page_title: List of Puerto Ricans
section_title: Sports
hierarchical_section_title: List of Puerto Ricans / Sports
caption_attribution_description: New York Mets catcher Sandy Alomar, Jr. during a Mets/Detroit Tigers spring training game at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Florida.
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people from Puerto Rico which includes people who were born in Puerto Rico and people who are of full or partial Puerto Rican descent. The Government of Puerto Rico has been issuing "Certificates of Puerto Rican Citizenship" to anyone born in Puerto Rico or to anyone born outside of Puerto Rico with at least one parent who was born in Puerto Rico since 2007. Also included in the list are some long-term continental American and other residents and/or immigrants of other ethnic heritages who have made Puerto Rico their home and consider themselves to be Puerto Ricans.
  The list is divided into categories and, in some cases, sub-categories, which best describe the field for which the subject is most noted. Some categories such as "Actors, actresses, comedians and directors" are relative since a subject who is a comedian may also be an actor or director. In some cases a subject may be notable in more than one field, such as Luis A. Ferré, who is notable both as a former governor and as an industrialist. However, the custom is to place the subject's name under the category for which he/she is most noted.
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  Benjamin Agosto, figure skater and Olympic medalist (Puerto Rican father)
  Roberto Alomar, baseball player, MLB All-Star, third Puerto Rican inducted to the Baseball Hall of Fame (2011)
  Sandy Alomar, Jr., baseball player
  Sandy Alomar, Sr., baseball player
  Carmelo Anthony, NBA player, Portland Trail Blazers (Puerto Rican father)
  Orlando Antigua, in 1995, the first Hispanic and first non-black in 52 years to play for the Harlem Globetrotters (Puerto Rican mother)
  Chris Armas, soccer player (Puerto Rican mother)
  Carlos Arroyo, former NBA player, member and captain of the Puerto Rican national basketball team
  Harry Arroyo, boxer, former IBF Lightweight Champion
  Nolan Arenado, baseball player, Colorado Rockies (Puerto Rican mother)
  Jake Arrieta, baseball player, Chicago Cubs (Puerto Rican grandfather)
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  Javier Báez, baseball player, Chicago Cubs
  Juan Báez, former basketball player; recipient of Puerto Rico Olympic Medal of Honor
  José Juan Barea, NBA player, Dallas Mavericks; first Puerto Rican to play for winning team in the NBA Finals
  María Elena Batista, Olympic, PanAm and Central American games swimmer
  Bayley, WWE wrestler, real name Pamela Rose Martinez
  Eddie Belmonte, thoroughbred racing jockey
  Carlos Beltrán, baseball player, outfielder/designated hitter, Texas Rangers
  Wilfred Benítez, boxer, member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
  David "Kike" Bernier, retired fencer, former Secretary of Sports and Recreation
  Hiram Bithorn, baseball player, first Puerto Rican in Major League Baseball
  Devin Booker, NBA player, Phoenix Suns (Puerto Rican mother)
  Kristina Brandi, tennis player
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  Iván Calderón, baseball player
  Iván Calderón, boxer, world champion
  Hector 'Macho' Camacho, boxer, former world champion and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
  Fernando J. Canales, swimmer, first Puerto Rican to reach final championships
  Pedro Miguel Caratini, baseball player; born in Puerto Rico, "the father of Dominican baseball"
  Orlando Cepeda, baseball player, member of Baseball Hall of Fame
  Pedro Anibal Cepeda a.k.a. "Perucho" and "The Bull", baseball player; father of Orlando Cepeda; known as "the Babe Ruth of Puerto Rico"
  Nero Chen, Puerto Rico's first professional boxer
  Julie Chu, Olympic ice hockey player; forward on the U.S. women's ice hockey team; of Chinese and Puerto Rican descent
  Conchita Cintrón, bullfighter (Puerto Rican father)
  Kermit Cintrón, boxer, former International Boxing Federation welterweight champion (2006–08)
  Roberto Clemente, 3,000-hit baseball player, first Puerto Rican member of Baseball Hall of Fame
  Abdiel Colberg, first Hispanic professional rollerblader
  Rebekah Colberg, known as "the mother of Puerto Rican women's sports"; participated in various athletic competitions in the 1938 Central American and Caribbean Games in Panama, where she won gold medals in discus and javelin throw
  Carlitos Colon, former professional wrestler and member of the WWE Hall of Fame
  Carly Colón, professional wrestler
  Alex Cora, became the first Puerto Rican to manage a World Series winning team when the Boston Red Sox defeated the LA Dodgers in 2018.
  Ángel Cordero, Jr., jockey, member of Jockey Hall of Fame
  Carlos Correa, first pick of the 2012 MLB Draft; 2015 AL Rookie of the Year
  Maritza Correia, first Afro-Puerto Rican female on the U.S. Olympic swimming team
  Joe Cortez, boxing referee; member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
  Carla Cortijo, basketball player, first Puerto Rican-born woman to play in the WNBA; guard for the Atlanta Dream
  Miguel Cotto, professional boxer, former light welterweight, welterweight and junior middleweight world champion
  Eva Cruz, volleyball player
  José "Cheo" Cruz, baseball player whose number was retired by the Astros
  Orlando Cruz, boxer; first professional boxer to publicly announce he is gay
  Teófilo Cruz, basketball player
  Victor Cruz, NFL football player
  Javier Culson, Olympic athlete; bronze medalist; specialises in the 400 metre hurdles
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  Christian Dalmau, BSN basketball player
  Raymond Dalmau, basketball player
  Carlos De León, first boxer to win cruiserweight world title 
caption: Santos "Sandy" Alomar – Cleveland Indians baseball player
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