قائمة البورتوريكيين

هذه قائمة بشخصيات بارزة من بورتوريكو، تشمل من وُلدوا فيها ( بورينكوين) ومن ينحدرون منها كليًا أو جزئيًا . وتشمل القائمة المواطنين البورتوريكيين ، إذ تُصدر حكومة بورتوريكو منذ عام ٢٠٠٧ "شهادات جنسية بورتوريكية" لكل من وُلد فيها، أو لمن وُلد خارجها وكان أحد والديه على الأقل مولودًا فيها. ^{[ ١ ] [ ٢ ]} كما تضم ​​القائمة بعض المقيمين الأمريكيين من أصول قارية وغيرهم من المهاجرين من أصول عرقية مختلفة، ممن اتخذوا من بورتوريكو موطنًا لهم ويعتبرون أنفسهم بورتوريكيين.

تُقسّم القائمة إلى فئات، وفي بعض الحالات إلى فئات فرعية، تُناسب المجال الذي اشتهر فيه الشخص. بعض الفئات، مثل "الممثلون والممثلات والكوميديون والمخرجون"، نسبية، إذ قد يكون الشخص الذي يعمل كوميديًا ممثلًا أو مخرجًا أيضًا. في بعض الحالات، قد يبرز الشخص في أكثر من مجال، مثل لويس أ. فيري ، المعروف بكونه حاكمًا سابقًا ورجل أعمال. مع ذلك، جرت العادة على وضع اسم الشخص تحت الفئة التي اشتهر فيها.

• خيسوس إدواردو أمارال (1927-2020)، مهندس معماري، ومعلم؛ أول مدير لكلية الهندسة المعمارية في جامعة بورتوريكو؛ زميل المعهد الأمريكي للمهندسين المعماريين
• فيليكس بينيتيز ريكساتش (1886–1975)، مهندس معماري ومهندس ؛ صمم فندق نورماندي الواقع في سان خوان، بورتوريكو
• سيجوندو كاردونا FAIA (مواليد 1950، سان خوان، بورتوريكو)، مهندس معماري، مطور عقاري؛ زميل المعهد الأمريكي للمهندسين المعماريين منذ عام 2006 ^{[ 48 ] [ 49 ]}
• بيدرو أدولفو دي كاسترو إي بيسوسا (1895–1936)، مهندس معماري؛ أول بورتوريكو يتخرج من جامعة الهندسة المعمارية الأمريكية؛ تشمل أبرز الأعمال كازا دي إسبانيا، كاستيلو سيراليس ^{[ 50 ]}
• تورو فيرير ، شركة معمارية رائدة في بورتوريكو بقيادة أوزفالدو تورو FAIA وميغيل فيرير FAIA، وكلاهما زميلان في المعهد الأمريكي للمهندسين المعماريين ومسؤولان عن معالم بارزة مثل فندق كاريب هيلتون والمحكمة العليا ومطار لويس مونيوث مارين الدولي وفندق لا كونشا ^{[ 51 ].}
• هنري كلومب (1905-1984)، مهندس معماري ألماني المولد مسؤول عن العديد من تصميمات بورتوريكو من عام 1944 إلى عام 1984؛ زميل المعهد الأمريكي للمهندسين المعماريين ^{[ 52 ].}
• أندريس مينوتشي (1957–2022)، مهندس معماري، مدني؛ زميل المعهد الأمريكي للمهندسين المعماريين؛ جائزة هنري كلومب 2012 ^{[ 53 ]}
• أنطونيو ميرو مونتيلا (مواليد 1937)، مهندس معماري، ومعلم؛ أول مهندس معماري يتم تعيينه رئيسًا لوكالة حكومية، وهي هيئة المباني العامة في بورتوريكو، من عام 1969 إلى عام 1971؛ أول عميد لكلية الهندسة المعمارية في جامعة بورتوريكو، حرم ريو بيدراس، من عام 1971 إلى عام 1978؛ مستشار حرم ريو بيدراس التابع لجامعة بورتوريكو، من عام 1978 إلى عام 1985 ^{[ 54 ].}
• أنتونين نيكودوما (1877-1928)، مهندس معماري تشيكي عمل في بورتوريكو وجمهورية الدومينيكان في مطلع القرن العشرين؛ وتشمل أعماله الرئيسية قصر جيورجيتي، وكاسا كوربر في ميرامار، وكاسا رويج في هومكاو ^{[ 55 ].}
• فرانسيسكو بوراتا دوريا (1890–1971)، صمم كاتدرائية بونس ، وبانكو دي بونس ، وبانكو كريديتو إي أهورو بونسينيو ^{[ 56 ]}
• بلاس سيلفا (1869-1949)، مبتكر أسلوب بونس كريول المعماري؛ صمم، من بين العديد من المباني الأخرى، كاسا دي لا ماساكر ، ومنزل فونت-أوبيدس ، ومنزل سوبيرا ^{[ 57 ].}
• ألفريدو ويشرز بييريتي (1881-1964)، مهندس معماري من أوائل القرن العشرين من بونس ؛ صمم العديد من المباني التاريخية المدرجة الآن في السجل الوطني للأماكن التاريخية ، بما في ذلك منزله الخاص ( مقر إقامة ويشرز-فيلارونغا ) في منطقة بونس التاريخية ، والتي تعد اليوم موطنًا لمتحف بورتوريكو للهندسة المعمارية ^{[ 58 ].}

• آدا بيركنز (1959-1980)، ملكة جمال بورتوريكو 1978
• أليدا أورتيز (مواليد 1988)، نوسترا بيليزا لاتينا 2014
• أستريد مونوز (مواليد 1974)، عارضة أزياء
• تشاي سانتيني (مواليد 1976)، عارضة أزياء
• سينثيا أولافاريا (مواليد 1986)، ملكة جمال بورتوريكو لعام 2005. أول امرأة من بورتوريكو تفوز بلقب الوصيفة الأولى في مسابقة ملكة جمال الكون لعام 2005.
• دايانارا توريس (مواليد 1974)، ملكة جمال الكون 1993
• ديبورا كارثي ديو (مواليد 1966)، ملكة جمال الكون 1985
• دينيس كوينونيس (مواليد 1980)، ملكة جمال الكون 2001
• إنغريد ماري ريفيرا (مواليد 1983)، ملكة جمال بورتوريكو العالمية لعام 2005
• إيرما نيديا فاسكيز (1929-2019)، أول ملكة جمال من بورتوريكو في مسابقة ملكة جمال أمريكا ، كسرت حاجز اللون، 1948
• جاسلين غونزاليس (مواليد 1986)، عارضة أزياء، الفائزة بلقب " أفضل عارضة أزياء في أمريكا" ، الموسم الثامن
• جوان سمولز (مواليد 1985)، عارضة أزياء ومقدمة برنامج House of Style على قناة MTV
• لوري تامارا سيمبسون (مواليد 1968)، ملكة جمال العالم 1987
• فازت ماديسون أندرسون بيرريوس (مواليد 1995) بلقب ملكة جمال الكون بورتوريكو في عام 2019. وفي 8 ديسمبر 2019، فازت بلقب الوصيفة الأولى لملكة جمال الكون 2019. ^{[ 164 ]}
• ماريسول مالاريت (1949–2023)، أول ملكة جمال بورتوريكو للكون، 1970
• ماريسول مالدونادو (مواليد 1970)، عارضة أزياء
• ميليسا مارتي (مواليد 1984)، نوسترا بيليزا لاتينا 2008
• ميريام بابون (مواليد 1985)، ملكة جمال، أول متسابقة منذ نصف قرن تمثل بورتوريكو في مسابقة ملكة جمال أمريكا ^{[ 165 ]}
• نيليس بيمينتيل (مواليد 1997)، أول ملكة جمال الأرض من بورتوريكو، 2019
• صوفيا جيراو (مواليد 1997)، أول عارضة أزياء مصابة بمتلازمة داون يتم توظيفها من قبل فيكتوريا سيكريت ^{[ 166 ]}
• ستيلا دياز (مواليد 1984)، عارضة أزياء
• ستيفاني ديل فالي (مواليد 1996)، ثاني ملكة جمال العالم من بورتوريكو، 2016 ^{[ 167 ]}
• سوزي كاستيلو (مواليد 1979)، ملكة جمال الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية لعام 2003 (أم من بورتوريكو)
• نوريس دياز ("لا تاينا") (مواليد 1975)، عارضة أزياء
• فاليري هيرنانديز (مواليد 1993)، ملكة جمال العالم 2014
• فاليريا فاسكيز لاتوري (مواليد 1994)، أول بورتوريكية تفوز بمسابقة ملكة جمال سوبرناشونال (2018) ^{[ 168 ]}
• فانيسا دي رويد (مواليد 1987)، نوسترا بيليزا لاتينا 2012
• ويلنيليا ميرسيد (مواليد 1957)، أول ملكة جمال العالم من بورتوريكو، 1975
• زوليكا ريفيرا (مواليد 1987)، ملكة جمال الكون 2006

• كارلوتا ألفارو (مواليد 1933)، مصممة أزياء
• أيدا ألفاريز (مواليد 1950)، أول امرأة من بورتوريكو وأول امرأة من أصل إسباني تشغل منصبًا على مستوى ما دون مستوى مجلس الوزراء في البيت الأبيض (مديرة الأعمال الصغيرة 1997-2000).
• خوسيه بيروكال (1957-2000)، أصغر رئيس لبنك التنمية الحكومي في بورتوريكو؛ تُمنح المنح الدراسية السنوية تخليداً لذكراه
• أورلاندو برافو (مواليد 1970)، المؤسس المشارك والشريك الإداري لشركة الاستثمار في الأسهم الخاصة ثوما برافو؛ وصفته مجلة فوربس بأنه "أول ملياردير مولود في بورتوريكو" ^{[ 169 ].}
• رافائيل كاريون الأب (1891-1964)، رب أسرة واحدة من السلالات المالية في بورتوريكو؛ أحد الآباء المؤسسين لبنك Banco Popular de Puerto Rico ، وهو أكبر بنك في بورتوريكو وأكبر بنك لاتيني في الولايات المتحدة ^{[ 170 ].}
• أرتورو إل كاريون مونيوز (من مواليد 1933)، نائب الرئيس التنفيذي السابق لجمعية المصرفيين في بورتوريكو
• ريتشارد كاريون (مواليد 1952)، رئيس مجلس إدارة بنك بانكو بوبولار ؛ رئيس اللجنة المالية للجنة الأولمبية الدولية
• كيمبرلي كاسيانو (مواليد 1957)، عضوة في مجلس إدارة شركة فورد موتور
• راميرو إل. كولون (1904–1983)، أول مدير لـCooperativa de Cafeteros de Puerto Rico، مقهى ريكو (القهوة الرسمية للفاتيكان )
• فرانسيسكو جيه. كولازو (مواليد 1931)، مؤسس شركة كولسا، وهي شركة رائدة في مجال الهندسة وخدمات الدعم في هانتسفيل، ألاباما ^{[ 171 ].}
• ديردري كونلي (مواليد 1961)، رئيسة قسم الأدوية في أمريكا الشمالية لشركة جلاكسو سميث كلاين ، وعضو في الفريق التنفيذي العالمي للشركة؛ تشارك في رئاسة مجلس إدارة المحفظة، إلى جانب رئيس قسم البحث والتطوير ^{[ 172 ].}
• أتيلانو كورديرو باديلو (مواليد 1943)، مؤسس شركة Supermercados Grande
• كارمن آنا كولبيبر (مواليد 1945)، المديرة الإقليمية السابقة لإدارة الأعمال الصغيرة؛ أول امرأة تشغل منصب وزيرة الخزانة ورئيسة شركة بي آر للاتصالات الهاتفية
• أوسكار دي لا رنتا (1932–2014)، مصمم أزياء (أب بورتوريكي من كابو روجو، بورتوريكو) ^{[ 173 ]}
• فرناندو فرنانديز (1850–1940)، مؤسس رون ديل باريليتو وكولودو سانتا آنا
• خوسيه رامون فرنانديز (1808–1883)، "ماركيز دي لا إسبيرانزا"، أغنى بارون سكر في بورتوريكو في القرن التاسع عشر؛ يعتبر أحد أقوى الرجال في منطقة البحر الكاريبي الإسبانية بأكملها ^{[ 174 ]}
• أنطونيو لويس فيريه (1934–2024)، صاحب متجر Ferré-Rangel الإعلامي
• خايمي فوناليداس (مواليد 1946)، الرئيس والمدير التنفيذي لشركة إمبريساس فوناليداس، التي تمتلك بلازا لاس أميريكاس ، أكبر مركز تسوق في منطقة البحر الكاريبي وأحد أفضل أماكن البيع بالتجزئة والترفيه في العالم؛ تشمل شركات Fonalledas Plaza Del Caribe، وTres Monjitas، وVaqueria Tres Monjitas، وGanaderia Tres Monjitas، وامتياز Soft & Creamy ^{[ 175 ]}
• خوسيه خوان غارسيا (1940–2002)، مؤسس هوغاريس كريا
• إدواردو جيورجيتي (1866-1937)، مزارع، رجل أعمال، فاعل خير، سياسي، وبارون السكر ^{[ 176 ]}
• فيكتوريا هيرنانديز (1897-1998)، رائدة أعمال موسيقية وسيدة أعمال؛ في عام 1927، افتتحت أول متجر للموسيقى اللاتينية في مدينة نيويورك ، وهو واحد من ستة عشر متجرًا فقط مملوكة لنساء مهاجرات من بورتوريكو؛ شقيقة رافائيل هيرنانديز مارين ^{[ 177 ] [ 178 ]}
• ماريا إيلينا هولي (مواليد 1932)، أرملة أسطورة الروك بادي هولي ؛ تمتلك حقوق اسم بادي وصورته وعلاماته التجارية وغيرها من حقوق الملكية الفكرية.
• تيوفيلو خوسيه خايمي ماريا لو غيو (1790-1843)، المعروف أيضًا باسم "أبو فيكيس "؛ مؤسس بلدية فيكيس ؛ أحد أغنى أباطرة السكر في بورتوريكو ^{[ 179 ]}
• رامون لوبيز إيريزاري (1897–1982)، مخترع كوكو لوبيز
• هيكتور ميزوناف (1930-2022)، نظم 7000 حفلة موسيقية لموسيقى السالسا؛ امتلك نادي كازا بلانكا للرقص؛ وأدار أعمال هيكتور لافوي وفنانين آخرين في موسيقى السالسا
• ميغيل أ. غارسيا مينديز (1902-1998)، مؤسس بنك ويسترن فيدرال للادخار، والذي أصبح فيما بعد بنك ويسترن في بورتوريكو (الذي لم يعد موجودًا الآن).
• جيلدو ماسو (1926–2007)، مؤسس شركة Massó Enterprises وCasa's Massó
• رالف ميركادو (1941-2009)، مؤسس شركة RMM Records ومنتج موسيقي ^{[ 180 ]}
• لويس ميراندا كاسانياس (1937–2019)، الرئيس التنفيذي لمتجر التأمين العالمي متعدد الولايات
• ليزيت نيفيس (مواليد 1970)، مؤسسة ATREVETE
• رافائيل أنطونيو نازاريو (مواليد 1952)، عازف بيانو وملحن وموزع موسيقي وممثل؛ المؤسس المشارك لسلسلة مطاعم غوزمان إي غوميز
• لويس دي أورتيز (مواليد 1986)، وسيط عقاري وشخصية تلفزيونية واقعية (مسلسل Million Dollar Listing New York )
• أسس ويلبرت باركهيرست في عام 1921 شركة إمبريساس لا فاموسا، وهي شركة لتصنيع الفاكهة، والتي كانت بحلول عام 1971 تتألف من شركات مركزات الفواكه المجمدة، وشركة توا للتعليب، وشركة لا كونسنترادورا دي بورتوريكو، وشركة بايامون للعلب.
• تيرن بيزر (مواليد 1959)، رجل أعمال، أدين بتهمة التداول بناءً على معلومات داخلية والاحتيال في الأوراق المالية ^{[ 181 ]}
• رافائيل بيريز بيري (1911-1978)، أسس في عام 1960 القناة التلفزيونية 11، والمعروفة أيضًا باسم Telecadena Pérez Perry، وأصبحت تُعرف باسم Tele Once في عام 1986 ^{[ 182 ].}
• صموئيل أ. راميريز الأب (مواليد 1941)، رئيس ومؤسس شركة راميريز وشركاه، وهي شركة استثمار مصرفي في وول ستريت
• أنخيل راموس (1902-1960)، مؤسس شبكة تلفزيون تيليموندو
• غاسبار روكا (1926–2007)، مؤسس صحيفة إل فوسيرو
• أماوري ريفيرا (مواليد 1962)، رئيس مجلس الإدارة والرئيس التنفيذي لشركة كينيتكس سيستمز كاريب ^{[ 183 ] ​​[ 184 ]}
• ميغيل رويز (1856–1912)، مؤسس مقهى ياوكونو
• هيرب سكانيل (مواليد 1957)، الرئيس السابق لشبكات إم تي في ورئيس نيكلوديون
• خوان سيراليس (1845–1921)، مؤسس دون كيو رم
• نينا تاسلر ، رئيسة قسم الترفيه في شبكة سي بي إس ؛ وهي أبرز شخصية لاتينية في التلفزيون الشبكي وواحدة من المديرين التنفيذيين القلائل الذين يملكون القدرة على الموافقة على المسلسلات ^{[ 185 ].}
• جوزيف أ. أونانو (1925-2013)، رئيس مجلس الإدارة والرئيس التنفيذي لشركة غويا للأغذية ؛ نجل مؤسس الشركة
• ألفونسو فالديس كوبيان (1890–1988)، المؤسس المشارك لشركة Cervecería India ، Inc. ودوري البيسبول الشتوي البورتوريكي؛ صاحب إنديوس دي ماياجويز (هنود ماياجويز) ^{[ 186 ]}
• كاماليا فالديس (مواليد 1972)، رئيسة ومديرة تنفيذية لشركة سيرفيسيريا إنديا، وهي أكبر مصنع جعة في بورتوريكو ^{[ 187 ]}
• سلفادور فاسالو (1942-2007)، مؤسس شركة فاسالو للصناعات والشركات التابعة لها ^{[ 188 ]}
• ريتشارد فيلاسكيز (مواليد 1973)، رجل أعمال وقائد مجتمعي؛ الرئيس السابق لجمعية NSHMBA في بورتوريكو؛ المؤسس المشارك والرئيس السابق لجمعية NSHMBA في سياتل؛ ^{[ 189 ]} أول مصمم سيارات بورتوريكي لشركة بورش ، ^{[ 190 ]} أول مخطط منتجات بورتوريكي لجهاز إكس بوكس ​​360
• ماريا فيزكاروندو دي سوتو (مواليد 1951)، أول امرأة ولاتينية تتولى منصب الرئيس والمدير التنفيذي لمنظمة يونايتد واي في إسيكس وويست هدسون ^{[ 191 ].}

• ديفيد ألفاريز (مواليد 1976)، مبتكر سلسلة القصص المصورة Yenny ، رسام ومصمم لوحات القصة لسلسلة Looney Tunes التابعة لشركة DC Comics ^{[ 192 ]}
• ريكاردو ألفاريز-ريفون ، مبتكر سلسلة القصص المصورة توري ^{[ 193 ]}
• كارميلو فيلاردي (1900–1989) ^{[ 194 ] [ 195 ] [ 196 ]}
• راغز موراليس ، فنان كتب هزلية؛ شارك في ابتكار نسخة التسعينيات من بلاك كوندور ^{[ 197 ]} مع برايان أوغستين .
• جورج بيريز (1954-2022)، فنان وكاتب قصص مصورة شهير من مارفل ودي سي كوميكس ^{[ 198 ]}
• جون ريفاس ، مبتكر سلسلة القصص المصورة بونزو ^{[ 199 ]}
• كينيث روكافورت (مواليد 1983)، فنان قصص مصورة من مارفل ودي سي كوميكس ^{[ 200 ]}
• خوسيه فيغا سانتانا (مواليد 1958)، مبتكر سلسلة ريمي الهزلية ومقلد شخصية "ريمي المهرج" ^{[ 201 ]}

• ماريا دي لاس مرسيدس باربودو (1773–1849)، ناشطة سياسية؛ غالبًا ما يطلق عليها لقب "المستقلة" الأولى من بورتوريكو ^{[ 202 ]}
• روزاريو بيلبر غونزاليس (1881-1948)، مربية، وعاملة اجتماعية، وناشطة في مجال حقوق المرأة، ومدافعة عن حق المرأة في التصويت ، وفاعلة خير ؛ مؤسسة ونائبة رئيس وإحدى مؤسسي جمعية معلمي بورتوريكو (بالإسبانية: Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico )؛ كما تُعد بيلبر من مؤسسي مستشفى الأطفال في بورتوريكو (بالإسبانية: Hospital del Niño de Puerto Rico ) ورئيسة الرابطة الاجتماعية للمطالبات بحق المرأة في التصويت في بورتوريكو (بالإسبانية: La Liga Social Sufragista (LSS) de Puerto Rico )؛ وفي عام 1944، أسست دار الصحة والنقاهة للأطفال المصابين بمرض السل (بالإسبانية: Sanatorio para Niños con Tuberculosis ) في بلدة أيبونيتو ​​الجبلية ^{[ 203 ] [ 204 ] [ 205 ] [ 206 ].}
• ماريانا براسيتي (1825–1903) والمعروفة أيضًا باسم "Brazo de Oro" ("الذراع الذهبية")، ناشطة سياسية؛ زعيم المجلس الثوري لاريس خلال Grito de Lares ؛ ربط العلم الأول لجمهورية بورتوريكو المستقبلية
• ماتياس بروغمان (1811-1868)، ناشط سياسي؛ زعيم صرخة لاريس ؛ أسس أول لجنة ثورية في مدينة ماياغويز؛ وكانت خليته الثورية تحمل الاسم الرمزي "كابا بريتا" (الرداء الأسود).
• ماريا كاديلا (1884-1951)، ناشطة في مجال حقوق المرأة؛ إحدى أوائل النساء في بورتوريكو اللواتي حصلن على درجة الدكتوراه
• لويزا كابيتيلو (1879-1922)، ناشطة عمالية؛ إحدى أشهر منظمات العمل في بورتوريكو؛ كاتبة وفوضوية ناضلت من أجل حقوق العمال والمرأة
• أليس كاردونا (1930-2011)، ناشطة ومنظمة مجتمعية ^{[ 207 ]}
• دينيس فلوريس ، ناشط ومخرج أفلام ^{[ 208 ]}
• تيتو كاياك (مواليد 1958)، ناشط سياسي؛ اكتسب شهرة سيئة عندما بدأت مجموعة من سكان فيكيس الأصليين وغيرهم من البورتوريكيين بالاحتجاج والاعتصام في مناطق قصف البحرية الأمريكية بعد وفاة المدني البورتوريكي ديفيد سانز، وهو من سكان فيكيس الأصليين، عام 1999، والذي قُتل خلال تدريب قصف للبحرية الأمريكية ^{[ 209 ] [ 210 ] [ 211 ] [ 212 ] [ 213 ] [ 214 ] [ 215 ]}
• سيلفيا ديل فيلارد (1928-1990)، ناشطة من أصول أفريقية بورتوريكية، ومؤسسة مسرح إل كوكوي الأفرو-بوريكوا؛ ناشطة صريحة ناضلت من أجل المساواة في الحقوق للفنانين البورتوريكيين السود؛ في عام 1981، أصبحت أول مديرة لمكتب شؤون الأفرو-بورتوريكيين في معهد الثقافة البورتوريكية (انظر أيضًا "الممثلات").
• إيزابيل غونزاليس (1882-1971)، ناشطة في مجال الحقوق المدنية؛ أم شابة من بورتوريكو مهدت الطريق لحصول البورتوريكيين على الجنسية الأمريكية ^{[ 216 ].}
• ليليان لوبيز (1925-2005)، أمينة مكتبة وناشطة عمالية؛ مؤسسة مشروع مكتبة نيويورك العامة في جنوب برونكس؛ مناصرة لخدمات المكتبات والتعليم للمجتمعات الناطقة بالإسبانية ^{[ 217 ].}
• أوسكار لوبيز ريفيرا (مواليد 1943)، ناشط مؤيد للاستقلال؛ أطول عضو مسجون في جبهة التحرير الوطني الأذربيجانية ^{[ 218 ]}
• خوسيه مالدونادو رومان (1874–1932)، المعروف أيضًا باسم "أجويلا بلانكا" (النسر الأبيض)، ثوري ^{[ 219 ]}
• روزا مارتينيز (1952-2022) وإليانا مارتينيز (1981-1989) ، ناشطة في مجال مكافحة الإيدز؛ شاركت في قضية محكمة فلوريدا البارزة المتعلقة بحقوق الأطفال المصابين بفيروس نقص المناعة البشرية في المدارس العامة ^{[ 220 ].}
• فيليسيتاس مينديز (1916-1998) (اسمها قبل الزواج غوميز)، ناشطة؛ قادت مع زوجها، في عام 1946، معركة مجتمعية أرست سابقة قانونية مهمة لإنهاء الفصل العنصري بحكم القانون في الولايات المتحدة (انظر قضية مينديز ضد ويستمنستر )؛ ^{[ 221 ]} يُنسب إليها الفضل في تمهيد الطريق للاندماج وحركة الحقوق المدنية الأمريكية ^{[ 222 ].}
• آنا ماريا أونيل (1894-1981)، ناشطة في مجال حقوق المرأة ومعلمة؛ في عام 1929، أصبحت أول أستاذة في مجال التجارة في جامعة بورتوريكو، حيث درّست حتى عام 1951؛ وحثت النساء على المشاركة في كل جانب من جوانب الحياة المدنية والدفاع عن حقهن في التصويت ^{[ 223 ].}
• مانويل أوليفيري سانشيز (1888-1961)، ناشط في مجال الحقوق المدنية؛ مترجم محكمة وناشط في مجال الحقوق المدنية قاد المعركة القانونية التي منحت الجنسية الأمريكية لسكان بورتوريكو المقيمين في هاواي ^{[ 224 ].}
• أوليفيا باولي (1855-1942)، ناشطة في مجال حقوق المرأة وناضلت من أجل حقوق المرأة في بورتوريكو؛ مؤسسة أول محفل ثيوصوفي في بورتوريكو ^{[ 225 ] [ 226 ] [ 227 ] [ 228 ]}
• سيزار أ. بيراليس (مواليد 1940)، محامي حقوق مدنية؛ مؤسس صندوق الدفاع القانوني والتعليم البورتوريكي (الآن LatinoJustice PRLDEF)؛ فاز بدعاوى قضائية رائدة لمكافحة التمييز؛ وزير خارجية نيويورك ^{[ 229 ]}
• فيليبرتو أوخيدا ريوس (1933–2005)، القائد العام ("الجنرال المسؤول") لجيش بوريكوا الشعبي
• سيلفيا راي ريفيرا (1951-2002)، ناشطة متحولة جنسياً؛ من قدامى المحاربين في أحداث شغب ستونوول عام 1969 ^{[ 230 ]}
• أنتوني روميرو (مواليد 1965)، زعيم الحقوق المدنية؛ المدير التنفيذي للاتحاد الأمريكي للحريات المدنية ^{[ 231 ]}
• هيلين رودريغيز ترياس (1929-2001)، طبيبة وناشطة في مجال حقوق المرأة؛ أول رئيسة لاتينية للجمعية الأمريكية للصحة العامة ؛ عضو مؤسس في تجمع النساء التابع للجمعية الأمريكية للصحة العامة؛ حاصلة على وسام المواطنة الرئاسي ؛ يُنسب إليها الفضل في المساعدة على توسيع نطاق خدمات الصحة العامة للنساء والأطفال في الأقليات والسكان ذوي الدخل المنخفض في الولايات المتحدة وأمريكا الوسطى والجنوبية وأفريقيا وآسيا والشرق الأوسط ^{[ 232 ]} (انظر أيضًا "المعلمون" و"العلماء").
• مانويل روخاس (1831–1903)، زعيم الاستقلال البورتوريكي الفنزويلي المولد في ثورة إل جريتو دي لاريس ضد الحكم الاستعماري الإسباني
• آنا روكي (1853-1933)، ناشطة في مجال حقوق المرأة، ومعلمة، ومناصرة لحق المرأة في التصويت؛ وإحدى مؤسسي جامعة بورتوريكو ^{[ 233 ].}
• سوراي سانتياغو سولا (1947-2020)، ناشطة متحولة جنسياً؛ أول شخص في بورتوريكو يغير تصنيف الجنس في شهادة ميلاده بعد جراحة تغيير الجنس ^{[ 234 ].}
• أرتورو ألفونسو شومبورغ (1874-1938)، ناشط في مجال الحقوق المدنية والاستقلال؛ رائد في تاريخ السود ساعد في رفع مستوى الوعي بمساهمات الأمريكيين من أصل أفريقي لاتيني والأمريكيين من أصل أفريقي في المجتمع ^{[ 235 ].}
• بيدرو خوليو سيرانو (مواليد 1974)، ناشط في مجال حقوق الإنسان؛ رئيس منظمة بورتوريكو بارا تودوس، التي تسعى جاهدة لإدماج مجتمع المثليين والمثليات ومزدوجي الميل الجنسي والمتحولين جنسياً، ولتحقيق العدالة الاجتماعية للجميع في بورتوريكو؛ مدير الاتصالات في فرقة العمل الوطنية للمثليين والمثليات ^{[ 236 ].}
• ماركوس شيورو ، عبد منزلي؛ في عام 1821، خطط وتآمر لقيادة ثورة عبيد ضد ملاك مزارع السكر والحكومة الاستعمارية الإسبانية في بورتوريكو ^{[ 237 ].}

ما قبل القرن العشرين

• خوان أليخو دي أريزمندي (1760-1814)، أول أسقف كاثوليكي روماني من بورتوريكو ^{[ 249 ]}
• فرانسيسكو أييرا دي سانتا ماريا (1630–1708)، كاهن وشاعر ^{[ 250 ]}
• القديسة روزا دي ليما (سانتا روزا دي ليما) (1586-1617)، أب من بورتوريكو ^{[ 251 ]}
• دييغو دي توريس فارغاس (1615-1670)، أول كاهن يكتب عن تاريخ بورتوريكو ^{[ 252 ]}

القرن العشرين

• ديفيد أندريس ألفاريز فيلاسكيز (مواليد 1941)، ثاني بورتوريكي الأصل يشغل منصب أسقف أبرشية بورتوريكو التابعة للكنيسة الأسقفية
• لويس أبونتي مارتينيز (1922-2012)، الكاردينال رئيس الأساقفة الفخري لسان خوان؛ رجل الدين البورتوريكي الوحيد حتى الآن الذي تم تعيينه كاردينالًا ^{[ 253 ].}
• يي أفيلا (1925–2013)، زعيم العنصرة
• نيكي كروز (مواليد 1938)، رجل عصابات سابق تحول إلى قس
• سور إيزولينا فيري أجوايو (1914–2000)، راهبة كاثوليكية رومانية حصلت على وسام الحرية الرئاسي ؛ شقيقة الحاكم السابق لويس فيري أغوايو ^{[ 254 ]}
• خوانيتا غارسيا بيرازا (1897–1970)، مؤسس جماعة ميتا ^{[ 255 ]}
• روبرتو غونزاليس نيفيس (مواليد 1950)، رئيس أساقفة سان خوان
• خورخي راشكي (مواليد 1945)، قسٌّ صريح من طائفة الخمسينية
• فرانسيسكو ريوس فرويلان (1919-2008)، أول أسقف بورتوريكي أصيل للكنيسة الأسقفية
• كارلوس مانويل رودريغيز سانتياغو (1918-1963)، طوّبه البابا يوحنا بولس الثاني في عام 2001؛ أول شخص من بورتوريكو وأول شخص من مواليد منطقة البحر الكاريبي يتم تطويبه ^{[ 256 ].}

القرن الحادي والعشرون

• خوسيه لويس دي خيسوس ميراندا (1946–2013)، زعيم ديني مثير للجدل
• بافي إدنا ريفيرا (مواليد 1946)، المرأة الثانية عشرة وأول امرأة من أصل إسباني تصبح أسقفة للكنيسة الأسقفية ^{[ 257 ]}

Pre-20th century

• Roberto Cofresí (1791–1825), a.k.a. '"El Pirata Cofresí"' (Cofresí the Pirate); his exploits as a pirate are part of Puerto Rico's folklore

20th century

• Salvador Agrón (1943–1986), a.k.a. "The Capeman", criminal and poet
• Antonio Correa Cotto (1916–1952), bandit/outlaw^[320]
• Jose Garcia Cosme (1957–2019), a.k.a. "Papo Cachete", drug kingpin^[321]
• Antonio García López (1943–1995), a.k.a. "Toño Bicicleta", outlaw
• Raymond Márquez (born 1930), a.k.a. "Spanish Raymond", Harlem numbers kingpin^[322][323]
• Isabel la Negra (1901–1974), madam of a brothel
• Edsel Torres Gómez, a.k.a. "Negri", drug kingpin
• Tony Tursi (1901–1989), mobster

21st century

• José Figueroa Agosto (born 1964), drug kingpin;^[324] and porn star^[325] known as "the Pablo Escobar of the Caribbean"
• Ariel Castro (1960–2013), kidnapper^[326]
• José Padilla (born 1970), convicted Al-Qaeda operative^[327]
• Esteban Santiago (born 1990), Fort Lauderdale shooter^[328]
• Alex Trujillo (born 1983), drug dealer and preacher^[329]

20th century

• Adrian A. Basora (born 1938), former U.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republic^[330]
• Gabriel Guerra-Mondragón (born 1942), former U.S. Ambassador to Chile
• Luis Guinot (1935–2022), former U.S. Ambassador to Costa Rica
• Victor Marrero (born 1941), former U.S. Ambassador to the OAS^[330]
• Spencer Matthews King (1917–1988), former U.S. Ambassador to Guyana
• Edward G. Miller Jr. (1911–1968), lawyer who served as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs from 1949 to 1952^[331]
• Teodoro Moscoso (1910–1992), former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela and head of Alliance for Progress (see also "Politicians")
• Horacio Rivero (1910–2000), Admiral (Ret.), former U.S. Ambassador to Spain (see also "Military")

21st century

• Mari Carmen Aponte (born 1946), U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador
• César Benito Cabrera (born 1947), former U.S. Ambassador to Mauritius and the Seychelles
• Hans Hertell, former U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic

• Ursula Acosta, educator; one of the founding members of the Sociedad Puertorriqueña de Genealogía (Puerto Rican Genealogical Society)^[332]
• Alfredo M. Aguayo, educator and writer; established the first laboratory of child psychology at the University of Havana^[333]
• Carlos Albizu Miranda, psychologist, educator; first Hispanic educator to have a North American university renamed in his honor and one of the first Hispanics to earn a PhD in psychology in the US^[334]
• Margot Arce de Vázquez, educator; founder of the department of Hispanic studies in the University of Puerto Rico
• Rosario Bellber González, educator, social worker, women's rights activist, suffragist, and philanthropist; initiator, vice president and one of the founders of the Puerto Rico Teachers Association (Spanish: Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico); Bellber is also one of the founders of the Children's Hospital of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Hospital del Niño de Puerto Rico) and president of the Social League of Suffragists of Puerto Rico (Spanish: La Liga Social Sufragista (LSS) de Puerto Rico); In 1944, Bellber founded the House of Health and Convalescence for Children with Tuberculosis (Spanish: Sanatorio para Niños con Tuberculosis) in the mountain town of Aibonito^{[203][204][205][206]}
• Jaime Benítez, former resident commissioner; longest-serving chancellor and president of the University of Puerto Rico
• Frank Bonilla, educator; academic who became a leading figure in Puerto Rican studies^[335]
• Emma Brossard, professor of politics and government at the Louisiana State University and noted expert on the Venezuelan oil industry
• Rafael Cartagena Ródriguez, educator and former Secretary of Education of Puerto Rico^[336]
• Carlos E. Chardón Palacios, first Puerto Rican mycologist and first Puerto Rican appointed as chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico
• Carlos A. Chardón López, educator and public administrator; the only Puerto Rican to serve twice as Puerto Rico Secretary of Education
• Edna Coll, educator and author; president of the Society of Puerto Rican Authors in San Juan; founder of the Academy of Fine Arts in Puerto Rico^[337]
• Celestina Cordero, educator; in 1820, founded the first school for girls in Puerto Rico^[338]
• Rafael Cordero, educator; declared venerable in 2004 by Pope John Paul II; the process for beatification is now in motion with Benedictine Fr. Oscar Rivera as Procurator of the Cause
• Waded Cruzado, first Hispanic president of Montana State University^[339]
• Eugenio María de Hostos, educator; in Peru, he helped to develop that country's educational system and spoke against the harsh treatment given to the Chinese who lived there. He stayed in Chile from 1870 to 1873. During his stay there, he taught at the University of Chile and gave a speech titled "The Scientific Education of Women;" he proposed that governments permit women in their colleges; soon after, Chile allowed women to enter its college educational system (see also "Politicians" and "Authors).
• Angelo Falcón, political scientist; author of Atlas of Stateside Puerto Ricans (2004); co-editor of Boricuas in Gotham: Puerto Ricans in the Making of Modern New York City (2004)
• José Ferrer Canales, educator, writer and activist^[340]
• Megh R. Goyal, professor, historian, scientist; "father of irrigation engineering in Puerto Rico"; professor in agricultural and biomedical engineering at University of Puerto Rico^[341]
• Sonia Gutierrez, American educator and Hispanic rights activist; principal, counselor and advocate for adult students at the Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School, an adult charter school in Washington, D.C.
• Felix V. Matos Rodriguez, educator; chancellor of the City University of New York^[342]
• Concha Meléndez, educator, writer, poet
• Ana G. Méndez, educator; founder of the Ana G. Méndez University System
• Ingrid Montes, educator, professor of chemistry at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras^[343]
• Antonio Miró Montilla, architect, educator; first architect appointed head of a government agency, the Puerto Rico Public Buildings Authority, 1969–71; first dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, 1971–78; chancellor of the Río Piedras Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, 1978–85^[54]
• Antonia Pantoja, educator; founder of ASPIRA;^[344] awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
• Ángel Ramos, educator; superintendent of the Sequoia Schools for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing; one of the few deaf Hispanics to earn a doctorate from Gallaudet University^[345]
• Juan A. Rivero, educator; founded the Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo in Mayagüez; discovered numerous animal species and has written several books
• Havidan Rodriguez, educator and scholar; president of the University at Albany, SUNY, 2017–present;^[346] first Latino/Hispanic President of any four-year SUNY institution^[347]
• Ana Roque, educator and suffragist; one of the founders of the University of Puerto Rico^[348]
• Carlos E. Santiago, economist and educator; chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee^[349]
• Ninfa Segarra, New York City Council member; president of the New York City Board of Education, 2000–02^[350]
• Victoria Leigh Soto, educator who emerged as a hero in the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, when she hid students and died trying to protect them from alleged shooter Adam Lanza; her father is Puerto Rican^[351]
• Lolita Tizol, early 1900s educator; at a time when most people in Ponce, as most of Puerto Rico, did not know how to read and write, and when teachers were paid only $50 per month, even in the large cities, Tizol took it upon herself to overcome all challenges to help others^[352]
• Nilita Vientós Gastón, educator; first female lawyer to work for the Department of Justice of Puerto Rico; defended the use of the Spanish language in the courts of Puerto Rico, before the Supreme Court, and won
• Mariano Villaronga Toro, educator and public servant; first commissioner of public instruction after the creation of the Estado Libre Asociado; instituted the use of Spanish as the official language of instruction in the Puerto Rico public education system, displacing English, which had been pushed by the US-appointed colonial governors^[353]

Pre-20th century

• Juan Ponce de León, lived with his family in Puerto Rico; Spanishexplorer and conquistador; became the first Governor of Puerto Rico by appointment of the Spanish crown; led the first European expedition to Florida, which he named;^[354][355] his remains are buried in a crypt in the Cathedral of San Juan Bautista in San Juan
• Juan Ponce de León II, first Puerto Rican acting governor (1579)

20th century

• Juan Bernardo Huyke, second Puerto Rican native to serve as temporary Governor of Puerto Rico; in 1923, he served as interim governor between the administrations of Emmet Montgomery Reily and Horace Mann Towner^[356]
• Jesús T. Piñero, first Puerto Rican to be named governor of the Island by a U.S. President (1946–1949)
• Luis Muñoz Marín, first elected governor of Puerto Rico (1949–1965)
• Roberto Sánchez Vilella, second elected governor of Puerto Rico (1965–1969)
• Luis A. Ferré, third elected governor of Puerto Rico (1969–1973); philanthropist who donated Museo de Arte de Ponce to the people of Puerto Rico; industrialist who founded the Puerto Rico Cement Company and Ponce Cement, Inc., and developed Puerto Rico Iron Works into a successful foundry
• Rafael Hernández Colón, fourth elected governor of Puerto Rico (1973–1977 and 1985–1993)
• Carlos Romero Barceló, fifth elected governor of Puerto Rico (1977–1985)
• Pedro Rosselló, sixth elected governor of Puerto Rico (1993–2001)

21st century

• Sila Calderón, seventh elected and first female governor of Puerto Rico (2001–2005)
• Aníbal Acevedo Vilá, eighth elected governor of Puerto Rico (2005–2009)
• Luis Fortuño, ninth elected governor of Puerto Rico (2009–2013)
• Alejandro García Padilla, tenth elected governor of Puerto Rico (2013–2017)
• Ricky Rosselló, 11th elected governor of Puerto Rico (2017–2019)
• Pedro Pierluisi, served as de facto governor of Puerto Rico from August 2 to August 7, 2019 (judicially annulled)
• Wanda Vázquez Garced, 13th governor of Puerto Rico (2019–2021)
• Pedro Pierluisi, the 14th Governor of Puerto Rico (2021–Present)

• Iñigo Abbad y Lasierra, first historian (Spanish) to extensively document Puerto Rico's history, nationality and culture
• Delma S. Arrigoitia, historian, author; first person in the University of Puerto Rico to earn a master's degree in the field of history; in 2010, her book, Puerto Rico Por Encima de Todo: Vida y Obra de Antonio R. Barceló, 1868–1938, was recognized among the best in the category of "research and criticism" and awarded a first place prize by the Ateneo Puertorriqueño^[359]
• Pilar Barbosa, University of Puerto Rico professor; author; first modern-day Official Historian of Puerto Rico
• Salvador Brau, historian, first Official Historian of Puerto Rico
• Cayetano Coll y Toste, historian; best known for his classic work Boletín Histórico de Puerto Rico
• Adolfo de Hostos, historian
• Francisco Lluch Mora, known for his legendary book Orígenes y Fundación de Ponce y Otras Noticias Relativas a su Desarrollo Urbano, Demográfico y Cultural (Siglos XVI-XIX)^[360]
• Eduardo Neumann Gandía, historian, known for his 19th-century History of Ponce^[361]
• Francisco Mariano Quiñones, historian; first Official Historian of Puerto Rico^[362]
• Andrés Ramos Mattei, historian^[363]
• Tony Santiago, military historian^[364]

• José Julián Acosta, journalist and advocate of the abolition of slavery
• José Andino y Amezquita, first Puerto Rican journalist^[365]
• César Andreu Iglesias, founding editor of Claridad newspaper; novelist/independence activist
• María Celeste Arrarás, anchor for Al Rojo Vivo^[366]
• Lynda Baquero, reporter, WNBC in New York City^[367]
• Bárbara Bermudo, journalist; co-host of Univision's Primer Impacto^[368]
• Marysol Castro, co-host of ABC's Good Morning America^[369]
• Antonio Cortón, late 19th century writer, journalist, literary critic, and editor of newspaper in Barcelona, Spain; wrote Las Antillas and the biography of José de Espronceda, a 19th-century poet^[370]
• Christopher Crommett, Atlanta-based Executive Vice President of CNN en Español
• Isabel Cuchí Coll, journalist and author; granddaughter of Cayetano Coll y Toste and niece of José Coll y Cuchí; served as Director of the "Sociedad de Autores Puertorriqueños^[337]
• Carmen Dominicci, co-host of Univision's Primer Impacto
• Malín Falú, Spanish language radio and television host^[371]
• Manuel Fernández Juncos, journalist and short story writer; lyricist who wrote the lyrics to "La Borinqueña"
• Juan González, New York City investigative journalist
• Aníbal González Irizarry, former newscaster for Telenoticias en acción
• Jackie Guerrido, journalist and meteorologist for Univision's Despierta América
• Kimberly Guilfoyle, Court TV journalist; former First Lady of San Francisco (Puerto Rican mother)^[372]
• Carmen Jovet, journalist, first Puerto Rican woman named a news anchor in Puerto Rico^[373]
• Michele LaFountain, anchor for the Spanish version of ESPN Sports Center^[374]
• Alycia Lane, journalist and news anchor on KYW-TV in Philadelphia^[375]
• Lynda López, New York City television news personality; sister of Jennifer López^[376]
• Natalie Morales, journalist and news anchor on NBC's The Today Show^[377]
• Denisse Oller, Emmy Award-winning New York City television news anchor^[378]
• Carlos D. Ramirez, publisher of El Diario La Prensa, New York City's largest Spanish-language newspaper^[379]
• Jorge L. Ramos, Emmy Award-winning New York City television news anchor^[380]
• Geraldo Rivera, attorney, journalist, writer, reporter and former talk show host; hosts the newsmagazine program Geraldo at Large, and appears regularly on Fox News Channel^[381]
• Darlene Rodríguez, New York City television news anchor^[382]
• Rubén Sánchez, radio and television journalist^[383]
• Edna Schmidt, anchor for Telefutura^[384]
• Ray Suárez, Senior Correspondent for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer^[385]
• Guillermo José Torres, journalist and news anchor for WAPA-TV
• Elizabeth Vargas, television journalist; former co-anchor of ABC World News Tonight
• Antonio Vélez Alvarado, journalist; "father of the Puerto Rican flag"^[386]
• Jane Vélez-Mitchell, anchor for the HLN news network (Puerto Rican mother)^[387]

Judges

• Cathy Bissoon, judge for the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania; first Hispanic female Article III judge in Pennsylvania^[388]
• José A. Cabranes, 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals Judge; first Puerto Rican to serve as a federal judge in the continental United States
• Albert Diaz, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit; first Puerto Rican and first Hispanic Judge to serve the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals; former Appellate Judge for the Navy-Marine Corps Court of Criminal Appeals
• Angel G. Hermida, Superior Court Judge, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (1976–1997); visiting professor in Comparative Law at Boston University (1984); Chief Clerk of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico (1974–1976); Physics professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus (1964–1966); author of MIRIAM J. RAMÍREZ DE FERRER Recurrente Vs. JUAN MARI BRAS, which decided that citizens of Puerto Rico have a right to vote in Puerto Rican elections, whether or not they are citizens of the United States^[389]
• Federico Hernández Denton, former Chief Justice of the Puerto Rico Supreme Court; Puerto Rico's first Consumer Affairs Secretary
• Erick Kolthoff, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico; first Puerto Rican of African descent to be named Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico^[390]
• Victor Marrero, Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York^[391]
• Maite Oronoz Rodriguez, first openly LGBTQ female Chief Justice in United States history, the third woman to preside the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico and the youngest person to do so^[392]
• Victor Manuel Pons Núñez, Chief justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico from 1985 until 1992; former Secretary of State of Puerto Rico from 1973 until 1974^[393]
• Nitza Quiñones Alejandro, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; first lesbian Latina ever to be nominated by a U.S. president, in this case President Obama, to serve as a federal judge^[394]
• Jaime Rios (judge) In 1995, Rios was elected to the State Supreme Court. In 2001 he became associate justice of the Appellate Term of the State Supreme Court, a position he currently holds. He is the only judge from Queens that make up the term. As an appellate judge, Rios reviews all the appeals taken from the courts throughout Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.
• Sonia Sotomayor, first Puerto Rican woman to serve as an (2nd Cir.) U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge and first Hispanic to be nominated and confirmed as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
• José Trías Monge, former Chief Justice, Attorney General of Puerto Rico, author
• Marilyn Zayas, first Latina and Puerto Rican judge elected to an Ohio State Court of Appeals^{[395][396][397]}
• Roberto Feliberti Cintrón, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico; former Commissioned Officer U.S. Navy (1985–1989)

Laws in the U.S. inspired by Puerto Ricans

• Briana's Law – Briana Ojeda was an 11-year-old girl who died in the summer of 2010 when a police officer did not perform CPR on her after she suffered from an asthma attack. Briana's Law, which requires that every police officer and member of the State Police, including police officer trainees and state police cadets, receive CPR training prior to employment as well as during employment every two years, was named in her honor.^[398]
• Gonzales v. Williams – Isabel González was a Puerto Rican activist who helped pave the way for Puerto Ricans to be given United States citizenship. González challenged the Government of the United States in the groundbreaking case Gonzales v. Williams (192 U.S. 1 (1904)). Her Supreme Court case is the first time that the Court confronted the citizenship status of inhabitants of territories acquired by the United States. González actively pursued the cause of U.S. citizenship for all Puerto Ricans by writing letters published in The New York Times.^[399]
• Mendez v. Westminster – Felicitas Gomez Mendez was a pioneer of the American civil rights movement. In 1946, Mendez and her husband led an educational civil rights battle that changed California and set an important legal precedent for ending de jure segregation in the United States. Their landmark desegregation case, known as Mendez v. Westminster, paved the way for meaningful integration, public school reform, and the American civil rights movement.^[400][222]

Law enforcement

• Ariel Rios On February 5, 1985, the block-long federal building at 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., that used to house the ATF Headquarters was renamed the Ariel Rios Federal Building in his honor.
• Nicholas Estavillo, NYPD Chief of Patrol (Ret.); in 2002, became first Puerto Rican and first Hispanic in the history of the NYPD to reach the three-star rank of Chief of Patrol^[401]
• Faith Evans, Hawaiian-Puerto Rican, first woman to be named U.S. Marshal^[402]
• Alejandro González Malavé, controversial undercover police officer
• Irma Lozada, New York City transit police; first female police officer to die in the line of duty in New York City^[403]
• José Meléndez-Pérez, INS officer who was named in 9/11 Commission Report; denied entry to terrorist in August 2001^[404]
• Benito Romano, United States Attorney in New York; first Puerto Rican to hold the United States Attorney's post in New York on an interim basis^[405]
• Joe Sánchez, former New York City police officer and author whose books give an insight as to the corruption within the department^[406]
• Pedro Toledo, retired FBI senior agent and longest-serving state police superintendent
• Alex Villanueva, Los Angeles County Sheriff^[407]

Firefighters

• Raúl Gándara Cartagena, first and longest-serving Commonwealth fire chief in Puerto Rico, 1942–1972^[408]
• Carlos M. Rivera, former Fire Commissioner of the City of New York; first Hispanic commissioner in the New York City Fire Department's 127-year history^[409]

16th century

• Agüeybaná II, Cacique of "Borikén" (Puerto Rico); led the Taínos in the fight against Juan Ponce de León and the conquistadores in the Taíno Rebellion of 1511^[410]

17th century

• Juan de Amézqueta, Captain, Puerto Rican Militia; defeated Captain Balduino Enrico (Boudewijn Hendricksz), who in 1625 was ordered by the Dutch to capture Puerto Rico^[411]

18th century

• Rafael Conti, Colonel, Spanish Army; in 1790, captured 11 enemy ships involved in smuggling stolen goods. In 1797, he helped defeat Sir Ralph Abercromby and defend Puerto Rico from a British invasion in his hometown, Aguadilla. In 1809, he organized a military expedition fight with the aim of returning Hispaniola, which now comprise the nations of the Dominican Republic and Haiti, back to Spanish rule.^[412]
• Antonio de los Reyes Correa, Captain, Spanish Army; Puerto Rican hero who defended the town Arecibo in 1702 from an invasion by defeating the British; was awarded La Medalla de Oro de la Real Efigie (The Gold Medal of the Royal Image), by King Philip V of Spain and given the title "Captain of Infantry"^[413]
• José and Francisco Díaz, Sergeants, Puerto Rican militia; cousins in the Toa Baja Militia who helped defeat Sir Ralph Abercromby and defend Puerto Rico from a British invasion in 1797^[414]
• Miguel Henríquez, Captain, Spanish Navy; in 1713, defeated the British in Vieques and was awarded the La Medalla de Oro de la Real Efigie (The Gold Medal of the Royal Effigy)^[415]

19th century

• Ramón Acha Caamaño, Brigadier General, Spanish Army; defended the city of San Juan against the U.S. attack of Puerto Rico during the Spanish–American War; awarded the Cruz de la Orden de Merito Naval 1ra clase (The Cross of the Order of the Naval Merit 1st class) by the Spanish government for his role in the rescue of the cargo of the Spanish transoceanic steamer SS Antonio López^[416]
• Francisco Hernáiz, Rear admiral migrated in Venezuela
• Juan Alonso Zayas, 2nd Lieutenant, Spanish Army; commander of the 2nd Expeditionary Battalion of the Spanish Army stationed in Baler which fought in the Siege of Baler in the Philippines^[417]
• Francisco Gonzalo Marín, Lieutenant, Cuban Liberation Army; considered by many as the designer of the Puerto Rican flag; a poet and journalist; fought alongside José Martí for Cuba's independence^[418]
• Demetrio O'Daly, first Puerto Rican to reach the rank of Field Marshal in the Spanish Army; first Puerto Rican to be awarded the Cruz Laureada de San Fernando (Laureate Cross of Saint Ferdinand – Spain's version of the Medal of Honor); elected as delegate to the Spanish Courts in representation of Puerto Rico^[419]
• Luis Padial, Brigadier General, Spanish Army; in 1863, his battalion was deployed with the intention of "squashing" a pro-independence rebellion in the Dominican Republic, in which he was wounded; played an essential role in the abolishment of slavery in Puerto Rico
• Ramón Power y Giralt, Captain, Spanish Navy; distinguished naval officer who from 1808 to 1809 led the defense of the Spanish Colony of Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) against an invasion from Napoleon's French forces by enforcing a blockade in support of the Spanish ground troops^[420]
• Ángel Rivero Méndez, Captain, Spanish Army; fired the first shot against the United States in the Spanish–American War in Puerto Rico; later invented Kola Champagne, a soft drink^[421]
• Juan Ríus Rivera, Commander-in-Chief of the Cuban Liberation Army; fought in El Grito de Lares under the command of Mathias Brugman; fought in Cuba's Ten Years' War (1868–1878) against Spain under the command of General Máximo Gómez and became the General of the Cuban Liberation Army of the West upon the death of General Antonio Maceo Grajales^[422]
• Augusto Rodríguez, Lieutenant, United States Union Army; member of the 15th Connecticut Regiment (a.k.a. Lyon Regiment); served in the defenses of Washington, D.C.; led his men in the Battles of Fredericksburg and Wyse Fork in the American Civil War^[423]
• Manuel Rojas, Commander in Chief of the Puerto Rican Liberation Army; on September 28, 1868, he led 800 men and women in a revolt against Spanish rule and took the town of Lares in the Grito de Lares^[424]
• José Semidei Rodríguez, Brigadier General, Cuban Liberation Army; fought in Cuba's War of Independence (1895–1898); after Cuba gained its independence he continued to serve there as a diplomat^[425]
• Antonio Valero de Bernabé, Brigadier General in the Latin American wars of independence; fought against the forces of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Siege of Saragossa; joined the Mexican Revolutionary Army headed by Agustín de Iturbide and was named Chief of Staff; successfully fought for Mexico's independence from Spain; fought alongside Simón Bolívar and helped liberate South America from Spanish Colonial rule; known as the "Puerto Rican Liberator"^[426]

20th century

• Ricardo Aponte, Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force; fighter pilot in F-111s, politico-military affairs, former director of the Innovation and Experimentation Directorate, United States Southern Command; first Puerto Rican to hold this position^[427]
• Félix Arenas Gaspar, Captain, Spanish Army; posthumously awarded the Cruz Laureada de San Fernando (Laureate Cross of Saint Ferdinand – Spain's version of the Medal of Honor) for his actions in the Rif War^[428]
• Joseph (José) B. Aviles Sr., CWO2, U.S. Coast Guard; on September 28, 1925, became the first Hispanic Chief Petty Officer in the United States Coast Guard; during World War II received a wartime promotion to Chief Warrant Officer, becoming the first Hispanic to reach that level as well^[429]
• Rafael Celestino Benítez, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; a highly decorated submarine commander who led the rescue effort of the crew members of the USS Cochino, which was involved in the first American undersea spy mission of the Cold War^[430]
• Carlos Betances Ramírez, Colonel, U.S. Army; first Puerto Rican to command a battalion in the Korean War; in 1952, he assumed the command of the 2nd Battalion, 65th Infantry Regiment^[431]
• José M. Cabanillas, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; in World War II he was Executive Officer of the USS Texas (BB-35) and participated in the invasions of Africa and Normandy (D-Day)^[432]
• Richard Carmona, Vice Admiral, Public Health Service Commissioned Corps; served as the 17th Surgeon General of the United States under President George W. Bush^[433]
• Modesto Cartagena, Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army; the most decorated Hispanic soldier in history; distinguished himself in combat during the Korean War as a member of Puerto Rico's 65th Infantry and is being considered for the Medal of Honor^[434]
• Carlos Fernando Chardón, Major General, Puerto Rico National Guard; Secretary of State of Puerto Rico 1969–73; Puerto Rico Adjutant General 1973–75^[435]
• Félix Conde Falcón, Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army; received the Medal of Honor posthumously on March 18, 2014, for his courageous actions while serving as an acting Platoon Leader in Company D, 1st Battalion, 505th Infantry Regiment, 3d Brigade, 82d Airborne Division during combat operations against an armed enemy in Ap Tan Hoa, Republic of Vietnam on April 4, 1969^[436]
• Carmen Contreras-Bozak, Tech4, U.S. Women's Army Corps; first Hispanic to serve in the U.S. Women's Army Corps; served as an interpreter and in numerous administrative positions during World War II^[437]
• Virgilio N. Cordero Jr., Brigadier General, U.S. Army; a Battalion Commander of the 31st Infantry Regiment who documented his experiences as a prisoner of war and his participation in the infamous Bataan Death March of World War II.^[438]
• Juan César Cordero Dávila, Major General, U.S. Army; commanding officer of the 65th Infantry Regiment during the Korean War, thus becoming one of the highest ranking ethnic officers in the Army^[439]
• Encarnación Correa, Sergeant, U.S. Army; the person who fired the first warning shots in World War I on behalf of the United States against a ship flying the colors of the Central Powers, when on March 21, 1915, under the orders of then-Lieutenant Teófilo Marxuach, he manned a machine gun and opened fire on the Odenwald, an armed German supply ship trying to force its way out of the San Juan Bay^[440]
• Ruben A. Cubero, Brigadier General U.S. Air Force; of Puerto Rican descent; highly decorated member of the United States Air Force; in 1991 became the first Hispanic graduate of the United States Air Force Academy to be named Dean of the Faculty of the Academy^[441]
• Pedro del Valle, Lieutenant General, U.S. Marine Corps; first Hispanic three-star Marine general; his military career included service in World War I, Haiti and Nicaragua during the so-called Banana Wars of the 1920s, and in the seizure of Guadalcanal and later as Commanding General of the U.S. 1st Marine Division during World War II played an instrumental role in the defeat of the Japanese forces in Okinawa^[442]
• Carmelo Delgado Delgado, Lieutenant, Abraham Lincoln International Brigade; first Puerto Rican and one of the first U.S. citizens to fight and to die in the Spanish Civil War against General Francisco Franco and the Spanish Nationalists^[443]
• Alberto Díaz Jr., Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; first Hispanic to become the director of the San Diego Naval Medical District^[444]
• Luis R. Esteves, major general, U.S. Army; in 1915, became the first Puerto Rican and therefore the first Hispanic to graduate from the United States Military Academy; organized the Puerto Rican National Guard^[445]
• Salvador E. Felices, major general, U.S. Air Force; first Puerto Rican general in the U.S. Air Force; in 1953, he flew in 19 combat missions over North Korea during the Korean War; in 1957, he participated in a historic project that was given to Fifteenth Air Force by the Strategic Air Command headquarters known as "Operation Power Flite", the first around the world non-stop flight by all-jet aircraft^[446]
• Michelle Fraley (née Hernández), Colonel, U.S. Army; became in 1984 the first Puerto Rican woman to graduate from West Point Military Academy; former chief of staff of the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command^[447][448]
• Rose Franco, CWO3, U.S. Marine Corps; first female Hispanic Chief Warrant Officer in the Marine Corps; in 1965 was named Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Navy, Paul Henry Nitze by the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson^[449]
• Edmund Ernest García, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; during World War II he was commander of the destroyer USS Sloat (DE-245) and saw action in the invasions of Africa, Sicily, and France^[450]
• Fernando Luis García, Private First Class, U.S. Marine Corps; first Puerto Rican awarded the Medal of Honor; posthumously awarded the medal for his actions against enemy aggressor forces in the Korean War on September 5, 1952.^[451]
• Linda Garcia Cubero, Captain, U.S. Air Force; of Mexican-Puerto Rican heritage; in 1980 became the first female Hispanic graduate of any of the U.S. military academies when she graduated from the United States Air Force Academy^[452]
• Carmen García Rosado, Private First Class, U.S. Women's Army Corps; was among the first 200 Puerto Rican women to be recruited into the WAC's during World War II; author of Las WACS-Participacion de la Mujer Boricua en la Segunda Guerra Mundial (The WACs – The participation of the Puerto Rican women in the Second World War), the first book which documents the experiences of the first 200 Puerto Rican women to participate in said conflict as members of the armed forces of the United States^[453]
• Mihiel Gilormini, Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force; World War II hero, recipient of 5 Distinguished Flying Crosses; together with Brig. General Alberto A. Nido and Lt. Col. Jose Antonio Muñiz, founded the Puerto Rico Air National Guard; previously flew for the Royal Canadian Air Force (1941) and the Royal Air Force (1941–1942)^[454]
• Manuel Goded Llopis, General, Spanish Army; a Puerto Rican in the Spanish Army; one of the first generales to join General Francisco Franco in the revolt against the Spanish Republican government (also known as Spanish loyalists) in the Spanish Civil War; previously distinguished himself in the Battle of Alhucemas of the Rif War^[455]
• César Luis González, First Lieutenant, U.S. Army Air Force; first Puerto Rican pilot in the United States Army Air Force; first Puerto Rican pilot to die in World War II.^[456]
• Diego E. Hernández, Vice Admiral, U.S. Navy; first Hispanic to be named Vice Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command; flew two combat tours in Vietnam during the Vietnam War; in 1980, took command of the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67)^[457]
• Haydee Javier Kimmich, Captain, U.S. Navy; highest ranking Hispanic female in the Navy; Chief of Orthopedics at the Navy Medical Center in Bethesda and she reorganized Reservist Department of the medical center during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm^[458]
• Orlando Llenza, Major General, U.S. Air Force; second Puerto Rican to reach the rank of Major General (two-star General) in the United States Air Force; Adjutant General of the Puerto Rico National Guard^[459]
• Carlos Lozada, Private First Class, U.S. Army; posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on November 20, 1967, at Dak To in the Republic of Vietnam^[460]
• Carmen Lozano Dumler, 2nd Lieutenant, U.S. Women's Army Corps; one of the first Puerto Rican women Army officers; in 1944, she was sworn in as a 2nd Lieutenant and assigned to the 161st General Hospital in San Juan^[458]
• Antonio Maldonado, Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force; in 1965, became the youngest person to pilot a B-52 aircraft; his active participation in the Vietnam War included 183 air combat missions^[461]
• Joseph (José) R. Martínez, Private First Class, U.S. Army; destroyed a German Infantry unit and tank in Tuniz by providing heavy artillery fire, saving his platoon from being attacked in the process; received the Distinguished Service Cross from General George S. Patton, becoming the first Puerto Rican recipient of said military decoration^[462]
• Lester Martínez López, MPH, Major General, U.S. Army; first Hispanic to head the Army Medical and Research Command^[463]
• Gilberto José Marxuach, Colonel, U.S. Army^[464]
• Teófilo Marxuach, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army; fired a hostile shot from a cannon located at the Santa Rosa battery of El Morro fort, in what is considered to be the first shot of World War I fired by the regular armed forces of the United States against any ship flying the colors of the Central Powers,^[465] forcing the Odenwald to stop and to return to port where its supplies were confiscated^[466]
• George E. Mayer, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; first Hispanic Commander of the Naval Safety Center; led an international naval exercise known as Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) 2003 from his flagship, the USS Vella Gulf (CG-72); this was the first time in the 31-year history of BALTOPS that the exercise included combined ground troops from Russia, Poland, Denmark and the United States^[467]
• Angel Mendez, Sergeant, U.S. Marine Corps; of Puerto Rican descent; was awarded the Navy Cross in Vietnam and is being considered for the Medal of Honor; saved the life of his lieutenant, Ronald D. Castille, who went on to become the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania^[468]
• Enrique Méndez Jr., Major General, U.S. Army; first Puerto Rican to assume the positions of Army Deputy Surgeon General, Commander of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs^[469]
• Virgil R. Miller, Colonel, U.S. Army; Regimental Commander of the 442d Regimental Combat Team (RCT), a unit which was composed of "Nisei" (second generation Americans of Japanese descent), during World War II; led the 442nd in its rescue of the Lost Texas Battalion of the 36th Infantry Division, in the forests of the Vosges Mountains in northeastern France^[470]
• José Antonio Muñiz Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force; together with then-Colonels Alberto A. Nido and Mihiel Gilormini, founded the Puerto Rico Air National Guard; in 1963, the Air National Guard Base, at the San Juan International airport in Puerto Rico, was renamed "Muñiz Air National Guard Base" in his honor^[471]
• William A. Navas Jr., Major General, U.S. Army; first Puerto Rican named Assistant Secretary of the Navy; a veteran of the Vietnam War; nominated in 2001 by President George W. Bush to serve as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs)^[472]
• Juan E. Negrón, Master Sergeant, U.S. Army; received the Medal of Honor posthumously on March 18, 2014, for courageous actions while serving as a member of Company L, 65th Infantry Regiment, 3d Infantry Division during combat operations against an armed enemy in Kalma-Eri, Korea, on April 28, 1951^[436]
• Héctor Andrés Negroni, Colonel, U.S. Air Force; first Puerto Rican graduate of the United States Air Force Academy; a veteran of the Vietnam War; was awarded the Aeronautical Merit Cross, Spai'ns highest Air Force peacetime award for his contributions to the successful implementation of the United States-Spain Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation^[473]
• Alberto A. Nido, Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force; a World War II war hero who together with Lt. Col. Jose Antonio Muñiz, co-founded the Puerto Rico Air National Guard and served as its commander for many years; served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, the British Royal Air Force and in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II^[474]
• Jorge Otero Barreto, Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army; with 38 decorations, which includes 2 Silver Star Medals, 5 Bronze Star Medals with Valor, 4 Army Commendation medals, 5 Purple Heart Medals and 5 Air Medals, has been called the most decorated Puerto Rican soldier of the Vietnam War.^[475]
• Dolores Piñero, U.S. Army Medical Corps; despite the fact that she was not an active member of the military, she was the first Puerto Rican woman doctor to serve in the Army under contract during World War I; at first she was turned down, but after writing a letter to the Army Surgeon General in Washington, D.C. she was ordered to report to Camp Las Casas in Santurce, Puerto Rico; in October 1918, she signed her contract with the Army.^[476]
• José M. Portela, Brigadier General U.S. Air Force; served in the position of Assistant Adjutant General for Air while also serving as commander of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard; in 1972, became the youngest C-141 Starlifter aircraft commander and captain at age 22; the only reservist ever to serve as director of mobility forces for Bosnia^[477]
• Marion Frederic Ramírez de Arellano, Captain, U.S. Navy; first Hispanic submarine commander; awarded two Silver Stars and a Bronze Star for his actions against the Japanese Imperial Navy during World War II^[478][479]
• Antonio J. Ramos, Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force; first Hispanic to serve as commander, Air Force Security Assistance Center, Air Force Materiel Command, and dual-hatted as Assistant to the Commander for International Affairs, Headquarters Air Force Materiel Command^[480]
• Agustín Ramos Calero, Sergeant First Class, U.S. Army; with 22 military decorations, was the most decorated soldier in all of the United States during World War II^[431]
• Fernando L. Ribas-Dominicci, Major, U.S. Air Force; one of the pilots who participated in the Libyan air raid as member of the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing; his F-111F was shot down in action over the disputed Gulf of Sidra off the Libyan coast. Ribas-Dominicci and his weapons systems officer, Capt. Paul Lorence, were the only U.S. casualties of Operation El Dorado Canyon^[481]
• Frederick Lois Riefkohl, Rear Admiral, U.S. Navy; born Luis Federico Riefkohl Jaimieson; one of the first Puerto Ricans to graduate from the United States Naval Academy; in World War I became the first Puerto Rican to be awarded the Navy Cross^[482]
• Rudolph W. Riefkohl, Colonel, U.S. Army; played an instrumental role in helping the people of Poland overcome the 1919 typhus epidemic^[483]
• Demensio Rivera, Private, U.S. Army; received the Medal of Honor posthumously on March 18, 2014, for his courageous actions while serving as an automatic rifleman with 2d Platoon, Company G, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3d Infantry Division during combat operations against an armed enemy in Changyong-ni, Korea on May 23, 1951^[436]
• Manuel Rivera Jr., Captain, U.S. Marine Corps; of Puerto Rican descent; first U.S. serviceman to die in Operation Desert Shield^[484]
• Pedro N. Rivera, Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force; in 1994, became the first Hispanic to be named medical commander in the Air Force; responsible for the provision of health care to more than 50,000 patients^[485]
• Horacio Rivero, Admiral, U.S. Navy; in 1964, became the first Puerto Rican and second Hispanic Admiral (four-star) in the U.S. Navy; participated in World War II, Korean War, and Vietnam War; commander in 1962 of the American fleet sent by President John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis to set up a quarantine (blockade) of the Soviet ships in an effort to stop the Cold War from escalating into World War III^[486][487]
• Pedro Rodríguez, Master Sergeant, U.S. Army; member of Puerto Rico's 65th Infantry; earned two Silver Stars within a seven-day period during the Korean War^[488]
• Antonio Rodríguez Balinas, Brigadier General, U.S. Army; first commander of the Office of the First U.S. Army Deputy Command; during the Korean War he fought with Puerto Rico's 65th Infantry Regiment and was awarded the Silver Star^[489]
• Fernando E. Rodríguez Vargas, Major, U.S. Army; odontologist (dentist), scientist and a Major in the U.S. Army who in 1921 discovered the bacteria which causes dental caries^[490][491]
• Eurípides Rubio, Captain, U.S. Army; posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at Tây Ninh Province in the Republic of Vietnam on November 8, 1966^[492]
• Héctor Santiago-Colón, Specialist Four, U.S. Army; posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at Quảng Trị Province, Vietnam as member of Company B of the 5th Battalion, 7th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division^[493]
• Antulio Segarra, Colonel, U.S. Army; in 1943, became the first Puerto Rican Regular Army officer to command a Regular Army Regiment when he assumed the command of Puerto Rico's 65th Infantry Regiment, which was conducting security missions in the jungles of Panama^[494]
• Carmen Vazquez Rivera, First Lieutenant, U.S. Air Force. Vazquez was an early Puerto Rican female officer of the United States Army and Air Force who served in both World War II and the Korean War.^[495] Wife of Leopoldo Figueroa. Awarded the American Theater Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal, Overseas Service Bars (3), and National Defense Service Medal. Following her 100th birthday, Vazquez was awarded the League of United Latin American Citizens Presidential Medal of Freedom and honored by the United States Congress.^[495][496]
• Miguel A. Vera, Private, U.S. Army; was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously for his courageous actions while serving as an automatic rifleman with Company F, 38th Infantry Regiment, 2d Infantry Division in Chorwon, Korea, on September 21, 1952^[436]
• Humbert Roque Versace, Captain, U.S. Army; of Italian and Puerto Rican descent; posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions while a prisoner of war (POW) during the Vietnam War; first member of the U.S. Army to be awarded the Medal of Honor for actions performed in Southeast Asia while in captivity^[497]
• Raúl G. Villaronga, Colonel, U.S. Army; first Puerto Rican to be elected as mayor of a Texas city (Killeen)^[498]

21st century

• Marta Carcana, Major General, U.S. Army; in 2015, became the first woman to be named Adjutant General of the Puerto Rican National Guard^[499]
• Iván Castro, Captain, U.S. Army; of Puerto Rican descent; one of three blind active-duty officers who serves in the US Army; the only blind officer serving in the United States Army Special Forces^[500]
• Hilda I. Ortiz Clayton, Specialist, U.S. Army, was a combat photographer killed in 2013 when a mortar exploded during an Afghan training exercise; she was able to photograph the explosion that killed her and four Afghan soldiers. The 55th Signal Company named their annual competitive award for combat camera work "The Spc. Hilda I. Clayton Best Combat Camera (COMCAM) Competition" in her honor.^[501][502]
• Ramón Colón-López, Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman, U.S. Air Force; a pararescueman; on June 13, 2007, was the first and only Hispanic among the first six airmen to be awarded the Air Force Combat Action Medal; Commandant of the Pararescue and Combat Rescue Officer School^[503]
• Olga E. Custodio, Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force; first female Hispanic U.S. military pilot; first Latina to complete U.S. Air Force military pilot training; after retiring, became the first Latina commercial airline captain^[504]
• Emilio Díaz Colón, Major General, U.S. Army; PRNG; first Superintendent of the Puerto Rican Police; served as the Adjutant General of the Puerto Rican National Guard^[505][506]
• Rafael O'Ferrall, Brigadier General, U.S. Army; first Hispanic and person of Puerto Rican descent to become the Deputy Commanding General for the Joint Task Force at Guantanamo, Cuba while simultaneously serving as Assistant Adjutant General (Army) and Deputy Commanding General of the Joint Force Headquarters at San Juan, Puerto Rico^[507]
• María Inés Ortiz, Captain, U.S. Army; of Puerto Rican descent; first United States Army nurse to die in combat during Operation Iraqi Freedom and the first to die in combat since the Vietnam War
• Hector E. Pagan, Brigadier General, U.S. Army; first Hispanic of Puerto Rican descent to become Deputy Commanding General of the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School at Fort Bragg, North Carolina^[508]
• Maritza Sáenz Ryan, Colonel, U.S. Army; of Puerto Ricana and Spanish descent; head of the Department of Law at the United States Military Academy; first woman and first Hispanic (Puerto Rican and Spanish heritage) West Point graduate to serve as an academic department head; the most senior ranking Hispanic Judge Advocate^[509][510]
• Marc H. Sasseville, Major General, U.S. Air Force; Puerto Rican mother; on September 11, 2001,^[511] was acting operations group commander under the 113th Wing of the DC Air National Guard; one of four fighter pilots commissioned with finding and destroying United Flight 93 by any means necessary, including ramming the aircraft in midair^[512]
• Noel Zamot, Colonel, U.S. Air Force, a native of Rio Piedras, was the first Hispanic commandant of the Air Force's elite Test Pilot School. He is also a former combat and test aviator with over 1900 hours in B-52, B-1B, B-2A, F-16D and over 20 other aircraft.^[513][514]
• Irene M. Zoppi, Brigadier General, U.S. Army; first Puerto Rican woman to reach the rank of Brigadier General in the United States Army; Deputy Commanding General – Support under the 200th Military Police Command at Fort Meade, Maryland; Bronze Star Medal recipient^[515][516]

• Joseph M. Acaba, scientist, educator, first Puerto Rican astronaut
• Carlos Albizu Miranda, psychologist; first Hispanic educator to have a North American university renamed in his honor; one of the first Hispanics to earn a PhD in psychology in the U.S.^[334]
• Ricardo Alegría, anthropologist, archaeologist and educator; "father of modern Puerto Rican archaeology"
• José Álvarez de Choudens, Secretary of Health of Puerto Rico
• Jorge N. Amely Vélez, electrical engineer and inventor; holds various patents in the field of medical technology^[517]
• Bailey K. Ashford, author, physician, soldier, and parasitologist; Colonel in the U.S. Army, arrived in Puerto Rico during the Spanish–American War and made the island his home; organized and conducted a parasite treatment campaign which cured approximately 300,000 people (one-third of the Puerto Rico population) and reduced the death rate from this anemia by 90 percent^[518]
• Pedro Beauchamp, surgeon; first Puerto Rican specialist certified by the American Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Board; performed the first in vitro fertilization technique on the island in 1985^[519]
• Víctor Manuel Blanco, astronomer; in 1959, discovered a "Blanco 1", a galactic cluster;^[520] second Director of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, which has the largest 4-m telescope in the Southern Hemisphere;^[521] in 1995, the telescope was dedicated in his honor as the "Víctor M. Blanco Telescope", also known as the "Blanco 4m"^[522]
• Rafael L. Bras, former chair of Civil Engineering at MIT; leading expert on hydrometeorology and global warming^[523]
• Anthony M. Busquets, electronic engineer, aerospace technologist; involved in the development and application of multifunction control/display switch technology in 1983 and development and application of a microprocessor-based I/O system for simulator use in 1984^[524]
• Carlos E. Chardón, a.k.a. the "father of mycology in Puerto Rico"; first Puerto Rican mycologist; discovered the aphid "Aphis maidis", the vector of the mosaic of sugar cane, in 1922; author of the Chardón Plan; first Puerto Rican to hold the position of Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico^[525]
• Nitza Margarita Cintron, scientist; Chief of NASA's (JSC) Space and Health Care Systems Office
• Pablo Clemente-Colon, first Puerto Rican chief scientist of the National Ice Center (2005–present)
• Antonia Coello Novello, physician; first Hispanic and first woman U.S. Surgeon General (1990–93)
• Ernesto Colón Yordán, Secretary of Health of Puerto Rico
• Martín Corchado (born 1839), physician, medical researcher, and president of the Autonomist Party of Puerto Rico^[526]
• José F. Cordero, pediatrician; founding director of the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention^[527]
• Milagros J. Cordero, pediatrician; founder and President of Team Therapy Services For Children
• María Cordero Hardy, physiologist, educator and scientist; did important research on vitamin E^[528]
• Juan R. Cruz, NASA scientist, played an instrumental role in the design and development of the Mars Exploration Roverparachute^[529]
• Carlos Del Castillo, NASA scientist; Program Scientist for the Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Program at NASA; recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers award, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers^[530]
• Manuel de la Pila Iglesias, multi-faceted physician; introduced the first EKG and X-ray machines into Puerto Rico; founded a medical clinic which today houses a respected medical center in Ponce^[531]
• Rurico Diaz Rivera, cardiologist; first Chief of Medicine at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine; leader in United States research for dengue fever ^[532]
• Alfonso Eaton, mechanical engineer, aerospace technologist; first Puerto Rican to work for NASA^[533]
• Enectalí Figueroa-Feliciano, astronaut applicant and astrophysicist with NASA; pioneered the development of position-sensitive detectors
• Orlando Figueroa, mechanical engineer at NASA; former director for Mars exploration and the director for the Solar System Division in the Office of Space Science; now director, applied engineering & technology at the NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center; as director of engineering he manages the full scope of engineering activities at Goddard^[534]
• Adolfo Figueroa Viñas, first Puerto Rican astrophysicist at NASA working in solar plasma physics; senior research scientist; involved in many NASA missions such as Wind, SOHO, Cluster and MMS projects^[535]
• José N. Gándara, lead physician attending to the wounded of the Ponce massacre and later an expert witness at the trials of the "Nacionalistas" as well as before the Hays Commission; held numerous government positions, including Secretary of Health of Puerto Rico; co-founded the Popular Democratic Party of Puerto Rico^[536][537]
• Joxel García, first Puerto Rican Assistant Secretary for Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps^[538]
• Mario García Palmieri, cardiologist; first Hispanic to be designated a "Master" by the American College of Cardiology^[539]
• Sixto González, scientist; first Puerto Rican Director of the Arecibo Observatory, with the world's largest single dish radio telescope^[540]
• Rosa A. González, registered nurse; founded the Association of Registered Nurses of Puerto Rico; wrote various books related to her field in which she denounced the discrimination against women and nurses in Puerto Rico.^[541]
• Isaac González Martínez, urologist; first Puerto Rican urologist; pioneer in the fight against cancer in the island^[542]
• Olga D. González-Sanabria, NASA engineer; highest ranking Hispanic at NASA Glenn Research Center; member of the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame^[543]
• Amri Hernández-Pellerano, NASA engineer; designs, builds and tests the electronics that regulate the solar array power at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center^[544]
• Gloria Hernandez, physical scientist, aerospace technologist; Science Manager for the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment at NASA Langley Research Center; her supersonic aerodynamic research has resulted in economic advances in supersonic flight^[545]
• Lucas G. Hortas, aerospace engineer and technologist; author and or co-author of over 35 technical papers^[546]
• Chris Kubecka (full name Christina Kubecka de Medina), a computer chaiist specialist in cyberwarfare, established international business operations for Saudi Aramco after the world's most devastating Shamoon cyber warfare attacks. Detected and helped halt the second wave of July 2009 cyberattacks cyberwar attacks against South Korea.^[547]
• Ramón E. López, physicist; professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Texas at Arlington; Fellow of the American Physical Society; recipient of the 2002 Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service; co-authored a book on space weather, Storms from the Sun^[548]
• Fernando López Tuero, agricultural scientist and agronomist; discovered the bug (believed at first to be a germ) which was destroying Puerto Rico's sugar canes^[549]
• Carlos A. Liceaga, electronic engineer, aerospace technologist; leads the development of proposal guidelines, and the technical, management, and cost evaluation of the proposals For the Explorer Program^[546]
• Ariel Lugo, scientist and ecologist; Director of the International Institute of Tropical Forestry in the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, based in Puerto Rico; founding member of the Society for Ecological Restoration; member-at-large of the Board of the Ecological Society of America^[550]
• Melissa Cristina Márquez, "Mother of Sharks," marine biologist, author, and science communicator^[551]
• Debbie Martínez, computer engineer, aerospace technologist; Flight Systems and Software Branch software manager for the Cockpit Motion Facility at NASA Langley Research Center^[552]
• Lissette Martinez, electronic engineer, rocket scientist; lead electrical engineer for the Space Experiment Module program at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility
• Manuel Martínez Maldonado, nephrologist, educator; author of numerous scientific publications; discovered a natriuretic hormone^[553]
• Antonio Mignucci, marine biologist, oceanographer; founder of "Red Caribeña de Varamientos"
• Carlos Ortiz Longo, NASA engineer and scientist, and pilot
• Joseph O. Prewitt Díaz, psychologist; specialized in psychosocial theory; recipient of the American Psychological Association's 2008 International Humanitarian Award^[554]
• Mercedes Reaves, research engineer and scientist; responsible for the design of a viable full-scale solar sail and the development and testing of a scale model solar sail at NASA Langley Research Center^[555]
• Ron Rivera, inventor and workshop organizer; invented life-saving water filters based on pottery^[556]
• Juan A. Rivero, scientist and educator; founded the Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo in Mayagüez, has discovered numerous animal species; author of several books^[557]
• Miriam Rodón Naveira, NASA scientist; first Hispanic woman to hold the Deputy Directorship for the Environmental Sciences Division in the National Exposure Research Laboratory^[524]
• Miguel Rodríguez, mechanical engineer; Chief of the Integration Office of the Cape Canaveral Spaceport Management Office^[558]
• Pedro Rodriguez, inventor, mechanical engineer; director of a test laboratory at NASA; invented a portable, battery-operated lift seat for people suffering from knee arthritis^[559]
• Helen Rodríguez Trías, physician and activist; first Latina president of the American Public Health Association; a founding member of the Women's Caucus of the American Public Health Association; recipient of the Presidential Citizen's Medal^[232]
• Fernando E. Rodríguez Vargas, dental scientist; discovered the bacteria which causes dental cavities^[560]
• Monserrate Roman, scientist, microbiologist; helped build the International Space Station^[491][561]
• Gualberto Ruaño, biotechnology pioneer and founder of Genomas, Inc.; pioneer in the field of personalized medicine; inventor of a system used worldwide for the management of viral diseases; President and founder of Genomas, a genetics-related company; director of genetics research at Hartford Hospital's Genetic Research Center^[562]
• José Francisco Salgado, Emmy-nominated astronomer, visual artist, and science communicator; former astronomer at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago; member of the audiovisual ensemble Bailey-Salgado Project^[563]
• Ulises Armand Sanabria, of Puerto Rican and French descent; developed mechanical televisions and early terrestrial television broadcasts^[564]
• Eduardo Santiago Delpín, surgeon; wrote the first book in Spanish about organ transplants^[565]
• Yajaira Sierra Sastre, astronaut; part of a NASA project on astronaut nutrition and health; She will live for four months isolated in a planetary module at a base in Hawaii to simulate life at a future base on Mars^[566][567]
• Diego R. Solís, physician; performed the first simultaneous pancreas and kidney transplant in Puerto Rico^[568]
• Félix Soto Toro, electrical engineer, astronaut applicant; developed the Advanced Payload Transfer Measurement System (ASPTMS), an electronic 3D measuring system
• Agustín Stahl, scientist in the fields of botany, ethnology and zoology^[569]
• Ramón M. Suárez Calderon, scientist, cardiologist, educator and hematologist; his investigations led to the identification of the proper and effective treatment of a type of anemia known as Tropical Espru, the application of complex methods, such as electrocardiography and radioisotope, to be used in clinics and the identification and treatment of the disease which causes heart rheumatism^[549]
• Fermín Tangüis, scientist, agriculturist and entrepreneur; developed the Tanguis cotton in Peru and saved that nation's cotton industry^[570]
• Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, television and radio host; Puerto Rican mother; director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York City; host of the PBS series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage^[571]

19th century

• Román Baldorioty de Castro, "the father of Puerto Rico's autonomy"
• José Celso Barbosa, "the father of Puerto Rico's statehood movement"
• Ramón Emeterio Betances y Alacán, "father of the Puerto Rican nation"; main leader of the Grito de Lares revolution
• Eugenio María de Hostos y Bonilla, a.k.a. "El Gran Ciudadano de las Américas" (the Great Citizen of the Americas), educator, philosopher, intellectual, lawyer, sociologist, and independence advocate
• José M. Dávila Monsanto, senator, politician and lawyer; a co-founder of the Partido Popular Democrático de Puerto Rico
• José de Diego y Martínez, "the father of the Puerto Rican independence movement"; elected to the House of Delegates, the only locally elected body of government allowed by the U.S.; presided 1904–1917^[572]
• Federico Degetau, first resident commissioner to the U.S.
• José María Marxuach Echavarría, the only Puerto Rican to serve as the mayor of San Juan under both Spanish and American rule; served in 1897 for the Liberal Reformista Party and 1900–01 for the Puerto Rican Republican Party^[573]
• Antonio Mattei Lluberas, leader of the second and last major revolt against Spanish colonial rule in Puerto Rico in the Intentona de Yauco of 1897; mayor of Yauco 1904–1906^[574]
• Rosendo Matienzo Cintrón, political leader; in his early political career favored Puerto Rican statehood and later became an advocate for Puerto Rico's independence and founder of the Independence Party of Puerto Rico^[575]
• Luis Muñoz Rivera, former Resident Commissioner, journalist, politician (father of Luis Muñoz Marín)
• Ramón Power y Giralt, first Vice President of the Cortes of Cádiz (1810–1813)
• Francisco Mariano Quiñones, first president of Puerto Rico's Autonomic Cabinet
• Francisco Ramírez Medina, President of the Republic of Puerto Rico (September 23, 1868) during the Grito de Lares revolt
• Segundo Ruiz Belvis, leader of the Grito de Lares revolt
• Manuel Zeno Gandía, novelist and leader of cooperative movement in Puerto Rico

20th century

• Baltasar Corrada del Río, former Resident Commissioner 1977–1985; Mayor of San Juan 1985–1989; 1988 NPP gubernatorial candidate, Secretary of State 1992–1995; Supreme Court Justice 1995–2005
• Juan Cancel Ríos; was a Puerto Rican politician and lawyer who served as the 7th President of the Senate of Puerto Rico.
• Héctor Luis Acevedo; former Mayor of San Juan; 1996 PDP gubernatorial candidate
• Pedro Albizu Campos, President and principal leader of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
• José S. Alegría, poet, writer, lawyer and politician; a founding member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and its president from 1928 to 1930^[576]
• Santos P. Amadeo, "champion of hábeas corpus"; former Senator in the Puerto Rico legislature^[577]
• María Luisa Arcelay, first woman in Puerto Rico elected to a government legislative body^[578]
• José Enrique Arrarás, politician, educator, attorney, public servant and sports leader^[579]
• Carmen E. Arroyo, first Puerto Rican woman elected to any state assembly, chair New York Hispanic Legislative Caucus
• Herman Badillo, first Puerto Rican to serve in U.S. Congress
• Joaquín Balaguer, former president of Dominican Republic (Puerto Rican father)
• Antonio R. Barceló, founder of the Puerto Rican Liberal Party; first president of the Senate of Puerto Rico.
• Josefina Barceló Bird de Romero (birth name: Maria Antonia Josefina Barceló Bird), elected president of the Liberal Party after her father died in 1938; first woman elected to lead a major political party in Puerto Rico^[580]
• Ángel O. Berríos, former Mayor of Caguas
• Rubén Berríos Martínez, President of the Puerto Rican Independence Party
• Juan Bosch, former president of Dominican Republic (Puerto Rican mother)
• Adolfo Carrión Jr., former Bronx (New York City) borough president
• Adam Clayton Powell IV, former member of the New York State Assembly
• Severo Colberg Ramírez, served as a member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives, and was the Speaker from 1982 to 1985
• Gilberto Concepción de Gracia, founder of the Puerto Rican Independence Party
• Cayetano Coll y Cuchí, first President of Puerto Rico House of Representatives
• José Coll y Cuchí, founder of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
• Maria Colón Sánchez, activist and politician; in 1988, became the first Hispanic woman elected to the Connecticut General Assembly^[581]
• Rafael Cordero, former Mayor of Ponce
• Miguel del Valle, Illinois State Senator; first Latino City Clerk of Chicago; 2011 mayoral candidate^[582]
• Nelson Antonio Denis, former New York State Assemblyman
• Rubén Díaz Sr., New York State Senator and religious leader
• Antonio Fernós Isern, first Puerto Rican cardiologist and the longest serving Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico in the United States Congress
• Leopoldo Figueroa, co-founder of the Independence Association, one of three political organizations which merged to form the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party; changed political ideals and in 1948 was a member of the Partido Estadista Puertorriqueño (Puerto Rican Statehood Party); the only member of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives that year who did not belong to the Partido Popular Democrático (PPD), he opposed the PPD's approval of the bill that became the Ley de la Mordaza (Gag Law), which violated the civil rights of those who favor(ed) Puerto Rican independence^[583]
• Maurice Ferre, former Mayor of Miami, Florida
• Fernando Ferrer, former Bronx (New York City) borough president and New York City mayoral candidate
• Rogelio Figueroa, 2008 gubernatorial candidate and founder of Puerto Ricans for Puerto Rico Party^[584]
• Oscar García Rivera Sr., former New York State Assemblyman; in 1937 became the first Puerto Rican elected to public office in the continental U.S.; in 1956, became the first Puerto Rican to be nominated as the Republican candidate for Justice of the City Court^[585]
• Miguel A. García Méndez, youngest Speaker of the House in Puerto Rico's history; the Mayagüez General Post Office was named after him^[586]
• María Libertad Gómez Garriga, the only woman in the Constitutional Convention of Puerto Rico, formed in 1951; the only woman to sign the 1952 Constitution of Puerto Rico^[587][588]
• Luis Gutiérrez, United States Representative from Illinois^[589]
• Santiago Iglesias, founder of the first Puerto Rico Socialist Party, labor activist and former Resident Commissioner
• Margarita López, former New York City Council member and political activist^[590]
• Juan Francisco Luis, 24th governor of the United States Virgin Islands, 1978–1987^[591]
• Juan Mari Brás, founder of the Movimiento Pro Independencia and the modern Puerto Rican Socialist Party
• Antonio "Tony" Méndez, first native-born Puerto Rican to become a district leader of a major political party in New York City^[592]
• Olga A. Méndez, first Puerto Rican New York State Senator
• Teodoro Moscoso, architect of Operation Bootstrap; former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela (1961–1964)
• Victoria Muñoz Mendoza, 1992 PDP candidate for governor (daughter of Luis Muñoz Marín)^[593]
• Luis Muñoz Rivera, Senator; last surviving drafter of the Puerto Rico Constitution^[594]
• Félix Ortiz, New York State Assemblyman, author of nation's first cellphone driving ban^[595]
• George Pabey, Mayor of East Chicago, Indiana^[596]
• Hernán Padilla, former Mayor of San Juan, founder of the Puerto Rican Renewal Party^[597]
• Antonio Pagán, former New York City Council member^[598]
• Eddie Perez, former Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut^[599]
• María de Pérez Almiroty, first woman to be elected senator in Puerto Rico^[600]
• Samuel R. Quiñones, longest serving President of the Senate of Puerto Rico^[601]
• Ernesto Ramos Antonini, former Speaker of Puerto Rico's House of Representatives^[602]
• Charles Rangel, United States Congressman (Puerto Rican father)^[603]
• Roberto Rexach Benítez, former Senate President, educator; current columnist for the El Vocero newspaper^[604]
• Felisa Rincón de Gautier, first woman to be elected Mayor of a capital city in the Americas (Western Hemisphere)
• Ramón Luis Rivera, Mayor of Bayamón 1977–2001
• Manuela Santiago Collazo, Mayor of Vieques (1985–2000)^[605]
• Jorge Santini, former three-term Mayor of San Juan and Vice President of the New Progressive Party, former senator^[606][607]
• José E. Serrano, most senior Puerto Rican congressman, Chair of House Appropriations subcommittee on Financial Services^[608]
• Gloria Tristani, first Hispanic woman appointed as one of the commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)^[609]
• Nydia Velázquez, first Puerto Rican congresswoman, Chair of House Small Business Committee^[610]
• Raúl G. Villaronga, first Puerto Rican elected mayor in Texas (Killeen)^[611]

21st century

• Liston Bochette, Olympian and politician^[612]
• Richard Carmona, 17th Surgeon General of the United States
• Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez, former Secretary of State of New York
• Rubén Díaz Jr., former New York State Assemblyman; Bronx Borough President (2009–present)
• Wilda Diaz, first female mayor of Perth Amboy, New Jersey; first Puerto Rican, first woman, and first Latino elected mayor in New Jersey^[613]
• Jenniffer González, Governor of Puerto Rico (2025–present); former resident commissioner to the U.S. and former Speaker of the Puerto Rico House of Representatives^[614]
• Pablo Hernández Rivera, Resident commissioner to the U.S. House of Representatives
• Raúl Labrador, Idaho Attorney General and former congressman representing Idaho's 1st congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives^[615]
• Saige Martin, Raleigh City Councilman^[616]
• Kenneth McClintock, 13th President of the Puerto Rico Senate; 22nd Secretary of State/Lieutenant Governor of Puerto Rico^[617]
• Hiram Monserrate, former New York State Senator^[618]
• Antonia Novello, 14th Surgeon General of the U.S.; Vice Admiral, Public Health Service Commissioned Corps^[619]
• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic congresswoman representing New York's 14th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives^[620]
• Cesar A. Perales, 67th Secretary of State of New York
• Pedro Pierluisi, Governor of Puerto Rico (2021–2025); de facto governor of Puerto Rico (2019); Secretary of Justice (1993–1997); Resident Commissioner (2009–2017)^[621]
• Roberto Prats, co-chair of winning Hillary Clinton primary campaign; Democratic State Chair; former senator and PDP congressional candidate^[622]
• John Quiñones, first Republican Party candidate of Puerto Rican ancestry elected to Florida House of Representatives^[623]
• Thomas Rivera Schatz, 14th President of the Senate of Puerto Rico^[614]
• Melinda Romero Donnelly, three-term at-large legislator, two terms in House, one in Senate Senate;^[624]Caribbean Business journalist^[625]
• Pedro Segarra, Mayor of Hartford, Connecticut^[626]
• Darren Soto, Representative in Florida House of Representatives, Florida Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives.^[627]
• Manuel A. Torres, Puerto Rico's first Electoral Comptroller, and longest serving modern Secretary of the Senate of Puerto Rico^[628]
• Daryl Vaz, Minister of Information and Telecommunication for Jamaica (Puerto Rican mother)^[629]
• Hydee Feldstein Soto, Los Angeles City Attorney; born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico; first female City Attorney and first Latina elected to citywide office in Los Angeles^[630]