This list of University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras people includes alumni and faculty affiliated with UPRRP.
| Alumni | Notability |
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| Juan Mari Brás | advocate for Puerto Rican independence from the United States; founded the Puerto Rican Socialist Party |
| Norma Burgos | (B.A., M.P.A.) State Senator, Puerto Rico Senate (2001–present) |
| Sila M. Calderón | (M.P.A.) 7th governor of Puerto Rico (2001–2005); Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico (1997–2001) |
| Rafael Hernández Colón | 4th Governor of Puerto Rico, first term 1973–1977, second term 1985–1993; State Senator, Puerto Rico Senate (1969–1973) |
| Julia de Burgos | (B.A. Education 1933) considered by many to be the greatest poet born in Puerto Rico and one of the greatest female poets of Latin America |
| José Andreu García | (B.A. Economics 1958, J.D. 1961) jurist; former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico |
| Hans Hertell | former United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic |
| Enrique Laguerre | writer, poet, teacher and critic |
| Luz Martinez-Miranda | Physicist and professor at the University of Maryland; first female president of the National Society of Hispanic Physicists[1] |
| Kenneth McClintock | Secretary of State of Puerto Rico, fulfilling the role of Lieutenant Governor (first-in-line of succession) in the U.S. territory |
| Edwin Irizarry Mora | economist, Puerto Rican Independence Party candidate for governor of Puerto Rico in the 2008. Professor, Department of Economics, UPRM |
| Jesús T. Piñero | first native Puerto Rican to be appointed governor of Puerto Rico by the Government of the United States |
| Nellys Pimentel | Miss Earth 2019 |
| Tania Ramos González | Lecturer, poet, and columnist |
| Luisa R. Seijo Maldonado | (M.S.W. 1972) university professor, activist and social worker |
| Nydia Velázquez | (B.A. 1974) U.S. representative, D-New York (1993–present)[2] |
| Aníbal Acevedo Vilá | (B.A. 1982, J.D. 1985) 8th governor of Puerto Rico (2005–2009); U.S. representative (Resident Commissioner), D-Puerto Rico (2001–2004);[3] State Representative, Puerto Rico House of Representatives (1992–1999) |
| Faculty | Notability |
|---|---|
| Luis López Álvarez | poet and writer; author of Los Comuneros |
| Ruben Berrios | current president of the Puerto Rican Independence Party; former state senator; Law Professor at the University of Puerto Rico's Law School |
| Juan Ramon Jimenez | Spanish poet and writer, received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956 |
| Luce López-Baralt | professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the university |
| Fernando Picó | historian and Jesuit priest, leading expert on the history of Puerto Rico[4] |
| Pedro Juan Soto | writer |
| Rexford Tugwell | served as the last appointed American governor of Governor of Puerto Rico, 1941-1946; former Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico |
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