Famous Cuban's biographies

Martín Arranz Fuentes

Singer, actor, promoter of tango, radio broadcaster, surprises by his simplicity, he is a great man, not by stature, but for being able to capture with his voice, to hold so many people who enjoy good ...

Martina Pierra De Poo

Poet, theater actress, and Cuban revolutionary in favor of the mambisa cause

Martina González García

Martha Velasco

Martina García, known by the artistic name Martha Velasco, was an actress and announcer primarily in Cuban radio

Martina Guevara Molina

===BODY=== Young woman born in Vueltas, Las Villas, she was one of the first seven graduates of the first School of Nursing founded in Cuba, in 1899, during the First American Intervention and Occupation, ...

Mary Cruz

Born in Camagüey

Massiel Dueñas

Massiel is a graduate of acting from the National School of Theater in 2008

Matías Montes Huidobro

Professor, playwright, narrator, poet, essayist, literary researcher and Cuban editor

Matías Duque Perdomo

Notable Cuban leprologist physician, first Minister of Public Health in the world

Mauricio de Miranda Parrondo

Mauricio de Miranda has resided in Cali, Colombia since 1989

Mauricio Figueiral

Renowned Cuban trovador, member of UNEAC

Max Álvarez de Guisa

Max Álvarez was a television, radio, and film actor who had acting in his blood, as he was the son of the excellent Cuban actor Pedro Álvarez

Max Enrique Figueroa Araujo

In a modest and cultured home in the city of Santiago de Cuba, Max Enrique Figueroa Araujo was born

Máximo Gómez Báez

Major General Máximo Gómez Báez was born in Baní (Dominican Republic), son of Andrés Gómez y Guerrero and Clemencia Báez y Pérez

Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz

Compay Segundo

Compay Segundo was the oldest and most famous trovador in the world

Mayda Galano Guilarte

She was born in Baracoa, Cuba, where, as a young child, her mother introduced her to the practice of music, to which she dedicates her life

Mayda Prado Alfonso

Cuban-American soprano Mayda Prado carries out the work in Cuernavaca of transmitting to new generations of singers the knowledge she has acquired through great teachers such as María Callas

Maykel Blanco Cuevas

Maykel Blanco

Maykel is a Cuban singer, drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, and musical director

Maykel Herrera Pacheco

El Pintor de los Niños

Outstanding Cuban visual artist

Mayra Gómez Kemp

Actress, singer, and Hispanic-Cuban radio and television presenter

Mayra Caridad Valdés Rodríguez

Cachita

Outstanding Cuban singer possessing a singular voice and unique register capable of interpreting jazz—which was her strength—as well as other genres

Medardo Vitier

Pedagogue, radiant spirit, poet

Melba Hernández Rodríguez del Rey

Heroína del Moncada

===BODY=== Melba Hernández Rodríguez del Rey was a Cuban lawyer, politician, and diplomat

Melissa Teresa Vargas Abreu

Cuban volleyball player naturalized as Turkish, who plays as an opposite hitter for the Turkish club Fenerbahçe

Melquíades Rafael Martínez Ruiz

Mel Martínez

Melquiades Rafael "Mel" Martinez is an American politician born in Cuba in the city of Sagua la Grande Villaclara

Mercedes Aguilar González de Piñera

Mercy Aguilar

===BODY=== Talented actress and reciter, founder of Cuban television, who worked extensively with Gaspar Pumarejo and Otto Sirgo, alternating between radio, TV, and theater

Mercedes Batule Batule

La Batule

She completed her primary studies at a small school in her native town, with a teacher who was also of Lebanese origin and very close to her parents

Mercedes Sirvén Pérez–Puelles

Mercedita

She lived in Holguín before and after the 1895 War, and practiced her profession as a pharmacist in this city and in Gibara

Mercedes Valdés Granit

Merceditas Valdés, Mi Pequeña Aché

She was born on the Day of Our Lady of Mercedes in the Havana neighborhood of Cayo Hueso on Neptuno and Hospital streets, where she assimilated, from childhood, Yoruba chants and prayers, rumba and works ...

Mercedes Matamoros del Valle

Ofelia, La poetisa del dolor, La alondra ciega

Distinguished Cuban writer and poetess

Mercedes Serafina Núñez de Villavicencio Ortiz

Serafina Núñez

Serafina Núñez was and will be a woman swept by the wind, which is useful and dangerous at once, especially for whoever set out to delve into more than nine decades of her life where fire and passion, ...

Michael Fernando Sierra Miranda

El Micha

Michael Fernando Sierra Miranda (El Micha) was born in Havana in the well-known Reparto Eléctrico neighborhood of the Arroyo Naranjo municipality

Michelle Herrera Álvarez

Graduate of the Manuel Saumell Elementary School of Music and the Amadeo Roldan Conservatory, specializing in Saxophone

Michelle Aguirre

Born in Hialeah and a student at Florida International University (FIU), she was crowned Miss Florida on Saturday night at The Westin Diplomat hotel in Davie

Miguel de Cárdenas Chávez

Cuban writer of the nineteenth century who distinguished himself through his poetry

Miguel Teurbe Tolón de la Guardia

Creator of the Shield and National Flag of Cuba

Miguel Núñez Hernández

Miguelito

Miguel Núñez is a Cuban pianist, composer, arranger, music producer and musical director, known, above all, for his integration of traditional Cuban music in a jazz context

Miguel Barnet Lanza

From a very young age, he became linked to leading figures in Cuban ethnology such as Argeliers León and Isaac Barreal

Miguel Matamoros

Guitarist and composer

Miguel Coyula Laguno

A journalist with a patriotic heart

Miguel Alejandro Castro Sánchez

Miguel Monkc

Successful editorial illustrator and poster designer, he joins our approach of less competing and more sharing

Miguel Angel Moenck Peralta

He was a prominent Cuban figure of the twentieth century, first standing out as an athlete and sports leader, later as a university professor and renowned architect, co-owner of the firm Moenck and Quintana, ...

Miguel Angel Botalín Panpín

Founder and one of the most prominent artists of the Sociedad Cultural Galería, a collective of great importance in Cuban artistic and social life during the 1950s

Miguel Ángel de la Hoz Piloto

Mike de la Hoz

Born in Havana, former Major League Baseball player as an infield player

Miguel Angel Masjuán Salmón

Masjuán

Sports journalist specializing in sports since the beginning of the 1970s

Miguel Angel Rasalps

Lele

Singer and composer, founder of Los Van Van

Miguel Angel Ortiz

===BODY=== He began his career as a Cuban song interpreter in 1939, on radio stations