Famous people born in Dominican Republic

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Marcos Aurelio Daz Domnguez is a Dominican ultradistance swimmer of open waters. He is the first swimmer to unite all five continents in the world by swimming. His achievements include, crossing the English Channel in 2004. In 2005 he crossed the stretch of Gibraltar twice. In the year 2006, he competed in the turbulent waters of the Bhagirathi River, where he won first place. In 2007 he swam around the island of Manhattan twice. Finally, in 2010 he completed a feat in which he swam across all ....
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Hony Estrella is a Dominican actress and presenter.....
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Manuel Manny Prez Batista is a Dominican American actor, who has appeared in the television series Third Watch and in the film Washington Heights. He is the cousin of Pulitzer Prizewinning author Junot Diaz.....
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Manuel Vicente Dez Cabral is a Dominican businessman and entrepreneurial leader. Dez is chief executive and chairman of Diesco, Ltd., and chairman of the board of directors of Cristalia Premium Water, Puerto Ricos largast bottled water brand company. Also he is chairman of the Consejo Nacional de la Empresa Privada, an organization that agglomerates the entrepreneurship in the Dominican Republic, and chairman of the board of trustees of the Barna Business School. Dez was chairman of the Asociac....
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Fausto Genaro Mata Ortiz , also known as Boca de Piano, is a Dominican comedian and actor. In 2009 he started a TV show named Boca de Piano es un show......
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Olivia Peguero is a Dominican contemporary landscape and botanical artist.....
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Domingo Damian Pilarte was a Christian evangelist who held mass crusades during the 1960s 1980s. He traveled to more than 80 countries preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Many of the claimed miracles that occurred during his crusades have been documented in books, magazines and newspapers. These miracles included healings of the crippled, blind, deaf, mute, and terminally ill.....
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Pedro Jos Borrell Bentz is an internationally recognized Dominican architect and archeologist who has earned several awards and is recognized for the transcendence in his architectural designs.....
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Mara frica Gracia Vidal was a Dominican motion picture actress who gained fame and popularity in the 1940s as an exotic beauty starring in a series of filmedinTechnicolor costume adventure films. Her screen image was that of a hotblooded Latin seductress, dressed in fanciful costumes and sparkling jewels. She became so identified with these adventure epics that she became known as The Queen of Technicolor. Over her career, Montez appeared in 26 films, 21 of which were made in North America and ....
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Amaya Salazar is a Dominican artist known for her faceless personas that inhabit mystical and magical environments where light and the Antillean flora are present.....
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CFDA Lifetime Achievement Award, American Fashion Critics Award, Order of Juan Pablo Duarte,....
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Paul Giudicelli Palmieri was an abstract painter from the Dominican Republic.....
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Orlando Martnez Howley was a leftwing journalist and member of the Communist Party of the Dominican Republic who was a critic of President Joaqun Balaguer. He was murdered in 1975, and in 2000, four men were given 30year jail sentences in connection with the killing. Orlando Martnez has become a symbol of freedom of expression in the Dominican Republic.....
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Freddy Reinaldo Antonio BerasGoico , popularly known as Freddy Beras or just BerasGoico, was a Dominican comedian, TV presenter, writer and media personality for over 30 years. He hosted the TV show El Gordo de La Semana and he was a staple of primetime TV. He was one of the most recognized personalities in the Dominican Republic.....
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Magali Esperanza Febles Moretta is a Dominican beautician and beauty pageant circuit personality who is the national pageant director for the Miss Dominican Republic Universe and Miss Haiti Universe franchises.....
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Ernesto Jerez is an Emmyaward winning Dominican sportscaster and commentator for ESPN Deportes.....
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Manuel del Cabral was a Dominican poet, writer, and diplomat. The son of Mario Fermn Cabral y Bez, an influential senator during the Era of Trujillo, he served at the Embassy of the Dominican Republic to Argentina. During his long stay in Buenos Aires, he married an Argentine and fathered his 4 children, among them, the television journalist and politician Peggy Cabral. In 1992 he was awarded the Premio Nacional de Literatura.....
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