List of Cubans

This is a list of famous Cubans:

Table of contents

1 Art
2 Beauty Queens
3 Entertainment
4 Sports
5 Politics
6 Science
7 Writers
8 Other Categories

Art

Xavier Cortada, painter
Wifredo Lam, painter

Beauty Queens

Entertainment

Albita singer
Alicia Alonso prima ballerina
Maria Conchita Alonso Cuban born, Venezuelan nationalized actress
Emilio Aragón "Miliki" clown
Desi Arnaz actor, Hollywood star, husband of Lucille Ball
Desi Arnaz Jr American born actor, half-Cuban
Lucy Arnaz, actress
Steven Bauer Hollywood star
Jorge Bolet, concert pianist
Celia Cruz singer
Xavier Cugat musician
Raul De Molina paparazzo, television gossiper
Cameron Diaz Hollywood star, half Cuban
Carmen Electra Hollywood star, half Cuban
Emilio Estefan producer
Gloria Estefan singer
Lily Estefan model, show host, cousin of Emilio Estefan
Cesar Evora actor
Daisy Fuentes model, show host
Mario Ernesto Sanchez actor, founder of Teatro Avante
Francisco Gattorno Cuban born, Mexican nationalized actor
Andy Garcia actor
Odalys Garcia singer and show host
Alvarez Guedes comedian and author
Olga Guillot singer
Horacio Gutierrez, concert pianist
Henry LaFont comedian, famous in Puerto Rico
Maria Laria Puerto Rican born talk show host of Cuban parents.
Ernesto Lecuona, composer and songwriter
Carlos Leon former husband of Madonna
Niurka Marcos, Cuban born, Mexican nationalized actress
Martita coffee maker who got hired to serve coffee at Univision and began appearing regularly on Univision's tv shows, ultimately even writing her own biographical book.
Manuel Membrillo comedian
Beny Moré musician
Ana Maria Polo, United States television judge
Carlos Ponce Puerto Rican born singer, parents are from Cuba.
Carlos Manuel Pruneda, singer
Victor Rivers, actor
Santiago Rodriguez, concert pianist
Samy hair stylist and television entrepreneur
Mongo Santamaria Jazz musician
Cristina Saralegui magazine editor, talk show host and actress
Jon Secada singer
Compay Segundo of the Buena Vista Social Club
Jamie Lynn Sigler American born actress and singer, half-Cuban
Sissy model
Pedro Zamora AIDS activist, was in The Real World
Mauricio Zeilic television gossiper

Sports

Bert Campaneris baseball player
Jose Canseco baseball player
Joel Casamayor world champion boxer
Jose Raul Capablanca world champion chess player
Kid Chocolate world boxing champion
Martin DiHigo baseball player
Mary Joe Fernandez tennis player
Kid Gavilan world boxing champion
Andres Guilbert, NBA basketball player
Juan Hernandez amateur boxer
Livan Hernandez baseball player
Orlando Hernandez baseball player, Livan's brother
Alberto Juantorena track and field
Jose Legra Cuban born, Spaniard nationalized world champion boxer
Minnie Minoso baseball player
Jose Mantequilla Napoles Cuban born, Mexican nationalized world champion boxer
Tony Oliva baseball player and three time batting champion
Rafael Palmeiro baseball player
Benny Kid Paret world boxing champion who had tragic end
Tony Perez baseball player
Sugar Ramos Cuban born, Mexican nationalized world champion boxer
Félix Savón amateur boxer
Javier Sotomayor track and field record setter
Teofilo Stevenson amateur boxer
Zoilo Versalles baseball player and first Latino major league MVP 1965

Politics

Fulgencio Batista
Fidel Castro
Raul Castro (brother of Fidel)
Luis A. Ferré Puerto Rico governor, half Cuban, by father's side
Paul Lafargue Cuban-born French Communist and son-in-law to Karl Marx.
José Martí
Jorge Mas Canosa Founder of Cuban American National Foundation
Justo González, historian and theologian

Science

Carlos Juan Finlay yellow fever vaccine

Writers

Alejo Carpentier
Delia Fiallo writer of novels, many of which have been turned into Spanish-language soap operas
Gregorio Fuentes Hemingway's captain and fellow Lost Generation figure, inspiration for The Old Man and the Sea
Juan Hernandez author, playwright (Cuban, That's All!, a comic series of monologues about the Cuban exile experience)
José Martí

Other Categories

Elián González refugee and subject of legal dispute