• Source: List of Cubans

This is a list of notable Cubans, ordered alphabetically by first name within each category.




Additional lists


For Cuban-Americans please see List of Cuban Americans




Art and entertainment






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= Architects

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Raúl de Armas
Nicolas Arroyo
Max Borges Jr.
Max Borges del Junco
Felicia Chateloin
Leonardo Morales y Pedroso
Ricardo Porro
Antonio Quintana Simonetti
Eugenio Rayneri Piedra
Mario Romañach




= Artists, photographers and fashion designers

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Agustín Cárdenas, sculptor
Alberto Korda, photographer
Alexandre Arrechea, painter, sculptor
Amelia Peláez, painter
Baruj Salinas, painter
Carlos Enríquez, painter
Fidelio Ponce de León, painter
Herman Puig (born German Puig Paredes), photographer
Humberto Jesús Castro García, painter
José Bernal, painter
José Vilalta Saavedra, sculptor
Josignacio, creator of plastic paint medium, contemporary painter
Juan José Sicre, sculptor
Juan T. Vázquez Martín, painter
Lourdes Gomez Franca, painter
Luis Castaneda, photographer
Mario Perez, painter
Miguel Fleitas, painter, photographer
Miguel Rodez, painter, sculptor
Pedro Álvarez Castelló, painter
Rafael Consuegra, sculptor
Raúl Corrales, photographer
Raúl Martínez, pop artist, painter
Rene Mederos, poster artist and graphic designer
René Portocarrero, painter
Tomas Sanchez, painter
Victor Manuel, painter
Waldo Diaz-Balart, painter
Wifredo Lam, painter




= Authors and poets

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Alejo Carpentier, novelist
Antonio Benitez-Rojo, author
Brígida Agüero, poet
Daína Chaviano, author
Carilda Oliver Labra, poet
Domitila García de Coronado, writer and journalist
Dulce María Loynaz, author
Edmundo Desnoes, author
Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, author, poet
Guillermo Cabrera Infante, author
Heberto Padilla, poet
Héctor Zumbado, writer, journalist, humorist, critic
José Ignacio Rivero, author and journalist
Antonio Rodríguez Salvador, poet, author
José Lezama Lima, author, poet
José María Heredia y Campuzano, poet
José Martí, author, poet, journalist
David Masnata y de Quesada, author and historian
Julián del Casal, 19th-century poet
Leonardo Padura Fuentes, novelist, journalist
Mariano Brull, author
Nancy Morejón, author
José Gómez-Sicre, art critic and author
Nicolás Guillén, poet
Norberto Fuentes, author
Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, author, poet, painter
Pedro Luis Boitel, poet
Raúl Rivero, poet and journalist
Reinaldo Arenas, author
Severo Sarduy, poet
Virgilio Piñera, author, playwright, poet, short-story writer and essayist
Zoé Valdés, author
Cirilo Villaverde




= Composers

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Alejandro García Caturla, symphonic composer
Mariá Álvarez Rios, composer
Aurelio de la Vega, composer, lecturer, essayist and poet
Antonio María Romeu, composer
Arsenio Rodríguez, developer of the rumba
Didier Hernández, singer, composer; former member of Menudo and MDO
Ernesto Lecuona, often regarded as the greatest Cuban composer
Esteban Salas y Castro, 18th century Cuban baroque composer
Gonzalo Roig, often regarded as one of the greatest composers of Cuba, "Quiere me mucho"/ Cecilia Valdez
Ignacio Cervantes, Chopinesque piano composer
José White Lafitte, violinist and composer
Leo Brouwer, guitarist and composer
Yalil Guerra, composer
Amadeo Roldán, composer and violinist
Dámaso Pérez Prado, developer of the mambo
Armando Rodriguez-Gonzalez, composer
Antonio Rodríguez Ferrer, composer
René Touzet, composer, bandleader and pianist
Flores Chaviano, guitarist and composer
Danilo Avilés, composer
Magaly Ruiz, composer
José Ardévol, composer
Harold Gramatges, composer
Carlos Fariñas, composer
Roberto Valera, composer
Julián Orbón, composer
Margarita Lecuona, singer and composer




= Chess

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José Raúl Capablanca, chess world champion, grandmaster considered "the Mozart of Chess"
Juan Corzo, chess
Lázaro Bruzón, chess grandmaster
María Teresa Mora




= Musicians

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= Film directors

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Ernesto Daranas
Fernando Pérez
Humberto Padrón
Jorge Luis Sánchez
Juan Carlos Cremata
Juan Padrón
Miguel Coyula
Rodrigo García
Santiago Álvarez
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea




= Journalists

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Calixto Martínez
German Pinelli
Héctor Zumbado, writer, journalist, humorist, and critic
Idania Martínez Grandales, broadcaster, journalist and academic, and professor
Nicolás Guillén
Oscar Espinosa Chepe
Pablo de la Torriente Brau
Raúl Rivero
Rick Sanchez




= Dancers

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Alicia Alonso, Prima Ballerina Assoluta, director of the Cuban National Ballet (Ballet Nacional de Cuba)
Carlos Acosta, dancer
Sadaise Arencibia, star dancer with the Cuban National Ballet
Fernando Bujones, dancer
Jose Manuel Carreño, American Ballet Theatre principal dancer
Lydia Diaz Cruz, prima ballerina
Miguel Campaneria, ballet dancer, currently artistic director of the National Ballet Theater of Puerto Rico
Vida Guerra, video dancer
Yat-Sen Chang, principal dancer, English National Ballet




= Other entertainment

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Alvarez Guedes, comedian and author
Ana María Polo, television personality and lawyer
Alina María Hernández, "Cachita", television personality
Cristina Saralegui, magazine editor, talk show host (Cristina) and actress
Vida Guerra, model/actress
Lili Estefan, television personality and former model
Mauricio Zeilic, television personality
Mayra Verónica, model
Nelson Ascencio, comedian (Madtv)
Pedro Zamora, AIDS activist, featured on The Real World: San Francisco
Raúl De Molina, television personality
Raúl Musibay, Food Network chef and author
Rosaura Andreu, children's television entertainer




Sport






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= Boxing

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Adolfo Horta, featherweight Olympic boxer
Ariel Hernández, Middleweight Olympic boxer
Armando Martínez, light middle-weight Olympic boxer
Benny Paret, boxer
Eliseo Castillo, boxer
Félix Savón, Olympic boxer
Florentino Fernández, boxer
Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz, amateur boxer
Joel Casamayor, boxer
Jorge Rubio, boxing trainer
José Nápoles, boxer
Kid Charol, boxer
Kid Chocolate, boxer
Kid Gavilán, boxer
Lorenzo Aragon Armenteros, Olympic welterweight boxer
Luis Manuel Rodríguez, boxer
Mario César Kindelán Mesa, Olympic gold medal-winning boxer
Raúl González, boxer
Roberto Balado, Olympic super heavyweight boxer
Sugar Ramos, world champion boxer
Teófilo Stevenson, amateur boxer
Yan Bartelemí, light flyweight gold medal-winning boxer
Yanqui Díaz, boxer
Yudel Johnson Cedeno light-welterweight Olympic boxer
Yuriorkis Gamboa, flyweight Olympic gold medal-winning boxer




= Athletes

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= Swimming

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Joel Armas, record holder in the US in monofin swimming
Neisser Bent, bronze medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Rodolfo Falcón, silver medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Leonel "Bebito" Smith, gold medalist in the 1926 and 1930 Central American and Caribbean Games




= Other

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Deborah Andollo, holds world records in free diving
Alberto Delgado, soccer
Ivan Dominguez, two time gold medalist in the Pan American Games and Cuban national champion in cycling
Héctor Socorro, footballer
Ibrahim Rojas, flatwater canoer
Juan Tuñas, former Cuban footballer
Manrique Larduet, gymnast
Rey Ángel Martínez, soccer
Tomás Fernández, footballer in the 1938 World Cup
Yanelis Yuliet Labrada Diaz, Olympic silver medallist in Taekwondo
Maykel Galindo, soccer
Jorge Sánchez Salgado, volleyball player
Mijaín López, Greco-Roman wrestler




Politics






= Current

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Abelardo Colomé Ibarra, vice president of the Council of State of Cuba
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
Carlos Lage Dávila, former executive Secretary of the Council of Ministers of Cuba
Felipe Pérez Roque, former Cuban government minister
Fidel Castro, previous First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
José Luis Rodríguez García, Cuban government minister
José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera, current Minister for Health in Cuba
Juan Almeida Bosque, third ranking member of the Cuban Council of State
Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban paramilitary leader, accused terrorist
Mariela Castro, director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education and daughter of Raúl Castro
Oscar Elías Biscet, physician and dissident and founder of the Lawton Foundation, currently jailed
Oswaldo Payá, founder of Proyecto Varela
Raúl Castro, current First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
Liaena Hernandez Martínez, youngest member of the Cuban National Assembly
Roberto Fernández Retamar, President of the Casa de las Américas
Ricardo Alarcón, President of the Cuban National Assembly
Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín, former Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment
Pedro Pablo Prada Quintero, diplomat
Juan Valdés Figueroa, diplomat




= Historical

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Abel Santamaría, Cuban revolutionary
Alcibiades Hidalgo, former ambassador to the UN
Ana Betancourt, first to campaign for equal rights for Cuban women, in 1868 during the Ten Years' War
Andrés Rivero Agüero, Cuba's prime minister from March 1957 to March 1958
Anselmo Alliegro, acting president of Cuba for one day (1–2 January 1959) after the departure of General Fulgencio Batista from the country
Antonio Guiteras, politician and revolutionary
Antonio Maceo, revolutionary, military strategist
Armando Hart Dávalos, politician and Communist leader
Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary
Carlos Hevia, provisional president of Cuba 1934
Pilar Jorge de Tella, suffragist
Carlos Manuel Piedra, acting president of Cuba for one day (2 January 1959) after the departure of General Fulgencio Batista from the country
Carlos Prío Socarrás, former President of Cuba
Celia Sánchez, Cuban revolutionary and Secretary to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers
Cosme Torres Espinoza, ambassador to Zimbabwe
Eduardo Chibás, Cuban politician who used radio to broadcast his political views against Batista's government to the public
Federico Laredo Brú, President of Cuba from 1936 to 1940
Fernando Tarrida del Mármol, Cuban anarchist
Fabio Grobart, Communist leader
Fulgencio Batista, former Cuban President
Frank País, 20th century revolutionary
Gerardo Machado, Cuban president 1920–33
Gustavo Arcos, Cuban Revolutionary later became an imprisoned dissident
Huber Matos, Cuban Revolutionary
Ignacio Agramonte, 19th century Cuban revolutionary
Jorge Mas Canosa, founder of the Cuban American National Foundation
José Miró Cardona, President of Cuba in 1959
José Martí, poet, philosopher, politician, writer, revolutionary
Juan Carlos Robinson Agramonte, 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, founder of the original Cuban Communist Party
Jorge Payret, diplomat and academic
Leopoldo Cancio, deputy and Sectetary of Education
Manuel Piñeiro, first head of the Cuban General Intelligence Directorate
Manuel Urrutia Lleó, provisional Cuban President January to July 1959
Miguel Mariano Gómez, President of Cuba for seven months in 1936
Paul Lafargue, Cuban-born French Communist and son-in-law to Karl Marx
Pedro Pablo Cazañas, Cuban judge and politician
Rafael Diaz-Balart, Cuban politician and majority leader during presidency of Batista
Ramón Grau, Cuban president for two terms 1933, 1940–44
Saturnino and Mariano Lora, brothers and 19th century revolutionaries
Vilma Espín Guillois, President of the Cuban Federation of Women, wife of Raúl Castro
Virgilio Paz Romero, anti-Castro paramilitary




Religion


Alfredo Llaguno-Canals, former Auxiliary Bishop of Havana
Miguel A. De La Torre, prolific author on Hispanic religiosity
Agustin Roman, retired Auxiliary Bishop of Miami
Braulio Orue-Vivanco, former Bishop of Pinar del Río
Eduardo Tomas Boza-Masvidal, former Auxiliary Bishop of Havana
Félix Varela, beatified priest, candidate for sainthood
Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cardinal Archbishop of Havana
Meyer Rosenbaum, former rabbi and spiritual leader in Havana




Royalty and nobility


Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
Edelmira Ignacia Adriana Sampedro-Robato, Countess of Covadonga, first wife of Alfonso Prince of Asturias
Marta Ester Rocafort-Altazarra, second wife of Alfonso Prince of Asturias




Military


Adolfo Fernández Cavada, captain in the Union Army during the American Civil War who later served as commander-in-chief of the Cinco Villas during Cuba's Ten Year War
Alberto Bayo y Giroud, Cuban military leader of the defeated left-wing Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War
Antonio Maceo Grajales, second-in-command of the Cuban army of independence
Arnaldo Ochoa, Cuban general
Calixto García, Cuban soldier in the Ten Years' War
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban general in the war of independence against the Spanish
Eliseo Reyes Rodríguez, Cuban guerrillero
Emilio Mola Vidal (1887–1937), Nationalist commander during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39); known for coining the phrase "fifth column"
Federico Fernández Cavada, colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War; later commander-in-chief of all the Cuban forces during Cuba's Ten Year War
Jesús Sosa Blanco, captain in the Cuban army under Fulgencio Batista
José Braulio Alemán, Cuban general in the Spanish–American War
José Miguel Gómez, Cuban general in the war of independence against the Spanish
Julius Peter Garesché, lieutenant colonel in the Union Army who served as chief of staff, with the rank of lieutenant colonel to Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans
Loreta Janeta Velazquez, a.k.a. "Lieutenant Harry Buford", Velazquez was a Cuban-born woman who masqueraded as a male Confederate soldier during the Civil War
Manuel Artime, leader of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961
Máximo Gómez, 19th-century leader of Cuban forces in the wars of independence
Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz, chief air force commander and member of Operation 40
Víctor Dreke, Communist leader and a general in the Revolutionary Armed Forces
Tomás Diez Acosta, revolutionary soldier and historian
Víctor Ivo Acuña Velázquez, military commander
Pilar Garcia, pre-revolutionary Chief of National Police




Science


Luis Alvarez, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics, worked on the Manhattan Project
Agustin Walfredo Castellanos, physician
Carlos Juan Finlay, epidemiologist, proposed the mode of transmission of yellow fever and was instrumental in assisting Walter Reed with his studies in Cuba
Juan Gundlach, 19th century naturalist and taxonomist
Celia Hart, Cuban physicist
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, first Cuban cosmonaut and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the U.S. to travel to space
Hilda Molina, former chief neurosurgeon in Cuba
Felipe Poey, zoologist




Other categories


Sebastian Arcos Bergnes, human rights activist
Rosa Castellanos, military nurse
Ramón Castro, older brother of Fidel and Raúl Castro
Mirta Diaz-Balart, Fidel Castro's first wife
Enriqueta García y Martín, prominent Cuban socialite, businesswoman and landowner
Delfín Fernández, high ranking government official, defected to Spain
Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban nautical captain
Elián González, 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
Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven, Judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague
Dr. Eduardo J. Padrón, educator and college president
Jesús Permuy, human rights activist, architect, urban planner, community leader
Ignacio José Urrutia (born 1730), historian
Nitza Villapol, Cuban chef




Non-resident Cubans


List of Cuban-Americans
List of Cuban-Mexicans
Dane Bowers
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Yat-Sen Chang
Sienna Guillory
William Montagu (Yznaga)
Consuelo Yznaga
Taismary Agüero
Mirka Francia
Libania Grenot
Magdelín Martínez
Alex Cabrera
Majandra Delfino
Viviana Gibelli
Arturo Miranda
Eduardo Sebrango
Bárbara Bermudo
Mike Lowell
Carlos Ponce
Rita Marley
Ziggy Marley
Lenny Martinez
Mariane Pearl
Oscar Isaac




References






See also



List of people by nationality

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