Lawyer, anthropologist, historian, sociologist, outstanding ethnographer, author, publisher, and intellectual. Born in Havana of a Spanish father and Cuban mother,

Labor leader.  Son of a Catalan bank employee from Guantánamo, he joined the Unión Revolucionaria Comunista in 1930, but later severed his

Lawyer.  As president of the Cuban bar association, he supported the call for President Fulgencio Batista to step down in1956. 

Painter. Born June 23, on the outskirts of Havana, he was an only child. His painting influences were derived from

Pioneer feminist, she founded the Alianza Nacional Feminista in 1920 and the first women’s club, the Lyceum, in 1929, with co-founder Berta

Politician, poet, and short story writer, born December 20 in Alquizar, Havana province.  He became a doctor of civil law

Journalist, diplomat, and author, born in the Cuban legation in Lima, Peru, to distinguished parents from a Camagüey family.  In

A poet of the negrismo school who later became a leader of the Partido Socialista Popular.  He obtained a doctorate of Civil and

One of Cuba’s most distinguished intellectuals, whose writings criticized civic indolence and the passive acceptance of American tutelage over political

Student leader and revolutionary, also known as “Manzanita,” born in Cárdenas, where he attended the Marist Brothers’ school and the

Leading Cuban painter, born in Havana, he was educated in Cuba and Mexico.  He executed several murals in Cuba and

Powerful sugar baron with 14 ingenios in Oriente province whose plantation, Niquero, served as a rendezvous for bands of Fidel Castro’s forces.  Lobo

Aurelio Álvarez de la Vega was born in Camagüey in 1881. As a teenager he joined the Cuban Liberation Army. At

Havana-born poet, essayist, and lawyer. Attracted early to writing, he helped found the literary magazines Verbum (1937), Espuela de plata (1939), and Orígenes (1944) while at

Cuban painter born in Sagua la Grande of Chinese and Black parents.  His contact with African, Chinese, and Spanish culture

Pianist and composer.  A child prodigy who is known to have played the piano at the age five.  He had

Founder of the Partido del Pueblo (Ortodoxo). Son of a wealthy Santiago engineer, “Eddy” became a prominent student leader, and one of

President of Cuba, 1948-1952.  Born in Bahía Honda, he became involved in politics at an early age, becoming active in

President of Cuba, 1940-44 and Dictator, 1952-1958 and Cuban strong man from the Sergeants’ revolt of 1933 to the Revolution

President of Cuba, January 15-17, 1934.  Born March 21, he participated in World War I aboard the U.S.S. Missouri and