Afro-Latinos orAfro–Latin Americans are Latin Americans who are descended from African slaves brought to Latin America and theCaribbean region during thetrans-Atlantic slave trade, who made up 95% of all Africans brought to the Americas.
Afro-Brazilians,Afro-Cubans,Afro-Dominicans,Afro-Hondurans,Afro-Panamanians,Afro–Puerto Ricans,Afro-Colombians,Afro-Mexicans and other Latin Americans are from these African slaves.
The first Africans brought to the New World arrived on the island ofHispaniola (now divided between the Dominican Republic and Haiti). The majority were taken toBrazil. Only 5% of the Africans brought to the Americas went to North America, from whomAfrican Americans are descended.
Notable Afro–Latin Americans and Afro-Latinos
[edit]- 40 Cal (real name is Calvin Alan Byrd) – American rapper, member of Harlem-based hip-hop group The Diplomats
- Jose Acevedo – Venezuelan track-and-field athlete
- Elizabeth Acevedo – poet
- Miguel Algarín – poet
- Roberto Alomar – former Major League Baseball player, regarded highly as a second baseman
- Laz Alonso – American film and television actor, best known for playing Tsu'tey in James Cameron-directed sci-fi film Avatar and Fenix Calderon in the film Fast & Furious
- Anitta (singer) – Brazilian singer, half Afro-Brazilian
- La La Anthony – former MTV VJ, television personality and actress, wife of NBA basketball playerCarmelo Anthony
- Karan Ashley – American actress and talk show host, best known for her role as Aisha (Yellow Ranger) on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
- Taís Araújo – Brazilian actress and model
- Eva Ayllón – composer and singer
- AZ – rapper
- Cardi B – rapper
- Josefina Báez – performance artist, theater director, poet, educator, and writer
- Lloyd Banks – rapper
- Ivan Barias – Dominican music producer and songwriter
- Jean-Michel Basquiat – artist, musician
- Swizz Beatz – rapper, producer
- Aloe Blacc – American singer-songwriter
- Elijah Blake – singer-songwriter
- Ariana Brown – poet
- Karamo Brown – American television host
- J.I the Prince of NY – Puerto Rican rapper
- Julia de Burgos – poet and activist for Puerto Rican independence
- Ursula Burns – business executive
- Miguel Cabrera – Venezuelan baseball player
- Ilia Calderón – journalist
- Tego Calderón – reggaeton singer-songwriter, rapper, and actor
- Mariah Carey – American musician and actress
- John Carlos – former track and field champion, best known for his 1968 Olympics Black Power salute
- Matt Cedeño – actor and former model
- Orlando Cepeda – former Puerto Rican baseball player
- Keshia Chanté – Canadian singer
- Aroldis Chapman – Cuban baseball player
- Hugo Chavez – former Venezuelan President
- Roberto Clemente – former Puerto Rican baseball player
- Jesús Colón – author, founder of Nuyorican movement
- Ismael Cruz Córdova – Puerto Rican actor
- Kid Cudi – rapper
- Celia Cruz – Cuban salsa singer and performer (1925-2003)
- Victor Cruz – football player and former NFL wide receiver for the New York Giants
- Wilson Cruz – actor
- Yaya DaCosta – American model
- Rosario Dawson – actress and musician
- Kristinia DeBarge – American singer
- Ariana DeBose – singer and actress
- Melissa De Sousa – actress
- Sylvia del Villard – actress, dancer, choreographer and activist
- Carlos Delgado – former Puerto Rican baseball player
- Kat DeLuna – musician
- Rocsi Diaz – American model and former BET television personality (106 & Park)
- Samantha Diaz – singer-songwriter (American Idol)
- Graciela Dixon – former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Panama[1]
- Rudy Duthil – advertising executive
- Sheila E. – American percussionist and singer
- Dave East – rapper
- Dina Ruiz Eastwood – reporter and actress
- Alfred Enoch – actor
- Arlen Escarpeta – Belizean-born actor, best known for playing Sam Walker in the television drama American Dreams
- Adriano Espaillat – New York congressman
- Sandra María Esteves – poet
- Fabolous – rapper
- Antonio Fargas – actor
- Cheo Feliciano – Puerto Rican singer of salsa and bolero music
- Leonel Fernández – former President of the Dominican Republic
- Tony Fernández – former Dominican baseball player
- Dom Flemons – American musician and singer-songwriter
- Brian Flores - Honduran-American NFL Head Coach (Miami Dolphins 2019-2021)
- Juan Flores – historian, professor, Afro-Latino Studies scholar
- Shaggy Flores – poet and writer
- Arian Foster – NFL football player, running back for the Houston Texans
- Antonio Fresco – DJ, record producer and radio personality
- Kevin Gates – rapper
- O.T. Genasis – Garifuna American rapper
- Gilberto Gil – Brazilian singer, political activist and former Minister of Culture
- Aracelis Girmay – poet
- Meagan Good – American actress
- Herizen Guardiola – actress and singer
- Gunplay – rapper
- Edward W. Hardy – composer and musician
- Severiano de Heredia – Cuban-born French politician, president of the municipal council of Paris from 1879 to 1880, first mayor of African descent of a Western world capital
- Al Horford – Dominican basketball player and is the son ofTito Horford
- Sunny Hostin – American lawyer, journalist, and television host (The View)
- Gwen Ifill – journalist, television newscaster and author
- Iza – Brazilian pop singer
- Ro James – singer
- Reggie Jackson – baseball player
- Shar Jackson – American actress, best known for her role as Niecy Jackson on the UPN sitcom Moesha
- Skai Jackson – American actress
- Jharrel Jerome – actor, best known for his role inMoonlight
- Julissa – former BET television personality (106 & Park)
- Kelis – singer-songwriter
- Tori Kelly – American musician
- Erick Kolthoff – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
- Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes – member of R&B girl groupTLC (1971-2002)
- Amara La Negra – singer
- Toña la Negra – singer
- Tato Laviera – poet
- Kiana Ledé – American singer and actress
- Jorge Lendeborg Jr. – actor
- Selenis Leyva – actress
- Adriana Lima – model
- Olivia Longott – American singer
- Sessilee Lopez – model
- Faizon Love – Cuban-born actor and comedian
- Héritier Lumumba – Australian footballer of Afro-Brazilian descent
- La Lupe – singer
- Maluca Mala – singer and rapper
- EJ Manuel – NFL quarterback
- Kalimba Marichal – Mexican singer
- Juan Marichal – former Dominican baseball pitcher
- Toya Martin – American singer
- Pedro Martínez – former Dominican baseball pitcher
- Tony Medina – poet and graphic novelist
- Jesús Papoleto Meléndez – poet
- Miguel – singer-songwriter
- Christina Milian – singer and actress
- E. Ethelbert Miller – writer and poet
- Minnie Miñoso – former Cuban baseball player
- Carlos Moore – Cuban writer, journalist and activist
- Aja Monet – poet
- Naima Mora – model (America's Next Top Model)
- Benny Moré – Cuban singer, bandleader and songwriter
- Nancy Morejón – Cuban poet, critic, essayist
- Lamorne Morris – actor
- Rico Nasty – rapper
- N.O.R.E. – rapper
- Amaury Nolasco – actor
- Lupita Nyong'o – Kenyan-Mexican actress
- Soledad O'Brien – broadcast journalist, executive producer and philanthropist
- Don Omar – reggaeton singer-songwriter and actor
- Claudette Ortiz – singer (City High)
- David Ortiz – Dominican baseball player
- Ozuna (real name is Juan Carlos Rosado) – Puerto Rican Reggaeton and Latin trap singer
- Johnny Pacheco – Dominican musician, founder of the Fania All-Stars, coined the term "Salsa"
- Peedi Peedi – rapper
- Tony Peña – former Dominican baseball player
- Willie Perdomo – writer and poet
- Jacob "Princeton" Perez – singer and dancer (Mindless Behavior)
- Rosie Perez – actress, dancer, choreographer, director and community activist
- Miguel Piñero – playwright and poet, co-founder of theNuyorican Poets Café
- Dascha Polanco – Dominican actress, best known for her role as Dana Diaz in the Netflix dramedy Orange is the New Black
- Reagan Gomez-Preston – American actress
- Princess Nokia – rapper
- Albert Pujols – Dominican baseball player
- Dania Ramirez – actress
- Manny Ramirez – Dominican baseball player
- Charles Rangel – former New York congressman
- Gina Ravera – actress
- Judy Reyes – actress
- Lais Ribeiro – model
- Lauren Ridloff – American deaf actress
- Mychal Rivera – football player, tight end, Oakland Raiders
- Naya Rivera – American actress, best known for her role as Santana Lopez in the musical comedy Glee (1987-2020)
- Alex Rodriguez – Dominican-American baseball player
- Pete "El Conde" Rodríguez – Puerto Rican salsa singer
- Sabi – singer-songwriter
- Zoe Saldaña – actress
- Manny Sanguillén – former Panamanian baseball player
- Juelz Santana – rapper
- Antony Santos – Dominican bachata singer
- Neymar Jr – Brazilian footballer
- Mayra Santos-Febres – poet
- Romeo Santos – singer
- Jon Secada – singer
- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg – Puerto Rican historian, writer, and activist in the United States; founder of the Schomberg Center for Black Research
- Sech (singer) – Panamanian Reggaeton artist
- Shyne – Belizean rapper
- Luis Guillermo Solís – Costa Rican president and mulatto
- Pop Smoke – American rapper of Afro-Panamanian descent (1999-2020)
- Esperanza Spalding – musician
- Arlenis Sosa – model
- Sammy Sosa – former Dominican baseball player
- Vince Staples – rapper
- Jeremy Suarez – former child actor
- Schoolboy Q – American rapper
- Cecilia Tait – politician and former volleyball player
- Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez – Cuban cosmonaut
- Lorenzo Thomas – poet
- Piri Thomas – creative writer
- Tessa Thompson – American actress
- Anuel AA – Puerto Rican Reggaeton artist born to an Afro-Puerto Rican father and White Puerto Rican mother
- Melody Thornton – singer-songwriter and dancer (The Pussycat Dolls)
- Luis Tiant – former MLB starting pitcher, Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox
- Gina Torres – actress
- Trina – American female rapper
- Karl-Anthony Towns – Dominican-American basketball player
- María Urrutia – former weightlifter, athlete and politician
- Salvador Valdés Mesa – First Vice President of Cuba, former trade union leader, Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba
- Amirah Vann – actress
- Danielle Vega – actress
- Lauren Velez – actress
- Cassie Ventura – American singer and actress
- Johnny Ventura – Dominican singer
- Fred Warner – Mexican & Panamenian American Football player for the San Francisco 49ers
- Tristan Wilds – actor and singer
- Hype Williams – music video director
- Juan Williams – journalist and political analyst
- Joaquín Zihuatanejo – poet
- Daddy Yankee – Puerto RicanReggaeton artist and pioneer in Reggaeton music born to anAfro-Puerto Rican father andWhite Puerto Rican mother
- Rónald Gómez – current Manager forGamma Ethniki clubApollon Smyrnis
- Susana Baca – Peruvian singer-songwriter and ethnomusicologist
