Marisol Malaret Contreras was a Puerto Rican TV host, model and beauty queen who won Miss Universe 1970, becoming the first Caribbean and Puerto Rican woman to be crowned Miss Universe.
Deborah Carthy Deu is a Puerto Rican actress, tv host and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 1985. She was the second Puerto Rican Miss Universe.
Antonia Coello Novello is a Puerto Rican physician and public health administrator. She was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as 14th Surgeon General of the United States from 1990 to 1993. Novello was the first woman and first Hispanic to serve as Surgeon General. Novello also served as Commissioner of Health for the State of New York from 1999 to 2006. Novello has received numerous awards including more than fifty honorary degrees, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2000, and has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Luisa Capetillo was one of Puerto Rico's most famous labour leaders. She was an anarchist writer, activist, labour organiser who fought for workers' rights, women's rights, free love, and human emancipation.
Kristina Brandi is a former Puerto Rican tennis player. She was the first tennis player representing Puerto Rico to win a singles match in an Olympic tennis tournament.
Second Lieutenant Carmen Maria Lozano Dumler, RN,, was one of the first Puerto Rican women to become a United States Army officer. During World War II, she served as a nurse and interpreter, and provided support for patients who spoke Spanish. Lozano Dumler has since been featured in promotional and recruitment materials that celebrate diversity in the US military.
Tech4 Carmen Contreras-Bozak, was the first Puerto Rican woman to serve in the U.S. Women's Army Corps (WAC) where she served as an interpreter and in numerous administrative positions.
Stateside Puerto Ricans, also ambiguously known as Puerto Rican Americans, or Puerto Ricans in the United States, are Puerto Ricans who are in the United States proper of the 50 states and the District of Columbia who were born in or trace any family ancestry to the unincorporated US territory of Puerto Rico.
Jesús Feliciano is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball outfielder and coach. He was most recently the first base coach for the Los Angeles Angels of the Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the New York Mets.
The 2010 FC Tampa Bay season was the first and inaugural season of FC Tampa Bay and only season in the USL Conference of the USSF Division 2 Professional League, the second tier of the American Soccer Pyramid. The USSF D-2 was a temporary professional soccer league created by the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) in 2010 to last just one season, as a compromise between the feuding United Soccer Leagues (USL) and the North American Soccer League (NASL).
The recorded history of Puerto Rican women can trace its roots back to the era of the Taíno, the indigenous people of the Caribbean, who inhabited the island that they called "Boriken" before the arrival of Spaniards. During the Spanish colonization the cultures and customs of the Taíno, Spanish, African and women from non-Hispanic European countries blended into what became the culture and customs of Puerto Rico.
Daryanne Lees Garcia is a Cuban-Puerto Rican beauty queen who represented Cuba at Miss Grand International 2014 where she won the title.
Micaela Castain Serrano is a Puerto Rican international footballer who plays for the Puerto Rico national team.
Mercedes Lyn Bauzá is an American-born Puerto Rican footballer who plays as a forward for Puerto Rico Sol and the Puerto Rico women's national team. Named Queen of the Match by Budweiser in both of her appearances.
JLo Ann Varada Vázquez is a Puerto Rican footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the Puerto Rico women's national team.
Julia Lynn Rodríguez is a Puerto Rican footballer who plays as a defender for college team Tampa Spartans and the Puerto Rico women's national team. Rodríguez was raised in Orlando, Florida. Rodríguez has attended the Timber Creek High School in Orlando, Florida and the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida. Rodríguez represented Puerto Rico at the 2018 CONCACAF Women's U-17 Championship and the 2020 CONCACAF Women's U-20 Championship. She made her senior debut on 18 February 2021 in a friendly away match against the Dominican Republic.
Alicia Santos Baró was a human rights activist who worked to increase political representation and improve educational opportunities for Hispanic women and other minorities. A Miami street was named in her honor in 2014.
Madison Cox is a Puerto Rican footballer who plays as a defender for Tampa Bay United in the USL W League, the Tampa Bay Strikers in the National Indoor Soccer League, and the Puerto Rico women's national team.
Veronica Margarita Cintron, also known as Veronica Rudie by her married name, is the current vice president of communications at Tampa International Airport. She was the prime time Monday-Friday solo anchor on Bay News 9 television news station, serving the Tampa Bay area from 2010-2020. Veronica was born in Puerto Rico in 1983. Veronica was named in the Tampa Bay 40 Under 40 honorees in 2022. She was infected with Covid-19 in 2020. Veronica & her husband Preston Rudie hosted the pre-show interviews of the Suncoast Emmy Awards. Veronica was nominated for 6 Emmy Awards in 2019. Veronica serves on the Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce & has been known to frequent the White House easter egg roll with her daughter. Veronica wants to become an ambassador of a sovereign state for the US. Veronica Cintron Snorkel Park is in the process of consideration for being built in 2023 in De Soto Park, Tierra Verde, FL. Veronica was named as one of the Women of Distinction Honoree for the West Central Florida Girls Scouts of America.
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