List of Famous people born in Cuba

Ramiro Valdés Menéndez is a Cuban politician. He became a Government Vice President in the 2009 shake-up by Raúl Castro.

David Lombardo is a Cuban-American drummer, best known as a co-founding member of American thrash metal band Slayer. He is currently playing drums with Fantômas, Suicidal Tendencies, Dead Cross, Mr. Bungle, and the Misfits.

Carlos Miguel Gutierrez is an American former CEO and former United States Secretary of Commerce. He is currently a Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of EmPath, a Skills Intelligence Software as a Service machine learning company that uses proprietary software to enable large and complex organizations to discover and grow employee's skills by identifying their proficiencies and deficiencies and enabling their efficient redeployment, up-skilling, re-skilling, and training.

Paul Lafargue was a French revolutionary Marxist socialist, political writer, journalist, literary critic, and activist; he was Karl Marx's son-in-law having married his second daughter, Laura. His best known work is The Right to Be Lazy. Born in Cuba to French and Creole parents, Lafargue spent most of his life in France, with periods in England and Spain. At the age of 69, he and 66-year-old Laura died together by a suicide pact.

Rusney Castillo Peraza is a Cuban professional baseball outfielder for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Boston Red Sox. Listed at 5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) and 195 pounds (88 kg), he bats and throws right handed.

Guillermo Álvarez Guedes was a Cuban comedian, actor, writer & businessman. He was better known across Latin America as Álvarez Guedes.

Ariel Texido ; is a Cuban actor.

Otto Sirgo is an actor of Cuban and Mexican nationalities, and director of Mexican telenovelas and theater. He is the son of Cuban actor Otto Sirgo and Mexican actress Magda Haller and was married to Maleni Morales, also an actress, until her death in 2020. He starred in Recien Cazado along with Jaime Camil and Gabriela Vargas.

Carlos Fernández Gondín was a Cuban politician. He was a founding member of the Communist Party of Cuba, and served as the country's Minister of the Interior from 2015 until his death.

Amelia Vargas was a Cuban actress and dancer. She mainly worked in Argentina. She starred in the 1950 film Arroz con leche under director Carlos Schlieper.