List of Famous people born in Cuba

Robeisy Ramírez

First Name Robeisy
Born on December 20, 1993 (age 32)

Robeisy Eloy Ramírez Carrazana is a Cuban professional boxer. As an amateur, he won gold medals at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics as a flyweight and bantamweight respectively.

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Filiberto Azcuy

First Name Filiberto
Born on October 13, 1972 (age 53)
Height 177 cm | 5'10

Filiberto Azcuy Aguilera is a Cuban wrestler who has won two Olympic gold medals.

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Orlando "Cachaíto" López

First Name Orlando
Last Name López
Born on February 2, 1933
Died on February 9, 2009 (aged 76)

Candelario Orlando López Vergara, better known as Cachaíto, was a Cuban bassist and composer, who gained international fame after his involvement in the Buena Vista Social Club recordings. He was nicknamed Cachaíto after his uncle, the famous bassist and innovator of mambo music Israel "Cachao" López. His father and Cachao's older brother was Orestes López, also a famous bassist/multi-instrumentalist and composer.

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Yandro Quintana

First Name Yandro
Born on January 30, 1980 (age 46)
Height 162 cm | 5'4

Yandro Miguel Quintana Rivalta is a Cuban wrestler who competed in the Men's Freestyle 60 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics which were also his first Olympics. He won the gold medal by defeating Masuod Jokar in the final with the help of his coach Filberto Delgado. He stands 5'2 and 132 lbs. In 2003 he came in first at the Pan American Games. He now resides in Havana, Cuba.

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Felipe de Jesús Estévez

First Name Felipe
Last Name Estévez
Born on February 5, 1946 (age 80)

Felipe de Jesús Estévez is the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of St. Augustine. He was formerly an Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Miami.

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Carlos Alberto Montaner

First Name Carlos
Last Name Montaner
Born on April 3, 1943 (age 83)

Carlos Alberto Montaner is an exiled Cuban author known for his more than 25 books and thousands of articles, including several novels, the last of which is Sin ir más lejos . Some of his books are devoted to explaining the true nature of the Cuban dictatorship, for example: Journey To The Heart of Cuba. PODER magazine has estimated that more than six million readers have access to his weekly columns. He has been published widely in Latin American newspapers, and published fiction and non-fiction books on Latin America. Since 1968 he has had a syndicated weekly column in many newspapers around the world. Montaner is a political analyst for CNN en Español and a collaborator on the book, The Cuban Exile, along with well-known Cuban writers Mirta Ojito, award-winning poet and writer Carlos Pintado and Carlos Eire, a book coordinated by Cuban musician and producer Emilio Estefan. In October 2012, Foreign Policy magazine selected Montaner as one of the fifty most influential intellectuals in the Ibero-American world.

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Senel Paz

First Name Senel
Last Name Paz
Born on January 1, 1950 (age 76)

Senel Paz is a Cuban author and screenwriter.

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Guillermo Heredia

First Name Guillermo
Last Name Heredia
Born on January 31, 1991 (age 35)

Guillermo Heredia Molina is a Cuban professional baseball outfielder for the New York Mets of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Seattle Mariners, Tampa Bay Rays, and the Pittsburgh Pirates. He bats right-handed and throws left-handed.

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Victor Rivers

First Name Victor
Last Name Rivers
Born on October 1, 1955 (age 70)
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Francis Mansour Zayek

First Name Francis
Last Name Zayek
Born on October 18, 1920
Died on September 14, 2010 (aged 89)

Archbishop Francis Mansour Zayek was a prelate of the Maronite Church. He was the founding eparch of the Maronite Catholic Eparchy of Saint Maron of Brooklyn, an Eastern Catholic diocese based in Brooklyn, New York, which covers the eastern coast of the United States.

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