List of Puerto Rican women

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Notable women in Puerto Rico

Prominent women in Puerto Rico include the following:

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Actresses, comedians and directors

Authors, playwrights and poets

Businesswomen and industrialists

Civil rights and/or political activists

Composers, musicians and singers

Educators

Historians

Journalists

Judges

Military personnel

Physicians, scientists and inventors

Politicians

Religion

Sports

Notable stateside Puerto Rican women

Women from Puerto Rico or of Puerto Rican descent that have become prominent in the mainland United States include the following:

Actresses, comedians and directors

Authors, playwrights and poets

Businesswomen and industrialists

Civil rights and/or political activists

Composers, musicians and singers

Educators

Journalists

Judges and law enforcement

Military personnel

Physicians, scientists and inventors

Politicians

Religion

Sports

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Julia de Burgos García was a Puerto Rican poet. As an advocate of Puerto Rican independence, she served as Secretary General of the Daughters of Freedom, the women's branch of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party. She was also a civil rights activist for women and African/Afro-Caribbean writers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nuyorican</span> Puerto Rican located in or around New York City

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nuyorican movement</span> Cultural movement for Puerto Ricans living in or near New York City in the late 1960s / early 1970s

The Nuyorican movement is a cultural and intellectual movement involving poets, writers, musicians and artists who are Puerto Rican or of Puerto Rican descent, who live in or near New York City, and either call themselves or are known as Nuyoricans. It originated in the late 1960s and early 1970s in neighborhoods such as Loisaida, East Harlem, Williamsburg, and the South Bronx as a means to validate Puerto Rican experience in the United States, particularly for poor and working-class people who suffered from marginalization, ostracism, and discrimination.

Rosario Ferré Ramírez de Arellano was a Puerto Rican writer, poet, and essayist. Her father, Luis A. Ferré, was the third elected Governor of Puerto Rico and the founding father of the New Progressive Party of Puerto Rico. When her mother, Lorenza Ramírez de Arellano, died in 1970 during her father's term as governor, Rosario fulfilled the duties of First Lady until 1972.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sylvia Rexach</span> Puerto Rican composer

Sylvia Regina Rexach González, was a Puerto Rican comedy scriptwriter, poet, singer and composer of boleros.

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">American literature in Spanish</span>

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carmen García Rosado</span> Puerto Rican educator, author and activist

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">History of women in Puerto Rico</span> From the era of the Taíno who inhabited the island

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