List of Famous people born in Havana Province, Cuba

Camilo Cienfuegos

First Name Camilo
Last Name Cienfuegos
Born on February 6, 1932
Died on October 28, 1959 (aged 27)

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.

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Rafael Banquells

First Name Rafael
Last Name Banquells
Born on June 25, 1917
Died on October 27, 1990 (aged 73)

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

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Michael Aris

First Name Michael
Last Name Aris
Born on March 27, 1946
Died on March 27, 1999 (aged 53)

Michael Vaillancourt Aris was a historian who wrote and lectured on Bhutanese, Tibetan and Himalayan culture and history. He was the husband of Aung San Suu Kyi, the former State Counsellor of Myanmar.

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Alberto Salazar

First Name Alberto
Last Name Salazar
Born on August 7, 1958 (age 67)

Alberto Salazar is an American track coach, former world-class long-distance runner who is currently under sanctions for doping offenses involving athletes he was training. Born in Cuba, Salazar immigrated to the United States as a child with his family. They moved to Manchester, Connecticut, and then to Wayland, Massachusetts, where Salazar competed in track and field in high school. Salazar is best known for his performances in the New York City Marathon in the early 1980s and his 1982 Boston Marathon victory known as the "Duel in the Sun." He held American track records of 13:11.93 for 5,000 m on July 6, 1982 in Stockholm, Sweden and 27:25.61 for 10,000 m on June 26, 1982 in Oslo, Norway.

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Alfredo Quintana

First Name Alfredo
Born on March 20, 1988
Died on February 26, 2021 (aged 32)
Height 201 cm | 6'7

Alfredo Eduardo Quintana Bravo was a Portuguese handball player who played for Porto and the Portuguese national team.

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Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart

First Name Fidel
Last Name Díaz-Balart
Born on September 1, 1949
Died on February 1, 2018 (aged 68)

Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart was a Cuban nuclear physicist and government official. Frequently known by the diminutive Fidelito, he was the eldest son of Cuban leader Fidel Castro and his first wife, Mirta Diaz-Balart.

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Rafael Palmeiro

First Name Rafael
Last Name Palmeiro
Born on September 24, 1964 (age 61)

Rafael Palmeiro Corrales is a Cuban American former Major League Baseball first baseman and left fielder. Palmeiro was an All-American at Mississippi State University before being drafted by the Chicago Cubs in 1985. He played for the Cubs (1986–1988), Texas Rangers, and the Baltimore Orioles.

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Rangel Ravelo

First Name Rangel
Last Name Ravelo
Born on April 24, 1992 (age 34)

Rangel Ravelo is a Cuban professional baseball first baseman and outfielder for the Orix Buffaloes of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals.

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Steven Bauer

Esteban Ernesto Echevarría Samson
First Name Steven
Last Name Bauer
Born on December 2, 1956 (age 69)
Height 185 cm | 6'1

Steven Bauer is a Cuban-American actor. Bauer began his career on PBS, portraying Joe Peña, the son of Cuban immigrants on ¿Qué Pasa, USA? (1977–1980) and is perhaps most famous for his role as the Cuban drug lord Manny Ribera in the 1983 crime drama Scarface, in which he starred alongside Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer. He also played the drug cartel leader Eladio Vuente in Breaking Bad and in Better Call Saul and as the retired Mossad agent Avi Rudin in Ray Donovan (2013–2020).

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Alicia Alonso

Alicia Ernestina de la Caridad del Cobre Martínez del Hoyo
First Name Alicia
Last Name Alonso
Born on December 21, 1920
Died on October 17, 2019 (aged 98)

Alicia Alonso was a Cuban prima ballerina assoluta and choreographer whose company became the Ballet Nacional de Cuba in 1955. She is best known for her portrayals of Giselle and the ballet version of Carmen.

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