Dominican Republic

(In Detail Flag of the Dominican Republic The flag of the Dominican Republic, as described by Article 96 of the Dominican Constitution, features a centered white cross that extends to the edges and divides the flag into four rectangles—the top ones are blue and red, and the bottom ones are red and blue... )

Authors

• Julia Alvarez
  Julia Álvarez
  Julia Alvarez is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York of Dominican descent, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, until her father's involvement in a political rebellion forced her family to flee the country.Alvarez rose to...
  
  
• Arambilet
  Arambilet
  Angel Luis Arambilet Alvarez [ARAMBILET] is a writer, screenplayer, painter, graphic artist, filmmaker and systems engineer....
  
  
• Josefina Baez
  Josefina Baez
  Josefina Baez , actor, writer, director and educator, is the founder and present director of . Dominicanish and Comrade, Bliss Ain't Playing are two of her published works, and are both performance texts. Dominicanish has been performed several times internationally over the last ten years...
  
  
• Rei Berroa
  Rei Berroa
  Rei Berroa , is a Dominican-American poet, university professor, literary and cultural critic, and translator living in the United States. He has published more than 25 books of poetry, anthologies, translations, and literary criticism.-Biography:In 1983 he received a Ph.D...
  
  
• Manuel del Cabral
  Manuel del Cabral
  Manuel del Cabral was a Dominican poet and writer.In 1992 he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura.-Work and Reception:...
  
  
• Aída Cartagena Portalatín
  Aída Cartagena Portalatín
  Aída Cartagena Portalatín was a prolific poet, fiction writer and essayist. She wrote in Spanish. Some of her work has been translated into English and other languages....
  
  
• Emanuel Collado
• Hilma Contreras
  Hilma Contreras
  Hilma Contreras Castillo was a Dominican writer, born in San Francisco de Macorís.Educated in Paris, where she studied French and English, as well as literature and archaeology. She returned to the Dominican Republic in 1933...
  
  
• Angie Cruz
  Angie Cruz
  Angie Cruz is an American novelist.Cruz was born in Washington Heights, New York City. She is of Dominican descent, and often traveled back and forth between New York City and the Dominican Republic while growing up. She is currently a professor at Texas A&M University.Cruz treats themes of home,...
  
  
• Junot Diaz
  Junot Díaz
  Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer and creative writing professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology . Central to Díaz's work is the immigrant experience...
  
  
• Pedro Henríquez Ureña
  Pedro Henríquez Ureña
  Pedro Henríquez Ureña was a Dominican intellectual, essayist, philosopher, humanist, philologist and literary critic.-Early works:Pedro Henríquez Ureña was born in Santo Domingo, the third of four siblings...
  
  
• Mariano Lebrón Saviñón
  Mariano Lebron Savinon
  Mariano Lebrón Saviñón is a Dominican author of the 20th century. One of the founders of the first private university in the Dominican Republic, he named it, as the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña, also writing its anthem.-External links:*...
  
  
• Jordhy Ledesma
  Jordhy Ledesma
  Jordhy Ledesma is an award winning Dominican poet, mathematician, chess player and businessman born in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic in 1978...
  
  
• Miguel D. Mena
  Miguel D. Mena
  Miguel de Mena . Poet, essayist and publisher. He studied sociology in the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo where he graduated in 1986 with the thesis Ciudad, espacio y poder en Republica Dominicanca...
  
  
• Leopoldo Minaya
  Leopoldo Minaya
  Leopoldo Minaya is a Dominican poet. He is well known as a member of the Generation of 1980 literary movement in the Dominican Republic. He won the 201 Miguel de Cervantes Cultural Association Award that is awarded annually in Barcelona, Spain. His works have been published by various Spanish and...
  
  
• Pedro Mir
  Pedro Mir
  Pedro Julio Mir Valentín was a Dominican poet and writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984, and a member of the generation of "Independent poets of the 1940s" in Dominican poetry.His father, a Cuban mechanical engineer, migrated from Cuba to the Dominican Republic...
  
  
• José Núñez de Cáceres
  José Núñez de Cáceres
  José Núñez de Cáceres was a Dominican politician and writer. He was the leader of Dominican independence when Spain ruled the country and he was also the first person in the country to use literature as weapon of social protest and politics.- Early years :José Núñez de Cáceres y Albor was born on...
  
  
• Arturo Rodríguez Fernández
  Arturo Rodriguez Fernandez
  Arturo Rodríguez Fernández was an author, film critic, and playwright.Born in Santo Domingo, he attended high school in Spain, and went on to receive a law degree from National University Pedro Henríquez Ureña and from universities in Strasbourg, France and Italy...
  
  
• Salomé Ureña
  Salomé Ureña
  Salomé Ureña de Henríquez better known as Salomé Ureña, was a revered poet and pedagogist of the Dominican Republic. Born in Santo Domingo in 1850, she was one of the central figures of lyrical poetry of the 19th century and an innovator of the feminine education in her country.-Biography:Ureña...
  
  

Fashion and beauty pageant personalities

• Mariasela Alvarez
  Mariasela Alvarez
  Mariasela Margarita Álvarez Lebrón was Miss World 1982 and is currently a television show host and architect from the Dominican Republic. She became the first Dominican woman to win an international beauty title...
  
   – Miss World
  Miss World
  The Miss World pageant is the oldest surviving major international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951...
  
   1982
• Eva Arias
  Eva Arias
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   – beauty queen and fashion model
• Susie Castillo
  Susie Castillo
  Susie Castillo is a former beauty queen who held the Miss USA title and competed in the Miss Teen USA and Miss Universe pageants...
  
   – Miss USA
  Miss USA
  The Miss USA beauty contest has been held annually since 1952 to select the United States entrant in the Miss Universe pageant. The Miss Universe Organization operates both pageants, as well as Miss Teen USA...
  
   2003
• Ana Contreras
  Ana Contreras
  Ana Rita Contreras Sosa was born and grew in Bayaguana, Monte Plata, Dominican Republic. She represented Monte Plata in Miss Dominican Republic 2009 and placed 1st runner-up after representing the province of Barahona in Miss Dominican Republic 2006, in which she placed 13th in the preliminaries...
  
   – Miss World Beach beauty semifinalist
• Claudia Cruz
  Claudia Cruz
  Claudia Julissa Cruz Rodríguez , commonly referred to as Claudia Cruz represented Dominican Republic in the Miss World pageant in 2004....
  
   – Miss World 2004 first runner-up
• Marianne Cruz
  Marianne Cruz
  Marianne Cruz González is the 2008 Miss Dominican Republic and was the second runner-up in the Miss Universe 2008. She was born in Salcedo, Dominican Republic.- Personal life :...
  
   – Miss Universe
  Miss Universe
  Miss Universe is an annual international beauty contest that is run by the Miss Universe Organization. The pageant is the most publicized beauty contest in the world with 600 million viewers....
  
   2008 second runner-up
• Yadira Cury – Miss International 2005 first runner-up
• Ada de la Cruz
  Ada de la Cruz
  Ada Aimée de la Cruz Ramirez is Miss Dominican Republic 2009 and Miss Universe 2009 first runner-up.-Biography:...
  
   – Miss Universe 2009 first runner-up
• Magali Febles
  Magali Febles
  Magali Esperanza Febles Moretta is a beautician and beauty pageant circuit personality. She was the former owner of two salons, Magali Febles Salon and Spa in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which she later sold in order to concentrate her energy on running Miss Puerto Rico Universe and Miss Dominican...
  
   – owner of the Miss Dominican Republic
  Miss Dominican Republic
  Miss Dominican Republic, or Miss República Dominicana in Spanish, is a pageant where women ranging from the ages of 18 to 26 compete, each representing a Dominican province, city, or community. The Miss Dominican Republic organization is managed by Magali Febles...
  
   pageant franchise
• Gilda Jovine
  Gilda Jovine
  Gilda Jovine originally Gilda E. Gross Reyes was born on February 10, 1981 is a former beauty queen, actress and model from the Dominican Republic....
  
   – fashion model
• Claudette Lali
  Claudette Lali
  Claudette Lali is a Dominican-American former model and wardrobe stylist turned actress.-Early life:Lali was born in New York City. She was raised in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic until the age of 14.-Career:...
  
   – former model/film wardrobe stylist
• Denny Méndez
  Denny Mendez
  Denny Andreina Méndez de la Rosa is a former beauty queen turned model and actress who represented Italy in the 1997 Miss Universe pageant.-Early life:...
  
   – Miss Italy 1997
• Ruth Ocumárez
  Ruth Ocumarez
  Ruth Ocumárez is a former beauty queen, actress and model.Born and raised in Santo Domingo, Ocumárez became a celebrity in her nation by becoming the first woman of predominantly African heritage to represent the Dominican Republic in the Miss Universe pageant...
  
   – former beauty queen
• Oscar De La Renta
  Oscar de la Renta
  Oscar de la Renta is one of the world's leading fashion designers. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1973.-Career:...
  
   - Fashion Designer
• Amell Santana
  Amell Santana
  Amell Santa de Jesus Amell Santa de Jesus Amell Santa de Jesus (born July 30, 1987, in Sabana de la Mar, Dominican Republic is a Dominican beauty pageant contestant. She competed in Miss Dominican Republic Universe 2005, representing the province of Hato Mayor, and ended as 1st runner-up. Santana...
  
   – Miss Earth 2005 first runner-up
• Renata Soñé
  Renata Soñé
  Renata de Jesús Soñé Savery is a former Dominican American beauty queen who competed in the Miss Universe 2005 pageant, finishing second runner-up after winning Miss Dominican Republic Universe 2005...
  
   – Miss Universe 2005 second runner–up
• Arlenis Sosa
  Arlenis Sosa
  Arlenis Sosa is an Dominican model. She is the current spokesmodel for Lancome and appeared in the 2008 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.-Early life and discovery:...
  
   – fashion model
• Amelia Vega
  Amelia Vega
  Amelia Vega Polanco became the first and only Dominican woman to be named Miss Universe, in 2003. At the age of 18, she was the youngest winner since 1994....
  
   – Miss Universe 2003, actress and model

Motion picture and television personalities

• Nancy Alvarez
  Nancy Alvarez (psychologist)
  Nancy Alvarez is a Dominican television personality who, as a psychologist, sexologist and family therapist, is best known for hosting the talk show ¿Quién Tiene La Razón? [Who's Right?]...
  
   – psychologist/television talk show host
• Tina Aumont
  Tina Aumont
  Maria Christina Aumont , best known as Tina Aumont, was an American actress.She was of French Jewish and Dominican descent....
  
   – film actress (daughter of Maria Montez)
• Lourdes Benedicto
  Lourdes Benedicto
  Lourdes Benedicto is an American actress of Filipino/Dominican descent. She is most well known for her starring role as Eva Rios on The Nine, and for her role as Alicia Lawson on the short-lived series Cashmere Mafia. She is primarily known as a television actress, but has been in a few...
  
   – actress
• Freddy Beras-Goico
  Freddy Beras-Goico
  Freddy Reinaldo Beras-Goico was a Dominican comedian, TV presenter, writer and media personality for over 30 years. He hosted the defunct TV show "El Gordo de La Semana" and he was a staple of primetime TV...
  
   – comedian
• Julissa Bermudez
  Julissa Bermudez
  Julissa Bermudez is a Dominican actress. She is best known for her work as co-host on BET's most popular music video countdown show 106 & Park and former host of Jersey Shore: After Hours and related Jersey Shore specials....
  
   – actress/television personality (BET
  Black Entertainment Television
  Black Entertainment Television is an American, Viacom-owned cable network based in Washington, D.C.. Currently viewed in more than 90 million homes worldwide, it is the most prominent television network targeting young Black-American audiences. The network was launched on January 25, 1980, by its...
  
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• Monica Boyar
  Monica Boyar
  Monica Boyar is a Dominican nightclub club singer who was popular in the 1940s and 1950s.-Musical Influence:Boyar became a United States citizen after residing in the country from the age of six. She is a dedicated student of the folk music of all countries.She was called the satin Latin song...
  
   – actress/singer
• Sergio Carlo
  Sergio Carlo
  Sergio Carlo is a Dominican actor best known for his role as Carbo, in Andy García's movie The Lost City and as Manolo Tavarez, opposite Michelle Rodriguez in the film Trópico de Sangre...
  
   – actor
• Terry Carter
  Terry Carter
  Terry Carter is an American actor and filmmaker who is known for his roles as "Sgt. Joe Broadhurst", on the seven year hit TV series McCloud and as "Colonel Tigh" on the original Battlestar Galactica.-Early life:...
  
   – actor
• Charytín
  Charytin
  Charytín Goyco , better known in the show business plainly as Charytín, is a singer, television presenter and actress from the Dominican Republic...
  
   – actress/singer/television host
• Alexandra Cheron
  Alexandra Cheron
  Alexandra Beauvoir Cheron Tavarez is haitian actress model, businesswoman and socialite.She was born in the Dominican Republic, her dad was a Financial accountant from Haiti and her mom a ambassador in the United States for the Dominican Republic...
  
   – actress/model
• José Guillermo Cortines
  José Guillermo Cortines
  José Guillermo Cortines is a Dominican actor and singer who is involved in films, telenovelas, musical theatre and television. He currently lives in Miami and is better known for his role as Mauricio Montiel from the Telemundo's "El Rostro de Analía" and for his role of Osvaldo Guerra in the...
  
   – actor/musician
• Nelson de la Rosa
  Nelson de la Rosa
  Nelson Aquino de la Rosa , a.k.a. Mahow, was one of the shortest men of the 20th and 21st centuries and an actor from the Dominican Republic. Nelson measured 71 centimeters tall ....
  
   – actor/comedian
• Yasmin Deliz
  Yasmin Deliz
  Yasmin Deliz is an American singer-songwriter, model and actress of Dominican and Colombian and Venezuelan parentage. She is best known for her starring role in Next Day Air and her work as co-host on mun2's music video countdown show Vivo and reality television show The Chicas Project.-Early...
  
   – television personality/actress
• Juan Fernández
  Juan Fernández (actor)
  Juan de Jesus Fernández de Alarcon is a Dominican actor best known for his roles as the "bad-guy" character in his movies....
  
   – actor
• René Fortunato
  René Fortunato
  René Antonio Fortunato is a Dominican film director, screenwriter, and producer. Fortunato is best known for his historical documentaries on Dominican government and politics. He began his career as a producer in 1985 with the production of In the Footsteps of Palau...
  
   - film director
• Andrés García
  Andrés García
  Andrés García is a Dominican-born Mexican actor. He is known throughout Latin America and among Hispanics in the United States....
  
   – actor
• Rick Gonzalez
  Rick Gonzalez
  Rick Gonzalez is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Timo Cruz in the motion picture Coach Carter, and as Ben Gonzalez on the CW supernatural drama television series Reaper.-Early life:...
  
   – actor
• Oscar Haza
  Oscar Haza
  Oscar Haza is a journalist born in the Dominican Republic in 1954, who at the age of 22 moved to Miami to pursue his career in journalism. He is host of the Channel 41 news talk show A Mano Limpia which airs on America TeVe. The topics of his programming range from current cultural issues and local...
  
   – television journalist
• Wilson Jermaine Heredia
  Wilson Jermaine Heredia
  Wilson Jermaine Heredia is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Angel Dumott Schunard in the Broadway musical Rent, for which he won the Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actor in a musical...
  
   – actor
• Wolf Hudson
  Wolf Hudson
  Wolf Hudson is a Dominican-American male pornographic actor, director and street dancer.-Early life:Wolf Hudson was born on November 24, 1984, in New York, New York, and is of mixed ancestry: French, Afro-Latin American/Dominican descent. Hudson briefly lived in the Dominican Republic in his early...
  
   – adult film star
• Stephanie Leonidas
  Stephanie Leonidas
  Stephanie Leonidas is an English actress of Greek Cypriot descent.- Early life and family :One of four children born to a Greek Cypriot father, Leonidas is not the only thespian in the family — her brother Dimitri Leonidas and sister Georgina Leonidas are also actors, whilst her older sister Helen...
  
   – actress
• Arthur Lithgow
  Arthur Lithgow
  Arthur Washington Lithgow III was an American actor and director.-Life and career:Lithgow was born in Puerto Plata, the Dominican Republic, the son of Ina Berenice , a nurse, and Arthur Washington Lithgow II, an entrepreneur. His parents were of American descent...
  
   – actor
• Yorlin Madera
  Yorlin Madera
  Yorlin Madera is a Dominican actor. He is known for his portrayal of the first Cristian Vega on the ABC soap opera One Life to Live from April 1995 to December 1997....
  
   – actor (television series One Life to Live
  One Life to Live
  One Life to Live is an American soap opera which debuted on July 15, 1968 and has been broadcast on the ABC television network. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature racially and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social...
  
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• Judy Marte
  Judy Marte
  Judy Marte is a Dominican-American actress and producer, who can be seen in films such as Raising Victor Vargas and On the Outs-Filmography:-Awards and nominations:-External links:...
  
   – actress
• Agliberto Meléndez
  Agliberto Meléndez
  Agliberto Melendez is a Dominican film director best known as the director of A One Way Ticket , the Dominican Republic's first feature length film,produced entirely in the Dominican Republic by a Dominican cast and crew. The film became known to American audiences after its 1989 debut in New York...
  
   – film director
• Mirtha Michelle
  Mirtha Michelle
  Mirtha Michelle is a Dominican American actress.Her films include Señorita Justice, This Christmas, and Fast and Furious. She has also had small parts on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: Miami....
  
   – actress
• Maria Montez
  María Montez
  María Montez was a Dominican-born motion picture actress who gained fame and popularity in the 1940s as an exotic beauty starring in a series of filmed-in-Technicolor costume adventure films. Her screen image was that of a hot-blooded Latin seductress, dressed in fanciful costumes and sparkling...
  
   – actress
• Patricia Mota
  Patricia Mota
  Patricia Mota is an actress and film producer of Dominican Republic descent, She played a lead role in the critically acclaimed film GI Jesús that premiered at the "Grauman's Egyptian Theatre", on January 23, 2007 with Cineville. GI Jesús took the Grand Jury Prize at CineVegas 06 film festival...
  
   – actress
• Amaury Nolasco
  Amaury Nolasco
  Amaury Nolasco Garrido is a Puerto Rican actor, best known for the role of Fernando Sucre on the television series Prison Break, and for his role in Transformers.-Early life:...
  
   - actor
• Miguel A. Núñez, Jr. – actor
• Karen Olivo
  Karen Olivo
  Karen Olivo is a stage and television actress, who is known for originating the role of Vanessa in the Tony Award–winning musical In the Heights both on and off Broadway. She won her Tony Award for her performance as Anita in the revival of West Side Story...
  
   – Tony award-winning actresss
• Carlos Pena, Jr.
  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  Carlos Roberto Pena, Jr. is an American actor, dancer and singer. He is best known for starring on the Nickelodeon series Big Time Rush as Carlos García.- Early life :...
  
   – actor/singer
• Manny Pérez
  Manny Perez
  Manuel "Manny" Pérez Batista is a Dominican actor, who has appeared in the television series Third Watch and in the film Washington Heights. Pérez was born in Santiago, Dominican Republic, and currently resides in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood.Pérez is one of 11 siblings...
  
   – actor (films Party Monster and El Cantante
  El Cantante
  El Cantante is a 2006 American film released in the United States on August 3, 2007. The biopic stars singer Marc Anthony and actress-singer Jennifer Lopez . The film is based on the life story of salsa legend Héctor Lavoe...
  
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• Rafael José
  Rafael José
  Dr. Rafael José Diaz is a Puerto Rican television show host born in Manatí, Puerto Rico, where his father, a physician born in the Dominican Republic, was the medical director of the local hospital. His family eventually moved to Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, where he was raised...
  
   – Puerto Rican television personality (Dominican father)
• Dania Ramirez
  Dania Ramirez
  Dania Ramirez is a Dominican-American TV and film actress.She is most recently known for playing Alex in Entourage, Maya Herrera in Heroes and Blanca during the last season of The Sopranos. She also played antagonist Callisto in X-Men: The Last Stand.-Early life:Ramirez was born in Santo Domingo,...
  
   – actress (television series Heroes
  Heroes (TV series)
  Heroes is an American science fiction television drama series created by Tim Kring that appeared on NBC for four seasons from September 25, 2006 through February 8, 2010. The series tells the stories of ordinary people who discover superhuman abilities, and how these abilities take effect in the...
  
  and Entourage
  Entourage (TV series)
  Entourage is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on July 18, 2004 and concluded on September 11, 2011, after eight seasons...
  
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• Victor Rasuk
  Victor Rasuk
  Victor Rasuk is an American actor.Rasuk was born in Harlem, New York to Dominican parents. He has one brother, Silvestre, with whom he starred in Raising Victor Vargas....
  
   – actor
• Silvestre Rasuk
  Silvestre Rasuk
  Silvestre Rasuk is an American actor.Rasuk was born in Harlem, New York to Dominican parents. He has one brother, Victor, with whom he co-starred in the 2002 film Raising Victor Vargas....
  
   – actor
• Judy Reyes
  Judy Reyes
  Judy Reyes is an American actress of Dominican heritage. She is best known for her portrayal of nurse Carla Espinosa on the TV comedy Scrubs.-Early life:...
  
   – actress (television series Scrubs
  Scrubs (TV series)
  Scrubs is an American medical comedy-drama television series created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of the fictional Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced screenplay, slapstick, and surreal vignettes...
  
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• Birmania Rios
  Birmania Rios
  Birmania Ríos , is a Dominican American television news journalist.Birmania . She resided in New York until the age of four, when her family decided to relocate to Puerto Rico...
  
   – television personality (television show Despierta America
  Despierta América
  ¡Despierta América! is a popular Spanish language morning show which has aired on the Univision television network since 1997. It is broadcast from the network's studios in Miami, Florida, and is hosted by Chiquinquirá Delgado, Poncho de Anda, Raúl González, and Karla Martínez. Satcha Pretto and...
  
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• Michelle Rodriguez
  Michelle Rodriguez
  Mayte Michelle Rodríguez , known professionally as Michelle Rodriguez, is an American actress. Following on from her breakthrough role in 2000's Girlfight, she is best known for playing tough-girl roles and starring in Hollywood blockbusters such as The Fast and the Furious, Resident Evil,...
  
   – actress
• Zoe Saldana
  Zoe Saldana
  Zoe Saldana , sometimes stylized Zoë Saldaña, is an American actress. She had her breakthrough role in the 2000 film Center Stage and later gained prominence for her roles as Anamaria in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Uhura in the 2009 film Star Trek, and a starring role...
  
   – actress
• Merlin Santana
  Merlin Santana
  Merlin Santana was an American actor and rapper. He is best known for his role as Keshia Knight Pulliam's admirer, Stanley on The Cosby Show and the high school student, Romeo Santana on The WB sitcom, The Steve Harvey Show.-Early life:Born in Upper Manhattan, New York to Dominican parents,...
  
   – actor
• Enrique Segoviano
  Enrique Segoviano
  Enrique Segoviano Enrique Segoviano Enrique Segoviano (born December 6, 1944, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic is a Dominican–Mexican television producer and director. He is best known as the original producer and director of Chespirito's various 1970s television series as well as for...
  
   – producer/director
• Rosanna Tavarez
  Rosanna Tavarez
  Rosanna Tavarez is a Dominican American entertainment reporter and presenter on television. Tavarez stars on TV Guide Channel alongside former American Idol contestants Kimberly Caldwell and Justin Guarini. She started off on Mun2, a Telemundo cable channel, hosting a show...
  
   – singer/television personality
• Shannon Tavarez
  Shannon Tavarez
  Shannon Skye Tavarez was an American child actress. She appeared in the Broadway theatre production of The Lion King by Walt Disney Theatrical, where she played the role ofthe young lion cub Nala.-Biography:...
  
   – Broadway actress and singer (Dominican father)
• Jessy Terrero
  Jessy Terrero
  Jessy Terrero is a Dominican film and music video director.-Life and career:Terrero began his filmmaking career working as an intern on the set of Darnell Martin's I Like It Like That. His acting credits include appearances in Law & Order, The Sopranos and In Search of a Dream...
  
   – director
• Celines Toribio
  Celines Toribio
  -Biography:Toribio was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In 1996 she graduated from Lehman College with a Bachelors Degree in Mass Communications and a Minor in Theater...
  
   – actress/model
• Julian Scott Urena
  Julian Scott Urena
  Julian Scott Urena is a Latin American actor. Born in Santiago, Dominican Republic, and immigrated with his family to New York City while in grade school....
  
   – actor
• Michelle Vargas
  Michelle Vargas
  Michele Vargas is a Dominican actress and model.-Biography:Michele Vargas was born in San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic in 1985. She completed her studies in New York. Her fame soared when she won the Telemundo reality show Protagonistas de Novela 2 in Miami, Florida. From there she went...
  
   - actress/model
• Ludo Vika
  Ludo Vika
  Ludo Vika is a Dominican-born actress and comedian.Born in the Dominican Republic, Ludo came from a working middle-class family. At age nine, she and her family emigrated to Puerto Rico in search of better opportunities and a new life...
  
   – actress/comedian
• Carmen Wong Ulrich
  Carmen Wong Ulrich
  Carmen Wong Ulrich is an American television & online journalist, and personal finance expert at CNBC where she was the former host of "On the Money," a personal finance program. She is currently a contributor to The Dr. Oz Show and iVillage...
  
   – journalist
• Sandra Zaiter
  Sandra Zaiter
  Sandra Zaiter is an actress, television children's show host, singer, composer and former athlete in Puerto Rico.Zaiter was born in the Dominican Republic, of Lebanese Maronite Christian ancestry. Early in her life she participated in church groups, and established her residence in Puerto Rico...
  
   – actress and television host

Painters and artists

• Jaime Colson
  Jaime Colson
  Jaime Colson was a modernist painter from the Dominican Republic. Born in San Felipe de Puerto Plata, he studied first in Spain, in Madrid and Barcelona, before moving to Paris and becoming accepted by the Cubists. He moved again, in 1934, to Mexico, where he taught for a time before returning...
  
  
• Paul Giudicelli
  Paul Giudicelli
  Paul Giudicelli was an abstract painter from the Dominican Republic. A native of San Pedro de Macorís, he initially entered the University of Santo Domingo to study philosophy, but he switched to the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes the following year. In 1953 he held his first exhibition, at...
  
  
• Aurelio Grisanty
  Aurelio Grisanty
  Aurelio "Rail" Grisanty , is a Dominican-born American painter, graphic artist, muralist, set and costume designer, entrepreneur, and the principal artist of the Beach Town Posters ongoing series of vintage Art Deco prints....
  
  
• Yoryi Morel
  Yoryi Morel
  Yoryi Morel was a painter from the Dominican Republic. A native of Santiago de los Caballeros, he spent most of his career in Santiago Province. He held his first exhibition in Santo Domingo in 1932. Later he founded the School of Fine Arts in his native city...
  
  
• Olivia Peguero
  Olivia Peguero
  Olivia Peguero is a Dominican contemporary landscape and botanical artist. Painting most of the year in the Dominican Republic and Florida, she is known for producing all of her studies and the majority of her finished pieces en plein air...
  
  
• Rigo Peralta
  Rigo Peralta
  Rigo Peralta is a Dominican artist living in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States.-Early life:Mario Rigoberto Peralta was born in San José de las Matas, Dominican Republic. He studied at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Santiago, Dominican Republic....
  
  
• Camille Pissarro
  Camille Pissarro
  Camille Pissarro was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas . His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, as he was the only artist to exhibit in both forms...
  
  
• Amaya Salazar
  Amaya Salazar
  Amaya Salazar is a Dominican artist known for her faceless personas that inhabit mystical and magical environments where light and the Antillean flora are present.- Biography :...
  
  
• Jorge Noceda Sanchez
  Jorge Noceda Sanchez
  Jorge Noceda Sanchez was a painter whose works are collected by museums throughout the world. A native of the Dominican Republic, he received his medical degree from the University of Santo Domingo, D.R. in 1952. Upon graduation he moved to New York to specialize in gastroenterology at New York...
  
  
• Darío Suro
  Darío Suro
  Dario Suro was a painter, critic and diplomat from the Dominican Republic. He was the nephew of painter Enrique García Godoy, his first art teacher. Along with Yoryi Morel and Jaime Colson, he is considered one of the founders of the modernist school of Dominican painting...
  
  
• Miguel Tio
• Celeste Woss y Gil
  Celeste Woss y Gil
  Celeste Woss y Gil was a painter from the Dominican Republic. She was known for her paintings of nude women, which shocked the bourgeoisie of Santo Domingo when they were first exhibited. Stylistically, her work owes something to the paintings of Paul Gauguin...
  
  

Political and military figures

• Rafael Alburquerque
  Rafael Alburquerque
  Rafael Francisco Alburquerque de Castro is a Dominican politician and the current vice president of the Dominican Republic, under President Leonel Fernández, since August 2004...
  
   – current vice president
• Buenaventura Báez Méndez
  Buenaventura Báez
  Buenaventura Báez Méndez was the President of the Dominican Republic for five nonconsecutive terms. He is known for attempting to annex the Dominican Republic to other countries on multiple occasions.-Early years:...
  
   – former president
• Joaquín Balaguer Ricardo
  Joaquín Balaguer
  Joaquín Antonio Balaguer Ricardo was the President of the Dominican Republic from 1960 to 1962, from 1966 to 1978, and again from 1986 to 1996.-Early life and introduction to politics:...
  
   – former president (1960–1962, 1966–1978, 1986–1996)
• Salvador Jorge Blanco
  Salvador Jorge Blanco
  José Salvador Omar Jorge Blanco was a politician, lawyer and a writer. He was the 48th President of the Dominican Republic, from 1982 –1986. He was a Senator running for the PRD party...
  
   – former president (1982–1986)
• Juan Bosch y Gaviño
  Juan Bosch
  Juan Emilio Bosch Gaviño was a politician, historian, short story writer, essayist, educator, and the first cleanly elected president of the Dominican Republic for a brief time in 1963. Previously, he had been the leader of the Dominican opposition in exile to the dictatorial regime of Rafael...
  
   - former president
• Francisco Alberto Caamaño Deñó - former president
• Fernando Cabrera
  Fernando Cabrera (politician)
  Fernando Cabrera , is currently a Democratic New York City Councilmember from the borough of The Bronx. He represents council district 14 which encompasses the neighborhoods of Fordham, Kingsbridge, Morris Height, and West Bronx. Cabrera was born in The Bronx to a Dominican father and Puerto...
  
   - New York City Councilman
• Margarita Cedeño de Fernández
  Margarita Cedeño de Fernández
  Margarita Cedeño de Fernández is the present First Lady of the Dominican Republic. She is the wife of President Leonel Fernández. As First Lady, she and her staff coordinate social policies for her husband's administration, generating programs of health and education for children, young people,...
  
   – current First Lady
  First Lady
  First Lady or First Gentlemanis the unofficial title used in some countries for the spouse of an elected head of state.It is not normally used to refer to the spouse or partner of a prime minister; the husband or wife of the British Prime Minister is usually informally referred to as prime...
  
   of the Dominican Republic
• Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
  Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez
  Lorraine A. Cortés-Vázquez was the 65th Secretary of State of New York, serving in the Cabinet of Governor David Paterson. She originally served in the Cabinet of former Governor Eliot Spitzer and remained in office following Paterson's taking over the governorship on March 17, 2008...
  
   - 65th Secretary of State of New York
  Secretary of State of New York
  The Secretary of State of New York is a cabinet officer in the government of the U.S. state of New York.The current Secretary of State of New York is Cesar A...
  
  
• Juan Pablo Duarte
  Juan Pablo Duarte
  Juan Pablo Duarte y Díez is one of the Founding Fathers of the Dominican Republic. He was a visionary and liberal thinker who along with Francisco del Rosario Sánchez and Matías Ramón Mella is widely considered the architect of the Dominican Republic and its independence from Haitian rule in 1844...
  
   – one of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic
• Adriano Espaillat
  Adriano Espaillat
  Adriano Espaillat is currently a member of the New York State Senate and formerly of the New York State Assembly.Espaillat graduated from Bishop Dubois High School in 1974 and earned his B.S. degree in political science at Queens College in 1978...
  
   – New York State Assemblyman; first Dominican American to be elected to a State House in the United States
• Leonel Fernández Reyna – current President (1996–2000, 2004–2008, 2008–2012)
• Pedro Florentino
  General Pedro Florentino
  General Pedro Florentino was an officer in the army of the Dominican Republic during the struggle to restore Dominican independence from Haiti. He was the hero of the important Battle of Jacuba...
  
   – hero of the Battle of Jacuba, during the War of Independence
  Dominican War of Independence
  The Dominican Independence War gave the Dominican Republic independence from Haiti in 1844. Before the war, the whole island of Hispaniola had been under Haitian rule for 22 years when Haiti occupied the newly independent state of Haití Español in 1822....
  
   from Haiti
• Maximiliano Gómez
  Maximiliano Gómez
  Maximiliano Gómez Horacio "El Moreno" was the leader of the Maoist Movimiento Popular Dominicano , a militant organization opposed to the Joaquín Balaguer government and to U.S. presence in the Dominican Republic...
  
   – revolutionary political leader
• Máximo Gómez
  Máximo Gómez
  Máximo Gómez y Báez was a Major General in the Ten Years' War and Cuba's military commander in that country's War of Independence ....
  
   – military commander of the Cuban War of Independence
  Cuban War of Independence
  Cuban War of Independence was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Ten Years' War and the Little War...
  
  
• Antonio Guzmán Fernández
  Antonio Guzmán Fernández
  Silvestre Antonio Guzmán Fernández was a Dominican businessman and a politician. He was the 46th President of the Dominican Republic, from 1978 to 1982.- Early life :Antonio Guzmán was born in the town of La Vega...
  
   – former president
• Ulises Heureaux
  Ulises Heureaux
  Ulises Heureaux Lebert was president of the Dominican Republic from 1 September 1882 to 1 September 1883, from 6 January to 27 February 1887 and again from 30 April 1889 until his assassination, maintaining power between his terms.-Early life:Heureaux, affectionately known as Lilís, was born in...
  
   - former president
• Gregorio Luperón
  Gregorio Luperón
  Gregorio Luperón , is best known for being a Dominican military and state leader who was the main leader in the restoration of the Dominican Republic after the Spanish annexation in 1863....
  
   – former president
• Miguel Martinez  – former New York City Councilman
• Hipólito Mejía
  Hipólito Mejía
  Rafael Hipólito Mejía Domínguez is a Dominican politician and former President of the Dominican Republic...
  
   – former president (2000–2004)
• Ramón Matías Mella
  Ramón Matías Mella
  Matías Ramón Mella, born 25 February 1816, is regarded as a national hero in the Dominican Republic. The Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and Mella is partially named in his honor....
  
   – one of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic
• The Mirabal sisters
  Mirabal sisters
  The Mirabal sisters were four Dominican political dissidents who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. Three of the sisters were assassinated by unknown persons...
  
   – political dissidents
• José Francisco Peña Gómez
  José Francisco Peña Gómez
  José Francisco Peña Gómez was a politician from the Dominican Republic. He was the leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party , a three-time candidate for president of the Dominican Republic and former Mayor of Santo Domingo...
  
   – mayor of Santo Domingo (1982–1986)
• Joseline Peña-Melnyk
  Joseline Pena-Melnyk
  Joseline Peña-Melnyk is an American politician who represents District 21 in the Maryland House of Delegates.-Background:Born in the Dominican Republic, Joseline Peña attended John F. Kennedy High School and graduated from Buffalo State College with a B.S. in Criminal Justice...
  
   – member of the Maryland General Assembly
  Maryland General Assembly
  The Maryland General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Maryland. It is a bicameral body. The upper chamber, the Maryland State Senate, has 47 representatives and the lower chamber, the Maryland House of Delegates, has 141 representatives...
  
  
• Cesar A. Perales
  Cesar A. Perales
  Cesar Augusto Perales is the Secretary of State of New York currently serving in the Cabinet of Governor Andrew Cuomo. On March 31, 2011, he was nominated by Governor Cuomo to replace outgoing Secretary Ruth Noemí Colón, and took office on May 2, 2011. He was confirmed by the State Senate on June 7...
  
   - 67th Secretary of State of New York
• Thomas Perez
  Thomas Perez
  Thomas Edward Perez is the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice...
  
   – civil rights lawyer
• Donald Reid Cabral
  Donald Reid Cabral
  Joseph Donald Reid Cabral was a former leader of the Dominican Republic. He chaired the "triumvirate" from December 29, 1963.- Biography :...
  
   – former president
• Tilo Rivas
  Tilo Rivas
  Tilo Rivas is an American politician, research scientist and former journalist. He represents on the Hudson County, New Jersey Board of Chosen Freeholders, one of nine members who serve in a legislative role administering all county business.-Early life:...
  
   – government official
• Ydanis Rodríguez
  Ydanis Rodriguez
  Ydanis Rodríguez is currently a Democratic New York City Council member from the borough of Manhattan and the Chair of the Higher Education Committee.-Early life and background:...
  
   - New York City councilman
• José Antonio (Pepillo) Salcedo – first president after the Restoration
  Dominican Restoration War
  The Dominican Restoration War was a guerrilla war between 1863 and 1865 in the Dominican Republic between nationalists and Spain, who had recolonized the country 17 years after its independence...
  
   of the Dominican Republic
• Francisco del Rosario Sánchez
  Francisco del Rosario Sánchez
  Francisco Del Rosario Sánchez was a politician and founding father of the Dominican Republic. He is considered by Dominicans as the second leader of the 1844 Dominican War of Independence, after Juan Pablo Duarte and before Ramón Matías Mella. The Order of Merit of Duarte, Sanchez and Mella is...
  
   – one of the founding fathers of the Dominican Republic
• Jose Santana
  José Santana
  José Manuel Santana Silvestre, is the Executive Director of the Dominican Republic Presidential Commission of Science and Technology and Research Associate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
  
   – former government minister
• Pedro Santana Familias
  Pedro Santana
  Pedro Santana y Familias was a wealthy cattle rancher, soldier, politician and dictator of the Dominican Republic. He was born in the community of Hinche, which was part of the Colony of Santo Domingo. Currently, Hinche is a border town part of Haiti...
  
   – first president (1844)
• Angel Taveras
  Angel Taveras
  Angel Taveras is an American lawyer and mayor of Providence, Rhode Island. Taveras is the first Hispanic mayor of the city and the third elected and fourth serving Dominican-American mayor in the United States....
  
   - mayor of Providence, Rhode Island
• Rafael Leónidas Trujillo
  Rafael Leónidas Trujillo
  Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina , nicknamed El Jefe , ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961. He officially served as president from 1930 to 1938 and again from 1942 to 1952, otherwise ruling as an unelected military strongman...
  
   – dictator (1930–1961)
• Ramfis Trujillo
  Ramfis Trujillo
  Lieutenant General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Martínez , better known as Ramfis Trujillo, was the son of Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina and María Martínez...
  
   – general and son of dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo
• Elias Wessin y Wessin
  Elías Wessin y Wessin
  Elías Wessin y Wessin was a Dominican politician and Dominican Air Force general. Wessin led the military coup which ousted the government of Dominican President Juan Bosch in 1963, replacing it with a triumvirate...
  
   – former general
• Abel Martínez Durán – Diputado

Scientists and scholars

• Víctor A. Carreño
  Victor A. Carreño
  Dr. Víctor A. Carreño is a NASA Aerospace Engineer and Aerospace Technologist. He holds the patent for the Single Frequency Multitransmitter Telemetry System.-Early years:...
  
   – NASA
  NASA
  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
  
   aerospace engineer
• Erich E. Kunhardt
  Erich E. Kunhardt
  Erich E. Kunhardt is a Professor of applied physics at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and a special advisor to the Institute's President. He was born in Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic on May 31, 1949, moving to the United States in 1956....
  
   – physicist
• Frank Moya Pons
  Frank Moya Pons
  Frank Moya Pons is the leading contemporary historian of the Dominican Republic. He has published many important books in the history and cultural heritage of the country. One of his best known works is Manual de historia dominicana , now in its tenth edition which is a staple work of Dominican...
  
   – historian
• Feniosky Pena-Mora
  Feniosky Peña-Mora
  Feniosky Peña-Mora is a Dominican born engineer, educator, and the 14th Dean of Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. Formerly the Associate Provost of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, he has an international reputation for his teaching,...
  
   – engineer
• Margot Taule
  Margot Taule
  Margot Taule, born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, August 30, 1920 is an architect. She was the first woman to become a registered professional engineer and architect in the Dominican Republic.- Life and education :...
  
   – architect
• Héctor Valdez Albizu
  Héctor Valdez Albizu
  Héctor Valdez Albizu is the current Governor of the Banco Central de la República Dominicana , a position he first held from 31 August 1994 through 16 August 2000, and again since 16 August 2004...
  
   – economist

Singers and musicians

• Manny Albam
  Manny Albam
  Manny Albam was a jazz baritone saxophone player who eventually put the instrument down in favour of a long and respected career as an arranger, writer, and teacher.-Biography:The son of Lithuanian immigrants, who was born in the Dominican Republic when his mother went into labour en route...
  
   – jazz musician
• Luis Alberti
  Luis Alberti
  Luis Alberti was a Dominican Merengue musician, arranger, conductor, and author of significant popular songs such as Compadre Pedro Juan and many others performed and recorded by noted interpreters with diverse backgrounds.-Career:Born Luis Felipe Alberti Mieses in La Vega, Dominican Republic, he...
  
   – merengue musician
• José Alberto
  José Alberto
  José Alberto is a Dominican salsa singer. José Alberto moved to Puerto Rico with his family at the age of 7, and inspired by Latin music went on to polish his singing at Las Antillas Military Academy...
  
   (aka El Canario) – salsa singer
• Anaís
  Anaís
  -Notable TV Guest Appearances:*Premios Juventud*Latin Grammys*Latin Grammy Celebra Marco Antonio Solís*Al Despertar 41*El Show de Cristina*Escándalo TV*Anda Pa'l Cará*El Gordo y la Flaca*Despierta América*Premios Casandras 2007...
  
   – pop singer
• Andy Andy
  Andy Andy
  Andy Andy or Andy "Fan" is a Dominican musician from the famed Villalona family. He first started as a merenguero. He struggled with this type of music and decided to cross over to bachata at first with the nickname "Andy Fan". His first music album, Aquí Conmigo , was released in 2002...
  
   – singer
• Arcangel
  Arcangel (singer)
  Austin Santos , better known by his stage name Arcángel, is a singer-songwriter, rapper and actor. He was born in New York City, and eventually moved to Puerto Rico in 2002, interested in becoming a performer of reggaeton, a contemporary Latin American urban music genre...
  
   – reggaeton artist
• Eduardo Brito
  Eduardo Brito
  Eduardo Brito was a Dominican Baritone singer. He was world renowned for his voice and took to the stage in many countries performing operas and zarzuelas. The main hall of the Dominican National Theater is named after Brito....
  
   - baritone singer
• Alex Bueno
  Alex Bueno
  Alex Bueno is a singer and guitarist from the Dominican Republic, specializing in merengue and bachata music. He joined Gerardo Vera's All-Stars in 1979 and formed Orquesta Liberacion in 1982.- References :...
  
   – merengue/bachata singer
• Aventura – bachata group
• Nini Caffaro
  Nini Caffaro
  Nini Cáffaro, Erasmo Alfonso Cáffaro Durán is an internationally-known singer.-Biography:Cáffaro began singing gospel while attending elementary school...
  
   – singer
• José Manuel Calderón – bachata musician
• Michel Camilo
  Michel Camilo
  Michel Camilo is a pianist and composer from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He specializes in jazz, Latin and classical piano work...
  
   – jazz pianist
• Angela Carrasco
  Angela Carrasco
  Angela Carrasco is a Dominican singer. Carrasco was one of a group of Latin American divas in the 1970s. This group also included Susana Giménez, Charytín, Iris Chacón, Ednita Nazario, Yolandita Monge and Rocío Dúrcal....
  
   – singer
• Aisha Syed Castro
  Aisha Syed Castro
  Aisha Syed Castro , is a violinist and a member of the Yehudi Menuhin School orchestra.-Biography:Aisha was born in Santiago, Dominican Republic, the daughter of Saifuddin Syed, from Pakistan and Carolina Castro from the Dominican Republic. She is the second of four children...
  
   – violinist
• Las Chicas Del Can
  Las Chicas Del Can
  Las Chicas Del Can is an all-female merengue group from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Originally created by Wilfrido Vargas, several teams of female vocalists and musicians have alternately performed under the name Las Chicas del Can throughout the group's history.Originally founded in 1982,...
  
  
• Angel Clivillés
  Angel Clivillés
  Angel Clivillés is the stage name used by Louise Angel Sabater, a Latina dance music singer of Puerto Rican descent. She was born in the Bronx, New York.-Music career:...
  
   – singer/lead member of The Cover Girls
  The Cover Girls
  The Cover Girls is a New York City-based freestyle-urban-dance-pop girl group that achieved the majority of its chart success in the late 1980s and early 1990s...
  
  
• Javier Colon - singer and winner of the first season
  The Voice (U.S. season 1)
  The Voice is an American reality talent show. The American series premiered on April 26, 2011 on the NBC television network. The winner of the first series was Javier Colon, mentored by coach Adam Levine, the finale airing on June 29, 2011...
  
   of U.S. reality series The Voice
  The Voice (U.S. TV series)
  The Voice is an American reality talent show that premiered on April 26, 2011 on the NBC television network. Based on the reality singing competition The Voice of Holland, the series was created by Dutch television producer John de Mol. It is part of an international series...
  
  
• Coro – freestyle
  Freestyle rap
  Freestyle rap commonly refers to rap lyrics which are improvised through a acapella or with instrumental beats, i.e. performed with no previously composed lyrics, or "off the top of the head"...
  
   singer/actor
• Cristal Marie
  Cristal Marie
  Cristal Marie is a Dominican Rock singer, songwriter, actress and performer who in The United State is best known for singing the opening theme of the North American telenovela "Pecados Ajenos" by Telemundo alongside Cuban-American singer Jencarlos Canela.She has won the Casandra Award Cristal...
  
   – Latin Pop singer, songwriter
• Kat Deluna
  Kat DeLuna
  Kathleen Emperatriz "Kat" DeLuna is an American pop singer of Dominican heritage. DeLuna has a soprano vocal range. Her debut single, "Whine Up", reached the top ten in Belgium and France, peaked inside the top forty of the Billboard Hot 100 and topped the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart. Her...
  
   – singer
• DJ Prostyle
  DJ Prostyle
  DJ Prostyle, is an Dominican-American DJ and producer on Power 105.1 in New York City and Power 95.3 in Orlando, Florida. He also owns his own record label, All Pro Records....
  
   – hip hop DJ
• Don Miguelo
  Don Miguelo
  Don Miguelo is a Dominican rapper in the Reggaeton genre. He became famous with his smash hit "La Cola De Motora" and "Ay Que Tu Quiere". He has recently traveled to the United States in hopes that his new album will be an even better seller than before. But that never happened.-Biography:Don...
  
   – reggaeton artist
• El Cata
  El Cata
  Edward Bello Pou, better known by his stage name El Cata, is a Dominican rapper, songwriter, record producer, who emerged in the music scene in 1999, born and raised in Barahona, Dominican Republic.-Early life:...
  
   – merengue musician
• El Jeffrey
  El Jeffrey
  Engel Garcia, better known by his stage name El Jeffrey, is a merengue artist from the Dominican Republic. A major album of his is "Mi Vida".El Jeffrey first became a household name with the 80's merengue group La Artilleria along with Nelson Gil, Joan Minaya and "La Rubia" Jaqueline.With La...
  
   – merengue singer
• El Prodigio
  El Prodigio
  Krency Garcia, better known as El Prodigio, is a famous merengue tipico accordionist from Cabrera, Dominican Republic. He is known throughout the genre for his rapid instrumental solos, his origination of fusion in merengue tipico with genres like jazz, and his rivalry with fellow accordionists,...
  
   – accordionist
• Jackeline Estevez
  Jackeline Estevez
  Jackeline Estevez is a popular female singer in the Dominican Republic. She wasborn in San Francisco de Macoris, Dominican Republic. She has been performing for more than 27 years and recently won the 2008 Casandra Award for best female artist....
  
   – pop singer
• Fabolous
  Fabolous
  John David Jackson , better known by his stage name Fabolous, is an American rapper of African American and Dominican descent. He grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Part of his early popularity arose from his hit single "Can't Deny It" in 2001, from his debut...
  
   – rapper
• Zacarias Ferreira
  Zacarías Ferreira
  Zacarías Ferreira is a Bachata artist from the Dominican Republic. He was born in the 1970s in the Dominican Republic.-Biography:Ferreira was born in the cigar-manufacturing town of Amaceyes Tamboril, near Santiago in the Cibao region of the north-western Dominican Republic...
  
   – bachata singer
• Omar Franco
  Omar Franco
  Omar Franco, Dominican singer and composer, was born a June 11 in the town of Castañuelas, in the province of Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic, but spends most of his childhood, reaching adulthood, in the city of La Vega.- Beginnings:...
  
   - singer/composer
• Billo Frómeta
  Billo Frómeta
  Billo Frómeta was a Dominican Republic orchestra conductor, arranger and composer who lived and worked most of his life in Venezuela, where he is remembered.- Early career :...
  
   – singer
• Irv Gotti – producer
• Juan Luis Guerra
  Juan Luis Guerra
  Juan Luis Guerra is a singer, songwriter and producer from the Dominican Republic who has sold over 30 million records, and won numerous awards including 12 Latin Grammy Awards, two Grammy Awards, and two Latin Billboard Music Awards...
  
   – merengue/bachata/salsa musician
• Tatico Henriquez
  Tatico Henriquez
  Tatico Henriquez , considered one of the best accordionists of merengue tipico,was born in Nagua, Dominican Republic. His career began in the 1960s and the early 1970s. He was known for his skill on the...
  
   – merengue musician
• Martha Heredia
  Martha Heredia
  Martha Roseli Heredia Rivas is a Dominican singer and the winner of the fourth season of the television program Latin American Idol...
  
   – singer
• Julio Alberto Hernández
  Julio Alberto Hernandez
  Julio Alberto Hernández was a Dominican composer. He specialized in folk-music based compositions.-Biography:...
  
   – composer
• Maridalia Hernández
  Maridalia Hernández
  Maridalia Hernández is a singer from the Dominican Republic.-Early life and education:Maridalia Hernández was born in [San Francisco De Macoris]], Dominican Republic, in 1959...
  
  
• Eddy Herrera
  Eddy Herrera
  Eddy Jose Herrera de los Rios, also known as Eddy Herrera, is a merengue singer and winner of more than seven Casandra Awards. Born on 30 April 1964 in the Dominican Republic, in the city of Santiago de Los Caballeros.-History :...
  
   – merengue singer
• Nicky Jam
  Nicky Jam
  Nick Rivera Caminero is known artistically as Nicky Jam is a Puerto Rican singer. He was born to a Dominican mother and a Puerto Rican father...
  
   – reggaeton artist
• Krisspy
  Krisspy
  Krisspy is a well-known Dominican Merengue singer who has appeared on a number of compilations, including 100% Dominicano: La Nueva Sangre del Reggaeton and Bachata Tipico. He has also performed with Ingco Crew, a prominent Dominican reggaeton group, and Grupo Aguakate, another merengue tipico group...
  
   – merengue singer
• Ñico Lora
  Ñico Lora
  Francisco Antonio Lora Cabrera popularly known as Ñico Lora was a Dominican folk musician consider as one of the fathers of Merengue....
  
   – known as the "Father of Merengue" music, singer
• Los Hermanos Rosario
  Los Hermanos Rosario
  Los Hermanos Rosario is a merengue music band, originally consisting of brothers Toño Rosario, Pepe, Rafa and Luis.-History:...
  
   – merengue group
• Luny Tunes
  Luny Tunes
  Luny Tunes are a Dominican reggaeton production duo consisting of Francisco Saldaña and Víctor Cabrera , who have been known for creating unique musical rhythms for some of the most popular reggaeton artists since the early 2000s.-Biography:...
  
   – reggaeton producers/artists
• Irka Mateo
  Irka Mateo
  Irka Mateo is a Dominican singer songwriter and world music artist. Her artistic career has been one of breaking boundaries and embracing people’s deepest humanity especially through their music....
  
   – folk singer/songwriter
• Miguelito
  Miguelito (artist)
  Miguel A. Valenzuela Morales , known as Miguelito, is a Puerto Rican reggaeton artist. He has released four albums.-Personal life:Miguelito is the youngest son of a Dominican father and a Puerto Rican mother...
  
   – rapper (Dominican father)
• Nova
  Pacha Massive
  Pacha Massive , is a creative collaboration between Dominican-born Nova and Colombian-born Maya . The band, from the Bronx, New York City, was Nacional Records’ first U.S.-based signing...
  
   – singer
• Noztra
  Noztra
  Martin Rivera , better known as Noztra, is a reggaeton musician. Born in San Francisco de Macorís, Dominican Republic, his family moved to New York looking for work when he was seven. At the age of 16, Noztra began composing his own lyrics and music.- History :In 2002 he conducted one of the first...
  
   – reggaeton artist
• Pavel Nuñez
  Pavel Nuñez
  Pavel Nuñez commonly referred to as Pavel is a singer from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic with influences of Rock en Español, Latin pop, and Dominican traditional music. Best known for his international hit single "Te Di", and other favorites like "Betania" and "Paso a Paso". He released his...
  
   – pop/rock musician
• Prince Royce
  Prince Royce
  Geoffrey Royce Rojas , known professionally as Prince Royce, is an American singer-songwriter and record producer from New York City, New York. At an early age, Royce took an interest in music and into his teenage years, began experimenting with music and writing poetry. By age nineteen, Royce met...
  
   – bachata singer
• Juan Francisco Ordóñez
  Juan Francisco Ordóñez
  Juan Francisco Ordóñez is a guitarist from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He is considered an innovator of bachata guitar language, through a fusion of blues, rock and jazz with his particular style..- Career:...
  
   – guitarist/composer
• Ramón Orlando
  Ramon Orlando
  Ramón Orlando Valoy is a merengue musician and son of Cuco Valoy.Ramón Orlando was born in Manoguayabo, then part of Santo Domingo, D.N. and now part of Santo Domingo Province...
  
   – merengue singer
• Shalim Ortiz
  Shalim Ortiz
  Shalim Gerardo Ortiz Goyco is a singer/actor. He is the eldest son of Puerto Rican entertainer Elin Ortiz and his wife, the Dominican singer, television presenter, and actress Charytín Goyco.-Television:...
  
   – singer
• Johnny Pacheco
  Johnny Pacheco
  Johnny Pacheco is a Dominican producer, musician, bandleader, and one of the most influential figures in American salsa music.-Early life:...
  
   – salsa singer/producer/bandleader
• Leonardo Paniagua
  Leonardo Paniagua
  Leonardo Panigua is one of the Dominican Republic's most popular bachata musicians. He emerged from obscurity to overnight stardom in the 1970s, when he recorded his first 45rpm record, "Amada, Amante" for Discos Guarachita....
  
   – bachata artist
• Karina Pasian
  Karina Pasian
  Karina Pasian is an American Grammy Award nominated singer and pianist. She is currently signed to Def Jam.-Life and career:...
  
   – singer/pianist
• Chichi Peralta
  Chichi Peralta
  Chichi Peralta is a Singer, musician, arranger and producer, from the Dominican Republic.-Biography:Chichi Peralta was born on July 9, 1966 in Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic. His musical career began at the age of four, when he built his first drum...
  
   – singer, bandleader, percussionist
• Geovanny Polanco
  Geovanny Polanco
  Geovanny Polanco is a merengue tipico accordionist from Maria Trinidad Sanchez, Nagua, Dominican Republic...
  
   – merengue singer
• Milly Quezada
  Milly Quezada
  Milagros Quezada Borbón, known simply as Milly Quezada, is a Latin Grammy-winning Dominican Merengue music singer. She is a singer in Latin America; especially in those Latin American countries bordered by the Caribbean Sea, and in the eastern seaboard region of the United States...
  
   – singer, dubbed the "Queen of Merengue"
• Fausto Rey
  Fausto Rey
  Fausto Ramón Sepúlveda, better known by his stage name Fausto Rey, was born December 1, 1950 in the Higuey province, on the east coast of the Dominican Republic....
  
   – singer/composer
• Frank Reyes
  Frank Reyes
  Frank Reyes , born Francisco López Reyes, is one of the best known bachata artists, famous throughout Latin America. He was born in the town of Tenares in Boba Arriba, Dominican Republic. Reyes discovered his musical talent when he was a young boy. He and his brothers started their own musical...
  
   – bachata singer
• Trio Reynoso
  Trio Reynoso
  Trio Reynoso also known as "the kings of Merengue Tipico" is considered one of the best musical groups of perico ripiao ormerengue tipico. Trio Reynoso is composed of singer/accordionist Pedro Reynoso, percussionist Francisco Esquea , and...
  
   - known as the "kings of merengue tipico" merengue/bachata group
• Mario Rivera
  Mario Rivera
  Mario Rivera was a musician, composer and arranger. He was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.- References :* * [ Allmusic]*...
  
   – jazz composer/artist
• Karen Rodriguez
  Karen Rodriguez
  Karen Rodriguez is an American singer from New York City, New York. Rodriguez placed twelfth on the tenth season of American Idol.-Early life:...
  
   – singer and contestant on 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...
  
  
• Raulín Rodríguez
  Raulin Rodriguez
  Raulín Rodríguez is a bachata artist, one of the first major bachata artists to have national success and popularize this style of music in the Dominican Republic....
  
   – bachata singer
• Rosangela
  Rosangela
  Rosangela Abreu Crespo is a Puerto Rican singer of Dominican descent who participated as a contestant in the second season of Objetivo Fama, and the second season of Latin American Idol.On Latin American Idol, she was known for a powerful voice and a good stage presence...
  
   - singer
• Toño Rosario
  Toño Rosario
  Máximo Antonio del Rosario , commonly known as Toño Rosario, is a Grammy-award nominee Merengue musician born in the Dominican Republic.-Biography:Tono Rosario is a singer-songwriter, arranger and producer...
  
   – merengue singer
• Raulin Rosendo
  Raulin Rosendo
  A Dominican Republic-born singer transplanted to New York City, salsa star Raulín Rosendo was born in Santo Domingo on August 30, 1957. Steeped in the rhythms of Afro-Antilles music throughout his childhood, he began his performing career at the age of 12 as a member of the merengue group El Chivo...
  
   – salsa singer
• Roger Sanchez
  Roger Sanchez
  Roger Sanchez, also known as Roger S. and The S Man, is a Grammy award-winning American House music DJ who has scored many hits in the European and World Charts...
  
   – DJ/house music producer
• Daniel Santacruz
  Daniel Santacruz
  Daniel Santacruz is a singer-songwriter, recording artist and music producer. Born in New Jersey and raised in the Dominican Republic to a cuban father and a dominican mother, Santacruz is a three time Latin Grammy Award nominee....
  
   – singer/songwriter
• Juelz Santana
  Juelz Santana
  LaRon Louis James , better known by his stage name Juelz Santana, is an American rapper, producer, and actor. He appeared on Cam'ron's 2002 singles, "Oh Boy" and "Hey Ma"...
  
   – rapper
• Lizette Santana
  Lizette Santana
  Lizette Santana , also known as Lizé, is an American recording artist, singer, songwriter, musician, record producer and actress.-Biography:...
  
   (also known as Lizé) – singer/songwriter
• Antony Santos
  Antony Santos
  Antony Santos is a bachata musician from the Dominican Republic, renowned for his role in redefining the genre to include romantic music.Santos entered onto the scene in the early 1990s, beginning his career as the guira player for fellow bachatero Luis Vargas, only to leave the group and maintain...
  
   – bachata singer
• Yoskar Sarante
  Yoskar Sarante
  Yoskar "El Prabu" Sarante is a prominent Dominican bachatero. Yoskar Sarante, born in 1970, is one of the most popular singers of new Bachata of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. Born of the union of his parents Domingo and Ramona Sarante Ventura, is the second son of the family, but he's...
  
   – bachata singer
• Luis Segura
  Luis Segura
  Luis Segura , is a Dominican singer known as 'The Father of Bachata'. He is considered one the best at his art with hits like "Pena por ti", "Dicen", and "No me celes tanto". He is also known for the use of double entendre in his songs, like "El Salon" .- References :...
  
   – singer
• Triple Seis – rapper
• Rafael Solano
  Rafael Solano
  Rafael Solano Sánchez is a Dominican pianist, song-writer, composer, arranger, author, and former Dominican ambassador to UNESCO. He is credited with writing over a hundred songs of various genres that include romantic, folk, as well as choral, religious, and of course, merengue music...
  
   – songwriter/composer
• Ines Thomas Almeida
  Ines Thomas Almeida
  Ines Thomas Almeida is a Dominican-Portuguese lyric singer currently living in Berlin and Lisbon.- Life and career :...
  
   – opera singer
• Cuco Valoy
  Cuco Valoy
  Cuco Valoy is Dominican salsa and merengue singer. He is the father of Ramón Orlando with whom he formed the band Los Virtuosos...
  
   – merengue singer/bandleader
• Luis Vargas
  Luis Vargas (musician)
  Luis Vargas is one of the Dominican Republic's most popular bachata musicians. When he began in the early 1990s, Antony Santos, considered by some to be one of the most influential bachata musicians of all time, was his güira player....
  
   – bachata singer
• Sergio Vargas
  Sergio Vargas
  For the Chilean football goalkeeper with the same name see Sergio Vargas Sergio Vargas is a Dominican merengue singer. He has been a member of the bands La Banda Brava and Los Hijos del Rey.- References :...
  
   – merengue singer
• Wilfrido Vargas
  Wilfrido Vargas
  Wilfrido Radamés Vargas Martínez was born in Altamira, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.He was surrounded by musical influences; namely, his father Ramón, an accordionist and guitarist, and his mother Bienvenida, a flute player and guitarist...
  
   – merengue singer
• Johnny Ventura
  Johnny Ventura
  Juan e Dios Ventura Soriano, better known as Johnny Ventura is a singer and band leader of merengue.- Early History :...
  
   – merengue singer
• Fernando Villalona
  Fernando Villalona
  Fernando Villalona, the first artist named "El Mayimbe" , is a Dominican merengue singer whose popularity started to grow in the late 70s and has not declined ever since....
  
   – singer

Sports figures

• Manny Acta
  Manny Acta
  Manuel Elias Acta is a Major League Baseball manager for the Cleveland Indians. He is the former manager of the Washington Nationals . In the Dominican Winter League, he managed the Tigres del Licey from 2002–2004, including leading them to victory at the 2003 Caribbean Series...
  
   – Manager of the Cleveland Indians
  Cleveland Indians
  The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , they have played in Progressive Field. The team's spring training facility is in Goodyear, Arizona...
  
  
• Raul Aguayo
  Raul Aguayo
  Raul Aguayo is Dominican sailor. He represented the Dominican Republic in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in the Sailing category. He is the tallest sailor at the 2008 Summer Olympic Games measuring 213 centimeters .-References:...
  
   – national sail team member (2008 Summer Olympics
  2008 Summer Olympics
  The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...
  
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• Antonio Alfonseca
  Antonio Alfonseca
  Antonio Alfonseca is a relief pitcher for the Bridgeport Bluefish of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball. He last pitched in Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies, and is also known for having an extra digit on each hand and foot. Alfonseca has also played for the Florida...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Carlos Almanzar
  Carlos Almanzar
  Carlos Manuel Almanzar Girón is a Major League Baseball pitcher. He has pitched for the Toronto Blue Jays, San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds, and Texas Rangers...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Felipe Alou – professional baseball manager and player
• Jesús Alou
  Jesús Alou
  Jesús María Rojas Alou is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. During a 17-year baseball career, he played for the San Francisco Giants , Houston Astros , Oakland Athletics , and New York Mets...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Matty Alou
  Matty Alou
  Mateo Rojas "Matty" Alou was a Dominican outfielder who spent fifteen seasons in Major League Baseball with the San Francisco Giants , Pittsburgh Pirates , St. Louis Cardinals , Oakland Athletics , New York Yankees and San Diego Padres...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Moisés Alou
  Moisés Alou
  Moisés Rojas Alou |Spanish:]] ; born July 3, 1966 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a former American outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for 17 seasons in the National League. In 1,942 career games, Alou had a batting average of .303 with 2,134 hits, 421 doubles, 332 home runs, and 1,287 runs...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Joaquín Andújar
  Joaquín Andújar
  Joaquín Andújar is a former Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher who became one of the most dominant pitchers in baseball while playing with the St. Louis Cardinals in the mid-80s.-Early years:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Orlando Antigua
  Orlando Antigua
  Orlando Antigua a.k.a. "Hurricane" , an American basketball player, became the first Hispanic and the first non-black to play for the Harlem Globetrotters in 52 years when he signed in 1995....
  
   – professional basketball player
• Greg Aquino
  Greg Aquino
  Gregori Emilio Aquino Valera is a Major League Baseball pitcher who is currently in the Chicago White Sox organization.Aquino was originally signed as a 16-year-old infielder in , by the Arizona Diamondbacks....
  
   – professional baseball player
• Joaquin Arias – professional baseball player
• Trevor Ariza
  Trevor Ariza
  Trevor Anthony Ariza is an American basketball player in the National Basketball Association who plays for the New Orleans Hornets. Primarily a small forward, he is listed at tall and 210 pounds.-Biography:...
  
   – professional basketball player
• Miguel Batista
  Miguel Batista
  Miguel Descartes Batista Jerez is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher. He has played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Florida Marlins, Chicago Cubs, Montreal Expos, Kansas City Royals, Arizona Diamondbacks, Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners, Washington Nationals, St...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Tony Batista
  Tony Batista
  Leocadio Francisco "Tony" Batista is a former Major League Baseball infielder who is currently a free agent. He played in the major leagues from to and to , and with the Softbank Hawks of the Japanese Pacific League in .-Career:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Danny Bautista
  Danny Bautista
  Daniel Bautista Alcántara is a former MLB baseball outfielder. He is more commonly known as Danny Bautista....
  
   – professional baseball player
• Denny Bautista
  Denny Bautista
  Denny M. Bautista is Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the Hanwha Eagles of the Korean Baseball Organization. He also played in Major League Baseball for the Baltimore Orioles, Kansas City Royals, Colorado Rockies, Detroit Tigers, Pittsburgh Pirates, and San Francisco Giants.-Florida...
  
   – professional baseball player
• José Bautista
  José Bautista
  José Antonio Bautista is a Dominican professional baseball outfielder with the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball. Though now primarily a right fielder, having been a utility player in the past, he has major league experience at six different positions...
  
   – professional baseball player
• José Bautista
  José Bautista (pitcher)
  José Joaquín Bautista Arias is a former right-handed pitcher who played in Major League Baseball from to . Bautista is observantly Jewish, born to a Dominican father and an Israeli mother.-Baseball career:...
  
   – professional baseball player (pitcher)
• George Bell – professional baseball player
• Ronnie Belliard
  Ronnie Belliard
  Ronald "Ronnie" Belliard is a retired Major League Baseball second baseman of Dominican descent.-Early life:Belliard attended Central High School in Miami, Florida...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Francis Beltrán
  Francis Beltrán
  Francis LeBron Beltrán is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher who is currently a member of the York Revolution of the Atlantic League.-Chicago Cubs:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Adrián Beltré
  Adrián Beltré
  Adrián Beltré Pérez is a Major League Baseball third baseman for the Texas Rangers.The youngest player in the National League when he made his major league debut, he has also played for the Los Angeles Dodgers , the Seattle Mariners , the Boston Red Sox , and the Texas Rangers . He bats and...
  
   - professional baseball player
• Esteban Beltre
  Esteban Beltré
  Esteban Valera Beltré is a former shortstop in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago White Sox , Texas Rangers and Boston Red Sox...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Armando Benitez
  Armando Benítez
  Armando Germán Benítez is a relief pitcher who is currently a free agent.-Baltimore Orioles:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Joaquin Benoit
  Joaquín Benoit
  Joaquín Antonio Benoit Peña is a Dominican professional baseball relief pitcher with the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball in the United States. He is 6'3" and weighs 220 pounds.-Texas Rangers:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Angel Berroa
  Angel Berroa
  Ángel Maria Berroa Selmo is a Dominican professional baseball infielder. Berroa was selected as the 2003 American League Rookie of the Year.-Early career:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Wilson Betemit
  Wilson Betemit
  Wilson Betemit is a Dominican professional baseball infielder. He is 6'2" and weighs 220 pounds...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Tony Blanco
  Tony Blanco
  Tony Hemiphere Blanco is a professional baseball player , He last played in Major League Baseball for the Washington Nationals...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Yhency Brazoban
  Yhency Brazobán
  Yhency José "Belt-High" Brazobán is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Juan Brito
  Juan Brito
  Juan Ramon Brito is a J-BRITo catcher. Brito made his MLB debut with the Kansas City Royals in...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Daniel Cabrera
  Daniel Cabrera
  Daniel Alberto Cabrera Cruz is a Major League Baseballright-handed starting pitcher who is currently a free agent. He is one of the taller pitchers in the league, standing at 6' 9" and 270 lb....
  
   – professional baseball player
• Francisco Cabrera – professional baseball player
• Melky Cabrera
  Melky Cabrera
  Melky Astacio Cabrera is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the San Francisco Giants.-Minors:Cabrera was signed by the New York Yankees on November 13, 2001, at age 17...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Robinson Canó
  Robinson Canó
  Robinson José Canó Mercedes is a Dominican baseball player who currently plays as a second baseman for the New York Yankees.-Family and early life:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Fausto Carmona
  Fausto Carmona
  Fausto C. Carmona is a right-handed pitcher for the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball. Carmona made his major league debut with the Indians on April 15, 2006...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Rico Carty
  Rico Carty
  Ricardo Adolfo Jacobo Carty is a former professional baseball player. Nicknamed Beeg Boy, he played mostly as an outfielder in Major League Baseball from to...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Bernie Castro
  Bernie Castro
  Bernabel "Bernie" Castro is a Major League Baseball second baseman. He has played two major league seasons, one with each the Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles.-Career:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Fabio Castro
  Fabio Castro
  Fabio Enrique Castro is a relief pitcher currently with the Seattle Mariners organization.-Career:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Starlin Castro
  Starlin Castro
  Starlin Dejesus Castro is a Major League Baseball shortstop for the Chicago Cubs.-Minor Leagues:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Alberto Castillo – professional baseball Player
• Luis Castillo – professional baseball Player
• Luis Castillo – professional football player
• César Cedeño
  César Cedeño
  César Cedeño Encarnación is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball who played with the Houston Astros , Cincinnati Reds , St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers . He batted and threw right-handed....
  
   – professional baseball player
• Stalin Colinet
  Stalin Colinet
  Stalin D. Colinet is a former defensive tackle/defensive end in the NFL.-Early years:Colinet attended Cardinal Hayes High School where he lettered in football, basketball, and track. He was named Team MVP and a league all-star in his junior and senior years, and he was named to the CHSAA All-Star...
  
   – former professional football player
• Jesus Colome
  Jesús Colomé
  Jesús Colomé de la Cruz is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher with the Colorado Rockies organization.-Oakland Athletics:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Bartolo Colón
  Bartolo Colón
  Bartolo Colón is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. He played in Major League Baseball from 1997 to 2009 and again in 2011...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Roman Colon
  Román Colón
  Román Benedicto Colón is a Major League Baseball pitcher. He is 6 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs 245 pounds...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Francisco Cordero
  Francisco Cordero
  Francisco Javier Cordero is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Carlos Cruz – former professional boxing champion
• Deivi Cruz
  Deivi Cruz
  Deivi Cruz Garcia , is a former baseball shortstop who last played for the Bridgeport Bluefish of the independent Atlantic League.He was released by the St...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Leo Cruz
  Leo Cruz
  Leonardo Cruz , better known in the world of boxing as Leo Cruz, was a world Jr. Featherweight champion from the Dominican Republic.-Personal:...
  
   – professional boxing champion (brother of Carlos Cruz)
• Johnny Cueto
  Johnny Cueto
  Johnny Brent Cueto [KWAY-toe] is a right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds.-Minor league career:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Manuel Felix Diaz
  Manuel Félix Díaz
  Manuel Félix Díaz Guzman is a professional boxer from the Dominican Republic who won Olympic Gold in 2008.Díaz Guzman had also won the bronze medal in the same division in 2003, at the Pan American Games in Santo Domingo....
  
   – professional boxer
• Octavio Dotel
  Octavio Dotel
  Octavio Eduardo Dotel is a Domincan professional baseball pitcher who is currently a Free Agent....
  
   – professional baseball player
• Edwin Encarnacion
  Edwin Encarnación
  Edwin Elpidio Encarnación , is a Dominican Republic Major League Baseball utility player with the Toronto Blue Jays. The 6 ft 2 in, 235-pound Encarnación bats and throws right-handed....
  
   - professional baseball player
• Juan Encarnacion
  Juan Encarnación
  Juan De Dios Encarnación is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. His last major league team was the St. Louis Cardinals...
  
   - professional baseball player
• Edward Vinicio Espinal
  Edward Vinicio Espinal
  Vinicio Edwards Espinal Marte is a Dominican football player who currently plays for Pro Vercelli.-Club career:Edwards emigrated to Italy in 1991, where he played with Serie A team Atalanta B.C....
  
   - professional soccer player
• Pedro Feliz
  Pedro Feliz
  Pedro Julio Feliz is a Dominican Republic minor league baseball third baseman for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball. Feliz has hit 20 or more home runs in four of his first five seasons as a starting third baseman and is an above average fielder at third base...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Mary Joe Fernández
  Mary Joe Fernández
  Mary Joe Fernández Godsick is an American former professional tennis player...
  
   – professional tennis player
• Bartolome Fortunato
  Bartolomé Fortunato
  Bartolomé Araujo Fortunato is a Baseball pitcher who currently plays for the Edmonton Capitals of the North American League....
  
   – professional baseball player
• Rafael Furcal
  Rafael Furcal
  Rafael Antonio Furcal , is a Major League Baseball shortstop who is currently a free agent.-Early career:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Julio Franco
  Julio Franco
  Julio César Robles Franco is a former Major League Baseball infielder and designated hitter. In , Franco was the oldest active player in the major leagues at the age of 49....
  
   – professional baseball player
• Francisco Garcia
  Francisco García
  Francisco García is a Dominican professional basketball player who currently plays for the Sacramento Kings of the NBA. A 6'7", 195-pound guard–forward from the University of Louisville, García was selected by the Kings in the first round of the 2005 NBA Draft...
  
   – professional basketball player
• Julio Gervacio
  Julio Gervacio
  Julio Antonio Gervacio is a former boxer and Super Bantamweight champion titleholder from the Dominican Republic.As a child, he relocated to Puerto Rico. He always expressed pride in his national background; and he considered himself a Dominican-Puerto Rican...
  
   - professional boxer
• Jerry Gil
  Jerry Gil
  Jerry Bienvenido Gil Manzanillo is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the Toronto Blue Jays of Major League Baseball. Gil made his MLB debut in with the Arizona Diamondbacks....
  
   – professional baseball player
• Carlos Gómez
  Carlos Gómez
  Carlos Argelis Gómez Pena, nicknamed "Go-Go", is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Milwaukee Brewers.-Minor leagues:...
  
   - professional baseball player
• Aumi Guerra
  Aumi Guerra
  Aura Mireya Guerra López is a Dominican ten-pin bowler who won the 2010 QubicaAMF Bowling World Cup.-Career:...
  
   - professional bowler
• Fernando Guerrero
  Fernando Guerrero (boxer)
  Fernando Guerrero, born Fernando Guerrero De La Cruz in the Dominican Republic, is a middleweight professional boxer. He was born October 12, 1986, and moved to Salisbury, MD as a youth and attended Parkside High School. His professional record is 21 Wins, 1 Loss, 16 Knockouts...
  
   - professional boxer
• Vladimir Guerrero
  Vladimir Guerrero
  Vladimir Alvino Guerrero is a free agent Major League Baseball right fielder and designated hitter.In , he was voted the American League MVP...
  
   – professional baseball player
• José Guillén
  José Guillén
  José Manuel Guillén |San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic]]) is a Major League Baseball outfielder who is currently a free agent. A prototypical league journeyman, the Giants were the tenth team for which Guillén has played since his major league debut in 1997....
  
   – professional baseball player
• Cristian Guzman
  Cristian Guzmán
  Cristian Antonio Guzmán is a Dominican baseball player who plays second base and shortstop, who is currently a free agent.-Minnesota Twins:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Freddy Guzmán
  Freddy Guzmán
  Freddy Antonio Guzmán is a Major League Baseball outfielder who is currently in the Philadelphia Phillies organization.-Baseball career:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Joan Guzmán
  Joan Guzman
  Joan Guzmán is a Dominican professional boxer who was the WBO's super bantamweight and super featherweight champion. His nickname is "The Little Tyson"." Guzmán is now trained by Former World Champion Roberto Garcia. Former unheralded boxer Floyd Mayweather, Sr...
  
   – professional boxer
• Felix Heredia
  Félix Heredia
  Félix Heredia Pérez is a former Major League Baseball starting pitcher who currently plays for Dorados de Chihuahua of the Mexican League. On October 18, 2005, he became the 11th MLB player to be suspended for testing positive for steroids...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Runelvys Hernández
  Runelvys Hernández
  Runelvys Antonio Hernandez is a former right-handed Major League Baseball starting pitcher .Hernandez made his major league debut July 15, , with Kansas City Royals...
  
   - professional baseball player
• Al Horford
  Al Horford
  Alfred Joel Horford Reynoso is a Dominican professional basketball player who is a center and power forward for the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association...
  
   - professional basketball player
• Tito Horford
  Tito Horford
  Tito Horford is a retired Dominican professional basketball player who was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks in the 2nd round of the 1988 NBA Draft. Horford played three years in the NBA, two with the Bucks from 1988–1990, and a short stint with the Washington Bullets during the 1993-94 season...
  
   – professional basketball player
• Stan Javier
  Stan Javier
  Stanley Julián Antonio Javier [hah-ve-ERR] is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and switch-hitter who played with the New York Yankees , Oakland Athletics , Los Angeles Dodgers , Philadelphia Phillies , California Angels , San Francisco Giants , Houston...
  
   - professional baseball player
• Ernesto Jerez
  Ernesto Jerez
  Ernesto Jerez is a sportscaster from the Dominican Republic.His parents are Angel Alejandro Jerez Matos, and Dulce María Bueno Núñez. He is the 3rd...
  
   – sportscaster
• Luis Ernesto José
  Luis Ernesto José
  Luis Ernesto José is a lightweight boxer from the Dominican Republic, who won a bronze medal at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina...
  
   – professional boxer
• Jose Lima
  José Lima
  José Desiderio Rodriguez Lima was a Dominican right-handed pitcher who spent thirteen seasons in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers , Houston Astros , Kansas City Royals , Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Francisco Liriano
  Francisco Liriano
  Francisco Liriano y Casillas is a left-handed Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Minnesota Twins.-Professional career:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Pedro Liriano
  Pedro Liriano
  Pedro Antonio Liriano is a Major League Baseball starting pitcher who is currently a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball for the Milwaukee Brewers and Philadelphia Phillies ....
  
   – professional baseball player
• Felipe López
  Felipe López (basketball)
  Luis Felipe López is a retired Dominican professional basketball player.He starred in United States high school and university basketball. López then played for four seasons in the National Basketball Association , but with far less success...
  
   – professional basketball player
• Mendy Lopez
  Mendy Lopez
  Mendy López Aude is a utility player who has played for many professional baseball teams including in the United States, South Korea, and the Dominican Republic.-Career summary:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Julio Lugo
  Julio Lugo
  Julio Cesar Lugo is a Dominican professional baseball infielder but is currently a free agent. He bats and throws right-handed. Lugo is the older brother of baseball pitcher Ruddy Lugo....
  
   – professional baseball player
• Ruddy Lugo
  Ruddy Lugo
  Ruddy Joraider Lugo is a Dominican-American Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher in the Detroit Tigers organization. Lugo is the younger brother of Atlanta Braves shortstop Julio Lugo...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Héctor Luna
  Héctor Luna
  Héctor R. Luna is a Dominican professional baseball infielder. He is primarily an infielder, but has played every position at the major league level except pitcher and catcher....
  
   – professional baseball player
• Henry Mateo
  Henry Mateo
  Henry Antonio Mateo Valera is a professional baseball infielder. He played all or part of six seasons in Major League Baseball from 2001–06, and part of the 2010 season in Chinese Professional Baseball League...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Julio Mateo
  Julio Mateo
  Julio Cesar Mateo is a Major League Baseball pitcher. The 6’ tall 220 lb Mateo bats and throws right-handed. He was signed by the Seattle Mariners as a non-drafted free agent on May 15, ....
  
   – professional baseball player
• Juan Marichal
  Juan Marichal
  Juan Antonio Marichal Sánchez is a former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. Playing for the San Francisco Giants most of his career, Marichal was known for his high leg kick, pinpoint control and intimidation tactics, which included aiming pitches directly at the opposing batters'...
  
   – professional professional baseball player
• Damaso Marte
  Dámaso Marté
  Dámaso Marté Sabinon is a Dominican Major League Baseball relief pitcher who is currently a free agent. He previously played for the Seattle Mariners , Pittsburgh Pirates , and Chicago White Sox .-Seattle Mariners:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Pedro Martínez
  Pedro Martínez
  Pedro Jaime Martínez is a retired Major League Baseball pitcher. He is an eight-time All-Star, three-time Cy Young Award winner, and 2004 World Series champion...
  
   – Cy Young Award
  Cy Young Award
  The Cy Young Award is an honor given annually in baseball to the best pitchers in Major League Baseball , one each for the American League and National League . The award was first introduced in 1956 by Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955...
  
  –winning professional baseball player
• Víctor Martínez
  Víctor Martínez (bodybuilder)
  Víctor Martínez is an International Federation of BodyBuilders professional bodybuilder, the second Dominican bodybuilder to turn professional. The first being Tony Domenench from Puerto Plata, who turned pro in 1995. His career highlights has been winning the Arnold Classic in 2007 and...
  
   – professional bodybuilder
• Sammy Mejia
  Sammy Mejia
  Sammy Jose Mejia is a Dominican American professional basketball player who currently plays for CSKA Moscow and who played college basketball at DePaul University.-Amateur career:...
  
   – professional basketball player
• Eleoncio Mercedes
  Eleoncio Mercedes
  Eleoncio Mercedes was a Dominican boxer, who was world champion in the Flyweight division.-Amateur career:As an amateur he competed for his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada...
  
   – professional boxer
• Jose Mesa
  José Mesa
  José Ramón Nova Mesa [MAY-sah] is a former Major League Baseball right-handed relief pitcher. His nickname was "Joe Table," the literal translation of his name in the English language....
  
   – professional baseball player
• Omar Minaya
  Omar Minaya
  Omar Teodoro Antonio Minaya y Sánchez is a former baseball executive who served as General Manager for the Montreal Expos and New York Mets.-Early life:...
  
   – General Manager of the New York Yankees

• Raúl Mondesí
  Raúl Mondesí
  Raúl Ramón Mondesí Avelino is a former Major League Baseball player and the current mayor of San Cristóbal Province in the Dominican Republic. He was the National League Rookie of the Year in 1994 as a right fielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Agustin Montero
  Agustin Montero
  Agustín Alcantara Montero is a minor-league pitcher for the Northwest Independent League....
  
   – professional baseball player
• Juan Morillo – professional baseball player
• Abraham Núñez – professional baseball player
• Leo Núñez
  Leo Núñez
  Juan Carlos Oviedo ) is a pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the Miami Marlins as the team's closer. He bats and throws right-handed.-Playing career:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Jose Offerman
  José Offerman
  José Antonio Offerman Dono is a former professional baseball player who played professional baseball for nearly 20 years...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Miguel Olivo
  Miguel Olivo
  Miguel Eduardo Olivo Peña is a Major League Baseball catcher for the Seattle Mariners. He bats and throws right-handed.-Career:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• David Ortiz
  David Ortiz
  David Américo Ortiz Arias , known as David Ortiz, nicknamed "Big Papi", is a Dominican American professional baseball player who is currently a free agent. Previously, Ortiz played with the Minnesota Twins and Boston Red Sox...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Ramón Ortiz
  Ramón Ortiz
  Ramón Diógenes Ortiz is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher. He has previously pitched in Major League Baseball for the Anaheim Angels, Cincinnati Reds, Washington Nationals, Minnesota Twins, Colorado Rockies, Los Angeles Dodgers, Tampa Bay Rays and Chicago Cubs as well as the Orix...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Pablo Ozuna
  Pablo Ozuna
  Pablo José Ozuna is a retired Dominican Republic professional baseball utility player. During his major league career, he played for the Florida Marlins the Colorado Rockies , the Chicago White Sox , and the Los Angeles Dodgers ....
  
   – professional baseball player
• Ronny Paulino
  Ronny Paulino
  Ronny Leonel Paulino is a professional baseball player. He currently plays catcher for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Carlos Peña
  Carlos Peña
  Carlos Felipe Peña is a Dominican professional baseball left-handed first baseman. He played previously with the Texas Rangers, Oakland Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox, Tampa Bay Rays and Chicago Cubs.Although he was born in Santo Domingo and his family is from San Francisco de Macorís,...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Tony Peña
  Tony Peña
  Antonio Francisco Peña Padilla is a former professional baseball player, manager and current coach. He played as a catcher in Major League Baseball for the Pirates, Cardinals, Red Sox, Indians, White Sox, and Astros. Peña was the manager of the Kansas City Royals between 2002 and 2005. He...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Wily Mo Peña
  Wily Mo Peña
  Wily Modesto Peña is a Dominican professional baseball outfielder for the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of Nippon Professional Baseball...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Jhonny Peralta
  Jhonny Peralta
  Jhonny Antonio Peralta is a Dominican professional baseball shortstop with the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball. He previously played with the Cleveland Indians.-Playing career:...
  
   - professional baseball player
• Antonio Pérez – professional baseball player
• Mélido Pérez
  Melido Pérez
  Mélido Turpen Gross Pérez , is a former right-handed Major League Baseball pitcher from through for the Kansas City Royals, Chicago White Sox, and New York Yankees. He made his major league debut for the Kansas City Royals on September 4, 1987. In that game, Pérez pitched seven innings of shutout...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Neifi Pérez
  Neifi Pérez
  Neifi Neftali Pérez is a Major League baseball player who most recently played for the Detroit Tigers. He played with the Colorado Rockies , Kansas City Royals , San Francisco Giants , and the Chicago Cubs...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Odalis Pérez
  Odalis Pérez
  Odalis Amadol Pérez is a former Major League Baseball starting pitcher. He played with the Atlanta Braves , the Los Angeles Dodgers , the Kansas City Royals , and the Washington Nationals ....
  
   – professional baseball player
• Rafael Pérez – professional baseball player
• Timo Pérez
  Timo Pérez
  Timoniel M. "Timo" Pérez is a Major League Baseball outfielder who is currently in the Detroit Tigers organization.-Hiroshima Toyo Carp:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Hipólito Pichardo
  Hipólito Pichardo
  Hipólito Antonio Pichardo Balbina is a former right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for three teams between and . He batted and threw right-handed....
  
   - professional baseball player
• Plácido Polanco
  Plácido Polanco
  Plácido Enrique Polanco is a Major League Baseball player who plays for the Philadelphia Phillies and has also played for the St. Louis Cardinals and Detroit Tigers. He is a third baseman, but in the past has played second base and shortstop...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Jorge Posada
  Jorge Posada
  Jorge Rafael Posada Villeta is a Major League Baseball player who is currently a free agent and has played his entire career for the New York Yankees. He served as the Yankees primary catcher for most of his career, though following off-season knee surgery, he was moved to designated hitter for...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Albert Pujols
  Albert Pujols
  José Alberto Pujols Alcántara , better known as Albert Pujols , is a Dominican-American professional baseball player, who is currently a free agent...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Aramis Ramirez
  Aramis Ramírez
  Aramis Nin Ramírez is an All-Star Major League Baseball third baseman for the Chicago Cubs.He started his professional career with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1998, before being traded to the Cubs in 2003. On November 12, 2006, Ramírez signed a five-year deal with the Cubs...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Hanley Ramírez
  Hanley Ramirez
  Hanley Ramirez is a shortstop in Major League Baseball for the Miami Marlins. Ramírez was named 2006 NL Rookie of the Year by the Baseball Writers Association of America. In 2009, Ramírez won the NL batting title and is a three-time All-Star starter...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Manny Ramírez
  Manny Ramírez
  Manuel "Manny" Arístides Ramírez Onelcida is a retired Dominican-American professional baseball outfielder. He was recognized for great batting skill and power, a nine-time Silver Slugger and one of 25 players to hit 500 career home runs. Ramirez's 21 grand slams are third all-time, and his 28...
  
   – professional baseball player
• José Reyes – professional baseball player
• Fernando Rodney
  Fernando Rodney
  Fernando Rodney is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher. Rodney throws a fastball in the mid to upper-90 miles per hour and a changeup in the low 80s.-Minor leagues:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Alex Rodriguez
  Alex Rodriguez
  Alexander Emmanuel "Alex" Rodriguez is an American professional baseball third baseman with the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball. Known popularly by his nickname A-Rod, he previously played shortstop for the Seattle Mariners and the Texas Rangers.Rodriguez is considered one of the best...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Félix Rodríguez
  Félix Rodríguez (baseball)
  Félix Antonio Rodríguez is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Camden Riversharks....
  
   - professional baseball player
• Henry Rodríguez
  Henry Rodriguez
  Henry Anderson Rodríguez Lorenzo is a former Major League Baseball outfielder who played for the Montreal Expos, Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Yankees, and Florida Marlins from 1992 to 2002.Rodríguez was a member of the 1996 National League All-Star team as a member of the Expos,...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Dante Rosario
  Dante Rosario
  Dante Santiago Rosario is an American football tight end who is currently a member of the Denver Broncos of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Carolina Panthers in the fifth round of the 2007 NFL Draft...
  
   – professional football player
• Duaner Sanchez
  Duaner Sánchez
  Duaner Sánchez is a Dominican-American professional baseball player currently playing for the Long Island Ducks of the independent Atlantic League. He is a right-handed relief pitcher who is currently a free agent in Major League Baseball...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Félix Sánchez
  Felix Sanchez
  Félix Sánchez —nicknamed Super Felix, the Invincible and the Dictator— is a track and field athlete from New York City, United States who competes for The Dominican Republic...
  
   – Olympic gold medal–winning hurdler
• Víctor Santos
  Víctor Santos
  Víctor Irving Santos is a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. He currently is a free agent.-Early life:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Alfonso Soriano
  Alfonso Soriano
  Alfonso Guilleard Soriano is a Major League Baseball outfielder for the Chicago Cubs....
  
   – professional baseball player
• Edgar Sosa
  Edgar Sosa (basketball)
  Edgar Sosa is a Dominican basketball player. He arrived in Italy in 2010 after completing his U.S. college career with the University of Louisville Cardinals....
  
   - professional basketball player
• Jorge Sosa
  Jorge Sosa
  Jorge Bolivar Sosa is a Major League Baseball pitcher, who is currently a free agent. Sosa stands at 6'2" tall and reportedly weighs 218 pounds...
  
   - professional baseball player
• Sammy Sosa
  Sammy Sosa
  Samuel Peralta "Sammy" Sosa is a Dominican former professional baseball right fielder. Sosa played with four Major League Baseball teams over his career which spanned from 1989-2007....
  
   - professional baseball player
• Julian Tavarez
  Julián Tavárez
  Julián Tavárez Carmen is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.-Minor leagues :...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Willy Taveras
  Willy Taveras
  Willy Taveras is a Major League Baseball center fielder.-Houston Astros:Taveras played in 10 games at the end of the Astros season, mostly as a pinch runner....
  
   – professional baseball player
• Miguel Tejada
  Miguel Tejada
  Miguel Odalis Tejada was a Major League Baseball infielder who has played for the San Francisco Giants, the San Diego Padres, the Houston Astros, the Baltimore Orioles and the Oakland Athletics...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Robinson Tejeda
  Robinson Tejeda
  Robinson Garcia Tejeda is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent.-Philadelphia Phillies:...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Luis Terrero
  Luis Terrero
  Luis Enrique Terrero is a Major League Baseball outfielder who is currently playing for the Diablos Rojos del Mexico of the Mexican League. Terrero debuted with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2003 and remained with the team until 2005. He has also played for the Baltimore Orioles in 2006 and the...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Salomon Torres
  Salomón Torres
  Salomón Torres Ramirez is a former Major League Baseball player. He began his career in with the San Francisco Giants, and also played for the Seattle Mariners, Montreal Expos, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Milwaukee Brewers.-San Francisco Giants:Torres is best known for starting the last game of the...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Juan Uribe
  Juan Uribe
  Juan C. Uribe Tena is a Dominican Republic professional baseball infielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball. He began his career in 1997 when he was signed to the Colorado Rockies, and played with the team until December 3, 2003 when he was traded to the Chicago White Sox...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Wilson Valdez
  Wilson Valdéz
  Wilson Antonio Valdez is a Major League Baseball utility infielder for the Philadelphia Phillies.-Early career:Valdez was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Montreal Expos on February 4, 1997...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Jose Valverde
  José Valverde
  José Rafael Valverde is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher with the Detroit Tigers of Major League Baseball. His nickname is Papa Grande...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Annerys Vargas
  Annerys Vargas
  Annerys Victoria Vargas Valdez is a female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who won three consecutive gold medals at the Central American and Caribbean Games.-2003:...
  
   – professional volleyball player
• Claudio Vargas
  Claudio Vargas
  Claudio Vargas Almonte is a former Dominican professional baseball pitcher for the Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals, Arizona Diamondbacks, Milwaukee Brewers, New York Mets, and Los Angeles Dodgers...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Jack Veneno
  Jack Veneno
  Jack Veneno was a Dominican wrestler also known as "El hijo de Doña Tatica" who worked for many years on Colorvision channel 9 during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, on a wrestling show called Lucha Libre Internacional...
  
   – professional wrestler
• Charlie Villanueva
  Charlie Villanueva
  Charlie Alexander Villanueva is an American basketball player who currently plays for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association....
  
   – professional basketball player
• Jose Vizcaino
  José Vizcaíno
  José Luis Vizcaíno Pimental is a former Major League Baseball player. He was a backup infielder for most of his MLB career. In , he played a significant role with the Chicago Cubs, having 551 at-bats and being 9th in the National League with 131 singles as well as second in the NL with 9 sacrifice...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Luis Vizcaino
  Luis Vizcaíno
  Luis Vizcaíno Arias is a Dominican Republic professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has played for the Oakland Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago White Sox, Arizona Diamondbacks, New York Yankees, Colorado Rockies, Chicago Cubs, and Cleveland Indians in his career.-Career:Vizcaíno...
  
   – professional baseball player
• Edinson Volquez
  Edinson Volquez
  Edinson Volquez [VOL-kez] , is a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball for the Cincinnati Reds. He bats and throws right-handed....
  
   – professional baseball player
• Héctor Wagner
  Héctor Wagner
  Héctor Raul Guerrero Wagner is a former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Kansas City Royals from 1990 to 1991....
  
   – professional baseball player

Other personalities

• Carlos Almonte – Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist arrested in June 2010
• Danny Almonte
  Danny Almonte
  Danny Almonte Rojas is an assistant baseball coach at James Monroe High School in New York City. Almonte was born in Moca, Dominican Republic. A former Little League pitcher, he became the subject of considerable media attention in 2001...
  
   – notable little league player
• Waldo Cabrera
  Waldo Cabrera
  Waldo Cabrera is a businessman, a community activist and an internet news personality. He was born in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic and migrated to New York City aged eight.-Background:...
  
   – businessman
• Marino Vinicio Castillo
  Marino Vinicio Castillo
  Marino Vinicio Castillo Rodríguez, better known as Vincho, is a prominent Dominican lawyer, and controversial figure in Dominican politics...
  
   – lawyer
• Federico Alberto Cuello Camilo
  Federico Alberto Cuello Camilo
  His Excellency Federico Alberto Cuello Camilo is a diplomat of the Dominican Republic. Since 14 July 2011, he is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, where he seeks to maximize the opportunities for increased bilateral trade...
  
   – diplomat
• Jose DeCamps
  Jose DeCamps
  Jose Decamps is a professional ballroom dancer based in New York City. He is perhaps best known as the 2007 U.S. National Dancesport Champions with his partner, Joanna Zacharewicz....
  
   – dancer
• Víctor de la Cruz
  Victor de la Cruz
  Víctor de la Cruz is a master blender of premium cigars. De la Cruz worked for Davidoff for over 20 years as supervisor.-Childhood:De la Cruz was born to tobacco farmers in Tamboril, Dominican Republic...
  
   – cigarmaker
• Oscar de la Renta
  Oscar de la Renta
  Oscar de la Renta is one of the world's leading fashion designers. He was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1973.-Career:...
  
   – fashion designer
• Mario Alvarez Dugan
  Mario Alvarez Dugan
  Mario Alvarez Dugan was a Dominican editor and journalist who served as the head editor of Hoy, a newspaper published in Santo Domingo, from 1988 until his death in 2008....
  
   – journalist
• Bartolomé Gamundi
  Bartolomé Gamundi
  Bartolomé Gamundi, born in the Dominican Republic, is a businessman who was appointed by Governor Aníbal Acevedo Vilá as his last Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Economic Development and Commerce and president of the Commerce and Export Company of the government of Puerto Rico and...
  
   – businessman
• Michele Jimenez
  Michele Jimenez
  Michele Jimenez is a Classical/Modern dancer from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic currently a Principal Dancer with Het National Ballet in the Netherlands and formerly of The Washington Ballet.-Early life:...
  
   – ballet dancer
• Jose E. Martinez
  Jose E. Martinez
  Jose E. Martinez is an American lawyer and judge. He currently serves on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.-Early life and education:...
  
   – lawyer
• Ralph Mercado
  Ralph Mercado
  Ralph Mercado Jr. was a promoter of Latin American music — Latin Jazz, Latin rock, merengue and salsa — who established a network of businesses that included promoting concerts, managing artists, Radio Mundo Musical a record label the most important in the Latin industry during 1980-1990, film...
  
   – founder of RMM Records and music producer
• Rafael Molina Morillo
  Rafael Molina Morillo
  Dr. Rafael Molina Morillo is a lawyer, journalist, diplomat, and newspaper editor from the Dominican Republic. He created Ahora! Publications which publishedEl Nacional newspaper and Ahora! magazine...
  
   – journalist
• Providencia Paredes
  Providencia Paredes
  Providencia Paredes was the personal assistant to the First Lady of the United States Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. A native of San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic, Parades arrived in the United States in 1948 with Francisco Thomen, Ambassador to the United States from the Dominican Republic...
  
  , assistant/confidante to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
  Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
  Jacqueline Lee Bouvier "Jackie" Kennedy Onassis was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, and served as First Lady of the United States during his presidency from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. Five years later she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle...
  
  
• Quirino Paulino
  Quirino Paulino
  Quirino Ernesto Paulino Castillo, a.k.a. "el Don" is an ex-captain of the army of the Dominican Republic, and alleged boss of a drug-trafficking organization responsible for importing tons of cocaine into the United States since September 2003...
  
   – notorious drug smuggler
• Ilka Tanya Payan
  Ilka Tanya Payan
  Ilka Tanya Payán was a Dominican actress and attorney who later became a prominent AIDS/HIV activist in the United States.-Life and career:...
  
   – actress, AIDS/HIV activist
• Pedro Saúl Pérez
  Pedro Saúl Pérez
  Pedro Saúl Pérez was a Dominican advocate for the rights of Dominican immigrants and migrants in Puerto Rico. Pérez was the founder and president of the Dominican Committee for Human Rights of Puerto Rico....
  
   – activist
• Domingo Pilarte
  Domingo Pilarte
  Domingo Damian Pilarte was a Christian evangelist who held mass crusades during the 1960s - 1980s. He traveled to more than 80 countries preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Many of the claimed miracles that occurred during his crusades have been documented in books, magazines and newspapers...
  
   – evangelist
• Porfirio Pina
  Porfirio Pina
  Porfirio Piña , talent manager, entrepreneur, music advocate and artistic director. He is a native of the Dominican Republic, currently based out of New York City, and Miami.-Career:...
  
   - music executive
• Santiago Luis Polanco Rodríguez
  Santiago Luis Polanco Rodríguez
  Santiago Luis Polanco Rodríguez is a Dominican American former drug dealer considered to be the first mass marketer of crack cocaine in United States. Better known by his street name, Yayo, he carries a special distinction among drug dealers, according to experts in the drug trade...
  
   – drug dealer
• Porfirio Rubirosa
  Porfirio Rubirosa
  Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza was a Dominican diplomat and adherent of Rafael Trujillo. He made his mark as an international playboy, for his jet setting lifestyle, and his legendary prowess with women...
  
  – socialite