Antonia Novello
Antonia Coello Novello (born August 23, 1944) is a Puerto Rican physician and public health administrator.
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Category: Famous Boricuas A-Z
Samuel A. Ramirez
Ramirez’s parents moved from Puerto Rico to New York City in the late 1920s in search of a better way of life.
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Daniel Santos
Daniel Santos (February 5, 1916 – November 27, 1992) was a singer and composer of boleros, and an overall performer of multiple Caribbean music genres, including guaracha, plena and rumba. Santos was born and raised with his three sisters, Sara, Rosa Lydia and Luz America in Trastalleres, a poor section of Santurce, Puerto Rico.
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Myrta Silva
Myrta Silva (September 11, 1917, December 2, 1987) was a Puerto Rican singer, composer and T.V. producer. She was known affectionately as “La Gorda De Oro”.
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Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor, who is to be sworn in as the nation’s first Hispanic (PUERTO RICAN) Supreme Court justice.
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