Juan Bautista Garcia (1904 – May 31, 1974), born Jean Baptiste Romanacce, was a Corsican immigrant to Puerto Rico whose life and family became the inspiration for one of Puerto Rico's most successful television shows in history, Los Garcia.
His parents were very rich; Garcia as a child could not manage the family's fortune and thus he actually became a homeless person for some time.
Garcia became a noted artist in Puerto Rico's capital, although he never gained national or international fame with his paintings.
Eventually, the money he did earn allowed him to buy a residence for him and his family at the Valencia urbanization in Rio Piedras, a large San Juan suburb.
One fact that got Tommy Muniz's attention was that the Garcia's had weekly meetings, held on Sundays, and that sometimes as many as thirty family members would reunite.