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This is a list of notable Salvadoran Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Salvadoran American or must have references showing they are Salvadoran American and are notable.
- Arturo Alvarez
- Efrain Burgos, Jr. - Salvadoran American; son of former footballer Efrain Burgos
- Derby Carrillo
- Dustin Corea
- Joe Corona
- Gerson Mayen
- Carlos Menjívar
- Edwin Miranda
- Hugo Pérez - former US national team player
- Joshua Perez
- Pablo Punyed
- Steve Purdy
- Alex Roldan
- Cristian Roldan
- Ricardo Ulloa
- Benji Villalobos
- Eriq Zavaleta
- Gabriel Granillo
- Abigail Folger - coffee heiress of Folgers; murdered by the Manson Family in 1969 [1] [2]
Actors and actresses
Authors and poets
- Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry - writer, poet, sculptor, wife of French writer and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Jose B. Gonzalez - author of Toys Made of Rock
- Francisco Machón Vilanova - novelist
- Marcos Villatoro - novelist
Comedians
- Julio Torres - comedian, writer for Saturday Night Live[3]
Fashion
- Francesca Miranda - fashion designer
Journalists
- Markos Moulitsas - writer
Models
Musicians and music groups
- Joey Castillo - drummer for hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age and ex-drummer for Wasted Youth and Danzig
- Cáthia - competitor on reality television singing competition The Voice
- Fernando del Valle - operatic tenor
- Allison Iraheta - singer; Telemundo's Quinceañera winner and American Idol season 8 finalist
- DJ Keoki - techno DJ
- Sabi - singer
- Pete Sandoval - death metal drummer for Terrorizer and Morbid Angel
- Angelica - freestyle singer
- Denyse Tontz - American songwriter and performing artist
- Álvaro Torres
- Angelica Garcia
- Rican Da Menace - rapper
Visual arts
- Edwin E. Aguilar - television animator, character layout artist, assistant director on The Simpsons
- Mario Bencastro - painter
- RETNA - graffiti artist
- Vivienne Medrano - animator, illustrator, comic creator, and voice actress
- Nicolas F. Shi
- Marta Ayala
- Gabriela Alemán
- Thalia Gochez
- Kiara Aileen Machado
- Julie Tolentino
- Hala Ayala - Virginia State Delegate for District 51 in Prince William County, Virginia; Her father is Salvadoran.
- Wendy Carrillo - California State Assemblywoman for District 51 in Los Angeles County, California
- Liz Figueroa - Democratic politician and former California state senator[4]
- Ana Sol Gutierrez - former Maryland State Delegate for District 18 in Montgomery County, Maryland
- Monica Martinez - former State Senator for District 3 in Suffolk County, New York
- Steve Montenegro - Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives
- Victor R. Ramirez - former State Senate for District 47 in Prince George's County, Maryland
- Jessie Rodriguez - Republican representative of the Wisconsin State Assembly
- John H. Sununu - former Republican Governor of New Hampshire; mother is Salvadoran, of Arab descent. First and only Salvadoran-American Member of Congress.
- Yesli Vega - Republican member of the Prince William County, Virginia Board of Supervisors
- Erwin McManus - lead pastor of Mosaic Church
- Santiago Mellado - president of Willow Creek Association
- Bernard Lewinsky - Salvadoran-born American physician and medical researcher; father of Monica Lewinsky
- Francisco Rubio - NASA astronaut
- George Melendez Wright - biologist
- Alicia Nash - mental health advocate and physicist; wife of John Forbes Nash Jr.
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