This is a list of notable and well-known
CubansCubans are people inhabiting or originating from Cuba. Most Cubans live in Cuba, although there is also a large Cuban diaspora, especially in the United States.-Demographics:...
, ordered alphabetically by first name within each category. For Cuban-Americans please see
List of Cuban Americans
Actors
- María Conchita Alonso
María Conchita Alonso , better known as María Conchita, is a Grammy Award-nominated Cuban-born Venezuelan singer and actress.-Early life:...
, actress
- Desi Arnaz
Desi Arnaz was a Cuban-American musician, actor and television producer. He gained international renown for leading a Latino music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra...
, actor
- Renny Arozarena
Renny Arozarena is a Cuban actor, born in Havana in 1971.He started acting as a child, making his professional debut on the stage in leading roles in Andoba, Santa Camila de la Habana Vieja, Romeo et Juliette, Othello, among others. He is now director of a theatre group...
, actor
- Manela Bustamante
Manela Bustamante, born Manuela Bustamante was a famous Cuban actress, who performed the character Cachucha in perhaps the most remembered Cuban comedy show of its era “Cachucha y Ramon”...
, actress
- Emiliano Díez
Emiliano Díez is a Cuban film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Vic Palmero in the sitcom George Lopez, as well as his role as Manny Beltrán in the sitcom Los Beltrán....
, actor
- Raúl Esparza
Raúl Eduardo Esparza is an American stage actor.-Background:Born in Wilmington, Delaware to Cuban American parents and raised in Miami, Florida, Esparza graduated from Belen Jesuit in 1988 and later received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Drama from New York University's Tisch School of the...
, actor
- César Évora
César Évora is a Cuban actor, currently living in Mexico.- Biography :Évora started out his career in his native Cuba appearing in more than ten movies before moving to Mexico in the early 1990s...
, actor
- Francisco Gattorno
Francisco Alejandro Gattorno Sánchez , better known in the show business world plainly as Francisco Gattorno, is a famous Cuban actor in Mexico. A native of Santa Clara, Cuba, Gattorno earned Mexican citizenship during the early 2000s.-Biography:Francisco Gattorno grew in Santa Clara as a baseball...
, actor
- Velia Martínez
Velia Martinez was a well known actress, singer and former nightclub dancer....
, actress and singer
- Ana Margarita Martínez-Casado
Ana Margarita Martínez-Casado is a well-known Cuban actress and singer.-Family:...
, actress and singer
- Eva Mendes
Eva Mendes is an American actress. She began acting in the late 1990s, and became known after a series of roles in several major Hollywood films, including 2 Fast 2 Furious, Hitch, Training Day, We Own the Night and The Spirit.-Early life:Mendes was born in Miami, Florida to Cuban parents and was...
, actress
- Daisy Fuentes
Daisy Fuentes is a Cuban-born American model and television personality. Daisy Fuentes broke barriers as MTV's first Latina VJ , and as Revlon's first Latina spokesperson to be signed to a worldwide contract...
, actress
- Julio Oscar Mechoso
Julio Oscar Mechoso is an American actor. He is occasionally credited as Julio Mechoso.Mechoso is a character actor in both television and film. He has appeared in several high-profile films, such as Grindhouse, Bad Boys and the controversial Ken Park. His television credits include Miami Vice,...
, actor
- Enrique Molina
For the Spanish track and field athlete with the same name see Enrique Molina Enrique Molina is a Cuban actor who has worked in television, video and film. He was born in Bauta in 1944.-Early life:...
, actor
- Luis Oquendo
Luis Oquendo was a well-known Cuban actor.Mr. Oquendo was well known for his acting on radio before going into television and film...
, actor
- Mario Ernesto Sánchez
Mario Ernesto Sánchez founded Teatro Avante, a Hispanic theatre, in 1979 in Florida. He played various bit parts on Miami Vice and in Hollywood movies....
, actor and founder of Teatro Avante
- Steven Bauer
Steven Bauer is a Cuban born American actor. He is known for his role as Manny Ribera in the 1983 film Scarface, and his role on the bilingual PBS show Que Pasa USA.-Early life:...
, actor
- Héctor Quintero. actor, play writer, director, presenter
- Andy García
Andy García is an American actor. He became known in the late 1980s and 1990s, having appeared in several successful Hollywood films, including The Godfather: Part III, The Untouchables and When a Man Loves a Woman. More recently, he has starred in Ocean's Eleven and its sequels, Ocean's Twelve...
, actor
Artists, photographers and fashion designers
- Armando García Menocal, painter
- Agustin Cárdenas
Agustín Cárdenas Alfonso was a Cuban sculptor who was active in the Surrealist movement in Paris. His sculpture was influenced by Brancusi, Henry Moore, and Jean Arp...
, sculptor
- Alberto Korda
Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, better known as Alberto Korda or simply Korda was a Cuban photographer, remembered for his image Guerrillero Heroico of Argentinian Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara.-Biography:Korda, whose real name was Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, was born on 14 September 1928 in Havana,...
, photographer
- Alexandre Arrechea
Alexandre Arrechea was born in Trinidad, Cuba, in 1970. He graduated from the “Instituto Superior de Arte ” in Havana in 1994. For twelve years he was a member of the art collective Los Carpinteros, until he left the group in July 2003 to continue his career as a solo artist.His public art involves...
, painter, sculptor
- Amelia Peláez
Amelia Peláez del Casal was an important Cuban painter of the Avant-garde generation.-Biography:Amelia was born in 1896 at Yaguajay, in the former Cuban province of Las Villas...
, painter
- Carlos Enriquez, painter
- Fidelio Ponce de León, painter
- Humberto Jesús Castro García, painter
- José Bernal
José Bernal is a Cuban-American artist. He was born in Santa Clara, in the former province of Las Villas, now Villa Clara, Cuba. He became a naturalized U.S.A. citizen in 1980....
, painter
- José Vilalta Saavedra
José Vilalta Saavedra is a Cuban sculptor. One of the first native Cuban sculptors, Vilalta was born in Havana, trained in Carrara and worked in Cienfuegos....
, sculptor
- Juan José Sicre
Juan José Sicre was one of the greatest Cuban sculptors. His most famous sculpture is of José Martí y Pérez in the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana....
, sculptor
- Juan T. Vazquez Martin
Juan T. Vázquez Martín, is an abstract painter who was born on December 23, 1941 in Caibarién, Cuba.A Cuban painter who lives and works in Havana.Member of the Writer and Artists Union of Cuba .Member of International Association of Art ....
, painter
- Lazaro "Fresquito" Fresquet, painter, humorist, cartoonist
- Leopoldo Romañach, painter
- Marcelo Pogolotti, painter
- Mariano Rodriguez, painter
- Mario Perez
The award-winning Cuban artist Mario Perez, born June 17, 1943, emigrated to the United States as a teenager and has focused his artistic career primarily on documenting the pre-war Havana of his youth, noted for his urban landscapes often recreated from memory...
, painter
- Pedro Álvarez Castelló
Pedro Reinaldo Álvarez Castelló was a Cuban artist who rose to prominence during Cuba's Special Period.-Biography:...
, painter
- Raúl Corrales
Raúl Corrales was a famous Cuban photographer.Raúl Corrales Fornos was born into a poor family in rural Cuba and moved to Havana as a youth...
, photographer
- Raúl Martínez
Publio Amable Raúl Martínez González, known as Raúl Martínez, was a Cuban painter, designer and graphic artist...
, pop artist, painter
- Rene Mederos
Felix René Mederos Pazos was a prominent Cuban poster artist and graphic designer. A self-taught artist from Sagua la Grande, he began work in a Havana printshop in 1944 and was appointed Chief Designer for Cuba's principal television station in 1959...
, poster artist and graphic designer
- René Portocarrero
René Portocarrero was a Cuban artist recognised internationally for his achievements.-History:...
, painter
- Servando Cabrera Moreno, painter
- Tomas Sanchez
Tomás Sánchez is a Cuban painter specializing in stately and often idealized landscapes. He studied at the San Alejandro School of Plastic Arts and the National School of Art in Havana, Cuba. His accolades include the Joan Miró Prize in 1980 and the Amelia Peláez Award in 1984. In 1989 he...
, painter
- Victor Manuel
Víctor Manuel San José Sánchez is a Spanish singer-songwriter.He has been married to the Spanish singer and actress Ana Belén since 1972. He and his wife are considered symbols of the Spanish Transition, and his songs and albums often feature boldly-titled works with social and political content.-...
, painter
- Waldo Diaz-Balart
Waldo Diaz-Balart is a Cuban painter living in Madrid, Spain....
, painter
- Wifredo Lam
Wifredo Óscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla , better known as Wifredo Lam, was a Cuban artist who sought to portray and revive the enduring Afro-Cuban spirit and culture...
, painter
Authors and poets
- Antonio Benitez-Rojo
Antonio Benítez-Rojo was a Cuban novelist, essayist and short-story writer. He was widely regarded as the most significant Cuban author of his generation. His work has been translated into nine languages and collected in more than 50 anthologies.Born in Havana, he lived in Cuba with his mother...
author.
- Daína Chaviano
Daina Chaviano is a Cuban writer.She is considered one of the three most important fantasy and science fiction writers in the Spanish language, along with Angélica Gorodischer and Elia Barceló , forming the so-called “feminine trinity of science fiction in Latin America.”In Cuba, she published...
, author.
- Carilda Oliver Labra
Carilda Oliver Labra is a Cuban poet who was born in Matanzas in 1924.She studied law at the University of Havana. She is also known to excel at drawing, painting and sculpting....
, poet.
- Dulce María Loynaz
Dulce María Loynaz Born in Cuba.Daughter of the famous General Enrique Loynaz del Castillo, a hero of the Cuban Liberation Army and author of Cuban National Anthem lyrics; and sister of poet Enrique Loynaz Muñoz...
, author.
- Edmundo Desnoes
Edmundo Desnoes is a renowned Cuban writer, author of the novel Memorias del subdesarrollo , a complex story depicting the alienation of a Cuban bourgeois struggling to adapt to the process of the Revolution. He originally called the work Inconsolable Memories in the first English edition...
, author.
- Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga was a Cuban writer of the 19th century.-Life:Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga, widely known as la Avellaneda, was born in Puerto Príncipe , Cuba...
, author, poet.
- Gilda Antonia Guillen
Gilda Antonia Guillén was a Cuban writer and poet.Born in La Habana, in her youth she quit her nursing career, and became an ardent anarchist whom rebelled against communism, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution...
, writer, poet, political activist.
- Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infante was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín....
, author.
- Heberto Padilla
Heberto Padilla was a Cuban poet. The Padilla Affair was named after him. He was born in Puerta de Golpe, Pinar del Río, Cuba. His first book of poetry, Las rosas audaces , was published in 1948...
, poet.
- Héctor Zumbado
Héctor Zumbado Argueta , also known as H. Zumbado is a Cuban writer, journalist, critic, humorist, and essayist. He is known for his keen and sharp critiques, which have a Cuban manner, style and humor. In his words, "humor is a weapon, because it criticizes and exposes at the same time, and does...
, writer, journalist, humorist, critic.
- José Ignacio Rivero
José Ignacio Rivero is a Cuban journalist in exile.Rivero was born in Havana, Cuba. He is the grandson of Don Nicolas Rivero, who in 1832 founded the newspaper El Diario de la Marina, and the son of Pepin Rivero, who took over the newspaper upon the death of Don Nicolas in 1944...
, author and journalist.
- José Lezama Lima
José Lezama Lima was a Cuban writer and poet who is considered one of the most influential figures in Latin American literature....
, author, poet.
- José María Heredia y Campuzano, poet.
- José Martí
José Julián Martí Pérez was a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature. In his short life he was a poet, an essayist, a journalist, a revolutionary philosopher, a translator, a professor, a publisher, and a political theorist...
, author, poet, journalist.
- Julián del Casal
José Julián Herculano del Casal y de la Lastra was a Cuban poet.He took up many of the French poetic styles of the day, and later influenced Rubén Darío and Modernismo. Like Manuel González Prada and José Martí, Casal was an important forebearer of modernistic expression throughout Latin America...
, 19th century poet.
- Leonardo Padura Fuentes
Leonardo Padura Fuentes is a Cuban novelist and journalist. , he is one of Cuba's best known writers internationally. In English and some other languages, he is often referred to by the shorter form of his name, Leonardo Padura...
, novelist, journalist.
- Mariano Brull
Mariano Brull was a postmodern Cuban writer and diplomat. As a child, Brull moved to Spain but returned to Cuba as an adolescent. In Cuba, he continued his studies of education and began to publish poetry in the city of his birth. In 1913, Brull graduated from the University of Havana with a...
, author.
- Nancy Morejón
Nancy Morejón is one of Cuba's major authors and poets. She has gained recognition for work whose themes are centered on women and the Afro-Cuban experience.-Life history:...
, author.
- Jose Gomez-Sicre
Jose Gómez-Sicre was a noted Cuban lawyer, art critic and author.-Education:...
, art critic and author.
- Nicolás Guillén
Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista was an Afro-Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba.-Life:Guillén was born in Camagüey, Cuba...
, poet.
- Norberto Fuentes
Norberto Fuentes is a writer and journalist.He has published Hemingway in Cuba and Ernest Hemingway: Rediscovered, both available in English, as well as Dulces guerreros cubanos, Condenados de Condado , Posición Uno, and El último Santuario...
, author.
- Pedro Juan Gutiérrez
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, born in 1950 , is a Cuban novelist.-History:Gutiérrez grew up in Pinar del Rio and began to work selling ice cream and newspapers when he was eleven years old. He was a soldier, swimming and kayak instructor, agricultural worker, technician in construction, technical designer,...
, author, poet, painter.
- Pedro Luis Boitel
Pedro Luis Boitel was a Cuban poet and dissident who opposed the governments of both Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro. In 1961, the regime sentenced him to 10 years in prison....
, poet.
- Raúl Rivero
Raúl Rivero Castañeda is a Cuban poet, journalist, and dissident. Rivero was born in 1945 in Morón, Camagüey, in central Cuba.In his youth, he was an ardent follower of Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. He was among the first generation of journalists to graduate after the triumph of the...
, poet and journalist.
- Reinaldo Arenas
Reinaldo Arenas was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who despite his early sympathy for the 1959 revolution, grew critical of and then rebelled against the Cuban government.-Life:...
, author.
- Severo Sarduy
Severo Sarduy was a gay Cuban poet, author, playwright, and critic of Cuban literature and art.-Biography:...
, poet.
- Virgilio Piñera
Virgilio Piñera Llera was a Cuban author, playwright, poet, short-story writer, and essayist.Among his most famous poems are "La isla en peso" , and "La gran puta" . He was a member of the "Origenes" literary group, although he often differed with the conservative views of the group...
, author, playwright, poet, short-story writer and essayist.
- Zoé Valdés
Zoé Valdés is a Cuban writer.She studied in the Instituto Superior Pedagógico Enrique José Varona, but never graduated. From 1984 to 1988, she worked at the Delegación de Cuba in UNESCO in Paris, and in the Oficina Cultural de la Misión de Cuba in Paris. From 1990 to 1995, she was an editor of the...
, author.
Composers
- Alejandro García Caturla
Alejandro García Caturla was a Cuban composer of art music and creolized Cuban themes.He was born in Remedios. At sixteen he became a second violin of the new Orquesta Sinfonica de La Habana in 1922, where Amadeo Roldán was concert-master . He also began composing at a young age, whilst studying...
, symphonic composer
- Antonio María Romeu
Antonio María Romeu Marrero was a Cuban pianist, composer and bandleader. His orchestra was Cuba's leading charanga for over thirty years, specializing in the danzón.- Life & work :...
, composer
- Arsenio Rodríguez
Arsenio Rodríguez was a Cuban musician who played the tres , reorganized the conjunto and developed the son montuno, and other Afro-Cuban rhythms in the 1940s and 50s...
developer of the rumba
- Didier Hernández
Didier Hernández is a Cuban singer who was a member of the well known boy band, Menudo. He was one of the last members of the group to join while the band was still named "Menudo".-Musical career:...
, singer composer
- Ernesto Lecuona
Ernesto Lecuona y Casado was a Cuban composer and pianist of Canarian father and Cuban mother, and worldwide fame. He composed over six hundred pieces, mostly in the Cuban vein, and was a pianist of exceptional quality...
, often regarded as the greatest Cuban composer
- Esteban Salas y Castro
Esteban Salas y Castro was a Cuban composer of religious music. His compositions focused chiefly on vocal music, and are a fine representation of the late Baroque style...
, 18th century Cuban baroque composer
- Gonzalo Roig
Gonzalo Roig was a Cuban musician, composer, musical director and founder of several orchestras. He was a pioneer of the symphonic movement in Cuba....
, often regarded as one of the greatest composers of Cuba, "Quiere me mucho"/ Cecilia Valdez
- Ignacio Cervantes
Ignacio Cervantes Kawanagh was a Cuban virtuoso pianist and composer. He was influential in the creolization of Cuban music....
, Chopinesque piano composer
- José White Lafitte
José Silvestre White Lafitte , also known as Joseph, was a Cuban violinist and composer. His father was Spanish and his mother was Afro-Cuban....
, violinist and composer
- Leo Brouwer
Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida in Havana, is a Cuban composer, guitarist and conductor.He is one of best known living guitarist-composers.-Biography:...
, guitarist and composer
- Yalil Guerra
Yalil Guerra is a Cuban born composer, music producer and arranger. He is the president of RYCY Productions Inc. His work Suite Cubana for String Quartet and Piano was performed by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2008...
, composer
- Amadeo Roldán
Amadeo Roldán y Gardes was a Cuban composer and violinist. Roldán was born in Paris to a Cuban mulatta and a Spanish father...
, composer and violinist
- Dámaso Pérez Prado, developer of the mambo
- Armando Rodriguez-Gonzalez
Armando Rodriguez-Gonzalez was a Cuban composer and musician....
, composer
- Antonio Rodríguez Ferrer
Antonio Rodríguez Ferrer was a Cuban composer and band conductor.In 1898, he became composer of the musical introductory notes to the Cuban national anthem. He was a professor of music and conducted choirs and bands...
, composer
- Rene Touzet
René Touzet y Monte was a Cuban-born American composer, pianist and bandleader.-Career as bandleader:...
, composer, bandleader and pianist
- Adolfo Guzmán, composer, orchestra director, pianist
Musicians
- Addys D'Mercedes
Addys D'Mercedes is one of the fastest rising Latin American superstars to hit the world music business in years. She made her UK debut in 2001 at the Guildford Festival and since then has undertaken two short British tours with every date selling out within hours...
, singer, songwriter
- Aida Diestro
Aida Diestro was a Cuban pianist, and the director of a famous choral group. She studied music with her father, the Presbyterian minister Diestro Camejo, and continued in a private conservatory...
, pianist, arranger
- Alba Marina, opera singer
- Albita, singer
- Alfredo de la Fé
Alfredo De La Fé is a Cuban-born and New York-based violinist who lived in Colombia for more than 16 years, responsible for transforming the violin into an important sound of Salsa and Latin music...
, musician
- Alina Sanchez, opera singer
- Adalberto Álvarez
Adalberto Alvarez is a Cuban pianist, director and composer. After playing with Son 14 he now directs the group Adalberto Alvarez y su Son.-External links:*...
, pianist, director, composer
- Ana Cristina
Ana Cristina Álvarez , known professionally as Ana Cristina, is an American pop singer. Her family is of Cuban, Spanish, and French descent....
, singer, actress, composer
- Ángel Reyes
Ángel Reyes is a Cuban violinist.In New York City during 1933, Reyes was the principal violinist of the Thirteenth Sound Group of Havana, with which he recorded Julian Carrillo’s Preludio a Colón on the Columbia record label.Reyes taught at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University...
, violinist
- Armando Peraza
Armando Peraza is a Latin jazz percussionist. Through his long associations with jazz pianist George Shearing, vibraphonist Cal Tjader and guitarist Carlos Santana, he has been internationally known from the 1950s through to the 1990s...
, percussionist
- Alberto Corrales
Alberto Corrales, Cuba, was born in Guanabacoa, Havana, November 21, 1952. He is called the wonderful flute, as he were the flute itself. He is a virtuoso of the instrument....
, flautist, director, arranger, composer
- Arturo Sandoval
Arturo Sandoval is a jazz trumpeter and pianist. He was born in Artemisa, in Havana Province, Cuba.Sandoval, while still in Cuba, was influenced by jazz legends Charlie Parker, Clifford Brown, and Dizzy Gillespie, finally meeting Dizzy later in 1977...
, trumpeter
- Arsenio Rodriguez
Arsenio Rodríguez was a Cuban musician who played the tres , reorganized the conjunto and developed the son montuno, and other Afro-Cuban rhythms in the 1940s and 50s...
, composer
- Beny Moré, singer, songwriter, conductor, arranger
- Bola de Nieve
Bola de Nieve was born Ignacio Jacinto Villa . He was a successful Cuban singer-pianist and songwriter, whose round, black face earned him the nickname by which he was always known.Villa studied at the Mateu Conservatoire of Havana...
, singer, pianist
- Cándido Fabré
Cándido Fabré is a Cuban musician, song writer, and singer, famous for his art of improvisation.-Songwriting:...
, musician, songwriter, singer
- Carlos Manuel Pruneda
Carlos Manuel Pruneda is a Cuban singer, known simply as "Carlos Manuel".-Career in Cuba:Pruneda had been a member of the Mayohuacan, Carapacho and Irakere groups in Cuba, and had had success within Cuba as vocalist with Carlos Manuel y su Clan, which he founded in 1997...
, singer
- Carlos Varela
Carlos Varela is a singer-songwriter of nueva trova from Havana, Cuba. In the 1980s he joined the Nueva Trova musical movement, a political and poetic musical genre connected with the Cuban Revolution. Like many other Cuban musicians of his time, Varela was unknown, and arguably "silenced", in...
, singer, songwriter
- Celia Cruz
Celia Cruz was a Cuban salsa singer, and was one of the most successful Salsa performers of the 20th century, with twenty-three gold albums to her name...
, singer
- Celina González
Celina González Zamora is a Cuban singer and songwriter of musica campesina, the traditional music of the Cuban countryside. She is best known for co-authoring A Santa Bárbara with her partner Reutilio Domínguez. Her recording of it was a hit, as was Celia Cruz's version...
, singer-songwriter
- Cesar "Pupy" Pedroso, pianist, musician
- Christina Milian
Christine Flores , better known by her stage name Christina Milian , is an American R&B and pop singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, actress, and model. Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, Milian moved to Los Angeles when she was 13 years old, desiring to be an actress...
, singer
- Chucho Valdés
Chucho Valdés , born Jesús Dionisio Valdés, is a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. He was born in Quivicán, Cuba. In 1972 he founded the group Irakere, one of Cuba's best-known Latin jazz bands. Together with pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Valdés is revered as one of Cuba's greatest...
, pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger.
- Compay Segundo
Compay Segundo was a Cuban trova guitarist and composer.-Biography:...
, musician, songwriter
- Conchita Espinosa
Conchita Espinosa was a world-renowned pianist who combined academics and the arts to create an educational style that exists today at Conchita Espinosa Academy in Miami, Florida....
, pianist, teacher
- Cuban Link
Felix Delgado ,, better known by his stage name Cuban Link, is a Cuban-American rapper.-Biography:Delgado was born in Havana, Cuba in 1974. He and his family emigrated to the United States in 1980 and settled in the South Bronx neighborhood of New York City. When Delgado was growing up, hip hop...
, rapper
- Cubanito 20.02
- History :Cubanito 20.02, formed in 2002, as their name suggests, and released their first album, Soy Cubanito, in 2003.The origins of the group are in hip hop. In the mid-1990s, the three members, Haniel Gonzalez Martinez, Javier Duran Webb, and José Angel Sastre Perez, were listening to rap...
, hip-hop band
- Daniel René
Daniel René , is a Cuban-American singer/songwriter.-The Early Years:Daniel René grew up in Miami. His artistic career began at the age of 9 in the modeling industry...
, singer, songwriter, producer
- Dave Lombardo
Dave Lombardo is a Cuban American heavy metal drummer best known for his work with American thrash metal band Slayer. He has performed with Slayer on seven albums, including their 2006 release Christ Illusion, for which he received critical praise...
, drummer
- David Calzado
David Calzado is the bandleader, music director, arranger, and lead vocalist of 16-piece Musical ensemble, Charanga Habanera. David Calzado has played an essential role in the evolution of modern Cuban music, although he was forced to reorganize his music group in 1997. There is a movie called...
, musician
- Didier Hernández
Didier Hernández is a Cuban singer who was a member of the well known boy band, Menudo. He was one of the last members of the group to join while the band was still named "Menudo".-Musical career:...
, singer, songwriter
- Don Dinero
Jose Manuel Guitian, popularly known as Don Dinero, is an American-born Cuban Rap mobster music artist living in Miami. He is presently signed to Machete Music, an imprint label underneath Universal Records.-Biography:...
, rapper
- Donato Poveda, singer, songwriter
- Elvis Manuel, reggaeton singer
- Elena Burke
Elena Burke was a revered and popular Cuban singer of boleros and romantic ballads....
, singer
- El Medico
Reynier Casamayor Griñán, known as El Medico , is a Cuban musician and doctor who is, enjoying success in Spain as a composer and performer of reggaetón music....
, timba musician
- Eliades Ochoa
Eliades Ochoa is a Cuban guitarist and singer from Loma de la Avispa, Songo La Maya in the east of the country near Santiago de Cuba....
, guitarist and singer
- Emilio Estefan
Emilio Estefan, Jr. is a Cuban-American of Lebanese ancestry who is a musician and producer. Estefan's first taste of celebrity came as a member of the Miami Sound Machine, but he is currently better known as the producer of many famous singers...
producer, composer
- Ernesto Lecuona
Ernesto Lecuona y Casado was a Cuban composer and pianist of Canarian father and Cuban mother, and worldwide fame. He composed over six hundred pieces, mostly in the Cuban vein, and was a pianist of exceptional quality...
, pianist, composer
- Esther Valdés, opera singer
- Esther Borja
Esther Borja Lima is a Cuban soprano. She was trained in solfége and music theory by Juan Elósegui, and in singing by Rubén Lepchutz. Borja graduated as a teacher in 1934, and began her career in 1935; that year she performed, with Ernesto Lecuona on piano, at the National Theatre , and at the...
, singer
- Eusebio Delfín
Eusebio Delfín Figueroa was a Cuban trovador musician: a composer, guitarist and singer. He came from a middle-class family, and was trained as an accountant in Cienfuegos, where his family had moved...
, singer
- Carmen Collado, choir conductor
- Francisco Aguabella
Francisco Aguabella is an Afro-Cuban jazz conga player, well-known on the jazz scene since the 1950s....
, percussionist
- German Nogueira Gomez
Germán Gomez Nogueira is a Cuban author, composer and producer. He was born on October 8, 1961 in Havana, Cuba. He has been the winner of several national and international music events. He is the author of many popular songs included in soloists’ discs launched by Cuban and international music...
, songwriter, composer, producer
- Gilberto Velazquez
Gilberto Ariel Velázquez Gómez is footballer from Paraguay, who currently plays for Olimpia Asunción. He was transferred to the Chilean team Colo-Colo prior to the 2007 Apetura Tournament. However, he only made three appearances with the club, all three coming very early on in the season...
, salsa singer, composer
- Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan is a Grammy Award-winning Cuban-American singer and songwriter. She is in the top 100 best selling music artists with over 90 million albums sold worldwide, 26.5 million of those in the United States alone...
, singer, composer
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba
Gonzalo Rubalcaba is a Grammy Award-winning Cuban jazz pianist and composer.He emigrated from Cuba, not for political reasons, and lived for some years in the Dominican Republic...
, pianist
- Guillermo Portabales
Guillermo Portabales was a Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist who popularized the guajira style of Cuban music from the 1930s through the 1960s...
, singer, songwriter
- Horacio Gutiérrez
Horacio Gutiérrez is a virtuoso pianist originally from Cuba. He moved with his family to the United States in 1961, at the age of 13, and studied in Los Angeles with Sergey Tarnowsky , Vladimir Horowitz's first teacher in Kiev, and later at the Juilliard School of Music under Adele Marcus , a...
, concert pianist
- Hubert de Blanck
Hubert de Blanck was a Dutch-born professor, pianist, and composer who spent the better part of his life in Cuba....
, pianist, composer
- Ignacio Piñeiro
Ignacio Piñeiro Martínez was a black Cuban musician and composer whose career started in rumba, and flowered in the rise of the son. He was one of the most important composers of son music; in total he wrote about 327 numbers, mostly sones.Piñeiro was a brilliant rumbero who worked with musical...
, composer
- Ibrahim Ferrer
Ibrahim Ferrer was a popular Afro-Cuban singer and musician in Cuba. He performed with many musical groups including the Afro-Cuban All Stars. Later in life, Ferrer became a member of the internationally successful Buena Vista Social Club...
, musician
- Issac Delgado
Issac Delgado is one of Cuba's biggest salsa stars.-Early life and family:...
, singer
- Jorge Bolet
Jorge Bolet was a Cuban pianist, conductor and teacher.-Life:Bolet was born in Havana, Cuba and studied at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he himself taught from 1939 to 1942...
, concert pianist
- Juan Croucier
Juan Croucier is a Cuban-American heavy metal musician.-Career:Croucier attended South Torrance High School in Torrance, California. Formerly a bassist for the metal bands Dokken and Ratt, Croucier was also very briefly in Quiet Riot...
, bassist
- Juan Formell, composer
- Juan de Marcos González
Juan de Marcos González is a Cuban bandleader and musician, best known for his work with the Buena Vista Social Club.-Biography:...
, musician
- Kumar y MATE, rapper
- La Lupe
La Lupe aka La Yiyiyi, born Guadalupe Victoria Yolí Raymond , was a Cuban-American singer of several musical genres: boleros, guarachas and latin soul in particular...
, singer
- Lena, singer
- Lissette
Lissette Álvarez is a singer, songwriter and record producer from Cuba. She is best known for recording a Spanish language version of Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart in 1985. -Early life:...
, singer
- Cesar F. Morales, classical pianist
- Luis Manuel Molina, classical guitarist, composer
- Malena Burke
Malena Burke is a well-known Cuban singer now living in Miami.She began her musical studies at various art schools when she was only 8 years old and graduated from the Amadeo Roldan Conservatory with diplomas in violin, guitar, and musical writing. Her singing career developed by coincidence...
, singer
- Manuel Barrueco
Manuel Barrueco is a Classical music guitarist. He was born on 1952 in Santiago de Cuba, on Cuba's southeastern shore...
, classical guitarist
- María Remolá, opera singer
- María Teresa Vera
María Teresa Vera was a Cuban singer, guitarist and composer. She was an outstanding example of the Cuban trova movement....
, composer, guitarist, singer
- Mayra Verónica
Mayra Verónica , is a Cuban-born American raised model who acquired her fame in the United States....
, singer
- Manolito Simonet, musician
- Miguel Matamoros, singer, composer
- Mike Porcel, composer, singer
- Moisés Valle
Moisés Valle "Yumurí" is a Cuban musician. He leads the band Yumurí y sus Hermanos and has done so since September 1992....
, musician
- Moisés Simmons, composer
- Mongo Santamaría
Ramón "Mongo" Santamaría was an Afro-Cuban Latin jazz percussionist. He is most famous for being the composer of the jazz standard "Afro Blue," recorded by John Coltrane among others. In 1950 he moved to New York where he played with Perez Prado, Tito Puente, Cal Tjader, Fania All Stars, etc...
, jazz musician
- Moraima Secada
Moraima Secada Moraima Secada Moraima Secada (born María Micaela Secada Ramos (Santa Clara, Cuba, 30 September 1930 – Havana, 30 December 1984), known to her admirers as La Mora (the moor), was a temperamental singer who created a special style of interpretation within the Cuban music genre...
, singer
- Nelson Martinez
Nelson Martinez is a Cuban operatic baritone, who emigrated to the United States. Born in Cuba, he graduated from the Superior Institute of the Arts and became the leading baritone with the Teatro Lirico “Rodrigo Prats” in Holguin...
, baritone
- Ñico Membiela, singer
- Ñico Saquito
Ñico Saquito was a Cuban musician. He was a trova composer, guitarist and singer....
, composer, singer
- Olga Guillot
Olga Guillot is a famous Cuban singer who was known to be the queen of bolero. She is a native of the Cuban city of Santiago.Guillot and her family moved to Ciudad Havana when she was a small child...
, singer
- Omara Portuondo
Omara Portuondo Peláez is a Cuban singer and dancer whose career has spanned over half a century. She was one of the original members of the Cuarteto d'Aida, and returned to perform with The Buena Vista Social Club ensemble....
, singer
- Orlando "Cachaito" López, bassist
- Pablo Milanés
Pablo Milanés Arias is a Cuban singer-songwriter and guitar player. He studied at a conservatory in Havana. He is considered one of the founders of the Cuban nueva trova, along with Silvio Rodríguez and Noel Nicola...
, singer, songwriter
- Pedro Luis Ferrer, singer, songwriter
- Pío Leyva
Pío Leyva , born Wilfredo Pascual, was a Cuban singer and the author of the well-known guaracha El Mentiroso . Leyva was part of the Buena Vista Social Club, and composed some of Cuba’s best known standards.Leyva was born in Morón, Cuba in 1917. He won a bongo contest at the age of six and made his...
, singer
- Rey Guerra, guitarist
- Equis Alfonso, singer, composer, rapper
- Pitbull
Armando Christian Pérez , better known by his stage name Pitbull, is an American recording artist. His first recorded performance was from the Lil Jon album Kings of Crunk in 2002, after which he released his debut album in 2004 titled M.I.A.M.I. under TVT Records...
, rapper
- Raul Paz, singer
- Rey Ruiz
Rey Ruiz is a well known salsa singer from Cuba. Ruiz reached international fame across Latin America, Europe and among Hispanic music fans in the United States.-Biography:...
, singer
- Rita Montaner
Rita Montaner, born Rita Aurelia Fulcida Montaner y Facenda , was a Cuban singer, pianist, actress and star of stage, film, radio and television. In Cuban parlance, she was a vedette , and she was well-known in Mexico City, Paris, Miami and New York, where she performed, filmed and recorded on...
, singer
- Roberto Faz
Roberto Faz was a Cuban musician who reached the height of his popularity from the 1950s to 1960s. He was a singer and conductor of the salsa band Conjunto Roberto Faz.Previously, he was a singer of Conjunto Casino. He specialized in many forms of Cuban music, like his contemporary Beny Moré. His...
, singer, conductor
- Rosita Fornés, singer,
- Rubén González
Rubén González was a Cuban pianist and member of the group Buena Vista Social Club and Estrellas de Areito.-Biography:...
, pianist
- Rudy Perez, songwriter, producer, singer
- Rudy Sarzo
Rudy Sarzo is a bass guitarist born Rodolfo Maximiliano Sarzo Lavieille Grande Ruiz Payret y Chaumont in Havana, Cuba on November 18, 1950. He emigrated to the United States in 1961...
, rock bassist
- Santiago Rodríguez, pianist
- Sen Dog
Sen Dog is a Cuban rapper, and member of rap group Cypress Hill. He is the older brother of fellow rapper Mellow Man Ace.Sen Dog has been developing his own solo career in addition to his work with Cypress Hill...
, rapper
- Silvio Rodríguez
Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez is a Cuban musician, and a leader of the nueva trova movement. He is considered Cuba's best known folk singer and known for his highly eloquent and symbolic lyrics. Many of his songs have become classics in Latin American music, such as Ojalá, Playa Girón, Unicornio and...
, singer, songwriter
- Tico Torres
Hector Samuel Juan "Tico" Torres is an American drummer and percussionist of Bon Jovi. He also has taken lead vocals on a song on the box set 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong, as well as backing vocals on a couple of the early Bon Jovi tracks, notably "Born to Be My Baby" and "Love for...
, drummer, percussionist
- Vicentico Valdés, singer
- Willy Chirino
Willy Chirino is a singer who was born in Cuba in the small town Consolación del Sur, in the cuban province of Pinar del Río. His father was the town’s State Attorney and his mother was a pharmacist who worked at home. He was the only boy in his family...
, singer, songwriter
- Voltaire (musician)
Voltaire , is a Cuban-American musician popular in the goth scene...
, musician
- Xavier Cugat
Xavier Cugat, born Francesc d'Asís Xavier Cugat Mingall de Bru i Deulofeu was an American bandleader who spent his formative years in Havana, Cuba. A trained violinist and arranger, he was a key personality in the spread of Latin music in United States popular music. He was also a cartoonist and a...
, musician
- Yamila Guerra, singer
- Yalil Guerra
Yalil Guerra is a Cuban born composer, music producer and arranger. He is the president of RYCY Productions Inc. His work Suite Cubana for String Quartet and Piano was performed by the Montreal Symphony Orchestra at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2008...
, producer, musician, composer
- Yotuel Romero
Yotuel Omar Manzanarez Romero is an singer, actor and musician current lead singer and co-writer of the 2003 Latin Grammy Award winner Platinum album selling rap group Orishas. Among other recordings, Emigrante won the 2003 Latin Grammy Award for Best Rap/Hip-Hop Album...
, rapper
- Zeyda Ruga Suzuki, concert pianist
- Harold Lopez Nussa
Harold Lopez Nussa is a jazz pianist who plays Cuban music and lives in a little apartment in Havana's Vedado neighbourhood in Cuba. The 24-year-old pianist enjoys a double upbringing: Cuban, and French through his grandmother...
, jazz pianist
- Armando Garcia, guitarist
- German Garica, singer, songwriter
- Yolanda Hernandez, opera singer
Film directors
- Enrique Pineda Barnett
- Fernando Pérez
Fernando Pérez Valdés is a prominent Cuban film director. Pérez graduated from the University of Havana with a degree in Language and Spanish Literature, and began working in the Cuban film industry in 1971 as an assistant director, before directing his first documentary in 1975.His feature debut...
- Humberto Padrón
Humberto Padrón is a Cuban Film Director.Padrón graduated from ISA in Havana. He has since directed several awards winning documentary shorts including "Y Todavia el Sueño" and "Los Zapaticos me Aprietan"...
- Humberto Solá
- Jorge Luis SánchezFor the Cuban volleyball player with the same name see Jorge Sánchez SalgadoJorge Luis Sánchez is a Cuban film director...
- Juan Carlos Cremata
Juan Carlos Cremata, born on November 18, 1961 is a Cuban Film Director. In 1991 he graduated from the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños in Havana with his already classic: Oscuros Rinocerontes Enjaulados, an experimental short film that went around the world gathering awards in...
- Neil Blainey
- Juan Padrón
Juan Padrón, is Cuba's Premier Animation Director.Since 1963 he has published sketches and cartoons for Cuban magazines and newspapers. He was the creator, in 1970, of Elpidio Valdés, a cartoon character with more than sixty shorts and two feature length movies...
- Miguel Coyula
Miguel Coyula Aquino is a Cuban filmmaker. At age 17, he made his first short with a VHS camcorder, which led to his admittance to the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba...
- Rodrigo Garcia
Rodrigo García Barcha is a television and film director.He is the son of Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez and Mercedes Barcha Pardo....
- Santiago Álvarez
Santiago Álvarez Román was a Cuban filmmaker. He wrote and directed many documentaries about Cuban and American culture...
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea was a Cuban filmmaker. He wrote and directed more than 20 features, documentaries, and short films, which are known for his sharp insight into post-Revolutionary Cuba, and possess a delicate balance between dedication to the revolution and criticism of the social, economic,...
- Will Vazquez
Will Vazquez is a Cuban-American film director and producer. Vazquez who resides in Miami, began his career as a fashion and beauty photographer and later went on to shoot for Playboy Magazine. In 1998 he turned his focus to filmmaking and in 2000 served as producer and director of photography on...
Journalists
- Oscar Espinosa Chepe
Óscar Manuel Espinosa Chepe is a Cuban economist and dissident. He was one of approximately 75 dissidents arrested, tried and convicted in 2003 as part of what has been widely described as a massive crackdown by the Cuban government. Amnesty International declared him as a prisoner of conscience...
- Nicolás Guillén
Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista was an Afro-Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba.-Life:Guillén was born in Camagüey, Cuba...
- Raúl Rivero
Raúl Rivero Castañeda is a Cuban poet, journalist, and dissident. Rivero was born in 1945 in Morón, Camagüey, in central Cuba.In his youth, he was an ardent follower of Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. He was among the first generation of journalists to graduate after the triumph of the...
- Pablo de la Torriente Brau
Pablo de la Torriente Brau Cuban writer.He is considered one of the highest exponents of Cuban journalism of this century...
- German Pinelli
German Pinelli was a Cuban journalist and actor....
- Rick Sanchez
Rick Sanchez , is the first national news anchor credited with combining traditional network news with social media using MySpace, Twitter and Facebook. Sanchez hosts the 3 p.m. weekday edition of CNN Newsroom...
- Héctor Zumbado
Héctor Zumbado Argueta , also known as H. Zumbado is a Cuban writer, journalist, critic, humorist, and essayist. He is known for his keen and sharp critiques, which have a Cuban manner, style and humor. In his words, "humor is a weapon, because it criticizes and exposes at the same time, and does...
, writer, journalist, humorist, and critic.
Dancers
- Alicia Alonso
Alicia Alonso Martínez is the Cuban prima ballerina and choreographer. Her company became the Ballet de Cuba in 1955....
, Prima Ballerina Assoluta, director of the Cuban National Ballet (Ballet Nacional de Cuba)
- Carlos Acosta
Carlos Acosta is a Cuban ballet dancer. He has danced with many companies including the English National Ballet, National Ballet of Cuba, Houston Ballet and American Ballet Theatre...
, principal dancer
- Jorge Esquivel, principal dancer
- Fernando Bujones
Fernando Bujones was an American ballet dancer.Born in Miami, Florida to Cuban parents, Bujones is regarded as one of the finest male dancers of the 20th century Fernando Bujones (March 9, 1955 – November 10, 2005) was an American ballet dancer.Born in Miami, Florida to Cuban parents, Bujones is...
, principal dancer
- Jose Manuel Carreño
Jose Manuel Carreño is a Cuban principal dancer with the American Ballet Theatre.Jose Manuel started dancing at the age of ten and received his training at the Provincial School of Ballet and the Cuban National Ballet School...
- American Ballet Theater principal dancer
- Loipa Araújo, prima ballerina
- Menia Martínez, ballerina
- Lenny Croft, stripper
- Josefina Méndez, prima ballerina
- Martha García, prima ballerina
- Mirtha Plá, prima ballerina
- Lydia Diaz Cruz
Lydia Diaz Cruz is a Prima Ballerina who started dancing in Havana, Cuba, and trained with Fernando Alonso and Alicia Alonso. As a young dancer, she was talent-spotted by a well-known British dancer and teacher from an earlier era, Dame Phyllis Bedells, who traveled to Cuba and regarded her as the...
, prima ballerina
- Miguel Campaneria
Miguel Campaneria is a Cuban ballet dancer and choreographer.He started his ballet training at the National Ballet Academy of Cuba under Alicia Alonso and Azari Plisetski. He joined the National Ballet of Cuba where he became a soloist. Later on, he won the bronze medal in the junior category at...
, ballet dancer, currently artistic director of the National Ballet Theater of Puerto RicoThe National Ballet Theater of Puerto Rico is one of the leading ballet companies in Puerto Rico.It was formed by former members of Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico after the company was paralyzed by a dancers' strike in 2004...
- Vida Guerra
Vida Guerra is a Cuban-born American model, actress, and singer. Her first notable appearance was in the U.S. edition of FHM magazine in December 2002; since then, she has modeled for many other men's magazines....
, video dancer
- Yat-Sen Chang
Yat-Sen Chang is a Cuban principal dancer in the English National Ballet.Yat-Sen Chang is a Chinese Cuban born in Matanzas, Cuba. Yat-Sen Chang studied dance at the Cuban National Ballet School, beginning his studies at the age of nine...
, principal dancer, English National BalletEnglish National Ballet is a renowned classical ballet company founded by Dame Alicia Markova and Sir Anton Dolin and based at Markova House in London, England...
Other entertainment
- Alvarez Guedes
Guillermo Álvarez Guedes is a Cuban businessman, writer and comedian. He is better known across Latin America as Alvarez Guedes....
, comedian and author
- Ana María Polo
Ana María Polo is a Cuban-American lawyer and Hispanic television judge on Caso Cerrado. Born in Havana, Cuba, Ana, came to Miami at a young age accompanied by her family...
, television personality and lawyer
- A Pair of Nuts: The Comedy Duo
A Pair of Nuts is a sketch comedy duo based in Miami, Florida consisting of Yamil Piedra and Johnny Trabanco. Their show consists of loosely improvised sketches intertwined with short videos. Piedra and Trabanco have been working together since 1998 where they met in college at Florida...
comedians and actors
- Cachita, television personality
- Cristina Saralegui
Cristina Saralegui is a Cuban American journalist, actress and talk show host, well-known for hosting the Spanish-language eponymous show Cristina.-Early life and journalism career:...
, magazine editor, talk show host (CristinaCristina may refer to:* Cristina, a municipality in the Spanish province of Badajoz* Cristina, a genus of harvestmen , eight-legged invertebrate animals-People:*Cristina Boiţ, Romanian discus thrower...
) and actress
- Vida Guerra
Vida Guerra is a Cuban-born American model, actress, and singer. Her first notable appearance was in the U.S. edition of FHM magazine in December 2002; since then, she has modeled for many other men's magazines....
, model/actress
- Lili Estefan
Lili Estefan is a famous well known Cuban-American model and show host. She is the niece of music producer Emilio Estefan and the niece-in-law of singer Gloria Estefan....
, television personality and former model
- Martita
Marta Rodríguez , better known as Martita, is a coffee maker who became famous with the Latin American public in the United States and in some Latin American countries, when she was hired in 1998 by Univision to serve daily coffee to her co-workers Raul De Molina and Lily Estefan, during the...
, television personality
- Mauricio Zeilic
Mauricio Zeilic is a Cuban show business reporter. Zeilic works for Telemundo in the United States.A papparatzi for more than a decade, Zeilic is now one of the five show hosts of Cotorreando, a show dedicated to talking about the lives of movie and music stars...
, television personality
- Mayra Verónica
Mayra Verónica , is a Cuban-born American raised model who acquired her fame in the United States....
, model
- Nelson Ascencio
Nelson Ascencio is a Cuban actor and comedian. Ascencio is most notable for his membership in the recurring cast of comedians on sketch comedy series MADtv....
, comedian (MadtvMADtv is an American sketch comedy television series. It licenses the name and logo of Mad, but otherwise has no connection with the humor magazine outside of animated Spy vs. Spy and Don Martin cartoon shorts and images of Alfred E. Neuman that the show featured during the late 1990s. Its first TV...
)
- Raúl De Molina
Raul “El Gordo” De Molina is a TV host, currently the host of El Gordo y la Flaca on Univision.A well known television personality among Hispanics, Raúl de Molina is seen every weekday as the host of “El Gordo y la Flaca”, a show he has hosted with Lili Estefan since 1998.Raúl de Molina...
, television personality
- Raúl Musibay
Raúl Musibay is a chef and internet entrepreneur.Musibay is a member of the Three Guys From Miami and is known for his elaborate Cuban-style pigroasts and has taught this art to hundreds of people all over the world. With his two brothers-in-law, he runs the Cuban website, The Internet Cuban...
, Food NetworkFood Network is a television specialty channel that airs specials and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns roughly two thirds of the network, and Tribune Company owns the rest....
chef and author
- Rosaura Andreu
Rosaura Andreu is a Texan Born actress who found wide fame in Puerto Rico as a children's television show host.Andreu, who was a struggling actress in her country, left Cuba after the revolution, arriving in Puerto Rico during the Puerto Rican television's formation era...
, children's television entertainer
- Sissi
Sissi is a Cuban model.Sissi is one of the most recognized Latin celebrities of the international entertainment industry. She started her professional career in her native Cuba when she was only 4 years old...
, model
Baseball
- Adolfo Luque, Cincinnati Reds
The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. They are members of the Central Division of the National League....
- Alex Fernandez
Alex Fernandez may refer to:*Alex Fernandez *Alex Fernandez , played for Chicago White Sox and Florida Marlins*Alex Fernandez, fictional character in Ghostwriter See Also...
, Chicago White SoxThe Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division. Since , the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans...
, Florida MarlinsThe Florida Marlins are a professional baseball team based in Miami Gardens, Florida, United States. Established in 1993 as an expansion franchise, the Marlins are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League...
- Alex Sánchez
- Ariel Pestano
Ariel Pestano Valdés , better known as El Veterano , is a Cuban baseball catcher, and is known as one of the greatest catchers in Cuban history. He has won both silver and gold medals in the Olympic Games and also played catcher on Cuba's World Baseball Classic team in March 2006 and March 2009...
, Cuba national baseball teamThe Cuba national baseball team is the national team of Cuba. The team is made up of amateur players from the Cuban national baseball system, as there are no professional sports leagues in Cuba...
- Ariel Prieto
Ariel Prieto is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher.Prieto graduated from college in the city of Fajardo, and he immigrated to Puerto Rico soon after. In Puerto Rico, he played professional winter league baseball for the first time in his career...
, Oakland AthleticsThe Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the Oakland Coliseum....
- Aurelio Monteagudo
Aurelio Faustino Monteagudo Cintra , better known as Aurelio Monteagudo , nicknamed "Monty", was a right-handed screwball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball. He was the son of former big-leaguer René Monteagudo.Monteagudo was born in Caibarién, Villa Clara, Cuba...
, Kansas City AthleticsThe Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the Oakland Coliseum....
- Barbaro Garbey
Bárbaro Garbey is a former utility player in Major League Baseball. Garbey played at outfield, first and third bases, and also served as designated hitter. He batted and threw right-handed....
, Detroit TigersThe Detroit Tigers are a Major League Baseball team based in Detroit, Michigan. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the club was founded in Detroit in . The Tigers have won four World Series championships and have won the American League pennant 10 times...
- Bert Campaneris
Dagoberto Campaneris Blanco , generally known as Bert Campaneris and nicknamed "Campy", is a former shortstop in Major League Baseball who played for four American League teams, primarily the Kansas City and Oakland Athletics...
, Kansas City AthleticsThe Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the Oakland Coliseum....
- Brayan Peña
Brayan Eduardo Peña is a catcher for the Kansas City Royals.-Early years:He was a member of the Cuban National 18 and under team as a youth...
, Atlanta BravesThe Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. From to the present, the Braves have played in Turner Field....
- Cristóbal Torriente
Cristóbal Torriente was a Cuban outfielder in Negro league baseball with the Cuban Stars, All Nations, Chicago American Giants, Kansas City Monarchs and Detroit Stars over a career that lasted from 1914 to 1928, plus a single game in 1932.-Negro League Career:Torriente was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba...
, Negro Leagues - Baseball Hall of Fame
- Danys Báez
Danys Báez González is a Major League Baseball relief pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles. Báez has previously played for the Cleveland Indians , Tampa Bay Devil Rays , Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves...
, Baltimore OriolesThe Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland. They are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , the Orioles have played their home games at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. The "Orioles" name refers to the official state...
- Diego Seguí
Diego Pablo Seguí González is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball.From 1962 through 1977, Seguí played for the Kansas City Athletics, Washington Senators, Oakland Athletics, Seattle Pilots, Boston Red Sox, and Seattle Mariners. He batted and threw right-handed...
, Kansas City AthleticsThe Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the Oakland Coliseum....
- Eli Marrero
Elieser Marrero , is a Major League Baseball player who is currently a free agent. Marrero started his career as a catcher, but now mostly plays the outfield, where he is capable of playing all three positions. He has also spent time playing first base.Marrero was selected in the 3rd round of the...
, New York MetsThe New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. The Mets are a member of the East Division of Major League Baseball's National League....
- Esteban Bellán, first Latin American professional baseball player to play in the United States
- Germán Mesa
German Mesa is a former Cuban shortstop for the Industriales of the Cuban National League and for the Cuba national baseball team. Mesa was known as "El Imán" or "The Magnet" for his superior fielding skills. He was also an above average hitter and base runner who led Cuban baseball in hits,...
, trainer for the Cuban national baseball team
- Jack Calvo
Jack Calvo was born Jacinto Del Calvo in Havana, Cuba. He was an outfielder for the Washington Senators in 1913 and 1920. He played in 34 games, had 56 at bats, 10 runs, 9 hits, 1 triple, 1 home run, 4 RBIs, 3 walks, a .161 batting average, a .203 on-base percentage, a .250 slugging percentage, 67...
, Washington SenatorsThe Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. They have played in the Hubert H...
- José Canseco
José Canseco Capas, Jr. is a former outfielder and designated hitter in Major League Baseball, and is the identical twin brother of former major league player Ozzie Canseco. After retiring from baseball he's boxed twice and fought mixed martial arts once.-Early years:Canseco and his family left...
, Oakland AthleticsThe Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the Oakland Coliseum....
- José Cardenal
José Rosario Domec Cardenal is a former outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the San Francisco Giants , California Angels , Cleveland Indians , St...
, San Francisco GiantsThe San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California who currently play in the National League West Division. One of the oldest baseball teams, the Giants hold the honor of having won the most games of any team in the history of baseball...
- José Contreras
José Ariel Contreras Camejo is a right-handed Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Colorado Rockies...
, Chicago White SoxThe Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division. Since , the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans...
- José Méndez
José de la Caridad Méndez was a Cuban right-handed pitcher and manager in baseball's Negro Leagues. Born in Cárdenas, Matanzas, he died at age 41 in Havana. Known in Cuba as El Diamante Negro , he became a legend in his homeland. He was one of the first group of players elected to the Cuban...
, Kansas City MonarchsThe Kansas City Monarchs were the longest-running franchise in the history of baseball's Negro Leagues. Operating in Kansas City, Missouri and owned by J.L. Wilkinson, they were charter members of the Negro National League from 1920 to 1930...
- Baseball Hall of Fame
- José Tartabull
José Milages Tartabull Guzman was an Major League Baseball outfielder; his career lasted nine years, from 1962 to 1970. He played for the Kansas City A's, Boston Red Sox, and the Oakland A's all of the American League...
, Kansas City AthleticsThe Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the Oakland Coliseum....
- Kendry Morales
Kendrys Morales Rodriguez is a Major League Baseball first baseman for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim...
, Los Angeles Angels
- Liván Hernández
Eisler Liván Hernández Carrera is a starting pitcher in Major League Baseball, who is currently pitching for the Washington Nationals...
, Arizona DiamondbacksThe Arizona Diamondbacks are a professional baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They play in the West Division of Major League Baseball's National League. From 1998 to the present, they have played in Chase Field...
- Luis Tiant
Luis Clemente Tiant Vega , born November 23, 1940? in Marianao, Cuba, , is a former right-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Cleveland Indians , Minnesota Twins , Boston Red Sox , New York Yankees , Pittsburgh Pirates and California Angels .-Cuba and Mexico:Tiant...
, Cleveland IndiansThe Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball team based in Cleveland, Ohio. They are in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , they have played in Progressive Field . The team's spring training facility is in Goodyear, Arizona...
- Martín Dihigo
Martín Magdaleno Dihigo Llanos was a Afro-Cuban Cuban player in baseball's Negro Leagues and Latin American leagues who excelled at several positions, primarily as a pitcher and second baseman...
, Negro Leagues - Baseball Hall of Fame
- Mike Cuellar
Miguel Angel Cuellar Santana , best known as Mike Cuellar , is a former left-handed starting pitcher in Major League Baseball who spent most of his career with the Baltimore Orioles. He shared the American League's Cy Young Award in , and won 20 games four times from 1969 to 1974 as the Orioles...
, Cincinnati RedsThe Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. They are members of the Central Division of the National League....
- Minnie Miñoso
Saturnino Orestes Armas Miñoso Arrieta, commonly referred to as Minnie Miñoso , is a former star left fielder in Major League Baseball. He had earlier been a standout third baseman in the Negro Leagues, and would later play several seasons in Mexican baseball...
, Chicago White SoxThe Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division. Since , the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans...
- Octavio "Cookie" Rojas, Cincinnati Reds
The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. They are members of the Central Division of the National League....
- Omar Linares
Omar Linares Izquierdo is a former Cuban baseball player. Linares, who played third base for the Cuban national team and for Pinar del Río in the Cuban National Series, is considered one of the greatest Cuban players of all time...
, Pinar del Río VeguerosPinar del Río is a baseball team in the Cuban National Series. Based in the western city of Pinar del Río, the Vegueros are historically one of the more successful teams in the Cuban National Series, winning championships in 1997 and 1998.-History:...
, Cuban national baseball teamThe Cuba national baseball team is the national team of Cuba. The team is made up of amateur players from the Cuban national baseball system, as there are no professional sports leagues in Cuba...
- Orestes Destrade
Orestes Cucuas Destrade is a retired Cuban Major League Baseball infielder.-Biography:Destrade emigrated to the United States with his family at the age of six. He graduated from Christopher Columbus High School in Miami. He later attended Florida College for two years, where he was a junior...
, New York YankeesThe New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the borough of the Bronx, in New York City, New York and are a member of Major League Baseball's American League East Division...
, ESPNESPN is an American cable television network dedicated to broadcasting and producing sports-related programming 24 hours a day....
on-air personality
- Orlando Hernández
Orlando Hernández Pedroso , nicknamed El Duque, is a Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher who is currently a free agent well known for his extremely high leg kick. His greatest success came as a New York Yankees starter during that team's run of World Series championships in 1998,...
, New York MetsThe New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. The Mets are a member of the East Division of Major League Baseball's National League....
- Ozzie Canseco
Osvaldo "Ozzie" Canseco Capas is a former Major League Baseball player and the identical twin brother of former Major League Baseball player José Canseco....
, Oakland AthleticsThe Oakland Athletics are a Major League Baseball team based in Oakland, California. The Athletics are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Athletics have played in the Oakland Coliseum....
- Pedro RamosFor the Ecuadorian football referee, see Pedro Senatore RamosPedro Ramos Guerra was a Major League pitcher with a 15-year career from 1955 to 1967, and again from 1969 to 1970...
, Washington SenatorsThe Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. They have played in the Hubert H...
- Preston Gómez
Preston Gómez was a Cuban- infielder, manager, coach and front-office official in Major League Baseball best known for managing three major league clubs: the San Diego Padres , Houston Astros and Chicago Cubs . He was born Pedro Gómez Martinez in Preston, Cuba, and was given his nickname in U.S...
, Washington SenatorsThe Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. They have played in the Hubert H...
- Rafael Palmeiro
Rafael Palmeiro Corrales is a former Major League Baseball player with a career spanning 20 years, 1986 to 2005. Though he never officially retired, Palmeiro has not played since ....
, Baltimore OriolesThe Baltimore Orioles are a professional baseball team based in Baltimore, Maryland. They are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Since , the Orioles have played their home games at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. The "Orioles" name refers to the official state...
- Ray Noble
Rafael Miguel "Ray" Noble was a Cuban catcher in the Negro Leagues and Major League Baseball. Born in Central Hatillo, Cuba, Noble was 32 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 18, 1951 with the New York Giants, and played for the team through the 1953 season. He batted and threw...
, New York GiantsThe San Francisco Giants are a Major League Baseball team based in San Francisco, California who currently play in the National League West Division. One of the oldest baseball teams, the Giants hold the honor of having won the most games of any team in the history of baseball...
- René Arocha
René Arocha is a former MLB baseball player.-Biography:René Arocha studied as a teenager at the Regla high school in Havana...
, St. Louis CardinalsThe St. Louis Cardinals are a professional baseball team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are members of the Central Division in the National League of Major League Baseball...
- René Monteagudo
René Monteagudo Miranda was a Major League Baseball pitcher and outfielder who played with the Washington Senators and Philadelphia Phillies . Monteagudo threw and batted left-handed....
, Washington SenatorsThe Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. They have played in the Hubert H...
- Rey Ordóñez
Reynaldo Ordóñez Pereira is a former Major League Baseball shortstop who played for the New York Mets, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, and Chicago Cubs....
, New York MetsThe New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. The Mets are a member of the East Division of Major League Baseball's National League....
- Roberto "Bobby" Estalella, Washington Senators
The Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. They have played in the Hubert H...
- Rolando Arrojo
Luis Rolando Arrojo Avila was a Major League Baseball pitcher who pitched from to .Arrojo made his mark with the teams from Villa Clara in the Cuban National Series, where he still is the all-time leader in hit batsmen. He was the staff ace on the Villa Clara team that won 3 consecutive Cuban...
, Tampa Bay Devil Rays
- Sandy Amorós
Edmundo Isasi "Sandy" Amorós was a Cuban left fielder in Major League Baseball for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers and Detroit Tigers. Amorós was born in Havana. He both batted and threw left-handed...
, Brooklyn DodgersThe Los Angeles Dodgers are a Major League Baseball team based in Los Angeles, California, USA. The team is in the Western Division of the National League. Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known by a number of nicknames before becoming the Brooklyn...
- Tony Fossas
Emilio Antonio "Tony" Fossas Morejon is a former left-handed Major League Baseball pitcher during the late 1980s and 1990s....
, Texas RangersThe Texas Rangers are a professional baseball team in Texas, representing the Dallas-Ft.Worth metropolitan area. The Rangers are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Rangers have played in Rangers Ballpark in Arlington, located in...
- Tony González, Cincinnati Reds
The Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. They are members of the Central Division of the National League....
- Tony Oliva
Tony Pedro Oliva is a former Major League Baseball right fielder who played his entire career in the American League for the Minnesota Twins from to . He batted left-handed and threw right-handed...
, Minnesota TwinsThe Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. They have played in the Hubert H...
- Tony Pérez
Atanasio Pérez Rigal , more commonly known as Tony Pérez, is a former Major League Baseball player. He was also known by the nickname "Big Dog," "Big Doggie," and "Doggie."...
, Cincinnati RedsThe Cincinnati Reds are a Major League Baseball team based in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. They are members of the Central Division of the National League....
- Tony Taylor
Antonio Nemesio Taylor is a former second baseman in Major League Baseball. From 1958 through , Taylor played for the Chicago Cubs , Philadelphia Phillies and Detroit Tigers...
, Chicago CubsThe Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League. They are one of two Major League clubs based in Chicago , the Cubs are also one of the two remaining charter members of the...
- Yuniesky Betancourt
Yuniesky Betancourt is a Major League Baseball shortstop for the Kansas City Royals. He resides in Boca Raton, Florida.-Cuban leagues:...
, Kansas City RoyalsThe Kansas City Royals are a Major League Baseball team based in Kansas City, Missouri. The Royals are a member of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. From to the present, the Royals have played in Kauffman Stadium...
- Zoilo Versalles
Zoilo Casanova Versalles Rodriguez was a Cuban shortstop in Major League Baseball, considered to be a great fielder, a solid leadoff man, and a brilliant baserunner. He was the sparkplug that led the 1965 Minnesota Twins to their first World Series...
, Minnesota TwinsThe Minnesota Twins are an American professional baseball team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and play in the Central Division of Major League Baseball's American League. The team is named after the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota. They have played in the Hubert H...
, first Latin American Major League MVP in .
- Alexei Ramírez
Alexei Fernando Ramírez is a Major League Baseball second baseman and shortstop for the Chicago White Sox...
, Chicago White SoxThe Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team based in Chicago, Illinois. The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division. Since , the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans...
- Yunel Escobar
Yunel Escobar is an infielder in Major League Baseball who plays for the Atlanta Braves who goes by the nickname "jefe".-Cuban background:...
, Atlanta BravesThe Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. From to the present, the Braves have played in Turner Field....
Boxing
- Adolfo Horta
Adolfo Horta is a retired boxer from Cuba, who won the silver medal in the Men's Featherweight division at age 22 at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In the final he was beaten by East Germany's Rudi Fink on points .Two years earlier he won the world title at the second World Championships in...
, Featherweight Olympic boxer
- Ariel Hernández
Ariel Hernández is a boxer from Cuba, who won two Olympic gold medals in the Middleweight division ; at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics...
, Middleweight Olympic boxer
- Armando "El Polaquito" López, lightweight boxer
- Armando Martínez
Armando Martínez Limendu is a Cuban boxer. At 18 years of age he won the gold medal in the Light Middleweight category at the 1980 Summer Olympics, beating Aleksandr Koshkyn in the final....
, light middle-weight olympic boxer
- Benny Paret
Benny "Kid" Paret, born Bernardo Paret , born in Santa Clara, Cuba, was a Cuban welterweight boxer.-Boxing career:...
, boxer
- Eliseo Castillo
Eliseo Castillo is a professional boxer.He is the younger brother of tough Elieser Castillo, Cuban southpaw Heavyweight. -Amateur career:...
, boxer
- Félix Savón
Félix Savón Fabre is a Cuban heavyweight boxer, a winner of three gold medals at the Olympic Games. Savón is 6 ft 5 in tall.- Early life and career :...
, olympic boxer
- Florentino Fernández, boxer
- Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz
Guillermo Rigondeaux is a Cuban professional boxer, who completely dominated as an amateur the bantamweight division at the onset of the 21st century....
, amateur boxer
- Joel Casamayor
Joel "El Cepillo" Casamayor Johnson is a Cuban boxer, who turned pro after defecting to the United States on the eve of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The nickname "El Cepillo", literally translated to "the brush", comes from his uppercut, which rakes his opponents across the face...
, boxer
- Jorge Rubio
Jorge Enrique Rubio is a Cuban trainer in the sport of boxing. Rubio was a trainer of the Cuban National Amateur boxing team. Today, Rubio trains numerous professional fighters in Miami, Florida, including Gil Reyes, Juan Arroyo, and Stacey Reile. Rubio was announced as Amir Khan's trainer on July...
, boxing trainer
- José Napoles
José Ángel Nápoles, nicknamed Mantequilla , is a Cuban former world welterweight boxing champion. Napoles is a national hero both in Cuba and Mexico, and is a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame.- Cuba :...
, boxer
- Juan "Baby Face" Medina, featherweight boxer
- Kid Charol, boxer
- Elpidio Pizarro, heavyweight boxer
- Kid Chocolate
Eligio Sardiñas Montalvo , better known as Kid Chocolate, was a Cuban boxer who enjoyed wild success both in the boxing ring and in society life during a span of the 1930s.-Biography:...
, boxer
- Kid Gavilan
Gerardo González , better known in the boxing world as Kid Gavilan, was a former gardener and world welterweight champion from Cuba...
, boxer
- Lorenzo Aragon Armenteros
Lorenzo Aragón Armenteros is a Cuban boxer, who was a double world champ in the welterweight category.-Amateur career:...
olympic welterweight boxer
- Luis Manuel Rodríguez
Luis Manuel Rodríguez was a smooth boxing Cuban former world welterweight boxing champion. Known as "El Feo", Rodriguez began his career in pre-Castro Havana. In Cuba, Rodriguez twice defeated the ill-fated future welterweight champion Benny Kid Paret.After, the Cuban Revolution, Rodríguez...
, boxer
- Mario César Kindelán Mesa
Mario César Kindelán Mesa is a former two time Olympic Gold Medalist amateur boxer from Cuba, who competed in the lightweight category...
, Olympic gold medal winning boxer
- Raúl González
Raúl González Sánchez is a boxer from Cuba, who won the silver medal in the Men's Flyweight Division at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. In the final he lost to North Korea's Choi Chol-Su...
, boxer
- Roberto Balado
Roberto Balado Méndez was a Cuban boxer. At the 1992 Summer Olympics he won a Gold medal in the men's Super Heavyweight category. Roberto Balado Mendez was marry to Anita Dorena Washington Who giving brith to his Son know as Rob Scott After his grandmother gave him the legacy of his father...
, Olympic Super Heavyweight boxer
- Sugar Ramos
Ultiminio "Sugar" Ramos is a Cuban boxer, who began his boxing career in his native country.-Exile:...
, world champion boxer
- Teófilo Stevenson
Teófilo Stevenson Lawrence or Teófilo Stevenson is a former Cuban amateur boxer. He is one of the only three boxers to win three Olympic gold medals, alongside Hungarian László Papp and fellow Cuban Felix Savon....
, amateur boxer
- Yan Bartelemí Light Flyweight gold gold medal winning boxer
- Yanqui Díaz
Yamplier Azcuy Díaz is a professional heavyweight boxer from Cuba, currently living and fighting out of Las Vegas, Nevada-Amateur career:...
, boxer
- Yudel Johnson Cedeno
Yudel Johnson Cedeno born 6 June 1981 is a Cuban Welterweight pro Boxer best known for winning Olympic Light-Welterweight Silver 2004 as an Amateur.Some sources write the family name Jhonson.-Amateur:...
Light-Welterweight Olympic Boxer
- Yuriorkis Gamboa Flyweight olympic gold medal winning boxer
Athletics
- Aldo Arencibia, cyclist, gold medalist
- Alberto Juantorena
Alberto Juantorena Danger is a Cuban former track athlete. At the 1976 Summer Olympics, he became the first and so far only athlete to win both the 400 and 800 m Olympic titles....
, track
- Aliecer Urrutia
Aliecer Urrutia is a former triple jumper from Cuba.Having set a personal best of 17.70 in 1996, he won a silver medal at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships and a bronze medal at the 1997 World Championships. He shares the men's world indoor record with Christian Olsson of Sweden with a mark...
, triple jump
- Ana Fidelia Quirot
Ana Fidelia Quirot is an athlete from Cuba, who specialised in the 800 m but was also successful over 400 m....
800m
- Anier García
Anier Octavio García Ortiz is a Cuban athlete, winner of 110 m hurdles at the 2000 Summer Olympics.Born in Santiago de Cuba, Anier García established his credentials early, by winning the 1995 Pan American Junior Championships...
, hurdler
- Dayron Robles
Dayron Robles is a hurdler who holds the current 110 metre hurdles world record of 12.87 seconds, which he set on June 12, 2008 at the Golden Spike Ostrava meet, and is the current Olympic champion....
, hurdling athlete
- Emeterio González
Emeterio González Silva is a Cuban javelin thrower, whos current personal best throw is 87.12 metres, achieved in June 2000 in Jena.-Achievements:...
, javelin thrower.
- Héctor Herrera
Héctor Herrera Ortiz is a retired 800 metres runner from Cuba who won an Olympic silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay in Barcelona 1992, together with teammates Lazaro Martínez, Norberto Téllez and Roberto Hernández....
, sprinter
- Ioamnet Quintero
Ioamnet Quintero Alvarez is a former high jumper from Cuba who competed in the women's high jump contest at the 1992 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal. She won a gold medal at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics.-External links:
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, high jumper
- Iván García
Iván García is a former sprinter from Cuba who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Sydney 2000. He specialized in the 200 metres event and won a silver medal at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships. He finished fourth at the 1993 IAAF World Indoor Championships...
, sprinter
- Iván Pedroso
Iván Lázaro Pedroso Soler is a retired Cuban athlete specializing in long jump.In July 1990, still at the age of 17, Pedroso jumped more than 8 meters for the first time. Facing tough competition from Carl Lewis, Mike Powell and others, he still won numerous gold medals in international...
, long jump
- Javier Sotomayor
Javier Sotomayor Sanabria is a Cuban former athlete who specialized in the high jump. He is tall. He is widely regarded as the best high jumper of all time....
, track and field record setter
- Joel Isasi
Joel Isasi González is a former sprinter from Cuba who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Barcelona 1992. His personal best of 10.22 and 21.64 was both set during 1995....
, sprinter
- Joel Lamela
Joel Lamela Loaces is a former sprinter from Cuba who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Barcelona 1992. He specialized in the 100 metres event, and his personal best of 10.53 was set during the 1991 World Championships....
, sprinter
- Jorge Aguilera
Jorge Luis Aguilera Ruiz is a former sprinter from Cuba who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Barcelona 1992. He specialized in the 100 metres event, and his personal best of 10.57 was set in Zürich, 1993....
, sprinter
- Lazaro Martínez
Lázaro Martínez Despaigne is a retired Cuban sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres.He won an Olympic silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay in Barcelona 1992. His personal best of 46.12 was set during the 1991 World Championships.He has a daughter, Nathalie, with retired Cuban high jumper...
, sprinter
- Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda
Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda is a former sprinter from Cuba who won an Olympic bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay in Sydney 2000. His personal best of 10.18 was set in 1997.-References:*...
, sprinter
- Osleidys Menéndez
Osleidys Menéndez Sáez is a Cuban athlete competing in the javelin throw. She is a former Olympic champion, world champion, and world record holder. She has been described as the female "Jan Železný" of her times.When winning the 2005 World Athletics Championships, Menéndez broke her own world...
, javelin
- Roberto Hernández (athlete)
- Roberto Moya
Roberto Saturnino Moya Sandoval is a Cuban athlete who mainly competed in discus throw.He was born in Havana, Ciudad de la Habana. He won the bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics in this event, and his personal best is 65.68.Moya became a Spanish citizen in August 2001.-References:*
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, discus throw
- Víctor Moya
Víctor Rafael Moya is a Cuban high jumper.Relatively young, he participated in his first major competition in the 2005 World Championships where he cleared 2.29 metres, a new personal best, and won a surprise silver medal along with Yaroslav Rybakov. Two weeks later in Brussels he set another...
, high jumper
- Yargelis Savigne
Yargelis Savigne Herrera is a Cuban athlete competing in the triple jump and long jump.Her international breakthrough came in 2005, when she, competing in both the triple and long jump events at the 2005 World Championships, won a silver medal and finished fourth...
, jump
- Yipsi Moreno
Yipsi Moreno González is a Cuban hammer thrower. She is a double world champion and Olympic silver medalist, a former world junior record holder and current area record holder...
, hammer thrower
- Yoandri Betanzos
Yoandri Betanzos Francis is a Cuban athlete competing in the triple jump.His personal best jump is 17.63 metres, achieved in February 2006 in Havana. This result places him fourth on the all-time Cuban performers list, behind Yoelbi Quesada, Lázaro Betancourt and Aliecer Urrutia...
, triple jump
- Yoel García
Yoel García Luis is a Cuban triple jumper who he won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics, equalling his personal best with 17.47...
, triple jumper
- Yoel Hernández hurdler
- Yudelkis Fernández
Yudelkis Fernández Luis is a Cuban long jumper.-Achievements:-External links:
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long jumper.
- Yunaika Crawford
Yunaika Crawford Rogert is a Cuban hammer thrower who won the Olympic bronze medal in 2004 with a personal best throw of 73.16 metres.-Early career:...
, hammer thrower
- Yuniel Hernández
Yuniel Hernández Solar is a retired Cuban hurdler.His personal best time is 13.26 seconds, achieved in July 2001 in Salamanca. The result places him sixth among Cuban 110 m hurdlers, behind Anier García, Dayron Robles, Emilio Valle, Alejandro Casañas and Yoel Hernández....
, hurdler
Swimming
- Joel Armas
Joel Armas y Hernandez is the U.S. record holder in finswimming.Mr. Armas is the son of Ceren Armas and Maria Hernandez. His father, an athlete who once trained for the Cuban national basketball, successfully left Cuba on boat in 1979. A few months later, he and his mother , unsuccessfully tried...
, record holder in the US in monofin swimming
- Neisser Bent
Neisser S. Bent Vázquez is a former international backstroke swimmer from Cuba, who swam at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics...
, bronze medalist at the 1996 Summer OlympicsThe 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....
- Rodolfo Falcón
Rodolfo A. Falcón Cabrera is a Olympic medalist backstroke swimmer from Cuba, who swam for his native country at the 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics.At the 1996 Games, he won the silver medal in the 100 back...
, silver medalist at the 1996 Summer OlympicsThe 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....
- Leonel "Bebito" Smith, gold medalist in the 1926 and 1930 Central American and Caribbean Games
The Central American and Caribbean Games are a multi-sport regional championships event, held quadrennial , typically in the middle year between Summer Olympics...
Other
- Deborah Andollo
Deborah Andollo is a free-diving athlete who holds several world records in different modalities. Her nicknames "Neptune's Girlfriend, Queen of the Caribbean or Mermaid of the Deep," associate her with the sea and her passion for the environment, as well as a sustainable relationship between man...
, Holds world-records in Free Diving.
- Alberto Delgado
Alberto Delgado y Perez is a Cuban soccer player, who, as of 2005, plays forward for the Puerto Rico Islanders of USL First Division.-Defection to the United States:...
, soccer
- Ivan Dominguez
Ivan Dominguez is a Cuban professional road bicycle racer for the UCI Continental Cycling Team Rock Racing. In 2009 Dominguez acquired U.S. citizenship....
, two time gold medalist in the Pan American GamesThe Pan American Games are a multi-sport event, held every four years in the year before the summer Olympic Games and between competitors from all nations in the Americas...
and Cuban national champion in cycling
- José Raúl Capablanca
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. He is often considered one of the greatest chess players of all time, and was renowned for his exceptional end game skill and speed of play...
, chess world champion, grandmaster considered "the Mozart of Chess"
- Héctor Socorro
Héctor Socorro was a Cuban footballer. He represented Cuba at the 1938 World Cup in France, scoring two goals in the two matches against Romania....
, footballerAssociation football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players using a spherical ball...
- Ibrahim Rojas
Ibrahim Rojas Blanco is a Cuban sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid 2000s....
, flatwater canoer
- Juan Corzo
Juan Corzo y Principe was a Spanish–Cuban chess master, champion of Cuba immediately preceding José Capablanca.Born in Madrid, Corzo emigrated to Cuba in 1887. He studied under Pichardo and became Champion of the Havana Chess Club. He is best known for losing to Capablanca in 1901 during that...
, chess
- Juan Tuñas
Juan "Romperredes" Tuñas is a former Cuban footballer. He played for the Cuban clubs Juventud Asturiana and Centro Gallego, and is the sole surviving member of the Cuba national football team that played at the 1938 FIFA World Cup in France, scoring a goal against Romania...
, former Cuban footballer
- Lázaro Bruzón
Lázaro Bruzón Batista is a chess grandmaster from Cuba. On the April 2009 FIDE list his Elo rating is 2617. Bruzón was the 2000 World Junior Chess Champion. In 2005 he won the American Continental Championship.-External links:**...
, chess grandmaster
- Rafael A. Lecuona
Rafael A. Lecuona is a former member of the Cuban gymnastics team and professor emeritus of Texas A&M International University in Laredo...
, gymnast
- Rey Ángel Martínez
Rey Ángel "Boom-Boom" Martínez is an Cuban soccer player who currently plays for Real Maryland Monarchs in the USL Second Division.-Professional:...
, soccer
- Tomás Fernández
Tomás Fernández , was a Cuban footballer.He represented Cuba at the 1938 FIFA World Cup in France, scoring a goal against Romania...
, footballer in the 1938 world cup
- Yanelis Yuliet Labrada Diaz
Yanelis Yuliet Labrada Diaz is a taekwondo silver medalist from Cuba in the Women's Under 49 kg event at the 2004 Summer Olympics....
, Olympic silver medallist in Taekwondo
- Maykel Galindo
Maykel Galindo is a Cuban soccer player who currently plays for Chivas USA in Major League Soccer.-Cuba:...
, soccer
- Jorge Sánchez Salgado
Jorge Luis Sánchez Salgado is a male volleyball player from Cuba, who played as a libero for the Men's National Team. He was a member of the national squad that claimed the bronze medal at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.-References:*
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, volleyball player
Current
- Abelardo Colomé Ibarra
Corps General Abelardo Colomé Ibarra is a Vice President of the Council of State of Cuba. He is the Minister of the Interior of the country. He is a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba...
vice president of the Council of State of CubaThe Council of State of Cuba is a 31-member body of the government of Cuba, elected by the National Assembly of People’s Power. It has the authority to exercise most legislative power between sessions of the National Assembly of People’s Power, subject to its approval, and to call the National...
- Alfonso Fraga-Perez, diplomat, Secretary General of the Organization of Solidarity of the People of Asia, Africa & Latin America (OSPAAAL), former Head of Cuban Interests Section
The Interests Section of the Republic of Cuba in Washington, DC represents the Cuban interests in the United States. The Cuban Interests Section and its counterpart, the United States Interests Section of the Embassy of Switzerland in Havana, Cuba or USINT Havana are formally sections of the...
- Carlos Lage Dávila
Carlos Lage Dávila is a Cuban politician. Until 2009, he was a Vice President of the Council of State of Cuba, a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Cuba, and Executive Secretary of the Council of Ministers of Cuba. Lage was described as Cuba's de facto prime minister.Lage trained as...
former executive Secretary of the Council of Ministers of CubaThe Council of Ministers is the highest ranking executive and administrative body and constitutes the government of the Republic of Cuba. It consists of the President, the First Vice President and the five Vice Presidents of the Council of State, the Secretary of the Executive Committee, the heads...
- Felipe Pérez Roque
Felipe Ramón Pérez Roque was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba from 1999 to 2009. At his appointment, he was not only the youngest member of the Cuban cabinet but also the only one to be born after the Cuban Revolution in 1959....
former Cuban government minister
- Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban politician, one of the primary leaders of the Cuban Revolution, the Prime Minister of Cuba from February 1959 to December 1976, and then the President of the Council of State of Cuba until his resignation from the office in February 2008...
, previous Cuban President
- José Luis Rodríguez García
José Luis Rodríguez García was the Cuban Minister of Economy and Planning. He was also a Vice President of the Cuban Council of Ministers and an elected member of the National Assembly of Cuba. Rodríguez was Minister of Economy and Planning since 1998...
Cuban government ministerThe Council of Ministers is the highest ranking executive and administrative body and constitutes the government of the Republic of Cuba. It consists of the President, the First Vice President and the five Vice Presidents of the Council of State, the Secretary of the Executive Committee, the heads...
- José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera
José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera is the current Minister for Health in Cuba. He is also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Cuba and a member of the Council of State of Cuba...
, current Minister for Health in Cuba
- Juan Almeida Bosque
Juan Almeida Bosque was a Cuban politician and one of the original commanders of the Cuban Revolution. After the Revolution, he was a prominent figure in the Communist Party of Cuba; at the time of his death in 2009, he was a Vice-President of the Cuban Council of State and was its third ranking...
third ranking member of the Cuban Council of State
- Luis Posada Carriles
Luis Clemente Faustino Posada Carriles is a Cuban-born Venezuelan anti-Castro terrorist...
Cuban paramilitary leader, accused terrorist
- Mariela Castro
Mariela Castro Espín is the director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education in Havana and an activist for LGBT rights in Cuba....
, director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education and daughter of Raul Castro
- Oscar Elías Biscet
Oscar Elías Biscet González , is a Cuban medical professional and a noted advocate for human rights and democratic freedoms in Cuba. He is also the founder of the Lawton Foundation....
, physician and dissident and founder of the Lawton FoundationThe Lawton Foundation was founded in 1997 in Havana, Cuba, as a non-governmental organization to promote the "study, defense and denunciation of human rights inside Cuba". The group was formed by Christian anti-abortion activist Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet González and is made up of adult Cuban citizens...
, currently jailed.
- Oswaldo Payá
Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas is a political activist in Cuba and is considered that country's most prominent political dissident...
, Founder of Proyecto Varela.
- Raúl Castro
Brigadier-General ' Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz is the President of the Cuban Council of State and the President of the Council of Ministers of Cuba...
, current President of the Council of State of CubaThe Council of State of Cuba is a 31-member body of the government of Cuba, elected by the National Assembly of People’s Power. It has the authority to exercise most legislative power between sessions of the National Assembly of People’s Power, subject to its approval, and to call the National...
- Liaena Hernandez Martínez
Liaena Hernandez Martínez is the youngest member of the Cuban National Assembly. During the opening of the 2008 Cuban National Assembly, after the Cuban legislative election, 2008, "Eighteen-year old legislator Liaena Hernandez Martínez read the oath in which each member of the new legislature...
, youngest member of the Cuban National Assembly
- Roberto Fernández Retamar
Roberto Fernández Retamar is a Cuban poet, essayist, literary critic and President of the Casa de las Américas. In his role as President of the organization, Fernández also serves on the Council of State of Cuba. An early close confidant of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, he has remained a central...
President of the Casa de las AméricasCasa de las Américas is an organization that was founded by the Cuban Government in April 1959, four months after the Cuban Revolution, for the purpose of developing and extending the socio-cultural relations with the countries of Latin America, the Caribbean and the rest of the world...
- Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada
Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada is a Cuban politician who has been the President of the National Assembly of People's Power of Cuba since 1993. A graduate of the University of Havana with a doctorate in philosophy, he served in various diplomatic posts following the Cuban Revolution.-Biography:Alarcón...
President of the Cuban National Assembly
- Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín
Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín was the Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment in Cuba. Her role in government includes raising awareness of environmental issues amongst Cubans.-Career:...
former Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment.
Historical
- Abel Santamaría
Abel Santamaria was an important leader in the Cuban Revolutionary movement. Abel and his sister Haydee let revolutionaries like Fidel Castro use their tiny two-room apartment on the corner of O and 25th streets in Havana to plan the revolution. Abel and Haydee participated in the Moncada barracks...
Cuban Revolutionary
- Alcibiades Hidalgo
Alcibiades Hidalgo Basulto was Raúl Castro's Chief of Staff for twelve years and also served as Deputy Foreign Minister. Later he served as Cuba's ambassador to the United Nations replacing Ricardo Alarcón...
former ambassador to the U.N.
- Ana Betancourt
Ana Betancourt was a Cuban woman who took a leading role in the war of independence from Spain. She is a national heroine in Cuba.-Life:...
first to campaign for equal rights for Cuban women, in 1868 during the Ten Years' WarThe Ten Years' War , , also known as the Great War, began on October 10, 1868 when sugar mill owner Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and his followers proclaimed Cuba's independence from Spain. It was the first of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Little War ...
- Andrés Rivero Agüero
Not to be confused with Andrés Rivero Puente: Local Deputy in the Congress of Colima, member of PAN, and former President of Seguros ING, S.A. de C.V....
, Cuba's prime minister from March 1957 to March 1958
- Anselmo Alliegro
Anselmo Alliegro y Milá was a Cuban politician who served as the Acting President of Cuba for one day after the departure of General Fulgencio Batista from the country....
, Acting President of Cuba for one day (1-2 January 1959) after the departure of General Fulgencio Batista from the country.
- Antonio Guiteras
Antonio Guiteras y Holmes was a leading politician in Cuba during the 1930s....
, politician and revolutionary.
- Antonio Maceo
Antonio Maceo may refer to:*Antonio Maceo Grajales, commander in the Cuban revolutionary army*Antonio Maceo, a municipality of Santiago de Cuba named for the general*Antonio Maceo Airport, serving Santiago de Cuba...
, revolutionary, military strategist
- Armando Hart Dávalos politician and Communist leader.
- Camilo Cienfuegos
Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán was a Cuban revolutionary born in Lawton, Havana City. Raised in an anarchist family, he became a key figure of the Cuban Revolution, along with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Raúl Castro and Huber Matos.-Political awakening:In 1940 Camilo enrolled in the "San Alejandro"...
Cuban Revolutionary.
- Carlos Hevia
Carlos Hevia y Reyes-Gavilan was the 8th President of Cuba, serving for less than two days. During the third week of 1934, Hevia was President from 5:00 p.m. on Monday, January 15, until 1:20 a.m. on Thursday, January 18 . Cuban junta leader Fulgencio Batista had obtained the resignation of...
, provisional president of Cuba 1934.
- Carlos Manuel Piedra
Carlos Manuel Piedra y Piedra held the presidency of Cuba for a single day during the transition of power between Fulgencio Batista and revolutionary leader Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution...
Acting President of Cuba for one day (2 January 1959) after the departure of General Fulgencio Batista from the country.
- Carlos Prio Socarras
Carlos Prío Socarrás was the 16th President of Cuba from 1948 until he was deposed by a military coup led by Fulgencio Batista on March 10, 1952, three months before new elections were to be held .- Governance :...
, former President of Cuba.
- Celia Sánchez
Celia Sánchez Manduley was a participant of the Cuban Revolution and a close friend, and rumored lover of Fidel Castro. She was born in Media Luna, Granma Province, Cuba. Sánchez joined the struggle against the Batista government following the coup of 10 March 1952 and was one of the first...
Cuban Revolutionary and Secretary to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.
- Eduardo Chibás
Eduardo René Chibás Rivas was a Cuban politician who used radio to broadcast his political views to the public. He primarily denounced corruption and gangsterism rampant during the governments of Ramón Grau and Carlos Prío Socarrás which preceded the Batista era...
, Cuban politician who used radio to broadcast his political views against Batista's government to the public.
- Federico Laredo Brú
Dr. Federico Laredo Brú was an attorney and served as the 13th President of Cuba from 1936 to 1940. He was married to Leonor Montes.-Rise to power:...
, President of Cuba from 1936 to 1940
- Fernando Tarrida del Mármol
Fernando Tarrida del Mármol , was a Cuban anarchist writer. He was born in Havana to a wealthy family of Catalan emigrants, and was the nephew of Cuban general Donato Mármol. He studied engineering in Barcelona, Toulouse and Madrid, becoming professor and director of the Polytechnic School of...
, Cuban anarchist.
- Fabio Grobart
Fabio Grobart was born in Bialystok, Poland August 30, 1905; his birth name was Abraham Grobart aka Abraham Simjovitch. Apparently following orders of the Comintern, during the early 1920s he became a founding member of the Cuban Communist Party...
, Communist leader.
- Fulgencio Batista
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was a Cuban general, President, and U.S.-backed dictator. He served as the leader of Cuba from 1933-1944, and 1952-1959, before being overthrown as a result of the Cuban Revolution.-Early life:...
, former Cuban President.
- Frank País
Frank País was a Cuban revolutionary who campaigned for the overthrow of General Fulgencio Batista's government in Cuba...
, 20th century revolutionary.
- Gerardo Machado
Gerardo Machado y Morales was the 5th President of Cuba and a general of the Cuban War of Independence...
, Cuban president 1920-33
- Gustavo Arcos
Gustavo Arcos Bergnes was a fellow Cuban revolutionary alongside Fidel Castro who later became an imprisoned dissident of the government...
, Cuban Revolutionary later became an imprisoned dissident .
- Huber Matos
Huber Matos Benítez was a Cuban revolutionary who helped successfully overthrow General Fulgencio Batista in concert with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Camilo Cienfuegos, Raúl Castro and members of the 26th of July Movement...
, Cuban Revolutionary
- Ignacio Agramonte
Ignacio Agramonte y Loynáz was a Cuban revolutionary, who played an important part in the Ten Years' War .Born in the province of Puerto Príncipe on December 23, 1841, to a wealthy family. He went to Barcelona, Madrid, and Havana to study law...
, 19th century Cuban revolutionary
- José Miró Cardona
José Miró Cardona was a Cuban politician. He served as Prime Minister for a period of some six weeks in early 1959, following his appointment by President Manuel Urrutia on January 5, 1959...
, President of Cuba in 1959
- Jose Marti
José Julián Martí Pérez was a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature. In his short life he was a poet, an essayist, a journalist, a revolutionary philosopher, a translator, a professor, a publisher, and a political theorist...
, Poet, Philosopher, Politician, Writer, Revolutionary
- Juan Carlos Robinson Agramonte
Juan Carlos Robinson Agramonte , was a member of the Cuban politburo and First Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Cuban Communist Party in Santiago de Cuba. In April 2006 he was dismissed from the Politburo, and in June he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for corruption. -External...
, former member of the Cuban politburo and First Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Cuban Communist Party in Santiago de Cuba.
- Julio Antonio Mella
Julio Antonio Mella was a founder of the "internationalized" Cuban Communist Party.Mella studied law in the University of Havana until he was expelled in 1925 and is considered a hero by the present Cuban government. Some Cubans view him as a victim of the Stalin-Trotsky struggle...
founder of the original Cuban Communist Party
- Manuel Piñeiro
Manuel Piñeiro Losada , known as Barba Roja , was a Cuban political and military figure, a leading character of the Cuban Revolution, as the first head of Fidel Castro's security apparatus...
, First head of the Cuban General Intelligence DirectorateThe Intelligence Directorate is the main state intelligence agency of the government of Cuba. The DI, under the big umbrella of the MININT, was founded in late 1961 by Cuba's Ministry of the Interior shortly after the Cuban Revolution...
- Manuel Urrutia Lleó
Manuel Urrutia Lleó was a Cuban lawyer and politician. Urrutia campaigned against the Gerardo Machado government and the second presidency of Fulgencio Batista during the 1950s, before serving as president in the first revolutionary government of 1959...
, provisional Cuban President January to July 1959.
- Miguel Mariano Gómez
Miguel Mariano Gómez y Arias , was a Cuban politician who served as the 12th President of Cuba for seven months in 1936....
, President of Cuba for seven months in 1936.
- Paul Lafargue
Paul Lafargue was a French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, literary critic, political writer and activist; he was Karl Marx's son-in-law, having married his second daughter Laura. His best known work is The Right to Be Lazy...
, Cuban-born French Communist and son-in-law to Karl MarxKarl Heinrich Marx was a Germanphilosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist and revolutionary, whose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism...
.
- Rafael Diaz-Balart
Rafael Lincoln Díaz-Balart y Gutiérrez was a Cuban politician born in Banes who served as Majority Leader of the Cuban House of Representatives and Minister of the Interior during the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista....
, Cuban politician and majority leader during presidency of Batista
- Ramón Grau
Dr. Ramón Grau San Martín was a Cuban physician and the 7th and 15th President of Cuba .-Youth:...
, Cuban president for two terms 1933, 1940-44.
- Saturnino and Mariano Lora
The War of Independence of Cuba started on 24 February 1895, under the intellectual leadership of the writer and philosopher José Martí, who is considered by all Cubans as Father of the Country...
Brothers and 19th century revolutionaries
- Vilma Espín Guillois, President of the Cuban Federation of Women
Women in Cuba have equal constitutional rights as men in the economic, political, cultural and social fields, as well as in the family. According to article 44 of the Cuban Constitution, the state guarantees women the same opportunities and possibilities as men, in order to achieve woman’s full...
, wife of Raúl Castro.
- Virgilio Paz Romero
Virgilio Paz Romero is an anti-Castro Cuban exile, involved in various anti-communist acts. He has been accused of taking part in Operation Condor, carrying out Chilean former minister Orlando Letelier's murder in Washington, D.C...
, anti Castro paramilitary
Religion
- Alfredo Llaguno-Canals
Alfredo Ignacio Llaguno Canals was the Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Havana....
- former Auxiliary Bishop of Havana
- Miguel A. De La Torre
Miguel A. De La Torre is an associate-professor of social ethics at Iliff School of Theology, a religious scholar, author, and an ordained minister.-Biography:...
, prolific author on Hispanic religiosity
- Agustin Roman
Agustin Roman is the retired Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Miami.His parents were Rosendo Román and Juana M. Rodríguez...
- retired Auxiliary Bishop of Miami
- Braulio Orue-Vivanco
Braulio Orue-Vivanco was the first Bishop of the Diocese of Pinar del Rio....
- former Bishop of Pinar del Rio
- Eduardo Tomas Boza-Masvidal - former Auxiliary Bishop of Havana
- Félix Varela
Félix Varela y Morales was a great notable figure in the Roman Catholic Church of Cuba.He was born in Havana, Cuba and died in St. Augustine, Florida, United States. He studied to become a Roman Catholic Priest in San Carlos and San Ambrosio Seminary in Havana, the only seminary in Cuba. He also...
, beatified priest, candidate for sainthood
- Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cardinal Archbishop
In Christianity, an archbishop is an elevated bishop. In many Christian Churches, this means that they lead a diocese of particular importance called an archdiocese, or in the Anglican Communion an Ecclesiastical Province, but this is not always the case. An archbishop is equivalent to a bishop in...
of HavanaHavana is the capital city, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city is one of the 14 Cuban provinces. The city/province has 2.4 million inhabitants, and the urban area over 3.7 million, making Havana the largest city in both Cuba and the Caribbean region...
- Meyer Rosenbaum
Chief Rabbi Meyer Rosenbaum was the spiritual leader of the Kehilla Adath Israel and the Chief Rabbi of Cuba from 1942 to 1958. Rabbi Rosenbaum was the founder of the Tahkemoni School in Havana . He also authored many scholarly works in Hebrew, Yiddish, and Spanish.Chief Rabbi Rosenbaum was a son...
, former Rabbi and spiritual leader in Havana
Royalty and nobility
- Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg is the spouse of Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg.-Early life and education:...
- Edelmira Ignacia Adriana Sampedro-Robato, Countess of Covadonga, first wife of Alfonso Prince of Asturias
- Marta Ester Rocafort-Altazarra
Marta Ester Rocafort y Altazarra, later hyphenated Rocafort-Altazarra was the second wife of the Count of Covadonga ....
, second wife of Alfonso Prince of Asturias
Military
- Emilio Mola Vidal (June 9, 1887 – June 3, 1937) was a Nationalist commander during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). He is best-known for coining the phrase "fifth column."
- Alberto Bayo y Giroud, a Cuban military leader of the defeated left-wing Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict that devastated Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939. It began after an attempted coup d'état by a group of Spanish Army generals against the government of the Second Spanish Republic, then under the leadership of president Manuel Azaña...
.
- Antonio Maceo Grajales
Lt. General Antonio de la Caridad Maceo y Grajales was second-in-command of the Cuban Army of Independence....
, Second-in-command of the Cuban army of independence
- Arnaldo Ochoa
Arnaldo T. Ochoa Sánchez was a prominent Cuban general who was executed after being found guilty of treason by a Cuban court.-Career:Ochoa was born from an old Oriente area family of farmers...
, Cuban General
- Calixto García
Calixto García e Iñiguez was a general in three Cuban uprisings, part of the Cuban War for Independence: Ten Years' War, the Little War and the War of 1895, itself sometimes called the Cuban War for Independence, which bled into the Spanish-American War, ultimately resulting in national...
, Cuban soldier in the Ten Years' WarThe Ten Years' War , , also known as the Great War, began on October 10, 1868 when sugar mill owner Carlos Manuel de Céspedes and his followers proclaimed Cuba's independence from Spain. It was the first of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Little War ...
- Carlos Manuel de Céspedes
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo was a Cuban planter who freed his slaves, and made the declaration of Cuban independence in 1868 which started the Ten Years' War...
, Cuban General in the war of independence against the Spanish
- Jesús Sosa Blanco
Jesús Sosa Blanco was a colonel in the Cuban army under Fulgencio Batista.After Fidel Castro came to power on February 16, 1959, Sosa was arrested and charged with having committed 108 murders for Batista. His trial took place in the Havana Sports Palace, before 17,000 spectators. Many of those...
, captain in the Cuban army under Fulgencio Batista.
- José Braulio Alemán
José Braulio Alemán was a Cuban Brigadier General in the Spanish-American War, promoted to Mayor General after the war....
, Cuban general in the Spanish-American WarThe Spanish–American War was an armed military conflict between Spain and the United States that took place between April and August 1898, over the issues of the liberation of Cuba. The war began after American demands for the resolution of the Cuban fight for independence were rejected by Spain...
.
- José Miguel Gómez
José Miguel Gómez was a Cuban General in the Cuban War of Independence who went on to become the second President of Cuba.-Early career:...
, Cuban General in the war of independence against the Spanish
- Manuel Artime
Manuel Francisco Artime Buesa, M.D. was a Cuban-American who was the political leader of Brigade 2506 land forces in the abortive Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba in April 1961.-Biography:...
, leader of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.
- Máximo Gómez
Máximo Gómez y Báez was a Major General in the Ten Years' War and Cuba's military commander in that country's War of Independence ....
, 19th century leader of Cuban forces in the wars of independence
- Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz
Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz was Chief of the Revolutionary Air Force of Cuba under Fidel Castro, before and after the 1959 Cuban Revolution.-Life in Cuba:...
, Chief Air Force Commander and member of Operation 40Operation 40 was a Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored undercover operation in the early 1960s, which was active in the Caribbean , Central America, and Mexico. Created by President Dwight D...
- Víctor Dreke
Víctor Emilio Dreke Cruz is a Cuban Communist leader and a General in the Revolutionary Armed Forces.During the Cuban Revolution in 1959 and the years that followed, Dreke was one of the commanders of the so-called Lucha Contra Bandidos , a war against the CIA-backed anti-communist forces in the...
, Communist leader and a General in the Revolutionary Armed Forces.
- Tomás Diez Acosta
Tomás Diez Acosta is a Cuba revolutionary soldier and a teacher and writer of history.Tomás Diez Acosta joined Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces in 1961, when he was only 16 years old. From 1970 to 1986 he taught history at a Military Academy in Cuba, and has been head of the Department of...
, revolutionary soldier and historian
Science
- Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez was the first Cuban cosmonaut and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel into earth orbit. He was also the first Hispanophone and first Black person in space.Born in Guantánamo, Tamayo graduated from the Cuban Air...
, First Cuban cosmonaut and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the U.S. to travel to space
- Carlos Juan Finlay
Carlos Juan Finlay was a Cuban physician and scientist, recognized as a pioneer in yellow fever research.- Early life and education :...
, epidemiologist, proposed the mode of transmission of yellow fever and was instrumental in assisting Walter ReedMajor Walter Reed, M.D., was a U.S. Army physician who in 1900 led the team which postulated and confirmed the theory that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes, rather than by direct contact...
with his studies in Cuba
- Celia Hart
Celia Hart was a Cuban physicist and writer. Until May 2006, she was a member of the Cuban Communist Party. She was the daughter of two historic leaders of the Cuban Revolution, Haydee Santamaria and Armando Hart ....
, Cuban physicist
- Felipe Poey
Felipe Poey y Aloy was a Cuban zoologist.-Biography:Poey was born in Havana, the son of French and Spanish parents. He spent several years of his life in Pau then studied law in Madrid. He became a lawyer in Spain but was forced to leave due to his liberal ideas, returning to Cuba in 1823...
, zoologist
- Hilda Molina
Dr Hilda Molina is the former chief neurosurgeon of Cuba. Molina was also a deputy in the Cuban National Assembly but has been a critic of the Cuban government since the early 1990s. Her criticisms focus primarily on Cuba's state-governed healthcare system....
, former chief neuro-surgeon in Cuba.
- José López Falcón
José Armando López Falcón is a former Cuban cosmonaut and captain and pilot of the Air Force. He graduated from military pilot school "Carlos Ullo" in 1967. He also graduated from Gagarin Military, Monino. He was selected as backup for Soyuz 38 of Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez. He was pilot again in...
, cosmonaut and pilot for the Cuban air force
- Luis Alvarez
Luis W. Alvarez was an American experimental physicist and inventor, who spent nearly all of his long professional career on the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley...
, winner of the 1968 Nobel PrizeThe Nobel Prize is a Sweden-based international monetary prize. The award was established by the 1895 will and estate of Swedish chemist and inventor Alfred Nobel. It was first awarded in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace in 1901...
in PhysicsPhysics is a natural science; it is the study of matter and its motion through spacetime and all that derives from these, such as energy and force...
, worked on the Manhattan ProjectThe Manhattan Project was the codename for a project conducted during World War II to develop the first atomic bomb. The project was led by the United States, and included scientists from Denmark, The United Kingdom and Canada...
- Juan Gundlach
Juan Cristóbal Gundlach , born Johannes Christoph Gundlach was a Cuban naturalist and taxonomist.-Biography:Gundlach graduated from Marburg University, where his father was professor of physics, as Doctor of Philosophy in 1837. In 1839 he left Europe to make collections on the Caribbean island of...
, 19th century naturalistNatural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards the observational than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research that is published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the natural sciences, Natural history is the systematic...
and taxonomist.
Other categories
- Ramón Castro
Ramón Eusebio Castro Ruz is the older brother of Fidel and Raúl Castro and a key figure of the Cuban Revolution.As the eldest male Castro sibling, Ramón remained at home at the onset of the revolution, looking after his parents and the sizable farm owned by the family...
, older brother of Fidel and Raúl Castro
- Mirta Diaz-Balart
Mirta Francisca de la Caridad Díaz-Balart y Gutiérrez was Fidel Castro's first wife, daughter of Rafael José Díaz-Balart and wife América Gutiérrez. She was a fellow student at the University of Havana, studying Philosophy, when Fidel married her...
, Fidel Castro's first wife
- Delfín Fernández
To see article about the drummer of Los Salvajes, go to Delfín Fernández .Delfín Fernández is a former Cuban spy who spent 15 years working for the Cuban counterintelligence Department 11 with the codename Agent Otto. He defected from Cuba and moved to Spain in 1999. He settled in Spain for five...
, High ranking in government, defected to Spain
- Gregorio Fuentes
Gregorio Fuentes was a fisherman and the first mate of the Pilar - the boat belonging to the American writer Ernest Hemingway....
, Cuban nautical captain
- Elián González
The custody and immigration status of a young Cuban boy, Elián González , was at the center of a heated controversy in 2000 involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, his father, his Miami and Cuban relatives, and the Cuban-American community of Miami...
, boy who came to the US, leading to a custody battle between his American family and his father in Cuba
- Jose Miguel Battle, Sr. Former Godfather of the Cuban Mafia
- History of the Cuban Mafia :The Cuban Mafia was formed after the mass influx of Cuban exiles into the United States starting in the 1960s, but particularly in the late 1970s and 1980s....
- Ignacio José Urrutia
Ignacio Jose Urrutia was a Cuban historian. He was born in 1730, died 1795. His most famous work, Teatro historico, juridico y politico-militar de la isla Fernandina de Cuba, was published in 1789.-Sources:...
, Historian born in 1730
- Nitza Villapol
Nitza Villapol was a chef, cookbook writer, and television host in Cuba. She has been called, by some, the Cuban Julia Child for her ability to communicate culinary arts to a popular audience. Born in New York to Cuban immigrants, she moved with her family to their native Cuba at the age of 9. She...
, Cuban chef
Non-resident Cubans
List of Cuban-Americans List of Cuban-Mexicans List of Cuban-Spaniards
Dane BowersDane Bowers is an English pop singer, songwriter and record producer. He has performed on eleven Top 10 singles, seven of them as part of the R&B boyband, Another Level.-Career:...
Guillermo Cabrera InfanteGuillermo Cabrera Infante was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín....
Yat-Sen ChangYat-Sen Chang is a Cuban principal dancer in the English National Ballet.Yat-Sen Chang is a Chinese Cuban born in Matanzas, Cuba. Yat-Sen Chang studied dance at the Cuban National Ballet School, beginning his studies at the age of nine...
Sienna GuillorySienna Tiggy Guillory is an English actress, and a former model. She is the daughter of Isaac Guillory, an Anglo-Cuban folk guitarist, and the family environment gave her an interest in the entertainment industry. She has been featured in numerous British and American productions...
William Montagu IznagaWilliam Angus Drogo Montagu Iznaga, 9th Duke of Manchester, etc , known as Lord Kimbolton from 1877 to 1890 and as Viscount Mandeville from 1890 to 1892, was a British peer and Liberal politician.William Angus was the son of George Montagu, 8th Duke of Manchester, and wife María Consuelo Iznaga del...
Maria Consuelo Iznaga ClemensMARIA CONSUELO IZNAGA y CLEMENS , born 1858 in Ravenswood, La.; died 20 Nov 1909 in London, UK. She married on 22 May 1876 in New York City, NY SIR GEORGE VICTOR DROGO MONTAGU, born 17 Jun 1853 in Kimbelton, Ireland; died 18 Aug 1892 in Tanderagee, Ireland, son of SIR WILLIAM DROGO MONTAGU and...
Taismary AgüeroTaismary Agüero Leiva Botteghi is a Cuban-born Italian volleyball player.- Life :Born in the province of Sancti Spiritus, when 8 year old she began to play volleyball; two years later she entered in the Cerro Pelado Training Center in Havana...
Mirka FranciaMirka Francia is a Cuban-Italian volleyball player who has won two Olympic gold medals with the Cuba women's national volleyball team...
Libania GrenotLibania Grenot Martinez Scafetti is a Cuban born Italian female athlete.Born in Santiago de Cuba on 12 July 1983, she started her sports career in track and field athletics. In 2006 she married an Italian man and relocated to Casalpalocco, a borough in Rome. She acquired Italian citizenship in...
Magdelín MartínezMagdelín Martínez is a triple jumper, competing internationally for Italy.She originally represented Cuba. She won the bronze medal at the 1999 Pan American Games. She jumped 14.27 metres in 1998 and 14.40 metres in 2000.She met future husband, Giuseppe Piccotti, while he was holidaying in the...
Alex CabreraAlex Cabrera is a Venezuelan first baseman and right-handed batter who played in Major League Baseball for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Nippon Professional Baseball for the Seibu Lions in Japan...
Majandra DelfinoMajandra Delfino , is an Alma Award nominated American actress and singer best known for her role as Maria DeLuca on the television series Roswell.-Biography:...
Marieh DelfinoMarieh Delfino is an American actress.Delfino was born in Caracas, Venezuela to an entrepreneur father, and immigrated to the United States in 1984. Her sister is Majandra Delfino...
Viviana GibelliViviana Gibelli is a Venezuelan TV show host and former beauty queen. Her father is Brazilian-Italian and her mother from Cuba...
Arturo MirandaArturo Miranda is a Canadian diver and former vice-champion of the world in the synchronized springboard.Miranda finished in 5th in the synchronized 3m springboard event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with former world champion Alexandre Despatie. He was born in Havana, Cuba.- External...
Eduardo SebrangoEduardo Sebrango is a Cuban soccer player who currently plays for Montreal Impact in the USL First Division.-Club:...
Bárbara BermudoBárbara Bermudo is a Puerto Rican journalist of Cuban descent.-Biography:Bermudo was born in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. She hosts Primer Impacto, a Spanish language news program which covers predominantly human interest stories and is popular among the Hispanic population in the United States...
Mike LowellMichael Averett Lowell is a Puerto Rican Major League Baseball third baseman for the Boston Red Sox. He is a right-handed batter, and previously played with the New York Yankees and Florida Marlins .-Early years and personal life:Lowell, a lifelong Roman Catholic, was raised in Miami, Florida...
Carlos PonceCarlos Armando Ponce, Jr. is a Puerto Rican actor, singer, composer and TV personality, known as simply Carlos... He starred in the Telemundo serial Dame Chocolate .-Early years:...
Rita MarleyAlpharita Constantia Anderson, better known as Rita Marley, and sometimes called "Nana Rita", is the widow of legendary Reggae musician Bob Marley, and a member of the trio the I Threes, Bob Marley's back up singers.-Biography:...
Ziggy MarleyDavid Nesta "Ziggy" Marley is a four time Grammy-winning Jamaican musician and leader of the band Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers...
Lenny MartinezLenny Martínez is a vocalist and lyricist for the Danish Hip-Hop group Outlandish. He is known for rapping solely in Spanish. He was born in 1974 in Honduras, and is of Cuban and Honduran descent. He, alongside his fellow band members, is devoutly religious, yet unlike his counterparts he is a...
Mariane PearlMariane van Neyenhoff Pearl is a French freelance journalist and a reporter and columnist for Glamour magazine. She is the widow of Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in early 2002.Pearl was born in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine,...
Oscar IsaacOscar Isaac is a Guatemalan actor.-Personal life:Isaac was born in Guatemala to a Cuban father and a Guatemalan mother but was raised in Miami, Florida. He is also of French, Israeli, and other European descent. While in Miami, he played lead guitar and sang vocals for his band "The Blinking...
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