Military

Fermín Valdés-Domínguez Quintanó

He was a fellow student of José Martí at the San Anacleto school and later as a student of Rafael María de Mendive

Gerardo Machado Morales

El Asesino con Garras

Officer of the Liberation Army in the War of Independence

Leoncio Vidal Caro

He was born in Corralillo, province of Villa Clara

Félix Giralt Martínez

Surgeon of the Liberation Army

Luis Ayestarán Moliner

Colonel of the Liberation Army

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

Jorge Enrique Mendoza Reboredo

Teacher, soldier, journalist, historian and tireless propagandist of the Revolution

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez

Primer cosmonauta de América Latina

He is the first Latin American to fly to space, an event that occurred over a week starting on September 18, 1980 alongside cosmonaut Yuri Romanenko

Enrique Loynaz del Castillo

Enrique Loynaz del Castillo was born in 1871, in Puerto Plata, República Dominicana

José Marcelino Maceo Grajales

León de Oriente

Son of Mariana Grajales and Marcos Maceo, José was born in February 1849 in Majaguabo, San Luis, Oriente, four years after his brother Antonio

Francisco Javier Cisneros Correa

A prominent Cuban patriot of the 19th century wars of independence

Daniel Gispert García

Patriot of San Antonio de los Baños

Mariano Gumersindo Sánchez Vaillant

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

Antonio Sánchez Díaz

Pinares, Marcos, Tite

He was a Cuban military officer who fought in the Cuban Revolution (1957-1959) reaching the rank of commander, and later joined the Ñancahuazú Guerrilla commanded by Ernesto Che Guevara in 1966-1967 ...

Pedro Manuel Betancourt Viamonte

Barbaza

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René Cirilo Vallejo Ortíz

René Vallejo

He was born in Manzanillo, was a physician and combatant, and due to his revolutionary activities the leadership of the 26 de Julio Movement ordered him to go to the Sierra

Juan Vitalio Acuña Núñez

Vilo, Joaquín

Peasant from the Purial de Vicara area, a hilly region of the Sierra Maestra

Juan Abrantes Fernández

Juan Abrantes Fernández was born in a humble home in Havana

Ernesto Guevara de la Serna

Ché, Guerrillero heroico

Argentine-Cuban guerrilla fighter, tireless fighter for the freedom of the oppressed peoples of the world Ernesto Guevara de La Serna is born in Rosario, Argentina, the firstborn son of Celia and Ernesto. ...

Eduardo Bernabé Ordaz Ducungé

“papá”, Comandante

Cuban physician

Manuel Fajardo Rivero

Piti

Manuel Fajardo Rivero was born in Manzanillo

Antonio Santiago García

Tony Santiago

He was born in Placetas, Las Villas, into a middle-class family formed by Mardonio Santiago Valdés and Leocadia García Conde

Víctor Bordón Machado

El Justiciero

Cuban revolutionary fighter born in the town of Quemado de Güines, Villa Clara, Cuba

Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán

El señor de la vanguardia, El Comandante del pueblo, Héroe de Yaguajay

Founder of the Rebel Army and one of its principal leaders during the National Liberation War; outstanding revolutionary of humble origins and broad popular support due to his cheerful character and natural ...

Guillermo Isaías Sardiñas Menéndez

Padre Sardiñas, Padre de la Sotana Verde Olivo

The Catholic priest and commander of the Rebel Army was born in the town of Sagua La Grande, in the central region of Cuba, son of a modest Catholic family

Pedro Miret Prieto

Miret

He was a Cuban military officer and politician

Julio Ernesto Camacho Aguilera

Cuban revolutionary combatant and politician

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

Miguel Coyula Laguno

A journalist with a patriotic heart

Carlos Indalecio Díaz Rodríguez

Cuban revolutionary fighter, stands out in the struggle from Las Tunas

Roberto Leonardo Roque Núñez

Revolutionary combatant, he was one of the 82 expeditionaries of the Yacht Granma, served time in the Presidio Modelo de Isla de Pinos, and upon the triumph of the Revolution was released and promoted ...

Ciro Redondo García

Cuban revolutionary fighter, member of the 26th of July Movement, assailant of the Moncada Barracks, expeditionary of the Granma and fighter of the Rebel Army

Ramiro Valdés Menéndez

Cuban revolutionary combatant, Hero of the Republic of Cuba and Commander of the Revolution

Jorge Risquet Valdés-Saldaña

Jorge Risquet

Revolutionary combatant, journalist, deputy, internationalist fighter

Eliseo Reyes Rodríguez

Capitán San Luis, Rolando

He was a young man who knew how to answer the call of his homeland

Carlos Coello Coello

Tuma

Fighter of the Rebel Army

Gerardo Hernández Nordelo

He was born into a humble family, the third child and the youngest of Gerardo Hernández Martí —now deceased— and Carmen Nordelo Tejera

Antonio Briones Montoto

Tony

During the insurrectional stage, while still a student, Antonio Briones Montoto actively participated in Action and Sabotage of the Movement 26 of July

Julio Martínez Páez

Father of Orthopedics in Cuba

Juan Almeida Bosque

Cuban revolutionary commander