List of Famous people born in Cuba
Robeisy Ramírez
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.
Filiberto Azcuy
Filiberto Azcuy Aguilera is a Cuban wrestler who has won two Olympic gold medals.
Orlando "Cachaíto" López
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.
Yandro Quintana
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.
Felipe de Jesús Estévez
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.
Carlos Alberto Montaner
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.
Senel Paz
Senel Paz is a Cuban author and screenwriter.
Guillermo Heredia
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.
Victor Rivers
Francis Mansour Zayek
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.