Society

Benito de la Fuente Escalona

Cuban musician who was a member of various groups including Mayohuacán

Manuel Ángel Calviño Valdés-Fauly

Profesor Calviño

Bachelor's degree in Psychology

Gregorio Hernández Ríos

El Goyo

Distinguished Cuban musician

Pedro Celestino Fariñas Meneses

Príncipe de la Diana

Pedro Fariñas is an authentic rumbero

Severo Aguirre del Cristo

Doctor Honoris Causa of the Superior School of Veterinary Medicine of Kosice, Czechoslovakia

Amílcar Salatti González

Amilcar Salatti González is a writer and screenwriter at the Cuban Institute of Film Art and Industry

Humberto Lara

Born in La Habana, he made his professional debut in 1958 on the Bar Melódico program by Osvaldo Farrés on Televisión Cubana, and subsequently worked on all musical programs on Radio and Television. In ...

Pedro Fernández

Pedrito Fernández

Born in Cárdenas, Matanzas, the comic tenor PEDRITO FERNÁNDEZ

Alberto Dávalos

Theatrical artist, tenor and stage director, founder of the Teatro Lírico de Matanzas and the Teatro Lírico de Holguín

Ramón Meza

Narrator, columnist and essayist

Francisco Adolfo Sauvalle Chaceaulme

A botanist distinguished for his contributions to the knowledge of Cuba's medicinal flora, as well as for his work in correcting botanical classifications and in the collection of numerous plant species. He ...

Jorge Ankermann Rafart

He was an illustrious Cuban pianist, composer, and orchestra conductor

Rita Rosa Ruesga

Graduate of Choral Direction from the Instituto Superior de Artes de La Habana Cuba

Nono Valdés Noriega

Nono V. Noriega

He was born in Santa Clara

Manuel Avilés Lozano

Composer and Orchestra Director

Antonio Silvano Suárez Sánchez

Silvano Suárez

Screenwriter of novels and adventures, outstanding director of Cuban television and theater, essayist and short story writer

Manuel Mauri Esteve

Distinguished Cuban composer born in Spain

María Caridad Colón Ruenes

First Latin American athlete to be crowned Olympic champion in javelin throwing, in Moscow (1980)

Alicia García Santana

Alicia is a Cuban researcher, historian, and essayist

Yunidis Castillo Castillo

La Bala, La hija del viento

Cuban athlete, considered a prominent figure in sports for people with disabilities, three-time Paralympic champion, Parapan American champion, and World Cup medalist

Omara Durand Elías

Cuban athlete with a disability, category T 13 (visually impaired)

Reynaldo Mañalich Comas

Reynaldo Mañalich was a Doctor of Medicine and Doctor of Medical Sciences

Orlando Martínez Oliva

Marty Martínez

A very useful player in the major leagues, he made his debut on May 2, 1962 and played for ten years until July 19, 1972

Armando Ferrer Ruz

Cuban baseball coach who has managed Matanzas (baseball team)

José Benito Camacho Urrutia

Benito Camacho was one of the great Czars of Cuban baseball for more than a decade (1998-2010) from the always controversial position of Technical Director in the "Commission"

Juan Gómez Mazorra

Coco

El Coco Gómez is a Cuban baseball player and coach

Celeste Mendoza Beltrán

La Reina del Guaguancó

Celeste Mendoza Beltrán

Luisa Martínez Casado

Luisita, la Casado

Cuban actress, unanimously considered by the critics of her time one of the best in the Hispanic American world

Basilia Mirtha Ibarra Collado

Mirtha Ibarra

Cuban actress of theater, television, and cinema

Félix Beatón Rivera

Cuban actor with extensive artistic career in television, film, and theater

Fernando Hechavarría

Nacho Capitán

Theater, film and television actor, widely known both nationally and internationally for his work in telenovelas and dramatic series

Alexander Otaola Casals

Otaola, El Rey del Chisme,

Cuban-American actor and host is one of the most influential figures on social media and one of the most prominent voices of political activism in Cuba

Martina González García

Martha Velasco

Martina García, known by the artistic name Martha Velasco, was an actress and announcer primarily in Cuban radio

Claudia Tomás Fuentes

Young Cuban actress recognized for various works in Cuban Television and Cinema

Félix Pita Rodríguez

Poet, narrator, essayist, playwright, journalist, literary critic, translator, radio and television writer

Sergio Martínez Martínez

El Rey de las carreteras de Cuba, Pipián

Outstanding athlete

Marlies Mejías García

Cuban track and road cyclist

Belinda Sánchez Ramírez

Senior Researcher, Doctor of Biological Sciences and director of Tumor Immunology at the Center for Molecular Immunology

María Elena Molinet de la Peña

Stage designer, professor, essayist

Filiberto Azcuy Aguilera

Outstanding Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler, competitor in the Olympic Games of Sydney (2000) and Athens (2004)

Pedro Val Balgueiras

Pedro

Cuban sports coach in Greco-Roman wrestling, known by all wrestling followers as Pedro

Ismael Borrero Molina

Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler competing in the 67 kg division

Reynaldo González López

Cuban sports executive, member of the International Olympic Committee

Gustavo Rollé Fernández

Rollé, \\"Padre de la lucha cubana\\"

Glory of Cuban sports

Nitza Carmen María Villapol Andiarena

Nitza Villapol

Author of Cocina al minuto, her most emblematic and widely distributed book

Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín

Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín was born in Bejucal, Cuba, a small town south of Havana

María Guadalupe Guzmán Tirado

Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Full Professor, Senior Researcher