List of Famous people born in Matanzas Province, Cuba

Elián González Brotons is a Cuban citizen who became embroiled in a heated international custody and immigration controversy in 2000 involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, his father Juan Miguel González Quintana, his other relatives in Cuba and in Miami, and Miami's Cuban community.

Rafael Bienvenido Cruz y Díaz is a Cuban-American Protestant preacher and father of Texas U.S. Senator Ted Cruz. He regularly serves as a surrogate in his son's political campaigns.

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.

Danell Johan Leyva is a Cuban-American former gymnast who competed for the United States. He is the 2012 Olympic individual all-around bronze medalist and 2016 Olympic parallel bars and horizontal bar silver medalist. He is also the 2011 U.S. national all-around gold medalist and the 2011 world champion on the parallel bars.

Javier Sotomayor Sanabria is a retired Cuban track and field athlete, who specialized in the high jump and is the current world record holder. The 1992 Olympic champion, he was the dominant high jumper of the 1990s; his personal best of 2.45 m makes him the only person to have ever cleared eight feet.

Ariel Martínez Marrero is a Cuban professional baseball catcher for the Chunichi Dragons of Nippon Professional Baseball. He previously played for Cocodrilos de Matanzas in the Cuban National Series.

Frank Chamizo Marquez is a naturalized Italian two-time world freestyle wrestling champion. In all, he has won five world and Olympic medals.

Ernest Sosa is an American philosopher primarily interested in epistemology. Since 2007 he has been Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University, but he spent most of his career at Brown University.

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.

Bárbaro Alberto Torres Delgado, better known as Barbarito Torres, is a Cuban musician best known for his work with the Afro-Cuban All Stars and the Buena Vista Social Club since 1996. Torres plays the laúd, a traditional Cuban instrument of the lute family that is most associated with the punto guajiro genre. He continues to tour with Buena Vista Social Club as one of the last surviving original members and has recorded several solo albums, the last of which, Vámonos pa'l monte, was released in 2016.