Prominent Cubans

President of Cuba, 1909-1913.  Born in Sancti Spiritus, he was barely out of school when he joined the rebels in the Ten Years’ War and subsequent Guerra Chiquita.  During the […]

The first president of an independent Cuba, 1902-1906.  Born near Bayamo, July 9, he attended schools in Havana and the University of Seville, from where family matters forced his return before

Santiago-born entrepreneur, writer, and journalist.  At only 24 he was honored by the Liceo of Puerto Principe for his Conveniencia de reservar a la mujer ciertos trabajos.  He was imprisoned in1876 for revolutionary

Revolutionary general, second in command to Máximo Gómez Báez in both the Ten Years’ War and the Independence War of 1895-1898.  Born in Holguín, the second of eight children, he was

Poet, born in Camagüey, she achieved recognition as one of the greatest poets of the Spanish language.  She used the pseudonym “La Peregrina” in most of her writings.  She excelled in lyric poetry, but

A much-quoted neoclassical poet, best known for his ode Al Niágara, written in 1824 after a visit to the waterfall.  Other well-known poems include En el Teocalli de Cholula (1820), El Himno del

Former soldier in the Independence War, 1895-1898, who became the leader of the Agrupación Independiente de Color, and who, on May 20, 1912, led several bands of blacks in an

A Creole cattle farmer and lawyer, and leader in the Ten Years’ War.  For the first five years after 1868 he led the revolt in his native Camagüey, participated in

Cuban mulatto patriot and hero of the Independence War of 1895-1898.  Born near Santiago de Cuba, June 14, son of Marcos Maceo, a Venezuelan mulatto émigré, and a free Cuban

Physician and epidemiologist, discoverer of the mosquito vector of yellow fever.  Born in Camagüey on December 3rd, of a Scots father and a French Creole mother from Trinidad, he grew