Liberal Leaders
- José Martí, founder of the PRC and leading Cuban intellectual
- Martín Morúa Delgado, Afro-Cuban and President of the Cuban Senate
- Juan Gualberto Gómez, Afro-Cuban revolutionary leader, close collaborator of Martí's, served as part of the committee of consultations that drafted and amended the Constitution of 1901, and as a Representative and Senator
- José Miguel Gómez, the first member of the Liberal Party elected to the presidency of Cuba
- Gerardo Machado, a president of Cuba elected under the Liberal Party
- Orestes Ferrara, a professor at the University of Havana, Cuban Secretary of State and delegate to the Constitutional Convention
- Carlos Márquez Sterling, a leading member of the Liberal Party during the 1930s and 1940s and President of the Constitutional Convention in 1940. He later served in the first government of Fulgencio Batista.
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