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Julio Rodríguez-Luis (b. 1937) is a Cuban writer and literature scholar. In exile in the United States, Rodríguez-Luis was a professor of Spanish literature at several universities, including State University of New York Binghamton and the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, specializing in Caribbean literature and translations of Spanish texts.

Alexis Rodriguez-Duarte is a Cuban photographer born in Havana in 1962. Exiled with his parents during the Freedom Flights of 1968, Rodriguez-Duarte was raised in Miami and has lived in New York since 1992. His interest in photography was sparked at the age of 10 when his grandfather gave him his first camera, a Voightlander.

Rodriguez-Duarte has been an adjunct professor at New York's International Center for Photography. With his work featured in Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, L'Uomo Vogueand The New Yorker, among others, Rodriguez-Duarte has also displayed his photographs in solo and group exhibitions in Miami, London, Los Angeles and New York. His sitters have included such Cuban personalities as Andy Garcia, Gloria Estefan, Narciso Rodriguez and Celia Cruz. In his work he has collaborated extensively with his partner, Tico Torres.

Sergio Rodríguez was a former Vice President of the University of Miami and a businessman involved in real estate.

Emilio Gaspar Rodríguez was a Cuban writer, journalist, and public official.

Rodríguez was born in Matanzas, Cuba, on July 4, 1889. During his childhood and part of his youth, he lived in Spain, France, and the United States. In 1907 he was appointed to Cuba’s Department of State and in 1918 to its consular corps. He served as Cuba’s ambassador in Calcutta, British Indies; Saint John, N.B. (Canada); Amsterdam; and lastly in Rotterdam.

Rodríguez was the author of several books including La crisis cubana: sus orígenes, sus factores contemporaneos; Hércules en Yolcos; Plática novísima; and El retablo de Maese Pedro. He also wrote articles and other works which were published in magazines, newspapers, and critical reviews, and offered various lectures and conferences. Rodríguez was the recipient of several awards such as recognitions from the Emigrados Revolucionarios Cubanos and the Academia Nacional de Artes y Letras.

E. G. Rodríguez was a prominent member of organizations in Cuba and abroad such as Academia Nacional de Artes y Letras de Cuba, Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid), Instituto Cristóforo Colombo (Rome), Ateneo de la Habana, and Club Cubano de Bellas Artes, among others. He died on May 31, 1939.