Notable Natives and Residents
- Antonio José Ruiz de Padrón (1757–1823), Franciscan priest and politician.
- José Aguiar (1895–1975), painter.
- Manuel Mora Morales (b. 1952), writer, filmmaker and editor.
- Pedro García Cabrera (1905–1981), writer and poet.
- Tim Hart (1948–2009), English folk musician.
- Oliver Weber (born 1970), German photographer.
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Famous quotes containing the words notable, natives and/or residents:
“a notable prince that was called King John;
And he ruled England with main and with might,
For he did great wrong, and maintained little right.”
—Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 2–4)
“Here was a little of everything in a small compass to satisfy the wants and the ambition of the woods,... but there seemed to me, as usual, a preponderance of children’s toys,—dogs to bark, and cats to mew, and trumpets to blow, where natives there hardly are yet. As if a child born into the Maine woods, among the pine cones and cedar berries, could not do without such a sugar-man or skipping-jack as the young Rothschild has.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In most nineteenth-century cities, both large and small, more than 50 percent—and often up to 75 percent—of the residents in any given year were no longer there ten years later. People born in the twentieth century are much more likely to live near their birthplace than were people born in the nineteenth century.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)