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.
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==Artist== Rapper: Pop smoke
- Alfredo Sinclair, painter
- Alicia Viteri, painter
- Antonio Jose Guzman, artist
- Carlos Francisco Chang Marín, folk artist
- Chafil Cheucarama, Wounaan carver, illustrator, and painter
- José Luis Rodríguez Pittí, poet, artist
- Olga Sinclair, painter
- Pablo Runyan, painter
Beauty queens and fashion models
- Ester Cordet, former Playboy Playmate of the Month
- Justine Pasek, former Miss Universe
- 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)
Entertainment
- Erika Ender, musician/composer
- Sharon Aguilar, musician/composer
- Akinyele, rapper (Panamanian mother)
- Tatyana Ali, actress (Panamanian mother)
- Pedro Altamiranda, singer/composer
- Nancy Ames, singer
- Tanya Aparicio, pianist
- Tyson Beckford, model (maternal grandmother born in Panama)
- Aloe Blacc, singer
- 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, actress (film The Best Man)
- 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
- 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
- Daphne Rubin-Vega, actress and singer
- Samy y Sandra Sandoval, singer, musician
- Pop Smoke, rapper
- DJ Spinna, record producer and DJ (Panamanian roots)
- Alexis Texas, American adult film actress
- Tessa Thompson, actress and singer (Panamanian father)
- Aaron Zebede, actor, director and producer.
- Sech, singer, rapper, songwriter, and producer
Historical figures
- Bayano, rebel slave
- Floyd Britton, political dissident
- Edward Ashton Gaskin Stuart, educator and labor leader
- Victoriano Lorenzo, patriot
- Juan Materno Vásquez de León, lawyer and professor
- Luis Anderson McNeil, former labor minister
- Belisario Porras, former president
- Urracá, chieftain
Journalism
- Escolastico Calvo, journalist
- Gwen Ifill, television correspondent and host
- Gustavo Adolfo Mellander, Academic journalist, 13 books and 400 articles.
- Juan Williams, television correspondent
Literature
- Rosa María Britton, writer
- Carlos Fuentes, Mexican writer (born in Panama)
- Gloria Guardia, novelist and essayist
- Ricardo Miró, poet
- Rogelio Sinán, poet and writer
- José Luis Rodríguez Pittí, writer
- Consuelo Tomás, writer
Politics
- Arnulfo Arias Madrid, former president
- Harmodio Arias Madrid, former president
- Nicolás Ardito Barletta, former president
- 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, American politician, member of the United States Senate, and 2008 presidential nominee
- Mireya Moscoso, former president
- Norberto Navarro, Minister of Public Works under three presidents, 1940s-50s. Founded the PRI party.
- Manuel Antonio Noriega, former dictator
- Ernesto Pérez Balladares, former president
- Belisario Porras, former president
- Dudley Thompson, Jamaican Pan-Africanist, politician and diplomat
- Martín Torrijos Espino, former president
- Omar Torrijos, former dictator
Sports
- Edwin Aguilar, soccer player
- Pedro Alcazar, world boxing champion
- Michael Amir Murillo, soccer player
- Andrés Andrade Cedeño, soccer player
- Felipe Baloy, soccer player
- Édgar Bárcenas, soccer player
- Leonardo Barker, professional football player
- Reginald Beckford, sprinter
- William Bedford, former basketball player
- Juan Berenguer, professional baseball player
- Rolando Blackman, former basketball player
- Panama Al Brown, world boxing champion, first Hispanic world champion in history
- Johan Camargo, professional baseball player
- Rod Carew, professional baseball player
- Lorenzo Charles, professional basketball player (Panamanian parents)
- Bruce Chen, professional baseball player
- Eileen Coparropa, Olympic swimmer
- Roberto Corbin, soccer player
- Manuel Corpas, professional baseball player
- Ed Cota, basketball player
- Harold Cummings, soccer player
- Kevin Daley, basketball player and Harlem Globetrotter
- Frank Davis, professional football player
- Jorge Dely Valdés, soccer player
- Einar Díaz, professional baseball player
- Roberto Durán, world boxing champion
- Gabriel Enrique Gómez, soccer player
- Luis Ernesto Tapia
- Rommel Fernández, soccer player
- Gary Forbes, professional basketball player
- Alfonso Frazer, world champion boxer
- Rubén Garcés, former basketball player
- Aníbal Godoy, soccer player
- Stuart Gray, professional basketball player
- Reggie Grenald, professional basketball player
- Carlos Harvey, soccer player
- Darius Holland, professional football player
- George Headley, cricket player
- Leroy Jackson, professional basketball player
- Guillermo Jones, professional boxer
- Bayano Kamani, track and field athlete
- Roberto Kelly, baseball player
- Kevin Kurányi, German soccer player
- Lloyd La Beach, first Olympic medal winner from Panama
- Bobby Lashley, professional wrestler and former mixed martial arts fighter
- Carlos Lee, professional baseball player
- Héctor López, professional baseball player
- Jorge Luján, boxer
- José Macías, professional baseball player
- Ernesto Marcel, professional boxer
- Ramiro Mendoza, professional baseball player
- Orlando Miller, professional baseball player
- Omar Moreno, professional baseball player
- Roberto Nurse, soccer player
- Ben Oglivie, professional baseball player
- Eusebio Pedroza, former world boxing champion
- Jaime Penedo, soccer player
- Blas Pérez, soccer player
- Laffit Pincay, Jr., horse jockey
- Luis Antonio Rivera, soccer 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
- Irving Saladino, former World and Olympic track and field champion
- Manny Sanguillén, professional baseball player
- Rennie Stennett, professional baseball player
- Arturo Tejada, soccer player
- Luis Tejada, soccer player
- Ruben Tejada, professional baseball player
- Román Torres, soccer player
- Roberto Vásquez, professional boxer
- 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, webcomics producer, author of PhD Comics
- Roberto Kan,profesional Tiktok viewer @robertokan8 pa los frenes
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