# List of Belen Jesuit Preparatory School people

The following is a list of notable past pupils and faculty of the Belen Jesuit Preparatory School.

## Academics

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Luis E. Aguilar Leon | 1944 | Writer and Professor Emeritus of Georgetown University |
| Xavier Briggs | 1985 | Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; former Vice-President, The Ford Foundation; former Associate Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget under President Barack Obama and senior policy official at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Bill Clinton; former Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a former faculty member of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government |
| Jorge I. Dominguez | 1963 | Faculty member at Harvard University, Academy for International and Area Studies |
| Alberto Martinez Piedra | 1946 | Former US Ambassador to Guatemala and Professor at The Institute of World Politics |
| Salvador Miranda | 1958 | Church historian and librarian |

## Entertainers and athletes

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Louis Aguirre | 1984 | Television anchor |
| Frankie J. Alvarez | 2001 | Actor in Looking on HBO |
| Raúl Esparza | 1988 | Stage actor, singer, and voice artist noted for his roles on Broadway shows and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit |
| Marcello Hernández | 2015 | Comedian, cast member on Saturday Night Live |
| Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. | 1996 | Founder of PerezHilton.com and host of What Perez Sez on VH1 |
| Nick Martinez | 2008 | Starting pitcher for the Texas Rangers |

## Entrepreneurs

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Francisco Aruca | 1959 | Radio host and businessman |
| Cesar Conde | 1991 | 2002-2003 White House Fellow; President of Univision Networks at Univision Communications, Inc. |
| Antonio Garcia Martinez | 1994 | Tech entrepreneur and author |
| Roberto Goizueta | 1947 | Former CEO of Coca-Cola; the Emory University School of Business is named after him. |

## Journalists

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Oscar J. Corral | 1992 | Writer for The Miami Herald; covers Cuban politics and the exile community |
| Tom Llamas | 1997 | Weekend Anchor for ABC World News Tonight |
| German Pinelli | 1925 | Journalist and actor |
| Roberto Suárez | 1946 | Former President of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald |

## Politicians in Cuba

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Fidel Castro | 1944 | Former president and prime minister of Cuba |
| Raul Castro | Attended | Former president and prime minister of Cuba |
| Miguel Ángel de la Campa y Caraveda | 1900 | Cuban Foreign Minister, Attorney General, diplomat |
| Antonio Prío Socarrás | 1923 | Cuban Minister of Housing, 1948-1952 |
| Carlos Prío Socarrás | 1921 | 16th President of Cuba |
| Francisco Prío Socarrás | 1920 | Cuban Senator, 1944-1952 |
| Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven | 1883 | Cuban Senator (1902–1918), author, and jurist (Judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague (1922-1942), nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize of 1949 |

## Politicians in the United States

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Gaston Cantens | 1979 | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives |
| Miguel Diaz de la Portilla | 1981 | Former Miami-Dade County Commissioner; current Florida State Senator |
| Manny Diaz | 1973 | Former Mayor of Miami and President of the United States Conference of Mayors |
| Joe Garcia | 1982 | Former U.S Representative for Florida's 26th congressional district; sworn into his first two-year term on January 3, 2013 |
| Carlos Curbelo | 1998 | Former U.S Representative for Florida's 26th congressional district |
| Humberto Hernandez Jr. | 1980 | Former City of Miami Commissioner |
| Marcelo Llorente | 1994 | Former Representative, Florida House District 116 |
| Carlos A. Manrique | 1978 | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives |
| Xavier Suarez | Attended | Former Mayor of Miami and Miami-Dade County Commissioner |
| Carlos Trujillo | 2001 | Former member of the Florida House of Representatives District 116 and current U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States. |

## Priests

| Name | Class year | Notability |
| Eduardo J. Alvarez, S.J | 1963 & Faculty | Pastor at Gesu Church, Miami, Florida |
| Braulio Orue-Vivanco | 1860 | First Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pinar del Rio |
| Enrique San Pedro, S.J. | 1946 & Faculty | 4th Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville |

## Scientists

| Name | Class year | Notability | Reference(s) |
| Carlos Finlay | Faculty | Physician and epidemiologist; proposed the mode of transmission of yellow fever | |

## Sources

* 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 The International Jesuit Alumni Directory Belen (Forum Press Inc., 1994)
* ↑ Nardini, Bob (April 2010). "Issues in Vendor/Library Relations -- "I Am the Only Bay of Pigs Librarian"". Against the Grain: Vol. 22: Iss. 2, Article 39.
* ↑ "Frankie J. Alvarez From HBO's 'Looking': Loving the Acting Life". NBC News. January 9, 2015.
* ↑ Gerhart, Ann (July 7, 2002). "Every Day in the Theater With Raul". Washington Post.
* ↑ Ginley, Joe (September 15, 2022). "Marcello Hernandez '19 Joins the Cast of Saturday Night Live". John Carroll University Athletics. Retrieved October 8, 2022.
* ↑ "Miami-Raised Blogger Perez Hilton Returns Home To Debut New Book - CBS Miami". CBS News. September 19, 2011.
* ↑ "Belen baseball program to retire Martinez's No. 21". Miami Herald. January 28, 2016.
* 1 2 3 4 5 Gonzalez, Gaspar (May 10, 2001). "Class Act". Miami New Times.
* ↑ Tanner, Marcus (December 19, 2014). "Raul Castro: Last of the great Communists". The Independent. Education: Attended Belen Jesuit Preparatory School, before taking a place at the University of Havana, though he failed to graduate.
* ↑ "Episcopologio de la Iglesia Católica en Cuba - Biografías - O".
* ↑ Ideal press article
* ↑ Martinez, Teresa (March 3, 2022). "Inaugural Hall of Fame Inductees". Belen Jesuit Prep School. Archived from the original on July 24, 2023.