Rolando López Dirube (August 14, 1928 – January 23, 1997), the son of Rolando López and Ofelia Dirube, was a Cuban artist who died in Puerto Rico, where he had lived for many years, at the age of 69.
He was born in Havana, became deaf at the age of eight,[1] and completed high school in the Colegio La Salle.
López Dirube then began studying engineering but quit after starting to paint and draw on his own.
He briefly studied art in the United States in 1949 and returned there as a political exile in 1960 before eventually settling in Cataño, Puerto Rico.
López Dirube was an important contributor to the development of fine arts in Puerto Rico.