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List of Cubans

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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

Actors

Architects

Artists, photographers and fashion designers

Main article: List of Cuban artists
Further information: List of Cuban painters

Authors and poets

Main article: List of Cuban writers
Further information: Cuban literature

Composers

Chess

Musicians

  • Aida Diestro, pianist, arranger
  • Albita, singer
  • Alfredo de la Fé, musician
  • Adalberto Álvarez, pianist, director, composer
  • Ana Cristina, singer, actress, composer
  • Ángel Reyes, violinist
  • AJ McLean, singer, member of American boyband The Backstreet Boys
  • Armando Peraza, percussionist
  • Arturo Sandoval, trumpeter
  • Arsenio Rodríguez, composer
  • Benny Moré, singer, songwriter, conductor, arranger
  • Bola de Nieve, singer, pianist
  • Cándido Fabré, musician, songwriter, singer
  • Carlos Manuel Pruneda, singer
  • Carlos Varela, singer, songwriter
  • Celia Cruz, singer
  • Celina González, singer-songwriter
  • Cesar "Pupy" Pedroso, pianist, musician
  • Christina Milian, singer
  • Chucho Valdés, pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger
  • Compay Segundo, musician, songwriter
  • Conchita Espinosa, pianist, teacher
  • Cuban Link, rapper
  • Cubanito 20.02, hip-hop band
  • Dave Lombardo, drummer
  • David Calzado, musician
  • Didier Hernández, singer, songwriter
  • Donna Maria Martinez, guitarist and singer
  • Elena Burke, singer
  • El Medico, timba musician
  • Eliades Ochoa, guitarist and singer
  • Emilio Estefan, producer, composer
  • Ernesto Lecuona, pianist, composer
  • Esther Borja, singer
  • Eusebio Delfín, singer
  • Francisco Aguabella, percussionist
  • German Nogueira Gomez, songwriter, composer, producer
  • Gloria Estefan, singer, composer
  • Gonzalo Rubalcaba, pianist
  • Guillermo Portabales, singer, songwriter
  • Guillermo Rubalcaba, musician
  • Harold Lopez Nussa, jazz pianist
  • Horacio Gutiérrez, concert pianist
  • Hubert de Blanck, pianist, composer
  • Ignacio Piñeiro, composer
  • Ibrahim Ferrer, musician
  • Issac Delgado, singer
  • Jacobo Rubalcaba, musician
  • Jorge Bolet, concert pianist
  • Juan Croucier, bassist
  • Juan Formell, composer
  • Juan de Marcos González, musician
  • La Lupe, singer
  • Lena, singer
  • Lissette, singer
  • Malena Burke, singer
  • Manuel Barrueco, classical guitarist
  • María Teresa Vera, composer, guitarist, singer
  • Mayra Verónica, singer
  • Miguel Matamoros, singer, composer
  • Moisés Valle, musician
  • Moisés Simons, composer
  • Mongo Santamaría, jazz musician
  • Moraima Secada, singer
  • Nelson Martinez, baritone
  • Ñico Saquito, composer, singer
  • Olga Guillot, singer
  • Omara Portuondo, singer
  • Orlando "Cachaito" López, bassist
  • Pablo Milanés, singer, songwriter
  • Pío Leyva, singer
  • Pitbull, rapper
  • Raul Paz, singer
  • Rey Ruiz, singer
  • Rita Montaner, singer
  • Roberto Faz, singer, conductor
  • Rubén González, pianist
  • Rudy Sarzo, rock bassist
  • Sen Dog, rapper
  • Silvio Rodríguez, singer, songwriter
  • Tico Torres, drummer, percussionist
  • Willy Chirino, singer, songwriter
  • Voltaire (musician), musician
  • Xavier Cugat, musician
  • Yalil Guerra, producer, musician, composer
  • Yotuel Romero, rapper

Film directors

Further information: Cinema of Cuba

Journalists

Dancers

Other entertainment

Sport

Baseball

Boxing

Athletes

Swimming

Other

Politics

Poet and writer José Martí

Current

Historical

  • 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
  • Carlos Manuel Piedra, acting president of Cuba for one day (2 January 1959) after the departure of General Fulgencio Batista from the country
  • Carlos Prio Socarras, 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

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
  • 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
  • Jesus Permuy, human rights activist, architect, urban planner, community leader
  • Ignacio José Urrutia (born 1730), historian
  • Nitza Villapol, Cuban chef

Non-resident Cubans

References

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Bloom, Harold (1994). The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. NY/San Diego/London: Harcourt Brace & Company. pp. 559–560. ISBN 978-1-57322-514-4.
  2. ^ "LORD MANDEVILLE'S WEDDING.;". The New York Times. Retrieved 12 July 2015., Retrieved 5 December 2012.

See also

  • List of people by nationality
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