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 17 of 1,589 notable people

0009 PHOTOGRAPHER

Alberto Korda

1928 - 2001

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Pau Audouard

1856 - 1918

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Raúl De Molina

Born 1959

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Abelardo Morell

Born 1948

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René Peña

Born 1957

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Marta María Pérez Bravo

Born 1959

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Luis Castaneda

Born 1943

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Alex Castro

Born 1963

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Carlos Garaicoa

Born 1967

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Tony Mendoza (photographer)

Born 1941

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Osvaldo Salas

1914 - 1992

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María Martínez-Cañas

Born 1960

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Juan Carlos Alom

Born 1964

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Mario Santoro Woith

Born 1968

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Vida Yovanovich

Born 1949

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1314 PHOTOGRAPHER

Enrique de la Uz López

1944 - 2018

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1346 PHOTOGRAPHER

Mario Leclere

Born 1983

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