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
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“The schoolmaster is abroad! And I trust to him armed with his primer against the soldier in full military array.”
—Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)
“There was somewhat military in his nature, not to be subdued, always manly and able, but rarely tender, as if he did not feel himself except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)