American writers of Mexican descent

Eva Jacqueline Longoria Bastón is an American actress, producer, director, and businesswoman. After several guest roles on television, she gained popularity for her portrayal of Isabella Braña on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless (2001–2003). Her breakthrough role as Gabrielle Solis on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives (2004–2012) earned her two Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Golden Globe nomination. She has appeared in the films The Sentinel (2006), Over Her Dead Body (2008), For Greater Glory (2012), Frontera (2014), Lowriders (2016), and Overboard (2018), winning an Imagen Award for the latter. She guest-starred on the Hulu mystery comedy-drama series Only Murders in the Building (2024), earning her a third Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.

American filmmaker (born 1968)

American singer (born 1946)

American comedian, actor, and filmmaker (born 1967)

American songwriter and composer (born 1980)

American author (born 1952)

Governor of New Mexico from 2003 to 2011

American psychoanalyst and writer

American writer and poet (born 1954)

16th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and 181st Mayor of San Antonio

American screenwriter producer (1973—2025)

American singer

American attorney, politician, novelist and activist (1935-1974)

American actress

American Chicano novelist, poet (1937–2020)

American cartoonist

American animator, voice actor, film director and producer (1916-2008)

American writer and director

poet, novelist and writer from the United States

American writer and activist (born 1952)

American screenwriter

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American writer (1948-2016)

American model

American author and artist (1939-2011)

American comic book artist

American journalist (1928–1970)

American comics creator

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American writer, publisher, and activist

American Chicana feminist (1925–2021)

American novelist, essayist, short story writer, teacher of creative writing

American comic book creator

American writer and politician (1859–1944)

New Mexican priest, educator, publisher, rancher, farmer, community leader, and politician (1793-1867)

American poet and educator

journalist

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American actor, writer and theater director (born 1963)

American author, commentator, and radio talk show host

Mexican-American poet

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London based Mexican novelist

author and professor

novelist

American playwright

Mexican-American writer

Mexican-American actress, playwright and showrunner

American writer

community organizer and human rights activist

writer, comedian

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American director, screenwriter, and producer

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Mexican political strategist and researcher

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American journalist and essayist (born 1944)

American chicano writer

American diplomat