Society

Denia Caballero Ponce

Denia is a Cuban discus thrower

Aurelio Janet Torres

Cuban javelin thrower who participated in the Mexico Olympic Games, he was the first Cuban and Latin American to qualify for the Javelin final at that time with a throw of 80

Yaimé Pérez Téllez

La Rusa

She is a Cuban discus thrower, who competed in the XVII Pan American Games in Toronto 2015

Osleidys Menéndez Sáez

“La Diosa de Ébano” y “El Dardo Antillano”

Cuban athlete, specialist in javelin throwing

Ramón Aneiro Riba

He was born in La Habana, Cuba, on July 28, 1947, into a humble family

Joaquín L. Dueñas Pinto

He was born in La Habana, his father was the illustrious educator don Joaquín Andrés de Dueñas

Pedro L. Fariñas Mayo

He was an eminent radiologist who dedicated his life to the practice, progress, and teaching of Radiology

Juan Bruno de Zayas Jiménez

===BODY=== Physician who achieved fame and fortune, was a great patriot and an excellent philanthropist

Guillermo M. Vaillant Suárez

He was born in the City of Santiago de Cuba, former Province of Oriente

Joaquín Albarrán Domínguez

He was born in Sagua la Grande

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

Mario Emilio Dihigo Llanos

Cuban physician and pedagogue

Enrique Lluria Despau

Cuban physician and sociologist who became one of the first Cuban materialists

Eduardo Bernabé Ordaz Ducungé

“papá”, Comandante

Cuban physician

Ricardo Charles Mendoza Sánchez

Charles

When the World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiology conducted a survey last year among its 140 member countries to determine who was the oldest active anesthesiologist, Dr

Adelanida Fernández de Juan

Laidi

Short story writer, narrator, and physician

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

Enzo Dueñas Gómez

He was born in Palmira, which is located in the current province of Cienfuegos

Héctor Duyos Gato

He was born in Caibarien; for economic reasons his family moved to Remedios when he turned 4 years old, where he completed his primary studies and worked at the newspaper Avances

Fernando Domínguez Dieppa

Fernandito

Professor and Doctor of Medical Sciences Fernando Domínguez Dieppa was born into a humble family in the Luyanó neighborhood of Havana

Francisco Lancís Sánchez

Francisco Lancís was a true promoter and living symbol of Medical Ethics in Cuba

Jorge González Pérez

Popi

He was born in Jovellanos, Matanzas; he completed his primary and secondary studies in public schools in his hometown and his pre-university studies at the Carlos Marx school in the City of La Habana

Abelardo Buch López

He was born in Santiago de Cuba

Máximo Francisco Repilado Muñoz

Compay Segundo

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

Danilo Avilés

===BODY=== He began composition studies with Argeliers León

Juan Jorge Junco Hortelano

Junco

He was a prominent Cuban clarinetist who taught with the excellence of a true master, that is, one who gives all his secrets to his disciples, with the sole aim that they become better than him

Manuel Avilés Lozano

Composer and Orchestra Director

Vincent Cossio

Vincent Cossío, the Cuban businessman who injected a Latin flavor into the soft drink industry in the United States with products like Materva and Jupiña, died in Miami on March 12 following a decline ...

Mario Sorondo

Promoter between 1920 and 1940 of traveling theaters, which eased the theatrical crisis caused by the rise of cinema

Agustín Rodríguez Castro

Agustín Rodríguez Castro was not only a prominent author, theater director and entrepreneur, but also distinguished himself as a screenwriter for Cuba's emerging sound cinema and lyricist of famous songs; ...

Alex Meruelo

Álex, born in New York, is the son of Homero and Belinda Meruelo, two Cuban immigrants who left their native island in 1961 and moved to the United States

Ralph de la Vega

Vice President of AT&T Inc

Felipe Valls

Felipe Valls is a renowned Cuban businessman and exile, founder of the emblematic Versailles restaurant who arrived in Miami as an exile in 1960 at age 25 after the revolutionary government nationalized ...

Hugo Cancio Morua

Hugo Cancio is an American businessman and political activist of Cuban descent

Carlos Ever Fonseca

Cuban actor graduated from the National School of Art (E

Juan Escalona Reguera

He was a Cuban military officer and jurist who held important positions following the triumph of the revolution

Regino Boti León

Cuban economist, known for his work in the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL), and for his participation in the initial economic strategy of the Cuban Revolution

Jenny Alfonso Relova

Cuban painter based in southern France, where she directs the Artelier Habana

Alfredo Álvarez Rivero

Freddy

He is a Doctor in Dentistry graduated from the Faculty of Dentistry, Superior Institute of Medical Sciences of La Habana in 1973

Manuel Alfredo Sosa Bravo

Sosabravo

===BODY=== Ceramicist, painter, and engraver

Alexis Leyva Machado

Kcho

Kcho is considered one of the Cuban visual artists with the greatest international recognition

Ángel Laborde Wilson

Outstanding artist of Guantánamo's visual arts

Héctor Quintero Viera

Actor, Director, Playwright and Narrator, he began his artistic work from childhood in radio, television and, later, theater

Jorge Antonio González

Playwright, historian and theater critic, author of the books Cuban Operas and Their Authors (1943), History of Theater in La Habana (1961), Operistic Composition in Cuba (1986) and Chronology of Havana ...

Graziella Pogolotti Jacobson

Art critic, prestigious essayist and outstanding Cuban intellectual, promoter of Cuban Plastic Arts

Jaime Lucas Ortega Alamino

Cardinal Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino was archbishop of the Archdiocese of La Habana, Cuba

Haydeé Arteaga Rojas

Señora de los Cuentos

Outstanding Cuban narrator, writer, reciter

Silvia Maritza Rosales Pomares

Maritza Rosales

Radio, television, and film actress