List of Famous people born in Matanzas Province, Cuba

Elián González Brotons

First Name Elián
Born on December 6, 1993 (age 30)

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.

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Rafael Bienvenido Cruz

First Name Rafael
Last Name Cruz
Born on March 22, 1939 (age 85)

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.

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Hector Lombard

First Name Hector
Last Name Lombard
Born on February 2, 1978 (age 46)
Height 175 cm | 5'9

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.

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Danell Leyva

Danell Johan Leyva González
First Name Danell
Born on October 30, 1991 (age 33)

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.

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Javier Sotomayor

Javier Sotomayor Sanabria
First Name Javier
Last Name Sotomayor
Born on October 13, 1967 (age 57)
Height 193 cm | 6'4

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.

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Ariel Martínez

First Name Ariel
Last Name Martínez
Born on May 28, 1996 (age 28)
Height 190 cm | 6'3

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.

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Frank Chamizo

First Name Frank
Last Name Chamizo
Born on July 10, 1992 (age 32)
Height 170 cm | 5'7

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

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Ernest Sosa

First Name Ernest
Last Name Sosa
Born on June 17, 1940 (age 84)

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.

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Felipe de Jesús Estévez

First Name Felipe
Last Name Estévez
Born on February 5, 1946 (age 78)

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.

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Barbarito Torres

First Name Barbarito
Last Name Torres
Born on January 1, 1956 (age 68)

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.

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