List of Cuban Americans

Annia Hatch, originally Annia Portuondo; Cuban-American gymnast, 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

Evelio Hernández, starting pitcher for the Washington Senators

James "Chico" Hernandez, of Wheaties fame; US Sombo Wrestling Champion; World Cup silver; three-time British silver medalist

Liván Hernández, starting pitcher for the New York Mets

Orlando Hernández, half-brother of Liván, starting pitcher for New York Mets

Eric Hosmer, first baseman for Kansas City Royals

Raúl Ibáñez, left fielder for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

José Iglesias, current MLB shortstop for the Detroit Tigers

Jon Jay, outfielder for the Chicago Cubs

Danell Leyva, Olympic gymnast

Ryan Lochte, gold medal Olympic swimmer

Doug Logan, Chief Executive Officer of USA Track & Field, the national governing body for track and field, long distance running, and race walking

Neil Lomax, former quarterback for the St. Louis Cardinals

Hector Lombard, mixed martial artist; Judo competitor at 2000 Sydney Olympics

Brook Lopez, current NBA player for the Brooklyn Nets; Cuban father

Mickey Lopez, former second baseman

Robin Lopez, current NBA player for the New Orleans Pelicans; Cuban father

Frank Martin, current head men's basketball coach at South Carolina

J. D. Martinez, current MLB player

Jorge Masvidal, mixed martial artist

Christina McHale, professional women's tennis player

Minnie Miñoso, former MLB All-Star outfielder

Frank Mir, mixed martial artist and former UFC Heavyweight Champion

Al Montoya, current goalkeeper for the Winnipeg Jets of the NHL

Pablo Morales, Olympic swimmer

Kendrys Morales, current first baseman for the Los Angeles Angels

Alex Ochoa, former MLB outfielder and current first base coach in the Boston Red Sox organization

Sergio Oliva, former 3-time Mr. Olympia; only bodybuilder to have ever beaten Arnold Schwarzenegger in a Mr. Olympia competition

Tony Oliva, former MLB All-Star outfielder

Rey Ordóñez, former shortstop, New York Mets

Henry Owens, former relief pitcher for the Florida Marlins

Orlando Palmeiro, former MLB outfielder and pinch-hitter

Rafael Palmeiro, former MLB All-Star first baseman and member of the 3,000 Hit and 500 Home Run clubs

Camilo Pascual, former MIB pitcher

Brayan Peña, current MLB catcher

Eduardo Pérez, former MLB first baseman and current bench coach of the Houston Astros

Tony Pérez, former MLB All-Star infielder

Jorge Posada, catcher for the New York Yankees; Cuban father

Yasiel Puig, professional baseball outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers of Major League Baseball

Alexei Ramírez, current shortstop for the Chicago White Sox

Nap Reyes, former MLB infielder

Guillermo Rigondeaux, Cuban professional boxer

Jennifer Miel is the Executive Director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s U.S.-Turkey Business Council. She also serves as the U.S.-Bahrain Business Council Executive Director and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Turkey and Middle East Affairs Director.

Amy Rodriguez, frontline for U.S. women's national soccer team

Jennifer Rodriguez, Olympic medal-winning speed skater

Sean Rodriguez, second baseman for the Tampa Bay Rays

Cookie Rojas, former MLB infielder

Yoel Romero, mixed martial artist

Cody Runnels, former WWE wrestler known by his ring names Cody Rhodes and Stardust; Cuban maternal grandfather

Alberto Salazar, runner and marathon winner

Alex Sánchez, former outfielder

David Segui, former first baseman

Odlanier Solís, Cuban professional boxer

Danny Tartabull, former MLB All-Star outfielder

Tony Taylor, former MLB infielder

Luis Tiant, former MLB All-Star pitcher

Dara Torres, Olympic gold-medalist (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000, 2008)

Danny Valencia, current third baseman for the Kansas City Royals

Business

Alex Aguila, co-founder of Alienware

Raúl Alarcón, president and CEO of the Spanish Broadcasting System

Alfredo Alonso, SVP of Clear Channel Radio

Ralph Alvarez, former president and COO of McDonald's

Bacardi family, owners of Bacardi Rums, Grey Goose, Martini & Rossi and Dewar's

Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon.com, owner of The Washington Post

Paul L. Cejas, CEO of PLC Investments, Inc.

Ralph de la Vega, Former President and CEO of AT&T Mobility

Enrique C. Falla, Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of The Dow Chemical Company

Alfonso Fanjul, sugar baron

Jose Fanjul, sugar baron

Raul J. Fernandez, co-owner of the NBA Washington Wizards, NHL Washington Capitals and WNBA Washington Mystics

Jorge Figueredo, Senior Vice President of Dow Jones

Robert C. Goizueta, former CEO of the Coca-Cola Company

Nelson Gonzalez, co-founder of Alienware

Efraim Grinberg, CEO of Movado watches

Gedalio Grinberg, founder and former CEO of Movado watches

Carlos Gutierrez, former CEO of Kellogg Company

Bobby Maduro, baseball entrepreneur; owner of Havana Sugar Kings

Jorge Mas Canosa, CEO of MasTech, political activist, former head of Cuban-American National Foundation

Alex Meruelo, CEO of the Muruelo Group

Alvaro de Molina, Chief Financial Officer of Bank of America Corporation

Antonio Luis Navarro, former vice president of W. R. Grace and Company

Jorge M. Perez, real estate developer, CEO of the Related Group

Joe Quesada, CCO of Marvel Entertainment; former editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics

George Reyes, Chief Financial Officer of Google

Marcos A. Rodriguez, entrepreneur, broadcaster, movie producer

Felix Sabates, entrepreneur, philanthropist, holds ownership in NASCAR, Charlotte Bobcats

Joe Fernandez Entrepreneur, founder of Klout

Education

Dr. Ruth Behar, anthropologist, poet, and filmmaker, first Latina recipient of a MacArthur award, University of Michigan

Dr. George J. Borjas, Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy, Harvard University

Dr. Ana Mari Cauce, President of the University of Washington, Seattle

Dr. Miguel A. De La Torre, prolific author on Hispanic religiosity, Iliff School of Theology

Dr. Jorge I. Dominguez, Antonio Madero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics, Chairman of the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Harvard University

Dr. Roberto González Echevarría, Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature, Yale University

Dr. 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

Dr. Jorge J. E. Gracia, Samuel P. Capen Chair in Philosophy, University at Buffalo

Dr. Robert Lima, Knight Commander, Order of Queen Isabel of Spain; academician ANLE; Corr. Member RAE; Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Fellow, IAH (Penn State University)

Dr. Modesto A. Maidique, former President of Florida International University

Dr. Elsa A. Murano, President of Texas A&M University

Dr. Eduardo J. Padrón, President of Miami Dade College, immediate past chair of the board of directors of the American Council on Education (ACE)

Dr. Alejandro Portes, Professor of Sociology, Director of the Center for Migration and Development, Princeton University

Dr. 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

Dr. Carmen Reinhart, Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System, Harvard Kennedy School

Dr. Teofilo Ruiz, Distinguished Professor of History, UCLA and recipient of the National Humanities Medal at the White House

Dr. Rubén G. Rumbaut, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine

Dr. Ernest Sosa, Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University

Armando Vilaseca, commissioner of the Vermont Department of Education

Actors

Laz Alonso, actor

Odette Annable, actress (Cloverfield); Cuban mother

Desi Arnaz, actor (I Love Lucy)

Desi Arnaz Jr., actor

Lucie Arnaz, actress

Nelson Ascencio, comedian (MADtv)

Omar Avila, actor

Ariana Barouk, TV host, actress, model, and singer; represented Cuba in the seventh edition of the environmentally oriented Miss Earth, international beauty pageant

Maria Canals-Barrera, voice actress

Steven Bauer, actor (Scarface, ¿Qué Pasa, USA?, credited as Rocky Echevarría)

Jason Canela, actor; brother of Jencarlos Canela

Jencarlos Canela, actor (Mas sabe el diablo)

Bobby Cannavale, actor (Third Watch, Will & Grace), Cuban mother

Irene Cara, actress (Flashdance)

Nestor Carbonell, actor (Suddenly Susan, Lost, The Dark Knight, The Lost City)

Matt Cedeño, actor and model

Eddie Cibrian, actor (Vanished, Invasion)

Damien Crosse, actor

Valerie Cruz, actress (Nip/Tuck, The Dresden Files)

Sammy Davis, Jr., actor, singer, dancer; mother was of mostly Cuban descent, though often reported as Puerto Rican

Rosario Dawson, American actress (Rent, Kids), mother of Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban descent

Kamar de los Reyes, soap opera actor (One Life to Live)

Cameron Diaz, actress (father was of Cuban descent)

Guillermo Díaz, actor (films Half Baked, Party Girl)

Joey Diaz, actor and comedian

Emiliano Díez, actor (the George Lopez TV series)

Majandra Delfino, actress (Roswell)

Marieh Delfino, actress

Raúl Esparza, actor

Mel Ferrer, actor

Daisy Fuentes, model and television personality (MTV's House of Style)

David Fumero, soap opera actor (One Life to Live)

Gene Gabriel, actor (Numb3rs, Law & Order: Criminal Intent)

David Gallagher, actor, 7th Heaven, Cuban mother

Mo Gallini, actor (2 Fast 2 Furious)

Melissa Gallo, television actress, One Life to Live

Robert Gant, actor (Queer as Folk)

Andy García, Academy Award-nominated actor (The Godfather Part III, Ocean's Eleven, Oceans Twelve, The Lost City)

Joanna García, film and television actress (Reba)

Jorge Garcia, actor (Lost)

Jsu Garcia, actor

Nona Gaye, singer and actress (Ali)

Carlos Gómez, actor

Marga Gomez, comedian/playwright

Adam Irigoyen, actor (Shake It Up)

Oscar Isaac, actor, (Inside Llewyn Davis, Star Wars: The Force Awakens)

Blake Jenner, American actor and singer. His mother is Cuban.

David Lago, actor

Paul Le Mat, American actor of partially Cuban descent

William Levy, actor

Josie Loren, actress

Faizon Love, actor, born Langston Faizon Santisima

Natalie Martinez, actress (Sons of Tucson)

Ana Margarita Martínez-Casado, actress (El Super, ¿Qué Pasa, USA?)

Eva Mendes, actress (Hitch, 2 Fast 2 Furious)

Olga Merediz, actress and singer

Christina Milian, singer and actress (Be Cool)

Louisa Moritz, Cuban-American actress, real estate holder and former lawyer

Enrique Murciano, actor (Without a Trace)

Giovanni Niubo, Cuban-American actor

Oscar Nuñez, actor (The Office)

Luis Oquendo, actor (film, Guaguasi, ¿Qué Pasa, USA?)

Elizabeth Peña, actress (Rush Hour)

Danny Pino, actor (Cold Case)

Tony Plana, actor (Ugly Betty)

Carlos Ponce, actor and singer; born in Puerto Rico to Cuban immigrants

Armando Riesco, actor (film Garden State)

Adam Rodríguez, actor (CSI: Miami), of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent

Génesis Rodríguez, actress (Dona Barbara, Dame Chocolate and Prisionera)

Cesar Romero, actor (The Joker on Batman (1960s TV series), Ocean's Eleven, Week-End in Havana)

Mercedes Ruehl, Academy Award-winning (The Fisher King) and Tony Award-winning actress, mother is of part Cuban descent

Caitlin Sanchez, actress (Dora The Explorer)

Marco Sanchez, actor

Saundra Santiago, actress (Miami Vice, The Sopranos)

Tessie Santiago, actress (Queen of Swords), (Good Morning, Miami)

Bianca A. Santos, actress (The Fosters)

Cristina Saralegui, famous Hispanic talk show host

Jamie-Lynn Sigler, actress (The Sopranos), mother is of Cuban descent

Georg Stanford Brown, actor (Roots)

Bella Thorne, actress Shake It Up; father was of Cuban descent

Oscar Torre, actor and director (Hangover III, Cane, Ladrón que roba a ladrón)

Gina Torres, actress (The Matrix sequels, Firefly and Serenity)

Tammy Trull, American actress of Venezuelan and Cuban descent

Yul Vazquez, Cuban-born American actor and musician

Bob Vila, This Old House host

Jordi Vilasuso, actor (Guiding Light)

Cartoonists

Antonio Prohías, creator of Mad Magazine's Spy vs Spy series

Directors, screenwriters and producers

Ozzie Alfonso, TV director, writer, producer; directed Sesame Street in the 1970s; was senior producer, writer, ad director of 3-2-1 Contact in the 1980s; free-lanced for many clients; adjunct college professor at St. John's University

Migdia Chinea, Film director, writer, producer; (When it rains...), (The Incredible Hulk).

Manny Coto, executive producer (24), writer (24, Star Trek: Enterprise)

René Echevarria, writer (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Medium), co-creator of The 4400

Andy García, director (Lost City)

Silvio Horta, creator and writer (Ugly Betty), writer (Urban Legends, Jake 2.0)

Leon Ichaso, director/screenwriter (El Super), director (Ali: An American Hero, Crossover Dreams, Piñero, El Cantante)

Joe Menendez, TV and film director (Ladrón que roba a ladrón), director (A Golden Christmas 2: The Second Tail, Hunting of Man), co-executive producer of (Imagination Movers)

Roberto Orci, executive producer (Star Trek, The Proposal) and writer (Transformers, Eagle Eye, Star Trek)

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 and a Lithuanian American mother

Amy Serrano, director, cimematographer, and writer (The Sugar Babies), producer of documentary films, poet

Fashion

Lazaro Hernandez, fashion designer; born in Miami

Jorge Manuel, bridal fashion

Narciso Rodriguez, fashion designer

Isabel Toledo, former creative director for Anne Klein; designed Michelle Obama's inauguration day dress

Musicians

Camila Cabello, pop singer from X Factor (US), formerly a part of the famous girl group Fifth Harmony

Lauren Jauregui, pop singer from X Factor (US), who is currently a part of the famous girl group Fifth Harmony

Rock

Juan Croucier, rock bassist (Ratt, Dokken, Quiet Riot)

Dave Lombardo, drummer of Slayer

Courtney Love, actress and frontwoman of rock band Hole; great-grandmother was Cuban immigrant

Al Jourgensen, frontman of Ministry; born in La Habana, Cuba, to Cuban and Norwegian parents

Rudy Sarzo, rock bassist (Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne, Whitesnake, Manic Eden, Dio)

Al Jourgensen, frontman of Ministry; born in La Habana, Cuba, to Cuban and Norwegian parents

Tico Torres, drummer of Bon Jovi, singer

Paul Masvidal, guitarist for metal band Cynic; born in Puerto Rico to Cuban parents

Johnny Goudie, rock musician

Frank Ferrer, American rock drummer and session musician

Nil Lara, rock musician

Latin American popular music

Gloria Estefan, 7-time Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated singer

Emilio Estefan, 19-time Grammy-winning producer

Camila Cabello, former member of the girl group Fifth Harmony

Lauren Jauregui, member of the girl group Fifth Harmony

Franky Gee, member of German eurodance group Captain Jack; born in Cuba, of African American descent

Singers

Roger Miret, singer for Agnostic Front

Jorge Moreno, Grammy award-winning singer, writer and TV producer

JD Natasha, Latin pop musician

Albita, Grammy-winning singer

Elizabeth Caballero, lyric soprano

Willy Chirino, singer

Olga Guillot, singer

Addys D'Mercedes, singer

Celia Cruz, multiple Grammy-winning singer

Nayer, American singer of Cuban parents

Syesha Mercado, singer

A. J. McLean, member of the Backstreet Boys; of Cuban and German ancestry on his mother's side

Martika, Grammy-nominated singer/actress (film Annie; television series Kids Incorporated)

Lissette, singer, actress; wife of Willy Chirino; daughter of Olga y Tony

Rey Ruiz, singer

Ponciano Seoane, pop singer and contestant from NBC's The Voice season 11

Mayra Verónica, singer, model, television personality

Jon Secada, two-time Grammy-winning singer

Carly Simon, singer-songwriter, musician, and children's author; mother, Andrea Louise Simon, was of German, French, and Afro-Cuban descent

The DeCastro Sisters, singing group

Lola Falana, singer, actress and dancer

Ana Cristina, singer, songwriter, actress, Miss South Florida USA 2011

Angela Bofill, American R&B and jazz singer and songwriter of Cuban and Puerto Rican descent

Irene Cara, Oscar and Grammy-winning singer (Flashdance), actress (Fame); born in the Bronx, New York; mother was an American of Cuban descent

Rap & hip-hop

Pitbull, Cuban American; born in Miami, Florida

P-Star, rapper, actress Born: Priscilla Star Diaz

Ángel, Cuban American rapper

Sen Dog, Cuban rapper, member of Cypress Hill

B Real, member of rap group Cypress Hill; born Louis Freese; father is Mexican, mother is Cuban

Don Dinero, rapper, born Jose Manuel Guitian

Olivia, born Olivia Longott; rapper; Cuban and Jamaican

Mellow Man Ace, "godfather of Latin hip hop"; born Ulpiano Sergio Reyes; Afro-Cuban

Producers

Desmond Child, American musician, songwriter, and producer; mother is Cuban songwriter Elena Casals

Scott Herren, music producer; father is Catalan and mother is of Irish and Cuban descent

Rudy Pérez, Cuban composer and music producer

Tonedeff, American rapper, producer, and singer-songwriter; Cuban mother and Colombian father

Ray Martinez, American musician, music producer, songwriter, artist, Disco music icon; Cuban American - Cuban mother and Puerto Rican father

Percussionists

Francisco Aguabella, Afro-Cuban master percussionist

Chano Pozo, Afro-Cuban, Latin Jazz percussionist, conga player

Horacio Hernandez ("El Negro"), Grammy-winning drummer and percussionist

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

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

Lucy Simon, American composer for the theatre and popular songs; known for the musical The Secret Garden; sister of Carly and Joanna Simon

Classical

Joanna Simon, mezzo-soprano; sister of Carly Simon

Manuel Barrueco, classical guitarist

Andrés Cárdenes, violinist

René Touzet, composer, pianist

Zenaida Manfugas, concert pianist

Horacio Gutiérrez, prize-winning classical concert pianist

Jorge Bolet, classical concert pianist specializing in Liszt

José Curbelo (1917–2012), Cuban-born American pianist and manager

Jazz

Fats Navarro (1923–1950), American jazz trumpet player; a pioneer of the bebop style of jazz improvisation in the 1940s; of Cuban-Black-Chinese descent

Arturo Sandoval, jazz trumpeter and pianist; composer

Mongo Santamaría, Latin jazz musician Grammy winner

Paquito D'Rivera, Grammy-winning saxophonist

Mario Bauza, trumpeter, saxophonist, composer, arranger, bandleader and Afro-Cuban Jazz pioneer

Folk, country and other music

Nini Camps, Cuban-American folk rock singer-songwriter

La Lupe, singer and gay icon

Raúl Malo, lead singer of American country music band The Mavericks

Ras Juan Perez, international Cuban reggae star, member and founder of the reggae group Arawak Jah in Orlando, Florida

Voltaire, dark cabaret musician; born Aurelio Voltaire Hernández

Reality television contestants

Rachel Campos, featured on The Real World: San Francisco

Jose "Pepi" Diaz, contestant on season 5 of The Apprentice

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

Ashley Massaro, Survivor: China contestant, WWE wrestler, Playboy model

Syesha Mercado, American Idol contestant

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

Janu Tornell, Vegas showgirl and reality show contestant (Survivor)

Pedro Zamora, AIDS activist, featured on The Real World: San Francisco

Writers

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

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

Jorge Enrique González Pacheco [2], poet, cultural entrepreneur, founder of the Seattle Latino Film Festival, a 501(c)(3) non profit organization

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)

Anaïs Nin, author

Achy Obejas, novelist

Ricardo Pau-Llosa, poet, art critic

Carlos Pintado, author, playwright and award-winning poet of Sant Jordi International Prize for Poetry

Jorge Reyes, memoirist, short-story writer, poet, children's books

Antonio Sacre, children's books, playwright

Cecilia Samartin, novelist, (books Broken Paradise, Tarnished Beauty, Vigil)

Virgil Suárez, novelist

Piri Thomas, author (memoir Down These Mean Streets)

Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, writer (The Dirty Girls Social Club)

Armando Valladares, writer (Against All Hope: A Memoir of Life in Castro's Gulag)

Journalists

Jim Acosta, CNN's Senior White House Correspondent

Jessica Aguirre, anchor for KNTV NBC Bay Area News, San Francisco, California

Manny Alvarez, medical correspondent for Fox News Channel

Cathy Areu, founder of Catalina magazine

Liz Balmaseda, columnist, Miami Herald

Bárbara Bermudo, anchor, Primer Impacto

Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, business news general assignment reporter for CNBC television

Myrka Dellanos, former anchor, Primer Impacto

GiGi Diaz, sports reporter, Pompano Park, and journalist in Miami

José Díaz-Balart, anchor and reporter

Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, National Public Radio

Max Gomez, medical correspondent for WCBS-TV in New York City

Pedro Gomez, ESPN reporter and Barry Bonds' bete-noire

Eva Golinger, journalist and presenter

Ambrose E. Gonzales, co-founder of The State newspaper in South Carolina and author of several books in Gullah language

Narciso Gener Gonzales, co-founder of The State newspaper in South Carolina

Perez Hilton, celebrity blogger and television personality

Dan Le Batard, sportswriter for The Miami Herald

Tom Llamas, correspondent for ABC News

Antonio Mora, host on Al Jazeera America

Belkys Nerey, anchor WSVN, Fox in Miami

Jackie Nespral, anchor WTVJ, NBC in Miami

Soledad O'Brien, Al Jazeera America correspondent, independent producer

Mirta Ojito, Pulitzer Prize winner

Rafael Pineda, veteran TV personality, former anchor WXTV in New York City

Ellie Rodriguez, anchor WSVN in Miami

Maggie Rodriguez, co-anchor of CBS's The Early Show

Mari Rodriguez Ichaso, filmmaker, columnist, journalist, Vanidades, Harper's Bazaar en Espanol, Travel & Leisure en Espanol

Rick Sanchez, anchor

United States ambassadors

Eduardo Aguirre, former United States Ambassador to Spain and Andorra

Everett Ellis Briggs, United States Ambassador to Panama

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

Mauricio Solaún, former United States Ambassador to Nicaragua

Cabinet members

Carlos Gutierrez, former United States Secretary of Commerce

Mel Martinez, former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

John H. Sununu, White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush and former governor of New Hampshire

United States House of Representatives

Carlos Curbelo, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Florida's 26th district

James Devereux, former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Maryland's 2nd 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

Joseph Marion Hernández, first Hispanic elected to the United States Congress

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

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

United States Senate

Ted Cruz, United States Senator (R–Texas)

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)

John E. Sununu, former United States Senator (R-New Hampshire), former representative for New Hampshire's 1st district

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

Otto Reich, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs

Mauricio J. Tamargo, 14th Chairman of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission

Local government

Carlos Alvarez, mayor of Miami-Dade County

Joe Carollo, former mayor of Miami

Manny Diaz, mayor of Miami

Rosario Kennedy, former commissioner and vice-mayor of Miami

Raul L. Martinez, former mayor of Hialeah

Carlos Mayans, mayor of Wichita, Kansas

Alex Penelas, former mayor (D–FL), Miami-Dade County, Florida

Tomas Regalado, mayor of Miami

Julio Robaina, former mayor of City of Hialeah

Xavier Suarez, former mayor of Miami

Silverio Vega, mayor of West New York, New Jersey

Bill Vidal, former mayor of Denver, Colorado; born in Camagüey, Cuba

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

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

U.S. Commonwealth government

Roberto Arango, Puerto Rico Senator

Judiciary

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

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

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

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

Éamon de Valera, third president of Ireland

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

Nils J. Diaz, former Chairman of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Isabel Pérez Farfante, carcinologist

Carlos Juan Finlay (1833–1915), Cuban physician and scientist recognized as a pioneer in yellow fever research

Albert Siu, internist and geriatrician at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City

Visual arts

Mercedes de Acosta, socialite, author, best known for her affairs with Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich

Rita de Acosta Lydig, socialite

Jose Ramon Diaz Alejandro, painter

José Bernal, artist

Fernando Bujones, ballet dancer

Manuel Carbonell (1918–2011), the last of the Cuban master sculptors; lived and died in Florida

Jose Manuel Carreño, award-winning ballet dancer, American Ballet Theatre

Humberto Castro, painter

Emilio Cruz (1938–2004), American artist of African and Cuban descent; his work is held in several major museums in the United. States

Alberto Cutié, priest and television host, EWTN, and a daily talk show on Telemundo Network

Alina Fernández, radio personality, daughter and critic of Fidel Castro

Teresita Fernández, artist

Coco Fusco, artist and writer

Agustin Gainza, artist

Joe Garcia, 2008 Democratic congressional candidate

Félix González-Torres, artist

Jose Acosta Hernandez, artist

Dinorah de Jesús Rodriguez, experimental filmmaker

Emilio Hector Rodriguez, contemporary visual artist, abstraction, painter, photographer

Josignacio, abstract artist

Nelson De La Nuez, pop artist, designer

Guerra de la Paz, Cuban born, American artist duo Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz, who work in sculpture, installation and photography

Ana Mendieta, performance artist, feminist

Maria Teresa Mestre, wife of Luxembourg's constitutional monarch Grand Duke Henri; her title is Grand Duchess

Maria Elena Milagro de Hoyos, woman at the center of the Carl Tanzler case

Javier Peres, contemporary art dealer

Henry Pollack, radio host of "Havana Rock"

Charles "Bebe" Rebozo, close friend and confidant of President Richard Nixon; key Watergate scandal figure

Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, artist

Emilio Sánchez, contemporary art painter and lithographer

Consuelo Yznaga, wife of George Montagu, 8th Duke of Manchester

Others

Juanita Castro, sister of former Cuban President Fidel Castro and incumbent President Raúl 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

Emilio Núñez (1855–1922), soldier, dentist, and politician

Manny Puig, Cuban born wildlife entertainer

Enrique Ros (died April 10, 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

References

List of Cuban Americans Wikipedia

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