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Lienz Chang Oliva

He began his studies at age 10 at the School of Art in the Province of Matanzas; at age 15 he started at the National School of Art in the City of Havana and three years later he joined the dance corps ...

Orlando Salgado Bermúdez

Salgado is a native of San Antonio de los Baños, currently in the province of Artemisa

Andrés Williams Dihigo

He completed his ballet studies at the National School of Art of Cubanacan, Havana

Yankiel Vázquez Serra

The principal dancer of the National Ballet of Cuba was born in Mantua, province of Pinar del Río, began his studies at the Pedro Raúl Sánchez Vocational School of Art in that city, and continued them ...

Dani Hernández Acosta

Principal Dancer of the National Ballet of Cuba, a category received in 2011

Viengsay Valdés Herrera

===BODY=== Prima Ballerina, she is considered one of the most solid values of the Cuban School of Ballet

Barbara García

He began his studies at the Provincial School of Art of Santiago de Cuba, which he completed at the Professional School of Art of Camagüey

Anette Delgado Gómez

===BODY=== She began her studies at the Provincial Ballet School «Alejo Carpentier», in Ciudad de La Habana, and completed them at the National Ballet School in 1996

Loipa Yolanda Araujo Carruana

Una de las cuatro bailarinas históricas del ballet cubano conocidas como «las cuatro joyas».

===BODY=== Cuban dancer; professor and ballet maître

Anette Delgado González

===BODY=== She began her studies in 1988 at the Provincial Ballet School «Alejo Carpentier» in Havana and continued them at the National Ballet School, with professors Ramona de Saá, Alina Díaz, Margarita ...

Josefina María Méndez Suárez

Yuyi

Considered one of the great figures of American ballet in the twentieth century and a prominent figure in Cuban ballet

Rosario Suárez

Charín

Charín is a classical dancer who emerged from the Cuban School of Ballet

Arianne Lafita Gonzávez

Arianne Lafita Gonzalvez, an excellent dancer from Cárdenas who has brought great honor to Cuba and her native city

Agustín Acosta Bello

===BODY=== He is one of the most celebrated Cuban writers of the twentieth century

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes de Borja

Padre de la Patria

Considered by Cubans the Father of the Homeland

Angel Arango

===BODY=== He studied in his native city, including his high school diploma at the Instituto de Segunda Enseñanza de La Habana

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

José María Andrés Fernando Lezama Lima

Lezama Lima

Cuban poet, narrator and essayist, he is one of the most significant writers of Latin American literature of the present century

Tomás Estrada Palma

Don Tomás Estrada Palma

A teacher by profession, president of the Republic of Cuba in Arms during the Ten Years' War and substitute for José Martí in the delegation of the Cuban Revolutionary Party

Carlos Prío Socarrás

His political career began at an early age and reached its peak in 1948, when he was appointed president of the Republic of Cuba, a position he held until 1952, when the coup d'état led by Fulgencio Batista ...

Sandú Darié Laver

He was born in Romania but became a naturalized Cuban citizen from the mid-1940s

Carlos Rafael Rodríguez Rodríguez

Politician and economist

Julio Jacinto Le Riverend Brusone

Damián Paredes

Distinguished Cuban historian, educator, and economist, he was born in La Coruña, Spain, on December 22, 1912, while his father served as Cuba's consul in that city

José María Gálvez Alfonso

===BODY=== Cuban lawyer and politician, forensic orator

Francisco de Arango Parreño

He was one of the most illustrious Cubans of the late eighteenth century

Felipe Poey Aloy

Felipe Poey Aloy (1799-1891) Cuban scientist, professor and researcher in the field of natural sciences

Huberal Herrera Lescano

One of the best pianists in Cuba

Lorenzo García Vega

Cult author and creator of one of the most unclassifiable works in Cuban literature, his influence reaches the youngest writers of the Island

Olga Díaz Sampera

Olguita

===BODY=== Born in Havana

José Ramón Betancourt Betancourt

El estudiante, Las dos banderas

Cuban writer who stood out for his work in prose

Juan Pedro Blanco Rodríguez

Juan Blanco

===BODY=== Composer

Guido Benito Leopoldo Llinás Quintáns

Guido Llínás

===BODY=== Among visual artists, critics, and researchers, the work of Guido Llinás is known as being associated with the so-called Group Los Once

Armando Suárez del Villar

Outstanding Professor of Performing Arts

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

Jorge Rafael Massó Mustelier

Former Cuban footballer who performed in the 1970s and 1980s, participant in the Olympic Games and world cup qualifiers, medalist in Pan American Games and Central American and Caribbean Games

Mariano Brull Caballero

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

Enrique Núñez Rodríguez

Enrique Nuñez Rodríguez was an innate communicator, an authentic Cuban, a profound intellectual and a talented artist

Aurelio Mitjans

Mitjans was a scholar of Cuban literature, a verse writer, and an interesting personality in his own right who died at twenty-six years old

Guy Pérez-Cisneros Bonnel

One of the principal figures in art criticism in the first half of the twentieth century in Cuba

José Fornaris Luque

José Fornaris was born in Bayamo, former province of Oriente, currently province of Granma

Luis Manuel Pérez Boitel

He was born in the city of Remedios in 1969, of which city he is an illustrious son

Manuel González del Valle

Dorilo, El redactor, M. J., Juan Vasallo Caraciolo. El psicólogo, El frenólogo, El bayamés, Fray Gerundio habanero, El ontólogo

Cuban writer and professor

José Zacarías González del Valle

El ecléctico, Otro, Tulio

Narrator, poet, professor, literary critic

Alejandro García Caturla

Composer

José Francisco Martí Zayas Bazán

Ismaelillo, Pepito,

Son of José Martí, a Dignified Man Cubans must see José Martí as the human being he was, a revolutionary and father, who loved his Homeland and his son with great affection, to whom he dedicated beautiful ...