100. Strolling the Hispanic Walk of Fame

By Miguel Pérez

​There are almost 90 Hispanic stars on the Hollywood Walk of fame. The problem is finding them among more than 2,600 stars embedded on a 15-block section of Hollywood Boulevard and three blocks of Vine Street - especially since there are hundreds of people usually walking over them!

The stars, embedded on the sidewalks on both sides Hollywood and Vine, honor the superstars of American music, movies, television, radio and theater. And there are a good number of Hispanics among them. If they were all together, it would be enough for our own Hispanic Walk of Fame!

Administered by the Hollywood  Chamber of Commerce, the Walk of Fame consist dark gray terrazzo sidewalks sprinkled with huge, coral-pink terrazzo and brass-rimmed stars.

These stars on the ground, spaced at 6-foot intervals, draw millions of tourists to Hollywood every year, as people search for their idols and have their photos taken next to their stars.

Unfortunately, The Great Hispanic American History Tour only had time for a swift walk on Hollywood Boulevard. Frankly, I was looking for my queen, Celia Cruz, and I was lucky to find some of my other favorite entertainers along the way. Finding all of the Latinos there (see the list below) would take at least a couple of days.

So have you been there? Do you have photos? I need your help!

I thought that perhaps I could get some additional photos from one of those "royalty free stock photos" websites, but unfortunately, it turns out they are not free at all!

BTW, all of my photos on this website are free for you to copy and use as you please. My interest is to promote Hispanic heritage, not to profit from it.

I will keep looking for the so-called "free photos" on the internet, but I'm not very optimistic. So, I'm hoping my readers will help me with this project.

If you have a photo of the star for one of the people listed below, please send me a copy at hiddenhispanicheritage@gmail.com and I will add it to this page. And I will give you credit: "Photo by: Your Name"

Otherwise, I will have to go back to Hollywood! lol
1. ANTONIO AGUILAR 
2. PEPE AGUILAR
3. CHRISTINA AGUILERA
4. DON ALVARADO
5. RENÁN ALMENDÁRES COELLO
6. DESI ARNAZ
7. ANTONIO BANDERAS
8. PEPE BARRETO
9. CANTINFLAS
10. VICKI CARR
11. LEO CARRILLO
12. CARMEN CAVALLARO
13. CELIA CRUZ
14. PENELOPE CRUZ 
15. XAVIER CUGAT
16. DOLORES DEL RIO
17. CAMERON DIAZ
18. PLACIDO DOMINGO
19. EMILIO ESTEFAN
20. GLORIA ESTEFAN
21. ERIK ESTRADA 
22. JOSE FELICIANO
23. FREDDY FENDER 
24. ALEJANDRO FERNANDEZ 
25. VICENTE FERNANDEZ
26. JOSE FERRER
27. MEL FERRER
28. DON FRANCISCO 
29. JUAN GABRIEL 
30. ANDY GARCIA
31. LUCHO GATICA
32. PEDRO GONZALES GONZALES 
33. DICK HAYMES
34. RITA HAYWORTH
35. JULIO IGLESIAS
36. PEDRO INFANTE
37. JOSE ITURBI
38. JAIME JARRIN
39. JOSE JOSE 
40. KATY JURADO
41. EVA LONGORIA
42. ​GEORGE LOPEZ
43. ISRAEL LOPEZ "CACHAO"
44. JENNIFER LOPEZ
45. VINCENT LOPEZ
46. LOS TIGRES DEL NORTE
47. HUMBERTO LUNA
48. MANÁ
49. ​ANGÉLICA MARÍA
50. RAFAEL MENDEZ
51. LUIS MIGUEL 
52. CARMEN MIRANDA
53. LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA
54. RICARDO MONTALBAN
55. ANTONIO MORENO
56. RITA MORENO
57. RAMON NOVARRO
58. EDWARD JAMES OLMOS
59. TONY ORLANDO
60. KENNY ORTEGA
61. ANITA PAGE
62. PITBULL
63. PEREZ PRADO
64. FREDDIE PRINZE
65. TITO PUENTE
66. ANTHONY QUINN
67. SELENA QUINTANILLA
68. GILBERT ROLAND
69. CESAR ROMERO
70. GEORGE A. ROMERO
71. ​ZOE SALDANA
72. CARLOS SANTANA
73. CRISTINA SARALEGUI
74. LALO SCHIFRIN
75. SHAKIRA-11/8/2011
76. CHARLIE SHEEN 
77. MARTIN SHEEN
78. MARCO ANTONIO SOLIS
79. JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
80. YMA SUMAC
81. THALÍA
82. RITCHIE VALENS
83. LUPE VELEZ
84. ELENA VERDUGO
85. SOFIA VERGARA
86. RAQUEL WELCH
87. TICHI WILKERSON KASSEL
88. CARMEN ZAPATA

En Español:
​Caminando por el Paseo Hispano de la Fama​

Next stop:

The Great Hispanic American History Tour goes to Mission San Fernando Rey de España. (Was I allowed to sit there? lol)

This mission, in the Mission Hills district of Los Angeles and 17th among California's 21 missions, is the namesake of the nearby city of San Fernando and the San Fernando Valley.

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