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* [[Antonio Moreno]] - (1887 – 1967) Spanish-born American educated actor; he was a leading silent film star of the 1920s.
* [[Morris W. Morris]] (1845–1906) - Civil War soldier of the Louisiana Native Guards & stage actor.
* [[Frankie Muniz]] - Actor ([[Malcolm in the middle]]) and racecars driver. His father is Puerto Rican of [[Asturian people|Asturian]] (Spanish) descent
* [[Marisol Nichols]] - American actress best known for her role in ''[[24 (TV series)]]''.<ref>[http://www.marisol-nichols.com/interests_questions.html "Your cultural background was on one half, you are romanian/hungarian and the other half Spanish/Mexican American. Do you find yourself relating to one culture more than the other?" "I don't know anything about my Hungarian/Romanian side, so I know more about the Latin side. I don't speak Spanish and I grew up in Chicago, so really I love a lot of cultures"]</ref>
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* [[Lou Diamond Phillips]] - American actor. His mother descends partly from Spanish.<ref name="newsref1">{{cite news|last=Honeycutt|first=Kirk|coauthors=|title=Lou Diamond Phillips: From Young Gun to Young Writer|pages=|publisher=Los Angeles Times|date=1990-08-19|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1990-08-19/entertainment/ca-3055_1_young-guns|accessdate=2009-11-28}}</ref>
* [[Anita Page|Anita Pomares]], better known as [[Anita Page]] - was an American film actress primarily in the 1920s and 1930s and later.<ref name="independent.co.uk">[http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/anita-page-star-of-the-silent-screen-922510.html Anita Page: Star of the silent screen]</ref>
* [[Nathalia Ramos]] - Actress and singer. Spanish father. Played the leading role of Yasmin in ''[[Bratz: The Movie]]''.* [[Génesis Rodríguez]] - American actress. She is the daughter of Venezuelan singer and actor [[José Luis Rodríguez (singer)|José Luis Rodríguez]]. His grandfather is from Canary Islands.▼
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* [[Anthony Ruivivar]] - American actor. <ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0749570/bio Biography for Anthony Ruiviar]</ref>
* [[Marin Sais]] - American actress of the silent film era. She is descended of early Castilian settlers of California´s colonial.<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=22&dat=19140208&id=_jEBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zSgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4957,6227425 ''The Toronto World''. February 8, 1914] Retrieved February 23, 2012</ref>
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* [[Charlie Sheen]] - American actor, Spanish grandfather.
* [[Hilary Swank]] - American film actress. Her maternal grandmother was of Spanish and [[Shoshone]] ([[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]]) ancestry.<ref name=actors>{{cite web| url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USmlFl9aSEs| title= Interview| publisher=[[Inside the Actors Studio]]| year= 2009}}</ref>
* [[Bitsie Tulloch]] - mother of Spanish descent.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtgU9s9hj6c&feature=feedu</ref>
* [[Alanna Ubach]] - American actress of Spanish descent.
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* [[Joseph Lacalle]] - (1860 - 1937) was a clarinetist, composer, conductor and music critic.
* [[Bruno Mars]] - American singer-songwriter and record producer. Mars' mother immigrated to Hawaii from the [[Philippines]] as a child, and is of [[Filipino people|Filipino]] and some Spanish descent.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ascap.com/ace/search.cfm?requesttimeout=300&mode=results&searchstr=1687696&search_in=c&search_type=exact&search_det=t,s,w,p,b,v&results_pp=10&start=1|title=ACE Title Search: Hernandez Peter Gene|publisher=[[American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers]]|accessdate=September 15, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Jeffries|first=David|title=Bruno Mars > Biography|url={{Allmusic|class=artist|id=p1107691/biography|pure_url=yes}}|publisher=allmusic|accessdate=September 26, 2010}}</ref>
*[[Alcide Nunez]] - (1884–1934) [[Isleño]] American jazz clarinetist.
*[[Robert Nunez]] - Isleño American jazz clarinetist and grandson of Alcide Nunez.
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* [[Pío Pico]] - (1801 – 1894) - the last Governor of Alta California under Mexican rule. He was of Native American, Spanish and African [[mixed-race]] ancestry.
* [[Andrés Pico]] - (1810 – 1876) Californio rancher, military commander and was elected to the state assembly and senate after California became a state. Andrés Pico was the younger brother of [[Pío Pico]]
* [[Bill Richardson]] - American politician, who served as the 30th Governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011. His mother is the [[Mexican people|Mexican]] daughter of a Spanish father from [[Villaviciosa, Asturias]], Spain and a Mexican mother<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wargs.com/political/richardson.html |title=The Ancestry of Bill Richardson}}</ref>
* [[Junior Rodriguez]] - Politician from [[St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana]], of Isleño descent.
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*[[Fabri Salcedo]] - (1914 in Santander, Cantabria, Spain – 1985 in Rochelle Park, New Jersey) soccer forward.
* [[Wendy Lucero-Schayes]] - (American former Olympic diver.
*[[Benny Urquidez]] - kickboxer, martial arts choreographer and actor. His father is descended from Basque Spaniards and Blackfoot Amerindians<ref>http://bennythejet.com/about.asp About - The official website of Benny The Jet Urquidez</ref>
* [[Ted Williams]] - (1918 – 2002) American professional baseball player, manager, and World War II and Korean War veteran. His mother was of Spanish ([[Basque people|Basque]]), [[Russians|Russian]], and [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|American Indian]] descent.<ref>Nowlin, p. 324</ref>
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* [[Kika Perez]], aka Ilva Margarita Perez, is a Colombian American Actress/TV host.
* [[Juan Bautista Rael]] - (1900–1993) [[Nuevomexicano]] ethnographer, linguist, and folklorist who was a pioneer in the study of the Nuevomexicanos, his stories and his language, both from [[Northern New Mexico]] and Southern Colorado.
* [[Geraldo Rivera]] - American attorney, journalist, writer, reporter. His father was of Puerto Rican [[Sephardic Jew]] ancestry <ref>[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0729273/bio/ Biography for Geraldo Rivera]</ref><ref>[http://www.interfaithfamily.com/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=ekLSK5MLIrG&b=297403&ct=415783 Do the Jews Need Geraldo - InterfaithFamily.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Ricky Rodriguez]] - (1975 – 2005), former member of the Children of God (COG), now known as [[The Family International]] (TFI).
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