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José de Santa Rita Durão
José de Santa Rita Durão, born José Luís de Morais, was a Brazilian Augustinian friar and poet who wrote the epic poem Caramuru, a founding work of Brazilian literature.
Jose De Vega
Jose De Vega (1934-1990) was an American actor and choreographer of Filipino and Colombian descent, known as Chino in Broadway and film West Side Story, Blue Hawaii, and Great Leap advocacy.
Jose Delgado
José Delgado (José Raúl Delgado Díez), Cuban baseball catcher born 1960 in Meneses, Sancti Spíritus; won 1992 Olympic gold with a 9-0 Cuban team; uncle of Lourdes Gourriel. Distinct from judoka Angelica Delgado and other namesakes.
José do Patrocínio
José do Patrocínio (1853–1905) was a Brazilian journalist and orator known as the Tiger of Abolition, and a founding member of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
José Dolores Estrada
José Dolores Estrada (1792–1869) was a Nicaraguan soldier who rose from private to General of Division and won the 1856 Battle of San Jacinto against William Walker's filibusters.
José Donoso
José Donoso (José Donoso Yáñez, 1924–1996) was a Chilean novelist of the Latin American Boom, known for The Obscene Bird of Night (1970) and the essay Historia personal del "boom".
José E. Feliciano
José E. Feliciano is a private equity investor who co-founded Clearlake Capital Group in 2006. He holds an MBA from Stanford and has overseen the firm's growth to over $185 billion.
Jose E. Martinez
Jose E. Martinez, born 1941 in the Dominican Republic, is a United States district judge in the Southern District of Florida, appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002.
José E. Serrano
José E. Serrano, born 1943 in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, was the Democratic U.S. representative for New York's South Bronx 15th district from 1990 to 2021, an Appropriations leader and Hispanic Caucus chair who retired citing Parkinson's disease.
Jose E. Tabora-Sierra
Jose E. Tabora-Sierra, also known as Jose E. Tabora, is a pharmaceutical chemical engineer and senior scientific director at Bristol Myers Squibb elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.
Jose E.B. Antonio
Jose E.B. Antonio is a Filipino real estate developer who founded Manila-based Century Properties Group in 1986 and was named Philippine special trade envoy to the United States in 2016.
José Echegaray
José Echegaray (1832–1916) was a Spanish engineer, mathematician, finance minister, and playwright who wrote 67 plays and won the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature, shared with Frédéric Mistral.
José Eduardo Agualusa
José Eduardo Agualusa is an Angolan journalist and novelist born in 1960, whose novel A General Theory of Oblivion won the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award.
José Eduardo dos Santos
José Eduardo dos Santos (1942–2022), Angolan president 1979–2017 under the MPLA, successor to Agostinho Neto, ended the 27-year civil war in 2002, ruled through oil wealth and patronage, and left a contested legacy of corruption.
José Ellauri
José Ellauri names two related Uruguayan statesmen: José Longinos Ellauri, a drafter of the 1830 Constitution, and his son José Eugenio, president from 1873 to 1875.
Jose Emilio Amavisca
José Emilio Amavisca Gárate, Spanish left winger born 1971 in Laredo, Cantabria; 1992 Olympic gold medalist, 1998 Champions League winner with Real Madrid, 15 Spain caps, later a commentator.
José Emilio Pacheco
José Emilio Pacheco (1939–2014) was a Mexican poet, novelist, essayist, and translator, one of the most important writers of twentieth-century Mexican literature.
José Enrique (footballer)
José Enrique Sánchez Díaz (born 1986, Valencia) is a Spanish retired left-back who played for Newcastle United (2007-2011), Liverpool (2011-2016, 99 apps, League Cup 2012) and Real Zaragoza, later overcoming a brain tumor.
José Enrique Moyal
José Enrique Moyal (1910–1998) was an Australian mathematical physicist, born in Jerusalem, who founded the phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics, source of the Moyal product and bracket.
José Enrique Rodó
José Enrique Rodó was a Uruguayan essayist, educator, and politician, born in Montevideo in 1871, whose 1900 essay Ariel warned against US utilitarian domination of Latin America.
José Eustasio Rivera
José Eustasio Rivera (1888–1928) was a Colombian lawyer, poet, and novelist, author of La vorágine (1924), a landmark of Spanish American regionalism denouncing the rubber boom's abuses of indigenous peoples.
José Fanjul
José "Pepe" Fanjul is a Cuba-born American sugar executive who fled Cuba with his family in 1959 and co-leads Fanjul Corp. and Florida Crystals, the group behind Domino Sugar.
José Faustino Sánchez Carrión
José Faustino Sánchez Carrión, known as El Solitario de Sayán, was a Peruvian jurist and statesman who opposed a monarchy, helped draft Peru's 1823 constitution, and served as Bolívar's foreign minister.
José Feliciano
José Feliciano, born 1945 in Lares, Puerto Rico, is a blind singer and guitarist who crossed from Spanish-language boleros to English pop with his 1968 hit Light My Fire, stylized the national anthem at the 1968 World Series, and wrote Feliz Navidad.
José Félix Estigarribia
José Félix Estigarribia Insaurralde (1888–1940), Paraguayan marshal and 41st president, commanded the army in the Chaco War victory over Bolivia, signed the 1938 peace treaty, and enacted the authoritarian 1940 Constitution before dying in an airplane crash.
José Félix Ribas
José Félix Ribas (1775–1815) was a Venezuelan independence general who led a force of students and seminarians to victory at La Victoria in 1814, an action commemorated as Venezuela's Day of Youth.
José Félix Uriburu
José Félix Uriburu (1868–1932), Argentine lieutenant general from Salta, led the 6 September 1930 coup overthrowing Yrigoyen and was de facto president 1930–1932, pursuing a failed corporatist constitutional reform before resigning.
José Fernandes Pinto Alpoim
José Fernandes Pinto Alpoim was a Portuguese military engineer (1700–1765) who designed the Paço Imperial and planned Mariana, and whose artillery course is seen as the embryo of engineering education in Brazil.
José Fernando Ramírez
José Fernando Ramírez, often called Fernando Ramírez, was a Mexican lawyer, politician, and historian who held ministerial office and built a famed library of Mexican historical works.
José Ferrer
José Ferrer (José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón, 1912–1992), Puerto Rican-born American actor and director; first Hispanic Oscar winner, Best Actor for Cyrano de Bergerac (1950), also a three-time Tony winner and first actor awarded the National Medal of Arts.