List of Famous people born in Puerto Rico

Armando Riesco is a Puerto Rican film and television actor and voice artist.

Michelan Sisti is an actor, director, puppeteer, and musician who played Michelangelo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and its sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze. He previously had an eighteen-year theatrical career including five Broadway shows. In 1987, Sisti understudied Joel Grey in a Broadway production of Cabaret, taking the unusual step, when Grey had lost his voice, of singing off-stage while Grey pretended to sing.

Milagros Ninette Corretjer Maldonado, known as Millie Corretjer (born April 18, 1974), is a Puerto Rican singer and actress. She was married to retired boxer Oscar De La Hoya. They split in 2016. She is the granddaughter of influential poet and one-time Secretary General of the pro-independence Puerto Rican Nationalist Party, Juan Antonio Corretjer.

Alfred "Butch" Lee, Jr. is a Puerto Rican retired professional basketball player. He began his career in the NCAA, where he gathered several "Player of the Year" recognitions and earned All-American honors as both a junior and senior while at Marquette University. Lee was selected as the Most Outstanding Player at the 1977 Final Four where he led the Warriors to the school's first national championship. The university recognized this by retiring his jersey. Lee was the first Puerto Rican and Latin American-born athlete to play in the National Basketball Association (NBA), accomplishing this after being selected in the first round of the 1978 NBA draft. There he played for the Atlanta Hawks, Cleveland Cavaliers and the Los Angeles Lakers. Lee concluded his career in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). He is known to be the only Puerto Rican professional basketball player to win championships in the NCAA, NBA, and BSN. Lee was a member of the Puerto Rican national team.

Rubén Antonio González Medina, C.M.F. is a Puerto Rican prelate of the Catholic Church. He currently serves as the Bishop of the Diocese of Ponce.

Wilfredo Méndez is a Puerto Rican professional boxer who has held the WBO mini flyweight title between August 2019 to December 2021.

Luis Antonio Ramos is a Puerto Rican stateside actor who has been on and starred in various film and television shows such as Martin, Early Edition, New York Undercover, In The House, Friends, The Shield, CSI, and CSI: Miami.

Wilmer Calderon is a Puerto Rican-born American actor of film and television. He is best known for his role as Diego in the Amazon Prime television series Borderline, Detective Daniel Arias in the police drama series Bosch and as Ricky in the FX drama series The Shield.

Pedro José Valdés Manzo is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball outfielder. He played parts of three seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs and Texas Rangers, four seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks, and one season in the Korea Baseball Organization for the LG Twins. During his MLB career, he was listed as 6'1" tall weighing 180 pounds.