List of famous Cubans

Art

• Xavier Cortada, painter
• Wifredo Lam, painter

Beauty Queens

Entertainment

• Albita singer
• Alicia Alonso prima ballerina
• Maria Conchita Alonso Cuban born, Venezuelan nationalized actress
• Emilio Aragón "Miliki" clown
• Desi Arnaz actor, Hollywood star, husband of Lucille Ball
• Desi Arnaz Jr. American born actor, half-Cuban
• Lucy Arnaz, actress
• Steven Bauer Hollywood star
• Jorge Bolet, concert pianist
• Celia Cruz singer
• Xavier Cugat musician
• Raul De Molina paparazzo, television gossiper
• Cameron Diaz Hollywood star, half Cuban
• Carmen Electra Hollywood star, half Cuban
• Emilio Estefan producer
• Gloria Estefan singer
• Lily Estefan model, show host, cousin of Emilio Estefan
• Cesar Evora actor
• Daisy Fuentes model, show host
• Mario Ernesto Sanchez actor, founder of Teatro Avante
• Francisco Gattorno Cuban born, Mexican nationalized actor
• Andy Garcia actor
• Odalys Garcia singer and show host
• Alvarez Guedes comedian and author
• Olga Guillot singer
• Horacio Gutierrez, concert pianist
• Henry LaFont comedian, famous in Puerto Rico
• Maria Laria Puerto Rican born talk show host of Cuban parents.
• Ernesto Lecuona, composer and songwriter
• Carlos Leon former husband of Madonna
• Niurka Marcos, Cuban born, Mexican nationalized actress
• Martita coffee maker who got hired to serve coffee at Univision and began appearing regularly on Univision's tv shows, ultimately even writing her own biographical book.
• Manuel Membrillo comedian
• Beny Moré musician
• Ana Maria Polo, United States television judge
• Carlos Ponce Puerto Rican born singer, parents are from Cuba.
• Carlos Manuel Pruneda, singer
• Victor Rivers, actor
• Santiago Rodriguez, concert pianist
• Samy hair stylist and television entrepreneur
• Mongo Santamaria Jazz musician
• Cristina Saralegui magazine editor, talk show host and actress
• Jon Secada singer
• Compay Segundo of the Buena Vista Social Club
• Jamie Lynn Sigler American born actress and singer, half-Cuban
• Sissy model
• Pedro Zamora AIDS activist, was in The Real World
• Mauricio Zeilic television gossiper

Sports

• Bert Campaneris baseball player
• Jose Canseco baseball player
• Joel Casamayor world champion boxer
• Jose Raul Capablanca world champion chess player
• Kid Chocolate world boxing champion
• Martin DiHigo baseball player
• Mary Joe Fernandez tennis player
• Kid Gavilan world boxing champion
• Andres Guilbert, NBA basketball player
• Juan Hernandez amateur boxer
• Livan Hernandez baseball player
• Orlando Hernandez baseball player, Livan's brother
• Alberto Juantorena track and field
• Jose Legra Cuban born, Spaniard nationalized world champion boxer
• Minnie Minoso baseball player
• Jose Mantequilla Napoles Cuban born, Mexican nationalized world champion boxer
• Tony Oliva baseball player and three time batting champion
• Rafael Palmeiro baseball player
• Benny Kid Paret world boxing champion who had tragic end
• Tony Perez baseball player
• Sugar Ramos Cuban born, Mexican nationalized world champion boxer
• Félix Savón amateur boxer
• Javier Sotomayor track and field record setter
• Teofilo Stevenson amateur boxer
• Zoilo Versalles baseball player and first Latino major league MVP 1965

Politics

• Fulgencio Batista
• Fidel Castro
• Raul Castro (brother of Fidel)
• Luis A. Ferré Puerto Rico governor, half Cuban, by father's side
• Paul Lafargue Cuban-born French Communist and son-in-law to Karl Marx.
• José Martí
• Jorge Mas Canosa Founder of Cuban American National Foundation
• Justo González, historian and theologian

Science

• Carlos Juan Finlay yellow fever vaccine

Writers

• Alejo Carpentier
• Delia Fiallo writer of novels, many of which have been turned into Spanish-language soap operas
• Juan Hernandez author, playwright (Cuban, That's All!, a comic series of monologues about the Cuban exile experience)
• José Martí

Other Categories

• Elián González refugee and subject of legal dispute
• Gregorio Fuentes Hemingway's captain and fellow Lost Generation figure, inspiration for The Old Man and the Sea

See also: List of people by nationality