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Carlos Juan Finlay Barrés:

Epidemiological doctor. Your main contribution to the worldwide science was your explanation of the mode of transmission of yellow fever: The female of the sort of mosquito that today is acquainted like Aedes Aegypti. For your investigations and scientific contributions, it was proposed in several occasions for the Nobel Prize.

Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista:

Be hatched in Camaguey, the July 10, 1902 and die in Havana, the July 17, 1989). Reporter, poet and politician Cuban, considered for their work like National Poeta of Cuba. Your revolutionary ideas kept it over the past years of dictatorship batistiana returning to the island behind the rebellious triumph of 1959 in exile.

Jorge (Nené) González Allué:

Prominent pianist, composer and orchestra conductor camagüeyano.Nació in Camaguey the February 10, 1910. He initiated your musical education being a boy, in 1920 with a cousin, María Josefa González Allué, and after María Larín Carmenates continued with the woman teacher. In 1925 he graduated of piano, I sol-fa and theory in the National Conservatory of Música of Havana Hubert of Blanck.

Francisca Margarita Amalia Simoni Argilagos. Fighting independence supporter. Ignacio Agramonte with whom he got married in the parish church of Our Lady of Solitude on August 1, 1868 handcuffs of the patriot Cuban. An active collaborator of forces was mambisas and rendered services in field hospitals. In like manner he suffered the rigors of the jail and right after exile.