Norberto Azqueta Sr. (June 20, 1930 – November 11, 2020) was a Cuban-born American businessman, with interests in sugar, banking, paper and other industries.
[2] Azqueta moved to the U.S after the rise of the Castro regime in Cuba in 1960.
[3] Azqueta was one of the founders of the Gulfstream Polo Club in Lake Worth, Florida.
[4][5] Azqueta was married to Lian Fanjul Azqueta, the daughter of Cuban-born American sugar baron Alfonso Fanjul Sr.[6] In 2001, his eldest son, Norberto Azqueta Jr., born in Cuba,[3] who was then working for the Fanjul brothers' sugar-making conglomerate, Florida Crystals, married Robin van Orman, the great granddaughter of Burton K. Wheeler, a U.S. senator from 1923 to 1947.
[8] Norberto Azqueta Sr. died in Weston, Florida on November 11, 2020, at the age of 90.