Notable Panamanian Americans

• Tatyana Ali
  Tatyana Ali
  Tatyana Marisol Ali is an American actress and R&B singer, best known for her childhood role as Ashley Banks on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air...
  
   actress/singer
• Jordana Brewster
  Jordana Brewster
  Jordana Brewster is an American actress. She began her acting career in her late teens, with a 1995 one-episode role in the soap opera All My Children. She followed that appearance with the recurring role as Nikki Munson in As the World Turns, for which Brewster was nominated for Outstanding Teen...
  
   actress
• Tyson Beckford
  Tyson Beckford
  Tyson Craig Beckford is an American male model and actor, best known as a Ralph Lauren model. He was also the host of both seasons of the Bravo program Make Me a Supermodel.-Biography:...
  
  , supermodel/actor
• Rod Carew
  Rod Carew
  Rodney Cline "Rod" Carew is a former Major League Baseball first baseman, second baseman and coach. He played from 1967 to 1985 for the Minnesota Twins and the California Angels and was elected to the All-Star game every season except his last. In 1991, Carew was inducted into the National...
  
  , member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
• Melissa De Sousa
  Melissa De Sousa
  Melissa De Sousa is an American actress. De Sousa was born in New York City, New York of Panamanian descent. She is an Afro-Latino.-Early life:...
  
  , actress
• Mariano Rivera
  Mariano Rivera
  Mariano Rivera is a Panamanian right-handed baseball pitcher who has played 17 years in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. Nicknamed "Mo", Rivera has served as a relief pitcher for most of his career, and since 1997, he has been the Yankees' closer...
  
  , New York Yankees pitcher
• Michele Ruiz
  Michele Ruiz
  Michele Ruiz is a former news anchor and President/CEO and founder of SaberHacer.com, a bilingual expert based “how-to” educational broadband site for US Hispanics online.-Biography:...
  
  , broadcaster and founder of SaberHacer.com
• Billy Cobham
  Billy Cobham
  William C. Cobham is a Panamanian American jazz drummer, composer and bandleader, who has called Switzerland home since the late 1970s....
  
  , jazz fusion drummer
• Hulk Hogan
  Hulk Hogan
  Terrance Gene "Terry" Bollea , better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, is an American Semi-retired professional wrestler, actor, television personality, and musician currently signed to Total Nonstop Action Wrestling ....
  
  , professional wrestler