José Luciano Franco Ferrán
He was born in La Habana, grew up in a humble family environment, where his mother was his teacher
Gonzalo de Quesada Aróstegui
A few months after the outbreak of the Ten Years' War (October 10, 1868), Gonzalo de Quesada y Aróstegui was born in Havana
Andrés Núñez Olano
Cuban journalist and poet
Juan Francisco Fernández Ruz
Cuban patriot
Antonio Guiteras Holmes
Outstanding revolutionary leader born in Bala Cynwyd, Philadelphia, United States, who moved to Cuba in 1913
José Lacret Morlot
Cuban patriot
Faustino Pérez Hernández
He was a revolutionary, politician and physician, member of the 26th of July Movement, who participated in the Cuban Revolution of 1959 and held various positions in the government, most notably as president ...
Miguel Mariano Gómez Arias
Cuban politician
Diego Vicente Tejera
Cuban patriot, poet, journalist, essayist, literary critic
Juan Emilio de la Caridad Núñez Rodríguez
Major General of the Cuban Army of Liberation during the War of Independence
Leopoldo Berrier Fernández
He was born in Güines, current province of Mayabeque
Josué País García
Josué, the outstanding fighter, was born in Santiago de Cuba
Ruy de Lugo Viña
Native of Santo Domingo, Villaclara
José María Aguirre Valdés
Major General of the Cuban Liberation Army
Miguel Ángel Macau García
Journalist, poet, and playwright
Gaspar Jorge García Galló
A politician and teacher, he was part of the generation of educators who during the first half of the twentieth century linked their educational work to the struggles of the national labor movement
Humberto Medrano
Journalist and lawyer Humberto Medrano was a champion of press freedom in republican Cuba who challenged Fidel Castro early on
Leonte Guerra Cisneros
Leonte Guerra Cisneros
Ramón Roa Garí
Founding member of the Academy of the History of Cuba
He was born in Cifuentes (Santa Clara)
Vicentina Antuña Tabío
Magistra
Notable Cuban pedagogue and cultural manager of the twentieth century
Aldo Martínez Malo
Among his contributions to culture must be counted the devotion with which he cared for the papers of Dulce María Loynaz, of whom he was the literary executor, and the memory of Rita Montaner, Pedro Junco ...
Emilia Margarita Teurbe Tolón Otero
Marquesa Tolón, Ondina del Yumurí
Emilia Teurbe Tolón was born in her father's house, on one of the most central streets of the prosperous city of Matanzas
Francisco de Paula Coronado
César de Madrid, Paul Mabeth, El caballero de la blanca luna, Fray Mostén, Pedro Sánchez, Panfilón, Panfilito, Marcelo Du-Quesne, Clarinete
Humanist, encyclopedist, historian, professor, librarian, and bibliophile
Julio Antonio Mella
Cuban revolutionary
Osvaldo Martínez Martínez
Distinguished Cuban economist
Higinio Esquerra Rodríguez
Cuban patriot of the Wars of Independence
José Martín Félix de Arrate Acosta
Historian
Pablo Lafargue Armagnac
Cuban, son-in-law of Karl Marx and introducer and disseminator of Marxist theory in Spain
Fulgencio Batista Zaldívar
El Hombre
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar, a native of Banes, was a Cuban military officer and politician, president of Cuba between 1940-1944 and de facto in 1952-1959, known as "El Hombre"
Oscar Pino Santos
He was born in Banes, Holguín
Orlando Castellanos Molina
An interviewer par excellence and fundamentally a man of radio
José Elías Borges
Wrapped in the flag of the hammer and sickle lay the coffin of the activist of the Communist Party of France, Belgium and Cuba, physician José Elías Borges
Alejandro Barreiro Olivera
A prominent labor union leader who maintained an intransigent and incorruptible attitude in service to the working class, one of the revolutionary fighters most hated by the dominant oligarchy of his time ...
Manuel Sanguily Garitte
He was an independence patriot, heroic combatant, brilliant orator, politician, parliamentarian, journalist, essayist, historian and teacher
Jesús Menéndez Larrondo
General de las Cañas
Jesús Menéndez Larrondo was a Cuban labor union leader and politician
Vicente García González
Cuban military officer
Fernando Freire de Andrade
One of the most active revolutionary intellectuals of the War of Independence
Ángela Oramas Camero
Journalist, writer
Antonio Barreras
Antonio Barreras was a writer, lawyer, and journalist; he was the creator of the Hernández Catá Prize, awarded annually starting in 1942
Francisco Javier Blanchié Palma
Un gastronómico sin dinero
Cuban writer, born in La Habana, graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Laws
Néstor Aranguren de Rabel
Cuban patriot
Juan Vitalio Acuña Núñez
Vilo, Joaquín
Peasant from the Purial de Vicara area, a hilly region of the Sierra Maestra
Ramiro Guerra Sánchez
Pedagogue, journalist, and Cuban historian, considered a promoter of historical studies on the Island
Clodomira Acosta Ferrals
She was born in Cayal, Manzanillo
Carlos Benigno Baliño López
One of the most lucid precursors of Cuban Marxist thought
