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Enrique Figuerola

Enrique Figuerola (Enrique Figuerola Camué, El Fígaro), Cuban sprinter born 15 July 1938 in Santiago de Cuba; 100m silver at Tokyo 1964, 4x100m relay silver at Mexico City 1968, first Cuban with an official world record (10.0, 1967).

Enrique Flórez

Enrique Flórez (1702–1773) was a Spanish Augustinian friar, theologian, and historian, the major scholar behind the 51-volume España sagrada, begun in 1747, personally completing 29 volumes.

Enrique Freeman

Enrique Freeman (born 2000) is an American NBA forward from Cleveland; a former Akron walk-on, MAC Player of the Year, and NCAA rebounding leader drafted 50th overall by the Indiana Pacers in 2024, now on a two-way deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Enrique G. Mendoza

Enrique G. Mendoza is an international macroeconomist who is William P. Carey Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, known for work on sudden stops and sovereign default.

Enrique Gil

Enrique Gil: Filipino actor, dancer, and producer (Star Magic Batch 16). LizQuen love team with Liza Soberano; films She's the One, I Am Not Big Bird; runs Slingshot Studios.

Enrique González Martínez

Enrique González Martínez (1871–1952) was a Mexican poet, physician, and diplomat whose 1911 sonnet "Tuércele el cuello al cisne" became a manifesto of rupture with Modernismo.

Enrique Gorostieta

Enrique Gorostieta was a Mexican professional soldier, a general in Huerta's Federal Army who became supreme military chief of the Cristero Rebellion and was killed in 1929.

Enrique Hernández (baseball)

Kiké Hernández (Enrique J. Hernández), Puerto Rican MLB utility player (b. 1991, San Juan); Dodgers 2015-20 and 2023-25, Red Sox 2021-23; 2020 and 2024 World Series champion, 15 postseason HR, career 92 OPS+ with strong platoon split vs lefties.

Enrique Hertzog

Enrique Hertzog (Enrique Hertzog Garaizábal) was a Bolivian physician and politician, President of Bolivia from March 1947 until he resigned for ill health in October 1949.

Enrique Iglesia

Enrique Iglesia, born in Havana, Cuba, in 1954, is a chemical engineer known for heterogeneous catalysis research, long a professor at UC Berkeley and now at Purdue University.

Enrique Iglesias

Enrique Iglesias (Enrique Miguel Iglesias Preysler), Spanish singer-songwriter born 1975 in Madrid, son of Julio Iglesias; 1995 Fonovisa debut, 1999 English crossover, 27 Hot Latin Songs number ones, catalog sold in 2023 for over $100 million.

Enrique Jaramillo Levi

Enrique Jaramillo Levi, born 1944 in Colón, Panama, is a Panamanian short-story writer, poet, essayist, and editor, best known for Duplicaciones (1973), written under Juan Rulfo's mentorship.

Enrique K. Razon Jr.

Enrique K. Razon Jr. is a Filipino ports billionaire who has chaired International Container Terminal Services (ICTSI) since 1995 and also leads Bloomberry Resorts and Manila Water.

Enrique Larreta

Enrique Rodríguez Larreta (1873–1961) was an Argentine novelist and diplomat, a leading Modernista best known for the historical novel La gloria de Don Ramiro (1908).

Enrique Lihn

Enrique Lihn (Enrique Lihn Carrasco, 1929–1988) was a Chilean poet, novelist, playwright, critic, and visual artist of the Generación Literaria de 1950 whose breakthrough book was La pieza oscura (1963).

Enrique López Albújar

Enrique López Albújar (1872–1966) was a Peruvian judge and writer whose Cuentos andinos (1920) began indigenist narrative and whose novel Matalaché (1928) was the first negrista novel of Peru.

Enrique Loynaz del Castillo

Enrique Loynaz del Castillo was a Cuban general of the Ejército Libertador who fought in the War of Independence of 1895 and wrote the Himno Invasor, later serving as a diplomat.

Enrique Marcatili

Enrique Marcatili was an Argentine-educated physicist at Bell Laboratories whose 1969 and 1973 papers on optical waveguides became standard references cited into the silicon photonics era.

Enrique María Barretto de Ycaza

Enrique María Barretto de Ycaza was a Manila businessman who obtained a Spanish royal license and opened the San Miguel brewery in 1890, later San Miguel Corporation.

Enrique Molina (poet)

Enrique Molina (1910–1996) was an Argentine poet of the Generación del '40, one of the country's leading surrealist poets beside Olga Orozco and Aldo Pellegrini.

Enrique Murciano

Enrique Murciano (Enrique Ricardo Murciano), American actor born 1973 in Miami, known as FBI agent Danny Taylor on Without a Trace (2002–2009) and for Traffic, Black Hawk Down, Bloodline, and The Night Agent.

Enrique of Malacca

Enrique of Malacca, known as Panglima Awang, was Magellan's Malay slave and interpreter on the 1519-1522 expedition and may have been the first person to circle the world.

Enrique Olaya Herrera

Enrique Olaya Herrera was a Colombian journalist, diplomat, and statesman who served as president of Colombia from 1930 to 1934, ending the Conservative Hegemony and opening the Liberal Republic.

Enrique Padilla

Enrique Padilla names two Olympic athletes: an Argentine polo player (born 12 June 1890) who won 1924 Paris polo gold, Argentina's first Olympic gold, and a Mexican modern pentathlete (born 23 August 1934) who placed 36th individual, 11th team at Tokyo 1964.

Enrique Peña Nieto

Enrique Peña Nieto, PRI politician and president of Mexico 2012–2018 after governing the State of Mexico 2005–2011; known for the Pacto por México structural reforms, the 43-students crisis, Casa Blanca scandal, and the PRI's 2018 collapse.

Enrique Peñaranda

Enrique Peñaranda was a Bolivian general who served as the 38th president of Bolivia from 1940 to 1943, after commanding the army during the Chaco War against Paraguay.

Enrique Rodríguez-Boulan

Enrique Rodríguez-Boulan is an Argentine-American cell biologist known for his 1978 discovery that enveloped viruses bud in a polarized manner from epithelial cells, a model for studying epithelial polarity.

Enrique Rozengurt

Enrique Rozengurt is a molecular biologist and Distinguished Professor of Medicine at UCLA who studies growth factor signaling and discovered the protein kinase D family of enzymes.

Enrique Salem

Enrique Salem is a partner and managing director at Bain Capital Ventures who invests in infrastructure software and cybersecurity, after serving as president and CEO of Symantec.

Enrique Santos Discépolo

Enrique Santos Discépolo (1901–1951), known as Discepolín, was an Argentine tango lyricist and composer, playwright, and film director whose tangos, including "Cambalache" and "Yira yira", gave tango a new dramatic voice.