Carlos Samuel Quirós Vázquez (November 20, 1932 – January 23, 2022), He was a former Puerto Rico government official who served as Secretary of State from 1981 from 1985. Quirós attended elementary school at Escuela Labra in Santurce, Puerto Rico. He was an active member of the YMCA in old San Juan during his adolescent years, where in 1948 and 1949 he was selected to be captain of an intramural basketball team. Two years later, in 1950, he was drafted into a soccer team to represent Puerto Rico in the Caribbean and Central American games.