He was the only son born to Juan Ramón Ramos Vélez and Braulia Torres Giliberty, and only 3 years old when his father died.

However in 1917, at age 15 years, he felt that in Manati he didn't have a future and so left his home; he then moved to San Juan, the capital city of Puerto Rico.

He met his future wife, an Italian girl by the name of Argentina Schifano while on a business trip to New York City.

[2] In 1954, Ramos founded the first Puerto Rican television station, WKAQ-TV that was transmitted through Channel 2 and which he named "Telemundo".

[citation needed] In 1950, Ramos was the recipient of the María Moors Cabot Award, bestowed upon him by Columbia University.

The Angel Ramos Foundation provided a matching grant of one half the construction cost of the Arecibo Observatory's visitor center which was named after Mr.