List of Famous people born in Cuba

Héctor Miguel Lombard Pedrosa is a Cuban-Australian professional mixed martial artist, bodybuilder, and former Olympic judoka who competed as a middleweight and welterweight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He was the first ever Bellator Middleweight World Champion.

Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez is a Cuban musician, and leader of the Nueva Trova movement.

María Concepción Alonso Bustillo, better known as María Conchita Alonso, is a Cuban-born Venezuelan-American actress, singer, songwriter, former beauty queen, and philanthropist.

Osmani "La Voz" García González Kats is a Cuban reggaeton (cubatón) rapper and singer.

Mirta Francisca de la Caridad Díaz-Balart y Gutiérrez was the first wife of Fidel Castro. They married in 1948, had one son together, and divorced in 1955.

Pedro Knight Caraballo was a Cuban musician, and the husband and manager of singer Celia Cruz.

Roger Thomas Benitez is a senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California.

Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán was a Cuban revolutionary born in Havana. Along with Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Juan Almeida Bosque, and Raúl Castro, he was a member of the 1956 Granma expedition, which launched Fidel Castro's armed insurgency against the government of Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. He became one of Castro's top guerilla commanders, known as the "Hero of Yaguajay" after winning a key battle of the Cuban Revolution. His signature weapons were a M1921AC Thompson and a modified M2 carbine.

Rafael Banquells was a Cuban-born Mexican actor, director and TV producer known in Mexico as Rafael Banquells (I).

Antonio Abad Lugo Machín was a Spanish-Cuban singer and musician. His version of El Manisero, recorded in New York, 1930, with Don Azpiazú's orchestra, was the first million record seller for a Cuban artist. Although this was labelled a rhumba, it was in reality a son pregón, namely, a song based on a street-seller's cry.