List of Famous people born in Havana Province, Cuba
Taymi Chappe
Taymi Chappé Valladares was a Cuban-Spanish fencer. She competed in the women's individual épée event at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She won gold in women's épée at the 1990 World Championships under the Cuban flag. For Spain, she won a team gold at the 1994 World Championships and a bronze medal at the 1997 World Fencing Championships.
Faure Chomón
Faure Chomón was a Cuban historian and politician. He was one of the founding members and leaders of the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil. After the triumph of the Revolution he joined Fidel Castro's regime. Early in his career, he served as the Secretary of Communication and Transportation and Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Later he served as Ambassador to Vietnam and Ecuador as well as historian of the Revolution. He was also member of the National Assembly of People's Power from 1976 to his death.
Sergio Oliva
Sergio Oliva was a Cuban bodybuilder known as "The Myth". He is a 3 time Mr Olympia winner.
Roberto Moya
Roberto Saturnino Moya Sandoval was a Cuban athlete who mainly competed in the discus throw.
Jorge Hernández
Jorge Hernández born in Havana was a boxer from Cuba, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. There he won the gold medal in the light flyweight division by defeating North Korea's Li Byong-Uk in the final. Four years later, when Moscow hosted the Games, he was eliminated in the second round in the flyweight division.
Joaquín Nin
Joaquín Nin y Castellanos was a Cuban pianist and composer. Nin was the father of Anaïs Nin.
Ivan Moffat
Ivan Romilly Moffat was a British screenwriter, film producer and socialite who, with Fred Guiol, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for adapting Edna Ferber's eponymous novel into the film Giant (1956). Moffat was the grandson of actor-manager Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree.
Yoani Sánchez
Yoani María Sánchez Cordero is a Cuban blogger who has achieved international fame and multiple international awards for her critical portrayal of life in Cuba under its current government.
Alberto Alonso
Alberto Julio Rayneri Alonso was a Cuban dancer and choreographer, the brother of Fernando Alonso and brother-in-law of Alicia Alonso. He was influential in the development of the Cuban style of ballet, a combination of Russian and Western techniques with a Latin style.