Fulgencio Batista, Cuban colonel and politician, 9th President of Cuba (born 1901)

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar was a Cuban military officer and dictator who played a dominant role in Cuban politics from his initial rise to power in the 1930s until his overthrow in the Cuban Revolution in 1959. He served as president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944, and again from 1952 to his 1959 resignation.

This article lists the heads of state of Cuba from 1902 until the present day.