Famous Cubans

List of famous Cubans with their biographies that include trivia, interesting facts, timeline and life history.

Famous Cubans

Did you know that Cuba, a country synonymous to sugar, cigar, rum, baseball and musket-toting pirates, is also been home to many polarizing figures. That is right! This timeworn yet splendid country, which fuses old world colonial charm with contemporary cultural idiosyncrasies with élan, boasts of some exceptionally gifted and universally feted Cubans whose life and heritage will bowl you over completely. Gloria Estefan, Desi Arnaz, Cesar Romero, Rosario Dawson, Cameron Diaz, Marco Rubio, Jeff Bezos, Eva Mendes, Pitbull, Andy Garcia, Gilbert Arenas, and Ted Cruz are just some of the famous Cubans whom the world knows and lauds. But that is just tip of the iceberg. There is more to the list of famous Cubans than you can fathom. Explore all about the famous Cubans in their biographies captured below. As you trail their timeline, revel in their trivia, and wonder at some of the lesser-known facts about them, we bet you will not be able to stop reading.

Fidel Castro
(Cuban Revolutionary Leader)

13 August 1926

26 November 2016

Birán, Cuba

Leo

Fulgencio Batista
(Former President of Cuba)

16 January 1901

06 August 1973

Banes, Cuba

Capricorn

Desi Arnaz

02 March 1917

02 December 1986

Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

Pisces

Gloria Estefan
(Singer)

01 September 1957

Havana, Cuba

Virgo

Raul Castro
(President of the Council of State of Cuba)

03 June 1931

Birán, Cuba

Gemini

Yoel Romero
(Mixed Martial Artist (MMA))

30 April 1977

Pinar del Río, Cuba

Taurus

Vida Guerra
(Model)

19 March 1974

Havana, Cuba

Pisces

Lili Estefan
(Model, T.V. Show Host)

20 March 1967

Havana, Cuba

Pisces

Alberto Korda

14 September 1928

25 May 2001

Cuba

Virgo

Reinaldo Arenas

16 July 1943

07 December 1990

Oriente

Cancer

William Levy
(Actor, Model)

29 August 1980

Cojimar, Havana, Cuba

Virgo

Jose Marti

28 January 1853

19 May 1895

Aquarius

Yvette Prieto
(Michael Jordan’s Wife)

29 February 1979

Cuba

Pisces

Andy Garcia
(Actor)

12 April 1956

Havana, Cuba

Aries

Ry Cooder
(Guitarist, Singer, Composer, Banjoist, Musicologist, Mandolinist)

15 March 1947

Los Angeles

Pisces

Yoenis Céspedes
(Baseball player)

18 October 1985

Campechuela

Libra

Guillermo Rigondeaux
(Boxer)

30 September 1980

Santiago de Cuba

Libra

Dave Lombardo
(Drummer, Musician)

16 February 1965

Havana

Aquarius

Aroldis Chapman
(Baseball player)

28 February 1988

Holguín Province

Pisces

Hector Lombard
(Judoka, Thai boxer)

02 February 1978

Matanzas

Aquarius

Omara Portuondo
(Cuban singer)

29 October 1930

Havana, Cuba

Scorpio

Tony Pérez
(American baseball player)

14 May 1942

Ciego de Ávila, Cuba

Taurus

Al Jourgensen
(Singer, Music executive, Banjoist, Composer)

09 October 1958

Havana

Libra

José Raúl Capablanca
(Chess Player)

19 November 1888

08 March 1942

Havana, Cuba

Scorpio

Benny Paret
(Boxer)

14 March 1937

03 April 1962

Santa Clara

Pisces

Yasiel Puig
(Baseball player)

07 December 1990

Cienfuegos, Cuba

Sagittarius

Xavier Cugat
(Conductor, Composer, Jazz musician, Singer, Bandleader)

01 January 1900

27 October 1990

Girona

Capricorn

Yuriorkis Gamboa
(Boxer)

23 December 1981

Guantánamo

Capricorn

Ibrahim Ferrer
(Cuban singer)

20 February 1927

06 August 2005

San Luis, Cuba

Pisces

Kendrys Morales
(Baseball player)

20 June 1983

Fomento

Gemini

Arturo Sandoval
(Trumpeter, Pianist, Composer, Jazz musician, Percussionist)

06 November 1949

Artemisa

Scorpio

Alberto Salazar
(Marathon runner, Athletics competitor)

07 August 1958

Havana

Leo

Yunel Escobar
(Baseball player)

02 November 1982

Havana

Scorpio

Jorge Soler
(Baseball player)

25 February 1992

Havana

Pisces

Cristina Saralegui
(Journalist, Actor, Television actor)

29 January 1948

Havana

Aquarius

Teófilo Stevenson
(Boxer, Engineer)

29 March 1952

11 June 2012

Puerto Padre

Aries

Gerardo Machado
(Politician)

28 September 1871

29 March 1939

Santa Clara

Libra

Javier Sotomayor
(High jumper)

13 October 1967

Limonar

Libra

Danell Leyva
(Artistic gymnast)

30 October 1991

Cárdenas

Scorpio

Alejo Carpentier
(Writer, Journalist, Essayist, Musicologist, Literary critic)

26 December 1904

24 April 1980

Havana

Capricorn

Mirta Diaz-Balart

30 September 1928

Libra

Ozzie Canseco
(Baseball player)

02 July 1964

Havana

Cancer

Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
(Astronaut, Aviator, Military personnel)

29 January 1942

Guantánamo

Aquarius

Samuel Armenteros
(Association football player)

27 May 1990

Gothenburg

Gemini

Mariela Castro
(psychologist, educator, university teacher, journalist)

27 July 1961

Havana

Leo

Guillermo Cabrera Infante
(Linguist, Screenwriter, Translator, Essayist, Writer, Journalist)

22 April 1929

21 February 2005

Cuba

Taurus

Osvaldo Alonso
(Association football player)

11 November 1985

San Cristóbal

Scorpio

Yonder Alonso
(Baseball player)

08 April 1987

Havana

Aries

Kid Chocolate
(Boxer)

06 January 1910

08 August 1988

Havana

Capricorn

Leonardo Padura Fuentes
(writer, journalist, screenwriter)

1955 AD

Havana

Ramón Grau
(politician, physician)

13 September 1881

28 July 1969

La Palma

Virgo

Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda
(poet, writer, playwright)

23 March 1814

01 February 1873

Aries

Rubén González
(Pianist)

26 May 1919

08 December 2003

Santa Clara, Cuba

Gemini

José Julián Martí Pérez

28 January 1853

19 May 1895

Havana

Aquarius

José Abreu
(baseball player)

29 January 1987

Cruces, Cuba

Aquarius

José Canseco Capas, Jr

02 July 1964

Cancer

Mike Perez
(boxer)

20 October 1985

Ciego de Ávila

Libra

Orlando Hernández
(Baseball player)

11 October 1965

Villa Clara Province, Cuba

Libra

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