Famous People with Name Guillen

Leopoldo Romañach Y Guillen            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Leopoldo Romañach Y Guillen: was a well-known Cuban painter. He was a professor of color theory at San Alejandro, won a number of awards. The Republic of Cuba granted him in 1950 the Great Cross of the National Order of Merit of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes.The school "Escuela Provincial de Artes Plásticas “Leopoldo Romañach” in Santa Clara, Las Villas, Cuba was named after him.

Gilda Antonia Guillén            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Gilda Antonia Guillén: was a Cuban writer and poet. in her youth she quit her nursing career, and became an ardent anarchist whom rebelled against communism, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. Her anti-government writings and acts of vandalism against the government led to her conviction in 1978, after which she was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. In 1980, the Mariel Boatlift departed from Cuba's Mariel Harbor for the United States. Guillén was among the exiles released from Cuba's El Paraíso prison. Upon reaching Florida she gave a false name and date of birth, out of uncertainty over whether her conviction in Cuba would possibly be linked in the United States. Her spirited writings and poetry remain banned in Cuba. [edit

Justin Guillen            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Justin Guillen: is a professional cricketer for the West Indies and the great nephew of Sammy Guillen. He was the first white cricketer to play for the Trinidad and Tobago national cricket team after many decades.

Nancy Guillén            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nancy Guillén: is a retired female hammer thrower from El Salvador. She set her personal best throw (62.43 metres) on June 9, 2001 at a meet in San Salvador. This is the current Salvadorean record. She attended Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma and South

Fernando Guillén            Origin/Culture/Country: Spanish

Fernando Guillén: was a Spanish Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team sabre events at the 1924 Summer Olympics.