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==Early life and education== Rosselló González <ref>{{cite news|title=Se Casó "Ricky" Rosselló |url=https://issuu.com/vocero.com/docs/v11122012/10 |work=[[El Vocero]] |publisher=[[issuu]] |date=2012-11-12 |accessdate=2021-02-04 }}</ref> was born in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]] on April 5, 1944, to Juan Antonio Rosselló Matanzo (1913–2001) and Iris M. González Paz (1919–2012).<ref>[http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/r/rosello_pedro.htm Pedro Rosselló] Biography, www.biografiasyvidas.com/</ref> Rosselló's paternal grandfather Pedro Juan Rosselló Batle migrated in 1902 at the age of 23 from [[Lloseta]], [[Mallorca]], in the [[Balearic Islands]], Spain; his brother Juan had also left for Puerto Rico a year earlier.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ibdigital.uib.cat/greenstone/collect/premsaForanaMallorca/index/assoc/Lloseta_/1992_mes/02_n0105.dir/Lloseta_1992_mes02_n0105.pdf|title=A new prescription for Puerto Rico|accessdate= May 15, 2022}}</ref> After completing his elementary and secondary education at Academia Santa Teresita and [[Academia del Perpetuo Socorro]], both located in San Juan, Rosselló moved to the mainland United States to attend college. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree, [[magna cum laude]] at the [[University of Notre Dame]] in 1966, as well as several academic and athletic distinctions. After graduation, he continued his studies in medicine at [[Yale University]], which he completed in 1970, also graduating Magna Cum Laude. Later he specialized in general and pediatric surgery at [[Harvard University]]. Following his residency at Harvard, he practiced medicine in Puerto Rico while also attending the [[University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus]] where he earned a master's degree in Public Health (MPH) in 1981 (also graduating Magna Cum Laude). In 2011, he began studying toward a [[Doctor of Education]] in Education Leadership from the [[University of Turabo]], graduating in 2015. During his college years, Rosselló became an avid tennis player that led him to be named the captain of Notre Dame's Men's tennis team, a P.R. 5-time-Mens-Champion, and also to play for Puerto Rico's team in regional championships, including the Central American and Caribbean Games. He was inducted into the Puerto Rico Tennis Hall of Fame in 2004.
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