Ernesto 'Che' Guevara



First NameChe
Middle NameChe
Last NameGuevara
Full Name at BirthErnesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna
Other NamesFúser (Given by his friend Alberto Granado while travelling in South America by motorcycle)
El Che
El Pelao (Given by his friend Alberto Granado while travelling in South America by motorcycle)
Age39 (age at death)
Date of BirthMay 14, 1928
BirthplaceRosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
Date of DeathOctober 9, 1967
Location of DeathLa Higuera, Vallegrande, Bolivia
Cause of DeathExecution
Height5' 11½" (182 cm)
Eye ColorBrown - Dark
Hair ColorBrown - Dark
Star SignTaurus
ReligionAtheist
EthnicityWhite
NationalityArgentinean
High SchoolColegio Nacional Dean Funes, Cordoba, Argentina
UniversityUniversity of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1953)
OccupationArgentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist.
Occupation CategoryActivist
Claim to Famesocialist revolutionary leader in Cuba and elsewhere across Latin America
FatherErnesto Guevara Lynch
MotherCelia de la Serna y Llosa
FriendsAlberto Granado (travelled with him at their twenties in South America by motorcycle).

Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Spanish pronunciation: June 14, 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as El Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia within popular culture.


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Filmography

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Writer Credits

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1970
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