# List of Cubans

This is a list of notable Cubans, ordered alphabetically by first name within each category.

## Additional lists

For Cuban-Americans please see List of Cuban Americans

## Art and entertainment
### Actors

* Ana de Armas, actress
* Ana Margarita Martínez-Casado, actress and singer
* Andy García, actor
* Roberto Escobar, actor
* César Évora, actor
* Daisy Fuentes, actress
* Desi Arnaz, actor
* Emiliano Díez, actor
* Enrique Molina, actor
* Faizon Love, actor and comedian
* Francisco Gattorno, actor
* Julio Oscar Mechoso, actor
* Luis Oquendo, actor
* Luisa Martínez Casado (1860–1925), actress
* Manela Bustamante, actress
* María Conchita Alonso, actress
* Mario Cimarro, actor
* Mario Ernesto Sánchez, actor and founder of Teatro Avante
* Renny Arozarena, actor
* Steven Bauer, actor
* Velia Martínez, actress and singer
* William Levy, actor
* Nobel Vega, actor, "Tio Nobel"

### Artists, photographers and fashion designers

* Agustín Cárdenas, sculptor
* Alberto Korda, photographer
* Alexandre Arrechea, painter, sculptor
* Amelia Peláez, painter
* Baruj Salinas, painter
* Carlos Enríquez, painter
* Fidelio Ponce de León, painter
* Herman Puig (born German Puig Paredes), photographer
* Humberto Jesús Castro García, painter
* José Bernal, painter
* José Vilalta Saavedra, sculptor
* Josignacio, creator of plastic paint medium, contemporary painter
* Juan José Sicre, sculptor
* Juan T. Vázquez Martín, painter
* Lourdes Gomez Franca, painter
* Luis Castaneda, photographer
* Mario Perez, painter
* Miguel Fleitas, painter, photographer
* Miguel Rodez, painter, sculptor
* Pedro Álvarez Castelló, painter
* Rafael Consuegra, sculptor
* Raúl Corrales, photographer
* Raúl Martínez, pop artist, painter
* Rene Mederos, poster artist and graphic designer
* René Portocarrero, painter
* Tomas Sanchez, painter
* Victor Manuel, painter
* Waldo Diaz-Balart, painter
* Wifredo Lam, painter

### Authors and poets

* Alejo Carpentier, novelist
* Antonio Benitez-Rojo, author
* Brígida Agüero, poet
* Daína Chaviano, author
* Carilda Oliver Labra, poet
* Domitila García de Coronado, writer and journalist
* Dulce María Loynaz, author
* Edmundo Desnoes, author
* Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, author, poet
* Guillermo Cabrera Infante, author
* Heberto Padilla, poet
* Héctor Zumbado, writer, journalist, humorist, critic
* José Ignacio Rivero, author and journalist
* Antonio Rodríguez Salvador, poet, author
* José Lezama Lima, author, poet
* Mary Stanley Low (1912–2007), British-Cuban political activist, surrealist poet, artist and Latin teacher
* José María Heredia y Campuzano, poet
* José Martí, author, poet, journalist
* David Masnata y de Quesada, author and historian
* Julián del Casal, 19th-century poet
* Leonardo Padura Fuentes, novelist, journalist
* Mariano Brull, author
* Nancy Morejón, author
* José Gómez-Sicre, art critic and author
* Nicolás Guillén, poet
* Norberto Fuentes, author
* Pedro Juan Gutiérrez, author, poet, painter
* Pedro Luis Boitel, poet
* Raúl Rivero, poet and journalist
* Reinaldo Arenas, author
* Severo Sarduy, poet
* Virgilio Piñera, author, playwright, poet, short-story writer and essayist
* Zoé Valdés, author
* Cirilo Villaverde

### Composers

* Alejandro García Caturla, symphonic composer
* Mariá Álvarez Rios, composer
* Aurelio de la Vega, composer, lecturer, essayist and poet
* Antonio María Romeu, composer
* Arsenio Rodríguez, developer of the rumba
* Didier Hernández, singer, composer; former member of Menudo and MDO
* Ernesto Lecuona, often regarded as the greatest Cuban composer
* Esteban Salas y Castro, 18th century Cuban baroque composer
* Gonzalo Roig, often regarded as one of the greatest composers of Cuba, "Quiere me mucho"/ Cecilia Valdez
* Ignacio Cervantes, Chopinesque piano composer
* José White Lafitte, violinist and composer
* Leo Brouwer, guitarist and composer
* Yalil Guerra, composer
* Amadeo Roldán, composer and violinist
* Dámaso Pérez Prado, developer of the mambo
* Armando Rodriguez-Gonzalez, composer
* Antonio Rodríguez Ferrer, composer
* René Touzet, composer, bandleader and pianist
* Flores Chaviano, guitarist and composer
* Danilo Avilés, composer
* Magaly Ruiz, composer
* José Ardévol, composer
* Harold Gramatges, composer
* Carlos Fariñas, composer
* Roberto Valera, composer
* Julián Orbón, composer
* Margarita Lecuona, singer and composer

### Chess

* José Raúl Capablanca, chess world champion, grandmaster considered "the Mozart of Chess"
* Juan Corzo, chess
* Lázaro Bruzón, chess grandmaster
* María Teresa Mora

### Musicians

* Aida Diestro, pianist, arranger
* Albita, singer
* Alfredo de la Fé, musician
* Adalberto Álvarez, pianist, director, composer
* Ángel Reyes, violinist
* AJ McLean, singer, member of American boyband The Backstreet Boys
* Armando Peraza, percussionist
* Arturo Sandoval, trumpeter
* Arsenio Rodríguez, composer
* Benny Moré, singer, songwriter, conductor, arranger
* Bola de Nieve, singer, pianist
* Camila Cabello, musician, songwriter, actress
* Cándido Fabré, musician, singer-songwriter
* Carlos Manuel Pruneda, singer
* Carlos Varela, singer-songwriter
* Celia Cruz, singer
* Celina González, singer-songwriter
* Cesar "Pupy" Pedroso, pianist, musician
* Christina Milian, singer
* Chucho Valdés, pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger
* Compay Segundo, musician, songwriter
* Conchita Espinosa, pianist, teacher
* Cuban Link, rapper
* Cubanito 20.02, hip-hop band
* Dave Lombardo, drummer
* David Calzado, musician
* Didier Hernández, singer-songwriter
* Donna Maria Martinez, guitarist and singer
* Eddy Zervigon, flautist and bandleader
* Elena Burke, singer
* El Medico, timba musician
* El Taiger, reggaeton musician
* Eliades Ochoa, guitarist and singer
* Emilio Estefan, producer, composer
* Ernesto Lecuona, pianist, composer
* Esther Borja, singer
* Eusebio Delfín, singer
* Francisco Aguabella, percussionist
* German Nogueira Gomez, songwriter, composer, producer
* Gloria Estefan, singer, composer
* Gonzalo Rubalcaba, pianist
* Guillermo Portabales, singer, songwriter
* Guillermo Rubalcaba, musician
* Harold Lopez Nussa, jazz pianist
* Horacio Gutiérrez, concert pianist
* Hubert de Blanck, pianist, composer
* Ignacio Piñeiro, composer
* Ibrahim Ferrer, musician
* Isabel LaRosa, singer
* Issac Delgado, singer
* Jacobo Rubalcaba, musician
* Jorge Bolet, concert pianist
* Juan Croucier, bassist
* Juan Formell, composer
* Juan de Marcos González, musician
* La Lupe, singer
* Lena, singer
* Lissette, singer
* Malena Burke, singer
* Manuel Barrueco, classical guitarist
* María Teresa Vera, composer, guitarist, singer
* Mayra Verónica, singer
* Miguel Matamoros, singer, composer
* Moisés Valle, musician
* Moisés Simons, composer
* Mongo Santamaría, jazz musician
* Moraima Secada, singer
* Nelson Martinez, baritone
* Ñico Saquito, composer, singer
* Olga Guillot, singer
* Omara Portuondo, singer
* Orlando "Cachaito" López, bassist
* Pablo Milanés, singer-songwriter
* Pío Leyva, singer
* Pitbull, rapper
* Raul Paz, singer
* Rey Ruiz, singer
* Rita Montaner, singer
* Roberto Faz, singer, conductor
* Rubén González, pianist
* Rudy Sarzo, rock bassist
* Sabrina Claudio, singer
* Sen Dog, rapper
* Silvio Rodríguez, singer-songwriter
* Tico Torres, drummer, percussionist
* Willy Chirino, singer-songwriter
* Voltaire (musician), musician
* Xavier Cugat, musician
* Yalil Guerra, producer, musician, composer
* Yotuel Romero, rapper

### Film directors

* Ernesto Daranas
* Fernando Pérez
* Humberto Padrón
* Jorge Luis Sánchez
* Juan Carlos Cremata
* Juan Padrón
* Miguel Coyula
* Rodrigo García
* Santiago Álvarez
* Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

### Journalists

* Calixto Martínez
* German Pinelli
* Héctor Zumbado, writer, journalist, humorist, and critic
* Idania Martínez Grandales, broadcaster, journalist and academic, and professor
* Nicolás Guillén
* Oscar Espinosa Chepe
* Pablo de la Torriente Brau
* Raúl Rivero
* Rick Sanchez

### Dancers

* Alicia Alonso, Prima Ballerina Assoluta, director of the Cuban National Ballet (Ballet Nacional de Cuba)
* Carlos Acosta, dancer
* Sadaise Arencibia, star dancer with the Cuban National Ballet
* Fernando Bujones, dancer
* Jose Manuel Carreño, American Ballet Theatre principal dancer
* Lydia Diaz Cruz, prima ballerina
* Miguel Campaneria, ballet dancer, currently artistic director of the National Ballet Theater of Puerto Rico
* Vida Guerra, video dancer
* Yat-Sen Chang, principal dancer, English National Ballet

### Other entertainment

* Alvarez Guedes, comedian and author
* Ana María Polo, television personality and lawyer
* Alina María Hernández, "Cachita", television personality
* Cristina Saralegui, magazine editor, talk show host (Cristina) and actress
* Vida Guerra, model/actress
* Lili Estefan, television personality and former model
* Mauricio Zeilic, television personality
* Mayra Verónica, model
* Nelson Ascencio, comedian (Madtv)
* Pedro Zamora, AIDS activist, featured on The Real World: San Francisco
* Raúl De Molina, television personality
* Raúl Musibay, Food Network chef and author
* Rosaura Andreu, children's television entertainer

## Sport
### Baseball

* Adeiny Hechavarria, Miami Marlins
* Adolfo Luque, Cincinnati Reds
* Alex Fernandez, Chicago White Sox, Florida Marlins
* Alex Sánchez
* Ariel Pestano, Cuba national baseball team
* Ariel Prieto, Oakland Athletics
* Aroldis Chapman, Cincinnati Reds
* Aurelio Monteagudo, Kansas City Athletics
* Barbaro Canizares, Atlanta Braves
* Bárbaro Garbey, Detroit Tigers
* Bert Campaneris, Kansas City Athletics
* Brayan Peña, Atlanta Braves
* Cristóbal Torriente, Negro leagues, Baseball Hall of Fame
* Danys Báez, Baltimore Orioles
* Diego Seguí, Kansas City Athletics
* Eli Marrero, New York Mets
* Esteban Bellán, first Latin American professional baseball player to play in the United States
* Germán Mesa, trainer for the Cuban national baseball team
* Jack Calvo, Washington Senators
* Jasiel Rivero (born 1993), basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
* Jorge Soler, Chicago Cubs
* José Abreu, Chicago White Sox
* José Canseco, Oakland Athletics
* José Cardenal, San Francisco Giants
* José Contreras, Chicago White Sox
* José Fernández, Miami Marlins
* José Iglesias, Detroit Tigers
* José Méndez, Kansas City Monarchs, Baseball Hall of Fame
* José Rodríguez, New York Giants
* José Tartabull, Kansas City Athletics
* Kendrys Morales, Kansas City Royals
* Liván Hernández, Arizona Diamondbacks
* Luis Tiant, Cleveland Indians
* Martín Dihigo, Negro leagues, Baseball Hall of Fame
* Mike Cuellar, Cincinnati Reds
* Minnie Miñoso, Chicago White Sox
* Octavio "Cookie" Rojas, Cincinnati Reds
* Omar Linares, Pinar del Río Vegueros, Cuban national baseball team
* Orestes Destrade, New York Yankees, ESPN on-air personality
* Orlando Hernández, New York Mets
* Ozzie Canseco, Oakland Athletics
* Pedro Ramos, Washington Senators
* Preston Gómez, Washington Senators
* Rafael Palmeiro, Baltimore Orioles
* Ray Noble, New York Giants
* René Arocha, St. Louis Cardinals
* René Monteagudo, Washington Senators
* Rey Ordóñez, New York Mets
* Roberto "Bobby" Estalella, Washington Senators
* Rolando Arrojo, Tampa Bay Devil Rays
* Sandy Amorós, Brooklyn Dodgers
* Tony Fossas, Texas Rangers
* Tony González, Cincinnati Reds
* Tony Oliva, Minnesota Twins
* Tony Pérez, Cincinnati Reds
* Tony Taylor, Chicago Cubs
* Yuniesky Betancourt, last played for the Milwaukee Brewers
* Yasiel Puig, Los Angeles Dodgers
* Yasmani Grandal, Los Angeles Dodgers
* Yoenis Céspedes, New York Mets
* Zoilo Versalles, Minnesota Twins, first Latin American Major League MVP in 1965
* Alexei Ramírez, Chicago White Sox
* Yunel Escobar, Washington Nationals

### Boxing

* Adolfo Horta, featherweight Olympic boxer
* Ariel Hernández, Middleweight Olympic boxer
* Armando Martínez, light middle-weight Olympic boxer
* Benny Paret, boxer
* Eliseo Castillo, boxer
* Félix Savón, Olympic boxer
* Florentino Fernández, boxer
* Guillermo Rigondeaux Ortiz, amateur boxer
* Joel Casamayor, boxer
* Jorge Rubio, boxing trainer
* José Nápoles, boxer
* Kid Charol, boxer
* Kid Chocolate, boxer
* Kid Gavilán, boxer
* Lorenzo Aragon Armenteros, Olympic welterweight boxer
* Luis Manuel Rodríguez, boxer
* Mario César Kindelán Mesa, Olympic gold medal-winning boxer
* Raúl González, boxer
* Roberto Balado, Olympic super heavyweight boxer
* Sugar Ramos, world champion boxer
* Teófilo Stevenson, amateur boxer
* Yan Bartelemí, light flyweight gold medal-winning boxer
* Yanqui Díaz, boxer
* Yudel Johnson Cedeno light-welterweight Olympic boxer
* Yuriorkis Gamboa, flyweight Olympic gold medal-winning boxer

### Athletes

* Alberto Juantorena, track
* Aliecer Urrutia, triple jump
* Ana Fidelia Quirot, 800m
* Anier García, hurdler
* Dayron Robles, hurdling athlete
* Emeterio González, javelin thrower
* Héctor Herrera, sprinter
* Ioamnet Quintero, high jumper
* Iván García, sprinter
* Iván Pedroso, long jump
* Javier Sotomayor, track and field record setter
* Joel Isasi, sprinter
* Joel Lamela, sprinter
* Jorge Aguilera, sprinter
* Lázaro Martínez, sprinter
* Luis Alberto Pérez-Rionda, sprinter
* Osleidys Menéndez, javelin
* Roberto Hernández
* Roberto Moya, discus throw
* Víctor Moya, high jumper
* Yargelis Savigne, jump
* Yarisley Silva, pole vaulter
* Yipsi Moreno, hammer thrower
* Yoandri Betanzos, triple jump
* Yoel García, triple jumper
* Yoel Hernández, hurdler
* Yudelkis Fernández, long jumper
* Yunaika Crawford, hammer thrower
* Yuniel Hernández, hurdler

### Swimming

* Joel Armas, record holder in the US in monofin swimming
* Neisser Bent, bronze medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics
* Rodolfo Falcón, silver medalist at the 1996 Summer Olympics
* Leonel "Bebito" Smith, gold medalist in the 1926 and 1930 Central American and Caribbean Games

### Other

* Deborah Andollo, holds world records in free diving
* Alberto Delgado, soccer
* Ivan Dominguez, two time gold medalist in the Pan American Games and Cuban national champion in cycling
* Héctor Socorro, footballer
* Ibrahim Rojas, flatwater canoer
* Juan Tuñas, former Cuban footballer
* Manrique Larduet, gymnast
* Rey Ángel Martínez, soccer
* Tomás Fernández, footballer in the 1938 World Cup
* Yanelis Yuliet Labrada Diaz, Olympic silver medallist in Taekwondo
* Maykel Galindo, soccer
* Jorge Sánchez Salgado, volleyball player
* Mijaín López, Greco-Roman wrestler

## Politics
### Current

* Abelardo Colomé Ibarra, vice president of the Council of State of Cuba
* Alfonso Fraga-Perez, diplomat, Secretary General of the Organization of Solidarity of the People of Asia, Africa & Latin America (OSPAAAL), former Head of Cuban Interests Section
* Carlos Lage Dávila, former executive Secretary of the Council of Ministers of Cuba
* Felipe Pérez Roque, former Cuban government minister
* Fidel Castro, previous First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
* José Luis Rodríguez García, Cuban government minister
* José Ramón Balaguer Cabrera, current Minister for Health in Cuba
* Juan Almeida Bosque, third ranking member of the Cuban Council of State
* Luis Posada Carriles, Cuban paramilitary leader, accused terrorist
* Mariela Castro, director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education and daughter of Raúl Castro
* Oscar Elías Biscet, physician and dissident and founder of the Lawton Foundation, currently jailed
* Oswaldo Payá, founder of Proyecto Varela
* Raúl Castro, current First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba
* Liaena Hernandez Martínez, youngest member of the Cuban National Assembly
* Roberto Fernández Retamar, President of the Casa de las Américas
* Ricardo Alarcón, President of the Cuban National Assembly
* Rosa Elena Simeón Negrín, former Minister of Science, Technology and the Environment
* Pedro Pablo Prada Quintero, diplomat
* Juan Valdés Figueroa, diplomat

### Historical

* Abel Santamaría, Cuban revolutionary
* Alcibiades Hidalgo, former ambassador to the UN
* Ana Betancourt, first to campaign for equal rights for Cuban women, in 1868 during the Ten Years' War
* Andrés Rivero Agüero, Cuba's prime minister from March 1957 to March 1958
* Anselmo Alliegro, acting president of Cuba for one day (1–2 January 1959) after the departure of General Fulgencio Batista from the country
* Antonio Guiteras, politician and revolutionary
* Antonio Maceo, revolutionary, military strategist
* Armando Hart Dávalos, politician and Communist leader
* Camilo Cienfuegos, Cuban revolutionary
* Carlos Hevia, provisional president of Cuba 1934
* Pilar Jorge de Tella, suffragist
* Carlos Manuel Piedra, acting president of Cuba for one day (2 January 1959) after the departure of General Fulgencio Batista from the country
* Carlos Prío Socarrás, former President of Cuba
* Celia Sánchez, Cuban revolutionary and Secretary to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers
* Cosme Torres Espinoza, ambassador to Zimbabwe
* Eduardo Chibás, Cuban politician who used radio to broadcast his political views against Batista's government to the public
* Federico Laredo Brú, President of Cuba from 1936 to 1940
* Fernando Tarrida del Mármol, Cuban anarchist
* Fabio Grobart, Communist leader
* Fulgencio Batista, former Cuban President
* Frank País, 20th century revolutionary
* Gerardo Machado, Cuban president 1920–33
* Gustavo Arcos, Cuban Revolutionary later became an imprisoned dissident
* Huber Matos, Cuban Revolutionary
* Ignacio Agramonte, 19th century Cuban revolutionary
* Jorge Mas Canosa, founder of the Cuban American National Foundation
* José Miró Cardona, President of Cuba in 1959
* José Martí, poet, philosopher, politician, writer, revolutionary
* Juan Carlos Robinson Agramonte, former member of the Cuban politburo and first Secretary of the Provincial Committee of the Cuban Communist Party in Santiago de Cuba
* Julio Antonio Mella, founder of the original Cuban Communist Party
* Jorge Payret, diplomat and academic
* Leopoldo Cancio, deputy and Sectetary of Education
* Manuel Piñeiro, first head of the Cuban General Intelligence Directorate
* Manuel Urrutia Lleó, provisional Cuban President January to July 1959
* Miguel Mariano Gómez, President of Cuba for seven months in 1936
* Paul Lafargue, Cuban-born French Communist and son-in-law to Karl Marx
* Pedro Pablo Cazañas, Cuban judge and politician
* Rafael Diaz-Balart, Cuban politician and majority leader during presidency of Batista
* Ramón Grau, Cuban president for two terms 1933, 1940–44
* Saturnino and Mariano Lora, brothers and 19th century revolutionaries
* Vilma Espín Guillois, President of the Cuban Federation of Women, wife of Raúl Castro
* Virgilio Paz Romero, anti-Castro paramilitary

## Religion

* Alfredo Llaguno-Canals, former Auxiliary Bishop of Havana
* Miguel A. De La Torre, prolific author on Hispanic religiosity
* Agustin Roman, retired Auxiliary Bishop of Miami
* Braulio Orue-Vivanco, former Bishop of Pinar del Río
* Eduardo Tomas Boza-Masvidal, former Auxiliary Bishop of Havana
* Félix Varela, beatified priest, candidate for sainthood
* Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, Cardinal Archbishop of Havana
* Meyer Rosenbaum, former rabbi and spiritual leader in Havana

## Royalty and nobility

* Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
* Edelmira Ignacia Adriana Sampedro-Robato, Countess of Covadonga, first wife of Alfonso Prince of Asturias
* Marta Ester Rocafort-Altazarra, second wife of Alfonso Prince of Asturias

## Military

* Adolfo Fernández Cavada, captain in the Union Army during the American Civil War who later served as commander-in-chief of the Cinco Villas during Cuba's Ten Year War
* Alberto Bayo y Giroud, Cuban military leader of the defeated left-wing Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War
* Antonio Maceo Grajales, second-in-command of the Cuban army of independence
* Arnaldo Ochoa, Cuban general
* Calixto García, Cuban soldier in the Ten Years' War
* Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban general in the war of independence against the Spanish
* Eliseo Reyes Rodríguez, Cuban guerrillero
* Emilio Mola Vidal (1887–1937), Nationalist commander during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39); known for coining the phrase "fifth column"
* Federico Fernández Cavada, colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War; later commander-in-chief of all the Cuban forces during Cuba's Ten Year War
* Jesús Sosa Blanco, captain in the Cuban army under Fulgencio Batista
* José Braulio Alemán, Cuban general in the Spanish–American War
* José Miguel Gómez, Cuban general in the war of independence against the Spanish
* Julius Peter Garesché, lieutenant colonel in the Union Army who served as chief of staff, with the rank of lieutenant colonel to Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans
* Loreta Janeta Velazquez, a.k.a. "Lieutenant Harry Buford", Velazquez was a Cuban-born woman who masqueraded as a male Confederate soldier during the Civil War
* Manuel Artime, leader of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961
* Máximo Gómez, 19th-century leader of Cuban forces in the wars of independence
* Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz, chief air force commander and member of Operation 40
* Víctor Dreke, Communist leader and a general in the Revolutionary Armed Forces
* Tomás Diez Acosta, revolutionary soldier and historian
* Víctor Ivo Acuña Velázquez, military commander
* Pilar Garcia, pre-revolutionary Chief of National Police

## Science

* Luis Alvarez, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize in Physics, worked on the Manhattan Project
* Agustin Walfredo Castellanos, physician
* Carlos Juan Finlay, epidemiologist, proposed the mode of transmission of yellow fever and was instrumental in assisting Walter Reed with his studies in Cuba
* Juan Gundlach, 19th century naturalist and taxonomist
* Celia Hart, Cuban physicist
* Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez, first Cuban cosmonaut and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the U.S. to travel to space
* Hilda Molina, former chief neurosurgeon in Cuba
* Felipe Poey, zoologist

## Other categories

* Sebastian Arcos Bergnes, human rights activist
* Rosa Castellanos, military nurse
* Ramón Castro, older brother of Fidel and Raúl Castro
* Mirta Diaz-Balart, Fidel Castro's first wife
* Enriqueta García y Martín, prominent Cuban socialite, businesswoman and landowner
* Delfín Fernández, high ranking government official, defected to Spain
* Gregorio Fuentes, Cuban nautical captain
* Elián González, boy who came to the US, leading to a custody battle between his American family and his father in Cuba
* Jose Miguel Battle, Sr., former Godfather of the Cuban Mafia
* Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven, Judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague
* Dr. Eduardo J. Padrón, educator and college president
* Jesús Permuy, human rights activist, architect, urban planner, community leader
* Ignacio José Urrutia (born 1730), historian
* Nitza Villapol, Cuban chef

## Non-resident Cubans

* List of Cuban-Americans
* List of Cuban-Mexicans
* Dane Bowers
* Guillermo Cabrera Infante
* Yat-Sen Chang
* Sienna Guillory
* William Montagu (Yznaga)
* Consuelo Yznaga
* Taismary Agüero
* Mirka Francia
* Libania Grenot
* Magdelín Martínez
* Alex Cabrera
* Majandra Delfino
* Viviana Gibelli
* Arturo Miranda
* Eduardo Sebrango
* Bárbara Bermudo
* Mike Lowell
* Carlos Ponce
* Rita Marley
* Ziggy Marley
* Lenny Martinez
* Mariane Pearl
* Oscar Isaac