8'1/2" in 1993, and Olympic Champion, Barcelona, Spain, 1992. Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft - botanist, naturalist, botanical illustrator, and women's rights advocate, lived in Matanzas in the 1820s. Lyen Wong - Cuban-German fitness athlete was born in Matanzas in 1974 Joseph White - Franco-Afro-Cuban violin virtuoso was born in Matanzas on New Year's Eve 1835 (He died in Paris in 1918) See also List of cities in Cuba References Further reading Miguel A. Bretos. Matanzas: The Cuba Nobody Knows (University Press of Florida; 2010) 317 pages; combines scholarly and personal perspectives in a history of Matanzas, a city that was known as the "Athens of Cuba" during a sugar boom of the 19th century. External links Ciudad de Matanzas —A website with much information in Spanish about the city of Matanzas, from its foundation to the present day Ciudad de Matanzas—City of Matanzas Portal de la Ciencia en Matanzas 1690s establishments in the Caribbean 1690s in Cuba 1693 establishments in the Spanish West Indies 17th-century establishments in Cuba Cities in Cuba Populated places established in 1693 Populated places in Matanzas Province