AJ McLean
Actor · Musician · Model
Puerto Rican (maternal grandfather), German, Scottish, one sixteenth Ashkenazi Jewish, as well as Irish, English, and French, possibly other
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.
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Aja
Musician · TV Personality
* biological father – African-American, some Nigerian * biological mother – Puerto Rican [Indigenous Taíno, Arawak], African-American, Egyptian
Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Al Horford
NBA · Athlete
Bahamian, Dominican Republic [African, Spanish, Taino]
Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic
Anthony Ramos
Actor · Musician
Puerto Rican [African, Spanish, Indigenous, distant Guanche Canary Islander]
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Ariana Greenblatt
Actor
Father: one half Ashkenazi Jewish, one quarter Swedish, one quarter Italian · Mother: Puerto Rican [Spanish, African, Taíno]
New York City, New York, U.S.
Aubrey Plaza
Actor
Father: Puerto Rican [Spanish, African, Indigenous/Taíno] · Mother: German, English, Irish, Swiss-German
Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.
Bad Bunny
Actor · Musician · TV Personality
Puerto Rican [Spanish, African, likely Taíno], 1/32 Italian, remote French
Almirante Sur, Vega Baja, Puerto Rico
Benicio del Toro
Actor
Puerto Rican [Spanish, Catalan, Indigenous/Taíno, Basque, distant Italian]
San Germán, Puerto Rico
Carmelo Anthony
NBA · Athlete
Father: Puerto Rican [African, some Spanish and Indigenous/likely Taíno], distant Venezuelan · Mother: African-American
Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S.
Gary Valenciano
Musician
Father: Filipino [Bicolano, Tagalog], some Spanish, small amount of Chinese · Mother: Puerto Rican [including Spanish and some either African or Taíno], Italian, Portuguese
Santa Mesa, Manila, Philippines
Howie D.
Actor · Musician
Father: Irish, English · Mother: Puerto Rican [Spanish, African, Taíno]
Orlando, Florida, U.S.
Jennifer Lopez
Actor · Musician · TV Personality
Puerto Rican [Spanish, likely Taíno and African]
The Bronx, New York City, New York, U.S.
Joan Smalls
Actor · TV Personality · Model
Father: African-Virgin Islander, Irish · Mother: Puerto Rican [Spanish, Taino, Indian]
Hatillo, Puerto Rico
Joey Diaz
Actor · TV Personality
Cuban [Spanish, small amounts of African and Taíno, possibly other]
Havana, Cuba
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Actor · Musician
Puerto Rican [Spanish, as well as Taíno and African], along with approximately one quarter Mexican, more distant African-American and English
New York City, New York, U.S.
Liza Colón-Zayas
Actor
Puerto Rican [Spanish, African, as well as Indigenous], small amount of Basque and Guadeloupean
The Bronx, New York City, New York, U.S.
Michael Cimino
Actor · Musician
* paternal grandfather – Italian * paternal grandmother – German, Swiss-German · Mother: Puerto Rican
Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.
Michaela Pereira
TV Personality
Father: Jamaican [African, smaller amounts of Nigerian, Taíno, Irish, other] · Mother: European
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Rosario Dawson
Actor · Musician
Mother: Puerto Rican, Cuban, including African and Taíno * biological father – publicly unknown
New York City, New York, U.S.
Ruth Simmons
African-American [including Gabonese], some Indigenous American [likely Taíno or Carib tribes]
Grapeland, Houston, Texas, United States