The Most Famous
ASTRONAUTS from Cuba
This page contains a list of the greatest Cuban Astronauts. The pantheon dataset contains 524 Astronauts, 1 of which were born in Cuba. This makes Cuba the birth place of the 25th most number of Astronauts behind Uzbekistan and Mongolia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Cuban Astronauts of all time. This list of famous Cuban Astronauts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (1942 - )
With an HPI of 53.80, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez is the most famous Cuban Astronaut. His biography has been translated into 33 different languages on wikipedia.
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born 29 January 1942) is a Cuban military officer, legislator, and former cosmonaut and the first person of African heritage in space. In 1980, as a member of the crew of Soyuz 38, he became the first Cuban citizen, the first Latin American, the first person of African descent, and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel into Earth orbit.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as astronauts born between 1942 and 1942. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living astronauts include Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez.
