Leilani McGonagle comes from a legendary surfing family. The pro career of her brother Noe Mar has been extensively covered by The Costa Rica Star. At this time, however, she has surpassed her brother to become the Tica surfer with the highest standing at the international level. See more at: Young Surfer from Costa Rica is Now a World Champion Image source: revistaperfil.com - facebook...

Nancy Dobles is a TV presenter and Costa Rican model. At 15 years old she entered the modeling world at Selley Kathy Academy. In 1997 she decided to enter the contest to participate Tica Linda, where she was elected as first lady. But the contest that led her to television was the Miss Hawaiian Tropic 2000, besides winning the same was hired by Costa Rican television station Repretel. In...

Mariam Natasha Sibaja Bermudez (July 2, 1990, San Isidro, Costa Rica) is a model, beauty queen and medicine student who has participated in several national and international contests, making herself known in 2014 for participating in the Miss Costa Rica pageant.      ...

Carolina Rodríguez Durán (born 23 April 1989) is a Costa Rican teacher, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Costa Rica 2016. She will represent Costa Rica in Miss Universe 2016. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org...

Tarik Soto Byfield (born 31 January 1994) is a Costa Rican male artistic gymnast, representing his nation at international competitions. His triumphs in 17-year career are already countless, three times gold medalist in Salamunov Memorial Cup in Slovenia, participation in three World Gymnastic Japan 2011, Belgium 2013 and Scotland 2015, sixth in the final vault at the world Cup Challenge in Do...

Valeria Rees is an outstanding Costa Rican model, since she was 17 years old has toured Singapore, Mexico, Paris and Milan, working in commercial modeling agencies Carries Cal, Esee, Avenue, Contempo, 2morrow, Evidence and here in Costa Rica with IMM. Source:http://imm.co.cr...

Ximena Loranca 20 year old was discovered by the Independent International Model Management booker, with less than two years of modeling in the country, she is already facing the major fashion markets like Europe and the US. The Costa Rican model signed a contract with the agency Storm Models in London; Fusion Models in New York; Next, in Miami; Chic, in Australia, and MGM in Germany. She h...

  Daniel Zovatto was born in San José, Costa Rica, on July 12, 1991 is a Costa Rican film and television actor. Since 2012, he has starred in films of the horror genre, Beneath (2013), It Follows (2014), and Don't Breathe (2016), as well as the romantic comedy Laggies (2014). Zovatto made his television debut in 2014, guest starring in an episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. He has since ...

Franklin Ramón Chang Díaz is a Costa Rican-American mechanical engineer, physicist and former NASA astronaut. He became an American citizen in 1977. He is of Chinese (paternal grandfather) and Costa Rican Spanish (maternal side) descent. Chang Díaz is currently president and CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company. He is a veteran of seven Space Shuttle missions, making him the record holder as of 2014...

Hanna Gabriel Valle is a Costa Rican boxer, junior middleweight category, whose career has been highlighted by several international victories. She debuted in the Gimnasio Nacional, San Jose, Costa Rica, on November 17, 2007, fighting Nicaraguan Aoska Xochilet Herrera and defeating her by KO. On December 19, 2009 Gabriel won the World Boxing Organization welterweight (147 pounds) World Cha...

María Amalia Matamoros Solís is a Costa Rican beauty queen who won the Miss World Costa Rica 2008 pageant and went on to represent her country in Miss World 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa, on December 13, 2008. She has also competed Miss Latin America 2008, where she was a top twelve finalist, and Miss Continente Americano 2009. She was also elected in Los Angeles, California, as PANAMERIC...

Catalina Freer is a beautiful 23-year-old costa rican model and businesswoman. The young model, who is also studying Business Administration as a second career, owns an international profile modeling agency called "High Select Model Management", with two years in the market. ...

Johanna Solano Lopez born October 9, 1990 is a Costa Rican TV Host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who represented her country at Miss Universe 2011. ‪Since 2013 she started to practice way deeper into the triathlon. Currently competes in and out of Costa Rica, reaching different achievements and learning more and more of this beautiful and demanding discipline. Source: news.co...

Shirley Cruz Traña (born 28 August 1985 in San José) is a Costa Rican football player who plays for French club Paris Saint-Germain in the Division 1 Féminine. Cruz joined Lyon in January 2006 having previously played for the women's section of Costa Rican UCEM Alajuela and plays as a creative midfielder, often acting as a deep-lying playmaker. She is also a member of the Costa Rica women's na...

Bali Rodríguez (full name,Bárbara Laura Rodríguez Bonilla) was born on August 8, 1985 in San Jose Costa Rica. She is the daughter of ex-Miss Costa Rica Barbara Bonilla and Carlos Rodríguez, the owner of La Guacima racetrack. Bali Rodriguez began modeling professionally when she was 17 years old. She lived in Sydney, Australia for 2 years working on building her career. She has lived or worked in ...

Andrey Amador Bikkazakova is a Costa Rican professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Movistar Team. He started cycling professionally at the age of 20 in 2006, but started cycling at a very early age. Amador was selected to carry the flag for Costa Rica at the 2011 Pan American Games opening ceremony. He is the first Costa Rican to ever ride the Tour de France. In 2012, Amador won a mounta...

Deborah Nowalski Kader, better known by her stage name Debi Nova, is a Costa Rican singer-songwriter who resides in Los Angeles, California. She has been involved in six projects nominated for a Grammy award, a dance song, "One Rhythm", which reached #1 on the Billboard Dance charts, and has collaborated with artists including Boney James, Mark Ronson, Q-Tip, Sérgio Mendes, the Black Eyed P...

Keylor Navas has everything it takes to be an exceptional keeper. He demonstrated it in Brazil, where he only let in two goals in five matches and took Costa Rica to the quarter-finals for the first time in their history. Navas is the first ‘Tico‘ (nickname for Costa Ricans) to win the Champions League's title and the first Central American to take to the field in a Champions final. Sour...

Jessica Perez appeared in the 2012 and 2013 SI Swimsuit issues, was born in San Jose, Costa Rica but spend much of her childhood in Honduras and Ecuador. She also holds a psychology degree from Hunter College and works with Dog Habitat Rescue, an organization that rescues and rehabilitates abandoned and neglected dogs. Her modeling includes advertising campaigns for Levi's, Victoria's Secre...

Hellen is a sexy Costa Rican model who has been modeling professionally since the tender age of 16. The pre-dental student is juggling her studies and modeling assignments effectively and one day will be the most sought after Orthodontist in San Jose. Source: Pinterest...

Victoria's Secret model Candice Swanepoel has posted a sexy photo from the set of a photo shoot in Costa Rica. A naked Candice lays on the beach, with her chest covered in sand, in the saucy photo, which was taken by photographer Jerome Duran for a Victoria's Secret photo shoot in Costa Rica. The blonde beauty covers her chest and coyly gazes into the camera. Candice has been sharing a number...

Natazha: "I have been active my whole life. As a kid I loved sports and played almost all of them. Skateboarding is something I have been doing since I was a kid. It was the easiest way to get around! I love standup paddle boarding in Costa Rica. I have been in the modeling industry for fifteen years. My husband’s a photographer & owns a learning vacation school in Jaco Costa Rica". Source:...

Central American bombshell Juliana Herz is not your typical model. This McDonald’s-eating, duck face-making, tee shirt-wearing girl has already exploded into an industry-wide name to know.Juliana Herz is the first model in Costa Rica that is signed with Elite Model Management in Miami, LA & NYC. But also has more agencies that represent her in several countries like: Models 1 London, UNO ...

Karina Ramos Leiton (July 14, 1993, Heredia, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican TV Host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Costa Rica 2014 and represented her country at Miss Universe 2014. ...

Leonora Jiménez Monge (born 1983 in Santa Ana, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican beauty pageant titleholder and the original winner of 2005 Miss Asia Pacific International. In 2008 she released the second cycle for the Latin American version for America's Next Top Model, called Super Model Centroamérica. She has done photo shoots for Loeve and Chanel and for the magazines, Elle and Telva. She has wor...

Candice Susan Swanepoel born 20 October 1988, is a South African model best known for her work with Victoria's Secret. In 2012, she came in 10th on the Forbes top-earning models list. At age 15, she was spotted by a model scout in a Durban flea market. In 2013, Swanepoel was named the cover model of the coveted Victoria's Secret Swim Catalogue. Like fellow model Christy Turlington, Swanepoe...

Fontana was born in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, from a family of Italian origin. At just 13 years of age she made it to the finals of the 1996 Elite Model Look. The following year she moved from Brazil to Milan, Italy. In 1999, at the age of 16, she appeared in the Victoria's Secret lingerie catalogue. The shoot caused controversy, as Victoria's Secret stated that they would not use girls young...

Gisele Caroline Bündchen born 20 July 1980 is a Brazilian fashion model, actress, and producer. She is the Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Environment Program. Since 2004, she has been the highest-paid model in the world, and as of 2007 was the 16th richest woman in the entertainment industry. In 2012 she placed first on the Forbes top-earning models list. As of 2014, she is list...

The model has complete heterochromia iridum, a condition where the irises of both eyes are differently coloured. Sarah's right eye is yellow-brown, while the left one is a lovely bonnie blue. Not only is it 'groovy', it is also downright stunning, and slightly hypnotic. And for an aspiring model in a highly competitive field, it's potential gold. Source:catchnews.com...

Cara Jocelyn Delevingne born 12 August 1992 is an English fashion model, actress and singer, born in London in 1992. Delevingne first began modeling at age ten in an editorial shot by Bruce Weber for Vogue Italia alongside model Lady Eloise Anson. She signed with Storm Model Management in 2009 after being spotted by Sarah Doukas, the founder of Storm, who had previously discovered Kate Moss....

Marcus Lodewijk Schenkenberg van Mierop better known as Marcus Schenkenberg, is a Swedish model. He was born in Solna and has dual citizenship of both Sweden and the Netherlands. ...

Alessandra Corine Ambrósio is a Brazilian model and actress. Ambrosio is known for her work with Victoria's Secret and was chosen as the first spokesmodel for the company's "PINK" line....