Ramón Emeterio Betances Alacán was the son of Felipe Betances, a Dominican immigrant tied to the world of the sugar trade and business, and María del Carmen Alacán, a native of Cabo Rojo.

Ricardo Alegría led important archaeological excavations in Puerto Rico.

In 2009, Sonia Sotomayor was nominated by President Barack Obama as associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.

Among the performing poets of the Nuyorican movement, a popularized coined term to identity a New York Puerto Rican, adopted by these writers, and which led to the founding of the Nuyorican Poets Café in 1975, Tato Laviera was one of the best known.

Part of Miguel Piñero’s literary prominence stems from his association with the Nuyorican poetic movement.

In the early 1970s, Nicholasa Mohr became one of the pioneers and most notable voices among a growing group of Puerto Rican writers born or raised in the United States.

Judith Ortiz Cofer was one of the leading women writers of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States.

José Campeche y Jordán was the first Puerto Rican painter recognized internationally.

Led multiple environmental and historical conservation projects that helped increase awareness and educate current generations about the value of preserving our heritage for the enjoyment of a better future.

He was one of the first second generation Puerto Rican writers of the diaspora to publish an autobiographical novel about his experiences as a black Puerto Rican, born and raised in New York’s El Barrio (Spanish Harlem) during the years of the Great Depression.