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Member of US Congress
Joseph Marion Hernández was the first Hispanic to serve in Congress. He served until March 3, 1823 -
Philip Bazaar
Medal of Honor recipient, Bazaar, a Chilean member of the US Navy, for bravery during the Civil WAr. He received his Congressional Medal of Honor -
David G. Farragut
became the first US naval officer ever to be awarded the rank of admiral. -
Novel in English, written and published in US
María Amparo Ruiz de Burton, "Who Would Have Thought It?" -
Romualdo Pacheco,
a representative from California, was elected to US Representative by a one vote margin. -
Opera diva
Lucrezia Bori, who debuted at the Metropolitan Opera -
Oscar, Best Actor
See the movie here!José Ferrer, for Cyrano de Bergerac -
Oscar, Best Supporting Actor
see him hereAnthony Quinn, Viva Zapata! -
Star of a network television show
Watch/listen to him performDesi Arnaz, in "I Love Lucy" -
Rock star
Watch and listen to him singRichie Valens -
General Elwood 'Pete' Quesada
Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency. He helped create this agency to manage the growing aviation field and improve airline safety. -
Severo Ochoa
Spanish born Ochoa, was appointed chairman of the department of biochemistry at NYU. In 1956 he became an American citizen. With Arthur Kornberg, he received the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the synthesis of ribonucleic acid (RNA), an organic compound that carries hereditary qualities in all reproduction. -
Oscar, Best Supporting Actress
See her danceRita Moreno, West Side Story -
Horacio Rivero
First Hispanic American to become a four-star admiral -
Luis Walter Alvarez
Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of a large number of residence states (subatomic particles that have very short lifetimes and that occur only in high-energy nuclear collisions), which was made possible through his development of the liquid-hydrogen bubble chamber. -
Broadcaster of the Year
Geraldo Rivera -
Tony, Best Director
José Quintero -
Tony, Best Supporting Actress
Rita Moreno, for "The Ritz" -
Richard E. Cavazos
inducted as General, US army. In 1982, he became the army's first Hispanic four-star general. -
Oscar, Grammy, Tony and Emmy
with The Muppet ShowRita Moreno became the first Hispanic American to have won all four awards -
Edward Hidalgo
became the first Hispanic Secretary of the Navy. -
Franklin Chang-Díaz
First astronaut from Costa Rica -
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Oscar Hijuelos, for his novel "TNY Times article" -
Antonia Coello Novello
First woman ever to hold the position of US Surgeon General -
Ellen Ochoa
became the world's first Hispanic female astronaut. -
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee
Sights and Sounds VideosCarlos Santana -
Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Nilo Cruz, for his play "Anna in the Tropics"
