1830s
Alice Cunningham Fletcher (15 mar 1838 – 06 apr 1923 | Havana, Cuba – Washington DC) author, sketch artist, ethnologist, social scientist, anthropologist
1840s
Loreta Janeta Velazquez (26 jun 1842 – 26 jan 1923 | Havana, Cuba – Washington DC) memoirist, Confederate Civil War spy / soldier, aka Lieutenant Harry Buford, died as Loreta J. Beard at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for the Insane
1850s
1860s
1870s
1880s
1890s
Clara Porset (25 may 1895 – 17 may 1981 | Matanzas, Cuba – Los Angeles CA) Cuban-American design educator, interior designer, furniture designer, female designer scholarship award founder, bequeathed The Clara Porset Library [best design library in Mexico]
1900s
Lydia Cabrera (20 may 1900 – 19 sep 1991 | Havana, Cuba – Miami FL) ethnologist, short story writer, Afro-Cuban folklorist / preservationist
Elsie de Sola Fox (27 nov 1902 – 05 nov 1993 | Mantanzas, Cuba – Nantucket MA) Cuban-American screenwriter, philanthropist
María Gómez Carbonell (29 jun 1903 – 24 may 1988 | Havana, Cuba – Miami FL) author, educator, attorney, first woman in Cuban House of Representatives, Alliance of National Feminists founder
1910s
Jessie Josephine Coe Lichauco (10 jan 1912 – Isla de los Pinos, Cuba) Cuban-born Filipino-American, philanthropist, Settlement House activist, WWII refugee advocate, field hospital operator, co-founded Red Feather Agency [later known as Community Chest]
Carmen Herrera (31 may 1915 – Havana, Cuba) Cuban-American abstract minimalist painter
1920s
Celia Cruz (21 oct 1925 – 16 jul 2003 | Havana, Cuba – Fort Lee NJ) Cuban-American, singer, performer, autobiographical author, aka The Queen of Cuban Salsa, née Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso de la Santísima Trinidad
1930s
María Irene Fornés (14 may 1930 – Havana, Cuba) lesbian, Cuban-American, avant garde playwright, theatre director, focus on feminism and poverty awareness
Zenaida Elvira González Manfugás (22 feb 1932 – 02 may 2012 | Guantanamo, Cuba – Elizabeth NJ) Cuban-American pianist, music professor
Sara Del Carmen Jofre González (28 sep 1935 – 18 feb 2008 | Havana, Cuba – Atlanta GA) social leader / innovator, president / CEO Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, founder Hispanic American Center for Economic Development
Alma Flor Ada (03 jan 1938 – Camagüey, Cuba) Cuban-American poet, author, novelist, memoirist, children’s book author, university professor, bilingual / multicultural education advocate
Ana Colomar O’Brien (16 nov 1938 – Havana, Cuba) Cuban-born American diplomat, public relations professional, Chief of Protocol for Organizations of American States
1940s
Tania León (14 may 1943 – Havana, Cuba) Cuban-American composer, conductor, arts educator and advisor
Natalia Lederer Clovis (13 jul 1943 – Havana, Cuba) Cuban-American artist, fencer, sculptor
Cristina Maria Saralegui (29 jan 1948 – Miramar, Cuba) actress, journalist, television personality / talk show host, Cuban-born American
Ana Mendieta (18 nov 1948 – 08 sep 1985 | Havana, Cuba – New York NY) Cuban-American sculptor, painter, video artist, performance artist
Carolina Garcia-Aguilera (13 jul 1949 – Havana, Cuba) Cuban-American mystery novelist, former private investigator
1950s
Jane L. Delgado (17 jun 1953 – Havana, Cuba) author, clinical psychologist, health care advocate
Carmen Castellanos Reinhart (07 oct 1955 – Havana, Cuba) author, economist, professor of economics / international financial system
Achy Obejas (28 jun 1956 – Havana, Cuba) Cuban-American poet, editor, novelist, translator, journalist
Dinorah de Jesús Rodríguez (28 apr 1957 – Placetas, Cuba) experimental filmmaker
Cynthia Cidre (10 sep 1957 – Havana, Cuba) Cuban-American producer, screenwriter
Cristina García (04 jul 1958 – Havana, Cuba) Cuban-American novelist, journalist, creative writing professor
Liz Balmaseda (17 jan 1959 – Puerto Padre, Cuba) Cuban-American, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist in Commentary and Breaking-News Reporting
Elsa Alina Casales Murano (14 aug 1959 – Havana, Cuba) businesswoman, former university president and administrator, former US Under Secretary of Agriculture for Food Safety
María Magdalena Campos-Pons (21 aug 1959 – Matanzas, Cuba) Cuban-American artist, sculptor, photographer, audiovisual artist, performance and installation artist, focus on gender / sexuality / multicultural identity