Havana Personalities
Who is Who in Havana

Havana Personalities:

BROWN
Miguel Brown Vailant
Managing director H.Upmann cigar factory, Amistad street, Havana

CABALLERO DE PARIS
José Maria López Lledín, He is known as El caballero de Paris
(The gentleman from Paris) and was an excentric person wandering in the streets of Havana. He once said that he was the king of the world because the world was always at his feet. He died in the Havana Mazorra psychiatric clinic in 1985 at age of 86. He has a bronze statue in front of the St.Francis convent in Old Havana
The full story about Caballero de Paris

CASTRO
Raul Castro Ruz
President of the Republic of Cuba
First secretary of the Cuban Communist Party

COLLAZO
Rafael Collazo Cabrera
Managing director El Laguita Cohiba cigar factory
Havana Miramar

CONTINO ASLAN
Juan Contino Aslan Presidente de la Asamblea Provincial del Poder Popular de Cuidad de La Habana
City Mayor of Havana

GREENE
Graham Greene, British autor, writer of the famous novel " Our man in Havana" (1958)

GUEVARA
Che Guevara
Ernesto Guevara, known as El Che was an Argentine Marxist Revolutionary guerrilla in the battle against the dictator Fulgencio Batista. On the Plaza de la Revolucion a steel replica of the famous photo by Alberto Korda forms the Memorial Ernesto Che Guevara.

HEMINGWAY
Ernest Hemingway, US novelist, lived for years in Havana, he frequented many Havana bars among them La Bodeguita del Medio and El Floridita

LEAL
Eusebio Leal Sprengler , is the Havana City Historian, director of the restoration program of Old Havana - Director Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad Havana.

MACHADO
José Ramon Machado , is First Vice President of de Cuban Republic and Communist Party ideologue

MARTI
José Marti, National Hero of Cuba, writer, poet, freedom fighter

RODRIGUES
José Luis Rodrigues Garcia Minister of Economic Affairs / Secretary of State Ministro de Economia y Planificacion
20 de Mayo entre Trritorial y Ayestaran
Plaza de la Revolucion Havana

SANCHEZ
Yoani Sanchez, Havana Blogger
Yoani Sanchez Havana Blogger Generation Y

JULIO LOBO
Julio Lobo, also named the Sugar King of Havana was once the wealthiest man in Havana.


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