Famous Cuban's biographies

Ian Padrón Durán

Cuban film director and screenwriter

Ibrahim Ferrer Planas

He was a Cuban son singer with a pure and smooth voice

Ibrahim Irenio Hidalgo Paz

Doctor of Historical Sciences and Researcher

Idalys Ortiz Boucurt

===BODY=== She is undoubtedly the best Pan-American judoka in the heavyweight category these days

Idania del Río

Clandestina

Cuban designer and graphic artist

Idania Valdés Casuso

Cuban singer, heir to a rich musical tradition

Idelfonso Estrada Zenea

Ildefonso Zenea, I.E.Z., I de E y Z., D. I... E... y Z..., Estrada y Estrada, Zenea, Ildefonso, Pablo de la Luz.

Writer, poet and patriot Son of don José Roustán de Estrada and of doña María Zenea, direct descendant of the wealthy Mariel landowners Roustán de Estrada, Marquis of Toro, Luque and Rocamoure who ...

Idelfonso Quintana Fabelo

Alfonsín Quintana

He was born in the Jesús María neighborhood, Havana

Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz

El Mayor

He was born in Camagüey on December 23, 1841 and fell in combat on May 11, 1873 against Spanish troops in the pastures of Jimagüayu in the same province

Ignacio Mora de la Pera

Ignacio Mora, landowner and cultured man, was one of the 76 Camagüeyans who took up arms at the Paso de Las Clavellinas, on the road to Nuevitas, less than 15 kilometers from the capital Puerto Príncipe. Born ...

Ignacio Herrera

Nachito

He was born in Cuba in Santa Clara, but received all his education in Ciudad de La Habana, at Cuba's music conservatories, Alejandro García Caturla, the National School of Art, ENA, and at the ISA, Instituto ...

Ignacio Calvo Cárdenas

Son of one of those legendary families of Cuba, he was a worthy heir to the illustrious surnames Calvo and Herrera, Cárdenas and Montalvo: names that without great effort bring to our mind the titles ...

Ignacio Piñeiro Martínez

===BODY=== Ignacio Piñeiro was a true chronicler of the era in which he lived

Ignacio Cervantes Kawanagh

Ignacio Cervantes Kawanagh (1847-1905)

Ignacio de Loyola Rodríguez Scull

Arsenio Rodríguez, El ciego maravilloso

He was born in Güira de Macurijes, Matanzas, and was a Cuban tres composer and performer who played an important role in the development of the so-called son montuno

Ignacio Jacinto Villa Fernández

Bola de Nieve

===BODY=== Bola was one of the most versatile singers that Caribbean music has produced

Ignacio Joaquín Gutiérrez Díaz

Playwright Ignacio Gutiérrez, born in La Habana on November 27, 1929, is the author of numerous musical theater works for adults and children, among which deserve mention Llévame a la pelota —which ...

Ignacio R. Macías Castro

Eminent Cuban physician, professor, specialist in Internal Medicine

Ildefonso Acosta Escobar

Acosta Escobar, guitarist, concert performer, teacher and composer from Matanzas, played guitar in a self-taught manner since childhood

Ileana Wilson

If there is an actress with experience in our media, it is Ileana Wilson

Ileana Padrón

Cucú Diamante

Cucu Diamantes

Inés Aleida Sánchez Guarde de Revuelta

Inés Sánchez

Cuban journalist naturalized as a Costa Rican, host of the Costa Rican television program Tele Club,​ which has been broadcast continuously since 1963, she has broken several records with this program ...

Inés María Martiatu Terry

Lalita

Born in La Habana, to professional parents, Inés María studied high school at the La Habana institute, where she was a classmate of filmmaker Sara Gómez

Inocencia Valdés Fraga

La Niñita de Güines

===BODY=== Outstanding tobacco worker, active feminist social activist who demands labor rights for her class, founder of the Cuban Revolutionary Party and creator in Key West of the Mariana Grajales Patriotic ...

Iraida Malberti Cabrera

She began dancing at age 3 when her mother took her to ballet

Irela Matute Bell

Irela Bravo

Actress and broadcaster

Irene Rodríguez

Director, Prima ballerina, régisseur and choreographer of the Irene Rodríguez Company

Iris Burguet

Concert performer with refined technique

Irma Shelton Tasé

Journalist and television presenter of Cuban television, originally from Santiago de Cuba

Irma Armas Fonseca

Distinguished Cuban journalist who worked as a reporter for the Periódico Ahora, in Holguín, and also served as a leading member of the Union of Cuban Journalists (UPEC) and as founder-director of the ...

Iroel Sánchez Espinosa

Iroel

He was born in the city of Santa Clara, and is a graduate in Computer Engineering from the Technological University of Havana (CUJAE)

Isaac Felipe Delgado Ramírez

El Chévere de la Salsa

Cuban salsa singer

Isaac Noel Nicola Romero

Isaac Nicola

===BODY=== Distinguished Cuban guitarist and pedagogue

Isabel Fernández Angesta

Isabelita

Recognized and admired announcer of Cuban Television and Radio

Isabel Toledo

Designer known for geometric details in her creations

Isabel Rubio Díaz

===BODY=== A faithful exponent of the combativeness of Cuban women

Isabel Fleitas Arguelles

Sissi Fleitas

Cuban-American actress, model, and television host Daughter of Dinorah Arguelles, Cuban lyric singer, leading figure of the National Lyric Theater of Cuba and the Cabaret Tropicana Fleitas was a child ...

Isam Ortiz

Cuban Grand Master of chess

Isbel Herrera del Sol

International Chess Arbiter from Matanzas, professor at the University of Computer Sciences, Master of Science and Assistant Professor

Isidoro Malmierca Peoli

A leader with an extensive trajectory in the direction of the Cuban state

Isidoro León Becerra

Izzy León

Major League Baseball player, he was a pitcher who played for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1945

Isidro Barredo Paulín

Carlos Paulín

Cuban actor who during his artistic career stood out in radio, television, theater, and cinema