This is a list of notable Cuban Americans, including immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
Government
United States ambassadors
Simon Ferro, former United States Ambassador to Panama
United States Cabinet members
United States House of Representatives
- Carlos Curbelo, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Florida's 26th district
- Lincoln Díaz-Balart, Republican former member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Florida's 21st district
- Mario Díaz-Balart, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Florida's 25th district
- Joe Garcia, former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Florida's 26th district
- Carlos A. Giménez, Republican member-elect in the 2020 U.S. House of Representatives for Florida's 26th congressional district, former mayor of Miami-Dade County (2011-2020)
- Thomas Ponce Gill, Congressman from Hawaii in the early 1960s (his paternal grandmother was Cuban)
- Anthony Gonzalez, Republican, Ohio's 16th District (2019–Present)[98]
- Joseph Marion Hernández, first Hispanic elected to the United States Congress
- Nicole Malliotakis, Republican member-elect of the United States House of Representatives, representing New York's 11th district
- Alex Mooney, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing West Virginia's 2nd district
- David Rivera, Republican former member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Florida's 25th district
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Republican member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Florida's 18th district
- Maria Elvira Salazar, Republican member-elect in the 2020 U.S. House of Representatives for Florida's 27th congressional district, former television news anchor
- Albio Sires, Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives, representing New Jersey's 13th district
2008 Congressional candidates
United States Senate
Federal government
- Al Cardenas, Washington, D.C. lobbyist
- Alex Castellanos, Republican media consultant; senior advisor to 2008 Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney
- Carlos Del Toro, 78th Secretary of the Navy; retired Naval Officer and former business owner
- Nils J. Diaz, former chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
- Cari M. Dominguez, Chair of the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Emilio T. Gonzalez, Ph.D., director of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
- Eliot A. Jardines, first Assistant Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Open Source
- Elsa A. Murano, former Undersecretary for Food Safety United States Department of Agriculture
- Steve Pieczenik, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State
- Otto Reich, former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
- Mauricio J. Tamargo, 14th Chairman of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission
Local government
- Carlos Alvarez, former mayor of Miami-Dade County
- Joe Carollo, former mayor of Miami
- Manny Diaz, mayor of Miami
- George Gascón, district attorney of Los Angeles County; former district attorney of San Francisco County
- Carlos A. Giménez, 7th Mayor of Miami-Dade County
- Rosario Kennedy, former commissioner and vice-mayor of Miami
- Raul L. Martinez, former mayor of Hialeah
- Carlos Mayans, former mayor of Wichita, Kansas
- Gilda Oliveros, first Cuban-born woman mayor in the United States
- Alex Penelas, former mayor (D–FL), Miami-Dade County, Florida
- Tomas Regalado, former mayor of Miami
- Julio Robaina, former mayor of City of Hialeah
- Francis Suarez, mayor of Miami
- Xavier Suarez, former mayor of Miami
- Silverio Vega, former mayor of West New York, New Jersey
- Bill Vidal, former mayor of Denver, Colorado; born in Camagüey, Cuba[99]
State government
- Zulima Farber, former Attorney General of New Jersey
- Anitere Flores, Florida State Senator and former Florida State Representative, first Republican Hispanic woman to serve in both the Florida House and Senate since 1986
- Bob Martinez, former governor of Florida, first Cuban-American governor in United States history
- Robert E. Martinez, 8th Virginia Secretary of Transportation and deputy administrator of the United States Maritime Administration
- Joseph Miró, Delaware state representative, president National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators
- Alex X. Mooney, member of the Maryland state senate representing District 3
- Vincent Prieto, New Jersey State Assemblyman, 32nd District
- Marco Rubio, U.S. Senator from Florida, and former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
- Katherine Fernandez Rundle, State Attorney for Miami-Dade County
- Yvanna Cancela, State Senator representing Nevada's 10th District
- Mo Denis, State Senator representing Nevada's 2nd District
- Jason Miyares, member of the Virginia House of Delegates' 82nd district and Attorney General of Virginia
- Wes Moore, 63rd Governor of Maryland[100]
U.S. Commonwealth government
Judiciary
- Armando Omar Bonilla, former Department of Justice official and nominee to the United States Court of Federal Claims[101]
- Barbara Lagoa, Justice on the Florida Supreme Court
- Cecilia Altonaga, United States District Court Judge
- Danny Boggs, Chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati
- Raoul G. Cantero, III, first Hispanic justice on the Florida Supreme Court
- Adalberto Jordan, United States District Court Judge
- Jorge Labarga, Chief Justice of the Florida Supreme Court
- Jose L. Linares, United States District Court Judge of United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in Newark, New Jersey
- Ariel A. Rodriguez, judge of New Jersey Appellate Division, acting Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
- Joseph H. Rodriguez, United States District Court Judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in Camden, New Jersey
- Eduardo Robreno, United States District Court Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia
- Esther Salas, United States District Court Judge of United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in Newark, New Jersey
- Mauricio J. Tamargo, Chairman of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission