96 Notable alumni of
University of Havana
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The University of Havana is 637th in the world, 19th in Latin America, and 1st in Cuba by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 96 notable alumni from the University of Havana sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Fidel Castro
- Enrolled in the University of Havana
- 1945-1950 graduated with Doctor in law
- Occupations
- partisanlawyerrevolutionaryjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965 until 2011. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state; industry and business were nationalized, and socialist reforms were implemented throughout society.
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La Lupe
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- singersinger-songwritercomposer
- Biography
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Guadalupe Victoria Yolí Raymond, better known as La Lupe, was a Cuban singer of boleros, guarachas and Latin soul, known for her energetic, sometimes controversial performances. Following the release of her first album in 1961, La Lupe moved from Havana to New York and signed with Tico Records, which marked the beginning of a prolific and successful career in the 1960s and 1970s. She retired in the 1980s due to religious reasons.
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Leonardo Padura Fuentes
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- writerscreenwriterauthorfilm screenwriterjournalist
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Leonardo de la Caridad Padura Fuentes is a Cuban novelist and journalist. As of 2007, he is one of Cuba's best-known writers internationally. In his native Spanish, as well as in English and some other languages, he is often referred to by the shorter form of his name, Leonardo Padura. He has written screenplays, two books of short stories, and a series of detective novels translated into 10 languages. In 2012, Padura was awarded the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national literary award and the most important award of its kind. In 2015, he was awarded the Premio Principe de Asturias de las Letras of Spain, one of the most important literary prizes in the Spanish-speaking world and usually considered as the Iberoamerican Nobel Prize.
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Nicolás Guillén
- Occupations
- journalistwriterpoet
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Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista was a Cuban poet, journalist, political activist, and writer. He is best remembered as the national poet of Cuba.
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Tamara Bunke
- Occupations
- partisantranslatorrevolutionaryspyjournalist
- Biography
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Haydée Tamara Bunke Bider, better known as Tania or Tania the Guerrillera, was an Argentine-born East German Marxist revolutionary, who played a role in Cuban intelligence operations after the Cuban Revolution and in various Latin American far left revolutionary movements. She was alongside communist guerrillas led by Che Guevara during the Bolivian insurgency until she was killed in action by the Bolivian Army Rangers.
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Osvaldo Dorticós
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
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Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado was a Cuban politician who served as the president of Cuba from 1959 to 1976. He was a close ally of Cuban revolutionary and longtime leader Fidel Castro.
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Alberto Granado
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- writerscientistscreenwriterphysicianpharmacist
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Alberto Granado Jiménez was an Argentine–Cuban biochemist, doctor, writer, and scientist. He was also the youthful friend and traveling companion of Che Guevara during their 1952 motorcycle tour in Latin America. Granado later founded the University of Santiago de Cuba School of Medicine. He authored the memoir Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary, which served as a reference for the 2004 film The Motorcycle Diaries, in which he was played by Rodrigo de la Serna. An elderly Alberto Granado makes a short appearance at the end of the film.
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Ramón Castro Ruz
- Occupations
- politicianfarmer
- Biography
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Ramón Eusebio Castro Ruz was a Cuban revolutionary and activist. He was the eldest brother of Fidel and Raúl Castro and a key figure of the Cuban Revolution.
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Felipe Kast
- Occupations
- economistpoliticianconsultant
- Biography
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Felipe José Kast Sommerhoff is a Chilean economist, researcher, consultant, and politician.
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Carlos Prío Socarrás
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- politicianlawyer
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Carlos Manuel Prío Socarrás was a Cuban politician. He served as the President of Cuba from 1948 until he was deposed by a military coup led by Fulgencio Batista on March 10, 1952, three months before new elections were to be held. He was the first president of Cuba to be born in an independent Cuba and the last to gain his post through universal, contested elections. He went into exile in the United States, where he lived for 25 years before dying by suicide at age 73.
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Juan Almeida Bosque
- Occupations
- military personnelpoetcomposerpolitician
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Juan Almeida Bosque was a Cuban politician and one of the original commanders of the insurgent forces in the Cuban Revolution. After the rebels took power in 1959, he was a prominent figure in the Communist Party of Cuba. At the time of his death, he was a Vice-President of the Cuban Council of State and was its third ranking member. He received several decorations, and national and international awards, including the title of "Hero of the Republic of Cuba" and the Order of Máximo Gómez.
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Ramón Grau
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- university teacherpoliticianphysician
- Biography
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Ramón Grau San Martín was a Cuban physician who served as President of Cuba from 1933 to 1934 and from 1944 to 1948. He was the last president other than an interim president, Carlos Manuel Piedra, born during Spanish rule. He is sometimes called Raymond Grau San Martin in English.
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Delia Fiallo
- Occupations
- screenwriterwriter
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Delia Fiallo was a Cuban author and screenwriter who lived in Miami, Florida. She was one of the most distinguished representatives of the contemporary romance novel, dabbling in various genres which appeared in her literary output.
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Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo
- Enrolled in the University of Havana
- Studied civil law
- Occupations
- lawyermilitary personnelcomposerpolitician
- Biography
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Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo was a Cuban revolutionary hero and First President of Cuba in Arms in 1868. Cespedes, who was a plantation owner in Cuba, freed his slaves and made the declaration of Cuban independence in 1868 which started the Ten Years' War (1868–1878). This was the first of three wars of independence, the third of which, the Cuban War of Independence led to the end of Spanish rule in 1898 and Cuba's independence in 1902.
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Celia Sánchez
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- politicianmilitary personnel
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Celia Sánchez Manduley was a Cuban revolutionary, politician, researcher and archivist. She was a key member of the Cuban Revolution and a close colleague of Fidel Castro.
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José Lezama Lima
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- writerpoet lawyerpoetjuristthinker
- Biography
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José María Andrés Fernando Lezama Lima was a Cuban writer, poet and essayist. He is considered one of the most influential figures in Cuban and Latin American literature. His novel Paradiso is one of the most important works in Spanish and one of the best novels of the 20th Century according to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.
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Javier Heraud
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- poetwriterteacher
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Javier Heraud Pérez was a Peruvian poet and member of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN). In his early life he studied at Markham College and later he continued his studies at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
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Julio Antonio Mella
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Julio Antonio Mella McPartland was a Cuban political activist, journalist, communist revolutionary, and one of the founders of the original Communist Party of Cuba. Mella studied law at the University of Havana but was expelled in 1925. He had worked against the government of Gerardo Machado, which had grown increasingly repressive. Mella left the country, reaching Central America. He traveled north to Mexico City, where he worked with other exiled dissidents and communist sympathizers against the Machado government. He was assassinated in 1929, but historians still disagree on which parties were responsible for his death. The 21st century Cuban government regards Mella as a communist hero and martyr.
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Yoani Sánchez
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- writerhuman rights activistjournalistpoliticianInternet celebrity
- Biography
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Yoani María Sánchez Cordero is a Cuban blogger who has achieved international fame and multiple international awards for her critical portrayal of life in Cuba under its current government.
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Gaspar Llamazares
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gaspar Llamazares Trigo is a Spanish politician. He was the leader of the leftist coalition Izquierda Unida (IU, United Left) from 2001 to 2008, in the post of General Coordinator.
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José Ramón Machado Ventura
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- military personnelphysicianpolitician
- Biography
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José Ramón Machado Ventura is a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the First Vice President of the Council of State of Cuba from 2008 to 2013. With the election of Raúl Castro as President of Cuba on 24 February 2008, Machado was elected to succeed him as First Vice President, serving until 2013. He was elected Second Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba in 2011.
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Jorge Iván Ospina
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Jorge Iván Ospina Gómez is a former Colombian Senator and former mayor of Santiago de Cali, the third largest city in Colombia and the economic hub for Southwestern Colombia. Ospina is also a doctor who has worked in the hospital of the University of Valle, known as the Hospital Universitario del Valle Evaristo Garcia. Ospina's father, Ivan Marino Ospina, was a guerrilla fighter and co-founder of the revolutionary group 19th of April Movement (M-19). Ospina was sworn in as mayor on 1 January 2019 and stayed in position until 31 December 2023.
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Roberto Ampuero
- Enrolled in the University of Havana
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in Latin American literature
- Occupations
- journalistwriterpoliticianscreenwriter
- Biography
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Roberto Ampuero is a Chilean author, columnist, and the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile, a position he held from March 11, 2018 to June 13, 2019. His first novel ¿Quién mató a Kristián Kustermann? was published in 1993 and in it he introduced his private eye, Cayetano Brulé, winning the Revista del Libro prize of El Mercurio. Since then the detective has appeared in five novels. In addition he has published an autobiographical novel about his years in Cuba titled Nuestros Años Verde Olivo (1999) and the novels Los Amantes de Estocolmo (Book of the Year in Chile, 2003 and the bestseller of the year in Chile)) and Pasiones Griegas (chosen as the Best Spanish Novel in China, 2006). His novels have been published in Latin America and Spain, and have been translated into German, French, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Portuguese, Greek, Croatian, and English. In Chile his works have sold more than 40 editions. Ampuero now resides in Iowa where he is a professor at the University of Iowa in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese. He was a columnist of La Tercera and the New York Times Syndicate and since March 2009 has been working as a columnist for El Mercurio. Between 2013 and 2014 he was Minister of Culture in the government of Sebastián Piñera.
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Zoé Valdés
- Occupations
- novelistwriterpoet
- Biography
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Zoé Valdés is a Cuban novelist, poet, scriptwriter, film director and blogger. She studied at the Instituto Superior Pedagógico Enrique José Varona, but did not graduate. From 1984 to 1988, she worked for the Delegación de Cuba at UNESCO in Paris and in the Oficina Cultural de la Misión de Cuba in Paris. From 1990 to 1995, she was an editor of the magazine Cine Cubano. She lives with her daughter in Paris. She has been married three times: with Cuban writer Manuel Pereira Quintero, Cuban government official José Antonio González and Cuban independent filmmaker Ricardo Vega.
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Anselmo Alliegro y Milá
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Anselmo Alliegro y Milá was a Cuban politician who served as the Interim President of Cuba for one day (1 – 2 January 1959) after the departure of Fulgencio Batista, from the country.
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Félix Varela
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- Catholic priestpoliticianphilosophertheologian
- Biography
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Félix Varela y Morales was a Cuban Catholic priest and independence leader who is regarded as a notable figure in the Catholic Church in both his native Cuba and the United States, where he also served.
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Dulce María Loynaz
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- writerlawyerpoet
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Dulce María Loynaz Muñoz was a Cuban poet, and is considered one of the principal figures of Cuban literature. She was awarded the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1992. She earned her Doctorate in Civil Law at University of Havana in 1927.
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José de Diego
- Enrolled in the University of Havana
- Graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- writerlawyerpoliticianpoetjournalist
- Biography
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José de Diego y Martínez was a statesman, journalist, poet, lawyer, and advocate for Puerto Rico's political autonomy in union with Spain and later of independence from the United States who was referred to by his peers as "The Father of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement".
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Ignacio Agramonte
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- military personnelpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Ignacio Agramonte y Loynaz was a Cuban revolutionary, who played an important part in the Ten Years' War (1868–1878).
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Enrique Lihn Carrasco
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- literary criticpoet
- Biography
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Enrique Lihn Carrasco was a Chilean writer, literary critic, and cartoonist, mostly known as a poet, but who also wrote essays, short stories, novels, plays, and comic books.
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Minou Tavárez Mirabal
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- hispanistdiplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Minerva Josefina Tavárez Mirabal, known by the Minou, is a philologist, professor and politician from the Dominican Republic. Mrs. Tavárez served as deputy for the National District in the lower House for three terms from 2002 until 2016; served as deputy minister of foreign affairs from 1996 to 2000.
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Heberto Padilla
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- university teacherwriterpoet
- Biography
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Heberto Juan Padilla was a Cuban poet put to the center of the so-called Padilla affair when he was imprisoned for criticizing the Cuban government. He was born in Puerta de Golpe, Pinar del Río, Cuba. His first book of poetry, Las rosas audaces (The Audacious Roses), was published in 1949. Although Padilla initially supported the revolution led by Fidel Castro, by the late 1960s he began to criticize it openly and in 1971 he was imprisoned by the Cuban government.
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José Antonio Echeverría
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- politician
- Biography
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José Antonio Echeverría Bianchi was a prominent figure in the Cuban Revolution against President Fulgencio Batista. Echeverría was the President of the Federation of University Students (Federación Estudiantil Universitaria - FEU) and a founding member of the militant organization Directorio Revolucionario 13 de Marzo. He is known for his role in the attack on the Presidential Palace and the Radio Reloj radio station of Cuba. Echeverría's nickname was "Manzanita," which means "Little Apple."
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Federico Laredo Brú
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- military personnelpoliticianlawyer
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Federico Laredo Brú was an attorney and served as President of Cuba from 1936 to 1940. He was married to Leonor Gomez-Montes. Laredo Bru was a Colonel in the Cuban Liberation Army during the Cuban War of Independence.
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Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla
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- diplomatlawyeruniversity teacherpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Bruno Eduardo Rodríguez Parrilla is a Cuban diplomat and politician. He is a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Cuba, and has served as Cuba's Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2009.
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Guillermo Iván
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- film actorwritertelevision actoractorfilm director
- Biography
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Guillermo Iván Dueñas Lazcano is a Mexican actor, director, writer, and producer. Born in Mexico City, Mexico. He is best known for his characters in Mexican and American films. On television he made himself known as part of the main cast of Telemundo's telenovela Al otro lado del muro. Graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Letters at the University of Havana, Guillermo Iván received a degree in production and direction from the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba.
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Daína Chaviano
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- novelistpoetscience fiction writerwriter
- Biography
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Daína Chaviano is a Cuban-American writer of French and Asturian descent. She has lived in the United States since 1991.
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Guillermo Fariñas
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- dissidenthuman rights activistjournalistpsychologistpolitician
- Biography
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Guillermo Fariñas Hernández is a Cuban doctor of psychology, independent journalist and political dissident in Cuba. He has conducted 23 hunger strikes over the years to protest various elements of the Cuban government and spent more than 11 years in prison. He vowed that he would die in the struggle against censorship in Cuba.
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José Fernández Madrid
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- diplomatwriterpoliticianphysicianjournalist
- Biography
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José Luis Álvaro Alvino Fernández Madrid was a Neogranadine statesman, physician, scientist and writer, who was President of the interim triumvirate of the United Provinces of New Granada in 1814, and President of the United Provinces of the New Granada in 1816. After the Spanish retook New Granada, he was barred from the country and was exiled in Havana, where he continued his scientific studies and worked as a doctor. He was later pardoned and allowed to come back to Colombia, and was appointed ambassador to France and to the United Kingdom where he died in 1830.
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Ricardo Alarcón
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- diplomatuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada was a Cuban politician. He served as his country's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) for nearly 30 years and later served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 1993. Subsequently, Alarcón was President of the National Assembly of People's Power from 1993 to 2013, and because of this post, was considered the third-most powerful figure in Cuba. He was also until 2013 a Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.
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Rolando Cubela Secades
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- military personnelphysicianpoliticianrevolutionary
- Biography
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Rolando Cubela Secades was a Cuban revolutionary leader who played a vital part in the Cuban Revolution, having been a founding member of the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil and later the military leader of the DRE's Escambray Mountain front, achieving the rank of Commander, the highest military rank in the Revolutionary Army. After the Revolution succeeded in 1959, Cubela became Cuba's envoy to UNESCO. Under the cryptonym AM/LASH, Cubela became "an important asset" of the Central Intelligence Agency, and worked with them on plots to assassinate Fidel Castro. In 1966, Cubela was arrested for plotting the assassination of Castro, and sentenced to 25 years in prison. Released in 1979, he went into exile in Spain.
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Nancy Morejón
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- writerpoet
- Biography
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Nancy Morejón is a Cuban poet, critic, and essayist. She was a recipient of the Struga Poetry Evenings Golden Wreath Award. She has been called "the best known and most widely translated woman poet of post-revolutionary Cuba".
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Rubén Martínez Villena
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- writerlawyerpoet
- Biography
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Rubén Martínez Villena was a Cuban writer and revolutionary leader.
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Efigenio Ameijeiras
- Occupations
- military personnelwriter
- Biography
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Efigenio Ameijeiras Delgado was a Cuban military commander affiliated with Fidel Castro from the 1950s. Son of Manuel Ameijeiras Fontelo, a native of Pontevedra (Spain) and the Cuban María de las Angustias Delgado Romo, from Corral Falso, in Matanzas. At the age of four, his father disappeared, so his mother had to take care of her children alone.
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Antonio Núñez Jiménez
- Occupations
- historiangeographerpoliticianphotographeranthropologist
- Biography
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Antonio Núñez Jiménez was a Cuban geographer, speleologist, archaeologist, scientist and revolutionary.
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Andrés Rivero Agüero
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Andrés Rivero Agüero was a Cuban politician who served as the 12th Prime Minister of Cuba and was elected president of Cuba in the 1958 Cuban presidential election.
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Juan Padrón
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- writerpainterfilm directorscreenwriterfilm producer
- Biography
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Juan Manuel Padrón Blanco was a Cuban animation director and comics artist, best known as the creator of the comic strip Elpidio Valdés.
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Carlos Rafael Rodríguez
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- politicianwriter
- Biography
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Carlos Rafael Rodríguez Rodríguez was a Cuban Communist politician and economist, who served in the cabinets of presidents Fulgencio Batista and Fidel Castro.
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Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Bouchraya Hammoudi Bayoun is a Sahrawi politician and has been Prime Minister of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic since 13 January 2020. He was a former ambassador to Algeria, with a base in Algiers. He has been prime minister of the Sahrawi Republic twice.
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Manuel Ancízar
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- anthropologistwriterpoliticianphilosopherlawyer
- Biography
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Manuel Esteban Ancízar Basterra was a Colombian lawyer, writer, and journalist. He founded a publishing house and a newspaper before joining the Chorographic Commission in 1850. He also served as the 4th Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Granadine Confederation, and as the first president of the National University of Colombia.
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Karen Longaric
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- diplomatlawyercivil servant
- Biography
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Karen Longaric Rodríguez is a Bolivian lawyer, professor, columnist and politician who served as the Foreign Minister of Bolivia during the interim administration of Jeanine Áñez.
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Baciro Djá
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 51)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Baciro Djá is a Bissau-Guinean politician who was the prime minister of Guinea-Bissau from 27 May 2016 to 18 November 2016. He was previously prime minister from 20 August 2015 to 17 September 2015.
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Dipuo Peters
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Elizabeth Dipuo Peters is a South African politician who is the Deputy Minister of Small Business Development of the Republic of South Africa from 7 March 2023. She was previously the Minister of Transport from 10 July 2013 until 30 March 2017, in the Zuma administration, and former Minister of Energy from 2009 to 2013 having served as successor to Manne Dipico as the second Premier of the Northern Cape Province, 22 April 2004 to 10 May 2009. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), she serves on the Women's League National Executive Committee. Dipuo Peters resigned as a member of parliament for the African National Congress in April 2017.
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Fernando Pérez
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- screenwriterfilm director
- Biography
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Fernando Pérez Valdés is a prominent Cuban film director.
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Monika Krause-Fuchs
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- sociologistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Monika Krause-Fuchs was a German sociologist and sex educator who lived and worked in Cuba between 1962 and 1990. She was the first director of the Cuban National Center for Sex Education (CENESEX) and played a key role in the development and implementation of a modern, scientific and effective national program for sex education and family planning in Cuba.
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María Begoña Yarza
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- physiciansurgeonpolitician
- Biography
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María Begoña Yarza Sáez is a Chilean politician and physician who served as Minister of Health.
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Fina García Marruz
- Enrolled in the University of Havana
- In 1961 graduated with doctorate in social science
- Occupations
- essayistpoet
- Biography
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Josefina García-Marruz Badía, known artistically as Fina García Marruz, was a Cuban poet and literary researcher.
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Óscar Elías Biscet
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- activistphysician
- Biography
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Óscar Elías Biscet González is a Cuban physician and an advocate for human rights and democratic freedoms in Cuba. He is also the founder of the Lawton Foundation.
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María Payá Acevedo
- Occupations
- human rights activist
- Biography
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Rosa María Payá Acevedo is a Cuban activist for freedom and human rights. The daughter of activist Oswaldo Payá, head of the Christian Liberation Movement, she took up much of his activist work after he died by involuntary manslaughter of Ángel Carromero on 22 July 2012.
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Francisco de Arango y Parreño
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- essayistpoliticianlarge estate owner
- Biography
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Francisco de Arango y Parreño was a Cuban planter and intellectual. He helped to oversee colonial Cuba's transformation into a major sugar and coffee producer in the last decades of the eighteenth century and the first decades of the nineteenth century.
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Emilio Núñez Portuondo
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- lawyerdiplomat
- Biography
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Emilio Núñez Portuondo was a Cuban politician, lawyer, and diplomat. He was the 13th Prime Minister of Cuba in 1958. He received the National Order of the Legion of Honour of France among other decorations from many countries.
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Carlos Saladrigas Zayas
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Carlos Saladrigas Zayas was a Cuban politician and diplomat.
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Yusnier Viera
- Occupations
- mathematicianmental calculator
- Biography
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Yusnier Viera is a Cuban American mental calculator. He is well known as "The Human Calendar" for his world record on calendar dates. On October 31, 2005 he broke for first time the World Record for calendar calculations. At the Mental Calculation World Cup in 2010 he won the calendar category. His current record for most amount of calendar dates calculated in a minute is 132 dates. He currently has three World Records for calendar calculations.
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Abel Prieto
- Occupations
- politicianwriter
- Biography
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Abel Prieto Jiménez is a Cuban politician. Abelito, as he was called as a child, is the son of Abel Prieto, a Cuban educator who for several years pre and post Castro ran a preparatory school on Pinar Del Rio. From 1997 to 2012 and from 2016 to the present he has served as Minister of culture. In March 2012 he was appointed advisor to Cuban President Raul Castro.
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Félix Lancís Sánchez
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- physicianpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Félix Lancís Sánchez was a Cuban politician and Prime Minister of Cuba.
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Lucien Ebata
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Lucien Ebata is a Congolese-Canadian businessman and publisher. He is the founder and CEO of Orion Oil, and publisher of Forbes Afrique.
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Mariano Brull
- Occupations
- diplomatwriterpoet
- Biography
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Mariano Brull Caballero was a Cuban poet usually associated with the French Symbolist movement. Two Symbolists who strongly influenced him were Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Valéry. Among Cuban poets of the first half of the 20th century he was the most outstanding of those who wrote poetry for poetry's sake, as opposed to poetry that addressed social issues or poetry that was inspired by the culture of Cubans of African descent. Because of his interest in the sounds of words, he is known for a type of poetry called "jitanjáfora" in which the words are virtually meaningless, their sounds all-important. A diplomat by profession, he lived many years in various countries of Europe and the Americas.
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Wykeham McNeill
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Kenneth Wykeham McNeill, MD, MP, CD is a Jamaican politician, former Member of Parliament for Westmoreland West, Jamaica. He is a former government minister. He was the Minister of Tourism of Jamaica from 2012 to 2016. He was elected the first vice chair of the Executive Council of the United Nations World Tourism Organization representing Jamaica in 2012 and elected chairman of the Executive council for the 2014-2015 period. McNeill was elected a Vice President of The People's National Party at the Party's annual conference in September 2016.
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Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz
- Occupations
- economistinternational forum participantpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Rodrigo Malmierca Díaz is a Cuban diplomat and politician. Malmierca is the Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment (2009–present) as a result of the 2009 shake-up by Raúl Castro. He was the Permanent Representative of Cuba to the United Nations from 2005 to 2009. He is married to Grisell Guadalupe Castano-Rey and they have two children.
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Ada Bello
- Occupations
- LGBTQI+ rights activist
- Biography
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Ada C. Bello was a Cuban-American LGBT rights activist and medical laboratory researcher of Portuguese descent. She was a founder of the Philadelphia Chapter of Daughters of Bilitis and the Homophile Action League. Bello led activism efforts for the LGBT community beginning in the late 1960s and served in advocacy roles including as a board member of the LGBT Elder Initiative.
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Ena Lucía Portela
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Ena Lucía Portela is a Cuban novelist, essayist, and short story writer. She focuses on lesbian subjects.
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Manuel Antonio de Varona
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Manuel Antonio de Varona y Loredo was a Cuban lawyer and politician.
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Henriette Ekwe Ebongo
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Henriette Ekwe Ebongo is a Cameroonian journalist, publisher and political activist. She was awarded the International Women of Courage Award in 2011.
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Jorge García Montes
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Jorge García Montes y Hernandez was a Cuban lawyer and politician.
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Jorge Enrique González Pacheco
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Jorge Enrique González Pacheco is an international award-winning Cuban poet, film industry professional, and cultural entrepreneur. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Latin American Literature from University of Havana, Cuba, and a Master's Degree in Hispanic Literature from Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.
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Chely Lima
- Occupations
- science fiction writerwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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Chely Lima was a Cuban American LGBT writer of novels, poetry, and plays, as well as a photographer, editor, and screenwriter.
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Antolín Pulido
- Occupations
- human rights activistwriter
- Biography
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Antolín Pulido Vázquez is a spanish anarcho-communist writer, anthropologist, radio host, educator, mediator in conflictos and human rights activist. He participated in different conflict areas as a member of the Peace Brigades International.
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Lixion Avila
- Enrolled in the University of Havana
- In 1973 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- meteorologist
- Biography
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Lixion A. Avila is a retired weather forecaster, formerly working at the National Hurricane Center (NHC). He was a hurricane specialist and senior hurricane specialist from 1987 to 2020.
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Ramón Zaydín
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ramón Zaydín y Márquez Sterling was a Cuban politician and Prime Minister of Cuba.
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Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Cosme de la Torriente y Peraza was a Cuban soldier, politician, lawyer and statesman.
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Antonio Bachiller y Morales
- Occupations
- historianlawyerbibliographerlibrarianjournalist
- Biography
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Antonio Bachiller y Morales was a Cuban lawyer, historian and bibliographer, the "father of Cuban bibliography".
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Mirta Yáñez
- Occupations
- literary criticpoetwritershort story writer
- Biography
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Mirta Gloria Yáñez Quiñoa is a Cuban philologist, teacher and writer. She graduated from high school in Raúl Cepero Bonilla Special Pre-university Institute where she was considered a high-performing student. She entered the University of Havana in 1965, graduating five years later. She earned a PhD in philology at the same university, specializing in Latin American and Cuban literature, as well as in studies on Cuban women's literary discourse. She worked for many years teaching and conducting research at the University of Havana.
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Eduardo Heras León
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Eduardo Rafael Heras León was a Cuban writer and professor who was awarded with Cuba's National Literature Prize in 2014.
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Bahia Mahmud Awah
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Bahia Mahmud Awah is a Sahrawi writer, poet and journalist. He is a founding member of the group of writers known as the "Sahrawi Friendship Generation".
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Argeliers León
- Occupations
- musicologistuniversity teachercomposer
- Biography
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Argeliers León Pérez was a Cuban composer and musicologist.
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Antonio Quintana Simonetti
- Years
- 1919-1993 (aged 74)
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Antonio Luis Quintana Simonetti was a Cuban architect and a forerunner of Modern architecture in Havana. Quintana graduated from the University of Havana in 1944, among his works are some of the most important modernist buildings in the capital. Dissatisfied as a student with the classical canons, Antonio Quintana participated in 1944 in the so-called "Burning of Vignola" in the courtyard of the School of Architecture of the University of Havana. From this date forward, he began to study the precepts of contemporary architecture. He graduated as an architect in the same year.
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Mario Romañach
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Mario Romañach was a Cuban modernist architect, planner, and university professor.
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Argelia Velez-Rodriguez
- Occupations
- mathematician
- Biography
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Argelia Velez-Rodriguez is a Cuban-American mathematician and educator. She was the first Black woman to earn a doctorate in mathematics in Cuba.
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Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y García-Menocal
- Occupations
- Catholic priestwriteruniversity teachertheologian
- Biography
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Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y García-Menocal was a Cuban Roman Catholic priest, theologian and writer.
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Amir Valle
- Occupations
- journalistwriterliterary critic
- Biography
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Amir Valle Ojeda, is a Cuban journalist, literary critic and writer. In the aftermath of his criticism of the Fidel Castro regime, he was prevented from returning to Cuba in 2006. He then decided to settle in Berlin, where he continued his professional activities.
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José Gómez-Sicre
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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José Gómez-Sicre was a noted Cuban lawyer, art critic and writer.
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Emilio Hector Rodriguez
- Occupations
- artist
- Biography
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Emilio Hector Rodriguez is a Cuban-American artist. His current work is abstract painting and fine art photography. He resides in Miami, Florida, USA. Rodríguez was born in the colonial village of Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, in 1950. His family moved to La Habana in 1953. He started drawing and experimenting with oil paint and tempera at the age of 12. While a student at the Instituto Pre-Universitario de Marianao (Marianao Senior High School), he participated in several workshops sponsored by San Alejandro Arts Academy.
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Caridad Atencio
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Caridad Atencio is a Cuban poet and essayist.
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Alexis Mendoza
- Occupations
- contemporary artist
- Biography
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Alexis Mendoza is a Cuban artist, writer and independent curator, based in New York City. His multidisciplinary work focuses on painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing and installation. His art explores the transitioning and overlapping of colors as a metaphor for the Afro-Cuban customs, rituals and traditions.
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Matilde Ponce Copado
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Matilde Ponce Copado was a Cuban modernist architect.
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Luis Estévez
- Occupations
- fashion designer
- Biography
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Luis Estévez was a Cuban-born American fashion designer and costume designer, active between 1951 until 1997. According to the New York Times, "Luis Estevez always did make a lady look like a vamp", known for his high slits, slinky dresses and dramatic necklines.
