actress Manny Ramirez – Dominican baseball player Charles Rangel – former New York congressman 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 Saldana – 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 Tristan Wilds – actor and singer Hype Williams – music video director Juan Williams – journalist and political analyst Joaquín Zihuatanejo – poet Daddy Yankee – Puerto Rican Reggaeton artist and pioneer in Reggaeton music born to an Afro-Puerto Rican father and White Puerto Rican mother Krisean Lopez See also Lists of people: List of Afro-Argentines List of Afro-Bolivians List of Brazilians of Black African descent List of Afro-Cubans List of Afro-Chileans