Many famous people have stayed at the Hotel Nacional de Cuba in Havana, including:

Politicians
Winston Churchill, Jimmy Carter, Edward VIII, Prince of Wales, and Fidel Castro

Actors
Frank Sinatra, Marlon Brando, Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, Fred Astaire, and Pedro Vargas

Musicians
Nat King Cole

Writers
Ernest Hemingway and Rómulo Gallegos

Athletes
Mickey Mantle and Rocky Marciano

Other celebrities
Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Yuri Gagarin, Gabriel García Marquez, and Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Scientists
Alexander Fleming, the first person to discover penicillin

Heads of state

Many Ibero-American heads of state and European monarchs

Mafia bosses
Italian-American mafia bosses