Full Name: Ernesto Guevara de la Serna.
Known AS: Che Guevara.
Nickname: Che, El Fuser.

Father: Ernesto Guevara Lynch.
Mother: Celia de la Serna.
Wife: Hilda Gadea (m. 1955, div. 1959).
Wife: Aleida March de la Torre (m. 1959–until his death).
Number of Children: Five.

Date of Birth: 14 June 1928.
Birth Place: Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina.

Date of Death: 09 October 1967 (aged 39).
Death Place: La Higuera, Vallegrande, Bolivia.
Cause of Death: Execution.
Remains/ Buried: Santa Clara, Las Villas, Cuba.

Gender: Male
Zodiac Sign: Gemini
Religion: Atheist
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic
Education:
  • School: Colegio Nacional Dean Funes, Cordoba, Argentina
  • University: University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (1948-53)
Occupation: Activist, Military.
Lecturer: National Autonomous University of Mexico (1954).
Organization:
  • 26th of July Movement
  • United Party of the Cuban Socialist Revolution
  • National Liberation Army (Bolivia)
Nationality: Argentina.
Executive Summary: Revolutionary Icon.

Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla leader Che Guevara (14 June 1928-09 October 1967) was an important figure in the Cuban Revolution along with Fidel Castro and Raúl Castro. He is remembered as revolutionary icon of modern age all over world. Guevara later joined in guerrilla action in Bolivia, where he was killed.

Early Life & Childhood: Che Guevara born as Ernesto Guevara de la Serna on 14 June 1928 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina. He began his formal education with Colegio Nacional Dean Funes. Within his 12, he began participating in local chess tournaments after learning from his father. In his childhood, Guevara became impassioned about poetry and read Pablo Neruda, John Keats, Federico García Lorca, Gabriela Mistral and Walt Whitman. The Guevara home contained more than 3,000 books, including Karl Marx, William Faulkner, Jawaharlal Nehru, Albert Camus, Vladimir Lenin, Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Engels, H. G. Wells and Robert Frost. In 1948, Guevara enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires to study medicine.

Personal Life & Family: Che Guevara's father was Ernesto Guevara Lynch and his mother was named Celia de la Serna. He was the eldest of five children of his parent. In 1955, Guevara married to Hilda Gadea but divorced her in 1959. This year he married again to Aleida March de la Torre who was until his death. Guevara had five children.

Later Life & Execution: In September 1954, Che Guevara moved to Mexico City after completing his course and joined the allergy section of the General Hospital. During this time, he worked as a lecturer on medicine at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 1955, Guevara met with Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and his brother Raúl Castro in Mexico and became a part of their efforts to overthrow the Batista government in Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came into power and Guevara was charged with La Cabaña Fortress prison. During this time, he executed 156 and 550 people on his extra-judicial order. After that, he was appointed as president of the Cuban national bank and then minister of industry. In 1965, he left his position. In 1966, Guevara excited the people of Bolivia to revolt against their government. But he had little success. On 09 October 1967, he was captured and killed by the Bolivian army. Che Guevara was buried at Santa Clara, Las Villas, Cuba.