Palmira N. Ríos
Palmira N. Ríos( born 1956) is an Afro- Puerto Rican academic who has worked as a professor in New York, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
She has served as a commissioner and president of the Puerto Rican Civil Rights Commission, the first person of color or woman to be appointed to the government body.
After serving as the dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration for the University of Puerto Rico, she became the Dean of Academic Affairs for the Río Piedras Campus in 2015.
The Bar Association of Puerto Rico honored Ríos with the Martin Luther King Jr.- Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Medal for her efforts to promote racial equality.
Godwin Davy
Godwin Davy( born 15 December 1979) is an Anguillan international footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
He made his international debut in a World Cup qualifying match against El Salvador, resulting in a lopsided match, losing 12- 0 in February 2008, and also played in the 4 – 0 loss to the same country in the return match in March 2008.
Vanessa K. Valdés
Vanessa K.
Valdés is an author, educator, writer, editor, historian, and associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the City College of New York.
She is a Puerto Rican of African descent.
She is the author of Diasporic Blackness: The Life and Times of Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.
Schomburg was one of the founding fathers of Black History in North America, and the father of the Global African Diaspora.
She has also written Oshun ’s Daughters: The Search for Womanhood in the Americas.
In Oshun's Daughters she examines African Diasporic sense of womanhood, examining novels, poems, etc., written by Diaspora women from the United States, the Caribbean, and Brazil.
Writings that show how these women use traditional Yoruba religion as alternative models for their womanhood differing from western concepts of being a woman.
She is an editor of Let Spirit Speak, Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora, and the Future is Now: A New Look at African Diaspora Studies.
Her articles have appeared in various journals such as; Chasqui, Hispania, MELUS Journal, CLA Journal, Callaloo, and The Journal( PALARA).
Her research is in comparative studies in literature of the Americans and particularly the Afro- Hispanic, African- American, Spanish Caribbean, U.S. Latina/ Latino, and history of Puerto Rico.
Ana Irma Rivera Lassén
Ana Irma Rivera Lassén( born 1955) is an Afro- Puerto Rican attorney who was the head of the Bar Association of Puerto Rico from 2012 – 2014.
She was the first black woman, and third female, to head the organization.
She is a feminist and human rights activist, who is also openly lesbian.
She has received many awards and honors for her work in the area of women's rights and human rights, including the Capetillo- Roqué Medal from the Puerto Rican Senate, the Martin Luther King/ Arturo Alfonso Schomburg Prize, and the Nilita Vient ós Gastón Medal.
She is a practicing attorney and serves on the faculty of several universities in Puerto Rico; she currently serves on the Advisory Committee on Access to Justice of the Puerto Rican Judicial Branch.
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg( January 24, 1874 – June 10, 1938), was a historian, writer, and activist.
Schomburg was a Puerto Rican of African and German descent who moved to the United States and researched and raised awareness of the great contributions that Afro- Latin Americans and Afro-Americans have made to society.
He was an important intellectual figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Over the years, he collected literature, art, slave narratives, and other materials of African history, which were purchased to become the basis of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, named in his honor, at the New York Public Library( NYPL) branch in Harlem.
John Edward Bruce
John Edward Bruce, also known as Bruce Grit or J. E. Bruce- Grit( February 22, 1856 – August 7, 1924), was an American journalist, historian, writer, orator, civil rights activist and Pan-African nationalist.
He was born a slave in Maryland; as an adult, he founded numerous newspapers along the East Coast, as well as co-founding( with Arthur Alfonso Schomburg) the Negro Society for Historical Research in New York.
Andreas Tanberg Gløersen
Hans Andreas Tanberg Gløersen( 16 February 1836 – 1 September 1904) was a Norwegian forest manager.
Alfonso González
Arturo Alfonso González González( born 5 September 1994), also known as Poncho is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Liga MX club Monterrey.
Participating for the national team throughout various age groups, González was part of the team that won the 2011 U- 17 World Cup.
He made his debut with the senior Mexico national team in 2014 in a friendly match against Honduras.
Alberto Da Rin
Alberto Da Rin( born 11 December 1939) is a retired Italian ice hockey player who competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics, alongside his elder brother Gianfranco.
He played 8 games and scored 5 goals.
His other two brothers Luigino and Arturo also played hockey.
Eva de Maizière
Eva de Maizière( Werner, 27 March 1915 in Hanover – October 2003 in Bonn) was a German artist, sculptor and cellist.
She was married to Ulrich de Maizière until her death in 2003.
Her sons are Andreas and Thomas de Maizière, both politicians.

Question: Are Andreas Tanberg Gløersen and Arturo Alfonso Schomburg both from the same country?
Answer: no