Faure Chomón Mediavilla (15 January 1929[1] – 5 December 2019) was a Cuban historian and politician.
Early in his career, he served as the Secretary of Communication and Transportation and Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
As members of the Revolutionary Directorate, on 13 March 1957, during the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista, he led, together with Carlos Gutiérrez Menoyo, the revolutionary group made up of 50 men that carried out the assault on the Presidential Palace, where he was seriously injured.
Once the revolution triumphed, Faure was recognized with the honorific rank of comandante in the armed forces.
[5] He died on 5 December 2019 in Havana, due to multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.