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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Alberto Korda
1928 - 2001
Pau Audouard
1856 - 1918
Raúl De Molina
Born 1959
Abelardo Morell
Born 1948
René Peña
Born 1957
Marta María Pérez Bravo
Born 1959
Luis Castaneda
Born 1943
Alex Castro
Born 1963
Carlos Garaicoa
Born 1967
Tony Mendoza (photographer)
Born 1941
Osvaldo Salas
1914 - 1992
María Martínez-Cañas
Born 1960
Juan Carlos Alom
Born 1964
Mario Santoro Woith
Born 1968
Vida Yovanovich
Born 1949
Enrique de la Uz López
1944 - 2018
Mario Leclere
Born 1983