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

Actors

 * Ana de Armas, actress
 * Ana Margarita Martínez-Casado, actress and singer
 * Andy García, actor
 * Roberto Escobar, actor
 * César Évora, actor
 * Daisy Fuentes, actress
 * Desi Arnaz, actor
 * Emiliano Díez, actor
 * Enrique Molina, actor
 * Faizon Love, actor and comedian
 * Francisco Gattorno, actor
 * Julio Oscar Mechoso, actor
 * Luis Oquendo, actor
 * Luisa Martínez Casado (1860-1925), actress
 * Manela Bustamante, actress
 * María Conchita Alonso, actress
 * Mario Cimarro, actor
 * Mario Ernesto Sánchez, actor and founder of Teatro Avante
 * Renny Arozarena, actor
 * Steven Bauer, actor
 * Velia Martínez, actress and singer
 * William Levy, actor
 * Nobel Vega, actor, "Tio Nobel"

Architects

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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
 * 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

 * Alejandro García Caturla, symphonic composer
 * Mariá Álvarez Rios, composer
 * Antonio María Romeu, composer
 * Arsenio Rodríguez, developer of the rumba
 * Didier Hernández, singer composer
 * 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

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

Musicians

 * Aida Diestro, pianist, arranger
 * Albita, singer
 * Alfredo de la Fé, musician
 * Adalberto Álvarez, pianist, director, 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
 * Camila Cabello, musician, songwriter, actress
 * Cándido Fabré, musician, singer-songwriter
 * Carlos Manuel Pruneda, singer
 * Carlos Varela, singer-songwriter
 * Celia Cruz, singer
 * Chocolate MC, el rey del Reparto
 * 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
 * Eddy Zervigon, flautist and bandleader
 * 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
 * Juana Zayas, concert pianist
 * La Lupe, singer
 * Lena, singer
 * Lissette, singer
 * Magali del Valle, opera 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

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

Journalists

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

Dancers

 * 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

 * 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

Baseball

 * Adeiny Hechavarria, Miami Marlins
 * Adolfo Luque, Cincinnati Reds
 * Alex Fernandez, Chicago White Sox, Florida Marlins
 * Alex Sánchez
 * Ariel Pestano, Cuba national baseball team
 * Ariel Prieto, Oakland Athletics
 * Aroldis Chapman, Cincinnati Reds
 * Aurelio Monteagudo, Kansas City Athletics
 * Barbaro Canizares, Atlanta Braves
 * Biaiedo,チュニドラ
 * Bárbaro Garbey, Detroit Tigers
 * Bert Campaneris, Kansas City Athletics
 * Brayan Peña, Atlanta Braves
 * Cristóbal Torriente, Negro leagues, Baseball Hall of Fame
 * Danys Báez, Baltimore Orioles
 * Diego Seguí, Kansas City Athletics
 * Desupaine,便器
 * Eli Marrero, New York Mets
 * Esteban Bellán, first Latin American professional baseball player to play in the United States
 * Germán Mesa, trainer for the Cuban national baseball team
 * Jack Calvo, Washington Senators
 * Jasiel Rivero (born 1993), basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
 * Jorge Soler, Chicago Cubs
 * José Abreu, Chicago White Sox
 * José Canseco, Oakland Athletics
 * José Cardenal, San Francisco Giants
 * José Contreras, Chicago White Sox
 * José Fernández, Miami Marlins
 * José Iglesias, Detroit Tigers
 * José Méndez, Kansas City Monarchs, Baseball Hall of Fame
 * José Rodríguez, New York Giants
 * José Tartabull, Kansas City Athletics
 * Kendrys Morales, Kansas City Royals
 * Liván Hernández, Arizona Diamondbacks
 * Luis Tiant, Cleveland Indians
 * Martín Dihigo, Negro leagues, Baseball Hall of Fame
 * Mike Cuellar, Cincinnati Reds
 * Minnie Miñoso, Chicago White Sox
 * Octavio "Cookie" Rojas, Cincinnati Reds
 * Omar Linares, Pinar del Río Vegueros, Cuban national baseball team
 * Orestes Destrade, New York Yankees, ESPN on-air personality
 * Orlando Hernández, New York Mets
 * Ozzie Canseco, Oakland Athletics
 * Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators
 * Preston Gómez, Washington Senators
 * Rafael Palmeiro, Baltimore Orioles
 * Ray Noble, New York Giants
 * René Arocha, St. Louis Cardinals
 * René Monteagudo, Washington Senators
 * Rey Ordóñez, New York Mets
 * Roberto "Bobby" Estalella, Washington Senators
 * Rolando Arrojo, Tampa Bay Devil Rays
 * Sandy Amorós, Brooklyn Dodgers
 * Tony Fossas, Texas Rangers
 * Tony González, Cincinnati Reds
 * Tony Oliva, Minnesota Twins
 * Tony Pérez, Cincinnati Reds
 * Tony Taylor, Chicago Cubs
 * Yuniesky Betancourt, last played for the Milwaukee Brewers
 * Yasiel Puig, Los Angeles Dodgers
 * Yasmani Grandal, Los Angeles Dodgers
 * Yoenis Céspedes, New York Mets
 * Zoilo Versalles, Minnesota Twins, first Latin American Major League MVP in
 * Alexei Ramírez, Chicago White Sox
 * Yunel Escobar, Washington Nationals

Boxing

 * 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

 * Alberto Juantorena, track
 * Aliecer Urrutia, triple jump
 * Ana Fidelia Quirot, 800m
 * Anier García, hurdler
 * Dayron Robles, hurdling athlete
 * Emeterio González, javelin thrower
 * Héctor Herrera, sprinter
 * Ioamnet Quintero, high jumper
 * Iván García, sprinter
 * Iván Pedroso, long jump
 * Javier Sotomayor, track and field record setter
 * Joel Isasi, sprinter
 * Joel Lamela, sprinter
 * Jorge Aguilera, sprinter
 * Lázaro Martínez, sprinter
 * Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda, sprinter
 * Osleidys Menéndez, javelin
 * Roberto Hernández
 * Roberto Moya, discus throw
 * Víctor Moya, high jumper
 * Yargelis Savigne, jump
 * Yarisley Silva, pole vaulter
 * Yipsi Moreno, hammer thrower
 * Yoandri Betanzos, triple jump
 * Yoel García, triple jumper
 * Yoel Hernández, hurdler
 * Yudelkis Fernández, long jumper
 * Yunaika Crawford, hammer thrower
 * Yuniel Hernández, hurdler

Swimming

 * 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

 * 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
 * Rafael A. Lecuona, 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

Current

 * 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

 * 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
 * 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

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