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.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Centro Habana during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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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 fencer — 8.2× the global rate.
Centro Habana under-produces football — only 0.3× the global rate.
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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Carmen Herrera
Born 1915
Jorge Camacho (painter)
1934 - 2011
Mario Carreño Morales
1913 - 1999
José Bedia Valdés
Born 1959
Juana Borrero
1877 - 1896
Víctor Manuel García Valdés
1897 - 1969
Manuel Mendive
Born 1944
Servando Cabrera Moreno
1923 - 1981
Antonia Eiriz
1929 - 1995
Cundo Bermúdez
1914 - 2008
Margaret Ponce Israel
1929 - 1987
Pedro Álvarez Castelló
1967 - 2004
María Brito
Born 1947
Armando Menocal
1863 - 1942
Jesse A. Fernández
1925 - 1986
Zilia Sánchez Domínguez
Born 1928
Manuel Ussel de Guimbarda
1833 - 1907
Carlos Clarens
1930 - 1987
Mario Algaze
Born 1947
Humberto Castro
Born 1957
Antonio Vidal Fernández
1928 - 2013
Juan Francisco Elso
1956 - 1988
Sandra Ramos
Born 1969
Gerardo Chijona
Born 1949
Vicente Escobar
1762 - 1834
Luis Cruz Azaceta
Born 1942
Carlos Alberto Cruz Boix
Born 1949
Hilda Vidal Valdés
Born 1941
Humberto Calzada
Born 1944
Roberto Altmann
Born 1942
Ernesto Pujol
Born 1957
Antonio Gattorno
1904 - 1980
Francis Acea
Born 1967
José Nicolás de la Escalera
1734 - 1804
Jeannine Achón
Born 1973
Juan Roberto Diago Durruthy
Born 1971
Dulce Beatriz
Born 1931
Ángel Boligán
Born 1965
Rafael Blanco Estera
1885 - 1955
Armando de Armas Romero
1914 - 1981
Ana Albertina Delgado Álvarez
Born 1963
Enrique Caravia Montenegro
1905 - 1992
Josignacio
Born 1963
Esteban Ayala Ferrer
1929 - 1995
Adriano Buergo
Born 1964
Manuel Vidal Fernández
Born 1929
Liliam Cuenca
Born 1944
Irene Sierra Carreño
Born 1965
Manuel Couceiro Prado
1923 - 1981
Fernando Díaz Domínguez
1932 - 1983
Lilian Garcia-Roig
Born 1966
Fernando Velázquez Vigil
1950 - 2002
Carlos Trillo Name
Born 1941
Marta Arjona Pérez
1923 - 2006
Paul del Rio
Born 1943
Arnaldo Larrinaga
Born 1948
Gilberto Ruiz Valdez
Born 1950
Ofill Echevarria
Born 1972
Miguel Cerejido
Born 1960
José Vilalta Saavedra
1865 - 1912
Raúl Cordero
Born 1971
Gustavo Ramón Acosta Pérez
Born 1958
Vicente Dopico Lerner
Born 1945
Luis Vega de Castro
Born 1944
Jorge L. Sicre-Gattorno
Born 1958
José Antonio Díaz Peláez
1924 - 1988
José Manuel Contino Pérez
Born 1933
Lourdes Gomez-Franca
1933 - 2018
Roberto Jesús Álvares Ríos
Born 1932