Famous Cuban's biographies

María Caridad Colón Ruenes

First Latin American athlete to be crowned Olympic champion in javelin throwing, in Moscow (1980)

María Concepción Alonso Bustillo

María Conchita Alonso

María Conchita was born in Cuba

María Cristina de Castro Palomino

Cristina Palomino

She is a prominent actress in neighborhood and municipal presentations and in community work

María de las Mercedes Santa Cruz Montalvo

Condesa de Merlín

Considered one of the first female writers of Cuba

María de los Àngeles Santana Soravilla

La Alcaldesa, Remigia

===BODY=== She began in 1933 as an actress in cinema, hired by Películas Cubanas S

María del Carmen Ariet García

Researcher and Associate Senior Professor at the University of La Habana, where she has worked as a teacher and lecturer in postgraduate courses, workshops, and seminars

María del Rosario Novoa Luis

Merit Professor at the University of Havana, Doctor in Philosophy and Letters and in Pedagogy

María Dolores Ortiz Díaz

María Dolores Ortíz is a very popular person in Cuba for her participation for decades in the Cuban TV program Escriba y Lea but also for being a great communicator, with a very distinctive personality... ...

María Elena Molinet de la Peña

Stage designer, professor, essayist

María Elena de Cárdenas González

Manana, marquesa de Campo Florido

María Elena de Cárdenas y González, born in La Habana in 1919, is a simple and optimistic woman who enjoys feeding the fish in the pond and the birds that arrive at the Andalusian garden that her son ...

María Elena Mendiola

She comes from a family of professionals not dedicated to music

María Elena Llana Castro

Mariel

Narrator, journalist, radio and TV screenwriter, journalism professor and radio techniques professor

María Elvira Salazar

Elvira Salazar

Cuban-born journalist and news anchor, former news anchor at CNN and Telemundo and star of Mega TV channel

María Esther Pérez

Lyric singer, soprano Born in San Antonio de los Baños, province of La Habana

María Felicia Pérez Arroyo

For her knowledge of music, her general culture, her beautiful soprano voice and her artistic mastery, she ranks today as one of the most important choir directors of our time

María Guadalupe Guzmán Tirado

Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Full Professor, Senior Researcher

María Isabel Díaz Lago

“Chica Almodóvar” cubana, La Gorda

Graduated in the specialty of acting from the Instituto Superior de Arte de Cuba (ISA), she would be 16 years old when she began acting in the theater group of the pre-university school Antonio Guiteras ...

María Josefa Eufemia Cabrales Fernández

María Cabrales

===BODY=== Example of Cuban women in the struggle for the freedom of the Homeland, and for maintaining the dignity of their people high

María Josefina de Diego García Marruz

Fefé

A writer from Havana, daughter of Cuban poet, narrator, and essayist Eliseo Diego

María Julia García

She studied music at the Conservatorio «Amadeo Roldán», where she had Zoila Gálvez as her voice teacher

María Luisa Álvarez

===BODY=== María Luisa Álvarez, one of the most outstanding tobacco growers in Cuba, was nominated for the Mujer Habano distinction, which Habanos S

María Luisa Dolz Arango

Outstanding Cuban pedagogue, pioneer of women's education

María Luisa Clark

Born in the city of Holguín

María Luisa Acosta Hernández

===BODY=== Journalist, typographer, proofreader, and editor

María Luisa Carballo Cortés

Cuquita Carballo

Acclaimed Cuban actress, singer, and dancer, better known by her stage name ''Cuquita'' Carballo, passed away suddenly in Miami, a victim of blood complications

María Luisa Enriqueta del Carmen Milanés García

She was born at the Hato Abajo farm (other researchers claim it was at the El Palmarito farm, which was later called El Sombrero and today belongs to the municipality of Cauto Cristo), daughter of the ...

María Marta García Peñate

Marta García

Known by the artistic name Marta García, she was a prima ballerina of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba

María Matilde Alea Fernández

Composer, pianist, and Cuban Doctor of Pedagogy born in Camajuaní, province of Las Villas; in the same year 1918 she moved with her family to Pinar del Río

María Mercedes Loynaz Muñoz

Dulce María Loynaz del Castillo

Her father, Enrique Loynaz del Castillo, a general in the Liberating Army, from whose pen came the lyrics of the Invasor Hymn; her mother, who was fond of singing, painting and piano, a combination that ...

María Soledad Cruz Guerra

Soledad Cruz

Soledad is a woman of restless spirit trained in very diverse disciplines, such as journalism, art, philosophy and philology, and forged in multiple social, cultural and political activities, within and ...

María Teresa Mestre Batista

María Teresa de Luxemburgo, Gran Duquesa de Luxemburgo

She was born in Marianao, Havana, Cuba, on March 22, 1956, daughter of José Antonio Mestre Álvarez and María Teresa Batista Falla

María Teresa Mora Iturralde

Child prodigy, student of José Raúl Capablanca, first Cuban chess champion, and of Ibero-America

María Teresa Linares Savio

Teté

===BODY=== María Teresa Linares

María Teresa Pina Cabrera

Maritere

A prestigious and renowned Cuban actress

María Teresa Vera

===BODY=== At a very early age she began to make herself known in bohemian and trova circles

María Teresa Freyre de Andrade Escardó

Founder of Cuban library science; bibliographer and librarian of the Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, institution of which she was the first director upon the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, founder ...

María Victoria Gil Fernández

Vicky

María Victoria Gil, Cuban nationalized Spanish, 57 years old

Mariam Duranona

Marion Duranona

Marion Duranona

Mariana Grajales Coello

Mother of Lieutenant General of the Liberation Army, Antonio Maceo

Mariana Catalina Morejón León

Marianita Morejón

===BODY=== She was born on February 13, 1939

Mariano Brull Caballero

A representative poet of Cuban avant-gardism in the 1930s

Mariano Gumersindo Sánchez Vaillant

Fighter in the struggles for Cuba's independence, member of the Liberation Army who achieved the rank of Brigadier General

Maribel de la C. Ponce de León Mola

She was born in Las Tunas, daughter of working-class parents

Mariblanca Sabas Alomá

Cuban journalist and writer who defended women's rights through letters and political action

Maricet Espinosa González

La Mole

Cuban athlete who competed in judo

Mariela Garriga

Mariela Garriga began her artistic career at age 13