Latin Americans (Spanish: latinoamericano, Portuguese: latino-americano) are the citizens of the Latin American countries and dependencies. Latin American countries are multi-ethnic, home to people of different ethnic and national backgrounds. As a result, some Latin Americans don't take their nationality as an ethnicity, but identify themselves with both their nationality and their ancestral origins.^{[citation needed]} Aside from the indigenous Amerindian (aka Native American) population, all Latin Americans or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries.

The specific ethnic and/or racial composition varies from country to country: many have a predominance of European-Amerindian, or Mestizo, population; in others, Amerindians are a majority; some are mostly inhabited by people of European ancestry; and others are primarily Mulatto^{[citation needed]}. Various Black, Asian, and Zambo (mixed Black and Amerindian) minorities are also identified in most countries^{[citation needed]}. White Latin Americans are the largest single group.^{[citation needed]} Together with the people of part-European ancestry they combine for approximately 80% of the population, or even more.

This is a list of notable Latin American people. In alphabetical order within categories.

Americans, or American people, are the citizens of the United States of America. The country is home to people of different national origins. As a result, Americans do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship. Aside from the Native American population, nearly all Americans or their ancestors immigrated within the past five centuries.

Despite its multi-ethnic composition, the culture held in common by most Americans is referred to as mainstream American culture, a Western culture largely derived from the traditions of Western European immigrants. It also includes influences of African American culture. Westward expansion integrated the Creoles and Cajuns of Louisiana and the Hispanos of the Southwest and brought close contact with the culture of Mexico. Large-scale immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries from Southern and Eastern Europe introduced a variety of elements. Immigration from Asia, Africa, and Latin America has also had impact. A cultural melting pot, or pluralistic salad bowl, describes the way in which generations of Americans have celebrated and exchanged distinctive cultural characteristics.

Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr., (born September 16, 1950) is an American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor, and public intellectual. He was the first African American to receive the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship. He has received numerous honorary degrees and awards for his teaching, research, and development of academic institutions to study black culture. In 2002, Gates was selected to give the Jefferson Lecture, in recognition of his "distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities".

Gates has hosted several PBS television miniseries, including the history and travel program Wonders of the African World and the biographical African American Lives and Faces of America. Gates sits on the boards of many notable arts, cultural, and research institutions. He serves as the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard University, where he is director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.

Potomac State College in Keyser, West Virginia. He went on to complete his undergraduate B.A. degree at Yale University, summa cum laude, in History. The first African American to be awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, the day after his undergraduate commencement, Gates set sail on the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 for England and the University of Cambridge where he studied English literature at Clare College and obtained a PhD.

Maria Sanchez (born November 26, 1989 in United States) is a professional American tennis player playing in the ITF Women's Circuit. On May 7, 2012, she reached her highest WTA singles ranking of 277. On May 14, 2012, she also reached her highest WTA doubles ranking of 146.

Sanchez had reached the quarterfinals of the 2012 The Bahamas Women's Open, where she beat players like Urszula Radwańska and Eva Birnerová. She currently has won 3 doubles titles in America, with Yasmin Schnack, her biggest title yet-to-date being the 2012 Boyd Tinsley Women's Clay Court Classic. She reached the 2012 Audi Melbourne Pro Tennis Classic final, losing to Grace Min in straight sets and finishing runnerup in the race for the American 2012 French Open wildcard, losing to Melanie Oudin. Sanchez then participated in the 2012 FSP Gold River Women's Challenger, and won the title, defeating Jessica Pegula in the final, it was her first ITF title.