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Alberto González was born in Guanabacoa, Cuba in September 17, 1928. In Cuba, he studied at the Colegio de Belén and started his career at the Cuba Radio Station CMQ. In 1949 he wrote his first comic sketch, “Madera de Comerciante,” for the radio show Teatro Del Pueblo(The People's Theater) when he was 21 years old. Since then, he was well known as a humorist. When González moved to Colombia, he worked for Radio Caracol and his script "El café de Montecristo",became one of the most popular shows in Colombia. Along with his wife, Consuelo Luque, he started Raditel, a television agency. He continued his career as a humorist on television and various entertainment outlets during seventeen years in Puerto Rico from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s. In the 1980s he moved to Miami, Florida, where he began producing political satire theatrical performances. González opened the short-lived Spanish daily newspaper El Mundoand continued over the years to establish various short-lived weekly newspapers without commercial success. In 1989 González created another hit political satire radio show named La Mogolla (The Mess), but it was controversial and suffered from frequent censures.

During his last years, González worked as a writer for Radio Martí, where his last controversial political satire show La República de la Cigüatera, as well as other comical sketches, were broadcast for the first time in 50 years. He died in Miami, Florida on September 23, 2012.

Ernesto González is a a Cuban-born writer of alternative fiction, poetry, essays and short stories, active since the last quarter of the 20th century.

Guillermo González was born in Cuba in 1932. In 1950, he graduated from the De La Salle School in Vedado, Havana. González left Cuba in 1961 and began working as a draftsman at HJ Ross Associates where he stayed for twenty years. During his time with HJ Ross Associates, he earned degrees in mechanical engineering from Florida International University and the University of Wisconsin. After his time with HJ Ross Associates, González went on to work for sixteen years as the head of the mechanical engineering department at Spillis-Candela Architects. He later worked with McDowell Engineers and TLC Consulting Engineers for fourteen years. In May 2011, on the fiftieth anniversary of his career, González retired from engineering. In addition to his contributions to the field of engineering, he was an active community member. González was active in the Coral Gables Historic Preservation Board and the emerging Cuban Museum. He frequently presented his locally renowned slide collection at local bookstore Books and Books. Besides his dedication to the local community of Coral Gables, González was an avid world traveler. Guillermo González passed away in Miami on June 23, 2013 at the age of 81.

Ofelia González (b.1920) was a Cuban theater actress and the first actress to win an OBIE Award without having performed in English. In her native Cuba, she appeared often in performances at Havana's Palacio de Bellas Artes. She enrolled in an acting academy in the 1950’s and went on to be the recipient of six “best actress” awards. After leaving Cuba in 1971 due to the political situation, González arrived in Miami, and settled in North Bergen, New Jersey with one of her daughters and two grandchildren. In 1972, she became a founding member and prominent addition to the New York based company, Repertorio Español founded in 1968 by producer Gilberto Zaldivar and Artistic Director René Buch, after she was seen cast in Bernarda Alba and El Pagador de Promesas by Max Ferra, artistic director of INTAR Hispanic American Arts Center. She stayed with Repertorio Español for the entirety of her decades-long career. Since all of the productions are performed in original Spanish language geared towards Hispanic audiences, González never learned English, although she expressed desire to, she noted that developing her art was always her primary focus.

She was one of the strongest actresses in Repertorio Español, with Zaldivar calling her the backbone of the company. In fact, at 73 years old in 1993, she played four roles of a grandmother or grandmother-like character in the same season, first for an adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Innocent Erendira, as Doña Geno in Dolores Prida's comedy Botánica, the cigar-smoking grandmother in Gloria González's lighthearted Cafe con Leche and the title character in Garcia Lorca's House of Bernarda Alba. In a 1989 New York Times review of the Repertorio’s ''La Casa de Bernarda Alba,” it says that “Ofelia Gonzalez, as Bernarda Alba, plays to the ridicule of her sharp-toothed servants. She makes you believe absolutely that her character is absurd, terrifying, irresistible and pitiable all at once.” A review of Repertorio Español’s production of Federico García Lorca's tragedy ''Blood Wedding'' (''Bodas de Sangre'') where González played the role of “Mother,” notes that her voice had the timbre of a cello. The artistic director of Repertorio Español, Rene Buch, stated that "[Ofelia] is the most instinctive actress I have ever encountered." In a 1984 interview, González herself admits that her technique was always to work from ''intuition, not method.''

Her major roles on theater were her portrayals of Bernarda in The House of Bernarda Alba in New York, Nurse in Romeo and Juliet in New York, Serafina in The Rose Tattoo in Havana, the title role in Medea in New York, Amanda in The Glass Menagerie in New York, the title role in Celestina in New York, Clara in The Visit in New York and Mother in The Guns of Mother Carrar in Havana. She has also acted in film and TV.