<P> Rara is a festival celebrated before Easter . The festival has generated a style of Carnival music . </P> <P> Football is the most popular sport in Haiti with hundreds of small football clubs competing at the local level . Basketball is growing in popularity . Stade Sylvio Cator is the multi-purpose stadium in Port - au - Prince, where it is currently used mostly for association football matches that fits a capacity of 10,000 people . In 1974, the Haiti national football team were only the second Caribbean team to make the World Cup (after Cuba's entry in 1938). They lost in the opening qualifying stages against three of the pre-tournament favorites; Italy, Poland, and Argentina . The national team won the 2007 Caribbean Nations Cup . </P> <P> Haiti has participated in the Olympic Games since the year 1900 and won a number of medals . Haitian footballer Joe Gaetjens played for the United States national team in the 1950 FIFA World Cup, scoring the winning goal in the 1--0 upset of England . </P> <Ul> <Li> Comte d'Estaing--in command of more than 500 volunteers from Saint - Domingue; fought alongside American colonial troops against the British in the Siege of Savannah, one of the most significant foreign contributions to the American Revolutionary War in 1779 </Li> <Li> Raquel Pelissier--one of Haiti's most remarkable beauty queen; Miss Universe 2017 first runner - up and Reina Hispanoamericana 2016 third runner - up </Li> <Li> Frankétienne--arguably Haiti's greatest author; candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2009 </Li> <Li> Garcelle Beauvais--television actress (NYPD Blue, The Jamie Foxx Show) </Li> <Li> Jean Baptiste Point du Sable--might have been born in St Marc, Saint - Domingue; in 1745 established a fur trading post at present - day Chicago, Illinois; considered one of the city's founders </Li> <Li> Jean Lafitte--pirate who operated around New Orleans and Galveston on the Gulf Coast of the United States; born in Port - au - Prince around 1782 </Li> <Li> John James Audubon--ornithologist and painter; born in 1785 in Les Cayes, Saint - Domingue; his parents returned to France, where he was educated; emigrated to the United States as a young man and made a career as he painted, catalogued and described the birds of North America </Li> <Li> Jørgen Leth--Danish poet and filmmaker </Li> <Li> Sean Penn--American Oscar Award - winning actor, who currently serves as Ambassador - at - large for Haiti; the first non-Haitian citizen to hold such a position </Li> <Li> Michaëlle Jean--current Secretary - General of La Francophonie and 27th Governor General of Canada; born in Port - au - Prince in 1957 and lived in Haiti until 1968 </Li> <Li> Wyclef Jean--Grammy Award - winning hip - hop recording artist </Li> </Ul>

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