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Abreu, a leader in the underground and guerrilla movements in Cuba in the early 1960s, was instrumental in setting up training camps for anti-Castro exile’s forces in Central America. Prominent in Cuban exiles organizations in Miami, at 75 infiltrated Cuba trying to stir up resistance against Castro’s dictatorship, captured, imprisoned and later released.
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whose mother, Lourdes Aguila, founded the Miami-based charity Liga Contra el Cancer.
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Nicaraguan-born publisher, director and editorialist of Diario las Americas, one of Miami’s Spanish-language newspapers.
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An academic and expert on Cuban literature who has written books on the works of José Martí and Enrique José Varona.
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Aleida Leal, a Cuban-American journalist and radio personality who is well-known on Spanish language radio in South Florida. She started her career as a voice actress in Cuba doing commercials. In Miami, she was the host of several popular radio programs, worked on television, and voiced radio dramas. One of her best-known programs was Cita con las estrellas on WQBA Radio Miami, a celebrity talk show.
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Alonso, a Miami nun who directed Havana's Colegio La Inmaculada school for girls before the Cuban Revolution and later founded Las Hermanas de la Caridad (Sisters of Charity), an organization that distributes food and medical supplies to communities in need in Cuba and Latin America.
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Álvarez Guedes is one of the best-known Cuban humorist in the Spanish-speaking world. A radio, TV, theater, and movie actor since the 1940s, with over 20 bestselling recordings of stand-up comedy, Alvarez Guedes is a successful entertainment entrepreneur in multiple fields.
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Angelita Castany, a Cuban vedette, singer, actress, and entertainer who relocated to Mexico following the Cuban Revolution. She is most famous for singing and performing pieces by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona.
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Presbyterian pastor and educator who founded La Progresiva Presbyterian School in Miami in 1971.
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Cuban-American writer and academic who has published numerous books, both fiction and nonfiction. She is the associate director of the Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University.
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Former Vice Chairman Barnett Bank of South Florida, N.A. and civic leader recognized for his leadership in the scouting movement
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radio journalist who worked for a number of Miami’s Spanish-language radio stations in the early years of exile
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Founder of Publicidad Arregui and Arregui International Advertising.
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Chris and Dennis Baker, the sons of James Baker, former headmaster of Ruston Academy in Havana, Cuba.
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One of the members of the 2506 Brigade and founder of Hermanos al Rescate (Brothers to the Rescue).
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Leader of the Cuban Jewish community who played a pivotal role in the “diálogo” with the Castro government in the late 1970s during Jimmy Carter's presidency
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Cuban poet and last surviving “recitadora” of the 1940s and 1950s, who attained fame in 1959, at the triumph of the Revolution, for her rendering of the Marcha triunfal del Ejército Rebelde, only to became a Cuban exiled soon after.
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Havana-born, Sephardic Jewish activist who joined a group of Cuban Jews to fight for Israel's independence. Upon returning to Cuba, he left as an exile in 1961, living in Israel and New York before settling in Miami and opening the clothing store, Bichachi Originals. Bichachi was a founder of Temple Moses and served as president of the Cuban-Sephardic Hebrew Congregation.
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Former Cuban political prisoner and one of the founders of the Cuban Committee for Human Rights