-American racing driver, of German and Canadian ancestry, born in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico in 1973. He holds dual citizenship - American and Mexican....
  
   - Race Car Driver
• Scott Gomez
  Scott Gomez
  Scott Carlos Gomez is an American ice hockey center of both Mexican and Colombian descent, currently playing for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...
  
   - NHL Center
• Pancho Gonzales
  Pancho Gonzales
  Ricardo Alonso González , generally known as Richard "Pancho" Gonzales was an American tennis player. He was the world no. 1 professional tennis player for an unequalled eight years in the 1950s and early 1960s...
  
   - Professional Tennis Player
• Danny Herrera - Weightlifting Powerlifter
• Rene Herrerias
  Rene Herrerias
  Rene Herrerias is an American basketball coach. He served as head coach at University of California, Berkeley from 1960 to 1968. Herrerias played college basketball at the University of San Francisco, where he was a member of the 1949 NIT championship team coached by Pete Newell. He followed...
  
   - College Basketball Coach
• Arlene Limas
  Arlene Limas
  Arlene Limas is an American taekwondo practitioner and multiple international gold medalist. Limas, who is of Mexican and Polish descent, graduated with honors from Whitney Young Magnet High School in Chicago and received a degree in Political Science from De Paul University.Limas made history when...
  
   - taekwondo, Olympic gold medalist
• Andy Lopez
  Andy Lopez
  Andy Lopez is an American college baseball coach. He is currently the head baseball coach at the University of Arizona, and he has previously served as the head baseball coach at California State University Dominguez Hills, Pepperdine University and the University of Florida...
  
   - College Baseball Coach
• Bobby Martinez
  Bobby Martinez
  Bobby Martinez is a professional surfer from Santa Barbara, California.-Career:Martinez began surfing at age 6. When he was old enough, he joined the National Scholastic Surfing Association where he went on to win a record seven national titles. After several injury prone years he joined the...
  
   - professional surfer
• Mario Martinez
  Mario Martinez (weightlifter)
  Mario Alvarez Martinez was an Olympic weightlifter for the United States. His coach was Jim Schmitz.-Weightlifting achievements:*Silver Medalist in Olympic Games...
  
   - Weightlifting Powerlifter Olympic Silver Medalist (1984)
• Lorenzo Mata
  Lorenzo Mata
  Lorenzo Mata-Real is an Mexican American basketball player. He was the center for the UCLA Bruins men's basketball team from 2004-2005 until 2007-2008, and was an important part of their Final Four runs in 2006, 07 and 08.-High school:...
  
   - College Basketball Player
• Jessica Mendoza
  Jessica Mendoza
  Jessica Mendoza , is an American softball player of Mexican descent, who played for the United States women's national softball team from 2004-2010 and a four-time first team All-American at Stanford University from 1999-2002. Mendoza wears number two and plays outfield...
  
   - Softball Player & Olympic Gold & Silver Medalist
• Marc Frank Montoya
  Marc Frank Montoya
  Marc Frank Montoya is a professional snowboarder.-Biography:Montoya grew up in suburban Denver, Colorado. He started snowboarding as a winter pastime for skateboarding. Montoya embraces his urban roots, which many deem refreshing in a sport generally ruled by young suburbanites...
  
   - Professional Snowboarder
• Juan Moreno (taekwondo)
  Juan Moreno (taekwondo)
  Juan Moreno is a Mexican American taekwondo practitioner. He is a three-time Olympian and two-time Olympic silver medalist . After retiring from competition, Moreno served as the National Team Coach in 2002 for the World Cup and 2002 Junior World Championships. Moreno also coached at the 2005...
  
   - taekwondo, two-time Olympic silver medalist
• Derek Parra
  Derek Parra
  Derek Parra is a Mexican-American speed skater from San Bernardino, California, who graduated from Eisenhower High School in 1988. Parra won two medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics, held in Salt Lake City, Utah....
  
   - Professional Speed Skater & Olympic Gold Medalist
• Stacy Peralta
  Stacy Peralta
  Stacy Peralta is an American director and entrepreneur. Peralta was previously a professional skateboarder and surfer with the professional skateboarding group, the Z-Boys.-Early life:...
  
   - Professional skateboarder, founding member of the Z-Boys.
• Paul Rodriguez Jr.
  Paul Rodriguez Jr.
  Paul Rodriguez III , also known by his nickname P-Rod, is a Mexican-American professional street skateboarder and actor.-Early life:...
  
   - Professional Skateboarder
• Pete Rodriguez
  Pete Rodriguez
  -USFL:Rodriguez served as defensive line coach for the Michigan Panthers of the United States Football League from 1983-84. He was part of the USFL's first championship team, helping the Panthers to the title in 1983...
  
   - NFL special teams coach
• Leo Romero
  Leo Romero
  Leo Romero is a professional skateboarder. Leo is second generation Mexican American. Leo first started skating around 1997 with his friends, "the Death Junkies". His early influences included Jamie Thomas and Andrew Reynolds, which perhaps explains Leo's tendency to skate large obstacles and...
  
   - Professional skateboarder
• Vanessa Torres
  Vanessa Torres
  Vanessa Torres is a professional skateboarder.Vanessa is one of the top skateboarding women in the world. She is featured in several women's skateboarding videos such as AKA: Girl Skater and Getting Nowhere Faster...
  
   - Professional skateboarder
• Benny Urquidez
  Benny Urquidez
  Benny Urquidez is an American kickboxer, martial arts choreographer and actor. Nicknamed, The Jet, Urquidez was a non-contact karate competitor who later pioneered full-contact fighting in the U.S. He made the transition from point to full-contact karate in 1974 – the year of its inception...
  
   - World Kickboxing Champion
• Ismael Valenzuela
  Ismael Valenzuela
  Ismael "Milo" Valenzuela was a Thoroughbred horse racing Hall of Fame jockey. He was one of 22 children born to parents who had immigrated to the United states. Shortly after Ismael Valenzuela's birth, the family returned to their native Mexico...
  
   - Kentucky Derby Winner
• Patrick Valenzuela - Kentucky Derby & Preakness Stakes Winner
• Brenda Villa
  Brenda Villa
  Brenda Villa is an American world-class water polo player for the US National and Olympic teams....
  
   - World Class Water Polo Player, Olympic Silver & Bronze Medalist
• Earl Watson
  Earl Watson
  Earl Joseph Watson, Jr. is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association . Watson is a graduate of Washington High School in Kansas City, Kansas...
  
   - NBA Point Guard

Actors and media personalities

• Jessica Alba
  Jessica Alba
  Jessica Marie Alba is an American television and film actress. She began her television and movie appearances at age 13 in Camp Nowhere and The Secret World of Alex Mack . Alba rose to prominence as the lead actress in the television series Dark Angel...
  
   - Actress
• Joshua Alba
  Joshua Alba
  Joshua Lauren Alba is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Krit on the television series Dark Angel. He is the younger brother of actress Jessica Alba.-Early life:...
  
   - Actor
• Edward Albert
  Edward Albert
  Edward Albert was an American film and television actor. He was also known as Edward Laurence Albert, Laurence Edward Albert and occasionally Eddie Albert, Jr.-Early life:Albert was born Edward Laurence Heimberger in Los Angeles, California, to actor Eddie...
  
   - Actor
• Kevin Alejandro
  Kevin Alejandro
  Kevin Michael Alejandro is an American actor. Alejandro may be best known for his roles as Nate Moretta in the series Southland and as Jesus Velasquez in the series True Blood.-Early life:...
  
   - Actor
• Ana Alicia
  Ana Alicia
  Ana Alicia is an American actress. She is best known for her role as scheming heiress Melissa Agretti on the long-running primetime soap opera Falcon Crest.-Early life:...
  
   - Actress
• Francia Almendárez
  Francia Almendárez
  Francia Raisa Almendárez is an American actress. She is sometimes credited as Francia Almendárez. Raisa is most notable for her roles in Bring It On: All or Nothing, where she plays a tough Latina cheerleader named Leti, The Secret Life of the American Teenager as Adrian Lee, or The Cutting Edge...
  
   - Actress
• René Alvarado
  René Alvarado
  René Alvarado is a Mexican-American actor who has had roles in television series such as Las Vegas and movies such as Fall to Grace. Most recently he starred in the film East Side Story. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in Kinesiology.-External links:...
  
   - Actor
• Armida - Actress, Singer and Dancer
• Joe Arquette
  Joe Arquette
  Joe Arquette is a Mexican-American actor.He starred in the title role in the feature G.I. Jesus. The film won the grand jury prize at the 2006 CineVegas Film Festival. He also appeared in the Kevin Costner film The Guardian....
  
   - Actor
• Alexis Ayala
  Alexis Ayala
  Alexis Ayala is a Mexican-American actor of telenovelas and the cinema of Mexico.-Career:...
  
   - Actor
• Catherine Bach
  Catherine Bach
  Catherine Bach is an American actress. She is known for playing Daisy Duke in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard and Margo Dutton in African Skies.-Career:...
  
   - Actor
• Crash Barrera - Television Personality and Actress
• Robert Beltran
  Robert Beltran
  Robert Adame Beltran is an American actor, known for his role as Commander Chakotay on Star Trek: Voyager.-Early life:...
  
   - Actor
• Alexis Bledel
  Alexis Bledel
  Alexis Bledel is an American actress. She is known for her roles as Rory Gilmore in the television series Gilmore Girls and Lena Kaligaris in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2.-Early life:Bledel was born Kimberly Alexis Bledel in Houston, Texas...
  
   - Actress and Fashion Model
• Jesse Borrego
  Jesse Borrego
  Jesse Borrego is an American actor. Better knownfor playing Cruz Candelaria in Blood in, Blood out and later guest starring as George King in Dexter. Borrego, a Mexican American, was born in San Antonio, Texas. He considered going into the US Air Force to become a pilot...
  
   - Actor
• Shelbie Bruce
  Shelbie Bruce
  Shelbie Carole Bruce is an American teen actress fluent in both English and Spanish who had a lead role in the film Spanglish....
  
   - Actress
• Ralph Camargo
  Ralph Camargo
  Ralph Jaime Camargo was an American actor, best known for his work in theatre. He was also well known for being "the voice of Dynamic," narrating many short films in the 1950s and 1960s for the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company.His daughters are actresses Victoria Wyndham and Felice Camargo...
  
   - Actor
• Charlie Cannon
  Charlie Cannon
  Charles Albert Cannon , a singer, theater performer and co-founder of Starlight Opera in San Diego, California, was born in the coastal town of San Quintín, Baja California, near Ensenada.-Early years:...
  
   - Singer, theater performer
• Steve Cardenas
  Steve Cardenas
  Stephen Antonio Cardenas is a former Mexican-American actor and martial artist, perhaps most noted for playing Rocky DeSantos in the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers TV series....
  
   - Actor
• Charisma Carpenter
  Charisma Carpenter
  Charisma Lee Carpenter is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Cordelia Chase in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel, for which she was nominated for four Saturn Awards. In her most recent film she starred opposite Sylvester Stallone and Jason...
  
   - Actress
• Leo Carrillo
  Leo Carrillo
  Leopoldo Antonio Carrillo , was an American actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist.-Family roots:...
  
   - actor, vaudevillian, political cartoonist, and conservationist
  Conservationist
  Conservationists are proponents or advocates of conservation. They advocate for the protection of all the species in an ecosystem with a strong focus on the natural environment...
  
  .
• Lynda Carter
  Lynda Carter
  Lynda Jean Carter is an American actress and singer, best known for being Miss World USA and as the star of the 1970s television series The New Original Wonder Woman and The New Adventures of Wonder Woman ....
  
   - Actress & Singer
• Movita Castaneda
  Movita Castaneda
  Maria "Movita" Castaneda is an American actress best known for being the second wife of actor Marlon Brando. She was six years older than Brando. In films, she played exotic women/singers, such as in Flying Down to Rio and Mutiny on the Bounty , of which she is the last surviving cast member....
  
   - Actress
• Julio Cedillo
  Julio Cedillo
  Julio César Cedillo is an American actor, best known for the title role in the 2005 film The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.Cedillo grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. In 1988 he graduated from Dunbar High School in Fort Worth...
  
   - Actor
• Laura Cerón
  Laura Cerón
  Laura Cerón is an Alma Award winning Mexican-American actress. Her most recognizable role is that of Nurse Chuny Marquez on the television series ER.-Early life:...
  
   - Actress
• Damian Chapa
  Damian Chapa
  Damian Robert Chapa is a Mexican-American actor, film director and film producer.Chapa was born in Dayton, Ohio, USA. He was briefly married to Natasha Henstridge. Among his earlier notable film roles are one of the leads in Taylor Hackford's Blood In Blood Out and the part of Ken in the film...
  
   - Actor, Film Director & Producer
• Ricardo Antonio Chavira
  Ricardo Antonio Chavira
  Ricardo Antonio Chavira is an American actor, perhaps best known for his role as Carlos Solis on Desperate Housewives.-Early life:...
  
   - Actor
• Louis CK
  Louis C.K.
  Louis Szekely , known professionally as Louis C.K., is a stand-up comedian, television and film writer, actor, producer, and director...
  
   - Actor, Comedian, Emmy Award Winning Screenwriter, Producer & Director
• Clifton Collins Jr. - Actor
• Mark Consuelos
  Mark Consuelos
  Mark Andrew Consuelos is a Spanish-born American television and film actor.-Personal life:Consuelos was born in Zaragoza, Spain to a Mexican father and an Italian mother. He is the youngest of three children, he has a brother, who is a doctor, and a sister, who is a lawyer. Consuelos has lived in...
  
   - Actor
• Raymond Cruz
  Raymond Cruz
  Raymond Cruz is a Mexican American actor. He is mostly known for playing military roles. Since 2005 he has been a regular cast member on the TV series The Closer, playing the character Detective Julio Sanchez...
  
   - Actor
• Stacey Dash
  Stacey Dash
  Stacey Lauretta Dash is an American film and television actress.-Career:She made her first TV appearance in Farrell for the People starring Valerie Harper and a virtually unknown Ed O'Neill in 1982, which did not make it past its pilot episode...
  
   - Actress
• Alana De La Garza
  Alana de la Garza
  Alana de la Garza is an American actress. She is most famous for her role as A.D.A. Connie Rubirosa on the television series Law & Order and its short-lived spin-off, Law & Order: LA.-Biography:...
  
   - Actress
• Emilio Delgado
  Emilio Delgado
  Emilio Delgado is an American actor. He is best known for his long-running role as Luis, the friendly Fix-it Shop owner, on the children's television series Sesame Street. Delgado joined the cast of Sesame Street in 1971 and recently completed Season 41 with the show. He began his professional...
  
   - Actor
• Grey Delisle
  Grey DeLisle
  Grey DeLisle is an American voice actress, singer-songwriter, and comedienne. To date, she has released four solo albums and has featured on the tribute album Anchored in Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash and film soundtrack of Loggerheads...
  
   - Singer-Songwriter and Voice Actress
• Dolores del Río
  Dolores del Río
  Dolores del Río was a Mexican film actress. She was a star of Hollywood films during the silent era and in the Golden Age of Hollywood...
  
   - Actress
• Ayiiia Elizarraras
  The Real World: Cancun
  The Real World: Cancun is the twenty-second season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras document their lives and interpersonal relationships. Cancun, Mexico was...
  
   - TV Personality and Model
• Jade Esteban Estrada
  Jade Esteban Estrada
  Jade Esteban Estrada is a successful Latin pop singer, comedian, choreographer, actor, political commentator, and human rights activist...
  
   - Actor and Comedian
• Tamara Feldman
  Tamara Feldman
  Tamara Feldman is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Mary Beth in Hatchet and in The CW television series Smallville, Supernatural and Gossip Girl.- Personal life :...
  
   - Actress
• Edward Furlong
  Edward Furlong
  Edward Walter Furlong is an American actor whose best known film roles are John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Daniel Vinyard in American History X. He is a two-time Saturn Award nominee, winning the 1992 Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor for his performance in...
  
   - Actor
• Aimee Garcia - Actress
• Carlo Lorenzo Garcia
  Carlo Lorenzo Garcia
  Carlo Lorenzo Garcia is an American actor and artist. He portrayed Johnny in the independent feature Helix featuring Alexa Vega and Austin O'Brien and Mr. Cruz in Anything's Possible...
  
   - Actor
• Jeff Garcia
  Jeff Garcia (voice actor)
  Jeffrey "Jeff" Garcia is a voice actor and comedian, known for portraying Sheen Estevez in Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius and now plays the lead role on its spin-off Planet Sheen. He also guest starred on the animated series Clone High. He is the leader of the 96.1 Wild Wake-Up crew...
  
   - Comedian and Voice Actor
• Jesse Garcia
  Jesse Garcia
  Jesse Garcia is an American actor.Garcia starred in the award-winning film Quinceañera, written and directed by Wash Westmoreland and Richard Glatzer with executive producer Todd Haynes, which won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival in the Dramatic...
  
   - Actor
• John Gavin
  John Gavin
  John Gavin is an American film actor and a former United States Ambassador to Mexico. Gavin is half Mexican and fluent in Spanish....
  
   - Actor & Politician
• William Gaxton
  William Gaxton
  William Gaxton was a star of vaudeville, film, and theatre.Born as Arturo Antonio Gaxiola in San Francisco, he appeared on film and onstage. He debuted on Broadway in the Music Box Revue on October 23, 1922...
  
   - (1893–1963) actor of film and theatre
• Selena Gomez
  Selena Gomez
  Selena Marie Gomez is an American actress and singer best known for portraying Alex Russo in the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place...
  
   - Actress & Singer
• Nicholas Gonzalez
  Nicholas Gonzalez
  Nicholas Edward Gonzalez is an Mexican-American actor, best known for playing Alex Santiago in the TV series Resurrection Blvd..-Early life:...
  
   - Actor
• Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez
  Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez
  Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez was an American character actor best known for his appearances in a number of John Wayne movies....
  
   - Character Actor
• Lita Grey
  Lita Grey
  Lita Grey was an American actress and the second wife of Charlie Chaplin. She was born in Hollywood, California, in 1908, to a Mexican-born mother and a father of Irish heritage and christened Lillita Louise MacMurray.-Personal life:Grey married four times...
  
   - Silent Film Actress
• Jackie Guerra
  Jackie Guerra
  Jackie Guerra is an American actress best known for being the first Latina to star in a network sitcom, First Time Out. She also co-starred in the PBS series, American Family in addition to co-starring roles in feature films including a role as Jennifer Lopez’s drum playing sister in the Warner Bros...
  
   - Actress
• Noel Gugliemi
  Noel Gugliemi
  Noel Gugliemi is an American actor.He was born in Santa Monica, California, to an Italian-American father and a Mexican-American mother. Gugliemi voiced the character of Cortez in the video game 187 Ride or Die. He is most noted for portraying a stereotypical southern Californian Latino gang member...
  
   - Actor
• Elizabeth Gutierrez
  Elizabeth Gutierrez
  Elizabeth Gutiérrez is a Mexican-American actress and model. She is best known for playing the leading roles in the telenovelas El Rostro de Analía and El Fantasma de Elena.-Background:...
  
  
• Gabriella Hall
  Gabriella Hall
  Gabriella Hall is a model and actress from Los Angeles best known for her appearances in Cinemax TV shows and movies such as Erotic Confessions and Beverly Hills Bordello. To date, she has appeared in over 58 TV shows and movies...
  
   - Actress & Model
• Laura Harring
  Laura Harring
  Laura Harring is a Mexican-American actress and former Miss USA . She is known for her role as Rita in Mulholland Drive.-Early life:...
  
   - Actress & Miss USA (1985)
• Salma Hayek
  Salma Hayek
  Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez de Pinault is a Mexican film actress, director and producer. She received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her role as Frida Kahlo in the film Frida.-Early life:...
  
   - Actress, TV-Film Director & Producer
• Jojo Henrickson - Director, Actor, Editor and Screenwriter
• Jay Hernandez
  Jay Hernandez
  Javier Manuel "Jay" Hernandez, Jr. is an American actor.-Early life and career:Hernandez was born in Montebello, California, the son of Isis , a secretary and accountant, and Javier Hernandez, Sr., a mechanic. He has a younger sister, Amelia, and two older brothers, Michael and Gabriel. Hernandez...
  
   - Actor
• Kristin Herrera
  Kristin Herrera
  Kristin Lisa Herrera is an American actress, best known for portraying the role of Dana Cruz on the first season of the Nickelodeon series Zoey 101.-Life and career:...
  
   - Actress
• Gabriel Iglesias
  Gabriel Iglesias
  Gabriel J. Iglecias , known professionally as Gabriel Iglesias, is an American standup comedian and actor, known for his shows I’m Not Fat… I’m Fluffy and Hot & Fluffy.-Early life:...
  
   - Actor & Comedian
• Shar Jackson
  Shar Jackson
  Sharisse "Shar" Jackson is an American television and film actress, reality television personality and rapper/singer best known for her portrayal of Niecy Jackson on the UPN show Moesha.-Early life and career:...
  
   - Actress
• Anjelah Johnson
  Anjelah Johnson
  Anjelah Nicole Johnson is an American actress, comedienne, and former NFL cheerleader. Johnson is most notable for her membership in the recurring cast of comedians on sketch comedy series MADtv during its 13th Season...
  
   Actress, Comedienne, & Former NFL Cheerleader
• Angina Juarez - Actress and model
• Katy Jurado
  Katy Jurado
  Katy Jurado , born María Cristina Estela Marcela Jurado García in Mexico, D.F., was a Mexican actress who had a successful film career both in Mexico and in Hollywood....
  
   - Actress
• Joanna Kerns
  Joanna Kerns
  Joanna Kerns is an American actress and director best known for her role as Maggie Seaver on the family situation comedy Growing Pains from 1985-1992.-Early life:...
  
   - Actress & Director
• Susan Kohner
  Susan Kohner
  Susan Kohner is an American actress.-Early life and career:Born as Susanna Kohner in Los Angeles, Kohner is the daughter of Mexican actress Lupita Tovar and Jewish film producer Paul Kohner who was born in Bohemia part of Austria-Hungary...
  
   - Actress
• Angela Lanza
  Angela Lanza (actress)
  Angela Lanza is a Mexican-American actress. In 1995 she starred in the movie The Perez Family as the character Flavia.The comedy was about a group of Cuban refugees pretending to be a family to stay in the U.S....
  
   - Actress
• Iyari Limón
  Iyari Limon
  Iyari Pérez Limón is an actress best known for her supporting role as Potential Slayer Kennedy on the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.-Career:Limón has appeared in numerous TV commercials, both in Spanish and English...
  
   - Actress
• Natalia Livingston
  Natalia Livingston
  Natalia Livingston is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Emily Quartermaine and Rebecca Shaw on General Hospital and the role of Taylor Walker on the NBC soap opera Days of our Lives before being replaced after a few months by ex General Hospital , ex Days of our Lives , and ex...
  
   - Actress
• Eva Longoria
  Eva Longoria
  Eva Jacqueline Longoria is an American actress, best known for portraying Gabrielle Solis on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives...
  
   - Actress & Model
• George Lopez
  George Lopez
  George Lopez is an American comedian, actor, and talk show host. He is mostly known for starring in his self-produced ABC sitcom George Lopez. His stand-up comedy examines race and ethnic relations, including the Mexican American culture...
  
   - Actor & Comedian
• Mario López
  Mario López
  Mario Michael Lopez, Jr. is an American actor who has appeared on several television series, in films, and on Broadway. He is best known for his portrayal of the character A.C. Slater on Saved By The Bell, which he also portrayed as a regular on Saved by the Bell: The College Years...
  
   - Actor
• Seidy López
  Seidy López
  Seidy López is a Mexican-American actress and director.López is best known for her starring debut in the critically acclaimed film Mi Vida Loca. She appeared in Solo, the hit film Selena, in Quentin Tarantino's ER episode, and as a recurring character on Showtime's Resurrection Boulevard...
  
   - Actress and Director
• Linda Loredo
  Linda Loredo
  Linda Loredo was an American-born actress and dancer of Mexican descent. Today, she is most commonly associated with Spanish language versions of Laurel and Hardy short subjects...
  
   - Actress
• Demi Lovato
  Demi Lovato
  "She’s got the range, the full emotional spectrum, incredible control… Vocally, she’s the best thing Disney’s had since Christina Aguilera."—Producer Toby Gad on Demi Lovato's vocals...
  
   - Actress & Singer
• Oscar Ozzy Lusth
  Ozzy Lusth
  Oscar "Ozzy" Lusth is a reality show contestant who first appeared on Survivor: Cook Islands. He finished as the 1st runner-up in a 5–4–0 vote to Yul Kwon. Lusth later competed in Survivor: Micronesia as one of the returning favorites...
  
   - 1st Runner-Up On Survivor; Cook Islands
• Angélica María
  Angélica María
  Angélica María Hartman Ortiz is an Mexican-American actress and a Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter. She is a legendary entertainer and is known as La Novia de Mexico .-Early life:...
  
   - Actress & Life-Time Grammy Award Winning Singer-Songwriter
• Vanessa Marcil
  Vanessa Marcil
  Vanessa Marcil is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Brenda Barrett Corinthos on General Hospital, Gina Kincaid on Beverly Hills, 90210 and Sam Marquez on Las Vegas....
  
   - Actress
• Constance Marie
  Constance Marie
  Constance Marie Lopez is an American actress. Known professionally as Constance Marie, she is known for her role as Angie Lopez on George Lopez and for her role as Marcella Quintanilla in the 1997 film Selena...
  
   - Actress
• Cheech Marin
  Cheech Marin
  Richard Anthony "Cheech" Marin is an American comedian, actor and writer who gained recognition as part of the comedy act Cheech & Chong during the 1970s and early 1980s, and as Don Johnson's partner, Insp. Joe Dominguez on Nash Bridges...
  
   - Actor & Comedian
• Ada Maris
  Ada Maris
  Ada Maris is a Mexican-American actress. She was born Ada Marentes and has been married to actor Tony Plana since 1988. They have two children.-Career:...
  
   - Actress
• Chrispin Martin
  Chrispin Martin
  Chrispin Martin was a Mexican-American actor. Born Ysabel Ponciana Chris-Pin Martin Paiz in Tucson, Arizona, and he was also credited in his films by many other names, such as Chris-Pin Martin, Chris King Martin, Chris Martin, Cris-Pin Martin and Ethier Crispin Martini.His roles were always as a...
  
   - Actor
• A Martinez
  A Martinez
  Adolfo Larrue Martinez, III , better known as A Martinez, is an American actor and singer with roles in the daytime soap opera Santa Barbara and the primetime dramas L.A. Law and Profiler.-Early life:...
  
   - Emmy Award Winning Actor
• Alex Meneses
  Alex Meneses
  Alexandra Estella DeAnna "Alex" Meneses is an American television and film actress and model.She was born in Chicago of Mexican American descent on her father's side and Ukrainian American descent on her mother's. Meneses studied acting at Chicago's The Second City Improvisational Theater during...
  
   - Actress & Model
• Alex Meraz
  Alex Meraz
  Alejandro "Alex" Meraz is an American dancer, actor and martial artist. Meraz played the werewolf named Paul in the film New Moon, the sequel to 2008's Twilight.-Life and career:...
  
   - Actor
• Cesar Millan
  Cesar Millan
  Cesar Millan, is a Mexican-born American dog trainer. A self-taught expert, he is widely known for his television series The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan, now in its seventh season and broadcast in more than eighty countries worldwide...
  
   - TV Personality, Dog Trainer, & Author
• Yvette Mimieux
  Yvette Mimieux
  Yvette Carmen Mimieux is a retired American movie and television actress.-Early life and career:Yvette Mimieux was born in Los Angeles, California, to a French father and Mexican mother, Carmen Montemayor...
  
   - Actress
• Ricardo Montalbán
  Ricardo Montalbán
  Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino, KSG was a Mexican radio, television, theatre and film actor. He had a career spanning six decades and many notable roles...
  
   - Actor
• Belita Moreno - Actress
• Marisol Nichols
  Marisol Nichols
  Marisol Nichols is an American actress best known for her role in the sixth season of 24 as Special Agent Nadia Yassir.-Early life:...
  
   - Actress
• Ramón Novarro
  Ramón Novarro
  Ramón Novarro was a Mexican leading man actor in Hollywood in the early 20th century. He was the next male "Sex Symbol" after the death of Rudolph Valentino...
  
   - Actor
• Bodie Olmos
  Bodie Olmos
  Bodie James Olmos is an American actor of TV and film. He is the son of Edward James Olmos and Kaija Keel, and grandson of Howard Keel. His older brother is actor Mico Olmos. His first on screen appearance was on The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez in 1982 when he was 7 years old...
  
   - Actor
• Edward James Olmos
  Edward James Olmos
  Edward James Olmos is an American actor and director. Among his most memorable roles are William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, Lt...
  
   - Actor & Director
• Lupe Ontiveros
  Lupe Ontiveros
  Lupe Ontiveros is an American film and television actress. Ontiveros has acted in numerous films and television shows, most often playing a maid or, more recently, an all-knowing grandmother; she estimates she has played a maid between 150 and 300 times on screen.-Early life:Ontiveros was born...
  
   - Actress
• Joy Page
  Joy Page
  Joy Page was an American actress best known for her role as the Bulgarian bride Annina Brandel in the film Casablanca ....
  
   - Actress
• Yunuen Pardo - Actress
• Sara Paxton
  Sara Paxton
  Sara Paxton is an American actress, model and singer. She grew up in California and began acting at an early age, appearing in many minor roles in both films and television shows, before coming to wider renown in 2004, after playing the title role in the series Darcy's Wild Life and Sarah Borden...
  
   - Actress & Singer
• Michael Peña
  Michael Peña
  Michael Anthony Peña is an American film and television actor. He is probably best known for his roles in the films Crash, World Trade Center, Observe and Report, 30 Minutes or Less and Tower Heist...
  
   - Actor
• Anthony Quinn
  Anthony Quinn
  Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca , more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican American actor, as well as a painter and writer...
  
   - Actor
• Efren Ramirez
  Efren Ramirez
  -Early life:Ramirez was born in Los Angeles, California of Spanish and Salvadoran descent. He has three brothers, one of whom is his identical twin. Ramirez bought his parents a house with his payment from Napoleon Dynamite .-Career:...
  
   - Actor
• Marisa Ramirez
  Marisa Ramirez
  Marisa Carolina Ramirez is an American actress.-Early life:Ramirez attended an all-girls' school in Alhambra, California at the Ramona Convent Secondary School. Her career began at age 13 when she was brought to the attention of a major L.A...
  
   - Actress
• Sara Ramírez
  Sara Ramírez
  Sara Ramírez is a Mexican-American singer/songwriter and actress. She is known for her role as Callie Torres in Grey's Anatomy and as the original Lady of the Lake in the 2005 Broadway musical Spamalot, for which she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical.-Early life:Ramírez...
  
   - Actress and Singer
• Mona Rico
  Mona Rico
  Mona Rico was a Mexican-born American actress. Her films include Eternal Love , Shanghai Lady , A Devil With Women , and Zorro Rides Again .-Career:...
  
   - Actress
• Emily Rios
  Emily Rios
  Emily Clara Rios is an American actress and model.Rios, a Mexican American, was born in Los Angeles, California. She was raised as a Jehovah's Witness in the city of El Monte, California. Rios was discovered while shopping in an area shopping mall. She has appeared in the short For Them and...
  
   - Actress and Model
• Lalo Rios
  Lalo Rios
  Lalo Rios was a Mexican actor who worked often in American movies.Lalo Ríos was born in February 07, 1927 in Sonora, México and died in March 07, 1973 in Los Angeles, California, United States. - Filmography :- TV :...
  
   - Mexican actor
• James Roday
  James Roday
  James Roday is an American actor and screenwriter. He currently stars on the USA Network series Psych as hyper-observant consultant detective and fake psychic Shawn Spencer.-Personal life:...
  
   - Actor
• Elizabeth Rodriguez
  Elizabeth Rodriguez
  Elizabeth Rodriguez is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Carmen Morales on All My Children .-Filmography:-External links:...
  
   - Actress
• Paul Rodriguez
  Paul Rodríguez
  Paul Rodriguez is a Mexican-American stand-up comedian and actor.-Personal life:Rodriguez was born in Culiacán, Sinaloa, México to Mexican agriculture ranchers.. His family migrated to East Los Angeles, where he enlisted in the military; he was stationed in Iceland and Duluth, Minnesota...
  
   - Comedian and Actor
• Valente Rodriguez
  Valente Rodriguez
  Valente Rodriguez is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Ernesto "Ernie" Cardenas on the sitcom George Lopez. He currently stars as Cesar in the TV Land sitcom Happily Divorced.-Life and career:...
  
   - Actor
• Gilbert Roland
  Gilbert Roland
  Gilbert Roland was a Mexican-born American film actor.He was born Luis Antonio Dámaso de Alonso in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico and originally intended to become a bullfighter like his father. When the family moved to the United States, however, he became interested in acting when he was...
  
   - Actor
• Lauren Sánchez
  Lauren Sánchez
  Lauren Sanchez is an award-winning American news anchor, entertainment reporter, and media personality. She was the weekend anchor and special correspondent on Extra. She is also a co-host on KTTV Fox-11's Good Day LA and the station's top-rated "Ten o'clock News." Sánchez is also a regular...
  
   - News Anchor, Entertainment and Media Personality
• Lola Sanchez
  Lola Sanchez
  Lola Sanchez is an American film, television and stage actress.-Acting career:At the age of 3, Sanchez started acting in the local playhouse for kids in Hong Kong, where she moved to from Australia at age 2. After being in a production of Snow White, her family moved to the U.S..Sanchez's first...
  
   - Actress
• Ref Sanchez
  Ref Sanchez
  Ref Sanchez was an American actor who appeared mostly in television shows in smaller acting parts. He worked as a fashion photographer in the 1950s through the 1970s.-Early life:...
  
   - Actor and Photographer
• Michael Saucedo
  Michael Saucedo
  Michael Saucedo is an American actor best known for his role as Juan Santiago on the soap opera General Hospital from 1999 until 2001. He is also a musician.-Personal life:...
  
   - Actor
• Christian Serratos
  Christian Serratos
  Christian Marie Serratos is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Angela Weber in Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse, which are based on the Twilight novels by Stephenie Meyer.-Early life:...
  
   - Actress, Model and Singer
• Scout Taylor-Compton
  Scout Taylor-Compton
  Scout Taylor-Compton is an American actress and singer. She has appeared in numerous small television roles and in feature films that range from dramas to those in the horror genre....
  
   - Actress and Singer
• Uma Thurman
  Uma Thurman
  Uma Karuna Thurman is an American actress and model. She has performed in leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action movies. Among her best-known roles are those in the Quentin Tarantino films Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill...
  
  , actress and daughter of Mexican-born actress Nena von Schlebrügge
  Nena von Schlebrügge
  Birgitte Caroline 'Nena' von Schlebrügge is a Mexican former fashion model of the 1950s and 1960s and is now the managing director of Menla Mountain Retreat....
  
  .
• Danny Trejo
  Danny Trejo
  Dan "Danny" Trejo is an American actor who has appeared in numerous Hollywood films, most notably in roles as an antagonist, or anti-hero.-Early life:...
  
   - Actor
• Michael Trevino
  Michael Trevino
  Michael Trevino is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Tyler Lockwood in the CW series The Vampire Diaries.-Early life:...
  
   - Actor
• Jacob Vargas
  Jacob Vargas
  -Early life:Vargas was born in Michoacán, Mexico, and raised in Pacoima, Los Angeles, California, since 1971. He was raised in a devout Roman Catholic family.-Career:...
  
   - Actor
• Lupe Vélez
  Lupe Vélez
  Lupe Vélez was a Mexican film actress. Vélez began her career in Mexico as a dancer, before moving to the U.S. where she worked in vaudeville. She was seen by Fanny Brice who promoted her, and Vélez soon entered films, making her first appearance in 1924. By the end of the decade she had...
  
   - Actress
• Nena von Schlebrügge
  Nena von Schlebrügge
  Birgitte Caroline 'Nena' von Schlebrügge is a Mexican former fashion model of the 1950s and 1960s and is now the managing director of Menla Mountain Retreat....
  
  , Actress
• Victoria Wyndham
  Victoria Wyndham
  Victoria Wyndham is an American actress best known for her role as Rachel Cory on the soap opera Another World.-Personal life:...
  
   - Actress
• Richard Yniguez - Actor
• Del Zamora - Actor

Directors and filmmakers

• John A. Alonzo
  John A. Alonzo
  John Alonzo, A.S.C. was an American cinematographer who pioneered hand held work, lighting techniques and HD development during his career...
  
   - influential cinematographer
  Cinematographer
  A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...
  
  
• Edward Carrere
• Moctezuma Esparza
• Hampton Fancher
  Hampton Fancher
  Hampton Fancher is a former actor who became a producer and screenwriter in the late 1970s. Fancher was born to a Mexican mother and an American father in East Los Angeles, California, US. At 15, he ran away to Spain to become a flamenco dancer and renamed himself Mario Montejo. He was married...
  
  
• Bill Meléndez
  Bill Melendez
  José Cuauhtémoc "Bill" Meléndez was a Mexican-American character animator, film director, voice artist and producer, known for his cartoons for Warner Brothers, UPA and the Peanuts series...
  
  
• Rick Najera
• Gregory Nava
  Gregory Nava
  Gregory Nava is a film director, producer and screenplay writer, of Mexican and Basque heritage.-Education:...
  
  
• Edward James Olmos
  Edward James Olmos
  Edward James Olmos is an American actor and director. Among his most memorable roles are William Adama in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, Lt...
  
  
• Robert Rodríguez
  Robert Rodriguez
  Robert Anthony Rodríguez is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in his native Texas and Mexico. He has directed such films as Desperado, From Dusk till Dawn, The Faculty, Spy Kids, Sin City, Planet...
  
  
• Phil Roman
  Phil Roman
  Philip Roman , is an animator. He is the founder of animation studios Film Roman and Phil Roman Entertainment. Roman is of Mexican American descent....
  
   - animation director, founder of Film Roman
  Film Roman
  Film Roman is an animation studio founded by Phil Roman, best known for producing the animation for The Simpsons, King of the Hill for 20th Century Fox, as well as the Garfield and Peanuts animated TV specials....
  
   animation studio.
• Craig Saavedra
  Craig Saavedra
  Craig Michael Saavedra is an American film producer, director, writer and co-owner of New York and Los Angeles-based production company Starry Night Entertainment.-Early life:...
  
  
• Jesús Salvador Treviño
  Jesús Salvador Treviño
  Jesús Salvador Treviño is an American television director of Mexican descent.Most notably, Treviño has directed a number of episodes from the television series Resurrection Blvd., Babylon 5, Crusade, Bones, Star Trek: Voyager, seaQuest DSV, Crossing Jordan, Third Watch and Star Trek: Deep Space...
  
   - television director
• Luis Valdez
  Luis Valdez
  Luis Valdez is an American playwright, writer and film director.He is regarded as the father of Chicano theater in the United States.-Education:...
  
  
• Carmen Zapata
  Carmen Zapata
  Carmen Margarita Zapata is an American actress. Zapata was born in New York City to a Mexican father and an Argentine mother. She has been in over one hundred movies and shows, including Batman: The Animated Series, Married... with Children, Sister Act, and she was Carmen Castillo in Santa Barbara...
  
  
• Roberto Orci
  Roberto Orci
  Roberto Gaston Orci is a Mexican-American film producer, television producer, and screenwriter.-Biography:Orci was born in Mexico City to a Mexican father and a Cuban mother. His mother had left Cuba for Mexico after Fidel Castro came to power. He is the older brother of screenwriter-producer J....
  
  

Models

• Erica Arana
  Erica Arana
  Erica Arana is a former NFL cheerleader of Mexican descent. A former Oakland Raiderette, she was previously the spokesmodel and primary face for all western-region Coors Light point-of-sale advertising for the NFL. Arana was selected by the NFL to represent the Oakland Raiderettes in the NFL...
  
   - Actress, Model, TV Host, & Former NFL cheerleader
• August - Pornographic Actress and Model
• Jessica Burciaga - Model
• Jasmine Byrne
  Jasmine Byrne
  Jasmine Byrne is an American pornographic actress, model and dominatrix. Byrne was born in Riverside, California to Mexican parents from Los Angeles. Her first film was Young Tight Latinas 6...
  
   - Pornographic Actress and Model
• Cassie (singer) - Singer, Actress, & Model
• Arianny Celeste
  Arianny Celeste
  Arianny Celeste is an American ring girl and model. She is best known for being an Octagon girl for the UFC.-Early life:...
  
   - MMA Ring Girl, Model, TV host
• Ayiiia Elizarraras
  The Real World: Cancun
  The Real World: Cancun is the twenty-second season of MTV's reality television series The Real World, which focuses on a group of diverse strangers living together for several months in a different city each season, as cameras document their lives and interpersonal relationships. Cancun, Mexico was...
  
   - TV Personality and Model
• Megan Ewing
  Megan Ewing
  Megan Christine Ewing is an American model who has worked for Abercrombie & Fitch and La Perla, but is perhaps best known as a Guess? model.- Early life :...
  
   - A&F, La Perla, & Guess Model
• Yoanna House
  Yoanna House
  Yoanna House is an American fashion model and television host, best known as the winner of Cycle 2 of America's Next Top Model.- Biography :...
  
   - Model, Fashion Model, TV Host and America's Next Top Model Winner (Cycle 2)
• Veronica Jett - Pornographic Actress and Model
• Pennelope Jimenez - Actress, Model
• Jenaveve Jolie
  Jenaveve Jolie
  Jenaveve Jolie is an American pornographic actress, nude model and exotic dancer. She is also known as Jenaveve Joli or Jenevieve.She worked as a waitress at a steak house, before beginning her adult film career in around 2004...
  
   - Pornographic Actress and Model
• Luscious Lopez
  Luscious Lopez
  Luscious Lopez is the stage name of an American pornographic actress. Lopez entered the industry in 2005 at the age of 24.-Biography:...
  
   - Pornographic Actress and Model
• Donyale Luna
  Donyale Luna
  Donyale Luna was an American model and cover girl. She also appeared in several films, in Camp by Andy Warhol, Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo? by William Klein, as Groucho Marx's companion in Otto Preminger's Skidoo, and most notably as Oenothea in Federico Fellini's Satyricon and as the title...
  
   - Model and Cover Girl
• Erika Medina - Model
• Naima Mora
  Naima Mora
  Naima Mora is an American fashion model and the winner of Cycle 4 of America's Next Top Model.-Early life:Naima Mora was born on March 1, 1984 in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of African American, talented jazz vocalist and entrepreneur Theresa Mora & Mexican jazz percussionist Francisco Mora...
  
   - Model, Fashion Model, America's Next Top Model Winner (Cycle 4
• Carter Oosterhouse
  Carter Oosterhouse
  Carter Oosterhouse is an American television personality and model, who was born in Traverse City, Michigan. Oosterhouse first gained national fame as a carpenter on the TLC series Trading Spaces and has hosted other home improvement and how-to television shows...
  
   - Nautica & HGTV's Carter Can
• Adriana Sage
  Adriana Sage
  Adriana Sage is a Mexican-American pornographic actress and model.- Early life :Sage was born in Mexico, but was raised in San Diego, California...
  
   - Pornographic Actress & Model
• Mia St. John
  Mia St. John
  Mia Rosales St. John is a Mexican-American professional boxer in the Light Welterweight division. Mia is the former WIBA and WIBF Lightweight Champion. She is also a model, businesswoman, and Tae Kwon Do Champion.-Early life:...
  
   - Professional Boxer, Model, Businesswoman and Tae Kwon Do Champion
• Lorena Sanchez
  Lorena Sanchez
  Lorena Sanchez is a pornographic actress. She entered the adult film industry in 2006 at the age of around 20, and has since appeared in over 180 movies.-Awards:...
  
   - Pornographic Actress & Model
• Christian Serratos
  Christian Serratos
  Christian Marie Serratos is an American actress. She is best known for portraying Angela Weber in Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse, which are based on the Twilight novels by Stephenie Meyer.-Early life:...
  
   - Actress, Model and Singer

Musicians and music groups

• Lou Adler
  Lou Adler
  Lou Adler is an American record producer, manager, and director.-Life and career:Adler was born in Chicago, Illinois in December 1933, and raised in East Los Angeles. In 1964, Adler founded and co-owned Dunhill Records. He was President of the label as well as the chief record producer from 1964...
  
   - Record Producer, Manager & Director
• Pepe Aguilar
  Pepe Aguilar
  José "Pepe" Aguilar Jiménez is a popular singer-songwriter of ranchera, mariachi and pop music. Pepe is the son of Mexican icon Antonio Aguilar and folkloric actress Flor Silvestre.-Career:...
  
   - Singer
• Rikk Agnew
  Rikk Agnew
  Richard Francis Agnew, Jr. , more commonly known as Rikk Agnew, is an American guitarist who has played in some of the most influential bands of the Orange County hardcore punk scene, as well as the influential deathrock band Christian Death.- Biography:With Casey Royer, Agnew played in Social...
  
   - Singer and Musician
• Ak'Sent
  Ak'Sent
  Krystle Kantrece Johnson , better known by her stage name Ak'Sent, is an American rapper from Los Angeles, California.-Early life & career:...
  
   - Rapper
• Anacani
  Anacani
  Anacani Maria Consuelo y Castillo Lopez Cantor Montoya is a Mexican-born American singer best known as a featured performer on The Lawrence Welk Show television program....
  
   - Singer
• Game - rapper
• Joan Baez
  Joan Baez
  Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....
  
   - Folk Singer and Songwriter*
• Baby Bash
  Baby Bash
  Ronnie Ray Bryant , better known by his stage name Baby Bash , is a Mexican-American rapper. From 1995 to 1998, he performed under the stage name Baby Beesh, as part of the Vallejo, California group Potna Duece, after which he changed the last part of the name to Bash...
  
   - Rapper
• Betzaida
  Betzaida
  Betzaida is an American singer of Latin pop music. Born in Chicago, Illinois, to Puerto Rican and Mexican parents, Betzaida released her debut self-titled album in 2004 on Fonovisa Records. She first gained fame through her song "La Copa Será Tuya Al Final" which aired on Univision to promote...
  
   - Latin Pop Singer
• Cedric Bixler-Zavala
  Cedric Bixler-Zavala
  Cedric Bixler-Zavala is a Grammy Award-winning Mexican-American musician known for his work as frontman and lyricist of the progressive rock band The Mars Volta, and previously as frontman and occasional guitarist of the post-hardcore punk group At the Drive-In...
  
   Singer, Musician
• The Blendells
  The Blendells
  The Blendells were a 1960s Mexican American brown-eyed soul group from East Los Angeles, California. They garnered success in 1964 with their Latin-tinged cover of Stevie Wonder's "La La La La La." During the brief time they were together, they performed at venues such as the famous Shrine Auditorium...
  
   - Soul Band
• Chingo Bling
  Chingo Bling
  Pedro Herrera III in Houston, Texas of Mexican parents, better known by his stage name Chingo Bling, is a well known underground rapper and producer....
  
   - Rapper
• B-Real
  B-Real
  Louis Freese, better known by his stage name B-Real, is an American rapper of Cuban and Mexican heritage, and a film and TV actor...
  
   - Rapper and Lead Member of Cypress Hill
• Juan Brujo - Lead singer of Brujeria
  Brujeria (band)
  Brujeria is an extreme metal band formed in Tijuana, Mexico in 1989. Their name comes from the Spanish word for "witchcraft". Their songs, which are sung in Spanish, are focused on Satanism, anti-Christianity, sex, immigration, narcotics smuggling, politics....
  
  
• Sabrina Bryan
  Sabrina Bryan
  Reba Sabrina Hinojos , better known by her stage name Sabrina Bryan,is an American singer, actress, author, songwriter, fashion designer, choreographer, dancer, and television personality best known as a member of the girl group, The Cheetah Girls, and for starring in the Disney Channel Original...
  
   - Singer and Actress
• Vicki Carr - Grammy Award Winning Singer
• Cassie - Singer, Actress and Model
• Albert Castillo
  Al B. Rich
  Al B. Rich is the remix and production team of American Music Producers Albert Castillo and Rich "DJ Riddler" Pangilinan. Castillo, a musician who holds a Latin Grammy, also was a member of the production team Cibola in the late 1990s...
  
   - Music Producer
• Dino Cazares
  Dino Cazares
  Dino Cazares, born in El Centro, California, is a Mexican-American musician and the guitarist for Los Angeles-based industrial metal group Fear Factory. He also plays in the metal bands Divine Heresy and Asesino.-Biography:...
  
   - Guitarist
• Ingrid Chavez
  Ingrid Chavez
  Ingrid Julia Chavez is a Mexican-American poet, vocalist, songwriter and photographer.-Personal life:Chavez was born January 21, 1965 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, and raised in Marietta, Georgia...
  
   - Singer, Songwriter, & Poet
• Mark Chavez - Musician
• El Chicano
  El Chicano
  El Chicano is an American chicano rock and brown-eyed soul group from Los Angeles, California, whose style incorporates various modern music genres including rock, funk, soul, blues, jazz, and salsa...
  
   - Soul & Jazz Band
• Lisa Coleman
  Lisa Coleman (musician)
  Lisa Coleman is an American Emmy® Award winning musician and composer. Coleman plays piano and keyboards. She was a member of Prince's backing band The Revolution from 1980-1986. She is currently one half of the musical duo Wendy & Lisa, formed with Wendy Melvoin in 1986.-Early life:Coleman's...
  
   - Grammy
  Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media
  The Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack For Visual Media has been awarded since 1960. Until 2001 the award was presented to the composer of the music alone. From 2001 to 2006, the producer and engineers shared in this award...
  
   & ASCAP Award Winning Musician/Composer, Funk Keyboardist, Member of Prince and The Revolution
  The Revolution (band)
  The Revolution was an American rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1979 by Prince. Although widely associated with rock music, the band's sound incorporated heavy metal, pop, funk, R&B and hard rock elements. Before their official break-up, The Revolution had released one studio album,...
  
   and Wendy & Lisa
  Wendy & Lisa
  Wendy & Lisa are a music duo consisting of Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman. They began working with Prince in the early 1980s and were part of his band The Revolution, before branching out on their own and releasing their debut album in 1987...
  
  
• Kid Cudi
  Kid Cudi
  Scott Ramon Seguro Mescudi , better known by his stage name Kid Cudi , sometimes stylized KiD CuDi, is an American rapper, singer and actor. He first gained major attention after the release of his debut mixtape A Kid Named Cudi. In 2009, his single "Day 'n' Nite" reached the top five of the...
  
   - Rapper
• Paula DeAnda
  Paula DeAnda
  Paula DeAnda is a Mexican American pop singer-songwriter and actress. She first came to prominence with her first single "Doing Too Much" that became a hit in the Southwest. She then got the opportunity to audition for Clive Davis who signed her to Arista Records on the spot...
  
   - Singer, Songwriter and Actress
• Diana DeGarmo
  Diana DeGarmo
  Diana Nicole DeGarmo is an American singer and Broadway actress. She finished as the runner-up on the third season of the reality/talent-search television series American Idol, narrowly missing the win by about 2% out of over 65 million votes...
  
   - Singer and Actress
• Zack De La Rocha
  Zack de la Rocha
  Zacarías Manuel "Zack" de la Rocha is an American rapper, musician, poet, and activist best known as the vocalist and lyricist of Rage Against the Machine.-Early life and childhood:...
  
   - Rapper, Singer, Poet, & Lead Member of Rage Against the Machine
• Grey Delisle
  Grey DeLisle
  Grey DeLisle is an American voice actress, singer-songwriter, and comedienne. To date, she has released four solo albums and has featured on the tribute album Anchored in Love: A Tribute to June Carter Cash and film soundtrack of Loggerheads...
  
   - Singer-Songwriter and Voice Actress
• Andrew Martinez - Drummer
• Lhasa De Sela
  Lhasa de Sela
  Lhasa de Sela , also known by the mononym Lhasa, was an American-born singer-songwriter who was raised in Mexico and the United States, and divided her adult life between Canada and France...
  
   - Singer & Songwriter
• Nadir D'Priest
  Nadir D'Priest
  Antonio Nadir , better known as Nadir D'Priest, is a Mexican American heavy metal singer, songwriter, musician, producer and lead vocalist of the glam metal band London. In June 2006, D'Priest reformed the band London...
  
   - Musician
• Sheila E.
  Sheila E.
  Sheila Escovedo , known by her stage name Sheila E., is an American drummer and percussionist, perhaps best known for her work with Prince, George Duke and Ringo Starr.-Early life and Prince period:...
  
   - Musician
• Roberto Enrique
  Roberto Enrique
  Roberto Enrique, is a Mexican-American actor, singer-songwriter, born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He has earned high praises for his work in music and as an actor.-Music:He is a veteran recording artist who had his album debut at the age of 14...
  
   - Singer, Songwriter and Actor
• Joe Escalante
  Joe Escalante
  Joseph Patrick "Joe" Escalante is an American musician, record label owner, radio host, film and music video director, and amateur matador, as well as a former television executive and entertainment lawyer...
  
   - Musician
• Alejandro Escovedo
  Alejandro Escovedo
  Alejandro Escovedo is an American singer-songwriter.-Biography:The son of Mexican immigrants to Texas, Escovedo is from a family that boasts several professional musicians, including brothers Coke Escovedo and Pete Escovedo, and Sheila E...
  
   - Singer, Songwriter, Musician
• Coke Escovedo
  Coke Escovedo
  Coke Escovedo was an American percussionist born April 30, 1941 in Los Angeles, California. Coke Escovedo first rose to prominence in 1969 as a member of Santana. Coke would be a featured on Santana's) Santana III album. In early 1972 Coke formed Azteca along with his brother Pete Escovedo...
  
   - Percussionist
• Pete Escovedo
  Pete Escovedo
  Peter "Pete" Michael Escovedo is a Mexican-American musician percussionist.-Biography:With his two brothers, Pete formed Escovedo Bros Latin Jazz Sextet, before Santana hired Pete and Coke Escovedo for his group.He led the 14-24 piece Latin Big band Azteca.Father to musician Sheila Escovedo, aka...
  
   - Percussionist
• Freddy Fender
  Freddy Fender
  Freddy Fender , born Baldemar Garza Huerta in San Benito, Texas, United States, was a Mexican-American Tejano, country and rock and roll musician, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados...
  
   - Tejano & Country Musician
• Fergie - Singer-Songwriter, Actress and Member of the Black Eyed Peas
• Aundrea Fimbres
  Aundrea Fimbres
  Aundrea Aurora Fimbres is an American singer and dancer. Fimbres is a former member of the pop music group Danity Kane, from 2005 to 2009...
  
   - Singer, Member of the Group Danity Kane
• Rosie Flores
  Rosie Flores
  Rosie Flores is a rockabilly and country music artist of Mexican American heritage. Her music blends rockabilly, honky tonk, jazz, and Western swing along with traditional influences from her Tex-Mex heritage...
  
   - Rockabilly and Country Singer
• Mando Fresko
  Mando Fresko
  Mando Fresko born in Los Angeles , California to a Mexican family is an American Radio Host, Club DJ, Actor, Model and Television Host. Currently, he can be heard on the nation’s biggest hip-hop station, Power 106 FM Los Angeles. There he hosts his own show titled “The Mando Show" bringing over 2...
  
   DJ, Radio Personality, Actor
• Frost - Rapper
• Victoria Galvan
  Victoria Galvan
  Victoria Galvan is a Mexican American singer and musician from Corpus Christi, Texas. She performs in the Tejano style as part of the ensemble Victoria y Sus Chikos . She records on the Hacienda Records label....
  
   - Singer, Musician
• Alejandro Garcia
  Alejandro García (producer)
  Alejandro García is a Mexican-American band producer and song writer best known for producing Alacranes Musical, a band that plays Duranguense music. He has released several albums in both the Regional Mexican music genre as well as hip-hop, and is known for creating catchy hooks and having an...
  
   - Songwriter and Music Producer
• Andrew Garcia
  Andrew Garcia
  Andrew Adrian Garcia is an American singer from Moreno Valley, California who was the ninth place finalist on the ninth season of American Idol.-Personal life:...
  
   - Musician & American Idol
  American Idol
  American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
  
   (Season 9 Contestant)
• Girl In a Coma
  Girl in a Coma
  Girl In a Coma is a rock band from San Antonio, Texas on Joan Jett's Blackheart Records' label. The band is made up of Mexican-American sisters Nina and Phanie Diaz and long-time friend, Jenn Alva . The name is a reference to The Smiths' song Girlfriend in a Coma...
  
   - Rock Group
• Selena Gomez
  Selena Gomez
  Selena Marie Gomez is an American actress and singer best known for portraying Alex Russo in the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place...
  
   - Singer and Actress
• Lalo Guerrero
  Lalo Guerrero
  Eduardo "Lalo" Guerrero , was a Mexican-American guitarist, singer and farm labor activist best known for his strong influence on today's Latin musical artists.-Life Summary:...
  
   - Singer and Songwriter
• Ha*Ash - Rock Pop Duo
• Marcos Hernandez - Singer and Songwriter
• Raymond Herrera
  Raymond Herrera
  Raymond Herrera is the drummer for industrial metal band Arkaea. He is a former member of the industrial metal band Fear Factory and Mexican death metal band Brujeria.-Biography:Herrera has been an avid gamer all his life...
  
   - Drummer
• David Hidalgo
  David Hidalgo
  David Hidalgo is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his work with the band Los Lobos. He is also a member of the supergroup Los Super Seven and of the Latin Playboys, a side project band made up of some of the members of Los Lobos...
  
   - Singer & Songwriter
• Marques Houston
  Marques Houston
  Marques Barrett Houston is an American R&B singer, songwriter, rapper, and actor. A member of the R&B singing group Immature/IMx until 2002, he went solo in 2003. He is also the cousin of J-Boog, former member of the R&B/Hip-Hop group B2K....
  
   - Singer
• Intocable
  Intocable
  Intocable is a Tejano/Norteño musical group from Zapata, Texas that was started by friends Ricky Muñoz and René Martínez in the early 90's. Within a couple years as a band, Intocable had already risen to the top of the Tejano and Norteño fields with a musical signature that had fused Tejano's...
  
   - Tejano Band
• Frankie J
  Frankie J
  Francisco Javier Bautista, Jr. , better known by his stage name Frankie J, is a Mexican singer and former member of the musical group Kumbia Kings....
  
   - Singer
• Johnny J
  Johnny "J"
  Johnny Lee Jackson , commonly known in the music industry as Johnny "J", was a Mexican multi-platinum songwriter, music producer and rapper who was perhaps best remembered for his production on Tupac Shakur's albums All Eyez on Me and Me Against the World, as well as many of Shakur's subsequent...
  
   - Multi-Platinum Music Producer, Rapper, & Songwriter
• Prima J
  Prima J
  Prima J is an American musical group, composed of cousins Jessica and Janelle Martinez. Jessica, born on May 25, 1988, and Janelle, born on August 26, 1988, came up with the stagename "Prima J" by taking the letter "J" out of their first names, and the spanish word "prima" , and put it...
  
   - Pop Duo
• Flaco Jiménez
  Flaco Jiménez
  Leonardo "Flaco" Jiménez is a Tejano music accordionist from San Antonio, Texas. Jiménez's father, Santiago Jiménez Sr. was a pioneer of conjunto music. He began performing with his father at age seven and recording at age fifteen, as a member of Los Caporales...
  
   - Accordionist, Musician
• Cristina Juárez - Singer, Model and Actress
• Maya Jupiter
  Maya Jupiter
  Maya Jupiter is an Australian Rapper & Radio Personality-Biography:Maya was born in La Paz, Mexico. She is of mixed Mexican and Turkish origin...
  
   - DJ and Femcee
• DJ Kane
  DJ Kane
  Jason Cano better known as DJ Kane is a Mexican American singer who is currently recording an album alongside ex Kumbia All Starz vocalist Ricky Rick. He was also the lead vocalist for the Latin Grammy award winning A.B...
  
   - Singer
• Joshua Kadison
  Joshua Kadison
  Joshua Kadison is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and writer.- Early life :Joshua grew up in and around Los Angeles, California, the younger of two sons. His mother was of Mexican-American Indian descent. At age 12 he started playing the piano and subsequently started to write songs...
  
   - Singer and Songwriter
• A Lighter Shade of Brown
  A Lighter Shade of Brown
  A Lighter Shade of Brown was a Mexican American hip hop duo from Riverside, California best known for their 1990 hit single "On a Sunday Afternoon", a success in the U.S., written by songwriters/musicians David Dunson & Micah Carson.-History:...
  
   - Rap Group
• Trini Lopez
  Trini Lopez
  Trini Lopez is an American singer, guitarist and actor.-Career:Lopez was born in Dallas, Texas, on Ashland Street in the Little Mexico neighborhood. He began his entertainment career in Dallas playing at the Vegas Club, a nightclub owned by Jack Ruby...
  
   - Singer and Guitarist
• Demi Lovato
  Demi Lovato
  "She’s got the range, the full emotional spectrum, incredible control… Vocally, she’s the best thing Disney’s had since Christina Aguilera."—Producer Toby Gad on Demi Lovato's vocals...
  
   - Singer and Actress
• Malo
  Malo
  Malo was an American Latin-tinged rock and roll group. The San Francisco-based ensemble was led by Arcelio Garcia and Jorge Santana, the brother of Latin-rock guitarist, Carlos Santana....
  
   - Latin Rock & Roll, Soul Band
• Malverde
  Jesus Malverde
  Jesús Malverde, sometimes known as the "generous bandit", "angel of the poor", or the "narco-saint", is a folklore hero in the Mexican state of Sinaloa. He is celebrated as a folk saint by some in Mexico and the United States, particularly among those involved in drug trafficking, but he is not...
  
   - Rapper
• Angélica María
  Angélica María
  Angélica María Hartman Ortiz is an Mexican-American actress and a Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter. She is a legendary entertainer and is known as La Novia de Mexico .-Early life:...
  
   - Life-Time Grammy Award Winning Singer-Songwriter & Actress
• Vanessa Marquez
  Vanessa Marquez (singer)
  Vanessa Marquez is an American pop singer.She is best known being featured on singer Justin Timberlake's song "Rock Your Body", and background vocals on his song "I'm Lovin' It"....
  
   - Singer & Songwriter
• Cruz Martínez
  Cruz Martínez
  Cruz Martínez is a Mexican American musician and multi gold and platinum record producer. He is a former member of the Tejano band La Sombra. In 1999 he co-created the cumbia music group Los Kumbia Kings with A.B. Quintanilla. In 2007 he created the band Los Super Reyes...
  
   - Musician, Music Producer
• Javier Jose Mendoza
  Javier Jose Mendoza
  Javier Jose Mendoza is a conductor of Mexican descent, though born and trained in America.Mendoza graduated with distinction, receiving the Master of Music Degree...
  
   - Conductor
• Lydia Mendoza
  Lydia Mendoza
  Lydia Mendoza was an American guitarist and singer of Tejano music. She is known as La Alondra de la Frontera ....
  
   - Tejano music Singer
• Jorge Mester
  Jorge Mester
  Jorge Mester is a Mexican conductor of Hungarian ancestry.-Biography:He studied conducting with Jean Morel at the Juilliard School in New York, and worked with Leonard Bernstein at the Berkshire Music Center and with Albert Wolff...
  
   - Conductor
• Roy Mitchell-Cardenas
  Roy Mitchell-Cárdenas
  Roy Mitchell-Cárdenas is a Mexican-American musician and author. His current gig is as the bassist for the rock band Mutemath...
  
   - Rock Bassist
• Laura Molina - Singer, Musician, Artist, Painter, & Muralist
• Chris Montez
  Chris Montez
  Chris Montez , is an American singer.-Early life:Montez grew up in Hawthorne, California, influenced by the Latino-flavored music of his community and the success of Ritchie Valens....
  
   - Singer, Musician
• Chino Moreno
  Chino Moreno
  Chino Moreno is an American musician. He is best known as the lead singer and contributing guitarist of Deftones. He is also a member of the side-project bands Team Sleep and Crosses....
  
   - Lead Singer of Team Sleep & Deftones
• Myra
  Myra (singer)
  Myra is an American pop singer, dancer and choreographer. She rose to prominence in 2001 after recording a cover of Martha and the Vandellas' "Dancing in the Street" for the soundtrack to the 2001 film Recess: School's Out Myra (born Mayra Carol Ambriz Quintana on May 21, 1986) is an American pop...
  
   - Singer & Songwriter
• Natalie
  Natalie (singer)
  Natalie Nicole Alvarado , better known simply as Natalie, is a Mexican-American R&B singer/songwriter.-Biography:After her high school years, she chose to study criminal justice after giving up her dreams of being a singer....
  
   - R&B Singer & Songwriter
• Los Nativos - Rap Group
• Dave Navarro
  Dave Navarro
  David Michael "Dave" Navarro is an American guitarist who plays in the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction and cover band Camp Freddy. He has also played with the Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Panic Channel, and many others.- Early life :...
  
   - Guitarist
• Asia Nitollano
  Asia Nitollano
  Asia Nitollano is an American singer, dancer, model and cheerleader. After winning the television series Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll, Nitollano became a member of the Pussycat Dolls, only to leave a few months later to pursue a solo career.-Early life:Nitollano was born...
  
  - Member of The Pussycat Dolls
  Pussycat Dolls
  The Pussycat Dolls are an American pop girl group and dance ensemble based in Los Angeles; currently consisting of Lauren Bennett, Vanessa Curry, Kristal "Lyndriette" Smith, Tiffany "Taz" Zavala, Kia Hampton and Paula Van Oppen. The Pussycat Dolls were founded by choreographer Robin Antin in 1995...
  
  
• Angelina Ortega-Singer-songwriter, arts performer, and actress
• José Pasillas
  José Pasillas
  José Antonio Pasillas is an American drummer known as the drummer of alternative rock band Incubus.-Biography:José Pasillas is of Mexican descent. He grew up in Calabasas, California. He began playing drums in 1990...
  
   - Drummer
• Sara Paxton
  Sara Paxton
  Sara Paxton is an American actress, model and singer. She grew up in California and began acting at an early age, appearing in many minor roles in both films and television shows, before coming to wider renown in 2004, after playing the title role in the series Darcy's Wild Life and Sarah Borden...
  
   - Singer & Actress
• Pee Wee - Singer, Songwiter, & Actor
• Jennifer Peña
  Jennifer Peña
  Jennifer Marcella Peña , is an American Latin Pop/Tejano singer and actress who has sold over 3.5 million records internationally. Peña is the third and youngest daughter of Jaime and Mary Peña with other siblings Janet and Jackie...
  
   - Singer
• Amanda Perez
  Amanda Perez
  Amanda Nicole Perez is a female American R&B singer-songwriter and record producer of Mexican descent.-Biography:Amanda Perez was raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana and grew up in the Waynedale community of Fort Wayne, where she attended North Side High School....
  
   - Singer & Songwriter
• Chris Pérez
  Chris Perez
  Christopher Gilbert "Chris" Pérez is a American guitarist and the widower of "The Queen of Tejano music" Selena. He is currently a guitarist for A.B. Quintanilla III y Los Kumbia All Starz since he joined in 2006. Prior to that, Pérez was the lead guitarist for his wife's band Selena y Los Dinos...
  
   - Grammy Award Winning Guitarist
• Yolanda Pérez
  Yolanda Perez
  Yolanda Pérez is an American singer who specializes in banda music. She is sometimes known by the stage name "La Potranquita", , a name taken by her father from his home city of Zacatecas, Mexico....
  
   - Musician, Singer
• Romina Power
  Romina Power
  Romina Francesca Power is an American-born singer and actress.-Biography:Born in Los Angeles, California, Romina Power is the eldest daughter of American actor Tyrone Power and his second wife, actress Linda Christian....
  
   - Singer-Songwriter and Actress
• A.B. Quintanilla III - Musician & Music Producer
• Johnny Richards - Jazz Composer
• Jenni Rivera - Singer & Songwriter
• Lil Rob
  Lil Rob
  Roberto Flores , best known by his stage name Lil Rob, is a Mexican American rapper, producer, and actor-Biography:...
  
   - Rapper
• Johnny Rodriguez
  Johnny Rodriguez
  Johnny Rodriguez is an American country music singer. He was the first famous Latin American country music singer, infusing his music with Latin sounds, and even singing verses of songs in Spanish....
  
   - Country Music Singer
• Chan Romero
  Chan Romero
  Robert Lee "Chan" Romero is an American rock and roll pioneer and contemporary of Ritchie Valens, best known for his seminal 1959 hit, Hippy Hippy Shake.-Life and career:...
  
   - Singer & Musician
• Linda Ronstadt
  Linda Ronstadt
  Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden...
  
   - Grammy Award Winning Musician
• Sam the Sham
  Sam the Sham
  Sam the Sham is the stage name of the American rock and roll singer Domingo “Sam” Samudio . Sam the Sham was known for his camp robe and turban and hauling his equipment in a 1952 Packard hearse with maroon velvet curtains...
  
   - Leader Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
• Adán Sánchez
  Adán Sánchez
  Adán Santos Sánchez , was a popular American singer.-Biography:Sánchez was born in Torrance, CA. He was the son of singer Chalino Sánchez. He was eight years old when his father was kidnapped and killed in the Mexican state of Sinaloa in 1992...
  
   - Singer & Son of Legendary Chalino Sanchez
• Hope Sandoval
  Hope Sandoval
  Hope Sandoval is an American singer-songwriter who is the lead singer for Mazzy Star and Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions....
  
   - Singer & Songwriter
• Sonny Sandoval
  Sonny Sandoval
  Paul Joshua "Sonny" Sandoval is an American singer and rapper. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the rock band P.O.D..-Biography:...
  
   - Singer & Member of P.O.D
• Carlos Santana
  Carlos Santana
  Carlos Augusto Alves Santana is a Mexican rock guitarist. Santana became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered rock, salsa and jazz fusion...
  
   - Grammy Award Winning Guitarist
• Selena
  Selena
  Selena Quintanilla-Pérez , known simply as Selena, was a Mexican American singer-songwriter. She was named the "top Latin artist of the '90s" and "Best selling Latin artist of the decade" by Billboard for her fourteen top-ten singles in the Top Latin Songs chart, including seven number-one hits...
  
   - Tejano Superstar
• Arban Severin
  Arban Severin
  Arban Severin , born October 20, 1976, is an American composer, musician and film actress.Born in Beaumont, Texas, USA, to two classical musicians; her mother is a violinist, her father, a trumpet player, jazz bassist and professor of music...
  
   - Musician and Actress
• Esperanza Spalding
  Esperanza Spalding
  Esperanza Spalding is an American multi-instrumentalist best known as a jazz bassist and singer, who draws upon many genres in her own compositions...
  
   - jazz singer and musician
• Aleks Syntek
  Aleks Syntek
  Raúl Alejandro Escajadillo Peña , better known as Aleks Syntek, is a Mexican singer, songwriter and producer. He is married to Karen Coronado, sister of talkshow host Ingrid Coronado.-Biography:...
  
   - Singer
• Taboo
  Taboo
  A taboo is a strong social prohibition relating to any area of human activity or social custom that is sacred and or forbidden based on moral judgment, religious beliefs and or scientific consensus. Breaking the taboo is usually considered objectionable or abhorrent by society...
  
   - Rapper, & Member of the Black Eyed Peas
• Abel Talamantez
  Abel Talamantez
  Abel Talamantez Mendoza , is a Mexican American singer. He is currently a singer for the band Cruz Martínez Y Los Super Reyes. He used to be in the bands Menudo, MDO, and A.B...
  
   - Singer
• Tatiana
  Tatiana (singer)
  Tatiana Palacios Chapa , better known as simply "Tatiana", is a Mexican singer and actress.-Birth and childhood:Tatiana's parents, Dr...
  
   - Singer & Actress
• John Tejada
  John Tejada
  Normally associated with his peers in techno from Detroit, Europe and elsewhere, John Tejada has embraced electronic music as a personal frontier, expanding on his resume as a techno recording artist as producer, remixer, DJ, and label owner...
  
   - Electronic Musician & Music Producer
• Thalia
  Thalia
  Thalia was the Muse who presided over comedy and idyllic poetry. In this context her name means "flourishing", because the praises in her songs flourish through time. She was the daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne, the eighth-born of the nine Muses....
  
   - Singer/Actress
• Thee Midniters
  Thee Midniters
  Thee Midniters were an American group, amongst the first Chicano rock bands to have a major hit in the United States. Also they were and one of the best known acts to come out of East Los Angeles in the 1960s, with a cover of "Land of a Thousand Dances", and the instrumental track, "Whittier...
  
   - Rock, Soul Band
• Melody Thornton
  Melody Thornton
  Melody Thornton is an American R&B singer-songwriter, Soprano vocalist, dancer, model, showgirl and television personality who rose to stardom as a member of the successful pop group the Pussycat Dolls...
  
   - Singer, Model, & Member of the Pussycat Dolls
• Tierra
  Tierra (group)
  Tierra is a Latin R&B band, originally from Los Angeles, California, that was established in the late 1970s by former El Chicano members Steve Salas , Rudy Salas , David Torres and Andre Baeza . The other original members were Bobby Navarrete , Joey Guerra , Steve Falomir , and Philip Madayag...
  
   - R&B, Soul Band
• Randy Torres
  Randy Torres
  Randy Torres is a guitarist, keyboardist and background vocalist who previously played for the bands Project 86 and Crash Rickshaw. He has filled in as rhythm guitarist for the band Demon Hunter and as keyboardist, guitarist, percussionist and background vocalist for Anberlin on a recent tour...
  
   - Guitarist
• Tina Piña Trachtenburg
  Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
  The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players describe themselves as an "indie-vaudeville conceptual art-rock pop band", from the United States. Originally from Seattle, Washington, they are now based in New York, New York.-Overview:...
  
   - Rock Pop Band
• Robert Trujillo
  Robert Trujillo
  Robert Trujillo is an American bassist who currently plays bass in Metallica. He has also played in Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Black Label Society, and with Jerry Cantrell and Ozzy Osbourne.-Career:...
  
   - Bassist
• John Trudell
  John Trudell
  John Trudell is a Native American-Mexican author, poet, actor, musician, and former political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz...
  
   - Musician, Author, Poet, & Political Activist
• Chayito Valdez
  Chayito Valdez
  Chayito Valdez is a Mexican-born American singer and actress associated with the folk music of Mexico.-Career:...
  
   - Singer & Actress
• Ritchie Valens
  Ritchie Valens
  Ritchie Valens was a Mexican-American singer, songwriter and guitarist....
  
   - Singer, Musician
• Jaci Velasquez
  Jaci Velasquez
  Jacquelyn Davette Velasquez is an American Contemporary Christian and Latin Pop singer—in both English and Spanish languages....
  
   - Contemporary Christian Latin Pop singer
• Julieta Venegas
  Julieta Venegas
  Julieta Venegas Percevault , known professionally as Julieta Venegas, is a Mexican singer, songwriter, instrumentalist and producer, who sings pop-rock in Spanish. She speaks English, Portuguese, and Spanish fluently. She has a twin sister, Yvonne, who is a photographer...
  
   - Singer-Songwriter & Instrumentalist
• El Vez
  El Vez
  El Vez is the stage name of Robert Lopez, a Mexican-American rock and roll artist, who performs and records original material and covers classic rock songs...
  
   - Singer
• Angela Via
  Angela Via
  Angela Vía is an American singer/songwriter from Texas. Initially marketed as a pop artist, Angela's catalog contains music of a variety of genres in both English and Spanish...
  
   - Singer & Songwriter
• Jasmine Villegas
  Jasmine Villegas
  Jasmine Marie Villegas also known as Jasmine V is an American teen R&B, pop and soul singer. She has Filipino and Mexican heritage. After many years of pursuing a career in music she was recently signed to Sony Music. In September 2010 she joined the second leg of Justin Bieber's My World Tour as...
  
   – R&B, Pop Singer
• Taco Shop Poets
  Taco Shop Poets
  Taco Shop Poets is the name of a poetry and spoken word collective formed in 1994 at a Poetry Series, Taco Shop Poetry',' hosted by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez at the Centro Cultural de la Raza in Balboa Park, San Diego. It grew to a collective of over 30 poets, band members and performance artists based...
  
   - Spoken Word and World Music Band

Authors and poets

• Oscar Zeta Acosta
  Oscar Zeta Acosta
  Oscar Zeta Acosta was an American attorney, politician, minor novelist and Chicano Movement activist, perhaps best known for his friendship with the American author Hunter S. Thompson, who characterized him as his Samoan Attorney, Dr...
  
   - Minor Novelist, Activist, Attorney and Politician
• Francisco X. Alarcon
  Francisco X. Alarcón
  Francisco Xavier Alarcón is an American poet and educator.-Life:He moved to Guadalajara, Mexico, when he was 6...
  
   Author, Poet, Activist, & College Professor
• Alurista
  Alurista
  Alurista is the nom de plume of Alberto Baltazar Urista Heredia , a Chicano poet and activist.-Youth and education:...
  
   - Poet, Activist, & College Professor
• María Amparo Ruiz De Burton - Author
• Rudolfo Anaya
  Rudolfo Anaya
  Rudolfo Anaya is an Mexican-American author. Best known for his 1972 novel Bless Me, Ultima, Anaya is considered one of the founders of the canon of contemporary Chicano literature.- Biography :...
  
   - Author
• Gloria E. Anzaldúa
  Gloria E. Anzaldúa
  Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa was considered a leading scholar of Chicano cultural theory and Queer theory. She loosely based her most well-known book Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza on her life growing up on the Mexican-Texas border and incorporated her lifelong feelings of social and...
  
   - Author, Poet, Scholar and Activist
• Ana Castillo
  Ana Castillo
  Ana Castillo is a Mexican-American Chicana novelist, poet, short story writer, and essayist.- Life and career :Castillo was born and raised in an inner city barrio of Chicago, Illinois. After completing undergraduate studies, she immediately began teaching college courses...
  
   - Author, Novelist, Poet and Essayist
• Lorna Dee Cervantes
  Lorna Dee Cervantes
  Lorna Dee Cervantes is an award-winning Chicana-Native American poet who is considered one of the major Chicana poets of the past 40 years. She has been described by Alurista, as "probably the best Chicana poet active today." Lorna Dee Cervantes was born in 1954 in California. She grew up in San...
  
   - Poet
• Ingrid Chavez
  Ingrid Chavez
  Ingrid Julia Chavez is a Mexican-American poet, vocalist, songwriter and photographer.-Personal life:Chavez was born January 21, 1965 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, and raised in Marietta, Georgia...
  
   - Singer, Songwriter and Poet
• Sandra Cisneros
  Sandra Cisneros
  Sandra Cisneros is an American writer best known for her acclaimed first novel The House on Mango Street and her subsequent short story collection Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories...
  
   - Author, Novelist and Poet
• María Antonieta Collins
  María Antonieta Collins
  María Antonieta Collins Flores is a Mexican journalist, TV host and best seller author of seven books , and winner of four Emmy Awards, , and the Edward Murrow Award.- Biography :Collins became known to viewers in her native Mexico as a reporter of "Televisa 24 horas" ,...
  
   - TV Host, Journalist and Author
• Carlos Cumpián
  Carlos Cumpián
  Carlos Cumpián, a Chicano writer who examines American realities absent from mainstream poetry. Originally from San Antonio, Texas, Cumpián has planted firm roots in the Midwest....
  
   - Author and Poet
• Diana Gabaldon
  Diana Gabaldon
  Diana J. Gabaldon is an American author of Mexican-American and English ancestry. Gabaldon is the author of the Outlander Series. Her books they contain elements of romantic fiction, historical fiction, mystery, adventure, and science fiction.-Early life and science career:Diana J. Gabaldon was...
  
   - Novelist
• Dana Gioia
  Dana Gioia
  -Poetry:It was as a poet that Gioia first began to attract widespread attention in the early 1980s, with frequent appearances in The Hudson Review, Poetry, and The New Yorker. In the same period, he published a number of essays and book reviews...
  
   - writer, chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts
• Guillermo Gómez-Peña
  Guillermo Gómez-Peña
  Guillermo Gómez-Peña was born in Mexico City and moved to the US in 1978, where he established himself as a performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. He has pioneered multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video, performance photography and installation art...
  
   - Artist, Author, Poet and Activist
• Rigoberto González
  Rigoberto González
  Rigoberto González is an American writer and book critic. He is an editor and author of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and bilingual children's books, and self-identifies in his writing as a gay Chicano...
  
   - Author and Critic
• Rodolfo Gonzales
  Rodolfo Gonzales
  Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzáles was a Mexican American boxer, poet, and political activist. He convened the first-ever Chicano youth conference in March 1969, which was attended by many future Chicano activists and artists. The conference also promulgated the Plan Espiritual de Aztlán, a manifesto...
  
   - Political Activist, Poet and Featherweight Boxing Champion
• Juan Felipe Herrera
  Juan Felipe Herrera
  Juan Felipe Herrera is a poet, performer, writer, cartoonist, teacher, and activist.The only son of María de la Luz Quintana and Felipe Emilio Herrera, the three were campesinos living from crop to crop, and from tractor to trailer to tents on the roads of the San Joaquín Valley, Southern...
  
   - Author, Poet and Activist
• Miriam Herrera - Author and Poet
• Rolando Hinojosa
  Rolando Hinojosa
  Rolando Hinojosa is a novelist, essayist, poet and the Ellen Clayton Garwood professor in the English Department at the University of Texas at Austin.-Life and career:...
  
   - Author, Novelist, Poet and Essayist
• Luis A. López
  Luis A. López
  Luis A. López is an American poet from San Jose, California. He has won numerous writing awards for his poetry and short stories.His book, Warrior-Poet of the Fifth Sun is currently available....
  
   - Author and Poet
• Paul Martínez Pompa
  Paul Martinez Pompa
  Paul Martínez Pompa is the author of My Kill Adore Him , which was selected by Martín Espada for the 2008 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. His chapbook Pepper Spray was published by Momotombo Press in 2006. Martinez Pompa's poetry and prose have been anthologized in Telling Tongues and The Wind Shifts:...
  
   - Author and Poet
• José Montalvo
  José Montalvo
  José Luis Montalvo was a Chicano writer, poet, and community activist.-Biography:José Luis Montalvo was born September 9, 1946 in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, México, and moved to San Antonio, Texas in 1957. A year after graduating from Fox Tech High School in 1966, José Montalvo joined the Air Force...
  
   - Author, Poet and Activist
• José Montoya
  José Montoya
  José Montoya is a poet and an artist from Sacramento, California. He is one of the most influential Chicano bilingual poets. He has published many well-known poems in anthologies and magazines...
  
   - Artist and Poet
• Pat Mora
  Pat Mora
  Pat Mora is a Chicana author known primarily for her poetry and children's books.- Writer's Life and Work:Pat Mora is a writer and cultural preservationist who seeks to document the lives of Mexican Americans and U.S. Latinas and Latinos through varying genres such as children's books, poetry, and...
  
   - Author and Poet
• Cherríe Moraga
  Cherríe Moraga
  Cherríe L. Moraga is a Chicana writer, feminist activist, poet, essayist, and playwright.-Biography:Moraga was born in Whittier, California. She earned her Bachelor's degree from Immaculate Heart College in Los Angeles, California and her Master's from San Francisco State University in 1980...
  
   - Author, Poet, Essayist and Activist
• Julian Nava
  Julian Nava
  Julian Nava is an American educator and diplomat.Nava was born to Mexican immigrants in 1927 and is one of 8 children in Los Angeles, California. Nava grew up in the barrio of East L.A. In 1945, he volunteered for the Air Corps of the United States Navy...
  
   - Author, Educator and Diplomat
• Daniel Olivas
  Daniel Olivas
  Daniel Olivas is a United States author and attorney. Olivas was raised near downtown Los Angeles. He is the middle of five children and the grandson of Mexican immigrants...
  
   - Author and Attorney
• Tomás Rivera
  Tomás Rivera
  Tomás Rivera was a Chicano author, poet, and educator. He was born in Texas to migrant farm workers, and worked in the fields as a young boy...
  
   - Author, Poet and Educator
• Luis J. Rodriguez
  Luis J. Rodriguez
  Luis J. Rodriguez is an American poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist. His work has won several awards, and he is recognized as a major figure of contemporary Chicano literature...
  
   - Author, Poet, Novelist, Journalist, Critic and Columnist
• Richard Rodriguez
  Richard Rodriguez
  Richard Rodriguez is an American writer who became famous as the author of Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez , a narrative about his intellectual development.- Early life :...
  
   - Author
• Amor Sabor - Musician, Artist, Author and Poet
• Luis Omar Salinas
  Luis Omar Salinas
  Luis Omar Salinas was a leading Chicano poet who published a number of well-received collections of poetry, including the Crazy Gypsy, which has been described as "a classic of contemporary and Chicano poetry"), I Go Dreaming Serenades, and Afternoon of The Unreal...
  
   - Author and Poet
• Ricardo Sanchez
  Ricardo Sanchez
  Ricardo Sanchez is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General and a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for the Senate election in 2012 for the seat of retiring Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.-Early life and education:...
  
   - Author and United States Army General
• Jimmy Santiago Baca
  Jimmy Santiago Baca
  Jimmy Santiago Baca of Apache and Chicano descent is an American poet and writer.- Life and career :...
  
   - Author and Poet
• Danzy Senna
  Danzy Senna
  -Biography:Danzy Senna was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the middle child of three children. Her mother is the Anglo-American poet and novelist Fanny Howe. Her father is the African-American writer and journalist, Carl Senna, author of The Black Press and the Struggle for Civil Rights and The...
  
   - Author and Novelist
• Ire'ne Lara Silva - Author and Poet
• Gary Soto
  Gary Soto
  Gary Soto is a Mexican-American author and poet.Mexican-American parents Manuel and Angie Soto . In his youth, he worked in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley and in factories in Fresno. Gary's father died in 1957, when he was just five years old...
  
   - Author and Poet
• John Trudell
  John Trudell
  John Trudell is a Native American-Mexican author, poet, actor, musician, and former political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz...
  
   - Musician, Author, Poet and Political Activist
• Luís Alberto Urrea
  Luís Alberto Urrea
  Luís Alberto Urrea is a Mexican American poet, novelist, and essayist.-Life:Urrea is the son of a Mexican father and an American mother...
  
   - Author, poet, Novelist and Essayist
• José Antonio Villarreal
  José Antonio Villarreal
  José Antonio Villarreal was a Chicano novelist. He was born in 1924 in California to migrant Mexican farmworkers. Like Juan Manuel Rubio in Pocho, Villarreal's father fought with Pancho Villa in the Mexican Revolution...
  
   - Author and Novelist
• Victor Villaseñor
  Victor Villaseñor
  Victor Villaseñor is an acclaimed Mexican-American writer, best known for the New York Times bestseller novel Rain of Gold. Villaseñor's works are often taught in American schools. He went on to write Thirteen Senses: A Memoir , a continuation of Rain of Gold. His book Burro Genius: A Memoir ...
  
   - Author and Public Speaker
• Maria Helena Viramontes - Author and Professor

Visual arts

• Manuel Gregorio Acosta
  Manuel Gregorio Acosta
  Manuel Acosta was a Mexican-American painter and illustrator who was born into an impoverished family in Aldama, Chihuahua, Mexico, on May 9, 1921. His father, Ramón P. Acosta, had fought in the Mexican Revolution with Pancho Villa, and the Mexican Revolution was a recurring theme in Manuel's...
  
   - Artist, Painter and Illustrator
• Carlos Almaraz
  Carlos Almaraz
  Carlos Almaraz was a Mexican-American artist and an early proponent of the Chicano street arts movement.-Childhood and education:...
  
   - Street Artist and Muralist
• Cecilia Alvarez
  Cecilia Alvarez
  Cecilia Alvarez is an influential Chicana artist known for her oil paintings and murals depicting themes of feminism, poverty, and environmental degradation in the United States and Latin America. Las Cuatas Diego, arguably Alvarez's most famous and recognizable painting, has been featured in...
  
   - Artist, Painter and Muralist
• Alfonso Arana
  Alfonso Arana
  Alfonso Meléndez Arana was aPuerto Rican painter.Arana was born in New York City from Mexican father and Puerto Rican mother. When he was young, the family moved to San Sebastián, Puerto Rico, where the young painter spent his youth. At age six, Arana made his first picture and presented it to his...
  
   - Artist and Painter
• Fortunato Arriola
  Fortunato Arriola
  Fortunato Arriola , born in Cosala, Sinaloa, Mexico, was a painter of portraits and luminous tropical landscapes that were very popular in San Francisco, California where he came to live in 1857. The son of a wealthy landowner, Arriola was a handsome, distinguished and cultivated man...
  
   - Artist and Painter
• Gus Arriola
  Gus Arriola
  Gustavo "Gus" Arriola was a Mexican-American comic strip cartoonist and animator, primarily known for the comic strip Gordo, which ran from 1941 through 1985....
  
   - Artist and Comic Strip Cartoonist
• Judy Baca
  Judy Baca
  Judith Francisca Baca is an American artist, activist, and University of California, Los Angeles professor of fine arts...
  
   - Artist, Painter, Muralist and Activist
• Galo Canote (also known as "Make", "MakeOne" or "LoveGalo") - Graffiti Artist, Painter, Muralist and Activist
• Enrique Chagoya
  Enrique Chagoya
  Enrique Chagoya is a Mexican-born painter and print-maker. His subject is the changing nature of culture.He was born in Mexico City in 1953. He was partly raised by an Indian nurse who helped him to respect the indigenous people of his country and their history. He studied economics at the National...
  
   - Artist, Painter and Print-Maker
• Peter Coffin
  Peter Coffin (artist)
  Peter Coffin is an artist based in New York City. His work is exhibited internationally and features in several prominent collections....
  
   - Artist and Painter
• Edgar De Evia
  Edgar de Evia
  Edgar Domingo Evia y Joutard, known professionally as Edgar de Evia , was a Mexican-born American photographer....
  
   - Photographer
• Jerry De La Cruz
  Jerry De La Cruz
  Jerry De La Cruz is an American fine artist working in Denver, Colorado. He was the first living Mexican American artist to have his work acquired for the Permanent Collection of the Denver Art Museum . He was also commissioned to create a commemorative digital photo mosaic for the grand opening...
  
   - Artist and Painter
• Roberto De La Rocha
  Roberto de la Rocha
  Roberto "Beto" de la Rocha is an American painter, graphic artist, and muralist. He was born in Wilmar, California to Mexican American parents. However, according to Carlos Almaraz, he claimed to be a Hasidic Jew from a Spanish Jewish family...
  
   - Artist, Painter and Muralist
• Daniel Martin Diaz
  Daniel Martin Diaz
  Daniel Martin Diaz is a Mexican American artist whose work has gained him international renown. His style is a combination of Northern European Art, Spanish Colonial Art, Surrealism, and Post-Modernism....
  
   - Artist and Painter
• Richard Dominguez
  Richard Dominguez
  Richard Dominguez is an American comic book artist and freelance storyboard illustrator. Best known for creating the popular series El Gato Negro, Dominguez publishes his comics through his imprint and art studio, Azteca Productions...
  
   - Comic Book Artist and Illustrator.
• Carlos Dorrien
  Carlos Dorrien
  Carlos Dorrien, born in 1948 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and of Mexican descent, is an American sculptor who specializes in public art installations, creating large-sized abstract sculptures in granite that are often inspired by ancient history, architecture, archaeological ruins, and human figures....
  
   - Artist and Sculptor
• Elsa Flores
  Elsa Flores
  Elsa Flores is a Chicana artist. She is one of the best known Chicano street art movement propulsors.-Childhood:Elsa Flores demonstrated interest in arts from a very young age...
  
   - Street Artist
• Harry Gamboa, Jr.
  Harry Gamboa, Jr.
  Harry Gamboa Jr. is a Chicano essayist, photographer, director and performance artist. He was a founding member of the influential Chicano performance art collective ASCO.-Biography:...
  
   - Performance Artist, Photographer and Essayist
• Guillermo Gómez-Peña
  Guillermo Gómez-Peña
  Guillermo Gómez-Peña was born in Mexico City and moved to the US in 1978, where he established himself as a performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. He has pioneered multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video, performance photography and installation art...
  
   - Performance Artist, Author, Activist and Educator
• David Gonzales - Cartoonist
• Gronk - Performance Artist, Painter and Print-Maker
• Ester Hernandez
  Ester Hernandez
  ' is a Chicana visual artist known for her pastels, paintings and prints primarily depicting Chicanas/Latinas. Her artwork captures time, and makes sense of the complex world we live in...
  
   - Artist & Painter
• Javier Hernandez - Comic Book Artist and Radio Host
• Luis Jimenez
  Luis Jiménez (sculptor)
  Luis Jimenez or Luis Jiménez was an American sculptor of Mexican descent. He was born in El Paso, Texas and died in New Mexico. He studied art and architecture at the University of Texas in Austin and El Paso, earning a bachelor's degree in 1964...
  
   - Artist & Sculptor
• Yolanda Lopez
  Yolanda Lopez
  Yolanda M. López is an American painter, printmaker, educator, and film producer. Her work focuses on the experience of Mexican American women and often challenges ethnic stereotypes associated with them. According to López, "It is important for us to be visually literate; it is a survival skill....
  
   - Artist, Painter, Print-Maker, Educator and Movie Producer
• Gilbert Luján
  Gilbert Luján
  Gilbert "Magú" Luján was a well known and influential Chicano sculptor, muralist and painter. He founded the famous Chicano collective Los Four that consisted of artists Carlos Almaraz, Beto de la Rocha , Frank Romero and himself...
  
   - Artist, Painter, Muralist and Sculptor
• Xavier Martínez
  Xavier Martinez
  Xavier Timoteo Martínez was a California artist active in the late 19th and early 20th century. He was born in the Mexican city of Guadalajara, Jalisco, and, after becoming a naturalized citizen of the United States, died in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California...
  
   - Artist, Painter and Teacher
• Alberto Mijangos
  Alberto Mijangos
  Alberto Mijangos was a Mexican American artist and painter.Mijangos was born in Mexico City. Mijangos dropped out of school in Mexico. However, he went on to study at the San Carlos Art Academy in Mexico City and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago...
  
   - Artist and Painter
• Mister Cartoon
  Mister Cartoon
  Mark Machado, better known as Mr. Cartoon or more commonly just Cartoon, is a Mexican American tattoo artist and graffiti artist based in Los Angeles, California....
  
   - Tattoo and Graffiti Artist
• Laura Molina - Artist, Painter, Muralist and Musician
• Franco Mondini-Ruiz
  Franco Mondini-Ruiz
  Franco Mondini-Ruiz is an American artist who lives and works in New York, New York and San Antonio, Texas. He is of Mexican and Italian descent. According to art critic Roberta Smith, his work "questions notions of preciousness and art-market exclusivity while delivering a fizzy visual pleasure"...
  
   - Visual Artist
• Rafael Navarro
  Rafael Navarro
  Rafael Navarro is an independent American comic-book artist best known for creating the Xeric Award winning series, Sonambulo, which cleverly blends elements of Lucha Libre and the noir genre. He has collaborated with Keith Rainville and has had work featured in Rainville's From Parts Unknown...
  
   - Comic Book Artist
• Manuel Neri
  Manuel Neri
  Manuel Neri is an American sculptor, painter, and printmaker and a notable member of the "second generation" of the Bay Area Figurative Movement.- Biography :...
  
   - Artist, Painter, Print-Maker and Sculptor
• Gualberto Orozco - Artist, Graphic Designer and Print-Maker
• Martín Ramírez
  Martin Ramirez
  Martín Ramírez was a self-taught artist who spent most of his adult life institutionalized in California mental hospitals, diagnosed as a catatonic schizophrenic.-Biography:He was born in 1895....
  
   - Self Taught Artist
• Daniel "Chaka" Ramos - Legendary Graffiti Artist
• Miguel Angel Reyes
  Miguel Angel Reyes
  Miguel Angel Reyes is an American artist and professor of art.Reyes was born in Colima, Mexico in 1964. He immigrated with his family in 1975 to the United States and took up residing in Southern California...
  
   - Artist, Painter, Print-Maker, Muralist, Illustrator and Instructor
• Carlos Saldaña
  Carlos Saldaña
  Carlos Saldaña is a Mexican comic-book creator and comedian.-Career:Carlos Saldaña's best known created works is that of Burrito: Jack-of-All-Trades published under his privately-owned imprint, Accent Comics. He has also utilized the Adobe Flash Player application to create online animations which...
  
   - Comic Book Artist and Comedian
• John August Swanson
  John August Swanson
  John August Swanson is an American visual artist working primarily in the medium of serigraphy, as well as oil, watercolor, acrylic, mixed media, lithography, and etching. He is based in Los Angeles, California, the city of his birth....
  
   - Visual Artist
• Mauricio Toussaint
  Mauricio Toussaint
  Mauricio Toussaint is a contemporary artist of French and Mexican descent. Toussaint entered the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara to obtain a degree in architecture . During this time, he was encouraged by a professor from the nearby Visual Arts Department to make art on his own...
  
   - Contemporary Artist and Painter
• Mark Vallen
  Mark Vallen
  Mark Vallen is an American activist with Chicano and other issues, curator, figurative realist painter, and blogger, who runs the Art for a Change web site; he founded The Black Moon web site for Japanese culture.-Life and work:...
  
   - Artist, Figurative Realist Painter, Activist, Curator and Blogger
• Rafael Vargas-Suarez
  Rafael Vargas-Suarez
  Rafael Vargas-Suarez , more commonly known as Vargas-Suarez Universal, is a contemporary artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Born in Mexico City, Vargas-Suarez was raised in the Houston suburb of Clear Lake City, adjacent to the Johnson Space Center...
  
   - Contemporary Artist, Painter and Photographer
• Emigdio Vasquez
  Emigdio Vasquez
  Emigdio Vasquez is an American artist and muralist. His artistic works and photorealistic style are studied and appreciated by art critics nation-wide. He is often recognized for his mural The Legacy Of Cesar Chavez.- Early life :...
  
   - Artist and Muralist
• Jhonen Vasquez
  Jhonen Vasquez
  Jhonen Vasquez , also known as Chancre Scolex or simply Mr. Scolex, is an American comic book writer, cartoonist and music video director...
  
   - Cartoonist, Comic Book and Author
• Esteban Villa
  Esteban Villa
  Esteban Villa is a nationally recognized artist and muralist. A Professor Emeritus at California State University, Sacramento, his teaching career began in 1962 at the high school level and includes assignments at Washington State University, D–Q University, University of California, Davis, and...
  
   - Artist and Muralist
• Kat Von D
  Kat Von D
  Katherine Drachenberg , known professionally as Kat Von D and who has given her name as Katherine von Drachenberg in two German interviews is an American tattoo artist and television personality...
  
   - Tattoo Artist and TV Personality

Journalists

• Miguel Almaguer - TV Reporter
• Gustavo Arellano - an editor at the Los Angeles Times and writer/creator of ¡Ask a Mexican!
  ¡Ask a Mexican!
  ¡Ask a Mexican! is a U.S. syndicated weekly column written by Gustavo Arellano and published by Orange County's alternative weekly OC Weekly. It was first published in 2004 as a one-time spoof, but it ended up becoming one of the weekly's most popular columns.Every week, readers submit their...
  
  
• Ron Arias
  Ron Arias
  Ron Arias is a former senior writer and correspondent for People magazine and People en Español. He is also a highly regarded Chicano writer whose novel The Road to Tamazunchale has been called "one of the founding texts in Contemporary Chicano/a Literature."-Early life:Arias is a native of Los...
  
   - Highly Regarded Chicano Writer and Correspondent
• Jim Avila
  Jim Avila
  Jim Avila is an American television journalist, currently the Senior Law and Justice Correspondent for ABC News. Jim graduated from Glenbard East High School with the name of Jim Simon. Before joining ABC, he was a correspondent for NBC News...
  
   - TV Journalist and Correspondent
• María Antonieta Collins
  María Antonieta Collins
  María Antonieta Collins Flores is a Mexican journalist, TV host and best seller author of seven books , and winner of four Emmy Awards, , and the Edward Murrow Award.- Biography :Collins became known to viewers in her native Mexico as a reporter of "Televisa 24 horas" ,...
  
   - TV Host, Journalist and Author
• Laura Diaz
  Laura Diaz (TV anchor)
  Laura Diaz is a Southern California newscaster. In September 2011, Diaz announced that she would be leaving KCBS-TV after nine years to pursue producing projects under her own banner....
  
   - Southern California Newscaster and Co-Anchor of CBS 2 News
• Giselle Fernández
  Giselle Fernández
  -External links:...
  
   - TV Journalist and Reporter
• Luis De La Garza
  Luis de la Garza
  Luis de la Garza is a television executive, businessman and community leader in Texas. He was born May 20, 1954 in Mexico City.-Background:He went on to obtain his degree as a Geologist from the Instituto Politecnico Nacional and his masters as a Geo-Hydrologist from the Universidad Autonoma de...
  
   - TV and Radio Host
• Christy Haubegger
  Christy Haubegger
  Christy Haubegger is the founder of Latina magazine and a film producer, and has received numerous awards for her work.-Early life:...
  
   - Movie Producer and Founder of Latina Magazine
• Maria Hinojosa
  Maria Hinojosa
  Maria Hinojosa is a Mexican American broadcast journalist. She was Senior Correspondent for the PBS news magazine, NOW on PBS....
  
   - Broadcast Journalist and Correspondent
• Raul Peimbert
  Raul Peimbert
  Raul Peimbert Diaz is a Mexican/American newscaster, who also served as General Coordinator of Media Affairs for the Government of the Mexican State of Veracruz....
  
   - Spanish-language TV Journalist & Newscaster
• John Quiñones
  John Quiñones
  Juan Manuel "John" Quiñones is an ABC News correspondent, and currently the host of Primetime: What Would You Do?.-Early life and education:John Quiñones was born in San Antonio, Texas on May 23, 1952...
  
   - News correspondent, and an Award-winning Journalist
• Jorge Ramos - Spanish-language TV News Anchor and Journalist
• Naibe Reynoso
  Naibe Reynoso
  Naibe Reynoso is a Mexican-American television reporter.-References:...
  
   - TV Journalist and Reporter
• Rubén Salazar
  Ruben Salazar
  Rubén Salazar was a Mexican-American journalist killed by a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy during the National Chicano Moratorium March against the Vietnam War on August 29, 1970 in East Los Angeles, California. During the 1970s, his killing was often cited as a symbol of unjust treatment of...
  
   - TV Journalist and Reporter
• María Elena Salinas
  María Elena Salinas
  María Elena Salinas is the co-anchor of Noticiero Univision with Jorge Ramos, the most watched newscast by American Hispanics. She is considered one of the most recognized and influential female Hispanic journalists in the United States.Her parents immigrated to the United States from Mexico in...
  
   - Spanish-Language TV News Anchor and Journalist
• Lauren Sánchez
  Lauren Sánchez
  Lauren Sanchez is an award-winning American news anchor, entertainment reporter, and media personality. She was the weekend anchor and special correspondent on Extra. She is also a co-host on KTTV Fox-11's Good Day LA and the station's top-rated "Ten o'clock News." Sánchez is also a regular...
  
   - Emmy Award Winning Journalist

Political figures

• Oscar Zeta Acosta
  Oscar Zeta Acosta
  Oscar Zeta Acosta was an American attorney, politician, minor novelist and Chicano Movement activist, perhaps best known for his friendship with the American author Hunter S. Thompson, who characterized him as his Samoan Attorney, Dr...
  
   - Politician, Attorney, Minor Novelist and Activist
• Romana Acosta Bañuelos
  Romana Acosta Bañuelos
  Romana Acosta Bañuelos was the thirty-fourth Treasurer of the United States. Appointed by President Richard Nixon on September 20, 1971, she served from December 17, 1971 to February 14, 1974....
  
   - former Treasurer of the United States
  Treasurer of the United States
  The Treasurer of the United States is an official in the United States Department of the Treasury that was originally charged with the receipt and custody of government funds, though many of these functions have been taken over by different bureaus of the Department of the Treasury...
  
  
• Mike Aguirre
  Mike Aguirre
  Michael Jules Aguirre was the City Attorney for the City of San Diego, California from 2004 to 2008. As city attorney, Aguirre issued 35 investigative reports detailing waste, fraud, and abuse in San Diego City government, particularly in the San Diego City Pension.- Biography :Aguirre was born...
  
   - former city attorney of San Diego, California
  San Diego, California
  San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and second-largest city in California. The city is located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, immediately adjacent to the Mexican border. The birthplace of California, San Diego is known for its mild year-round...
  
  
• Juan Bautista Alvarado
  Juan Bautista Alvarado
  Juan Bautista Valentín Alvarado y Vallejo was a Californio and twice Governor of Alta California from 1836 to 1837, and 1838 to 1842.-Early years:...
  
   - twice Governor of Alta California
  Alta California
  Alta California was a province and territory in the Viceroyalty of New Spain and later a territory and department in independent Mexico. The territory was created in 1769 out of the northern part of the former province of Las Californias, and consisted of the modern American states of California,...
  
   from 1836 to 1837 and 1838 to 1842
• Toney Anaya
  Toney Anaya
  Toney Anaya is a U.S. Democratic politician who was born in Moriarty, New Mexico. He went to undergraduate school at Georgetown University and graduated with a law degree from American University's Washington College of Law in 1967...
  
   - US Democratic Politician & Former Governor of New Mexico
• Rosemary Barkett
  Rosemary Barkett
  Rosemary Barkett is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Prior to her nomination for that post, she was Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court, where she was the first woman ever to serve on that court.- Background :Barkett has had an unusual career...
  
   - federal judge
• Xavier Becerra
  Xavier Becerra
  Xavier Becerra is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2003. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district is based in Los Angeles.-Early life, education and career:...
  
   - U.S. Representative (CA-31)
• Cruz Bustamante
  Cruz Bustamante
  Cruz Miguel Bustamante is an American politician. He was the 45th Lieutenant Governor of California, a former Speaker of the State Assembly and a member of the Democratic Party...
  
   - former California lieutenant governor
• Anna Escobedo Cabral
  Anna Escobedo Cabral
  Anna Escobedo Cabral , currently serves as the Unit Chief for Stakeholder Communications in the External Relations Division of the Inter-American Development Bank . Prior to joining the bank, Cabral served as the 42nd Treasurer of the United States from January 19, 2005 to January 20, 2009...
  
   - 42nd Treasurer of the United States
  Treasurer of the United States
  The Treasurer of the United States is an official in the United States Department of the Treasury that was originally charged with the receipt and custody of government funds, though many of these functions have been taken over by different bureaus of the Department of the Treasury...
  
  
• Carlos Antonio Carrillo
  Carlos Antonio Carrillo
  Carlos Antonio Carrillo , Governor of Alta California from 1837 to 1838. He took his oath as governon in Pueblo de Los Angeles, present day Los Angeles, on December 6, 1836. aCarlos Antonio Carrillo was the son of a prominent California family...
  
   - (1783–1852), Gobernor of Alta California, (1837–1838). His father, José Raimundo Carrillo
  José Raimundo Carrillo
  Captain José Raimundo Carrillo was an early Spanish settler of San Diego, California and founder of the Carrillo family in Spanish California.-Biography:Carrillo was born in 1749 in New Spain at Loreto, Baja California...
  
  , came from Loreto
  Loreto
  -Places:*Loreto, Santiago del Estero, Argentina*Loreto , village and municipality in Misiones Province, Argentina*Loreto, Beni, Bolivia*Loreto , Brazil...
  
  , México
  Mexico
  The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
  
  .
• José Antonio Carrillo
  José Antonio Carrillo
  Captain José Antonio Ezequiel Carrillo was a Californio rancher, officer, and politician in the early years of Mexican Alta California and U.S...
  
   - (1796–1862), Californio ranchero, official and political. He was brother of Carlos Antonio Carrillo.
• Juan José Carrillo
  Juan José Carrillo
  Juan José Carrillo was member of one of the early Spanish families, and a prominent figure in early Southern California history.-Biography:...
  
   - the first mayor of Santa Monica, California
• José Castro (b. California, 1808 – d. February 1860) was acting governor of Alta California
  Alta California
  Alta California was a province and territory in the Viceroyalty of New Spain and later a territory and department in independent Mexico. The territory was created in 1769 out of the northern part of the former province of Las Californias, and consisted of the modern American states of California,...
  
   in 1835-1836,[1] and Commandante General of the Mexican army in Alta California at the time of the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt and the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848
• Raul Hector Castro
  Raúl Héctor Castro
  Raul Hector Castro is a Mexican-born American politician. He has served in both elected and non-elected public offices, including United States Ambassador and the 14th Governor of Arizona. He was the first Mexican American to be elected governor of Arizona...
  
   - governor of Arizona
  Arizona
  Arizona ; is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west. The capital and largest city is Phoenix...
  
  
• Lauro Cavazos
  Lauro Cavazos
  Lauro Fred Cavazos Jr. is a U.S. educator. He served as Secretary of Education, and was the first Hispanic to serve in the United States Cabinet....
  
   - secretary of education
• Gabe Cazares
  Gabe Cazares
  Gabriel "Gabe" Cazares was a mayor of Clearwater, Florida, a Pinellas County commissioner, a civil rights advocate, and a noted critic of the Church of Scientology. He died September 29, 2006 in Clearwater at the age of 86.-Early history:...
  
   - former mayor of Clearwater, Florida
  Clearwater, Florida
  Clearwater is a city located in Pinellas County, Florida, US, nearly due west of Tampa and northwest of St. Petersburg. In the west of Clearwater lies the Gulf of Mexico and in the east lies Tampa Bay. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 108,787. It is the county seat of...
  
  
• Dennis Chavez
  Dennis Chavez
  Dionisio "Dennis" Chavez was a Democratic politician from the U.S. State of New Mexico who served in the United States House of Representatives, and in the United States Senate from 1935 to 1962.-Early life:...
  
   - U.S. Senator from New Mexico
• Henry Cisneros
  Henry Cisneros
  Henry Gabriel Cisneros is a politician and businessman. A Democrat, Cisneros served as the 10th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the administration of President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997...
  
   - former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and mayor of San Antonio, Texas
  San Antonio, Texas
  San Antonio is the seventh-largest city in the United States of America and the second-largest city within the state of Texas, with a population of 1.33 million. Located in the American Southwest and the south–central part of Texas, the city serves as the seat of Bexar County. In 2011,...
  
  
• Henry Cuellar
  Henry Cuellar
  Henry Roberto Cuellar is the U.S Representative for , serving since 2005. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The district extends from the Rio Grande to the suburbs of San Antonio, including Guadalupe County and nearby Wilson County.Outside of politics, he has served as a professor at the...
  
   - U.S. House of Representatives Texas's 28th congressional district
  Texas's 28th congressional district
  -2006 election:On June 28, 2006, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that the Texas legislature's redistricting plan violated the Voting Rights Act in the case of District 23. As a result, on August 4, 2006, a 3 judge panel announced replacement district boundaries for 2006 election for the 23rd...
  
  
• Mario Gallegos, Jr.
  Mario Gallegos, Jr.
  Mario Valentin Gallegos, Jr. is a Democratic politician in the U.S. state of Texas. He is the current senator from District 6 in the Texas Senate, which serves a portion of Harris County...
  
   - Texas state senator
• Ruben Garcia Jr.
  Ruben Garcia Jr.
  Ruben Garcia, Jr. is a former Executive Assistant Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation .Garcia was born to Mexican-American parents, Cecilia and Ruben Garcia in Brownfield, the seat of Terry County in West Texas near Lubbock...
  
  - former Executive Assistant Director of FBI
  Federal Bureau of Investigation
  The Federal Bureau of Investigation is an agency of the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency . The FBI has investigative jurisdiction over violations of more than 200 categories of federal crime...
  
  
• Reynaldo Guerra Garza
  Reynaldo Guerra Garza
  Reynaldo Guerra Garza was a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He was the first Mexican-American appointed to a federal court when he was appointed to the U.S. District Court, and would later become the first Mexican-American, as well as the first Latin American,...
  
   - first Hispanic judge appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals
• Tony Garza
  Tony Garza
  Antonio Oscar "Tony" Garza, Jr. , an American lawyer and former county judge in Texas, was the United States Ambassador to Mexico from 2002 to 2009.-Early life and education:...
  
   - U.S. ambassador to Mexico
• Alberto Gonzales
  Alberto Gonzales
  Alberto R. Gonzales was the 80th Attorney General of the United States. Gonzales was appointed to the post in February 2005 by President George W. Bush. Gonzales was the first Hispanic Attorney General in U.S. history and the highest-ranking Hispanic government official ever...
  
   - United States Attorney General
  United States Attorney General
  The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government. The attorney general is considered to be the chief lawyer of the U.S. government...
  
  
• Henry Gonzalez (1916–2000) U.S. Representative (Texas)
• Matt Gonzalez
  Matt Gonzalez
  Matthew Edward Gonzalez is an American politician, lawyer, and activist prominent in San Francisco politics. He currently serves as chief attorney in the San Francisco Public Defender's office....
  
   - politician, member of the Green Party
  Green Party (United States)
  The Green Party of the United States is a nationally recognized political party which officially formed in 1991. It is a voluntary association of state green parties. Prior to national formation, many state affiliates had already formed and were recognized by other state parties...
  
  
• Ron Gonzales
  Ron Gonzales
  Ronald R. Gonzales is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party, who served as the 63rd Mayor of San Jose, California. Gonzales was the first Hispanic Mayor of San Jose since California became a U.S. state in 1850.-Career:...
  
   - former mayor of San José, California
  San Jose, California
  San Jose is the third-largest city in California, the tenth-largest in the U.S., and the county seat of Santa Clara County which is located at the southern end of San Francisco Bay...
  
  
• Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo
  Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo
  Octavio Ambrosio Larrazolo served as the fourth Governor of New Mexico and a United States Senator. He was the first United States Senator of Mexican-American heritage....
  
   - former governor of New Mexico
  New Mexico
  New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
  
  
• Marco Lopez
  Marco Lopez
  Marco Antonio Lopez is an Arizona politician. He has served in both elected and non-elected public offices, including Mayor of Nogales, Arizona, Executive Director of the Arizona-Mexico Commission, Policy Adviser to Governor Janet Napolitano for Mexico and Latin America, and Senior Adviser for...
  
   - mayor of Nogales, Arizona
  Nogales, Arizona
  Nogales is a city in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States. The population was 21,017 at the 2010 census. According to 2005 Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city is 20,833. The city is the county seat of Santa Cruz County....
  
  
• Manuel Lujan Jr.
  Manuel Lujan Jr.
  Manuel Lujan, Jr. , is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of New Mexico who served as the United States Secretary of the Interior from 1989 to 1993 and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1969 to 1989. He was a colleague of George Herbert Walker Bush in the House from 1969 to 1971...
  
   - U.S. Representative from New Mexico
• Abel Maldonado
  Abel Maldonado
  Abel Maldonado is an American politician who was the 48th Lieutenant Governor of California. On November 23, 2009, then-Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced Maldonado as his nominee for Lieutenant Governor to fill the vacancy created by John Garamendi's election to the United States House of...
  
   - 47th Lieutenant Governor of California
  Lieutenant Governor of California
  The Lieutenant Governor of California is a statewide constitutional officer elected separately from the Governor who serves as the "vice-executive" of California. The Lieutenant Governor of California is elected to serve a four year term and can serve a maximum of two terms...
  
  
• Rosario Marin
  Rosario Marin
  Rosario Marin , was the 41st Treasurer of the United States from August 16, 2001 to June 30, 2003 serving under President George W. Bush. She is the first person to assume the post since William Clark who was not born a United States citizen . She is the only U...
  
   - 41st Treasurer of the United States
  Treasurer of the United States
  The Treasurer of the United States is an official in the United States Department of the Treasury that was originally charged with the receipt and custody of government funds, though many of these functions have been taken over by different bureaus of the Department of the Treasury...
  
  
• Gloria Molina
  Gloria Molina
  Jesus Gloria Molina is an American politician, a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, and the current chairwoman of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.-Background and career:...
  
   - Los Angeles County Supervisor
  Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
  The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five-member nonpartisan governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district. They were as of December 2, 2008:*District 1: Gloria Molina...
  
   and former vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee
  Democratic National Committee
  The Democratic National Committee is the principal organization governing the United States Democratic Party on a day to day basis. While it is responsible for overseeing the process of writing a platform every four years, the DNC's central focus is on campaign and political activity in support...
  
  
• Joseph Montoya
  Joseph Montoya
  Joseph Manuel Montoya was a Democratic U.S. Senator for the State of New Mexico from 1964 until 1977.-Education:...
  
   - former U.S. Senator from New Mexico
• Carlos R. Moreno  - Supreme Court Justice, California
• Fabian Núñez
  Fabian Núñez
  Fabian Núñez has been a labor union adviser and a Democratic politician. He served three two year terms as a member of the State Assembly, leaving office late in 2008...
  
   - California State Representative, current Speaker of the California State Assembly
  California State Assembly
  The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature. There are 80 members in the Assembly, representing an approximately equal number of constituents, with each district having a population of at least 420,000...
  
  
• Estevan Ochoa
  Estevan Ochoa
  Estevan Ochoa was a Mexican-born American businessman and politician who participated in the creation of the Arizona Territory.-Biography:...
  
  - historic mayor of Tucson, Arizona
  Tucson, Arizona
  Tucson is a city in and the county seat of Pima County, Arizona, United States. The city is located 118 miles southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border. The 2010 United States Census puts the city's population at 520,116 with a metropolitan area population at 1,020,200...
  
  , he was the first Mexican-American mayor after the Gadsen Purchase of 1854
• Solomon Ortiz - U.S. Representative (TX-27)
• Mariano S. Otero
  Mariano S. Otero
  Mariano Sabino Otero was a Delegate from the Territory of New Mexico, nephew of Miguel Antonio Otero and cousin of Miguel Antonio Otero ....
  
   - a Delegate from the Territory of New Mexico
• Miguel Antonio Otero
  Miguel Antonio Otero (II)
  Miguel Antonio Otero , nicknamed "Gillie," was governor of New Mexico Territory from 1897 to 1906 and in later life the author of several books on Western lore...
  
   - former Governor of New Mexico
  New Mexico
  New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
  
  
• Romualdo Pacheco
  Romualdo Pacheco
  José Antonio Romualdo Pacheco Jr. was an American politician and diplomat. Involved in California state and federal politics, Pacheco was elected and appointed to various posts and offices throughout his more than thirty-year career, including the California State Senate, the 12th Governor of...
  
   - governor of California
• Alex Padilla
  Alex Padilla
  Alejandro "Alex" Padilla is a California State Senator. He was elected as the state senator for California's 20th State Senate district in November 2006 and was inaugurated in early December. Prior to serving in the Senate he served 7½ years on the Los Angeles City Council representing the 7th...
  
  - Los Angeles City Council Member
• Steve Padilla
  Steve Padilla
  Steve Padilla is a public policy, advocacy and communications consultant and a noted California politician. He served as Mayor of the City of Chula Vista, CA from 2002 to 2006 and as a member of the California Coastal Commission from 2005 to 2007...
  
   - former mayor of Chula Vista, California
  Chula Vista, California
  Chula Vista is the second largest city in the San Diego metropolitan area, the seventh largest city in Southern California, the fourteenth largest city in the State of California, and the seventy seventh largest city in the U.S....
  
  
• Federico Peña
  Federico Peña
  Federico Fabian Peña is a former United States Secretary of Transportation from 1993 to 1997 and United States Secretary of Energy from 1997 to 1998, during the presidency of Bill Clinton....
  
   - former mayor of Denver, Colorado
  Denver, Colorado
  The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...
  
  , former United States Secretary of Transportation
  United States Secretary of Transportation
  The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation, a member of the President's Cabinet, and fourteenth in the Presidential line of succession. The post was created with the formation of the Department of Transportation on October 15, 1966,...
  
   and former United States Secretary of Energy
  United States Secretary of Energy
  The United States Secretary of Energy is the head of the United States Department of Energy, a member of the President's Cabinet, and fifteenth in the presidential line of succession. The position was formed on October 1, 1977 with the creation of the Department of Energy when President Jimmy...
  
  
• Francisco Perea
  Francisco Perea
  Francisco Perea was a Delegate from the Territory of New Mexico, and cousin of Pedro Perea.-Biography:...
  
   - a Delegate from the Territory of New Mexico
• Andrés Pico
  Andrés Pico
  Andrés Pico was a Californio who became a successful rancher, served as a military commander during the Mexican-American War; and was elected to the state assembly and senate after California became a state, when he was also commissioned as a brigadier general in the state militia.-Early...
  
   (1810 – February 14, 1876) was, as the political administration changed, a mixed-race Californio youth; a successful rancher and commander; and an influential American politician; in 19th century California. He was brother of Pío Pico
• Pío Pico
  Pío Pico
  Pío de Jesús Pico was the last Governor of Alta California under Mexican rule.-Origins:...
  
   (May 5, 1801 – September 11, 1894) was the last Governor of Alta California
  Alta California
  Alta California was a province and territory in the Viceroyalty of New Spain and later a territory and department in independent Mexico. The territory was created in 1769 out of the northern part of the former province of Las Californias, and consisted of the modern American states of California,...
  
   (now the State of California) under Mexican rule
• Miguel A. Pulido
  Miguel A. Pulido
  Miguel A. Pulido is an American politician. He is the mayor of the city of Santa Ana, California. He was first elected to City Council on November 4, 1986. He became the first Latino mayor in the city's history since November 8, 1994. His current term expires on November 6, 2012...
  
   - mayor Santa Ana, California
  Santa Ana, California
  Santa Ana is the county seat and second most populous city in Orange County, California, and with a population of 324,528 at the 2010 census, Santa Ana is the 57th-most populous city in the United States....
  
  
• Jose Maria Redondo - historic mayor of Yuma, Arizona
  Yuma, Arizona
  Yuma is a city in and the county seat of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. It is located in the southwestern corner of the state, and the population of the city was 77,515 at the 2000 census, with a 2008 Census Bureau estimated population of 90,041....
  
   and in 1873 was Territorial Legislator
• Cruz Reynoso
  Cruz Reynoso
  Cruz Reynoso is a civil rights lawyer, professor emeritus of law, and the first Chicano Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court . He also served on the California Third District Court of Appeal...
  
   - former judge on the Supreme Court of California
  Supreme Court of California
  The Supreme Court of California is the highest state court in California. It is headquartered in San Francisco and regularly holds sessions in Los Angeles and Sacramento. Its decisions are binding on all other California state courts.-Composition:...
  
  , Presidential Medal of Freedom
  Presidential Medal of Freedom
  The Presidential Medal of Freedom is an award bestowed by the President of the United States and is—along with thecomparable Congressional Gold Medal bestowed by an act of U.S. Congress—the highest civilian award in the United States...
  
   (Recipient)
• Bill Richardson - former governor of New Mexico, former U.S. Secretary of Energy
• Albert Robles
  Albert Robles
  Albert T. Robles is an American politician and former mayor, councilman, treasurer, and deputy city manager for the City of South Gate, California. He also served as an elected Director of the Central Basin Municipal Water District in Carson, California...
  
   - politician and convicted criminal
• Gloria Romero - Democratic Majority Leader
  Majority leader
  In U.S. politics, the majority floor leader is a partisan position in a legislative body.In the federal Congress, the role differs slightly in the two houses. In the House of Representatives, which chooses its own presiding officer, the leader of the majority party is elected the Speaker of the...
  
   in the California State Senate
  California State Senate
  The California State Senate is the upper house of the California State Legislature. There are 40 state senators. The state legislature meets in the California State Capitol in Sacramento. The Lieutenant Governor is the ex officio President of the Senate and may break a tied vote...
  
  , college professor
• Trinidad Romero
  Trinidad Romero
  Trinidad Romero was an American politician and rancher who was the Delegate to United States Congress from the Territory of New Mexico....
  
   - Delegate to United States Congress from the Territory of New Mexico
• Edward Roybal - former U.S. Representative from California
• Ernesto Ruffo Appel
  Ernesto Ruffo Appel
  Ernesto Ruffo Appel is an American-born Mexican politician famous for being the first state governor not belonging to the Partido Revolucionario Institucional since its formation in 1929....
  
   - Politician & Former Governor of Baja California
• John Salazar
  John Salazar
  John Tony Salazar is the former Congressman for , serving from 2005 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Following his service in Congress, he was appointed as Commissioner of the Colorado Department of Agriculture in the Cabinet of Governor John Hickenlooper in 2011.-Early life,...
  
   - U.S. Representative (CO-3)
• Ken Salazar
  Ken Salazar
  Kenneth Lee "Ken" Salazar is the current United States Secretary of the Interior, in the administration of President Barack Obama. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Colorado from 2005 to 2009. He and Mel Martinez were the first Hispanic U.S...
  
   - U.S. Senator (CO)
• Ezequiel D. Salinas
  Ezequiel D. Salinas
  Ezequiel David Salinas, Sr. , was a Mexican American Democratic state court judge from Laredo, the seat of Webb County in south Texas, known for his advocacy of civil rights for the Hispanic community. In the late 1940s, Salinas was defeated in a race for the Texas House of Representatives but was...
  
   - state court judge from Texas
  Texas
  Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
  
  
• Loretta Sanchez
  Loretta Sanchez
  Loretta Sanchez is the U.S. Representative for , and previously the 46th, serving since 2003. She is a member of the Democratic Party, and a member of the Blue Dog Coalition. The district lies in central Orange County....
  
   - U.S. Representative (CA-47)
• Linda Sánchez
  Linda Sánchez
  Linda T. Sánchez is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2003. She is a member of the Democratic Party.-Early life, education and career:...
  
   - U.S. Representative (CA-39)
• Hilda Solis
  Hilda Solis
  Hilda Lucia Solis is the 25th United States Secretary of Labor, serving in the Obama administration. She is a member of the Democratic Party and served in the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2009, representing the 31st and 32nd congressional districts of California that include...
  
   - U.S. Secretary of Labor, former U.S. Representative (CA-32)
• Raymond Telles
  Raymond Telles
  Raymond L. Telles, Jr. was the first Mexican-American Mayor of a major American city, El Paso, Texas.Born in El Paso and educated as an accountant, Telles worked at the United States Department of Justice for eight years. He was drafted into the Army in 1941. Telles then served in the U.S...
  
   - mayor of El Paso, Texas
  El Paso, Texas
  El Paso, is a city in and the county seat of El Paso County, Texas, United States, and lies in far West Texas. In the 2010 census, the city had a population of 649,121. It is the sixth largest city in Texas and the 19th largest city in the United States...
  
  
• Esteban Edward Torres
  Esteban Edward Torres
  Esteban Edward Torres is a politician from the state of California. Torres was born in Miami, Arizona to Rena Gómez. His father was a miner who was deported to Mexico in the 1930s despite being an U.S. citizen....
  
   - former Representatives, U.S. ambassador to UNESCO
  UNESCO
  The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
  
  , and labor activist
• Gaddi Vasquez
  Gaddi Vasquez
  Gaddi Holguin Vasquez was the 8th United States Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture, in Rome, Italy. He was nominated by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate on June 29, 2006. Vasquez was sworn into office on September 7,...
  
   - 8th United States Representative to the United Nations
  United Nations
  The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
  
   Food and Agriculture Organization
  Food and Agriculture Organization
  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialised agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and...
  
  
• Antonio Villaraigosa
  Antonio Villaraigosa
  Antonio Ramón Villaraigosa , born Antonio Ramón Villar, Jr., is the 41st and current Mayor of Los Angeles, California, the third Mexican American to have ever held office in the city of Los Angeles and the first in over 130 years. He is also the current president of the United States Conference of...
  
   - mayor of Los Angeles
• Kim McLane Wardlaw
  Kim McLane Wardlaw
  Kim McLane Wardlaw is a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, with chambers in Pasadena, California.-Education and legal training:...
  
   - federal judge, US Court of Appeals
• Brian Sandoval
  Brian Sandoval
  Brian Edward Sandoval is an American politician. He is the 29th and current Governor of the U.S. state of Nevada since January 3, 2011. Sandoval is a former judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada...
  
   - governor of Nevada
• Susana Martinez
  Susana Martinez
  Susana Martinez is the 31st and current governor of New Mexico.A Republican, Martinez is the first female governor of New Mexico, as well as the first female Hispanic governor in the United States. She was formerly the district attorney for the 3rd Judicial District of the U.S. state of New Mexico...
  
   - governor of New Mexico

Military figures

• Bertrand Blanchard Acosta - Aviator, Fighter Pilot
• Lucian Adams
  Lucian Adams
  Staff Sergeant Lucian Adams was a United States Army soldier during World War II who received the Medal of Honor for single-handedly destroying enemy machine gun emplacements to re-establish supply lines to U.S. Army companies...
  
   - Medal of Honor
  Medal of Honor
  The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...
  
   (World War II)
• Everett Alvarez Jr.
  Everett Alvarez Jr.
  Everett Alvarez Jr. was a Navy Commander who endured one of the longest periods as a prisoner of war in American history. Alvarez was the first American pilot to be shot down and held as a POW in North Vietnam...
  
   - Navy LCdr/Pilot who endured 8.5 years in Vietnamese captivity and one of the longest periods as a U.S. prisoner of war (POW)
• David B. Barkley
  David B. Barkley
  David Bennes Barkley , often spelled Barkeley, was a United States Army private who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during World War I in France...
  
   - Medal of Honor
  Medal of Honor
  The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...
  
   (World War I)
• Roy Benavidez
  Roy Benavidez
  Raul Perez Benavidez was a member of the Studies and Observations Group of the United States Army. He received the Medal of Honor for his actions in combat near Lộc Ninh, South Vietnam on May 2, 1968....
  
   - Medal of Honor
  Medal of Honor
  The Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed by the President, in the name of Congress, upon members of the United States Armed Forces who distinguish themselves through "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her...
  
   (Vietnam War
  Vietnam War
  The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
  
  )
• Robert Cardenas
  Robert Cardenas
  Robert L. "Bob" Cardenas is a retired Brigadier General of the United States Air Force.-Childhood and adolescence:He was born in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico. When he was five, his family moved to San Diego, California. He excelled in Mathematics and Physics in high school...
  
   - U.S. Air Force
  Air force
  An air force, also known in some countries as an air army, is in the broadest sense, the national military organization that primarily conducts aerial warfare. More specifically, it is the branch of a nation's armed services that is responsible for aerial warfare as distinct from an army, navy or...
  
   Brigadier General
  Brigadier General
  Brigadier general is a senior rank in the armed forces. It is the lowest ranking general officer in some countries, usually sitting between the ranks of colonel and major general. When appointed to a field command, a brigadier general is typically in command of a brigade consisting of around 4,000...
  
  
• Richard E. Cavazos
  Richard E. Cavazos
  Richard Edward Cavazos , a Korean War recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross as a first lieutenant, who advanced in rank to become the United States Army's first Mexican American four-star general. During the Vietnam War, as a lieutenant colonel, Cavazos was awarded a second Distinguished...
  
   - first U.S. Army Hispanic 4-star general
  General (United States)
  In the United States Army, United States Air Force, and United States Marine Corps, general is a four-star general officer rank, with the pay grade of O-10. General ranks above lieutenant general and below General of the Army or General of the Air Force; the Marine Corps does not have an...
  
  , Distinguished Service Cross
  Distinguished Service Cross (United States)
  The Distinguished Service Cross is the second highest military decoration that can be awarded to a member of the United States Army, for extreme gallantry and risk of life in actual combat with an armed enemy force. Actions that merit the Distinguished Service Cross must be of such a high degree...
  
   (Korea and Vietnam)
• Kathlene Contres
  Kathlene Contres
  Captain Kathlene Contres, is a former American Naval officer who was the Navy’s highest ranking female Hispanic Line Officer on active duty. She was the Commandant of the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute , the first Hispanic woman and the thirteenth Commandant to lead the institute...
  
   - U.S. Navy
• Emilio A. De La Garza
  Emilio A. De La Garza
  Emilio Albert De La Garza, Jr. was a United States Marine Corps lance corporal who was posthumously presented the nation's highest honor — the Medal of Honor — for his heroism in April 1970 in Vietnam.-Early years:...
  
   - Medal of Honor (Vietnam)
• Ralph Ellis Dias - Medal of Honor (Vietnam)
• Daniel Fernandez
  Daniel Fernandez
  - External links :* at mishalov.com* by Rattler/Firebird Association...
  
   - Medal of Honor (Vietnam)
• José María Flores
  José Mariá Flores
  General José María Flores was an officer in the Mexican Army and was a member of la otra banda. He was appointed Governor and Comandante General pro tem of Alta California from 1846 to 1847.-Mexican-America War:...
  
   - General and Governor of Alta California (Mexican American War)
• Guy Gabaldon
  Guy Gabaldon
  PFC Guy Louis Gabaldon was a United States Marine who was credited with capturing about 1,500 Japanese soldiers and civilians during the Battle of Saipan in World War II...
  
   - Navy Cross
  Navy Cross
  The Navy Cross is the highest decoration that may be bestowed by the Department of the Navy and the second highest decoration given for valor. It is normally only awarded to members of the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps and United States Coast Guard, but can be awarded to all...
  
   recipient, credited with capturing (or persuading to surrender) about 1,500 Japanese soldiers and civilians during the Battle of Saipan
  Battle of Saipan
  The Battle of Saipan was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands from 15 June-9 July 1944. The Allied invasion fleet embarking the expeditionary forces left Pearl Harbor on 5 June 1944, the day before Operation Overlord in Europe was...
  
   (World War II)
• Marcario Garcia
  Marcario Garcia
  Staff Sergeant Marcario Garcia or Macario Garcia born in Villa de Castaño, Mexico, was the first Mexican immigrant to receive the Medal of Honor, the United States' highest military decoration...
  
   - Medal of Honor (World War II)
• Edward Gomez
  Edward Gomez
  Private First Class Edward Gomez was a United States Marine from Omaha, Nebraska who posthumously received the Medal of Honor — the United States' highest decoration for valor — for gallantly sacrificing his life to save the lives of four fellow-Marines on his machine gun team...
  
  - Medal of Honor (Korean War
  Korean War
  The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...
  
  )
• Harold Gonsalves
  Harold Gonsalves
  Private First Class Harold Gonsalves was a United States Marine who sacrificed his life to save fellow Marines in the Battle of Okinawa during World War II...
  
   - Medal of Honor (World War II)
• David M. Gonzales
  David M. Gonzales
  Private First Class David M. Gonzales was a United States Army soldier who posthumously received the Medal of Honor — the United States' highest military decoration — for his actions during World War II...
  
  (1923–1945) - Medal of Honor (World War II) First in Los Angeles
• Alfredo Cantu Gonzalez
  Alfredo Cantu Gonzalez
  Alfredo Cantu "Freddy" Gonzalez was a United States Marine Corps sergeant who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for service in the Battle of Huế during the Vietnam War.-Biography:...
  
   - Medal of Honor (Vietnam)
• Freddy Gonzalez
  Freddy González
  Freddy González Fonten is a male long-distance runner from Venezuela. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He set his personal best in the men's 5,000 metres on July 3, 2004 in San Sebastián.-Achievements:-References:*...
  
   - Medal of Honor, KIA
  Killed in action
  Killed in action is a casualty classification generally used by militaries to describe the deaths of their own forces at the hands of hostile forces. The United States Department of Defense, for example, says that those declared KIA need not have fired their weapons but have been killed due to...
  
   in Huế
  Hue
  Hue is one of the main properties of a color, defined technically , as "the degree to which a stimulus can be describedas similar to or different from stimuli that are described as red, green, blue, and yellow,"...
  
   (Vietnam
  Vietnam
  Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
  
  )
• Ambrosio Guillen
  Ambrosio Guillen
  Staff Sergeant Ambrosio Guillen was a United States Marine who was posthumously award the Medal of Honor — the United States' highest military honor — for his heroic actions and sacrifice of life during the Korean War, two days before the cease fire...
  
  - Medal of Honor (Korean War)
• Rodolfo P. Hernandez - Medal of Honor (Korean War)
• Silvestre S. Herrera
  Silvestre S. Herrera
  Silvestre Santana Herrera was a member of the United States Army of Hispanic heritage who received the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions during World War II in Mertzwiller, France. His one-man charge on an enemy stronghold resulted in his single-handed capture of eight enemy soldiers...
  
   - Medal of Honor (World War II)
• Edward Hidalgo
  Edward Hidalgo
  Edward Hidalgo served as the United States Secretary of the Navy in the Carter administration from October 24, 1979 to January 20, 1981...
  
   - former Secretary of the Navy
• Jose F. Jimenez
  Jose F. Jimenez
  Jose Francisco Jimenez was a United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroism in the Vietnam War in August 1969.-Biography:...
  
   - Medal of Honor (Vietnam)
• Miguel Keith
  Miguel Keith
  Miguel Keith was a United States Marine who posthumously received the United States's highest military decoration — the Medal of Honor for heroism in Vietnam in May 1970...
  
   - Medal of Honor (Vietnam)
• Felix Z. Longoria, Jr. - first Mexican American buried in Arlington National Cemetery
  Arlington National Cemetery
  Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, is a military cemetery in the United States of America, established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Confederate general Robert E. Lee's wife Mary Anna Lee, a great...
  
   (World War II)
• Jose M. Lopez
  Jose M. Lopez
  Jose Mendoza Lopez was a United States Army soldier who was awarded the United States' highest military decoration for valor in combat — the Medal of Honor — for his heroic actions during the Battle of the Bulge, in which he single-handedly repulsed a German infantry attack, killing at...
  
  - Medal of Honor (World War II)
• Nicolas Lucero
  Nicolas Lucero
  Nicolas Lucero was a nineteen-year-old Mexican American soldier from Albuquerque, New Mexico who was awarded the French Croix de Guerre during World War I. He was awarded the medal for destroying two German machine gun emplacements and maintaining a constant fire against enemy positions for over...
  
   - French Croix de guerre (World War I)
• Benito Martinez
  Benito Martinez (soldier)
  Corporal Benito Martinez was a United States Army soldier who posthumously received the Medal of Honor — the United States' highest military decoration — for his actions on the near Satae-ri in Korea during the Korean War. Martinez was mortally wounded while solely defending his outpost...
  
   - Medal of Honor (Korean War)
• Joe P. Martinez
  Joe P. Martinez
  Private Joe P. Martinez born in Taos, New Mexico, was a United States Army soldier who posthumously received the Medal of Honor — the United States' highest military decoration —- for his actions on the Aleutian Islands during World War II. Private Joseph P...
  
   - Medal of Honor (World War II)
• Louis Gonzaga Mendez, Jr.
  Louis Gonzaga Mendez, Jr.
  Colonel Louis Gonzaga Mendez, Jr. was a highly decorated United States Army officer of the 82nd Airborne Division who in June 1944, as commander of the 3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II, parachuted behind enemy lines into Normandy and was awarded a Distinguished...
  
   - highly decorated Colonel
  Colonel (United States)
  In the United States Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, colonel is a senior field grade military officer rank just above the rank of lieutenant colonel and just below the rank of brigadier general...
  
  , commander of the 3rd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment
  508th Infantry Regiment
  During World War II, the 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment was a regiment of the 82d Airborne Division which in turn became part of XVIII Airborne Corps of the United States Army.-World War II:...
  
   (World War II)
• Francisco Mercado, Jr.
  Francisco Mercado, Jr.
  Francisco Mercado, Jr. , was a member of the United States Army Air Force and recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross who earned his membership to the exclusive “Caterpillar Club” having saved his life by parachuting over England while returning from a mission with a crippled B-24 during World...
  
   - Distinguished Service Cross
• Eugene A. Obregon
  Eugene A. Obregon
  Eugene Arnold Obregon was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded the United States' highest military decoration for valor — the Medal of Honor — for sacrificing his life to save that of a wounded comrade during the Second Battle of Seoul...
  
  - Medal of Honor (Korean War)
• Rafael Peralta
  Rafael Peralta
  Sergeant Rafael Peralta assigned to 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, was a United States Marine killed in combat during Second Battle of Fallujah in the city of Fallujah, Iraq...
  
   - Navy Cross (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
• Oscar F. Perdomo
  Oscar F. Perdomo
  Major Oscar Francis Perdomo , a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, was a United States Air Force officer who was the last “Ace in a day” for the United States in World War II.-Early years:...
  
   - United States Air Force
  United States Air Force
  The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...
  
   Flying ace
  Flying ace
  A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an "ace" has varied, but is usually considered to be five or more...
  
   (World War II)
• Manuel Perez Jr.
  Manuel Perez Jr.
  Private First Class Manuel Perez, Jr. born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was a United States Army soldier who posthumously received the Medal of Honor, the United States' highest military decoration, for his actions in Battle of Luzon during the Philippines campaign of World War II.-Early...
  
   - Medal of Honor (World War II)
• Lori Piestewa
  Lori Piestewa
  SPC Lori Ann Piestewa was a U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps soldier killed during the same Iraqi Army attack in which fellow soldiers Shoshana Johnson and Jessica Lynch sustained injuries. A member of the Hopi tribe, Piestewa was the first Native American woman in history to die in combat while...
  
   (1973–2003) - the first woman in the U.S. armed forces killed in the 2003 Iraq war
  2003 invasion of Iraq
  The 2003 invasion of Iraq , was the start of the conflict known as the Iraq War, or Operation Iraqi Freedom, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland invaded Iraq and toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein in 21 days of major combat operations...
  
  
• Alfred V. Rascon
  Alfred V. Rascon
  Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Rascon was a medic in the United States Army who received the Medal of Honor—the United States' highest military decoration—for his actions near Long Khánh Province during the Vietnam War...
  
   - Medal of Honor (Vietnam)
• Louis R. Rocco
  Louis R. Rocco
  Chief Warrant Officer Louis Richard Rocco was a United States Army soldier who received the Medal of Honor—the United States' highest military decoration—for his actions near the village of Katum, in the Republic of Vietnam, during the Vietnam War...
  
   - Medal of Honor (Vietnam)
• Cleto Rodriguez - Medal of Honor (World War II)
• Joseph C. Rodriguez
  Joseph C. Rodriguez
  Colonel Joseph C. Rodriguez born in San Bernardino, California, was a United States Army soldier who received the Medal of Honor - the United States' highest military decoration for his actions near Munye-ri, Korea during the Korean War.-Early years:Rodriguez, a Mexican-American, was raised in the...
  
   - Medal of Honor (Korean War)
• Alejandro R. Ruiz
  Alejandro R. Ruiz
  Sergeant Alejandro R. Ruiz was a former United States Army soldier who received the Medal of Honor, the United States' highest military decoration, for his actions in the Battle of Okinawa in the Ryukyu Islands during World War II.-Early years:Ruiz was born and raised in Loving, New Mexico and...
  
   - Medal of Honor (World War II)
• Ricardo Sanchez
  Ricardo Sanchez
  Ricardo Sanchez is a retired United States Army Lieutenant General and a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for the Senate election in 2012 for the seat of retiring Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.-Early life and education:...
  
   - United States Army General and Author (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
• Marcelino Serna
  Marcelino Serna
  Private Marcelino Serna was an undocumented Mexican immigrant who joined the United States Army and became the most decorated soldier from Texas in World War I. Serna was the first Hispanic to be awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.-Early years:Serna was born in the city of Chihuahua, in the...
  
   - Distinguished Service Cross (World War I)
• France Silva
  France Silva
  Private France Silva born in Hayward, California, was the first Marine of Mexican-American and Hispanic heritage to receive the Medal of Honor...
  
   - Medal of Honor (Boxer Rebellion
  Boxer Rebellion
  The Boxer Rebellion, also called the Boxer Uprising by some historians or the Righteous Harmony Society Movement in northern China, was a proto-nationalist movement by the "Righteous Harmony Society" , or "Righteous Fists of Harmony" or "Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists" , in China between...
  
  )

• Eugene Suarez
  Eugene Suarez
  Eugene "Gene" Suarez was a U.S. Marine war photographer. He served between 1948 and 1949 after World War II and was once again called up again to serve in Korea in 1950...
  
   - U.S. Marine, war photographer, World War II and Korea
• Jose F. Valdez
  Jose F. Valdez
  Private First Class Jose F. Valdez was a United States Army soldier who posthumously received the Medal of Honor — the United States' highest military decoration — for his actions near Rosenkranz, France, in the Battle of the Colmar Pocket during World War II.-Early years:Valdez was a...
  
   - Medal of Honor (World War II)
• Eugene A. Valencia, Jr. - Flying Ace (World War II), Navy Cross
• Alfred Valenzuela
  Alfred Valenzuela
  Alfred A. Valenzuela is a retired United States Army major general who commanded United States Army South at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico. He comes from a Mexican-American family from San Antonio, Texas...
  
   -Major General
  Major general (United States)
  In the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, and United States Air Force, major general is a two-star general-officer rank, with the pay grade of O-8. Major general ranks above brigadier general and below lieutenant general...
  
  , United States Army
  United States Army
  The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
  
  
• Jay R. Vargas
  Jay R. Vargas
  Jay R. Vargas , a retired United States Marine Corps colonel, is a Medal of Honor recipient for his "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty" during the Vietnam War....
  
   - Medal of Honor (Vietnam)
• Ysmael R. Villegas
  Ysmael R. Villegas
  Staff Sergeant Ysmael R. Villegas , was a United States Army soldier who posthumously received the Medal of Honor - the United States' highest military decoration for his actions during World War II. On March 20, 1945, at age 20, Staff Sergeant Ysmael R...
  
   - Medal of Honor (World War II)
• Maximo Yabes
  Maximo Yabes
  First Sergeant Maximo Yabes born in Lodi, California, was a United States Army soldier who posthumously received the Medal of Honor — the United States' highest military decoration — for his actions near Phu Hoa Dong in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam War...
  
   - Medal of Honor (Vietnam)
• Miguel Marquez
  Miguel Marquez
  Miguel Marquez has been a correspondent for ABC News since May 2005, frequently reporting from Iraq.His earlier journalistic positions have included stints with WNBC-TV in New York City and KSAZ-TV in Phoenix, Arizona...
  
   - Aircraft Fuel Systems Journeyman, SrA, before getting discharged received 93% on PT test, USAF

Scholars and educators

• Rodolfo Acuña
  Rodolfo Acuña
  Rodolfo Francisco Acuña, Ph.D., is an historian, professor emeritus, and one of various scholars of Chicano studies, which he teaches at California State University, Northridge. He is the author of Occupied America: A History of Chicanos, which approaches the history of the Southwestern United...
  
   - historian and professor
• Elsa Salazar Cade
  Elsa Salazar Cade
  Elsa Salazar Cade is an award-winning Mexican American science teacher and entomologist.Elsa received her undergraduate degree in elementary education at the University of Texas at Austin and her master's in public school administration at Niagara University...
  
   - entomologist/science educator
• Mariano Velazquez de la Cadena
  Mariano Velazquez de la Cadena
  Mariano Velázquez , was an accomplished Mexican American grammarian, scholar, and author in the 19th century.-Early life:...
  
   - grammarian, scholar, and author
• Gilberto Cardenas - Director of the Institute for Latino Studies and Sociology professor in Notre Dame University
• Lauro Cavazos
  Lauro Cavazos
  Lauro Fred Cavazos Jr. is a U.S. educator. He served as Secretary of Education, and was the first Hispanic to serve in the United States Cabinet....
  
   - U.S. Secretary of Education (1988–1990)
• Francisco G. Cigarroa
  Francisco G. Cigarroa
  Francisco Gonzalez Cigarroa is a medical doctor and Chancellor of the University of Texas System. He is also the first Hispanic to serve as president of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio ....
  
   - chancellor of the University of Texas System
  University of Texas System
  The University of Texas System encompasses 15 educational institutions in Texas, of which nine are academic universities and six are health institutions. The system is headquartered in Austin and has a total enrollment of over 190,000 students...
  
   and president of the UT Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas.
• Miguel Angel Corzo
  Miguel Angel Corzo
  Miguel Angel Corzo is the Founder and President of the Global Alliance for Conservation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the protection of the world's cultural heritage...
  
   - CEO and President of LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes
• Jose Cuellar
  Jose Cuellar
  Jose Cuellar is a professor of Chicano Studies at San Francisco State University. As a saxophone player, he is "Dr. Loco", a nickname given to him by one of his research subjects; in this role, he leads the musical group Dr. Loco's Rockin Jalapeño Band, which plays at a wide range of community...
  
   - professor of Chicano studies
• Robert R. Davila
  Robert R. Davila
  Dr. Robert Davila served as the ninth president of Gallaudet University, the world's only university in which all programs and services are specifically designed to accommodate deaf and hard of hearing students...
  
   - president of Gallaudet University
  Gallaudet University
  Gallaudet University is a federally-chartered university for the education of the deaf and hard of hearing, located in the District of Columbia, U.S...
  
  
• Alicia Gaspar de Alba
  Alicia Gaspar de Alba
  Alicia Gaspar de Alba is a scholar, cultural critic, novelist, and poet whose works include historical novels and scholarly studies on Chicana/o art, culture and sexuality.-Biography:...
  
   - historian, scholar, author
• Felipe de Ortego y Gasca - writer, college
• Roberta Fernández
  Roberta Fernández
  Roberta Fernández is a Tejana novelist, scholar, critic and arts advocate. She is known for her novel Intaglio and for her work editing several award-winning women writers. She was a professor in in Romance Languages & Literatures and Women's Studies at the University of Georgia.-Early life and...
  
   - novelist, scholar, critic and arts advocateprofessor
• Francisco Gil-White
  Francisco Gil-White
  Francisco Gil-White is an anthropologist who was Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2006 and lecturer at the Solomon Asch Centre for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict. He was born in Chicago and raised in Mexico City. His father is Francisco Gil Díaz,...
  
   - anthropologist and educator
• Laura E. Gómez
  Laura E. Gómez
  Laura E. Gómez is the president of the Law and Society Association and a Professor of Law and American Studies at the University of New Mexico....
  
   - President of the Law and Society Association
  Law and Society Association
  The Law and Society Association is an association founded in 1964. Its members come from many fields and countries and are interested in "the place of law in social, political, economic and cultural life". The association publishes the academic journal Law & Society Review.The LSA's executive...
  
   and a Professor of Law and American Studies at the University of New Mexico
  University of New Mexico
  The University of New Mexico at Albuquerque is a public research university located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the United States. It is the state's flagship research institution...
  
  
• Guillermo Gómez-Peña
  Guillermo Gómez-Peña
  Guillermo Gómez-Peña was born in Mexico City and moved to the US in 1978, where he established himself as a performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. He has pioneered multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video, performance photography and installation art...
  
   - Performance Artist, Author, Activist and Educator
• Juan Gómez-Quiñones
  Juan Gómez-Quiñones
  Juan Gómez-Quiñones is an American historian, professor of history, poet, and activist. He is best known for his work in the field of Chicana/o history...
  
   - professor, historian, poet and activist
• José Ángel Gutiérrez
  José Ángel Gutiérrez
  José Angel Gutiérrez, is an attorney and professor at the University of Texas at Arlington in the United States. He was a founding member of the Mexican American Youth Organization in San Antonio in 1967, and a founding member and past president of the Raza Unida Party, a Mexican-American third...
  
   - professor and attorney
• Arturo Islas
  Arturo Islas
  Arturo Islas , a native of El Paso, Texas, was a professor of English and a novelist, writing about the experience of Chicano cultural duality....
  
   - professor of English and novelist
• J. Michael Ortiz
  J. Michael Ortiz
  J. Michael Ortiz is an American educator and the 5th president of Cal Poly Pomona. Prior to this appointment on August 1, 2003 Ortiz was professor of education at Appalachian State University and vice president for academic affairs at Fresno State. He wast listed in 2005 as one of the 100 most...
  
   - President of Cal Poly Pomona
• Dr. Julian Samora - was a professor of sociology at Notre Dame University and cofounder of National Council of La Raza
  National Council of La Raza
  The National Council of La Raza is a non-profit and non-partisan advocacy group in the United States, focused on improving opportunities for Hispanics. It is sometimes confused with La Raza Unida...
  
  
• Arnulfo Trejo
  Arnulfo Trejo
  Arnulfo Duenes Trejo was a writer and Professor of Library Science at the University of Arizona. He was a leader in the movement to increase library collections of Latino literature and Spanish-language materials in the United States...
  
   - writer, college professor and literary activist
• Francisco Vázquez
  Francisco Vázquez
  Francisco H. Vázquez is a Mexican-American scholar and public intellectual. Vázquez is currently a tenured professor of the history of ideas and director of the Hutchins Institute for Public Policy Studies and Community Action at the nationally-known Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at Sonoma...
  
   - scholar and public intellectual
• Erv Wilson
  Erv Wilson
  Ervin Wilson is a Mexican/American music theorist. Despite his avoidance of academia, Wilson has been influential on those interested in microtonal music and just intonation, especially in the areas of scale, keyboard, and notation design...
  
   - music theorist

Science and technology

• Albert Baez
  Albert Baez
  Albert Vinicio Baez, Ph.D. was a prominent Mexican-American physicist, and the father of singers Joan Baez and Mimi Fariña. He was born in Puebla, Mexico, and his family moved to the United States when he was two years old because his father was a Methodist minister...
  
   - physicist and professor, developed the X-ray microscope
  X-ray microscope
  An X-ray microscope uses electromagnetic radiation in the soft X-ray band to produce images of very small objects.Unlike visible light, X-rays do not reflect or refract easily, and they are invisible to the human eye. Therefore the basic process of an X-ray microscope is to expose film or use a...
  
  
• Elsa Salazar Cade
  Elsa Salazar Cade
  Elsa Salazar Cade is an award-winning Mexican American science teacher and entomologist.Elsa received her undergraduate degree in elementary education at the University of Texas at Austin and her master's in public school administration at Niagara University...
  
   - science educator and entomologist
• Victor Celorio
  Victor Celorio
  Victor Celorio is an author, entrepreneur, inventor, and former union organizer. He lives and works in Gainesville, Florida.-Inventions:...
  
   - Inventor of Instabook or Book On Demand
• France A. Córdova
  France A. Córdova
  France Anne Córdova is a Mexican-American astrophysicist, researcher and university administrator. She is the eleventh President of Purdue University. On July 1, 2011, she announced her decision to retire at the end of her 5-year term....
  
   - former NASA Chief Scientist
• Henry Eyring
  Henry Eyring
  Henry Eyring was a Mexican-born American theoretical chemist whose primary contribution was in the study of chemical reaction rates and intermediates....
  
   - theoretical chemist, writer, and recipient of the National Medal of Science
  National Medal of Science
  The National Medal of Science is an honor bestowed by the President of the United States to individuals in science and engineering who have made important contributions to the advancement of knowledge in the fields of behavioral and social sciences, biology, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and...
  
   award
• Sidney M. Gutierrez
  Sidney M. Gutierrez
  Sidney McNeill "Sid" Gutierrez , is a former NASA astronaut.-Early life and education:Gutierrez was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Married to the former Marianne Sue Cremer of Jefferson City, Missouri. They have three children: two daughters and a son...
  
   - former astronaut
• Jose Hernández (astronaut)
  Jose Hernandez (astronaut)
  José Moreno Hernández , is an American engineer and a former NASA astronaut.Hernández was born in French Camp, California, but calls Stockton, California, his hometown. His family is from La Piedad, Michoacán, with indigenous Purépecha roots...
  
   - astronaut
• Robert Navarro - NASA project manager for the ER-2 high-altitude, long-range flying laboratories at Dryden.
• Ellen Ochoa
  Ellen Ochoa
  Ellen Ochoa is a former astronaut and engineer, and current Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center.-Personal life:Ellen Ochoa was born on May 10, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, but considers La Mesa, California to be her hometown...
  
   - astronaut, director for flight crew operations for NASA
• John D. Olivas - NASA astronaut
• Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, M.D.
  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, M.D.
  Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa is the Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Neuroscience, Oncology and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, and the Director of the Brain Tumor Stem Cell Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine....
  
   - Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Oncology. Director of the Brain Tumor Stem Cell Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University
  Johns Hopkins University
  The Johns Hopkins University, commonly referred to as Johns Hopkins, JHU, or simply Hopkins, is a private research university based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States...
  
   and brain surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital
  Johns Hopkins Hospital
  The Johns Hopkins Hospital is the teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, located in Baltimore, Maryland . It was founded using money from a bequest by philanthropist Johns Hopkins...
  
  
• Eloy Rodriguez
  Eloy Rodriguez
  Eloy Rodriguez is a Mexican-American biochemist. He is the James Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies at Cornell University. He was born in Edinburg, Texas....
  
   - biochemist
  Biochemist
  Biochemists are scientists who are trained in biochemistry. Typical biochemists study chemical processes and chemical transformations in living organisms. The prefix of "bio" in "biochemist" can be understood as a fusion of "biological chemist."-Role:...
  
  , professor at Cornell University
  Cornell University
  Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
  
  
• Ted Taylor - physicist
  Physicist
  A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
  
   and nuclear weapons designer

Civil rights leaders and community activists

• Lupe Anguiano
  Lupe Anguiano
  Lupe Anguiano is a civil rights activist known for her work on women's rights, the rights of the poor, and the protection of the environment. In 2007 she was designated a Women's History Month Honoree by the National Women's History Project....
  
   - civil rights activist
• Norma V. Cantu
  Norma V. Cantu
  Norma V. Cantú is an American civil rights lawyer and educator. She is currently a professor of both its law and education at the University of Texas at Austin...
  
   - civil rights lawyer and college professor
• Carlos Cadena
  Carlos Cadena
  Carlos C. Cadena was a Mexican American lawyer, civil rights activist and judge based in San Antonio, Texas.Carlos Cristian Cadena, the son of Mexican immigrants, was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1917 and attended Catholic school. He earned his LL.B...
  
   - attorney in the landmark Hernandez v. Texas
  Hernandez v. Texas
  Hernandez v. Texas, 347 U.S. 475 , was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that decided that Mexican Americans and all other racial groups in the United States had equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution....
  
   supreme court case
• Aurora Castillo
  Aurora Castillo
  Aurora Castillo was a Mexican-American environmentalist from Los Angeles, California. She co-founded The Mothers of East Los Angeles in 1984. The MELA organization has fought against a scheduled oil pipeline, and against a planned toxic waste incinerator, and they stopped a waste treatment plant...
  
   - environmental activist
• Sal Castro
  Sal Castro
  Salvador B. Castro is an Mexican-American educator and activist. He is most well known for his role in the 1968 East Los Angeles high school walkouts, a series of protests against unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District schools...
  
   - civil rights activist and educator
• Ernesto Chacon
  Ernesto Chacon
  Ernesto Chacon a Texas native, has served as president and director of the Federation for Civic Action, a Latino and low income civil rights organization based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin since 1989...
  
   - Latino and low income civil rights activist

• César Chávez
  César Chávez
  César Estrada Chávez was an American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers ....
  
  (1927–1993) - labor leader and activist
• Linda Chavez-Thompson
  Linda Chavez-Thompson
  Linda Chavez-Thompson is a second-generation Mexican American and union leader. She was elected the executive vice-president of the AFL-CIO in 1995 and served until September 21, 2007. She is also a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee and a member of the board of trustees of United Way...
  
   - former executive vice-president of the AFL-CIO
  AFL-CIO
  The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly AFL–CIO, is a national trade union center, the largest federation of unions in the United States, made up of 56 national and international unions, together representing more than 11 million workers...
  
  
• Miguel Contreras
  Miguel Contreras
  fernando Contreras was an American labor union leader. He "was known as a king-maker for both local and state politicians."...
  
   - labor leader
• Bert Corona
  Bert Corona
  Humberto Noé "Bert" Corona was an American labor and civil rights leader. Throughout his long career, he worked with nearly every major Mexican-American organization, founding or co-founding several. He organized workers for the Congress of Industrial Organizations and fought on the behalf of...
  
   - labor and community organizer
• Ricardo Cruz
  Ricardo Cruz
  Ricardo Cruz , aka Richard V. Cruz, was a Los Angeles, California attorney who fought for many Chicano Movement causes...
  
   - attorney, civil rights activist
• Maria Echaveste
  Maria Echaveste
  Maria Echaveste , is a former U.S. presidential advisor to Bill Clinton and White House Deputy Chief of Staff under the second Clinton administration. She is one of the highest-ranking Latinas to have served in a presidential administration...
  
   - former White House
  White House
  The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
  
   Deputy Chief of Staff and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress
  Center for American Progress
  The Center for American Progress is a progressive public policy research and advocacy organization. Its website states that the organization is "dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action." It has its headquarters in Washington D.C.Its President and Chief...
  
  
• Josefina Fierro de Bright
  Josefina Fierro de Bright
  Josefina Fierro , later Josefina Fierro de Bright, was a Mexican American leader who helped organize resistance against discrimination in the American Southwest during the Great Depression. She was the daughter of migrants who had fled revolution in Mexico to settle in California...
  
   - civil rights activist during The Great Depression
• Gustavo C. Garcia
  Gustavo C. Garcia
  Gustavo "Gus" C. Garcia was a Mexican-American civil rights attorney.Garcia worked with fellow attorney Carlos Cadena in the landmark case Hernández v. Texas , arguing before the US Supreme Court for the end of a practice of systematic exclusion of Hispanics from jury service in Jackson County,...
  
   - attorney in the landmark Hernandez v. Texas
  Hernandez v. Texas
  Hernandez v. Texas, 347 U.S. 475 , was a landmark United States Supreme Court case that decided that Mexican Americans and all other racial groups in the United States had equal protection under the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution....
  
   supreme court case
• Rodolfo Gonzales
  Rodolfo Gonzales
  Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzáles was a Mexican American boxer, poet, and political activist. He convened the first-ever Chicano youth conference in March 1969, which was attended by many future Chicano activists and artists. The conference also promulgated the Plan Espiritual de Aztlán, a manifesto...
  
   — leader of the Chicano Civil Rights Movement
  Chicano Movement
  The Chicano Movement of the 1960s, also called the Chicano Civil Rights Movement, also known as El Movimiento, is an extension of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement which began in the 1940s with the stated goal of achieving Mexican American empowerment.-Origins:The Chicano Movement...
  
  , boxer, poet
• José Ángel Gutiérrez
  José Ángel Gutiérrez
  José Angel Gutiérrez, is an attorney and professor at the University of Texas at Arlington in the United States. He was a founding member of the Mexican American Youth Organization in San Antonio in 1967, and a founding member and past president of the Raza Unida Party, a Mexican-American third...
  
   — political activist, founder of the Raza Unida Party, writer, and professor
  Professor
  A professor is a scholarly teacher; the precise meaning of the term varies by country. Literally, professor derives from Latin as a "person who professes" being usually an expert in arts or sciences; a teacher of high rank...
  
  
• John J. Herrera
  John J. Herrera
  John James Herrera was an American attorney, activist, and leader in the Mexican American civil rights movement....
  
   - civil rights leader
• Dolores Huerta
  Dolores Huerta
  Dolores C. Huerta is the co-founder and First Vice President Emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO , and a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.-Early life:...
  
   - civil rights leader
• Nativo Lopez
  Nativo Lopez
  Nativo Lopez-Vigil is a Chicano political leader and immigrant rights activist in Southern California. Lopez is the president of the Mexican American Political Association and the national director of the Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana , a community service and advocacy organization for...
  
   - civil rights activist
• Mimi Lozano
  Mimi Lozano
  Mimi Lozano is an educator and activist for Hispanic rights who co-founded the Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research and is the editor and publisher of Somos Primos, an online monthly publication dedicated to Hispanic heritage...
  
   - co-founded the Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research
• Angel G. Luévano
  Angel G. Luévano
  Angel Godinez Luévano is a Mexican-American labor leader and activist who was the principal litigant in the class action suit Luévano v. Campbell. He is also a graduate of the Hastings College of the Law....
  
   - labor leader and activist
• Rueben Martinez
  Rueben Martinez
  Rueben Martinez is a Mexican-American activist and businessman. Seeing no future for himself in the small mining town where he grew up, at the age of seventeen Martinez left Arizona for Southern California...
  
   - activist and businessman
• Eliseo Medina
  Eliseo Medina
  Eliseo Vasquez Medina is a Mexican American labor union activist and leader, and advocate for immigration reform in the United States. From 1973 to 1978, he was a board member of the United Farm Workers...
  
   - labor activist
• Janet Murguía
  Janet Murguía
  Janet Murguia is a prominent civil rights leader in the United States. She grew up in Kansas City, Kansas but now lives in Washington, D.C. and works as a renowned advocate for the Latino community...
  
   - civil rights activist
• Alex Pacheco
  Alex Pacheco (activist)
  Alexander Fernando Pacheco is an American animal rights activist. He is the co-founder and former chairman of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals...
  
  , activist
• Olga Talamante
  Olga Talamante
  Olga Talamante is a Chicana political activist and the current executive director of the California-based Chicana/Latina Foundation. She could be Cecily Talamante's ancestor-Early life:...
  
   - political activist
• Emma Tenayuca
  Emma Tenayuca
  Emma Tenayuca was a labor organizer for farm workers in San Antonio, Texas, in the 1930s and beyond...
  
   - labor organizer
• Reies López Tijerina - activist, founder of the Alianza Federal de Mercedes
  Alianza Federal de Mercedes
  Alianza Federal de Mercedes, which in English translates to Federal Land Grant Alliance, was a group led by Reies Tijerina based in New Mexico in the 1960s that fought for the land rights of Chicano New Mexicans....
  
  
• John Trudell
  John Trudell
  John Trudell is a Native American-Mexican author, poet, actor, musician, and former political activist. He was the spokesperson for the United Indians of All Tribes' takeover of Alcatraz beginning in 1969, broadcasting as Radio Free Alcatraz...
  
   - Musician, Author, Poet, & Political Activist
• Baldemar Velasquez
  Baldemar Velasquez
  Baldemar Velásquez is an American labor union activist. He co-founded and is president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO...
  
   - president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee
  Farm Labor Organizing Committee
  The Farm Labor Organizing Committee , AFL-CIO, is a labor union representing migrant farm workers in the Midwestern United States and North Carolina.-History:...
  
  
• Raul Yzaguirre
  Raul Yzaguirre
  Raul Humberto Yzaguirre is an American civil rights activist. Currently a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, he previously served as the president and CEO of the National Council of La Raza from 1974 to 2004. On November 30, 2009 he was nominated by President Barack H...
  
   - civil rights activist

Religious figures

• Oscar Cantu
  Oscar Cantu
  Oscar Cantú is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as the Auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Antonio...
  
   - Auxiliary Bishop in San Antonio, Texas.
• Virgilio Elizondo
  Virgilio Elizondo
  Virgilio Elizondo is a Mexican American, Roman Catholic priest who divides his time between his parish in San Antonio, Texas, and teaching at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. He is a major theologian in liberation theology and Hispanic theology. He has been named by Time...
  
   - Roman Catholic priest, and theologian
• Patrick Flores
  Patrick Flores
  Patrick Fernández Flores , is a Roman Catholic cleric and was Archbishop of San Antonio from 1979 until 2004. Flores was the first Mexican American to become a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church.-Early life:...
  
   - Roman Catholic Bishop
  Bishop
  A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
  
  
• Elias Gabriel Galvan
  Elias Gabriel Galvan
  Elias Gabriel Galvan is a retired Mexican-American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1984.-Birth and Family:...
  
   - retired Bishop of the United Methodist Church
  United Methodist Church
  The United Methodist Church is a Methodist Christian denomination which is both mainline Protestant and evangelical. Founded in 1968 by the union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, the UMC traces its roots back to the revival movement of John and Charles Wesley...
  
  
• Richard John Garcia
  Richard John Garcia
  Richard John Garcia is an American Roman Catholic bishop. He was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as the fourth ordinary bishop of the Diocese of Monterey in California on December 19, 2006, and was installed at a Mass celebrated by Cardinal Roger Mahony on January 30, 2007.-Episcopal...
  
   - Bishop of Monterey, California
• José Horacio Gómez
  José Horacio Gomez
  José Horacio Gómez is a Mexican-born prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, currently serving as the Archbishop of Los Angeles. He previously served as Auxiliary Bishop of Denver from 2001–2004 and as Archbishop of San Antonio from 2004–2010.Born in Monterrey, Mexico, Gómez was...
  
   - Archbishop in San Antonio, Texas
• René Henry Gracida
  René Henry Gracida
  Bishop René Henry Gracida was the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Miami , the first Bishop of the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee and Bishop of the Diocese of Corpus Christi...
  
   - Bishop
• Ricardo Ramirez
  Ricardo Ramirez
  Ricardo Ramirez, CSB is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the first and current Bishop of Las Cruces.-Biography:...
  
   - Bishop of Las Cruzes, New Mexico.
• Jaime Soto
  Jaime Soto
  Jaime Soto, D.D. is an American prelate who currently serves as Bishop of the Diocese of Sacramento.-Early life and education:...
  
   - Roman Catholic Coadjutor Bishop
  Coadjutor bishop
  A coadjutor bishop is a bishop in the Roman Catholic or Anglican churches who is designated to assist the diocesan bishop in the administration of the diocese, almost as co-bishop of the diocese...
  
   of Sacramento
  Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento
  The Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento is an ecclesiastical territory or particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in the northern California region of the United States...
  
  
• James Anthony Tamayo
  James Anthony Tamayo
  James Anthony Tamayo is the current bishop of Laredo, Texas. He was ordained a priest on July 11, 1976 and ordained a bishop on March 10, 1993, becoming auxiliary bishop of Galveston-Houston and titular bishop of Ita...
  
   - Bishop of Laredo, Texas.
• Joe S. Vasquez
  Joe S. Vasquez
  José Stephen Vásquez is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was appointed Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Austin on January 26, 2010. He was previously the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston....
  
   - Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Austin, Texas.

Businesspeople and entrepreneurs

• Michael Ball (fashion mogul)
  Michael Ball (fashion mogul)
  Michael Ball is an entrepreneur best known for founding the fashion brand, Rock & Republic and his charitable efforts with his foundation and the Boys and Girls Club...
  
   - fashion mogul
• Hector Barreto
  Hector Barreto
  Hector V. Barreto was the 21st Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, confirmed on July 25, 2001. George W. Bush nominated him to the post. He resigned on April 25, 2006 following a controversial tenure as SBA chief....
  
   - 21st Administrator of the US Small Business Administration
• Rudy Chapa
  Rudy Chapa
  Rodolfo Chapa is a Mexican-American businessman who had a successful school career as a runner. He is the son of Mexican immigrants. His father Rodolfo Sr. came to the U.S. as a mechanic through the Bracero program...
  
   - Track Runner & Businessman
• David Martinez
  David Martinez
  David Martinez Guzman is managing partner of Fintech Advisory, a firm that specializes in corporate and country debt. Fintech has offices in London and New York. David Martinez studied and earned an electrical engineer title at the Tecnologico de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico, and received an...
  
   - Managing Partner
• Emilio Azcárraga Milmo
  Emilio Azcárraga Milmo
  Emilio Azcárraga Milmo or Emilio Azcárraga Jr. was a Mexican businessman and the son of Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta, Sr. He was educated at Culver Military Academy, he graduated in 1948. He was married three times, most recently to Paula Cussi...
  
   - CEO & Businessman
• Arturo Moreno
  Arturo Moreno
  Arturo "Arte" Moreno is an American businessman of Mexican descent. On May 15, 2003, he made history by becoming the first Hispanic to own a major sports team in the United States when he purchased the Anaheim Angels baseball team from the Walt Disney Company.-Early life:Moreno is a native of...
  
   - Owner of a MLB Franchise & Businessman
• Fred Ruiz - California Chamber of Commerce Board Chair & CEO of Ruiz Foods, Inc.
• Louis Ruiz
  Louis Ruiz
  Louis Ruiz is a Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 32nd district. He has served since 2005.Ruiz is a retired employee of Lucent Technologies.-Committee membership:* Commerce and Labor...
  
   - creator of Ruiz Foods, Inc.
  Ruiz Foods
  Ruiz Foods is an American food production and service company based in Dinuba, California founded in 1964. As of April 2010, it was the top seller of frozen Mexican dishes in the US. Under the brand names of El Monterey and Tornados it produces around 200 frozen Mexican foods for grocery stores...
  
   (Largest Latino owned company in California)
• Mia St. John
  Mia St. John
  Mia Rosales St. John is a Mexican-American professional boxer in the Light Welterweight division. Mia is the former WIBA and WIBF Lightweight Champion. She is also a model, businesswoman, and Tae Kwon Do Champion.-Early life:...
  
   - Professional Boxer, Model and Businesswoman
• Tony Sanchez - Businessman, Philanthropist, and Democratic Politician
• Luis Spinola - CEO of Aztec Enterprises Inc.
• Solomon Trujillo
  Solomon Trujillo
  Solomon Dennis "Sol" Trujillo is an American businessman. He was the chief executive officer of Telstra, Australia's largest telecommunications company...
  
   - CEO and Businessman
• Louis Verdad
  Louis Verdad
  Louis Verdad is a Mexican American fashion designer. Verdad was born in Chicago, Illinois to immigrant parents, and relocated to his family's native Mexico at the age of four. At age 20 he returned to Chicago, where the first art school he attended dismissed him because his English was poor...
  
   - Fashion Designer
• Oscar J. Zuniga
  Oscar J. Zuniga
  Oscar J. Zuñiga, Sr. , was a registered professional engineer and land surveyor who played an important role in the construction of several residential neighborhoods in his native Laredo, Texas...
  
   - Engineer and Businessman
• Sergio Zyman
  Sergio Zyman
  Sergio Zyman is a Mexican marketing executive best known as the marketer behind the failed launch of New Coke now regarded as one of the greatest marketing blunders of all time. In a May 1, 1995 cover story Fortune Magazine referred to New Coke as the biggest marketing blunder since the launch of...
  
   - Marketing Executive

Others

• Gregorio Cortez
  Gregorio Cortez
  Gregorio Cortez Lira was a Mexican American outlaw in the American Old West who became a folk hero to Mexicans living in South Texas. He was known for his ability to evade authorities as well as his impassioned words in court.- Background :Cortez's parents were itinerant laborers who brought...
  
   - (1875–1916), Mexican American hero
• Hidalgo Moya
  Hidalgo Moya
  John Hidalgo Moya , sometimes known as Jacko Moya, was a famous American-born architect who worked largely in England. Moya was a native of California where he was born to an English mother and Mexican father but lived in England since he was an infant. He formed the architectural practice Powell &...
  
   - architect
• Cesar Millan
  Cesar Millan
  Cesar Millan, is a Mexican-born American dog trainer. A self-taught expert, he is widely known for his television series The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan, now in its seventh season and broadcast in more than eighty countries worldwide...
  
   - Mexican-American self-taught, professional dog trainer widely known for his television series The Dog Whisperer

See also

• Notable Hispanics
  Notable Hispanics
  This is a list of notable Hispanic and Latino Americans: citizens or residents of the United States with origins in Hispanic America or Spain. The following groups are officially designated as "Spanish/Hispanic/Latino": Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, Costa...
  
  
• List of Mexicans
• List of Mexican Britons