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title: "Latino Leader?"
description: "Asked an open-ended question about whom they consider to be  the most important Latino leader in the U.S. today, 74% responded either that they did not know or “no one.”"
date: "2010-11-23"
authors:
  - name: "Russell Heimlich"
    job_title: "Former web developer"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/russell-heimlich/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2010/11/23/latino-leader/"
---

# Latino Leader?

There is a consensus among Latinos about who is the group’s national leader in the Unitized State: there is not one. Asked an open-ended question to name the person they consider “the most important Latino leader in the country today,” fully 64% said they did not know and an additional 10% specifically said “no one.” The most frequently named individual was Sonia Sotomayor (7% named her). She was followed by Rep. Luis Gutierrez (5%), Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (3%) and Jorge Ramos, an anchor on Noticiero Univision (2%). [Read More](https://www.pewresearch.org/pubs/1800/latinos-national-leader-sonia-sotomayor-luis-gutierrez-antonio-villaraigosa-jorge-ramos)