List of Cubans - Military

Military

• Adolfo Fernández Cavada, Captain in the Union Army during the American Civil War who later served as Commander-in-Chief of the Cinco Villas during Cuba's Ten Year War.
• Alberto Bayo y Giroud, a Cuban military leader of the defeated left-wing Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War.
• Antonio Maceo Grajales, Second-in-command of the Cuban army of independence
• Arnaldo Ochoa, Cuban General
• Calixto García, Cuban soldier in the Ten Years' War
• Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, Cuban General in the war of independence against the Spanish
• Emilio Mola Vidal (June 9, 1887 – June 3, 1937) was a Nationalist commander during the Spanish Civil War (1936–39). He is best known for coining the phrase "fifth column."
• Federico Fernández Cavada, Colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War and later Commander-in-Chief of all the Cuban forces during Cuba's Ten Year War.
• Jesús Sosa Blanco, captain in the Cuban army under Fulgencio Batista.
• José Braulio Alemán, Cuban general in the Spanish-American War.
• José Miguel Gómez, Cuban General in the war of independence against the Spanish
• Julius Peter Garesché, Lieutenant Colonel in the Union Army who served as Chief of Staff, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel to Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans.
• Loreta Janeta Velazquez a.k.a. "Lieutenant Harry Buford", Velazquez was a Cuban born woman who masqueraded as a male Confederate soldier during the Civil War.
• Manuel Artime, leader of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961.
• Máximo Gómez, 19th century leader of Cuban forces in the wars of independence
• Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz, Chief Air Force Commander and member of Operation 40
• Víctor Dreke, Communist leader and a General in the Revolutionary Armed Forces.
• Tomás Diez Acosta, revolutionary soldier and historian