People from Spanish Florida

Spanish conquistador and soldier in the Americas

Spanish explorer and governor (1519–1574)

Georges Biassou was an early leader of the 1791 slave rising in Saint-Domingue that began the Haïtian Revolution.

Spanish shipwreck survivor

French pirate (1786-1821)

Spanish explorer

American politician (1793-1857)

Muscogee leader (1750-1793)

Ahaya (c. 1710 – 1783) was the first recorded chief of the Alachua band of the Seminole tribe. European-Americans called him Cowkeeper, as he held a very large herd of cattle. Ahaya was the chief of a town of Oconee people near the Chattahoochee River. Around 1750 he led his people into Florida where they settled around Payne's Prairie, part of what the Spanish called tierras de la chua, "Alachua Country" in English. The Spanish called Ahaya's people cimarones, which eventually became "Seminoles" in English. Ahaya fought the Spanish, and sought friendship with the British, allying with them af

first white person born in what is now the United States

military leader serving the Spanish Crown in 18th-century St. Augustine, Florida

Spanish missionary and linguist

Black Seminole war leader and negotiator (1812–1882)

American businesswoman