Portal:Cuba/Selected biography

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Selected biographys list

Biographys 1-20

Portal:Cuba/Selected biography/1 José Martí (January 28, 1853 – May 19, 1895) was a leader of the Cuban independence movement as well as an esteemed poet and writer. He is considered the Cuban people's greatest hero.


Portal:Cuba/Selected biography/2 Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (December 11, 1928 – April 16, 1996) was an influential Cuban filmmaker. He wrote and directed more than 20 features, documentaries, and short films, known for his sharp insight into post-Revolutionary Cuba, and a delicate balance between dedication to the revolution and criticism of the social, economic, and political conditions of the country.


Portal:Cuba/Selected biography/3 Teófilo Stevenson (born March 29, 1952) is a former Cuban boxer who made history in amateur boxing, but who refused to turn professional. Many people consider him to be one of the greatest Olympic boxers in history, alongside László Papp.


Portal:Cuba/Selected biography/4 Charles Edward Magoon (December 5, 1861 – January 14, 1920) was a prominent United States lawyer, judge, diplomat, and colonial administrator who is best remembered as a colonial Governor of both Cuba and the Panama Canal Zone. He was also the subject of several small scandals during his career.


Portal:Cuba/Selected biography/5 Frank País (December 7, 1934 – July 30, 1957) was a Cuban revolutionary who campaigned for the overthrow of General Fulgencio Batista's government in Cuba. Pais was a key organizer within the urban underground movement during the Cuban Revolution, collaborating with Fidel Castro's gurerilla forces which were conducting activities in the Sierra Maestra mountains. Pais was killed in the streets of Santiago de Cuba by the Santiago police on July 30, 1957.


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Cuban president in the first revolutionary government
of 1959. After only six months, Urrutia resigned his position due to a series of disputes with revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, emigrating to the United States shortly after.


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Afro-Cuban, canción, guaguancó, and bolero
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National Assembly (ANPP) of Cuba since 1993. A graduate of the University of Havana with a doctorate in philosophy, he served in various diplomatic posts following the Cuban Revolution. Alarcón is considered a possible successor to Fidel Castro
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Portal:Cuba/Selected biography/9 General

coup, from 1952 until 1959, when he was ousted by the Cuban Revolution
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world chess champion from 1921 to 1927
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choreographer. She is considered a legend and is most famous for her portrayals of Giselle and Carmen
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U.S. Army Special Forces-organized military operation. Guevara was summarily executed by the Bolivian Army in La Higuera near Vallegrande
on October 9, 1967.

After his death, Guevara became an icon of

photo of him (shown) has received wide distribution and modification. The Maryland Institute College of Art
called this picture "the most famous photograph in the world and a symbol of the 20th century."

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