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The Caribbean (/ˌkærɪˈbiːən, kəˈrɪbiən/ KARR-ih-BEE-ən, kə-RIB-ee-ən, locally /ˈkærɪbiːæn/ KARR-ih-bee-an; Spanish: el Caribe; French: les Caraïbes; Dutch: de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are often also included in the region. The region is southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and the North American mainland, east of Central America, and north of South America. (Full article...)

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Arts
José Campeche (Puerto Rico) - Michel-Jean Cazabon (Trinidad and Tobago) - Francisco Oller (Puerto Rico) - Wifredo Lam (Cuba)- Agustín Cárdenas (Cuba)

Education
Sir W. Arthur Lewis (Saint Lucia) - Ana G. Méndez (Puerto Rico) - Arturo Alfonso Schomburg (Puerto Rico)

Entertainment
Desi Arnaz (Cuba) - Geoffrey Holder (Trinidad and Tobago)- Andy García (Cuba)

Industry
Ángel Ramos (Puerto Rico)

Journalism
José Julián Acosta (Puerto Rico) - María Celeste Arrarás (Puerto Rico) - Marcus Garvey (Jamaica)- Nicolás Guillén (Cuba) - CLR. James (Trinidad and Tobago) - Trevor McDonald (Trinidad and Tobago) - Cristina Saralegui (Cuba)

Literature
Aimé Césaire (Martinique) - Enrique Laguerre (Puerto Rico) - José Martí (Cuba) - V. S. Naipaul (Trinidad and Tobago) - Jean Rhys (Commonwealth of Dominica)- Derek Walcott (St. Lucia) - Julia Álvarez (Dominican Republic)- Alejo Carpentier (Cuba)

Military
Johnson Beharry (Grenada) - Antonio Valero de Bernabé (Puerto Rico) - Horacio Rivero, Jr. (Puerto Rico) - Toussaint Louverture (Haiti) - Francisco Caamaño (Dominican Republic)

Music
Celia Cruz (Cuba) - Los Chicos (Puerto Rico) - El Gran Combo (Puerto Rico) - Lord Kitchener (Trinidad) - Bob Marley (Jamaica) - Prince Buster (Jamaica) - Ricky Martin (Puerto Rico) - Menudo (Puerto Rico) - Benny Moré (Cuba) - Lee "Scratch" Perry (Jamaica)- Juan Luis Guerra (Dominican Republic)- Gloria Estefan (Cuba)

Politics
Sir Grantley Adams (Barbados) - Joaquín Balaguer (Dominican Republic) - Maurice Bishop (Grenada) - Alexander Bustamante (Jamaica) - Fidel Castro (Cuba) - Jean-Jacques Dessalines (Haiti) - François Duvalier (Haiti) - Norman Manley (Jamaica) - Luis Muñoz Marín (Puerto Rico) - Toussaint Louverture (Haiti) - Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic) - Eric Williams-Trinidad and Tobago

Religion
Cardinal Luis Aponte Martínez (Puerto Rico) - St. Charlie (Puerto Rico) - Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino (Cuba)- beatified priest, candidate for sainthood Félix Varela (Cuba)

Science
Agustín Stahl (Puerto Rico)- Carlos Finlay (Cuba)- Celia Hart (Cuba)- Luis Alvarez (Cuba)- Juan Gundlach (Cuba)- Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (Cuba)

Sports
Wilfred Benítez (Puerto Rico) - Félix Savón (Cuba)- Ato Boldon (Trinidad and Tobago) - Roberto Clemente (Puerto Rico) - Minnie Miñoso (Cuba)- Wilfredo Gómez (Puerto Rico) - Brian Lara (Trinidad and Tobago) - Asafa Powell (Jamaica) - Sir Viv Richards (Antigua and Barbuda) - Sir Garfield Sobers (Barbados) - Sammy Sosa (Dominican Republic) - Teófilo Stevenson (Cuba) - Félix Trinidad (Puerto Rico) - Sir Frank Worrell (Jamaica) - Marie-José Pérec (Guadeloupe) - Dwight Yorke (Trinidad and Tobago)- Javier Sotomayor (Cuba)-

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Religion in the Caribbean

Country[1] Population Christian Muslim Irreligion Hindu Buddhist Folk religion Other religion Jewish
Pop.  % Pop.  % Pop.  % Pop.  % Pop.  % Pop.  % Pop.  % Pop.  %
 Anguilla 20,000 18,120 90.60% 60 0.30% 800 4.00% 80 0.40% 0 0.00% 580 2.90% 320 1.60% 20 0.10%
 Antigua and Barbuda 90,000 83,700 93.00% 540 0.60% 1,530 1.70% 180 0.20% 0 0.00% 3,240 3.60% 900 1.00% 0 0.00%
 Aruba 110,000 101,090 91.90% 220 0.20% 6,600 6.00% 0 0.00% 110 0.10% 1,430 1.30% 110 0.10% 440 0.40%
 Bahamas 340,000 326,400 96.00% 340 0.10% 10,540 3.10% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,020 0.30% 1,020 0.30% 0 0.00%
 Barbados 270,000 257,040 95.20% 2,700 1.00% 5,130 1.90% 1,080 0.40% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 3,780 1.40% 0 0.00%
 Cayman Islands 60,000 50,100 83.50% 240 0.40% 5,640 9.40% 540 0.90% 0 0.00% 2,700 4.50% 360 0.60% 480 0.80%
 Cuba 11,260,000 6,665,920 59.20% 0 0.00% 2,589,800 23.00% 22,520 0.20% 0 0.00% 1,959,240 17.40% 0 0.00% 0 0.00%
 Dominica 70,000 66,080 94.40% 70 0.10% 350 0.50% 0 0.00% 70 0.10% 2,100 3.00% 1,190 1.70% 0 0.00%
 Dominican Republic 9,930,000 8,738,400 88.00% 0 0.00% 1,082,370 10.90% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 89,370 0.90% 9,930 0.10% 0 0.00%
 Grenada 100,000 96,600 96.60% 300 0.30% 1,000 1.00% 700 0.70% 0 0.00% 1,300 1.30% 200 0.20% 0 0.00%
 Guadeloupe 460,000 441,140 95.90% 1,840 0.40% 11,500 2.50% 2,300 0.50% 0 0.00% 1,840 0.40% 1,840 0.40% 0 0.00%
 Haiti 9,990,000 8,681,310 86.90% 0 0.00% 1,058,940 10.60% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 219,780 2.20% 29,970 0.30% 0 0.00%
 Jamaica 2,740,000 2,115,280 77.20% 0 0.00% 471,280 17.20% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 123,300 4.50% 27,400 1.00% 0 0.00%
 Martinique 410,000 395,650 96.50% 820 0.20% 9,430 2.30% 820 0.20% 0 0.00% 820 0.20% 2,460 0.60% 0 0.00%
 Montserrat 5,000 4,675 93.50% 0 0.00% 240 4.80% 5 0.10% 0 0.00% 10 0.20% 75 1.50% 0 0.00%
 Netherlands Antilles 200,000 187,800 93.90% 400 0.20% 6,600 3.30% 400 0.20% 1,000 0.50% 2,400 1.20% 600 0.30% 600 0.30%
 Puerto Rico 3,750,000 3,626,250 96.70% 0 0.00% 71,250 1.90% 0 0.00% 11,250 0.30% 30,000 0.80% 3,750 0.10% 0 0.00%
 Saint Kitts and Nevis 50,000 47,300 94.60% 150 0.30% 800 1.60% 750 1.50% 0 0.00% 650 1.30% 400 0.80% 0 0.00%
 Saint Lucia 170,000 154,870 91.10% 170 0.10% 10,200 6.00% 510 0.30% 0 0.00% 850 0.50% 3,400 2.00% 0 0.00%
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 110,000 97,570 88.70% 1,650 1.50% 2,750 2.50% 3,740 3.40% 0 0.00% 2,200 2.00% 2,200 2.00% 0 0.00%
 Trinidad and Tobago 1,340,000 883,060 65.90% 79,060 5.90% 25,460 1.90% 304,180 22.70% 4,020 0.30% 25,460 1.90% 18,760 1.40% 0 0.00%
 Turks and Caicos Islands 40,000 36,840 92.10% 0 0.00% 1,840 4.60% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 1,080 2.70% 240 0.60% 0 0.00%
 British Virgin Islands 20,000 16,900 84.50% 240 1.20% 780 3.90% 240 1.20% 0 0.00% 1,680 8.40% 160 0.80% 0 0.00%
 U.S. Virgin Islands 110,000 104,280 94.80% 110 0.10% 4,070 3.70% 440 0.40% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 660 0.60% 330 0.30%
Total 41,645,000 33,196,375 79.71% 88,910 0.21% 5,378,900 12.92% 338,485 0.81% 16,450 0.04% 2,471,050 5.93% 109,725 0.26% 1,870 0.00%
  1. Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life (December 2012), The Global Religious Landscape: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Major Religious Groups as of 2010 (PDF), Pew Research Center, retrieved 20 September 2016
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