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.

Activists

 * Gilberto Gerald, LGBT rights and AIDS activist
 * Lamar Bailey Karamañites, filmmaker and activist
 * Diwigdi Valiente, Guna climate activist

Artists

 * Chafil Cheucarama, Wounaan carver, illustrator, and painter
 * Carlos Francisco Chang Marín, folk artist
 * Antonio Jose Guzman, artist
 * José Luis Rodríguez Pittí, poet and artist
 * Pablo Runyan, painter
 * George Scribner, artist, director, animator
 * Alfredo Sinclair, painter
 * Olga Sinclair, painter
 * Guillermo Trujillo, painter
 * Alicia Viteri, painter

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

Entertainment

 * Sharon Aguilar, musician/composer
 * Akinyele, rapper (Panamanian mother)
 * Tatyana Ali, actress, calypso singer, and composer (Panamanian mother)
 * Nancy Ames, singer
 * Tanya Aparicio, pianist
 * 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
 * Rod Carrillo, house and Latin music producer, label owner (born in Panama)
 * Casanova, rapper
 * Billy Cobham, drummer for Mahavishnu Orchestra
 * 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
 * Hansen, Youtuber
 * Margarita Henríquez, singer
 * Lori Heuring, actress
 * Clark Kent, rap music producer
 * Vincent Laresca, actor
 * Gladys de la Lastra, drummer, composer, and musician
 * Eddy Lover, Spanish reggae artist
 * Makano, Spanish reggae artist
 * Tony Moro, bolero and chachacha singer
 * 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, journalist and diplomat
 * 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

 * 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. Founded the PRI party.
 * Manuel Antonio Noriega, former dictator
 * Carlos Ozores, former first vice president
 * Ana Paredes Arosemena, former First Lady of Ecuador
 * Rubén Darío Paredes del Río, former military ruler
 * Ernesto Pérez Balladares, former president
 * Belisario Porras, former president
 * José Antonio Price, physician and politician
 * Emilio Sempris, former Minister of Environment
 * Dudley Thompson, Jamaican Pan-Africanist, politician and diplomat
 * Martín Torrijos Espino, former president
 * Omar Torrijos, former dictator
 * Franklin U. Valderrama, United States district judge (born in Panama)
 * Juan Carlos Varela, former president

Scientists and academics

 * Reina Torres de Araúz, anthropologist, ethnographer, professor

Baseball

 * Juan Berenguer, professional baseball player
 * Johan Camargo, professional baseball player
 * Rod Carew, professional baseball player
 * Bruce Chen, professional baseball player
 * Manuel Corpas, professional baseball player
 * Einar Díaz, professional baseball player
 * Roberto Kelly, baseball player
 * Carlos Lee, professional baseball player
 * Héctor López, professional baseball player
 * José Macías, professional baseball player
 * Ramiro Mendoza, professional baseball player
 * Orlando Miller, professional baseball player
 * Ramiro Mendoza, professional baseball player
 * Orlando Miller, professional baseball player
 * Ben Oglivie, professional baseball player
 * Mariano Rivera, professional baseball player
 * Rubén Rivera, professional baseball player
 * Humberto Robinson, major league baseball player
 * Davis Romero, professional baseball player
 * Carlos Ruiz, professional baseball player
 * Olmedo Sáenz, professional baseball player
 * Manny Sanguillén, professional baseball player
 * Rennie Stennett, professional baseball player
 * Ruben Tejada, professional baseball player

Soccer

 * Edwin Aguilar, soccer player
 * Michael Amir Murillo, soccer player
 * Andrés Andrade Cedeño, soccer player
 * Felipe Baloy, soccer player
 * Édgar Bárce
 * Yoel Bárcenas, soccer player
 * Adalberto Carrasquilla, soccer player
 * Roberto Corbin, soccer player
 * Harold Cummings, soccer player
 * Jorge Dely Valdés, soccer player
 * Gabriel Enrique Gómez, soccer player
 * Luis Ernesto Tapia, soccer player
 * Rommel Fernández, soccer player
 * Aníbal Godoy, soccer player
 * Carlos Harvey, soccer player
 * Kevin Kurányi, German soccer player
 * Roberto Nurse, soccer player
 * Jaime Penedo, soccer player
 * Blas Pérez, soccer player
 * Luis Antonio Rivera, soccer player
 * Arturo Tejada, soccer player
 * Luis Tejada, soccer player
 * Román Torres, soccer player

Others

 * Pedro Alcazar, world boxing champion
 * Leonardo Barker, professional American football player
 * Reginald Beckford, sprinter
 * William Bedford, former basketball player
 * Rolando Blackman, former basketball player
 * Panama Al Brown, world boxing champion, first Hispanic world champion in history
 * Lorenzo Charles, professional basketball player (Panamanian parents)
 * Eileen Coparropa, Olympic swimmer
 * Ed Cota, basketball player
 * Kevin Daley, basketball player and Harlem Globetrotter
 * Frank Davis, professional football player
 * Roberto Durán, world boxing champion
 * Gary Forbes, professional basketball player
 * Alfonso Frazer, world champion boxer
 * Rubén Garcés, former basketball player
 * Stuart Gray, professional basketball player
 * Reggie Grenald, professional basketball player
 * Darius Holland, professional American football player
 * George Headley, cricket player
 * Leroy Jackson, professional basketball player
 * Guillermo Jones, professional boxer
 * Bayano Kamani, track and field athlete
 * Lloyd La Beach, first Olympic medal winner from Panama
 * Bobby Lashley, professional wrestler and former mixed martial arts fighter
 * Jorge Luján, boxer
 * Ernesto Marcel, professional boxer
 * Donovan Mitchell, professional basketball player
 * Eusebio Pedroza, former world boxing champion
 * Laffit Pincay, Jr., horse jockey
 * Irving Saladino, former World and Olympic track and field champion
 * Roberto Vásquez, professional boxer
 * Veneno, professional wrestler
 * Roberto Wallace, professional football player
 * Oscar Willis Layne, cyclist
 * Hilario Zapata, professional boxer

Other

 * Princess Angela of Liechtenstein, member of the Royal House of Liechtenstein
 * Jorge Cham, webcomic producer, author and cartoonist of PhD comics