Famous Hispanics in History

_________ a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. She was inspired by Mexico's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, post-colonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society.

• Frida Kahlo

• Dolores Huerta

• Ellen Ochoa

• Sonia Sotomayor

__________ is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers.

• Dolores Huerta

• Sonia Sotomayor

• Julian Castro

• Pancho Villa

______ is a Brazilian retired professional footballer who played as a forward. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.

• Edison Arantes Do Nascimento

• Pancho Villa

• Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales

• Vicente Guerrero

______ a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008.

• Fidel Castro

• Vicente Guerrero

• Luis Munoz Marin

• Hector P. Garcia

________ is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. She was appointed by President Barack Obama in May 2009 and confirmed that August. She was the first Hispanic and Latina Justice.

• Sonia Sotomayor

• Ellen Ochoa

• Sylvia Mendez

• Frida Kahlo

_______ is an American politician from San Antonio. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the youngest member of President Obama's Cabinet, serving as the 16th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development from 2014 to 2017.

• Julian Castro

• Luis Munoz Marin

• Hector P. Garcia

• Roberto Clemente

________ was a Mexican revolutionary general and one of the most prominent figures of the Mexican Revolution. As commander of the División del Norte, 'Division of the North', in the Constitutionalist Army, he was a military-landowner of the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua.

• Pancho Villa

• Fideo Castro

• Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales

• Julian Castro

_________ was a Puerto Rican professional baseball right fielder who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1973, becoming both the first Latin American and Caribbean player to be enshrined.

• Roberto Clemente

• Vicente Guerrero

• Edison Arantes Do Nascimento

• Antonia C. Novello

_____ is an Hispanic-American engineer, former astronaut and former Director of the Johnson Space Center. In 1993, she became the first Hispanic woman to go to space when she served on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.

• Ellen Ochoa

• Dolores Huerta

• Antonia C. Novello

• Sylvia Mendez

_______ was a Puerto Rican journalist, politician, statesman and was the first elected governor of Puerto Rico, regarded as the "Father of Modern Puerto Rico" and the "Architect of the Commonwealth."

• Luis Munoz Marin

• Pancho Villa

• Hector P. Garcia

• Vicente Guerrero