Famous Puerto Ricans: J
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7 people
Carmita Jiménez
Known as "La Dama de la Canción," Jiménez was a celebrated Puerto Rican singer known for her interpretations of boleros, ballads, and popular Latin music.
Juanito "Manny" Jiménez
Born in Ciales, Manny Jiménez is a celebrated Puerto Rican cuatro player, composer, and educator whose performances have helped preserve and promote Puerto Rico's traditional folk music.
Julio Jiménez
Julio Jiménez represented the region in the Puerto Rico House of Representatives from 1929 to 1936, participating in the island's government during an important period of political and social change.
Walter McK Jones
Villalba's first mayor and one of the principal figures involved in establishing the municipality in 1917. He helped organize the new municipal government and later served in the Puerto Rico House of Representatives.
Ramón Juliá Marín
Puerto Rican novelist, poet, and short-story writer whose works explored rural life and social conditions in Puerto Rico. His best-known novels include La gleba and Tierra adentro.
Raul Julía
Born March 9, 1944 in San Juan. Juliá proved his versatility on both stage and screen. Raul Julia made his New York City debut in 1964 in a Spanish-language play. He worked on: Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival Macbeth (1966), Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971) for which he won the first of his four Tony nominations, Mack the Knife in The Threepenny Opera (1976). Julia's film career, which began in 1971, ran the gamut from the comic--The Gumball Rally (1976), The Addams Family (1991), and its sequel Addams Family Values (1993)--to the biographical--Romero (1988), in which he played the Salvadoran archbishop, and The Burning Season (1994), about Brazilian labor leader Chico Mendes--to the tragic--Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985). He died on October 24, 1994 in New York.
Carmen Junco
Singer associated with San Sebastián and remembered among the municipality's notable musical figures.
