Octavio de la Concepción de la Pedraja
Tavo, Moro, Morogoro, Muganga, Médico
Doctor, guerrilla fighter, and military officer
Francisco Albear Fernández de Lara
He was born in the Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro de La Habana, a figure who today symbolizes Cuban engineers, not only for his professional merits, but for his whole life dedicated to the social ...
Julián Baldomero Acuña Galé
He was born in Camagüey, a botanist by profession
Joaquín Albarrán Domínguez
He was born in Sagua la Grande
Julio Jané Jané
He was born in southeastern Cuba, in the Villa del Guaso, to a couple, his parents the pharmacist doctor don Pablo Jané Trocné and his cousin Julia Jané Escobedo
Tomás José Domingo Rafael del Rosario Romay Chacón
A learned man with truly encyclopedic knowledge and considered the initiator of the Cuban scientific movement, he was a distinguished member and director of the Real Sociedad Económica de Amigos del País.
In ...
Esteban Pichardo Tapia
Researcher valued as the most notable geographer of Cuba for his outstanding contributions to that discipline, and also as one of the first lexicographers of Cuban Spanish
Carlos Abelardo Ramírez Márquez
Notable Cuban public health physician
Fernando González del Valle Cañizo
Physician and eminent surgeon, he was the initiator of higher surgical education in Cuba
Nicolás José Gutiérrez Hernández
Among the names of Cuban physicians who contributed significantly to the development of national medicine during the nineteenth century, that of Nicolás José Gutiérrez Hernández appears in the first ...
Manuel Vargas Machuca González del Valle
Cuban pharmacist and chemist who made contributions to the study of the composition of potassium permanganate
Federico Poey Aguirre
Dental surgeon who contributed to the development of Cuban dentistry during the last quarter of the past century; he was founder of the Sociedad Odontológica de La Habana, professor at several founded ...
Jorge Benjamin Martínez McCook Martínez
Professor McCook was always by the side of each member of the generation of angiologists who began this fascinating Specialty in 1970 throughout Cuba
Manuel Antonio Modesto Leal Catalá
A prominent public figure from Cienfuegos who, through his work as a clinical physician, earned the respect and esteem of all segments of Cienfuegian society of those years, without distinction of class.
He ...
Severo Aguirre del Cristo
Doctor Honoris Causa of the Superior School of Veterinary Medicine of Kosice, Czechoslovakia
Richard Blanco
"Richard Blanco was made in Cuba, assembled in Spain and imported to the USA," according to his official biography
René Herrera Fritot
Archaeologist and anthropologist
Enrique Bernardo Núñez de Villavicencio Palomino
He is one of the most important figures in the history of Cuban medicine, not only for having been an eminent surgeon and initiator of numerous surgical techniques in our country, for having conducted ...
José Elías Borges
Wrapped in the flag of the hammer and sickle lay the coffin of the activist of the Communist Party of France, Belgium and Cuba, physician José Elías Borges
Francisco Adolfo Sauvalle Chaceaulme
A botanist distinguished for his contributions to the knowledge of Cuba's medicinal flora, as well as for his work in correcting botanical classifications and in the collection of numerous plant species.
He ...
Antonio Lorda Ortegosa
Mayor General
Pedro Joaquín Bermúdez
He was born in Vega Alta, Province of Las Villas, in Cuba, obtaining the degree of Doctor in Pharmacy in 1935 and Doctor in Natural Sciences in 1938
Rafael A. Cowley Valdés-Machado
He was one of the most eminent figures in Cuban medicine in the second half of the 19th Century and first decade of the 20th Century
Francisco González del Álamo Martínez de Figueroa
Initiator of medical education in Cuba, two years before the inauguration of the Real y Pontificia Universidad de San Gerónimo de La Habana (Universidad de La Habana)
José Manuel Guarch Delmonte
Scientist recognized nationally and internationally for the contributions he has made in various fields of human knowledge such as Archaeology, Speleology and History; in addition to standing out as a ...
Juan Antonio Cosculluela Barreras
Cuban civil engineer
Jeremías José Ramón Hernández Ojito
Ojito
He was born in Güines, La Habana province, on June 17, 1938, as the result of the marriage of José Ramón Hernández and Pastora Ojito
José Manuel Mir del Junco
Pediatrician, specialist in child tuberculosis, pneumologist, professor
Eduardo Primelles Agramonte
He was commissioned with the rank of captain, cousin of Frank Agramonte, one of the many dental surgeons who participated in the wars of independence
Jorge Ramón Cuevas
Distinguished biologist and ecologist
Eliecer Encinosa García-Espinosa
A physician of deep vocation and total dedication to the construction of the new Public Health system in Cuba, beginning in 1959
Luis Sánchez Varona Calvo
Eminent paleontologist and geologist
Pablo Miguel Merino
Mathematician
Juan Vilaró Díaz
Zoologist, botanist, and physician
Manuel de Jesús del Rojo de la Concepción
Rojo
Exceptional pediatrician, professor and researcher, mentor of a host of great health professionals
Enrique Lluria Despau
Cuban physician and sociologist who became one of the first Cuban materialists
Salvador Massip Valdés
Cuban geographer and educator who also distinguished himself as a politician, journalist, and diplomat
Antonio Mestre Domínguez
Forensic physician, Pediatrician and thinker
Mario José Granda Fraga
Mayito
He is a Cuban doctor, graduated in the specialty of Sports Medicine, former director of the Institute of Sports Medicine and director of the Cuban anti-doping laboratory
Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín
Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín was born in Bejucal, Cuba, a small town south of Havana
Agustín Encinoso de Abreu Reyes Gavilán
One of the most eminent personalities of his time for his vast erudition and scientific spirit
Francisco Frías Jacott
Agronomist, researcher, scientific communicator, and agrarian reformer whose family had prominent participation in scientific research
José Antonio López del Valle Valdés
One of the most representative figures of the Cuban School of Hygienists at the beginning of the twentieth century, which emerged from the sanitary work of the wise researcher doctor Carlos J
Margarita Núñez Núñez
The Cuban Florence Nightingale began studying nursing at the first School of Nurses founded in the country under the First American Intervention and occupation, and graduated from the School of Nurses ...
José Esteban Hernández Pérez
Doctor of Technical Sciences, Hernández Pérez, one of the architects of the project and construction of the Bacunayagua bridge
