Vinnie Chulk, relief pitcher for the San Francisco Giants
José Contreras, current MLB free agent pitcher, Cuban-born[25]
Mike Cuellar, former MLB All-Star pitcher, Cuban-born[26]
Orestes Destrade, former MLB first baseman and current broadcaster, Cuban-born[27]
Eric Eichmann, former US National Team and American professional soccer player; Cuban mother
Yunel Escobar, current shortstop for the Los Angeles Angels, Cuban-born[28]
Alex Fernandez, former pitcher for the Florida Marlins
Mary Joe Fernández, tennis player
Osvaldo Fernández, former MLB pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, Cuban-born[29]
José Fernandez, former MLB pitcher for the Miami Marlins, Cuban-born[30]
Tony Fossas, former MLB relief pitcher, Cuban-born[31]
Ryan Freel, former MLB utility player
Tito Fuentes, former MLB second baseman, Cuban-born[32]
Yuriorkis Gamboa, "El Ciclón de Guantanamo", professional boxer
Danny Garcia, former MLB outfielder, Kansas City Royals
Preston Gómez, former MLB infielder and manager, Cuban-born[33]
Anthony Gonzalez, WR Atlanta Falcons National Football League
Gio González, current MLB pitcher for the Washington Nationals
Joaquin Gonzalez, offensive line, Indianapolis Colts, National Football League
Luis Gonzalez, former outfielder for the Arizona Diamondbacks
Yasmani Grandal, current catcher for the Chicago White Sox, Cuban-born[34]
Sammy Guevara, professional wrestler
Henry Gutierrez, former US National Team and American professional soccer player
Ricky Gutiérrez, former shortstop
Annia Hatch, originally Annia Portuondo; Cuban-Americangymnast, former member of Cuban and U.S. National gymnastics teams; 1993 World Gymnastics Championships and 1995 Pan American Games medal winner (representing Cuba); 2004 Olympics medal winner (representing USA); U.S. Classic winner
Enrique Hernández, infielder/outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers; Cuban mother
Evelio Hernández, starting pitcher for the Washington Senators, Cuban-born[35]
James "Chico" Hernandez, of Wheaties fame; US SomboWrestling Champion; World Cup silver; three-time British silver medalist[36]
Liván Hernández, former MLB pitcher, Cuban-born[37]
Orlando Hernández, "El Dueque" (The Duke) half-brother of Liván, former MLB player, Cuban-born[38]
Eric Hosmer, first baseman for the Kansas City Royals
Raúl Ibañez, left fielder for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
José Iglesias, current MLB shortstop for the Detroit Tigers, Cuban-born[39]
Raúl Alarcón, president and CEO of the Spanish Broadcasting System
Alfredo Alonso, SVP of Clear Channel Radio
Ralph Alvarez,[56] former president and COO of McDonald's
Bacardi family,[57] owners of Bacardi Rums, Grey Goose, Martini & Rossi and Dewar's
Mario Baeza, Cuban-American corporate lawyer, investment and merchant banker, entrepreneur, musician/composer and philanthropist
Charles "Bebe" Rebozo, banker, close confidant of President Richard Nixon; key Watergate scandal figure
Jorge Mas Canosa, founder and CEO of MasTec, political activist, former head of Cuban-American National Foundation
Paul L. Cejas, CEO of PLC Investments, Inc.
Mauricio Claver-Carone, lawyer and president of the Inter-American Development Bank
Carlos de la Cruz, Cuban-born American businessman, the chairman of CC1 Companies, Inc. which include Coca-Cola Puerto Rico Bottlers, CC1 Beer Distributors, Inc., Coca-Cola Bottlers Trinidad & Tobago, and Florida Caribbean Distillers, LLC. The companies together employ 2,500 people and have annual sales of $1 billion
Ralph de la Vega, former president and CEO of AT&T Mobility
Alfonso Fanjul Sr. (1909–1980), Cuban-born American sugar baron[58]
Antonio Luis Navarro, former vice president of W. R. Grace and Company
Jesus Permuy, architect, urban planner, and human rights advocate
Joe Quesada,[66] CCO of Marvel Entertainment; former editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics
George Reyes,[67]Chief Financial Officer of Google
Marcos A. Rodriguez, entrepreneur, broadcaster, movie producer
Felix Sabates, entrepreneur, philanthropist, holds ownership in NASCAR, Charlotte Bobcats
Ralph Sanchez, autoracing promoter, developer, responsible for Grand Prix of Miami and Homestead-Miami Speedway
Alberto Vilar, a.k.a. Albert Vilar, American former investment manager who became particularly known for donating tens of millions as a patron of opera
Education[]
Alejandro Anreus, art historian and curator, William Patterson University
Ruth Behar, anthropologist, poet, and filmmaker; first Latina recipient of a MacArthur award, University of Michigan
George J. Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Harvard University
Ana Mari Cauce, President of the University of Washington, Seattle
Frederick A. de Armas, Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature University of Chicago
Miguel A. De La Torre, prolific author on Hispanic religiosity, Iliff School of Theology
Jorge I. Dominguez, Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics, former Chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University
Roberto González Echevarría, Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature, Yale University
Carlos M. N. Eire, T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University; his memoir of the Cuban Revolution, Waiting for Snow in Havana (Free Press, 2003), won the National Book Award for non-fiction
Maria Cristina Garcia, Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies at Cornell University; historian of immigration
Jorge J. E. Gracia, Samuel P. Capen Chair in Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Robert Lima, Knight Commander, Order of Queen Isabel of Spain; academician ANLE; Corr. Member RAE; Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Fellow, IAH (Penn State University)
Modesto A. Maidique, former President of Florida International University
Juan A. Martínez, Florida International University
Miguel Martinez-Saenz, President of St. Francis College in Brooklyn, NY
Elsa A. Murano, Former President of Texas A&M University, Former Vice Chancellor of Agriculture & Life Sciences of Texas A&M University, current Director of the Norman E. Borlaug Institute for International Agriculture of Texas A&M University
Eduardo J. Padrón, President of Miami Dade College, immediate past chair of the board of directors of the American Council on Education (ACE)
Luis G Pedraja, President Quinsigamond Community College, educator, philosopher and theologian
Gustavo Pérez Firmat, David Feinson Professor in the Humanities, Columbia University
Alejandro Portes, Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for Migration and Development, Princeton University
Gregory Rabassa, literary translator and Distinguished Professor in the Department of Languages and Literatures at Queens College, City University of New York and in the Ph.D. Program in Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures of the Graduate School and University Center of the CUNY Graduate Center
Carmen Reinhart, Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System, Harvard Kennedy School
Teofilo Ruiz, Distinguished Professor of History, UCLA and recipient of the National Humanities Medal[68] at the White House
Rubén G. Rumbaut, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
Ernest Sosa, Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University
María de los Angeles Torres, LAS Distinguished Professor of Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
Ricardo Viera, LeHigh University
Armando Vilaseca, commissioner of the Vermont Department of Education
Ariana Barouk, TV host, actress, model, and singer; represented Cuba in the seventh edition of the environmentally oriented Miss Earth, international beauty pageant
Steven Bauer, actor (Scarface, ¿Qué Pasa, USA?, credited as Rocky Echevarría)
Antonio Prohías, creator of Mad Magazine's Spy vs Spy series
Joe Quesada, comic book editor, writer producer and artist
Michael Peraza, American animator, art director, conceptual artist and historian of animation, who has worked for The Walt Disney Company, Fox Features, and Warner Brothers. His parents were of Cuban origin.
Directors, screenwriters and producers[]
Ozzie Alfonso, TV director, writer, producer; directed Sesame Street in the 1970s; senior producer, writer, and director of 3-2-1 Contact in the 1980s; freelanced for many clients; adjunct college professor at St. John's University
Elisa Marina Alvarado - American director of Mexican and Cuban descent
Rafael Casal (born 1985), American writer, actor, producer, and showrunner. He is of Irish, Spanish, and Cuban descent.[81]
Migdia Chinea, film director, writer, producer;(When it rains..., The Incredible Hulk)
George A. Romero, American film director, screenwriter and editor (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead), creator of the Living Dead film series; son of a Cuban-born father of Castilian Spanish parentage[82] and a Lithuanian American mother
Amy Serrano, director, cimematographer, and writer (The Sugar Babies), producer of documentary films, poet
Fashion[]
Luis Estevez, Cuban-born American fashion designer and costume designer
Lazaro Hernandez, fashion designer; born in Miami
Jorge Manuel, bridal fashion designer
Narciso Rodriguez, fashion designer
Yvette Prieto, model for designer Alexander Wang[83]
Isabel Toledo, former creative director for Anne Klein; designed Michelle Obama's first inauguration day dress
Musicians[]
Composers and/or bandleaders[]
Xavier Cugat, bandleader
Arsenio Rodríguez (1911–1970), Cuban musician, composer and bandleader; born in Cuba, he died in United States, where he lived in the last years of his life[84]
Lucy Simon, American composer for the theatre and popular songs; known for the musical The Secret Garden; sister of Carly and Joanna Simon
Ernesto Lecuona, composer, pianist
Producers[]
Desmond Child, American musician, songwriter, and producer; mother is Cuban songwriter Elena Casals[85]
Scott Herren, music producer; father is Catalan and mother is of Irish and Cuban descent
Ray Martinez, American musician, music producer, songwriter, artist, disco music icon; Cuban American; Cuban mother and Puerto Rican father
Fat Joe, American rapper; parents of Puerto rican and Cuban descent.
Kat Dahlia, rapper; Cuban and Lebanese
Cuban Link, Cuban rapper, original member of Terror Squad
Stitches, rapper; Cuban and Greek
Pouya, rapper; Cuban and Iranian
Percussionists[]
Francisco Aguabella, Afro-Cuban master percussionist
Horacio Hernandez ("El Negro"), Grammy-winning drummer and percussionist
Chano Pozo, Afro-Cuban, Latin Jazz percussionist, conga player
Walfredo Reyes, Jr., percussionist and drum set player; born in Havana to a historically musical Cuban family; former member of Santana; current member of Chicago; expert in jazz, Latin, world music, world fusion, Afro-Cuban, and rock
Classical[]
Manuel Barrueco, classical guitarist
Jorge Bolet, classical concert pianist specializing in Liszt
Andrés Cárdenes, violinist
José Curbelo (1917–2012), Cuban-born American pianist and manager
Joanna Simon, mezzo-soprano; sister of Carly Simon
René Touzet, composer, pianist
Aurelio de la Vega, composer, music professor
Yalil Guerra, composer, guitarist
Tania León, composer, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Music (2021)
Marta Pérez, mezzo-soprano
Elizabeth Caballero, lyric soprano
Jazz[]
Mario Bauza, trumpeter, saxophonist, composer, arranger, bandleader and Afro-Cuban Jazz pioneer
Paquito D'Rivera, Grammy-winning saxophonist
Machito, jazz singer and bandleader
Fats Navarro (1923–1950), American jazztrumpet player; a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s; of Cuban-Black-Chinese descent[90]
Chico O'Farrill, jazz trumpeter; composer, arranger
Arturo Sandoval, jazz trumpeter and pianist; composer
Mongo Santamaría, Latin jazz musician Grammy winner
Bebo Valdés, musician, composer
Pop, R&B, Folk, country and other music genre[]
Albita, Grammy-winning singer
Giselle Bellas, singer-songwriter
Angela Bofill, American R&B and jazz singer and songwriter of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent
Camila Cabello, singer, born in Havana, Cuba
Nini Camps, Cuban-American folk rock singer-songwriter
Irene Cara, Oscar and Grammy-winning singer (Flashdance), actress (Fame); born in the Bronx, New York; mother was American of Cuban descent
Willy Chirino, singer
Erick Brian Colon, born in Havana, Cuba; member of CNCO
Celia Cruz, multiple Grammy-winning singer
The DeCastro Sisters, singing group
Addys D'Mercedes, singer
Emily Estefan, singer-songwriter, musician
Lola Falana, singer, actress and dancer
Olga Guillot, singer
Arawak Jah, international Cuban reggae star, member and founder of the reggae group Arawak Jah in Orlando, Florida
Lauren Jauregui, Cuban-American singer, member of Fifth Harmony
Roberto Ledesma, singer
Lissette, singer, actress; wife of Willy Chirino; daughter of Olga y Tony
La Lupe, singer and gay icon
Raúl Malo, lead singer of American country music band The Mavericks
Martika, Grammy-nominated singer/actress (film Annie; television series Kids Incorporated)
A. J. McLean, member of the Backstreet Boys; of Cuban and German ancestry on his mother's side
Syesha Mercado, singer
Roger Miret, singer for Agnostic Front
Jorge Moreno, Grammy award-winning singer, writer and TV producer
JD Natasha, Latin pop musician
Nayer, American singer of Cuban parents
Rey Ruiz, singer
Jon Secada, two-time Grammy-winning singer
Ponciano Seoane, pop singer and contestant from NBC's The Voice season 11
Carly Simon, singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author; mother, Andrea Louise Simon, was of German, French, and Afro-Cuban descent[91]
Malu Trevejo, singer, Instagram star
Mayra Verónica, singer, model, television personality
Voltaire, dark cabaret musician; born Aurelio Voltaire Hernández
Reality television contestants[]
Jose "Pepi" Diaz, contestant on season 5 of The Apprentice
Alexia Echevarria, cast member on The Real Housewives Of Miami
Marlon Fernández, winner of Objetivo Fama (third season)
Janette Manrara, finalist, So You Think You Can Dance, Season 5
Jeanine Mason, winner of Season 5 of So You Think You Can Dance and actress
Ashley Massaro, Survivor: China contestant, WWE wrestler, Playboy model
Chris Núñez, artist and reality television personality (Miami Ink)
Melissa Padrón, featured on The Real World: Miami
Veronica Portillo, Playboy model and Road Rules contestant
Peter Weber, featured as The Bachelor and as a contestant on The Bachelorette
Pedro Zamora, AIDS activist, featured on The Real World: San Francisco
Writers[]
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Alex Abella, mystery/crime novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist
Mercedes de Acosta, poet, playwright
Reynaldo Arenas, poet, author
Joaquín Badajoz, poet, author, essayist, member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language[92]
Richard Blanco, Spanish-born poet
Rafael Campo, Cuban-born American poet
Daína Chaviano, novelist, poet, and award-winning novelist of Azorín Prize for Best Novel (Spain), among other international awards.
Nilo Cruz, playwright, the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Silvia Curbelo, poet
Carmen Agra Deedy, children's books author
Carlos Eire, writer, won the 2003 National Book Award in Nonfiction
Frank Fernández, anarchist, author of exile-related themes
Roberto G. Fernández, novelist
María Irene Fornés, playwright
Paula Fox, author, winner of Hans Christian Andersen Medal, biological grandmother of musician Courtney Love
Cristina García, novelist
Carolina Garcia-Aguilera, mystery novelist and descendant of Cuban independence patriot Francisco Vicente Aguilera[93]
Lucia M. Gonzalez, children's writer
Jorge Enrique González Pachecowww.jorgeenrique.net, poet, cultural entrepreneur, founder of the Seattle Latino Film Festival, a 501(c)(3) non profit organization
Lillian Guerra, Professor of History at University of Florida and widely published researcher and author
Oscar Hijuelos, first Hispanic to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction
Robert Lima, author of twenty-seven books, poet, literary critic, biographer, editor, translator, bibliographer
Rosa Lowinger, author of Tropicana Nights: the Life and Times of the Legendary Cuban Nightclub
Ana Menéndez, author (books In Cuba I Was a German Shepherd and Loving Che)
Orlando Ricardo Menes, poet, short story writer, translator, anthologist
Eduardo Aguirre, former United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra
Paul L. Cejas, former United States Ambassador to Belgium
Miguel H. Díaz, United States Ambassador to Holy See
Lino Gutierrez, former United States Ambassador to Argentina
Hugo Llorens, United States Ambassador to Honduras
Carlos Pascual, former United States Ambassador to Mexico
Otto Reich, former United States Ambassador to Venezuela
Mauricio Solaún, former United States Ambassador to Nicaragua
United States Cabinet members[]
Carlos Gutierrez, former United States Secretary of Commerce (Republican)
Mel Martinez, former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Republican)
Alexander Acosta, former United States Secretary of Labor (Republican)
Alejandro Mayorkas, United States Secretary of Homeland Security (Democrat)
United States House of Representatives[]
Carlos Curbelo, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Florida's 26th district
Lincoln Díaz-Balart, Republican former member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Florida's 21st district
Mario Díaz-Balart, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Florida's 25th district
Joe Garcia, former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Florida's 26th district
Carlos A. Giménez, Republican member-elect in the 2020U.S. House of Representatives for Florida's 26th congressional district, former mayor of Miami-Dade County (2011-2020)
Thomas Ponce Gill, Congressman from Hawaii in the early 1960s (his paternal grandmother was Cuban)
Anthony Gonzalez, Republican, Ohio's 16th District (2019–Present)[98]
Joseph Marion Hernández, first Hispanic elected to the United States Congress
Nicole Malliotakis, Republican member-elect of the United States House of Representatives, representing New York's 11th district
Alex Mooney, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing West Virginia's 2nd district
David Rivera, Republican former member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Florida's 25th district
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Florida's 18th district
Maria Elvira Salazar, Republican member-elect in the 2020U.S. House of Representatives for Florida's 27th congressional district, former television news anchor
Albio Sires, Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing New Jersey's 13th district
2008 Congressional candidates[]
Raul L. Martinez, Democratic candidate for Florida's 21st district
Mel Martinez, former United States Senator (R-Florida)
Bob Menendez, United States Senator (D–New Jersey), and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; former representative for New Jersey's 13th district
Marco Rubio, United States Senator (R-Florida)
Federal government[]
Al Cardenas, Washington, D.C. lobbyist
Alex Castellanos, Republican media consultant; senior advisor to 2008 Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney
Nils J. Diaz, former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Cari M. Dominguez, Chair of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Emilio T. Gonzalez, Ph.D., director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
Eliot A. Jardines, first Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Open Source
Elsa A. Murano, former Undersecretary for Food Safety United States Department of Agriculture
Pedro Pablo Permuy, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense[99][100]
Steve Pieczenik, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
Otto Reich, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
Mauricio J. Tamargo, 14th Chairman of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
George Gascón, district attorney of Los Angeles County; former district attorney of San Francisco County
Carlos A. Giménez, 7th Mayor of Miami-Dade County
Rosario Kennedy, former commissioner and vice-mayor of Miami
Raul L. Martinez, former mayor of Hialeah
Carlos Mayans, former mayor of Wichita, Kansas
Gilda Oliveros, first Cuban-born woman mayor in the United States
Alex Penelas, former mayor (D–FL), Miami-Dade County, Florida
Tomas Regalado, former mayor of Miami
Julio Robaina, former mayor of City of Hialeah
Francis Suarez, mayor of Miami
Xavier Suarez, former mayor of Miami
Silverio Vega, former mayor of West New York, New Jersey
Bill Vidal, former mayor of Denver, Colorado; born in Camagüey, Cuba[101]
State government[]
Zulima Farber, former Attorney General of New Jersey
Anitere Flores, Florida State Senator and former Florida State Representative, first Republican Hispanic woman to serve in both the Florida House and Senate since 1986
Bob Martinez, former governor of Florida, first Cuban-American governor in United States history
Robert E. Martinez, 8th Virginia Secretary of Transportation and deputy administrator of the United States Maritime Administration
Joseph Miró, Delaware state representative, president National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators
Alex X. Mooney, member of the Maryland state senate representing District 3
Vincent Prieto, New Jersey State Assemblyman, 32nd District
Marco Rubio, U.S. Senator from Florida, and former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
Katherine Fernandez Rundle, State Attorney for Miami-Dade County
Yvanna Cancela, State Senator representing Nevada's 10th District
Mo Denis, State Senator representing Nevada's 2nd District
Jason Miyares, member of the Virginia House of Delegates' 82nd district and Attorney General-elect of Virginia
Armando Omar Bonilla, former Department of Justice official and nominee to the United States Court of Federal Claims[102]
Barbara Lagoa, Justice on the Florida Supreme Court
Cecilia Altonaga, United States District Court Judge
Danny Boggs, Chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati
Raoul G. Cantero, III, first Hispanic justice on the Florida Supreme Court
Adalberto Jordan, United States District Court Judge
Jorge Labarga, Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court
Jose L. Linares, United States District Court Judge of United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in Newark, New Jersey
Ariel A. Rodriguez, judge of New Jersey Appellate Division, acting Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
Joseph H. Rodriguez, United States District Court Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in Camden, New Jersey
Eduardo Robreno, United States District Court Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
Esther Salas, United States District Court Judge of United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in Newark, New Jersey
Mauricio J. Tamargo, Chairman of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
United States Armed Forces[]
Adolfo Fernández Cavada, captain in the Union Army during the American Civil War who later served as Commander-in-Chief of the Cinco Villas during Cuba's Ten Year War
Federico Fernández Cavada, colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War and later Commander-in-Chief of all the Cuban forces during Cuba's Ten Year War
Mercedes O. Cubria, lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army; first Cuban-born female officer in the US Army[103]
Julius Peter Garesché, lieutenant colonel in the Union Army who served as Chief of Staff, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel to Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans
Ambrosio José Gonzales, colonel in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War
Erneido Oliva, major general; former deputy commander of the D.C. National Guard
Félix Rodríguez, U.S. Army helicopter pilot, former CIA officer known for his involvement in the Bay of Pigs Invasion and his involvement in the capture and interrogation of Che Guevara
Lola Sánchez, Confederate spy during the American Civil War; played an instrumental role in the Confederate victory in the Battle of Horse Landing[103]
José Agustín Quintero, Cuban born Confederate diplomat to Mexico, based in Monterrey
Loreta Janeta Velazquez (1842 – c. 1902), aka Lieutenant Harry Buford, Cuban-born woman who claimed that she masqueraded as a male Confederate soldier during the American Civil War
World leaders[]
Consuelo Montagu, Duchess of Manchester
Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
Science and technology[]
Aida de Acosta, first female to fly a powered aircraft
Aristides Agramonte, physician, pathologist and bacteriologist
Luis Walter Alvarez, Nobel Prize-winning experimental physicist (his paternal grandfather immigrated from Spain to Cuba and then to the United States)
Serena M. Auñón, American physician, engineer, and NASA astronaut
Agustin Walfredo Castellanos, physician
Nils J. Diaz, former Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Emilio Sánchez, contemporary art painter and lithographer
Scull twins, painters and sculptors
Baruj Salinas, Abstract Expressionist painter
Rafael Soriano
Mario Torroella, artist and architect
Pedro Vizcaíno
Consuelo Yznaga, wife of George Montagu, 8th Duke of Manchester[107]
Others[]
Juanita Castro, sister of former Cuban Communist Party first secretary Fidel Castro and incumbent First SecretaryRaúl Castro; has lived in the United States since 1964 and is a naturalized citizen
Michelle Font, beauty queen who won Miss Washington USA and competed in the Miss USA pageant on April 11, 2008, at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, Nevada; of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent
Joaquín "Jack" García, retired FBI agent who infiltrated the Gambino crime family
X González, activist and advocate for gun control; survivor of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
Vida Guerra, Cuban born-American glamour model
Carlos Maza, born to Cuban immigrant parents. Political activist
Emilio Núñez (1855–1922), soldier, dentist, and politician
Ana María Polo, Cuban-born American lawyer and Hispanic television arbitrator on Caso Cerrado
Manny Puig, Cuban-born wildlife entertainer
Enrique Ros (1924–2013), Cuban-born businessman and activist opposed to Cuban president Fidel Castro
Andrea Louise Simon, community leader
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas, Cuban-born lawyer; writer; historian; expert in the field of human rights and international law; retired high-ranking United Nations official; peace activist; since 2012 the United Nations Independent Expert on the Promotion of a Democratic and Equitable International Order (also known as Special Rapporteur), appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council
Jose Battle, Cuban-born refugee whom was a police officer during the Batista regime. He was the founder and head of an organized crime syndicate known as the corporation, also referred to as the "Cuban Mafia". Battle controlled bolita rackets within the Cuban-American community.
↑Gallagher – "All-Starz on David Gallagher". Archived from the original on 2005-02-10. This half Irish, half Cuban actor can dance for six hours straight! "I'm proud to have the Latin hips", he says!
↑Gallo – "Melissa Gallo Fan". Archived from the original on 2009-10-27. (MELISSA GALLO) comes from "a big Cuban family, a lot of whom reside in the New York area"
