Juan ArcochaW
Juan Arcocha

Juan Arcocha was a Cuban journalist and writer.

Teo A. BabunW
Teo A. Babun

Teo A. Babun is a Cuban-American businessman and evangelical philanthropist. He is the founder of BG Consultants and Cuba-Caribbean Development Co. and also the head of Outreach Aid to the Americas (OAA) and AmericasRelief.

Joaquín BadajozW
Joaquín Badajoz

Joaquín Badajoz is a Cuban-American writer, editor and journalist.

Ernesto Hernández BustoW
Ernesto Hernández Busto

Ernesto Hernández Busto is a Cuban writer living in Barcelona (Spain).

Onelio Jorge CardosoW
Onelio Jorge Cardoso

Onelio Jorge Cardoso was a Cuban editor, screenwriter, short fiction writer and party functionary.

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y García-MenocalW
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y García-Menocal

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y García-Menocal was a Cuban Roman Catholic priest, theologian and writer.

Federico Fernández CavadaW
Federico Fernández Cavada

Federico Fernández-Cavada was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a diplomat, as well as commanding forces in Cuba's Ten Years' War. Because of his artistic talents, he was assigned to the Hot Air Balloon unit of the Union Army. From the air he sketched what he observed of enemy positions and movements. On April 19, 1862, Fernández Cavada sketched enemy positions from Thaddeus Lowe's Constitution balloon during the Peninsular Campaign in Virginia.

René Gómez ManzanoW
René Gómez Manzano

René de Jesús Gómez Manzano is a Cuban dissident known for his essay "The Homeland Belongs to All", which he co-wrote with Marta Beatriz Roque, Vladimiro Roca, and Felix Bonne, as well as his repeated imprisonment by the Cuban government. Amnesty International has named him to be a prisoner of conscience three times.

Juan Gualberto GómezW
Juan Gualberto Gómez

Juan Gualberto Gómez Ferrer was an Afro-Cuban revolutionary leader in the Cuban War of Independence against Spain. He was a "close collaborator of [José] Martí's," and alongside him helped plan the uprising and unite the island's black population behind the rebellion. He was an activist for independence and a journalist who worked on and later founded several pivotal anti-royalist and pro-racial equality newspapers. He authored numerous works on liberty and racial justice in Latin America as well.

Alberto González (humorist)W
Alberto González (humorist)

Alberto González was a humorist and iconoclast; known for his biting political satire and popular comedy shows, he was a prolific writer, journalist, and scriptwriter during a career that spanned sixty years in show business. Alberto González was born in Guanabacoa, Cuba, in 1928.

Alberto GranadoW
Alberto Granado

Alberto Granado Jiménez was an Argentine–Cuban biochemist, doctor, writer, and scientist. He was also the youthful friend and traveling companion of Che Guevara during their 1952 motorcycle tour in Latin America. Granado later founded the University of Santiago de Cuba School of Medicine. He authored the memoir Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary, which served as a reference for the 2004 film The Motorcycle Diaries, in which he was played by Rodrigo de la Serna. An elderly Alberto Granado makes a short appearance at the end of the film.

Juan GuiterasW
Juan Guiteras

Juan Guitéras y Gener, was a Cuban physician and pathologist specializing in yellow fever.

Eusebio LealW
Eusebio Leal

Eusebio Leal Spengler was a Cuban historian. He served as the municipal historian of Havana, as well as the director of the restoration project of Old Havana. Under his oversight, the historic centre of the capital city became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He also authored books and hosted radio and television programs that recounted the city and its history.

Eduardo del LlanoW
Eduardo del Llano

Eduardo del Llano Rodriguez is a Cuban writer, university professor, film director, producer and screenwriter.

David Mitrani ArenalW
David Mitrani Arenal

David Mitrani Arenal is a Cuban writer, belonging to a generation that once was called novísimos. He has won several awards including the International Prize Anna Seghers in 1998 given it by Anna Seghers Foundation and the Academy of Arts in Berlin. He won the Alejo Carpentier award in 2003.

Carlos Moore (writer)W
Carlos Moore (writer)

Carlos Moore is a writer, social researcher, professor and activist, dedicated to the study of African and Afro-American history and culture. Moore holds two doctorates, in Human sciences and in Ethnology from the Paris Diderot University, and speaks five languages. At various periods he lived in France, Africa, the United States of America, Brazil and the Caribbean

José Esteban MuñozW
José Esteban Muñoz

José Esteban Muñoz was a Cuban American academic in the fields of performance studies, visual culture, queer theory, cultural studies, and critical theory. His first book, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999) examines the performance, activism, and survival of queer people of color through the optics of performance studies. His second book, Cruising Utopia: the Then and There of Queer Futurity, was published by NYU Press in 2009. Muñoz was Professor in, and former Chair of, the Department of Performance Studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Muñoz was the recipient of the Duke Endowment Fellowship (1989) and the Penn State University Fellowship (1997). He was also affiliated with the Modern Language Association, American Studies Association, and the College Art Association.

Jorge Armando PérezW
Jorge Armando Pérez

Jorge Armando Pérez is a Cuban humanitarian, author, and evangelist. He has written more than 20 books under the pseudonym of Jorge Armando Pérez Venâncio, taking the second last name of Venâncio, in honor of his grandfather, Francisco Venâncio.

Gonzalo de Quesada y ArósteguiW
Gonzalo de Quesada y Aróstegui

Gonzalo de Quesada was a key architect of Cuba's Independence Movement with José Martí during the late 19th century. He received the National Order of the Legion of Honour of France.

José Antonio SacoW
José Antonio Saco

José Antonio Saco was a statesman, deputy to the Spanish Cortes, writer, social critic, publicist, essayist, anthropologist, historian, and one of the most notable Cuban figures from the nineteenth century.

Eduardo Sánchez de FuentesW
Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes

Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes was a Cuban composer, and an author of books on the history of Cuban folk music.

Enrique José VaronaW
Enrique José Varona

Enrique José Varona was a Cuban author.

René Vázquez DíazW
René Vázquez Díaz

René Vázquez Díaz is a Cuban-Swedish writer and translator, winner of the Radio France Internationale's Juan Rulfo Award 2007 for his novel Welcome to Miami Doctor Leal(Latin American Literary Review Press, Pittsburgh 2009). One of his most notable novels is The Island of Cundeamor. His latest published book is the autobiographical novel Ciudades junto al mar.

Harry VillegasW
Harry Villegas

Harry "Pombo" Villegas was a Cuban Communist guerrilla. He was born in Yara, Cuba, and was a descendant of African slaves. He fought alongside Che Guevara in battles from the Sierra Maestra to the Bolivian insurgency. From 1977 to 1979, and again from 1981 to 1988, Villegas was part of the leadership of Cuba's volunteer military mission in Angola, fighting alongside Angolan and Namibian forces against aggression by South Africa's apartheid regime. Villegas was a Central Committee member of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1997 to 2011, a deputy of Cuba's National Assembly, and executive vice president of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution.

Aurelio VoltaireW
Aurelio Voltaire

Aurelio Voltaire Hernández, professionally known as Aurelio Voltaire or simply as Voltaire, is a Cuban-American singer, songwriter, and musician. His professional name is his given middle name.

Juan Carlos ZaldívarW
Juan Carlos Zaldívar

Juan Carlos Zaldívar is a filmmaker and video artist who was born in Cuba. Zaldivar has lived in the United States of America since 1980 with directing credits including "90 Miles", which aired nationally on PBS/"P.O.V.", and was featured in the book Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories.