- Lincoln Diaz-Balart
Lincoln Rafael Diaz-Balart (born August 13 1954), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing (map). He was born in Havana, Cuba and is the son of the late Cuban politician Rafael Diaz-Balart and a nephew by marriage of Fidel Castro. He was educated at American School of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, New College of Florida, Cambridge University, and Case Western Reserve University. - Mel Martinez
Melquíades Rafael "Mel" Martínez is a Cuban-American, who is currently the junior United States Senator from Florida and the General Chairman of the Republican Party. Previously, Martinez served as the 12th Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President George W. Bush. Martinez is Catholic. Martinez resigned his cabinet post on December 12, 2003 to run for the open U.S. Senate seat in Florida being vacated by retiring Democratic Senator Bob Graham. - Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (also known as Ileana Ros; born July 15 1952) is a Republican United States Representative for (map), having held that office since 1989. She was born in Havana, Cuba, was educated at Florida International University where she received a BA in Education and an MA in Educational Leadership, and also attended the University of Miami where she received a PhD in Higher Education. - Gloria Estefan
Gloria Estefan is a five-time Grammy Award-winning Cuban American singer and songwriter. Estefan began her career as lead vocalist for the Hispanic dance music band, Miami Sound Machine, in 1975. They crossed over to mainstream popular success with English-speaking audiences with the international hit singles, “Dr. Beat” (1984) and “Conga” (1986). - Mario Diaz-Balart
Mario Rafael Diaz-Balart (born September 25 1961) is an American politician. Since 2003 he has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing (map). The district includes large portions of western Miami-Dade County and most of Collier County. - Celia Cruz
Celia Cruz was a three-time Grammy Award and four-time Latin Grammy winning Afro-Cuban-American salsa singer who spent most of her career living in New Jersey, and working in the United States and several Latin American countries. Cruz was one of the most successful Cuban performers of the 20th century, with twenty-three gold albums to her name and has earned the moniker "La guarachera de Cuba". - Jorge Mas Canosa
Jorge Mas Canosa was a Cuban-American activist best known for his strong opposition to Fidel Castro and his leadership of the Cuban-American National Foundation. He was considered by many to be the leading political voice of the Cuban exile community in Miami, Florida. In a series of interviews with the New York Times, Luis Posada Carriles, … - Eva Mendes
Eva Mendes (born March 5, 1974) is an American actress. She began acting in the late 1990s, and became known after a series of roles in several major Hollywood films, including "2 Fast 2 Furious" and "Hitch". - Otto Reich
The Bush administration's decision to nominate Otto Reich as assistant secretary of state for hemisphere affairs was regarded as one its more serious nomination blunders. Without putting too fine a point on it, Reich is viewed with disdain throughout much of the Americas. - Cameron Diaz
Cameron Diaz was spotted enjoying a romantic New York weekend with her latest fling, actor Bradley Cooper. They dined at Asia de Cuba at Morgans Hotel Saturday night and then hit the "SNL" after-party at Primehouse on Park Avenue South. One onlooker told us the twosome "were very close and lovey. Something is definitely going on, and it's clear they are more than just friends." - Humberto Fontova
Humberto Fontova is a Cuban American historian. He was born in Cuba and migrated to the US (New Orleans) at age 7. He holds an MA in Latin American Studies from Tulane University and is the author of "Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant", a highly critical portrait of Fidel Castro and his supporters in the United States, particularly Hollywood actors. He is a frequent contributor to several rightwing publications, an ardent Bush supporter, and blogs on Moonbat. - Carlos Gutierrez
Carlos Miguel Gutierrez (originally Gutiérrez is the 35th U.S. Secretary of Commerce, succeeding Donald Evans. Gutierrez is a former Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Kellogg Company. Gutierrez was born in Havana, Cuba, the son of a pineapple plantation owner. Faced with the expropriation of their property following the Cuban Revolution, his family fled for the United States in 1960 when he was six years old. - Mariel Boatlift
The Mariel boatlift was a mass movement of Cubans who departed from Cuba's Mariel Harbor to the United States between April 15 and October 31, 1980. The boatlift was precipitated by a sharp downturn in the Cuban economy, leading to simmering internal tensions on the island and a bid by up to 10,000 Cubans to gain asylum in the Peruvian embassy. The Cuban government subsequently announced that anyone who wanted to leave could do so, … - Willy Chirino
Willy Chirino (Born in 1947 in Consolacion del Sur, Pinar del Rio, Cuba is a well-known Cuban-born salsa singer and song-writer. He has released nineteen albums to date. Chirino's album Son del Alma won the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Salsa/Merengue Album. He was first married to Olga Maria Rodriguez and they had three daughters, Angie, Olga Maria and Jessica. He later married the singer Lissette and had three more children, Nicole, Alana, and Gianfranco. - Bob Menendez
Robert "Bob" Menendez (born January 1, 1954) is a Democratic Senator from New Jersey. In January 2006, he was appointed by Jon Corzine to fill the seat made vacant by Corzine's resignation from the Senate to serve as Governor of New Jersey; Menendez subsequently won the seat in the November 7<sup>th</sup> general election later that year. - Desi Arnaz
Desi Arnaz (born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III) (March 2, 1917 - December 2, 1986) was a Cuban musician, actor, comedian and television producer. - Natalie Martinez
Natalie Fiona Annette Isabel Martinez (born August 21, 1984) is a Cuban-American actress and model. She is best known for her role as Michelle Miller on MyNetworkTV telenovela, Fashion House. She is also the spokesmodel for Jennifer Lopez's clothing line. Natalie is Miss American 2001. She is very light too. Her weight is only 41 kgs. - Albio Sires
Albio Sires (born January 26 1951 in Bejucal, Provincia de la Habana, Cuba) is a Cuban American Democratic Party politician and the current Member of the United States House of Representatives from. He was elected on November 7, 2006 to fill the remainder of Bob Menendez's term as Congressman after Menendez was appointed by Governor Jon Corzine to fill his vacant Senate seat, and was sworn in on November 13, 2006. - Christina Milian
Christina Milian (born Christine Flores on September 26, 1981) is an American actress and Grammy Award-nominated R&B and pop singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer and former MTV host. She has released three studio albums and one compilation album. She has also had four solo top five singles (and also a top ten featuring credit single) in the UK as well as hits in the rest of Europe and North America. - La Lupe
"La Lupe", or "La Yiyiyi" was a Latin and Salsa singer. Born in the barrio of San Pedrito, Santiago de Cuba, her father was a worker at the local Bacardi distillery and was a major influence on her life and he strictly encouraged her to become a school teacher. Just like her counterpart, Celia Cruz, she qualified as a schoolteacher before she became a singer. - Oscar Hijuelos
Oscar Hijuelos (born August 24 1951) is an American novelist. He is the first Hispanic to win a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Hijuelos was born in New York City, in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, to Cuban immigrant parents. He studied writing at City College of New York and practiced various professions before taking up writing full time. His first novel, "Our House in the Last World", was published in 1983 and received the 1985 Rome Prize, … - Alex Penelas
Alexander "Alex" Penelas (born December 18, 1961 in Miami, Florida) is the former mayor of Miami-Dade County, Florida. - Nilo Cruz
Nilo Cruz is an Cuban-American playwright, the first Latino to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Born in Matanzas, Cuba in 1960, Cruz immigrated to the "Little Havana" area of Miami in 1970 on a Freedom Flight, and eventually became a US citizen. His interest in theater began with acting and directing in the early 1980s. He studied theater first at Miami-Dade Community College, later moving to New York City, where Cruz studied under fellow Cuban María Irene Fornés. - Vida Guerra
Vida Guerra (born March 19, 1974 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-born American model and occasional actress and singer. Her first notable appearance was in a photo shoot for the U.S. edition of "FHM" magazine, and since then, she has modeled for many other men's magazines, including "Playboy". Born in Havana, Cuba, Guerra moved with her family to the United States soon after, ending up in the town of Perth Amboy, New Jersey. - Jon Secada
Jon Secada (born Juan Secada on October 4, 1961 in Havana, Cuba) is a Grammy Award-winning Cuban-American singer and songwriter. - Joe Carollo
Joe Carollo was first elected mayor of the City of Miami, Florida in 1996 until 1997. Defeated in a run-off by former mayor Xavier Suarez, his campaign filed a successful legal change based on voter fraud, become mayor in 1998 until 2001. Born in Caibarién, Cuba on March 12, 1955, Carollo moved to Miami when he was fifteen years old, having previously lived in Chicago. Carollo was mayor of Miami during the Elián González scandal. - Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Ricardo Pau-Llosa (b. May 17, 1954, Havana, Cuba, has lived in the United States since December 1960). A Cuban-American poet, pioneer art critic of Latin American art in the US and Europe, and author of short fiction. - Luis Gonzalez
Luis Emilio Gonzalez (born September 3, 1967), nicknamed "Gonzo", is an American baseball player who plays left field for the Los Angeles Dodgers. A Cuban-American, Gonzalez spent his best years with the Arizona Diamondbacks and was one of the most popular players in that organization's history. He is a native of Tampa, Florida, but he and his family (which includes wife Christine and triplets Megan, Jacob and Alyssa) are residents of Scottsdale, Arizona. - Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas was born in 1956 in Havana, Cuba, a city that she left six years later when she came to the United States with her parents after the Cuban revolution. She grew up in Michigan City, Indiana, and moved to Chicago in 1979. At the age of thirty-nine, Obejas returned to the island of her birth "for a brief visit and was seduced by a million things"(Shapiro 4). The Cuba of her imagination and experience recur throughout her writings. - Armando Gutierrez
Armando Gutierrez (born November 17, 1949 Cuba) is a political figure in the United States and nationally respected Hispanic leader. Gutierrez was born in Cuba, but political pressures forced him into exile to the United States, where he spent several years in New Jersey and eventually settled in Miami, Florida. After several years in the banking industry, Gutierrez had built a strong name in the Cuban community, which led to his involvement in politics. - Xavier Suarez
Xavier L. Suarez (b 1948 in Cuba) was the first Cuban-born mayor of the City of Miami, Florida. Suarez graduated from Belen Jesuit Preparatory School in 1967, earned a degree in engineering from Villanova University in 1971, and later studied government and law at Harvard University. He later returned to Miami and built his support in the city's Cuban community, and was sworn in as mayor on November 13, 1985, replacing Puerto Rico-born Maurice Ferre in this office. - Rosario Dawson
Rosario Dawson (born May 9, 1979) is an American actress and occasional singer known for her roles in films such as "Sin City", "Rent", "Clerks II", "Alexander", and "Grindhouse". - Silvio Rodríguez
Silvio Rodríguez Domínguez is a Cuban musician, and a leader of the nueva trova movement. He is known for his highly eloquent and symbolic lyrics. Many of his songs have become classics in Latin American music, such as "Ojalá", "Playa Girón", "Unicornio azul" and "La maza". Rodríguez, musically and politically, is a symbol of the Latin American left. - Pedro Knight
Pedro Knight Caraballo (b. September 30 1921 - d. February 3 2007) was an accomplished Cuban-American musician who was better known for being the husband of legendary singer Celia Cruz. Knight was a trumpeter for "Sonora Matancera" when Cruz was hired, as a back-up singer. The couple soon began a relationship that lasted until Cruz's death in 2003 from a malignant cerebral tumor. In 1960, members of the Sonora Matancera moved to Miami, Florida, … - Cristina Saralegui
Cristina Saralegui (born January 29, 1948 in Havana, Cuba) is a journalist, talk show host and actress. Following Fidel Castro's rise to power in Cuba, Saralegui fled with her family to Miami in 1960 at the age of 12. - Félix Rodríguez
Félix Ismael Rodríguez Mendigutia is an anti-Castrist, former CIA intelligence operative famous for his involvement in the Bay of Pigs Invasion, his involvement in the interrogation and execution of Che Guevara, and his ties to George H. W. Bush during the Iran Contra Affair. He is Cuban of Spanish Basque ancestry. - Raul Malo
Raul Malo (born Raul Francisco Martinez-Malo Jr., 7 August 1965, Miami, Florida) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer. He was the lead singer of successful country music band The Mavericks, and has since pursued a solo career which encompasses numerous genres of American and Cuban music. - Daisy Fuentes
Daisy Fuentes (born November 17, 1966 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban model and actress. Daisy Fuentes was born in Cuba, but moved to Madrid, Spain when she was three years old. Four years later, she emigrated to Harrison, New Jersey. Fuentes studied communications and journalism at Bergen Community College, finally being selected as the weather-girl for WNJU Channel 47, a Telemundo station. - Alejandro Portes
Alejandro Portes is a prominent Cuban-American sociologist. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1970. He is currently head of the department of sociology at Princeton University and a member of the National Academy of Science. He also served as the president of American Sociological Association in 1999. - Pitbull
Armando Christian Pérez better known by his stage name Pitbull, or his other nicknames, Lil' Chico or Mr. 305, is a Cuban-American rapper.
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