Ángel Luis Arambilet Álvarez, generally known professionally as simply Arambilet, is a novelist, poet, screenwriter, painter, graphic artist and filmmaker of Spanish-Dominican descent.
Margarita María Cedeño Lizardo, formerly known as Margarita Cedeño de Fernández, is a Dominican politician who served as Vice President of the Dominican Republic from 2012 to 2020. She was married to former president, Leonel Fernández and served as the First Lady of the Dominican Republic from 2004 to 2012.
Annerys Victoria Vargas Valdez is a retired female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic who won four consecutive gold medals at the Central American and Caribbean Games.
Prisilla Altagracia Rivera Brens is a volleyball player from the Dominican Republic.
Bonetti is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Daisy Cocco DeFilippis is a Dominican-American academic administrator and author. She is the current president at Hostos Community College in The Bronx, making her the first person born in the Dominican Republic to serve as President of a college of the City University of New York. From 2008 to 1 August 2020 she was president of Naugatuck Valley Community College (NVCC) in Waterbury, Connecticut. She is the author of works of fiction and non-fiction dealing with Dominican and Dominican-American women.
Carol Morgan School is a private international, college-preparatory school located in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The school is formatted based on the American education system and is accredited by Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
White Dominicans are Dominican people of predominant or full European descent. They are 17.8% of the Dominican Republic's population, according to a 2021 survey by the United Nations Population Fund. The majority of white Dominicans have ancestry from the first European settlers to arrive in Hispaniola in 1492 and are descendants of the Spanish and Portuguese who settled in the island during colonial times, as well as the French who settled in the 17th and 18th centuries. Many whites in the Dominican Republic also descend from Italians, Dutchmen, Germans, Hungarians, Scandinavians, Americans and other nationalities who have migrated between the 19th and 20th centuries. About 9.2% of the Dominican population claims a European immigrant background, according to the 2021 Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas survey.
Manuel Vicente Díez Cabral is a Dominican businessman and entrepreneurial leader.
Luis Rodolfo Abinader Corona is a Dominican economist, businessman, and politician who has served as the 54th president of the Dominican Republic since 2020 and the president-elect of the Dominican Republic in the 2024 elections. He was the Modern Revolutionary Party candidate for President of the Dominican Republic in the 2016, 2020, and 2024 general elections.
Alba María Antonia Cabral Cornero, known as Peggy, is a Dominican journalist, television host, politician and diplomat. Cabral was co-president of the Dominican Revolutionary Party from 2013 to 2020; she also was vice-mayor of the National District (1998–2002). She served as Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic from 2019 to 2020. She is José Francisco Peña Gómez's widow.
José Ignacio Ramón Paliza Nouel is a politician and lawyer from the Dominican Republic. He is the President and Chairman of the Modern Revolutionary Party since 14 June 2018, and Administrative Minister of the Presidency since 16 August 2020. He was senator representing the province of Puerto Plata for the 2016–2020 period.
Hugo Tolentino Dipp was a Dominican historian, politician, lawyer, educator, former Minister of Foreign Relations and President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic from 1982 to 1986.
Cristina Altagracia Lizardo Mézquita is a politician and academic from the Dominican Republic. She was Senator for the province of Santo Domingo from 2006 to 2020. Lizardo became the first woman to preside the Senate and the Congress of the Dominican Republic. She has a degree in education from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo.
Manuel Alejandro Grullón Viñas is a businessman from the Dominican Republic. In April 2014, he was appointed the Chairman of Grupo Popular, a company whose subsidiaries include Banco Popular Dominicano, the largest private bank in the Dominican Republic. He has been president of the Banco Popular Dominicano since 1990. Forbes listed Grullón as one of the ten wealthiest men of the Dominican Republic.
José Miguel Bonetti Guerra GCSG is a businessman from the Dominican Republic. He was the chairman of Grupo Sociedad Industrial Dominicana for more than 45 years until 2015, when he was succeeded by his daughter Ligia Bonetti. According to Forbes, Bonetti's is among the ten largest fortunes in the Dominican Republic, with a net worth near one billion dollars as of 2014. He is also part of the President's Leadership Council for the Inter-American Dialogue.
Creando Sueños Olímpicos, known by the initials CRESO, is a nonprofit organization which invests in the development of top-tier Dominican athletes in Olympic sports, along with an academic formation.
Ligia del Consuelo Vega Olmedo is an Ecuadorian politician for the Pachakutik Plurinational Unity Movement – New Country party. She is a member of the National Assembly of Ecuador.
Lisandro José Macarulla Tavárez is a businessman and entrepreneurial leader from the Dominican Republic.
Italian Dominicans are Dominican-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to the Dominican Republic during the Italian diaspora, or Italian-born people in the Dominican Republic. The Italian community in the Dominican Republic, considering both people of Italian ancestry and Italian birth, is the largest in the Caribbean region.
