Famous Latin American Bios!

• Choose at least five or six famous Latin American people from the list below (or visit Famous Hispanics in History).
• On the blank side of an index card draw and color a portrait of one famous Latin American person (one person per index card and your portrait needs to be colored).
• On the lined side of each index card write a short biography of each famous Latin American.
  • Please include the following information:
    • Person's full name.
    • Person's place of birth.
    • Year of birth and of death (only if the person is dead).
    • What did the person do in his or her life?
    • What made the person famous?
    • What do you think made this person special?
    • What events made or changed this person's life?
    • Why did you choose this person?

1. Evita Peron and Site #2 - Argentinian President
2. José Martí - Cuban Writer and Revolutionary
3. Eugenio Maria de Hostos - Puerto Rican Patriot, Educator, Sociologist, Philosopher, Essayist, and Novelist
4. Carlos Santana - Mexican Musician
5. Sammy Sosa - Dominican Republic Baseball Player
6. Celia Cruz - Cuban Queen of Salsa
7. Frida Kahlo and Site #2- Mexican Artist/Painter
8. Diego Rivera - Mexican Artist
9. Simón Bolivar and Site #2 - Venezuelan Statesman, Writer, and Revolutionary General
10. Cesar Chavez - Mexican Civil Rights Activist
11. Sandra Benitez - Puerto Rican-American Author
12. Desi Arnaz - Cuban Actor/Musician
13. Gabriel García Márquez - Colombian Journalist, Novelist, Writer, and Nobel Prize Winner for Literature
    Gabriel Márquez
14. Antonia Novello - Puerto Rican First Female and First Hispanic Surgeon General of the US!
15. Ellen Ochoa and Site #2 - Mexican-American Astronaut
16. Luis Leloir - Argentinian Nobel Prize Winner for Chemistry
17. Julia Alvarez - Dominican Republic Poet
18. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Site #2 - Cuban member of Congress
19. Henry Cisneros - Mexican-American Mayor and U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
20. Gloria Estefan and Site #2 - Cuban Musician
21. Roberto Clemente Walker and Site #2 - Puerto Rican Athlete and Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame
22. Alfonso X "El Sabio" - Spanish King
23. Emiliano Zapata - Mexican Statesman
24. Pablo Picasso - Spanish Artist
25. César Milstein - Argentinian Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine
26. Sister M Isolina - Puerto Rican Catholic Nun (called the Puerto Rican Mother Teresa)
27. Doña Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez and Site #2 - A herione of Mexican Independence
28. Pancho Villa - A Mexican revolutionary
29. Freddie Prinze, Sr (not Junior) - A Puerto Rican Actor
30. Cesar Romero and Site #2 - A Cuban Actor