ARMANDO HART DÁVALOS
(1930 - )
This inhabitant of Havana is the director of the Office of the Jose Marti Program at the Council of State. He has been assigned several political duties since the triumph of the Revolution in Cuba. He...
EDUARDO R. CHIBÁS RIBAS
(1907 - 1951)
Outstanding political personality who became major figure of the Cuban People Party, having the slogan ‘’ Vergüenza contra dinero’’ (‘’Dignity against Money’’). He committed suicide due to the terribl...
ERNESTO GUEVARA DE LA SERNA
(1928 - 1968)
A man of all times, he is considered the supreme paradigm of the impeccable revolutionary. He was born in Rosario, Argentina. He joined the libertarian movement in 1955. He was an expeditionary of the...
FIDEL ALEJANDRO CASTRO RUZ
(1926 - )
He is the maximum leader of the Cuban Revolution, which achieved the victory on January 1st, 1959. He was born in Birán, today’s Holguin province. His life has been devoted to struggle against social ...
FRANK ISAAC PAÍS GARCÍA
(1934 - 1951)
Prominent revolutionary originally from Santiago de Cuba, where he was object of a huge public demonstration of duel after being assassinated at the Callejón del Muro together with some other companio...
JOSÉ ANTONIO SACO Y LÓPEZ
(1797 - 1879)
Cuban thinker, professor, and politician. He is the creator of one of the first expositions about slavery in Cuba. He was born in Bayamo, eastern Cuba.
JOSÉ MARTÍ PÉREZ
(1853 - 1895)
The Cuban National Hero, he constitutes the highest expression of dignity and commitment in achieving the independence of his country. His whole life has become a permanent example. His literary legac...
JUAN ALMEIDA BOSQUE
(1927 - )
Santiago de Cuba witnessed his birth. He is one of the major historical Commanders of the Revolution in Cuba. As assaulter to Cuartel Moncada, he was condemned to ten years in prison for such audaciou...
JUAN MARINELLO VIDAURRETA
(1898 - 1977)
He was born at the Villa Clara’s village known as Jicotea. This further gem of Cuban culture reached the Doctorates in Civil and Public Law. Being very young, he became a revolutionary fighter against...
JULIO ANTONIO MELLA
(1903 - 1929)
Outstanding revolutionary born in Camagüey, he was an extraordinary university student and president of the First National Student Congress. That same year he founded the José Martí Popular University...
MELBA HERNÁNDEZ RODRÍGUEZ DEL REY
(1921 - )
Heroine of the 1953 Moncada Garrison Attack in Santiago de Cuba. Diplomat and journalist, among many other duties, in her long revolutionary endeavor she has taken important responsibilities such as t...
RUBÉN MARTÍNEZ VILLENA
(1899 - 1934)
He had a brief but intense life, leaving a wide working tread in his homeland. He was born in Alquizar and since he was very young underscored for his dazzling abilities as poet, developing these ski...
