Society

Michelle Aguirre

Born in Hialeah and a student at Florida International University (FIU), she was crowned Miss Florida on Saturday night at The Westin Diplomat hotel in Davie

María Luisa Acosta Hernández

===BODY=== Journalist, typographer, proofreader, and editor

Pedro Manuel Betancourt Viamonte

Barbaza

===BODY=== One of many Cuban dentists incorporated into the War of Independence following the fruitful cry of Independence or Death, uttered by the "Father of the Homeland", Carlos Manuel de Céspedes. He ...

Leopoldo Fernández Pujals

===BODY=== He was born in La Habana, Cuba, into a well-to-do family

Nicolás Azcárate Escobedo

Lawyer, politician and Cuban journalist, born near the city of Santiago in 1828 and died in La Habana in 1894

Daniel Gispert García

Patriot of San Antonio de los Baños

Magdalena Peñarredonda Dolley

Patriot, journalist and political activist, fighter for Cuban independence, delegate of the Cuban Revolutionary Party in the Province of Pinar del Río, she achieved the rank of commander in the Mambí ...

Rafael Francia Mestre

Cuban leader who began his revolutionary work in the late 1930s in the old Socialist People's Party (PSP), where he held various leadership positions

Haydeé Santamaría Cuadrado

Yeyé, María

Cuban revolutionary

Pedro Figueredo Cisneros

Perucho

Landowner and lawyer

Raúl Gómez García

He was born at house number 65 on Tamarindo Street, in Santos Suárez, Havana

Frank Isaac País García

Paris, David

A reformist student leader, teacher and Cuban revolutionary who fought against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista as a member of the Movimiento 26 de Julio

Lina Ruz González

Coming from a peasant family from the province of Pinar del Río

Emilio Roig de Leuchsenring

A tireless historian and cultural promoter, he was appointed on July 1, 1935, Historian of the City of Havana and the Office was organized three years later

Jorge Ramón Ibarra Cuesta

He was born in the city of Santiago de Cuba

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz

Alejandro, Comandante en Jefe, El Caballo, Caguairán

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was born on August 13, 1926 in Birán, the former Cuban province of Oriente

Mario García Menocal

Menocal

A military professional, he obtained the rank of major general during the War of Independence

Gerardo Machado Morales

El Asesino con Garras

Officer of the Liberation Army in the War of Independence

Joaquín de Agüero Agüero

Sociedad, independentista,

He was born in the city of Puerto Príncipe, today Camagüey, and was a Cuban independence advocate, protagonist of the first coherent and endogenous anti-colonial movement in Cuba, carried out without ...

René González Sehwerert

René González Sehwerert was born in Chicago, in the United States, on August 13, 1956, into a working-class family that emigrated to the United States

Mercedes Serafina Núñez de Villavicencio Ortiz

Serafina Núñez

Serafina Núñez was and will be a woman swept by the wind, which is useful and dangerous at once, especially for whoever set out to delve into more than nine decades of her life where fire and passion, ...

Eduardo René Chibás Ribas

Eduardo Chibás

Cuban politician with a long career

Juan Fajardo Vega

El último mambí

Soldier of the Liberation Army

Manuel Márquez Sterling

Tresemes, Manuel Márquez Mola, Carlos Loysel, XXX

Cuban writer, journalist, and diplomat

Heberto Padilla

Cuban poet born in Puerta del Golfe, Pinar del Río, Cuba

Fernardo González Llort

He was born in La Habana, of working-class background, son of Magaly Llort Ruiz and Fernando Rafael González Quiñones

Salvador Bueno Menéndez

Essayist, critic, historian, professor and journalist

Mario Kuchilan del Sol

El Chino

Cartoonist and caricaturist at the beginning of his journalistic career

Encarnación de Armas Medina

Poet and teacher of many people from Jaruco who respect and admire her

Bernarda Toro Pelegrín

Manana

A distinguished Cuban patriot and revolutionary of the nineteenth century

María Teresa Freyre de Andrade Escardó

Founder of Cuban library science; bibliographer and librarian of the Biblioteca Nacional José Martí, institution of which she was the first director upon the triumph of the Cuban Revolution, founder ...

Gerardo Castellanos García

Gerardo Casiol

Author of numerous historical studies, he was born during his father's exile in Cayo Hueso and came to his homeland in 1899 with his family

José Quintino Bandera Betancourt

Quintín Banderas

General Quintín Banderas, combatant of the two wars of independence, was vilely assassinated by forces of the rural guard

Dolores de la Torriente Brau

Loló de la Torriente, María Luz de Nora

Critic, journalist, professor, lecturer and writer of intense intellectual and political life

José Agustí­n Caballero Rodrí­guez de la Barrera

El Amigo de los esclavos, El Amigo de los encarcelados, El Amante del periódico, El Redactor

Philosopher and professor

Rogelio Martínez Furé

Cuban Africanist and folklorist

José Elias Entralgo Vallina

Elías Entralgo

Born in La Habana

Eduardo Torres Cuevas

Academic, historian and pedagogue

Manuel Ramón Moreno Fraginals

Historian, economist, professor and publicist

Juan Almeida Bosque

Cuban revolutionary commander

Raúl Díaz Argüelles

Young Cuban revolutionary who distinguished himself, first in the struggle against Batista's tyranny and later, in the midst of the revolutionary process, in the Struggle Against Bandits, and in the fulfillment ...

Julio Fernández Bulté

Lawyer, jurist, professor, panelist on the Escriba y Lea television program, National Prize for Social Sciences 2007

José Manuel Valdés Rodríguez

He was a professor at the Academy of Dramatic Arts of the Escuela Libre de La Habana

Domitila García Doménico

Journalist and typographer, from Camagüey, she created the Academy of Typographers and Bookbinders, unique in Cuba at that time

Rafael Trejo González

Felo

Cuban student leader, murdered by the police of dictator Gerardo Machado during a demonstration

Enrique Gay Calbó

Cuban writer, lawyer, and historian

Abel Santamaría Cuadrado

Abel, El elegido

Abel was born in Encrucijada, in the current province of Villaclara, and was a political activist of the Cuban Revolution

Rosario Guillaume Pérez

Charito

She was born in Havana into a wealthy family