List of Cuban Americans

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This is a list of famous Cuban Americans. Many Cubans fled to the United States after the Cuban Revolution in 1959. This list contains both nationalized Cuban-born Americans and naturally-born Americans of Cuban-descent.

Lists of
famous Americans
by U.S. state
by ethnicity:
African American
Albanian | Arab
Armenian | Australian
Austrian | Bahamian
Bangladeshi | Belgian
Brazilian | Bulgarian
Cajun
Cambodian | Chinese
Croatian | Cuban
Danish | Dutch
English | Estonian
Filipino | Finnish
French
German | Greek
| Hmong
Hungarian
Indian | Iranian
Irish | Italian
Israeli
Jamaican | Japanese
Jewish | Korean
Laotian
Louisiana Creole
Mexican
Muslim
Native American
Native Hawaiian
Norwegian | Polish
Portuguese | Romanian
Russian | Salvadoran
Scots-Irish | Scottish
Swedish | Swiss
Taiwanese | Ukrainian
Vietnamese | Welsh

Contents

[edit] Business

[edit] Entertainment

[edit] Actors

[edit] Directors & Producers

[edit] Musicians

[edit] Reporters/Journalists

[edit] Writers

[edit] Politics and the Judiciary

[edit] United States Ambassadors

[edit] United States Congress

[edit] Political Leaders

[edit] World leaders

[edit] Judiciary

[edit] Athletes

  • Gilbert Arenas, American professional basketball player currently with the NBA's Washington Wizards
  • Steve Bellán, also known as Esteban, nicknamed "The Cuban Sylph", the first Cuban and the first Latin American to play professional baseball in the USA from 1869 to 1873
  • José Canseco, fmr. MLB player, author (Juiced) and reality show contestant (The Surreal Life)
  • Eric Eichmann, fmr. US National Team and American professional soccer player (mother is Cuban)
  • Mary Joe Fernandez, tennis player
  • Henry Gutierrez, fmr. US National Team and American professional soccer player
  • Minnie Miñoso, fmr. MLB player,
  • Pablo Morales, who won a relay gold and two silver medals for the USA swimming Butterfly at the 1984 Summer Olympics
  • Orlando Palmeiro, Major League Baseball player
  • Rafael Palmeiro, Major League Baseball player
  • Jennifer Rodriguez, inline speed skating world champion (1993) and USA speedskater in the 1998, 2002, and 2006 Winter Olympics, winning two bronze medals in Salt Lake City in 2002
  • Alberto Salazar, winner of three consecutive New York City Marathons (1980 - 1982), the Boston Marathon (1982), and a member of the United States' Olympic marathon team (1984)
  • Danny Tartabull, MLB player

Jorge R. Posada, current catcher NY Yankees, Winning team for MLB World Series. Father and Grandfather, Cubans. (2007)

[edit] Misc.


[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ [1] "This half Irish, half Cuban actor can dance for six hours straight! "I'm proud to have the Latin hips," he says!"
  2. ^ [2] "She comes from "a big Cuban family, a lot of whom reside in the New York area"
  3. ^ [3] "Cuban descent actress Joanna Garcia"
  4. ^ Sigler - [4] "I'm half-Cuban -- my mother was born in Cuba and came here as a teenager -- so it's got a lot of Latin influence to it. It's pretty poppish. It's kind of more on the J-Lo side of things."
  5. ^ Vilasuso - [5] "The great thing about George is that he's Cuban, and I'm Cuban, and we have that dynamic going on" [6] "CBS.com: Now, you're of Cuban descent? JORDI VILASUSO: My parents are from Cuba. I was born in Miami. All of Miami is going to start watching Guiding Light."
  6. ^ [7] "Ultra sassy Cuban-Argentine (via Miami) rock ingénue JD NATASHA adds an extra splash of danger to the mix."

[edit] References

2005 Alumni Hall of Fame. Hispanic Scholarship Fund. Retrieved on 2006-12-14. “"(Elsa Murano) was the first Hispanic American to serve as Under Secretary for Food Safety at the USDA. She is also the first Hispanic American, and first woman to serve in her current position as vice chancellor and dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University.”

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