List of Latin Americans of Spanish descent

Since the vast majority of Latin Americans from Spanish-speaking countries have at least partial Spanish descent, this is a list of important people in Latin America who have at least one parent or two grandparents who were born in Spain.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by editing the page to add missing items, with references to reliable sources.

Artists, photographers and fashion designers

• Humberto Castro (born 1957), Cuban painter
• Carlos Enríquez Gómez (1900–1957), Cuban painter, illustrator and writer of the Vanguardia movement (the Cuban Avant-garde).
• Raúl Martínez (1927–1995), pop artist and Cuban painter
• Mario Perez (born 1943), painter
• Tomás Sánchez (born 1948), Cuban painter

TV and Cinema

• Angelines Fernández (1922–1994), Spanish actress settled in Mexico.
• Mirtha Legrand (born 1927), Argentine actress and TV host.
• Guillermo del Toro (born 1964), Mexican director and film producer.
• Velia Martínez (1920–1993), American singer and actress.
• Ricardo Montalbán (1920–2009), Mexican actor of Spanish parentage.

Music

• Miguel Bosé (born 1956), Spanish singer with Colombian citizenship
• Gloria Estefan (born 1957), Cuban singer, all four grandparents born in Spain.
• Juanes (born 1972), Colombian singer, Basque ancestry from his father.
• Ernesto Lecuona (1895–1963), Cuban composer and pianist.^[1]
• Ricky Martin (born 1971), Puerto Rican singer, part Catalan ancestry.
• Luis Miguel (born 1970), Puerto Rican by birth, raised in Mexico, Spanish father, Italian mother.
• Shakira (born 1977), Colombian singer, part Catalan ancestry.

Government and military

• José Gervasio Artigas (1764–1850)
• Simón Bolívar (1783–1830)^[2][3]
• José Núñez de Cáceres (1772–1846) politics and liberator of Dominican Republic
• Juan Carrasco (1878–1922)
• Fidel Castro (1926–2016), Father was an immigrant to Cuba from Galicia and his mother was also of Spanish origin. ^[4]
• Manuel Domínguez (1803–1882)
• Juan Manuel Santos (born 1951), President of Colombia
• José Martí (1853–1895)^[5]
• Agustín de Iturbide (1783–1824), Liberator of Mexico
• Juan Leal (1676–1742)
• Juan Ponce de León (1474–1521)
• Juan Ponce de León II (1524–1591)
• Francisco de Miranda (1750–1816), Liberator of Venezuela
• José Antonio Páez (1790–1873)
• Carlos Soublette (1789–1870), Libertador of Venezuela
• Antonio José de Sucre (1795–1830)
• Jorge Quiroga (born 1960), President of Bolivia
• Alvaro Garcia Linera (born 1962), Vice President of Bolivia

Writers

• Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)
• Pablo Neruda (1904–1973)
• Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014)

Others

• Juanita García Peraza (1897–1970), Founder of the "Mita congregation", the only Protestant religion of Puerto Rican origin.

See also

• Latin Americans
• White Hispanic and Latino Americans
• List of Criollos
• List of Cubans