# List of Panamanians

This is a list of Panamanian people who are famous or notable and were either born in Panama or have Panamanian ancestry.

## Beauty queens and fashion models

* Ester Cordet, former Playboy Playmate of the Month
* Gloria Karamañites, first Afro-Panamanian winner of Miss Panama
* Patricia de León, former Señorita Panamá, actress, LGBT activist
* Justine Pasek, former Miss Universe
* Ana Orillac, former Señorita Panamá
* Stefanie de Roux, TV host and former Señorita Panamá
* Rachel Smith, former Miss USA

## Business

* Ursula M. Burns, CEO of Xerox
* Pedro Heilbron, CEO of Copa Airlines
* Karl Kani, urban fashion designer (Panamanian father)
* Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Colombian-American businessman, diplomat (born in Panama)
* Fernando Wong, landscape designer

## Entertainment

* Sharon Aguilar, musician/composer
* Akinyele, rapper (Panamanian mother)
* Tatyana Ali, actress, calypso singer, and composer (Panamanian mother)
* Nancy Ames, singer
* Tyson Beckford, model (maternal grandmother born in Panama)
* Aloe Blacc, singer
* Pop Smoke, rapper (Panamanian father)
* Rubén Blades, singer, actor, former Minister of Tourism
* Miguel Bosé, Spanish actor and singer (born in Panama)
* Jordana Brewster, actress
* Rod Carrillo, house and Latin music producer, label owner (born in Panama)
* Casanova, rapper
* Billy Cobham, drummer for Mahavishnu Orchestra
* Melissa De Sousa, American actress (Panamanian heritage)
* Edgardo Diaz, music producer (Menudo) (born in Panama)
* Erika Ender, musician/composer
* La Factoría, Spanish reggae duo
* Flex, Spanish reggae artist
* Gaitanes, singers, musical producers, composers
* Carlos Garnett, jazz saxophonist
* El General, Spanish reggae artist
* Margarita Henríquez, singer
* Lori Heuring, actress
* Clark Kent, rap music producer
* Vincent Laresca, actor
* Gladys de la Lastra, drummer, composer, and musician
* Eddy Lover, Spanish reggae artist
* Makano, Spanish reggae artist
* Jaime Murrell, singer
* Uncle Murda, rapper
* Nando Boom, reggae artist
* Danilo Pérez, jazz pianist, producer, composer
* José Quintero, Broadway director
* Los Rabanes, reggae-rock band
* J. August Richards, actor
* Coco Rodriguez, singer, actress
* José Luis Rodríguez Vélez, orchestra director, clarinetist, composer
* Daphne Rubin-Vega, actress and singer
* Samy y Sandra Sandoval, singer, musician
* Sech, singer-songwriter, rapper, and producer
* DJ Spinna, record producer and DJ (Panamanian roots)
* Santiago Stevenson, singer, composer, ordained minister
* Alexis Texas, American adult film actress
* Tessa Thompson, actress and singer (Panamanian father)
* Ingrid de Ycaza, singer
* Aaron Zebede, actor, director and producer

## Historical figures

* Bayano, rebel slave
* Floyd Britton, political dissident
* Edward Ashton Gaskin Stuart, educator and labor leader
* Victoriano Lorenzo, politician and national hero
* Marta Matamoros, trade unionist
* Juan Materno Vásquez de León, lawyer and professor
* Luis Anderson McNeil, former labor minister
* Jerónimo de la Ossa, poet, wrote national anthem
* Belisario Porras, former president
* Urracá, chieftain

## Journalism

* Escolastico Calvo, journalist
* Gwen Ifill, television correspondent and host
* Gustavo Adolfo Mellander, academic journalist
* Juan Williams, television correspondent

## Literature

* Rosa María Britton, writer
* Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer (born in Panama)
* Gloria Guardia, novelist and essayist
* Ricardo Miró, poet
* Rogelio Sinán, poet and writer
* José Luis Rodríguez Pittí, writer and photographer
* Consuelo Tomás, writer
* Neil Raymond Ricco, Spanish-Italian American poet and writer (born in Panama)

## Politics

* Arnulfo Arias Madrid, former president
* Harmodio Arias Madrid, former president
* Nicolás Ardito Barletta, former president
* Antonio Dominguez Richa, diplomat and politician
* Guillermo Endara, former president
* Adrian Fenty, former mayor of Washington, D.C. (Panamanian father)
* Esteban Huertas, independence fighter
* Jorge Illueca, diplomat and politician
* Julio E. Linares, former Treasury Minister (1963–1964) and Foreign Minister (1989–1993)
* Ricardo Martinelli, former president
* John McCain, United States politician (born in Panama)
* Mireya Moscoso, former president
* Norberto Navarro, Minister of Public Works under three presidents, 1940s-50s. Founded the PRI party.
* Manuel Antonio Noriega, former dictator
* Carlos Ozores, former first vice president
* Ana Paredes Arosemena, former First Lady of Ecuador
* Rubén Darío Paredes del Río, former military ruler
* Ernesto Pérez Balladares, former president
* Belisario Porras, former president
* José Antonio Price, physician and politician
* Emilio Sempris, former Minister of Environment
* Dudley Thompson, Jamaican Pan-Africanist, politician and diplomat
* Martín Torrijos Espino, former president
* Omar Torrijos, former dictator
* Franklin U. Valderrama, United States district judge (born in Panama)
* Juan Carlos Varela, former president

## Scientists and academics

* Reina Torres de Araúz, anthropologist, ethnographer, professor

## Sports
### Baseball

* Juan Berenguer, professional baseball player
* Johan Camargo, professional baseball player
* Rod Carew, professional baseball player
* Bruce Chen, professional baseball player
* Manuel Corpas, professional baseball player
* Einar Díaz, professional baseball player
* Roberto Kelly, baseball player
* Carlos Lee, professional baseball player
* Héctor López, professional baseball player
* José Macías, professional baseball player
* Ramiro Mendoza, professional baseball player
* Orlando Miller, professional baseball player
* Ramiro Mendoza, professional baseball player
* Orlando Miller, professional baseball player
* Ben Oglivie, professional baseball player
* Mariano Rivera, professional baseball player
* Rubén Rivera, professional baseball player
* Humberto Robinson, major league baseball player
* Davis Romero, professional baseball player
* Carlos Ruiz, professional baseball player
* Olmedo Sáenz, professional baseball player
* Manny Sanguillén, professional baseball player
* Rennie Stennett, professional baseball player
* Ruben Tejada, professional baseball player

### Basketball

* William Bedford, former basketball player
* Rolando Blackman, former basketball player
* Lorenzo Charles, professional basketball player (Panamanian parents)
* Ed Cota, basketball player
* Kevin Daley, basketball player and Harlem Globetrotter
* Gary Forbes, professional basketball player
* Rubén Garcés, former basketball player
* Stuart Gray, professional basketball player
* Leroy Jackson, professional basketball player
* Ricky Lindo (born 2000), American-Panamanian basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Donovan Mitchell, professional basketball player

### Boxing

* Pedro Alcazar, world boxing champion
* Panama Al Brown, world boxing champion, first Hispanic world champion in history
* Roberto Durán, world boxing champion
* Alfonso Frazer, world champion boxer
* Guillermo Jones, professional boxer
* Jorge Luján, boxer
* Ernesto Marcel, professional boxer
* Eusebio Pedroza, former world boxing champion
* Hilario Zapata, professional boxer

### Football (American)

* Leonardo Barker, professional American football player
* Frank Davis, professional football player
* Darius Holland, professional American football player
* Roberto Wallace, professional football player

### Soccer

* Edwin Aguilar, soccer player
* Michael Amir Murillo, soccer player
* Andrés Andrade Cedeño, soccer player
* Felipe Baloy, soccer player
* Édgar Bárce, soccer player
* Yoel Bárcenas, soccer player
* Adalberto Carrasquilla, soccer player
* Roberto Corbin, soccer player
* Harold Cummings, soccer player
* Jorge Dely Valdés, soccer player
* Gabriel Enrique Gómez, soccer player
* Luis Ernesto Tapia, soccer player
* Rommel Fernández, soccer player
* Aníbal Godoy, soccer player
* Carlos Harvey, soccer player
* Kevin Kurányi, German soccer player
* Roberto Nurse, soccer player
* Jaime Penedo, soccer player
* Blas Pérez, soccer player
* Luis Antonio Rivera, soccer player
* Arturo Tejada, soccer player
* Luis Tejada, soccer player
* Román Torres, soccer player

### Track & field

* Reginald Beckford, sprinter
* Bayano Kamani, track and field athlete
* Lloyd La Beach, sprinter, first Olympic medal winner from Panama
* Irving Saladino, former World and Olympic track and field champion

### Others

* Eileen Coparropa, Olympic swimmer
* George Headley, cricket player
* Bobby Lashley, professional wrestler and former mixed martial arts fighter
* Scott A. Muller, Olympic kayaker
* Laffit Pincay, Jr., horse jockey
* Oscar Willis Layne, cyclist

## Other

* Princess Angela of Liechtenstein, member of the Royal House of Liechtenstein
* Jorge Cham, webcomic producer, author and cartoonist of PhD comics