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Estevanico (1500–1539), African explorer of the New World •
Negro of Banyoles (born c. 1803), Tswana warrior taxidermied and put on display in Spain •
Juan Matta-Ballesteros (born 1945), Honduran drug lord •
Arturo Durazo Moreno (1924–2000), Mexican chief of police and convicted criminal •
Alberto Olmedo (1933-1988), Argentine humorist •
Fernando "El Negro" Chamorro (1933–1994), Nicaraguan rebel •
Roberto Fontanarrosa (1944–2007), Argentine cartoonist • Jorge Pabón (194?–1988), close collaborator of
Pablo Escobar •
José Guadalupe Esparza, (born 1954), Mexican musician •
Iván Arias (born 1958), Bolivian journalist and politician •
Martín Ramírez (cyclist) (born 1960), a Colombian cyclist •
Alejandro González Iñárritu (born 1963), Mexican filmmaker •
Horacio(El Negro)Hernandez (born 1963), Cuban drummer == Other ==