List of Belen Jesuit Preparatory School people

The following is a list of notable past pupils and faculty of the Belen Jesuit Preparatory School.

Academics

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Luis E. Aguilar Leon	1944	Writer and Professor Emeritus of Georgetown University	^[1]
Xavier Briggs	1985	Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution; former Vice-President, The Ford Foundation; former Associate Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget under President Barack Obama and senior policy official at the US Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Bill Clinton; former Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a former faculty member of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government	^[1]
Jorge I. Dominguez	1963	Faculty member at Harvard University, Academy for International and Area Studies	^[1]
Alberto Martinez Piedra	1946	Former US Ambassador to Guatemala and Professor at The Institute of World Politics	^[1]
Salvador Miranda	1958	Church historian and librarian	^[2]

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Louis Aguirre	1984	Television anchor	^[1]
Frankie J. Alvarez	2001	Actor in Looking on HBO	^[3]
Raúl Esparza	1988	Stage actor, singer, and voice artist noted for his roles on Broadway shows and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	^[4]
Marcello Hernandez	2015	Comedian, cast member on Saturday Night Live	^[5]
Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr.	1996	Founder of PerezHilton.com and host of What Perez Sez on VH1	^[6]
Nick Martinez	2008	Starting pitcher for the Texas Rangers	^[7]

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Francisco Aruca	1959	Radio host and businessman	^[8]
Cesar Conde	1991	2002-2003 White House Fellow; President of Univision Networks at Univision Communications, Inc.	^[1]
Antonio Garcia Martinez	1994	Tech entrepreneur and author	^[1]
Roberto Goizueta	1947	Former CEO of Coca-Cola; the Emory University School of Business is named after him.	^[1]

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Oscar J. Corral	1992	Writer for The Miami Herald; covers Cuban politics and the exile community	^[1]
Tom Llamas	1997	Weekend Anchor for ABC World News Tonight	^[1]
German Pinelli	1925	Journalist and actor	^[1]
Roberto Suárez	1946	Former President of The Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald	^[1]

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Fidel Castro	1944	Former president and prime minister of Cuba	^[8]
Raul Castro	Attended	Former president and prime minister of Cuba	^[9]
Miguel Ángel de la Campa y Caraveda	1900	Cuban Foreign Minister, Attorney General, diplomat	^[1]
Antonio Prío Socarrás	1923	Cuban Minister of Housing, 1948-1952	^[1]
Carlos Prío Socarrás	1921	16th President of Cuba	^[1]
Francisco Prío Socarrás	1920	Cuban Senator, 1944-1952	^[1]
Antonio Sánchez de Bustamante y Sirven	1883	Cuban Senator (1902–1918), author, and jurist (Judge of the Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague (1922-1942), nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize of 1949	^[1]

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Gaston Cantens	1979	Former member of the Florida House of Representatives	^[1]
Miguel Diaz de la Portilla	1981	Former Miami-Dade County Commissioner; current Florida State Senator	^[8]
Manny Diaz	1973	Former Mayor of Miami and President of the United States Conference of Mayors	^[1]
Joe Garcia	1982	Former U.S Representative for Florida's 26th congressional district; sworn into his first two-year term on January 3, 2013	^[8]
Carlos Curbelo	1998	Former U.S Representative for Florida's 26th congressional district	^[1]
Humberto Hernandez Jr.	1980	Former City of Miami Commissioner	^[1]
Marcelo Llorente	1994	Former Representative, Florida House District 116	^[1]
Carlos A. Manrique	1978	Former member of the Florida House of Representatives	^[1]
Xavier Suarez	Attended	Former Mayor of Miami and Miami-Dade County Commissioner	^[8]
Carlos Trujillo	2001	Former member of the Florida House of Representatives District 116 and current U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States.	^[1]

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Eduardo J. Alvarez, S.J	1963 & Faculty	Pastor at Gesu Church, Miami, Florida	^[1]
Braulio Orue-Vivanco	1860	First Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pinar del Rio	^[10]
Enrique San Pedro, S.J.	1946 & Faculty	4th Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownsville	^[1]^[11]

Name	Class year	Notability	Reference(s)
Carlos Finlay	Faculty	Physician and epidemiologist; proposed the mode of transmission of yellow fever	^[12]

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^ Nardini, Bob (April 2010). "Issues in Vendor/Library Relations -- "I Am the Only Bay of Pigs Librarian"". Against the Grain: Vol. 22: Iss. 2, Article 39.
^ "Frankie J. Alvarez From HBO's 'Looking': Loving the Acting Life". NBC News. January 9, 2015.
^ Gerhart, Ann (July 7, 2002). "Every Day in the Theater With Raul". Washington Post.
^ Ginley, Joe (September 15, 2022). "Marcello Hernandez '19 Joins the Cast of Saturday Night Live". John Carroll University Athletics. Retrieved October 8, 2022.
^ "Miami-Raised Blogger Perez Hilton Returns Home To Debut New Book - CBS Miami". CBS News. September 19, 2011.
^ "Belen baseball program to retire Martinez's No. 21". Miami Herald. January 28, 2016.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Gonzalez, Gaspar (May 10, 2001). "Class Act". Miami New Times.
^ Tanner, Marcus (December 19, 2014). "Raul Castro: Last of the great Communists". The Independent. Education: Attended Belen Jesuit Preparatory School, before taking a place at the University of Havana, though he failed to graduate.
^ "Episcopologio de la Iglesia Católica en Cuba - Biografías - O".
^ Ideal press article ^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ Martinez, Teresa (March 3, 2022). "Inaugural Hall of Fame Inductees". Belen Jesuit Prep School. Archived from the original on July 24, 2023.