List of Panamanians
This is a list of Panamanian people who are famous or notable and were either born in Panama or have Panamanian ancestry. == Beauty queens and fashion models == Ester Cordet, former Playboy Playmate of the Month Gloria Karamañites, first Afro-Panamanian winner of Miss Panama Patricia de León, former Señorita Panamá, actress, LGBT activist Justine Pasek, former Miss Universe Ana Orillac, former Señorita Panamá Stefanie de Roux, TV host and former Señorita Panamá Rachel Smith, former Miss USA == Business == Ursula M. Burns, CEO of Xerox Pedro Heilbron, CEO of Copa Airlines Karl Kani, urban fashion designer (Panamanian father) Julio Mario Santo Domingo, Colombian-American businessman, diplomat (born in Panama) Fernando Wong, landscape designer Carlos de la Ossa, Public Official == Entertainment == Sharon Aguilar, musician/composer Akinyele, rapper (Panamanian mother) Tatyana Ali, actress, calypso singer, and composer (Panamanian mother) Nancy Ames, singer Tyson Beckford, model (maternal grandmother born in Panama) Aloe Blacc, singer Pop Smoke, rapper (Panamanian father) Rubén Blades, singer, actor, former Minister of Tourism Miguel Bosé, Spanish actor and singer (born in Panama) Jordana Brewster, actress Casanova, rapper Billy Cobham, drummer for Mahavishnu Orchestra Silvia de Grasse, jazz and tamborera singer Melissa De Sousa, American actress (Panamanian heritage) Edgardo Diaz, music producer (Menudo) (born in Panama) Erika Ender, musician/composer La Factoría, Spanish reggae duo Flex, Spanish reggae artist Gaitanes, singers, musical producers, composers Carlos Garnett, jazz saxophonist El General, Spanish reggae artist Margarita Henríquez, singer Lori Heuring, actress Clark Kent, rap music producer Vincent Laresca, actor Gladys de la Lastra, drummer, composer, and musician Ravyn Lenae, singer Eddy Lover, Spanish reggae artist Makano, Spanish reggae artist Jaime Murrell, singer Uncle Murda, rapper Nando Boom, reggae artist Danilo Pérez, jazz pianist, producer, composer José Quintero, Broadway director Los Rabanes, reggae-rock band J. August Richards, actor Coco Rodriguez, singer, actress José Luis Rodríguez Vélez, orchestra director, clarinetist, composer Daphne Rubin-Vega, actress and singer Samy y Sandra Sandoval, singer, musician Sech, singer-songwriter, rapper, and producer DJ Spinna, record producer and DJ (Panamanian roots) Santiago Stevenson, singer, composer, ordained minister Alexis Texas, American adult film actress Tessa Thompson, actress and singer (Panamanian father) Ingrid de Ycaza, singer Aaron Zebede, actor, director and producer == Historical figures == Bayano, rebel slave Floyd Britton, political dissident Edward Ashton Gaskin Stuart, educator and labor leader Victoriano Lorenzo, politician and national hero Marta Matamoros, trade unionist Juan Materno Vásquez de León, lawyer and professor Luis Anderson McNeil, former labor minister Jerónimo de la Ossa, poet, wrote national anthem Belisario Porras, former president Urracá, chieftain == Journalism == Escolastico Calvo, journalist Gwen Ifill, television correspondent and host Gustavo Adolfo Mellander, academic journalist Juan Williams, television correspondent == Literature == Rosa María Britton, writer Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer (born in Panama) Gloria Guardia, novelist and essayist Demetrio Korsi, poet, author of Incidente de Cumbia, diplomat and journalist Ricardo Miró, poet Rogelio Sinán, poet and writer José Luis Rodríguez Pittí, writer and photographer Consuelo Tomás, writer Neil Raymond Ricco, Spanish-Italian American poet and writer (born in Panama) == Politics == Arsenio Dominguez, secretary general of the International Maritime Organization Arnulfo Arias Madrid, former president Harmodio Arias Madrid, former president Nicolás Ardito Barletta, former president Antonio Dominguez Richa, diplomat and politician Guillermo Endara, former president Adrian Fenty, former mayor of Washington, D.C. (Panamanian father) Esteban Huertas, independence fighter Jorge Illueca, diplomat and politician Julio E. Linares, former Treasury Minister (1963–1964) and Foreign Minister (1989–1993) Ricardo Martinelli, former president John McCain, United States politician (born in Panama) Mireya Moscoso, former president Norberto Navarro, Minister of Public Works under three presidents, 1940s-50s.