Prominent Cubans

Lawyer, anthropologist, historian, sociologist, outstanding ethnographer, author, publisher, and intellectual. Born in Havana of a Spanish father and Cuban mother, Ortiz grew up on Minorca, Spain, returning to Cuba in […]

Labor leader.  Son of a Catalan bank employee from Guantánamo, he joined the Unión Revolucionaria Comunista in 1930, but later severed his communist affiliation to become secretary general of Joven Cuba in 1934.  In

Lawyer.  As president of the Cuban bar association, he supported the call for President Fulgencio Batista to step down in1956.  He was also influential in the so-called Diálogo Cívico, intended to

Painter. Born June 23, on the outskirts of Havana, he was an only child. His painting influences were derived from his growing up beside the sea. At age 16 he

Pioneer feminist, she founded the Alianza Nacional Feminista in 1920 and the first women’s club, the Lyceum, in 1929, with co-founder Berta Arocena de Martínez Márquez. Her aims were political (female suffrage),

Politician, poet, and short story writer, born December 20 in Alquizar, Havana province.  He became a doctor of civil law of the University of Havana in 1913.  He wrote his

Journalist, diplomat, and author, born in the Cuban legation in Lima, Peru, to distinguished parents from a Camagüey family.  In 1900 he was secretary to Gonzalo de Quesada during the

A poet of the negrismo school who later became a leader of the Partido Socialista Popular.  He obtained a doctorate of Civil and public law at the University of Havana, took part in

One of Cuba’s most distinguished intellectuals, whose writings criticized civic indolence and the passive acceptance of American tutelage over political and economic life.  Born in Sagua La Grande, Cuba.  In

Student leader and revolutionary, also known as “Manzanita,” born in Cárdenas, where he attended the Marist Brothers’ school and the public high school.  He entered the University of Havana’s architecture