Society

Diana Rosa Suárez Menéndez

Diana Rosa, La caimana

A highly recognized Cuban artist in the audiovisual field (film, radio, television), with an extensive career spanning more than 51 years of artistic life

Natividad Anisia Díaz Chirino

Natasha Díaz

Outstanding Cuban actress in radio and television, reciter, conductor

Rafael Estrada González

Ojos bellos, Neuroman

He was one of the pioneers of clinical neurology on the island of Cuba

Pedro Antonio Valdés Sosa

Peter

Distinguished Senior Researcher, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where he says his passion for science began

Roberto Rodríguez Labrada

Robertico

Roberto is a native of Puerto Padre in the province of Holguín, he is a graduate in microbiology, and works at the Center for Research and Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxia in his native province where ...

Javier Sotomayor Sanabria

Saltomayor, Príncipe de Limonar, Rey de las Alturas, Saltanubes, Soto

His extraordinary performance in the most important competitive venues in the world, his records and titles, establish him as the greatest high jumper of all time

Rafael Emilio Fortún Chacón

Cuban athlete specialized in sprint racing

Federico Villoch Vázquez

El Lope de Vega criollo, Cascabel

Journalist, playwright, Cuban theatrical entrepreneur

Joaquín Lorenzo Luaces

===BODY=== Poet and playwright

Armando Oréfiche

===BODY=== Oréfiche was born in La Habana and achieved an excellent musical education from the classrooms of that beloved place, known for many years as the Conservatorio Municipal de La Habana and later ...

Teresa Oliva Pérez

La Profe Teresa

Cuban gymnast

Abel Prieto Jiménez

Politician, writer, short story writer, editor and professor

Luis Morlote Rivas

Radio and television producer

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, ...

Rosa María Payá Acevedo

Rosa María Payá

Rosa María Payá Acevedo (Havana, January 10, 1989) is a prominent Cuban activist for freedom and human rights

María Felicia Pérez Arroyo

For her knowledge of music, her general culture, her beautiful soprano voice and her artistic mastery, she ranks today as one of the most important choir directors of our time

Gisela Hernández Gonzalo

Composer, pedagogue, choral director and researcher

Digna Guerra Ramírez

Digna Guerra conducted her first music studies with professors Ofelia Busquet and Fe Castillo

Leopoldo Augusto Fernández Salgado

José Candelario Tres Patines, Pototo

===BODY=== Comic actor; one of the famous "negritos" of the Cuban stage and creator of the popular characters "José Candelario Tres Patines" and "Pototo"

Ana Lasalle

Tecla

French by birth, Arab by ancestry, Argentine by adoption and Cuban by self-determination, she dedicated 52 years of her life to art

Carlos Gonzalvo Rodríguez

Profesor Mentepollo

With reflective, sharp, and critical humor, Professor Mentepollo is one of the most beloved characters by contemporary Cuban audiences

Alejandro García Villalón

Virulo

Virulo is a Cuban humorist and singer-songwriter, and is also a founding member of the Nueva Trova Cubana

Mario Sardiñas

Chequera

Outstanding Cuban actor, creator of the character Chequera, whom he portrays in the humorous program Vivir del Cuento

Delso Aquino Baños

Film and Television Director

Andrea Doimeadiós Peralta

Noelia Bermellón

Theater, film and television actress

Jorge Losada Moreno

Actor Jorge Losada Moreno made his debut as a reciter on Radio Mambí at age 18, motivated by heartbreak

Ramón Rives Amador

Mongo Rives

Ramón "Mongo" Rives was born on the farm La Tumbita, he was the grandson of Bruna Castillo, to whom the creation of Sucu-sucu is attributed around the nineteen twenties of the past century

Carlos de la Torre Huerta

===BODY=== Cuban malacologist and zoologist

Juan Vilaró Díaz

Zoologist, botanist, and physician

Enrique Otero Fernández

Gallego Otero

Better known to everyone as "Gallego Otero," a popular scientist who contributes to one of the branches of Public Health, green medicine, a family tradition that he carries out tirelessly, making him worthy ...

Ángel José Cowley Arbirdes

Appointed in 1820 as chief physician of the Hospital de San Juan de Dios, member of the Real Sociedad Patriótica de La Habana and, from 1833, secretary of the Junta Superior de Sanidad

Ignacio Piñeiro Martínez

===BODY=== Ignacio Piñeiro was a true chronicler of the era in which he lived

Justo Pastor Vega Enríquez

El Caballero de la Décima

An exceptional interpreter of Cuban punto who sang with singular beauty of love, nature, and his Homeland, Justo Vega was born in San Antonio de Cabezas, province of Matanzas

Radeunda Lima Caso

Radeúnda Lima was born in the small town of Vueltas, municipality of Camajuaní, in the central region of the country and a stronghold of rural traditions, becoming one of the major figures throughout ...

Jesús Orta Ruiz

El Indio Naborí, Jesús Ribona, Juan Criollo, Martín de la Hoz.

Cuban poet, journalist, and literary researcher

Cipriano Justino Isidrón Torres

Chanito Isidrón, Rey del punto cubano,

Chanito Isidrón has been proclaimed King of Cuban Punto, a rhythm born in the mountains of Cuba, whom he cultivated in the decades of the 1940s and 1950s of the past century, in the radio fusion of the ...

Emiliano Sardiñas Copello

El poeta de la mochila

He is a Cuban improviser, extemporaneous poet, and décima specialist

Tranquilino Sandalio de Noda Martínez

Notable naturalist sage, surveyor, and Cuban writer

Juan Manuel Planas Saínz

El Julio Verne de Cuba

Public figure from Cienfuegos, graduate of Electrical Engineering, founder of the Círculo Hispano Americano in 1904

Francisco Frías Jacott

Agronomist, researcher, scientific communicator, and agrarian reformer whose family had prominent participation in scientific research

Gastón Baquero

Native of Banes, he was an important Cuban writer and poet of the twentieth century, who after the Cuban revolution lived in exile in Spain

Onelio Jorge Cardoso

Cuentero mayor

===BODY=== He was born in Calabazar de Sagua, a small town in the center of the Island, belonging to the former province of Las Villas, on May 11, 1914

Noel Navarro

Journalist, narrator of novels and short stories, and essay writer