23.1367° N, 82.3589° W

CENTRO HABANA

Most Famous People Born in Centro Habana, Cuba

Notable people
1,589
Peak decade
1940s
Median birth year
1948
Most distinctive
Fencer 8.2×

A central-Havana bench whose distinctive professions are fencers, baseball players, pianists, and boxers — a very specific Cuban combination that reflects a century of Olympic fencing and boxing, the Habana baseball tradition, and the keyboard lineage that runs through Ignacio Cervantes and Ernesto Lecuona. José Martí, Celia Cruz, Capablanca, and Ana de Armas all belong to this bench.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Centro Habana during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1940s with 196 notable births.

What Centro Habana Is Known For

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Baseball is Centro Habana's biggest profession — 9% of all notables (137).

Centro Habana over-indexes on fencer8.2× the global rate.

Centro Habana under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.

  1. Baseball137
  2. Actor122
  3. Writer99
  4. Politician75
  5. Singer70
  6. Painter69
  7. Football49
  8. Player47
  1. Fencer258.2×
  2. Baseball1377.6×
  3. Pianist214.9×
  4. Boxer284.4×
  5. Artist372.3×
  6. Photographer172.2×
  7. Singer702.1×
  8. Composer422.0×
  1. Football490.3×
  2. Politician750.4×
  3. Lawyer190.7×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Centro Habana's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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Showing 18 of 1,589 notable people

0001 POLITICIAN

José Martí

1853 - 1895

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0197 PHOTOGRAPHER

Pau Audouard

1856 - 1918

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0274 COMPOSER

Cecilia Arizti

1856 - 1930

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0297 DIPLOMAT

Wenceslao Ramírez de Villa-Urrutia, 1st Marquis of Villa-Urrutia

1850 - 1933

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0313 COMPOSER

Claudio Brindis de Salas Garrido

1852 - 1911

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0426 POLITICIAN

Rafael Montoro

1852 - 1933

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0461 POLITICIAN

Guillermo de Osma y Scull

1853 - 1922

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0620 WRITER

María Luisa Dolz

1854 - 1928

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0664 POLITICIAN

Antonio de Castro y Casaléiz

1856 - 1918

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0699 COMPOSER

Gaspar Villate

1851 - 1891

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0722 COMPOSER

Anselmo González del Valle

1852 - 1911

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0803 POLITICIAN

Nicolás de Peñalver y Zamora

1853 - 1916

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1015 POLITICIAN

Édouard Quartier-la-Tente

1855 - 1925

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1043 PHYSICIAN

Fermín Valdés Domínguez

1852 - 1910

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1057 POLITICIAN

Adolfo Navarrete y de Alcázar

1859 - 1925

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1459 PHYSICIAN

Máximo Zertucha y Ojeda

1855 - 1905

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1543 BOTSCHAFTER

Carlos Américo Lera

1855 - 1912

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1569 POET

Raúl Gutiérrez (poeta)

Born 1853

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