Manuel Rionda Polledo

Manuel Rionda (1854–1943) was a Spanish-born, US-based sugar baron in Cuba.

Early life Manuel Rionda was born in 1854 in Noreña, Spain. The Rionda family began investing in Cuban sugar in the 1860s. By 1870, when Rionda was sixteen, Rionda emigrated to Cuba. By 1915, he co-founded the Cuba Cane Sugar Company with his family. They had no children, but they raised his orphaned nephew, Manuel Enrique Rionda, who later resided on the Glen Goin estate in Alpine with his wife, Ellen Goin. A tower designed by architect Charles Rollinson Lamb on his former estate still stands in Alpine, New Jersey, one of the most affluent zipcodes in the United States.