List of Indigenous people of the Americas explained
This is a list of notable indigenous people of the Americas.
North America
Canada
Generally referred to as Aboriginal peoples in Canada when looking at the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples collectively.
See main article: Notable Aboriginal people of Canada.
See also: List of Canadian Inuit, List of First Nations people and List of Métis people.
Greenland
See main article: List of Greenlandic Inuit.
Mexico
This issue is complicated because a great majority of Mexicans are mestizos and therefore being part Native is not unusual as in Canada or the US. The list only include Indigenous proper and mestizos with an Indigenous parent. This list also includes a few Pre-Columbian figures considered remarkable in the history and culture of Mexico.
- Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, writer, journalist and politician (Nahua)
- Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl, (d. 1648) Nahua historian, descendant of Ixtlilxochitl
- Bartolomé de Alva, Nahua, younger brother of Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl
- Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin, tlatoani of Tenochtitlan
- Domingo Arenas, Mexican revolutionary from Tlaxcala
- Juan Badiano, Nahua translator
- Juana Belén Gutiérrez de Mendoza, anarchist, feminist activist, typographer, journalist and poet (Caxcan)
- Cajemé, Yaqui rebel leader
- Jacinto Canek (1731-1761), Maya rebel leader
- Chimalpahin (1579-1660), Nahua historian
- Cuauhtémoc, last (Aztec) Tlatoani
- Cuitláhuac, penultimate (Aztec) Tlatoani
- Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, Catholic Saint (Chichimeca)
- Porfirio Díaz, President (Mixtec mother)
- Pascual Díaz y Barreto (1876-1936), Huichol Roman Catholic prelate
- Lila Downs, singer (Mixtec mother)
- Emilio Fernández, film director, actor (Kickapoo mother)
- Faustino Galicia Chimalpopoca professor, lawyer, and translator of the Nahuatl language.
- Natalio Hernández (b. 1947) Nahua poet from Veracruz
- Victoriano Huerta, President (Huichol mother)
- Indio Mariano, rebel leader in Tepic
- Luz Jiménez (1897-1965), Nahua storyteller
- Benito Juárez, President (Zapotec)
- La Malinche, translator of conquistador Hernán Cortés
- Modesta Lavana, (1929-2010), Nahua healer
- Florentina López de Jesús (1939-2014), Amuzgo weaver
- Tomás Mejía, Otomi Mexican Army general
- Moctezuma II, (Aztec) Tlatoani at the beginning of the Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire
- Diego Muñoz Camargo (c. 1529-1599), historian of Tlaxcala
- Nezahualcóyotl, Tlatoani of Texcoco and poet in Nahuatl language
- Nezahualpilli (1464-1515), Tlatoani of Texcoco
- Martín Ocelotl (1496-?1537), Nahua priest/shaman executed by the Inquisition
- Carlos Ometochtzin (d. 1539) Cacique of Texcoco, executed by the Inquisition
- Daniel Ponce de León (b. 1980) Tarahumara professional boxer
- Comandante Ramona, EZLN leader (Tzotzil)
- Isabel Ramírez Castaneda (1881-1943), (Nahua) archeologist
- María Sabina, shaman (Mazatec)
- Comandante Tacho, EZLN leader (Tojolabal)
- Refugio Tánori, Opata commander and supporter of the Second Mexican Empire.
- Francisco Tenamaztle (fl. 1540s-50s) Caxcan leader in the Mixton War
- Antonio Valeriano (c. 1521-1605), Nahua scholar, collaborator with Bernardino de Sahagún on the Florentine Codex
- Felipe Santiago Xicoténcatl, 1804-1847 Nahua, general in the Mexican Army under Antonio López de Santa Anna
United States
See main article: List of Native Americans of the United States.
Central America
The Caribbean
Guatemala
Nicaragua
South America
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
- Camilo Egas, Mestizo, painter and educator, 1889–1962
- Eugenio Espejo, Mestizo journalist, hygienist, lawyer, and satirical writer, 1747–1795
- Oswaldo Guayasamín, Quechua painter and sculptor, 1919–1999
- Eduardo Kingman, Mestizo painter, 1913–1998
- Luis Macas, Quechua anthropologist and politician, born 1951
- Mincaye, Hauo preacher and church elder, born 1935
- Nina Pacari, Kichwa politician, lawyer and Indigenous leader from Cotacachi, born 1961
- Antonio Vargas, Quechua politician
Peru
- Tupac Amaru, military figure and last Inca
- Túpac Amaru II (1738-1781), leader of massive Andean uprising against Spanish colonial rule
- Túpac Katari (c. 1750-1781), leader of an Andean uprising
- Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, writer
- Yma Sumac, Singer of self-identified Inca ancestry
- Alejandro Toledo, President
- Marcos Zapata (c. 1710–1773), Quechua Cuzco School painter
- Magaly Solier, Quechua actress
- Manco Cápac, Sapa Inca
- Ollanta Humala, President of Peru
- Q'orianka Kilcher, Quechua actress
- Martín Chambi, Quechua photographer
- Diego Quispe Tito, Quechua painter
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