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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

Actors

Architects

  • Raúl de Armas
  • Max Borges Jr.
  • Max Borges del Junco
  • Felicia Chateloin
  • Leonardo Morales y Pedroso
  • Ricardo Porro
  • Nicolas Arroyo

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

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

Religion

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

Other categories

Non-resident Cubans

References

  1. ^ "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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