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Andrés Castro was the owner Teatro Las Máscaras in Havana. Castro, born July 27, 1917, in Havana, Cuba, was from an affluent family that was in the furniture business. He and Antonia Rey married in 1958. Reportedly they tied the knot during the intermission of a show they were rehearsing at the time. He and his wife moved to New York in 1961, where Castro also stayed in the theater world. He earned his B.F.A from the Senior Dramatic Workshop of the New School for Social Research. He founded the Westside Repertory Theater 81st Street in Manhattan, where he was the director and an educator for 25 years. He was also the director of the Senior Dramatic Workshop at Carnegie Hall. He passed away on September 2, 2000.

Adria Catalá Casey was a Cuban dancer, known as the "Cuban Shirley Temple." She performed as a dancer in Grupo Folklórico. Grupo Folklórico was established by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Cuba in 1951 with the mandate to represent Cuba in official international events, including festivals. In April of 1954, the group represented Cuba in the National Folk Festival founded by the National Association of the Folkloric Festivals of the United States and the newspaper St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

Carlos Catasús Bertot was a 20th century Cuban literary figure. He was part of the editing and managing team for the short-lived Cuban magazine, Acento (Bayamo, Oriente,1947-1948).

Sarah María Catasús was a 20th century Cuban literary figure, who also went by the pseudonym "Nubia."

Hal M. Caudle, a native of North Carolina joined the U.S. Coast Guard at seventeen and was stationed at Port Everglades in Florida. He was on board U.S. Guard Patrol 249 that intercepted James Horace Alderman's rum smuggling activities on August 7, 1927.

These incidents resulted in the trial and first hanging in Broward County. Mr. Caudle narrates these events in "The Hanging at Bahia Mar" published in 1976.