Society

Manuel García-Garófalo Mesa

Padre del periodismo en \\"Las Villas\\", M. A. Nuel, Alicates, Bélico, Escambray, X., M. M., Horacio Mora, Edmundo Agustín de la Roca, Sancho Panza, Juan Candela, Mambisito

===BODY=== He was born in Santa Clara on the street of Santa Rosa between San Francisco Javier, currently Maceo and the Callejón de los Vizcaínos, today Plácido Street

Juan Calixto Oxamendi Deprez

Doctor of Medicine and Surgery, librarian and founding member of the Royal Academy of Medical, Physical and Natural Sciences of La Habana He was born in the city of Matanzas, son of Vicente Oxamendi and ...

Joaquín García Lebredo Lladó

Arteo

Cuban physician and educator

Adolfo Martí Fuentes

He was a professor at the University of La Habana and National Director of Literature of the former National Council of Culture

Juan Cristóbal Nápoles Fajardo

Cucalambé, Cookcalambe,

A great figure of Cuban Siboney and Creole poetry; the most important cultivator of the décima in the nineteenth century of the Island

Jesús Manuel Herrera Rodríguez

El Casimbero

A popular improviser, an instant improviser, characterized by speaking in décima all the time, born in Las Casimbas, the place from which he takes his name

Domingo Fernández Cuba

He was a professor at the School of Medicine for more than 40 years and suffered imprisonment for defending his students during the events of November 27, 1871

Ángel Fernando Sánchez Vicente

Teacher of teachers and master of the Department of Histology and Embryology at ICBP Victoria de Girón

Olga María Piero Rocillo

Olga María Piero is a Cuban physician, specialist in Pathological Anatomy, Professor of Merit and Doctor of Science

Israel Borrajero Martínez

renowned pathologist, Doctor of Sciences Israel Borrajero Martínez

Tomás Godofredo Herrera Martínez

Tomás Herrera

Glory of Cuban sports

Rafael García Grasa

Papito

Advisor to musical and dance groups such as Maraguán and Camagua, he transmitted his knowledge about the popular and traditional culture of the Caribbean, especially its African and Haitian roots

Carlos Acosta Quesada

Junior, Yuli

Carlos Acosta, born in La Habana in 1973, trained at the National Ballet School of La Habana, Cuba

Juan Francisco Sariol

He was born in San Luis and when he was seven years old his family moved to Santiago de Cuba, where he studied at a public school and at the private school San Severino, in exchange for different services ...

Raúl Camayd Zogbe

Baritone, singing professor and director of the Lírico de Holguín Theater

Pedro Buenaventura Jesús Junco Redondas

Pedro Junco

Composer Pedro Junco was born in the city of Pinar del Río, the same man who died at only 23 years old, not before having earned the affection of admirers of his musical work, among which are anthological ...

Domingo Ravenet Esquerdo

Outstanding painter, sculptor, engraver, illustrator and cultural promoter

Miguel Angel Botalín Panpín

Founder and one of the most prominent artists of the Sociedad Cultural Galería, a collective of great importance in Cuban artistic and social life during the 1950s

Isaac Felipe Delgado Ramírez

El Chévere de la Salsa

Cuban salsa singer

Maykel Blanco Cuevas

Maykel Blanco

Maykel is a Cuban singer, drummer, percussionist, composer, arranger, and musical director

Eduardo Rafael Heras León

El Chino

His life and work bear the marks of peculiar and difficult moments, but above all the light of fidelity and love for his country, which even in the midst of the hurricane of misunderstandings kept him ...

Alfredo Rodríguez Molina

Alfredito Rodríguez

Cuban singer and composer

Ángel Augusto Pérez Herrero

Prominent personality of Cuban education and culture

Sergio Leovaldo Vitier García-Marruz

A great composer and concert performer, as well as one of the most important guitarists in Cuba

Isbel Herrera del Sol

International Chess Arbiter from Matanzas, professor at the University of Computer Sciences, Master of Science and Assistant Professor

René Francisco Rodríguez Hernández

René Francisco

This person from Holguín has distinguished work in collective art projects, outstanding pedagogical service, and above all, remarkable artistic work throughout a career with broad recognition in Cuba ...

Armando García Menocal

Cuban painter and independence advocate

Juan Vicente Rodríguez Bonachea

Distinguished painter and professor

José Ramón De Lázaro Bencomo

José Delarra

Cuban plastic artist

Viredo Espinosa

Viredo

Viredo Espinosa, who as an artist would use only his first name, was born the eldest of three brothers in 1928, in Regla, a small town across the bay from La Habana

René de la Nuez Robaina

Plastic artist, journalist, professor, humorist and cartoonist

Lilia Jilma Madera Valiente

Celebrated creator of Cuban visual art

Fermín Pedroso Sotomayor

Born in Pedro Betancourt, Matanzas

Manuel Mendive Hoyos

Manuel Mendive was born in the Luyanó neighborhood of Havana, Cuba

Mario Ambrosio García Portela

Mario confesses that in his own birthland—with its spectacular landscapes and nature—he has found many sources of inspiration, and among them is discovered his journey through the multiple techniques ...

Ángel Iñigo Blanco

An empirical artist by nature, self-taught, a primitivist of great significance in our country's culture

Alfredo Ramón Jesús de la Paz Pons Fuentes Pons

Fidelio Ponce de León Henner

Cuban painter

Adigio Benítez Jiménez

He was born in Santiago de Cuba

Victor Manuel García Valdés

Painter, he studied at the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Alejandro in La Habana

Ruperto Jay Matamoros

Native of San Luis, Santiago de Cuba

René Portocarrero

One of the leading figures in Cuban plastic arts

Marta Arjona Pérez

Sculptor and ceramicist

Secundino Bermúdez Delgado

Cundo Bermúdez

Renowned Cuban painter, called the last master of the second generation of the Cuban avant-garde of the twentieth century

José Joaquín Tejeda Revilla

Cuban painter whose most accomplished sector was landscape painting

Jorge Santos Díaz

El pintor de Camagüey

A significant majority of artists love their homeland with a metaphorical sense of reality

Eduardo Roca Salazar

Choco

Choco, artistic name of the renowned Cuban painter and engraver Eduardo Roca Salazar

Luis Carlos Soberón Valdés

Born in San Antonio de los Baños

Teodoro Ramos Blanco

Considered, along with Juan José Sicre, Ernesto Navarro and Florencio Gelabert, one of the initiators of the Cuban sculptural avant-garde and at the same time one of the most outstanding and talented ...

Domingo Ramos Enríquez

Cuban painter, considered one of the great cultivators of landscape painting in the Republic, especially for his views of the famous Viñales valley and other physical scenes of the Island