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List Of People From The Dominican Republic
This is a list of famous or notable people from the Dominican Republic. The list also includes individuals of Dominican ancestry who reside overseas. Authors * Julia Alvarez * Arambilet * Frank Báez * Josefina Baez * Fernando Cabrera * Rei Berroa * Manuel del Cabral * Aída Cartagena Portalatín * Roberto Cassá * Raquel Cepeda * Tulio Manuel Cestero * Hilma Contreras * Angie Cruz * Junot Díaz * Leonor de Ovando * Judith Dupré * Virginia Elena Ortea * León Félix Batista * Arturo Féliz-Camilo * Fabio Fiallo * Freddy Ginebra * Cristino Gómez * Chico Gonzalez * Pedro Henríquez Ureña * Federico Henríquez y Carvajal * Angela Hernández Nuñez * Juan Isidro Jiménez Grullón * Rita Indiana * Mariano Lebrón Saviñón * Marcio Veloz Maggiolo * José Mármol * Andrés L. Mateo * Félix Evaristo Mejía * Miguel D. Mena * Jeannette Miller * Leopoldo Minaya * Pedro Mir * Domingo Moreno Jimenes * Mateo Morrison * Trina de Moya * Flérida de Nolasco * Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of The Dominican Republic
The flag of the Dominican Republic represents the Dominican Republic and, together with the Coat of arms of the Dominican Republic, coat of arms and the National Anthem of the Dominican Republic, national anthem, has the status of a national symbol. The blue on the flag stands for liberty, the white for salvation, and the red for the blood of heroes. The civil flag follows the same design, but without the Charge (heraldry), charge in the center. The flag was designed by Juan Pablo Duarte. Description As described by Article 21 of the Constitution of the Dominican Republic, Dominican Constitution, the flag features a centered white cross that extends to the edges and divides the flag into four rectangles; the top ones are blue (hoist side) and red, and the bottom ones are red (hoist side) and blue. The Coat of arms of the Dominican Republic, national coat of arms, featuring a shield with the flag design and supported by a bay laurel branch (left) and a Palm tree, palm frond ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angie Cruz
Angie Cruz (born February 24, 1972) is an American novelist and associate professor at the University of Pittsburgh, where she teaches in the M.F.A. program. Early life and education Cruz was born on February 24, 1972, in Washington Heights, New York City. She is of Dominican descent, and regularly travelled from New York City to the Dominican Republic as a child. Cruz attended Catholic school through eighth grade and grew interested in visual arts in high school. She attended LaGuardia School of the Arts and the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she studied fashion design. She received her B.A. in English from SUNY Binghamton and an M.F.A. in creative writing from New York University. Career Cruz has written numerous books focusing on themes of home, gender, race, displacement, and working class life. Cruz published her first novel '' Soledad'' in 2001 and her second novel, ''Let It Rain Coffee'' in 2005, both with Simon & Schuster. Her third novel, '' Dominicana' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristino Gómez
Cristino Alberto Gómez Luciano (born 1987) is a Dominican poet, agronomist, and professor. Author of ''Ha vuelto el agua'', ''Yo dije el amor'', and other books. Early life Cristino Gómez grew up in Fondo Grande, a community in the municipality Loma de Cabrera of Dominican Republic. He started to write poetry early, initially motivated by the work of the Dominican poet Manuel Rueda. Work and Trajectory Cristino's verses, inspired on nature, homeland, and the beloved, "invite to appreciate beauty" and introduce "love symbolized in nature". His poems have been published both printed and online, including blogs, magazines, newspapers and literary webs. Some of his writings are included in poetry anthologies, including ''Mil Poemas a Neruda'', in tribute to Chilean Nobel laureate poet Pablo Neruda, and the ''Antología del Poeta y Artista Virtual''. In 2007 he was awarded the W.K. Kellog award of poetry of EARTH University, and, in 2008, his blog was honored as Distinguished D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freddy Ginebra
Freddy Danilo Ginebra Giudicelli (born 17 February 1944 in Santo Domingo) is a cultural agent, writer and People of the Dominican Republic, Dominican journalist. Ginebra, studied law in the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo and afterwards English philology, communication sciences, cultural administration and public relations at New York University, University of New York . At age 19, in 1964, he produced the television show ''Cita con la Juventud''. He was President of the ''Dominican League of Advertising Agencies'' (LIDAP). In 1974 he founded ''Casa de Teatro'' ( ''House of Theatre''), a cultural Center in the city of Santo Domingo, and has been its Director ever since. The Center had a prominent role in the historical Festival ''Siete Dias con el Pueblo'' ('' Seven days with the people''), a cultural protest movement, presenting artists such as Silvio Rodríguez, Mercedes Sosa, Ana Belén, ''The Guaraguaos'', Cuco Valoy, Sonia Silvestre and Johnny Ventura, among others. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabio Fiallo
Fabio Fiallo, in full Fabio Federico Fiallo Cabral (February 3, 1866 – August 29, 1942) was a Dominican writer, poet, politician, and diplomat, primarily known for his modernist short stories and verses, as well as being an outspoken anti-imperialist during the American occupation of 1916–1924. Intensely patriotic, he was one of the most prominent critics and leaders of the opposition to occupation, alongside Américo Lugo; though, as a result of his political writings, Fiallo was sentenced to 3 years of hard labor in 1920. Aside from his more patriotic works, Fiallo wrote romantic poems that evoke sensuous passion and profound tones of love. Of Fiallo’s prose, his chief claim to fame rests upon his two books of short stories —''Cuentos Frágiles'' and ''Las Manzanas de Mefisto.'' The former was published in New York in 1908, with a second edition edited in Madrid in 1929. ''Las Manzanas de Mefisto'' was published in Havana in 1934. ''Cuentos Frágiles'' is popular thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martha Rivera Garrido
Martha (Hebrew: מָרְתָא) is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of Luke and John. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Mary of Bethany, she is described as living in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem. She was witness to Jesus resurrecting her brother, Lazarus. Etymology of the name The name ''Martha'' is a Latin transliteration of the Koine Greek Μάρθα, itself a translation of the Aramaic מָרְתָא ''Mârtâ,'' "the mistress" or "the lady", from מרה "mistress," feminine of מר "master." The Aramaic form occurs in a Nabatean inscription found at Puteoli, and now in the Naples Museum; it is dated AD 5 (Corpus Inscr. Semit., 158); also in a Palmyrene inscription, where the Greek translation has the form ''Marthein.'' Pope, Hugh"St. Martha" The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1919. Biblical references In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus visits the home of two sisters named Mary and Martha. The two sisters are co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Mir
Pedro Julio Mir Valentín (3 June 1913, San Pedro de Macorís – 11 July 2000, Santo Domingo) was Dominican poet and writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984, and a member of the generation of "Independent poets of the 1940s" in Dominican poetry. His father, Pedro Celestino Mir Burgal, a Cuban mechanical engineer from Guantánamo, migrated from Cuba to the Dominican Republic in the early years of the Twentieth Century to be hired as Chief of Engineers of the Cristóbal Colón Sugar Refinery. Soon he married a young Puerto Rican girl, Jacoba Vicenta Valentín Mendoza from Humacao and had a son whom he named Pedro Julio. Life and career Pedro Julio Mir spent his youth in the sugar refinery, which was located near the city of San Pedro de Macorís. His mother, died prematurely, in 1917, which impressed upon him a profound sense of loss that he would later consider the root of his poetical vocation. In the early years of the 1930s, Pedro Julio M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arturo Féliz-Camilo
Arturo Féliz-Camilo is a Dominican author, chef, academic, and lawyer. He has published about a variety of topics, but is most well known for his cookbooks, usually about Dominican food and its origins, traditions, and culture. Early life Arturo Féliz-Camilo was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1977 to Danilo A. Féliz-Sánchez and Ana Antonia Camilo. Féliz-Camilo graduated Magna cum laude from Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo with a bachelor in law. He holds a master's degree in corporate law from Pontificia Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra. He is also a professional interpreter, certified by Language Line Services and has completed graduate studies in history from the University of South Florida, anthropology from Macquarie University, sociology from the University of Western Sydney, The Origins of Crime, from Griffith University, Human Evolution from the American Museum of Natural History and canon law and bible interpretation from Seminario Pontif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
León Félix Batista
León Félix Batista (born 1964) Dominican author and poet. On September 11, 2003, he conducted an ''atentado poético'' ("poetic attack") in New York City in remembrance of the WTC attacks by flying a plane over New York He represented the Dominican Republic at the Latin American Book Fair in December 2008 in Rome, Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical re .... References External linksLeón Felix Batista sobre su libro "Caducidad" 21st-century Dominican Republic poets Dominican Republic male poets 1964 births Living people {{DominicanRepublic-poet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Elena Ortea
Virginia Elena Ortea (17 June 1866 – 1 January 1903), who wrote under the pen name Elena Kennedy, was a journalist and writer, credited as the first Dominican Republic female journalist (to have her own byline) and one of the first women novelists in the country. She was also the writer of the only known zarzuela from the Dominican Republic. There is a street and a school named in her honor in the country. Early life Virginia Elena Ortea Mella was born on 17 June 1866 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, to Emilia Mella de la Peña and Francisco Ortea Kennedy, both white Dominicans. Her father was a prominent politician, Governor of the Puerto Plata Province and a writer, who was forced into exile in 1871 to Mayagüez and again in 1878 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her uncle, Juan Isidro Ortea y Kennedy was Vice President of the Dominican Republic under Ignacio María González (politician), Ignacio María González's administration. Her paternal grandfather, Lieutenant Colonel J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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