List of Hispanos
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This is a list of Hispanos, both settlers and their descendants (either fully or partially of such origin), who were born or settled, between the early 16th century and 1850, in what is now the southwestern United States (including California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, southwestern Colorado, Utah and Nevada), as well as Florida, Louisiana (1763–1800) and other Spanish colonies in what is now the United States. Governors and explorers, who spent time in these places serving the Spanish crown but never settled in them as colonists, are not included, although they also helped shape the history of the present United States. This list shows notable people of Spanish and Mexican origin who lived in the Hispanic colonies now part of the United States, as well as their descendants.
Spanish and Mexican era
These are persons who were born and/or lived, and died, in the Spanish or Mexican territories that later were incorporated in the United States. They were never Americans in the sense of persons born, raised or naturalized in the modern United States.
Santiago Abreú (died 8 August 1837) governor of Santa Fe de Nuevo México from 1832 to 1833
Nicolás de Aguilar (1627–c. 1666) Spanish official in New Mexico.
Rosario E. Aguilar (c. 1792–1847) Early settler in San Diego, California.
Andrés Almonaster y Rojas (1724 Mairena del Alcor, Spain – 1798 New Orleans) A Spanish civil servant of New Orleans, today chiefly remembered for his numerous charitable benefactions to the city.
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