 The first Cuban scientist graduated in medicine, the Dr. Tomás Romay and Chacón, was baptised in the Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María del Rosario in 1764.The Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier married in this church by the decade of 1940.José María Chacón and Calvo, famous hispanist and sixth earl of House Bayona was baptised in this church.