Directors

• Armando Robles Godoy, film director and screenwriter http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0324162/
• Francisco J. Lombardi, film director
• Ricardo de Montreuil
  Ricardo de Montreuil
  Ricardo de Montreuil has achieved recognition in a wide range of media, including film, television, advertising and print.- Early life :...
  
  , film director
• Marco Castro
  Marco Castro
  Marco Castro , in Lima, Peru is an American film director, actor and photographer.-Biography:Born in Lima Peru of a Japanese Spanish descent. He started his career at a very young age studying theatre and performing arts since he was 8 years old...
  
  , film director and actor http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3045618/
• Claudia Llosa
  Claudia Llosa
  Claudia Llosa is a Peruvian film director, writer and producer.- Life and career :She was born in Lima, studied in Newton College and received a degree in communication studies in the University of Lima. She is the niece of the Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa and the film director Luis Llosa....
  
  , film director and screenwriter http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2013191/

Painters

• Carlos Baca-Flor Soberón, Academic International Painter
• Carlos Enrique Polanco
  Carlos Enrique Polanco
  Carlos Enrique Polanco is a notable exponent of Peruvian painting. Since his beginnings he was attracted to the less privileged urban sectors of Lima City. When he studied in School of Fine Arts, his work reflected the iconography and color of the Peruvian urban night life...
  
  , painter
• William Cordova, interdisciplinary artist
• Fernando De Szyszlo
  Fernando de Szyszlo
  Fernando De Szyszlo Valdelomar is a Peruvian artist who is a key figure in advancing abstract art in Latin America since the mid-1950s, and one of the leading plastic artists in Peru.-Studies and influences:...
  
  , painter
• Boris Vallejo
  Boris Vallejo
  Boris Vallejo is a Peruvian-born American painter. He immigrated to the United States in 1964, and he currently resides in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He frequently works with Julie Bell, his wife, painter, and model....
  
  , painter
• Alberto Vargas
  Alberto Vargas
  Alberto Vargas was a noted Peruvian painter of pin-up girls. He is often considered one of the most famous of the pin-up artists...
  
  , erotica painter
• Jose Sabogal
  José Sabogal
  José Sabogal was a Peruvian painter and muralist who was "the most renowned early supporter" and thus a leader in the artistic indigenist movement of his country. As Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez, and Ana M...
  
  , indigenous painter

Photographers

• Martín Chambi
  Martín Chambi
  Martín Chambi Jiménez or Martín Chambi de Coaza, was a photographer, originally from southern Peru...
  
  , photographer
• Mario Testino
• Mariano Vivanco
• Alexander Neumann
• Hans Neumann

Actors

• Silvana Arias
  Silvana Arias
  Silvana Arias is a Peruvian actress. She also holds a degree in fashion design.-Biography:Arias got her start on telenovela series in Peru and Miami for the Hispanic market before earning her first role on American television. From May 17, 2004 through August 15, 2007 she played Paloma...
  
  
• Diego Bertie
  Diego Bertie
  Diego Felipe Bertie Brignardello is a contemporary Peruvian actor of British and Italian descent. He studied at Markham College in Lima, Peru...
  
  
• Benjamin Bratt
  Benjamin Bratt
  Benjamin Bratt is an American actor. He is most famous for his role as Rey Curtis on the TV series Law & Order; and his appearances in the movies Blood in Blood Out, Miss Congeniality, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Traffic, and Piñero.-Early life:Bratt was born in San Francisco, California,...
  
  
• Ricardo Blume
  Ricardo Blume
  Ricardo Blume is a Peruvian actor and theater director. He plays in theater, cinema and TV.-Actor:* Collacocha * El Gran Teatro del Mundo * Emigrados...
  
  
• Stephanie Cayo
  Stephanie Cayo
  Stephanie Cristina Cayo Sanguinetti is a Peruvian actress, singer, and model.As a child, she made her first notable acting appearance in Travesuras del Corazón, a Peruvian soap opera...
  
  
• Henry Ian Cusick
  Henry Ian Cusick
  Henry Ian Cusick is a Scottish-Peruvian actor of stage, television, and film. He is well-known for his role as Desmond Hume on the United States television series Lost, for which he received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination....
  
  
• Vanessa Jeri
  Vanessa Jeri
  Vanessa Jeri is a Peruvian comedy actress, dancer and model.-Biography:Born in 1965, Jeri landed in show business almost without really wanting to. As a child, she did not seriously entertain the idea of becoming a famous actor....
  
  
• Saby Kamalich
  Saby Kamalich
  Saby Kamalich is a Peruvian-born Mexican film and television actress. Her father Antonio Fantoni was from Italy, and her mother was from Croatia...
  
  
• Nathalie Kelley
  Nathalie Kelley
  Nathalie Kelley is a Peruvian-born Australian actress, most notable for playing Neela in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift in 2006, along with her appearance in the music video of Bruno Mars's 2010 single "Just the Way You Are"....
  
  
• Santiago Magill
  Santiago Magill
  Santiago Magill is a Peruvian actor who participates in soap-opera, TV series and films.-Selected filmography:*Corazón voyeur *Eva del Edén *Amiga .... Mariano...
  
  
• Christian Meier
  Christian Meier
  Christian Dietrich Meier Zender is a well-known Peruvian actor and singer in Latin America.-Biography:Christian Dietrich Meier Zender was born in Lima, Peru, the youngest of four children. He is the son of Gladys Zender, Miss Universe 1957, and Antonio Meier. His father is from Peru and his mother...
  
  
• Gianella Neyra
  Gianella Neyra
  Gianella Neyra Magagna , is a Peruvian actress and model.-Career:Neyra began acting at the age of seven and, while a girl, attended the Lee Strasberg studio in New York City...
  
  
• Jose Manuel Pelaez
  Jose Manuel Pelaez
  Jose Manuel Pelaez is a Peruvian actor. He is best known for portraying "El Gordo" in Mañana Te Cuento, the most widely seen movie in Peru in the last ten years, and Mañana Te Cuento 2....
  
  
• Magaly Solier
  Magaly Solier
  Magaly Solier Romero is a Peruvian actress and recording artist.She was born in the province of Huanta, in the region of Ayacucho, a region that suffered from the systematic violence of terrorism during the late 80s and early 90s....
  
  
• Pietro Sibille
  Pietro Sibille
  Pietro Sibille is a Peruvian actor.He won recognition with the Peruvian indie film Días de Santiago, playing the role of a Peruvian ex-soldier with big issues...
  
  
• Ricky Tosso
  Ricky Tosso
  Ricky Tosso , is a Peruvian actor. He started acting when he was 4 years old and has been in many Peruvian TV shows during his career . He is the son of Ricardo Tosso, a well-known actor in Peru, and of Angélica Febres....
  
  

Musicians

• Alex Acuña
  Alex Acuña
  Alejandro Neciosup Acuña aka Alex Acuña is a Peruvian drummer and percussionist, in the Afro-Cuban jazz style.Born in Pativilca, Peru, Acuña played in local bands from the age of ten, and moved to Lima as a teenager. At the age of eighteen he joined the band of Perez Prado, and in 1967 he moved...
  
  
• Alborada
  Alborada
  Alborada is a telenovela made by Mexican TV network Televisa. It is an historical drama, set in colonial Panama and Mexico a few years before Mexican Independence from Spain. The series was broadcast from December 2005 to April 2006 on Univision in the United States...
  
  
• Daniel Alomia Robles
  Daniel Alomía Robles
  Daniel Alomía Robles was a Peruvian composer and ethnomusicologist. He is best known for composing the song El Cóndor Pasa in 1913 as part of a zarzuela, a musical play that alternates between spoken and sung parts, by the same name...
  
  
• Luigi Alva
  Luigi Alva
  Luis Ernesto Alva y Talledo, better known as Luigi Alva is a Peruvian operatic tenor, active in the third quarter of the 20th century. He was admired for his purity of tone, the elegance of his phrasing and the clarity of his diction...
  
  
• Eva Ayllon
  Eva Ayllón
  Eva Ayllón , a composer and singer, is one of Peru's foremost Afro-Peruvian musicians, and one of the country's most enduring stars.-Biography:...
  
  
• Susana Baca
  Susana Baca
  Susana Esther Baca de la Colina is a prominent Peruvian singer-songwriter; two-times Latin Grammy Award winner. She has been a key figure in the revival of Afro-Peruvian music within Peru....
  
  
• Lucho Barrios
  Lucho Barrios
  Luis Barrios Rojas , better known as Lucho Barrios, was a popular Peruvian Bolero singer, well known throughout Latin America, and especially popular in Chile. He was also referred to as "Mr. Marabú"....
  
  
• Cecilia Bracamonte
  Cecilia Bracamonte
  Cecilia Bracamonte Chocano is a Peruvian singer born in Lima, Peru November 22, 1948. Her singer career spans more than forty years.-External links:*...
  
  
• Jorge Bravo de Rueda
  Jorge Bravo de Rueda
  Jorge Bravo de Rueda was a Peruvian pianist and composer.He was born in Chancay, Peru. Inspired by the huaynos of Andean music, he composed the internationally popular tune for guitar and pan flutes "Vírgenes del Sol" : possibly the second best-known Peruvian song worldwide...
  
  
• Arturo "Zambo" Cavero
• Lorenzo Palacios Quispe
  Lorenzo Palacios Quispe
  Lorenzo Palacios Quispe was a Peruvian singer and musician. He arose under the artist name Chacalón...
  
  
• Dolores Delirio
  Dolores Delirio
  Dolores Delirio is a Peruvian rock band formed in 1994 by guitarist Jeffrey Parra, drummer/lyricist Josué Vásquez, bassist/keyboardist Jose Inoñan, and vocalist Ricardo Brenneisen...
  
  
• Juan Diego Florez
  Juan Diego Flórez
  Juan Diego Flórez is a Peruvian operatic tenor, particularly known for his roles in bel canto operas. On June 4, 2007, he received his country's highest decoration, the Gran Cruz de la Orden del Sol del Perú....
  
  
• Fragil
  Frágil
  Frágil is a Peruvian progressive/symphonic hard rock band. Named after an eponymous Yes album , Frágil is one of the most respected rock bands in Perú. Fragil started as a symphonic progressive/hard rock band influenced by the likes of Yes, Genesis, ELP, Jethro Tull, Black Sabbath, Rainbow . They...
  
  
• Chabuca Granda
  Chabuca Granda
  María Isabel Granda Larco , better known as Chabuca Granda, was a Peruvian singer and composer. She created and interpreted a vast number of Criollo waltzes with Afro-Peruvian rhythms...
  
  
• Kuyayky
  Kuyayky
  Kuyayky is one of the most popular and newly influential bands in Andean music. The band has contributed to the prominence and revival of huayno music from central Peru. One of the few Andean music bands with a majority of female members...
  
  
• La Sarita
  La Sarita
  La Sarita is a Peruvian rock group was formed in Lima, circa 1998, by Julio Perez and Martin Choy. La Sarita's name comes from the blessed "Sarita Colonia" a symbol of popular faith. La Sarita has three independent albums Mas Poder released in 1999, Danza la Raza in 2003 and Mamacha Simona in 2009...
  
  
• La Liga del Sueño
  La Liga del Sueño
  La Liga Del Sueño is a Peruvian rock band formed in 1991 which had two minor hits "La Peor de las Guerras" and "Mala Sangre".The band was formed in Lima by several members of the very well known clown troupé called "Pataclaun" including Jorge "Pelo Madueño" , Gonzalo Torres and Johanna San...
  
  
• Libido
• Tania Libertad
  Tania Libertad
  Tania Libertad de Souza Zúñiga, known as Tania Libertad, is a singer who was born in Peru on October 24, 1952 and has lived in Mexico since 1978....
  
  
• Leusemia
  Leusemia
  Leusemia is a Peruvian rock band. The name of the band is a misspelling of the Spanish word leucemia .-History:The band was formed in Lima, Peru in 1983 by Daniel F , Kimba Vilis , and Raúl Montáñez & Cantina. They played simple rock and roll in their early years; because of that they were linked...
  
  
• Los Hang Ten's
  Los Hang Ten's
  "Los Hang Ten's" was a Peruvian rock group formed in 1964, originally from the San Isidro District in the country's capital Lima, from which the band Traffic Sound, the first so-called rock "supergroup" in that country's music history, drew two of its original members and, through them,...
  
  
• Los Pasteles Verdes
  Los Pasteles Verdes
  Los Pasteles Verdes was a Latin pop group most popular in the 1970s. They originated in Chimbote, Peru, but performed for many years in Mexico.-History:...
  
  
• Los Saicos
  Los Saicos
  Los Saicos were a Peruvian garage rock band that has come to be considered one of the most original and influential Latin American bands of the 1960s...
  
  
• Los Troveros Criollos
  Los Troveros Criollos
  Los Troveros Criollos is one of the most relevant groups in the history of Peruvian's musica criolla. Between 1952 and 1961 they recorded a wide range of songs, which became standards within this genre.-History:...
  
  
• Los Zodiacs
  Los Zodiacs
  Los Zodiacs were a Peruvian rock music band of the beginnings 1960s. They toured internationally with successful 45s such as Discos El Virrey, "Berta Lu", "Balada de la trompeta", "Bésame mucho", "Amor misterioso", "100 toneladas", and "What I Said"....
  
  
• Mar de Copas
  Mar de Copas
  Mar de Copas is a Peruvian rock band from Lima. They emerged from the South American independent music scene of the 1990s.Mar de Copas sold over 50,000 copies of their first five albums in Peru, where an album with 5,000 copies sold is considered a "Disco de Oro" . No other Peruvian band has done...
  
  
• Christian Meier
  Christian Meier
  Christian Dietrich Meier Zender is a well-known Peruvian actor and singer in Latin America.-Biography:Christian Dietrich Meier Zender was born in Lima, Peru, the youngest of four children. He is the son of Gladys Zender, Miss Universe 1957, and Antonio Meier. His father is from Peru and his mother...
  
  
• César Miró
  César Miró
  César Alfredo Miró Quesada Bahamonde , more commonly known as César Miró, was a Peruvian writer and composer. He wrote novels, stories, manuscripts, essays, and poetry.-Biography:...
  
  
• Nectar
• Nosequien y Los Nosecuantos
• Pastorita Huaracina
  Pastorita Huaracina
  Pastorita Huaracina born María Alvarado Trujillo, was a Peruvian singer who strongly identified with the traditions of the rural Andes. Her career began in the era of 78 rpm records and lasted into that of compact discs. In the 1950s she recorded 4 songs a month and sold more records in Peru than...
  
  
• El Picaflor de los Andes
• Felipe Pinglo Alva
  Felipe Pinglo Alva
  Felipe Pinglo Alva , known as the father of Peruvian Musica criolla, was an influential and prolific poet and songwriter best known for his often covered "El Plebeyo"...
  
  
• Augusto Polo Campos
  Augusto Polo Campos
  Augusto Armando Polo Campos is a Peruvian composer.-Life:One of the best Peruvians compositors of all times. He is author of innumerable popular international hits which represent the originality and richness of Peruvian identity with their melody and lyrics.In 1933, his family went to reside in...
  
  
• Lucha Reyes
  Lucha Reyes (Peruvian singer)
  Lucila J. Sarsines Reyes , was a Peruvian performer and one of the most respected singers of her country, one of Peru's most famous Afro-Peruvian personalities as well as a symbol of Peruvian nationalism both in Peru and to expatriates.-History:Born to a poor family in the capital, Lima, Reyes was...
  
  
• Willie Rivera
  Willie Rivera
  Willie Rivera is a Peruvian Salsa singer who is responsible for the hit "El Cariño Es Como Una Flor". He and his brother have produced for other bands. His beginnings are with Oscar "Pitin" Sanchez in the Salsa orchestra "La 990" of Peru.- References :...
  
  
• Nicomedes Santa Cruz
  Nicomedes Santa Cruz
  Nicomedes Santa Cruz was an Afro-Peruvian musician who helped raise public awareness of Afro-Peruvian culture....
  
  
• Magaly Solier
  Magaly Solier
  Magaly Solier Romero is a Peruvian actress and recording artist.She was born in the province of Huanta, in the region of Ayacucho, a region that suffered from the systematic violence of terrorism during the late 80s and early 90s....
  
  
• Pedro Suárez Vértiz
  Pedro Suarez Vertiz
  Pedro Martín José María Suárez-Vértiz Alva is a Peruvian singer-songwriter-guitarist.He learned to play the piano and the guitar before he began school. At the age of 18, he attended the University of Lima, graduating with a degree in communications...
  
  
• Yma Súmac
  Yma Súmac
  Yma Sumac was a noted Peruvian soprano. In the 1950s, she was one of the most famous proponents of exotica music. She became an international success based on her extreme vocal range, which was said to be "well over four octaves" and was sometimes claimed to span even five octaves at her peak.Yma...
  
  
• Wendy Sulca
  Wendy Sulca
  Wendy Sulca Quispe is a Peruvian child singer of Huayno music, who found fame thanks to YouTube, where her videos "La Tetita" , "Cerveza, Cerveza" and "Papito" exceeded ten million hits.-Career:Her songs have been on TV and variety shows Wendy Sulca Quispe (born in April 22, 1996 in San Juan de...
  
  
• La Tigresa del Oriente
• Tongo
  Tongo
  Tongo is a town in north eastern Ghana, in the region of Bolgatanga. It is known for the Tengzug shrine and for its sowing and harvest festivals....
  
  
• Traffic Sound
  Traffic Sound
  Traffic Sound was a Peruvian rock band founded in 1967 by Manuel Sanguinetti , Freddy Rizo-Patrón , Jean Pierre Magnet , Willy "Wilito" Barclay , Willy Thorne and Luis "Lucho" Nevares . Freddy and Manuel had met in school and played in Los Hang Ten's...
  
  
• Uchpa
  Uchpa
  Uchpa is a Quechua-singing Peruvian rock & blues band. Freddy Ortiz formed the band in 1994.-Members:*Freddy Ortiz *Marcos Maizel *Julio Valladares *Miguel Ángel Cruz *Ivo Flores...
  
  
• We All Together
  We All Together
  We All Together is a Peruvian rock and roll band formed in 1970. They composed songs both in English and Spanish during their career. Their most known songs are the cover "Carry on till tomorrow" , "Hey Revolution" and "It's a sin to go away", which appeared on Nuggets II.The first line-up was...
  
  
• Gianmarco Zignago
  Gianmarco Zignago
  Gian Marco Javier Zignago Alcóver is a singer-songwriter. He has won the Grammy Latino 2005 for the best 'álbum Cantautor' and also the Grammy Latino Awards of 2011 for the best Singer-Songwriter Album "Días Nuevos"...
  
  
• Crimson Death
  Crimson Death (band)
  Crimson Death is a melodic death metal band founded in 1994 by Geyner Valencia and Edgar Rodríguez, in Arequipa, Peru, playing metal in the vein of the Gothenburg Sound.-Discography:-Current members:*Geyner Valencia - guitar, vocals...
  
  
• Immortal Technique
  Immortal Technique
  Felipe Andres Coronel , better known by the stage name Immortal Technique, is an American rapper of Afro-Peruvian descent as well as an urban activist. He was born in Lima, Peru and raised in Harlem, New York. Most of his lyrics focus on controversial issues in global politics...
  
  
• Thes One
  Thes One
  Thes One, born Christopher Cesar Portugal in Torrance, California, on October 18, 1977, to an American mother and immigrant Peruvian father, is one half of hip hop duo People Under the Stairs, serving as a vocalist/MC, producer, engineer and business manager...
  
  
• Susy Dorn
  Susy Dorn
  Susy Dorn is a teacher, composer, musician, performer, producer, and the creator and founder of the Spanish Immersion Program "Let's Play in Spanish". Her teaching methodology includes theater, puppetry, games, and music that she composes and sings.-Early life:Susy was born and raised in Lima, Perú...
  
  

Boxers

• Mauro Mina
  Mauro Mina
  Mauro Mina Baylón was a Peruvian Light Heavyweight boxer known as the "Bombardero de Chincha", remembered as the best Peruvian boxer of the twentieth century....
  
  
• Orlando Romero
  Orlando Romero
  Orlando Romero is a former boxer from Peru. Nicknamed "Romerito" he was one of South America's top ranked lightweights during the 1980s.-Professional boxing career:...
  
  
• Oscar Rivadeneira
  Oscar Rivadeneira
  Oscar Rivadeneira was a Peruvian boxer, who fought with Michael Spinks in 1983 for the Light Heavyweight championship. He was beaten in a tenth round knockout.-References:...
  
  
• Marcelo Quiñones
  Marcelo Quiñones
  Marcelo Quiñonez is a former boxer from Peru. He was one of South America's top ranked middleweights during the 1970s.-Professional career:...
  
  
• Kina Malpartida
  Kina Malpartida
  Kina Malpartida Dyson is a Peruvian female professional boxer. She is the 2009 World Boxing Association Champion in the Super Featherweight class.-Personal life:Malpartida was born in Lima, Peru in 1980 to Susy Dyson and Oscar Malpartida...
  
  

Chess players

• Julio Granda
  Julio Granda
  Julio Ernesto Granda Zúñiga is a Peruvian chess Grandmaster.In his coastal town, he learned how to play chess at the very young age of five....
  
  
• Oscar Quiñones
• Esteban Canal
  Esteban Canal
  Esteban Canal was a leading Peruvian chess player who had his best tournament results in the 1920s and 1930s.-Birth and life:Born in Chiclayo, Peru, he moved to Italy in the 1920s and remained there.-As a chess player:...
  
  

Football (soccer) players

• Julio Baylón
  Julio Baylón
  Julio Alberto Temístocles Baylon Aragonés was a Peruvian football player.He is the father of Jair Baylon and uncle of Sandro Baylon....
  
  
• José Luis Carranza
• Roberto Challe
  Roberto Challe
  Roberto Federico Chale Olarte, "Roberto Challe" is a former Peruvian football player, recognized as one of Peru's most important midfielders....
  
  
• Héctor Chumpitaz
  Héctor Chumpitaz
  Héctor Eduardo Chumpitaz González is a former footballer from Peru...
  
  
• Luis Cruzado
  Luis Cruzado
  Luis Cruzado is a Peruvian football midfielder who played for Peru in the 1970 FIFA World Cup. He also played for Universitario de Deportes.-External links:*...
  
  
• Teófilo Cubillas
  Teófilo Cubillas
  Teófilo Juan Cubillas Arizaga is a Peruvian former footballer. He was selected as Peru's greatest ever player in an IFFHS poll, in which he was also included in the world's Top 50...
  
  
• César Cueto
• José del Solar
  José del Solar
  José Guillermo del Solar Alvarez-Calderón is a retired Peruvian footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, and a current coach....
  
  
• Jefferson Farfán
  Jefferson Farfán
  Jefferson Agustín Farfán Guadalupe is a Peruvian football player, playing for Schalke 04 in the Bundesliga.-Club career:Farfán began his professional career with Alianza Lima of Peru, with whom he signed for in 2001...
  
  
• Raúl Fernández
  Raúl Fernández Valverde
  Raúl Fernández Valverde is a professional Peruvian football goalkeeper. He started to play for the youth team of Universitario de Deportes and made his way to the first-team. He is currently the second-choice goalkeeper for OGC Nice...
  
  
• Teodoro "Lolo" Fernández
  Teodoro Fernández
  Teodoro Fernández Meyzán , nicknamed "Lolo", was a Peruvian football striker...
  
  
• Nicolás Fuentes
  Nicolás Fuentes
  Nicolás Fuentes Fuentes is a retired Peruvian football player.-Playing career:Fuentes made 17 appearances for the Peru national football team from 1965 to 1971, including playing at the 1970 FIFA World Cup.- Honors:-References:...
  
  
• Alberto Gallardo
  Alberto Gallardo
  Alberto Gallardo was a Peruvian football player and manager.-Career:During his club career, Gallardo played for Sporting Cristal, A.C. Milan, Cagliari Calcio and Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras...
  
  
• José Paolo Guerrero
  José Paolo Guerrero
  José Paolo Guerrero Gonzales is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a striker for Hamburger SV and Peruvian national team. Known as the best peruvian soccer player today.- Early career :...
  
  
• Pedro León
  Pedro León
  Pedro León Sánchez Gil , known as León, is a Spanish footballer who plays for Getafe CF on loan from Real Madrid, as a right winger.-Murcia:...
  
  
• Valeriano López
  Valeriano López
  Valeriano López Mendiola was a football forward from Peru, nicknamed Tanque de Casma...
  
  
• Roberto Martínez Vera-Tudela
• Julio Meléndez
  Julio Meléndez
  Julio Meléndez Calderón is a retired Peruvian football defender.-Career:Meléndez was one of South America's most recognized defenders of his time, and was a great success in Argentine football, to the point of being considered an all-time first team member at Boca Juniors.Meléndez played a total...
  
  
• Ramón Mifflin
  Ramón Mifflin
  Ramón Antonio Mifflin Páez is a former Peruvian football player.- Career :He started his career in Centro Iqueño in 1963, by 1965 he played in Defensor Arica, and signed with Peruvian team Sporting Cristal in 1968 after being named player of the year...
  
  
• Claudio Pizarro
  Claudio Pizarro
  Claudio Miguel Pizarro Bosio is a Peruvian football forward. Pizarro plays for Werder Bremen of the German Bundesliga...
  
  
• Percy Rojas
  Percy Rojas
  Percy Rojas Montero is a retired football midfielder from Peru. He competed for the Peru national football team at the 1978 and 1982 FIFA World Cup. He won the Copa America with the Peru National football team in 1975....
  
  
• Oswaldo Ramírez
  Oswaldo Ramírez
  Oswaldo Felipe Ramírez Salcedo is a retired Peruvian football striker. He is one of the highest scoring players in the history of the Copa Libertadores and he helped Peru to win the Copa América in 1975.-Club career:...
  
  
• Nolberto Solano
  Nolberto Solano
  Nolberto Albino "Nobby" Solano Todco is a Peruvian footballer who plays for Hartlepool United. He has spent much of his career in the English Premier League and also played 95 times for Peru between 1994 and 2009...
  
  
• Hugo Sotil
  Hugo Sotil
  Hugo Alejandro Sotil Yerén is a Peruvian former professional football player. Nicknamed El Cholo, he played as a striker or midfielder. Together with Teófilo Cubillas and Héctor Chumpitaz, he was one of Peru's most recognized football players of the 1970s...
  
  
• Alberto Terry
  Alberto Terry
  Alberto "Toto" Terry Arias-Schreiber was a former Peruvian footballer who played for Universitario de Deportes and the Peruvian national team, is recognized as Peru's most important midfielders....
  
  
• Juan Manuel Vargas
  Juan Manuel Vargas
  Juan Manuel Vargas Risco , is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a wing-back for Italian Serie A club A.C.F. Fiorentina, and the Peru national team and is currently the team's captain...
  
  
• Alejandro Villanueva
  Alejandro Villanueva
  For the stadium by this name in Peru, see Estadio Alejandro VillanuevaCarlos Alejandro Villanueva Martinez was a Peruvian football player, considered one of the most important Alianza strikers in the 1920s and 1930s.-Career:Born in Lima, he played his entire career for Alianza Lima...
  
  
• Santiago Acasiete
  Santiago Acasiete
  Wilmer Santiago Acasiete Ariadela is a Peruvian footballer who plays for UD Almería in Spain, as a central defender.He also holds a Spanish passport, due to the many years he spent in the country.-Club career:...
  
  
• Jair Baylón
  Jair Baylón
  Jair "Jairzinho" Julio Baylón Iglesias is a Peruvian footballer who currently plays for Sport Boys.Jairzinho Baylón was born in Lima, Peru on February 26, 1989 where he started playing Football just when he started walking as a child in the streets of Lima with local school boys...
  
  
• Leao Butron
  Leao Butrón
  Leao Butrón Gotuzzo is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Peruvian First Division club Universidad San Martín de Porres and the Peruvian national team. Butrón's former clubs include Sporting Cristal, Alianza Atlético, and Alianza Lima...
  
  
• Daniel Chávez
  Daniel Chávez
  Daniel Chávez Castillo is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a striker for the Romanian Liga 1 club Oţelul Galaţi.- Attributes :...
  
  
• Rinaldo Cruzado
  Rinaldo Cruzado
  Paulo Rinaldo Cruzado Durand is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Italian Serie A club A.C. Chievo Verona and the Peruvian national team. He was purchased by the Italian Club due to his good performance in the 2011 Copa America.-Alianza Lima:Cruzado came up through the youth...
  
  
• Juan Cominges
  Juan Cominges
  Juan Cominges is a Peruvian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder. He currently plays for Cobresol FBC in the Peruvian First Division. Cominges is a Peruvian footballer who has risen to fame in the South American scene over the recent years...
  
  
• Johan Fano
  Johan Fano
  Johan Javier Fano Espinoza is a Peruvian footballer who currently plays for Universitario de Deportes in the Peruvian First Division.-Career:...
  
  
• Martín Hidalgo
  Martín Hidalgo
  Emilio Martín Hidalgo Conde , commonly known as Martín Hidalgo is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a left wingback for Cienciano del Cuzco in the Peruvian First Division....
  
  
• Hernan Rengifo
  Hernán Rengifo
  Hernán Rengifo Trigoso is a Peruvian football player, who plays for Omonia Nicosia. He is currently 27 years old.- Career :...
  
  
• Alberto Junior Rodríguez Valdelomar
  Alberto Junior Rodríguez Valdelomar
  Alberto Junior Rodríguez Valdelomar, nicknamed El mudo , is a Peruvian footballer who plays for Sporting Clube de Portugal in the Portuguese first division, as a central defender.-Club career:...
  
  
• Carlos Zambrano
  Carlos Augusto Zambrano
  Carlos Augusto Zambrano Ochandarte is a Peruvian footballer who plays for FC St. Pauli on loan from Schalke 04.-Career:...
  
  

Tennis players

• Laura Gildemeister
  Laura Gildemeister
  Laura Arraya is a former Peruvian tennis player who won four professional singles titles.-Career:...
  
  
• Luis Horna
  Luis Horna
  Luis Horna Biscari is a former tour professional tennis player from Peru, who turned professional in 1998. Horna plays right-handed, he has a strong serve for a relatively short player and the forehand is his best stroke. He uses a single-handed backhand and his favourite surface is clay...
  
  
• Alejandro Olmedo
• Jaime Yzaga
  Jaime Yzaga
  Jaime Yzaga Tori is a former professional tennis player from Peru.Yzaga played on the professional tour from 1984 to 1996....
  
  
• Iván Miranda
  Ivan Miranda
  Iván Miranda Chang , is a professional tennis player from Peru. He achieved a career-high singles ranking of World No. 104 in 2003....
  
  
• Mauricio Echazu
  Mauricio Echazú
  Mauricio Echazú Puente is a Peruvian tennis player nicknamed "Garrita" because of his grinding playing style and fight spirit.He is a regular member of the Peruvian Davis Cup team...
  
  
• Laura Arraya

Volleyball players

• Denisse Fajardo
• Rosa García
  Rosa García
  Rosa Gisella García Rivas is a women's volleyball player from Peru. She participated in several Summer Olympics with the Peruvian national team, finishing 4th in 1984 and receiving a silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul....
  
  
• Gina Torrealva
  Gina Torrealva
  Gina Torrealva is a female volleyball player from Peru. She participated in several Summer Olympics with the Peruvian national team, finishing 4th in 1984 and receiving a silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.-References:...
  
  
• Natalia Málaga
  Natalia Málaga
  Natalia Málaga is a volleyball player from Peru. She participated in four Summer Olympics with the Peruvian national team. She placed sixth in 1980, fourth in 1984, won a silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, and placed 11th in 2000.-References:...
  
  
• Gabriela Pérez del Solar
  Gabriela Pérez del Solar
  Gabriela Lourdes Pérez del Solar Cuculiza is a Peruvian female volleyball player and politician . On July 27, 2006 she assumed a position in the Peruvian Congress, representing Lima.-Sports career:...
  
  
• Cecilia Tait
  Cecilia Tait
  Cecilia Roxana Tait Villacorta is a former Afro-Peruvian volleyball player from Lima, and a Peruvian politician. Nicknamed La Zurda del Oro she participated in three Summer Olympics with the Peruvian national team, finishing 4th in 1984 and receiving a silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in...
  
  
• Leyla Chihuán
  Leyla Chihuán
  Leyla Felicita Chihuán Ramos is a former female volleyball player from Peru, who twice represented her native country at the Summer Olympics: 1996 and 2000...
  
  

Beauty queens and models

• Natalie Vértiz
  Natalie Vértiz
  Natalie Vértiz Gonzales is a Peruvian pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Perú 2011 and will represent her country in the 2011 Miss Universe pageant....
  
  , Miss Peru - 2011
• Giuliana Zevallos
  Giuliana Zevallos
  Giuliana Zevallos Roncagliolo is a beauty queen who was crowned Miss Continente Americano 2010 on September 18, 2010, becoming that pageant's very first titleholder from her country....
  
  , Miss Peru - 2010
• Gladys Zender
  Gladys Zender
  Gladys Rosa Zender de Meier is a beauty queen from Peru who became the first Latin American woman to win the Miss Universe title.-Miss Universe:...
  
  , Miss Universe - 1957
• Madeleine Hartog Bell
  Madeleine Hartog Bell
  Madeleine Hartog-Bel won the 1967 Miss World contest, representing Peru.. After making it to the semi-finals of the Miss Universe pageant in 1966, she went on to win the Miss World title in London, UK the following year. After Miss World, she lived in Paris, France for many years, and now she...
  
  , Miss World - 1967
• Claudia Hernández
  Claudia Hernández
  Claudia María Hernández Oré is a Peruvian model and beauty queen. Her natal town is Lima. She studied Business Administration at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas ; now she is studying Marketing at Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola...
  
  , Miss Perú Mundo - 2002/2003
• María Julia Mantilla
  María Julia Mantilla
  María Julia “Maju” Mantilla García is a Peruvian beauty queen who became the second woman from Peru to be crowned Miss World.-Early life:...
  
  , Miss World - 2004
• Danella Lucioni
  Danella Lucioni
  Danella Lucioni is a Peru-born Italian model currently living in Los Angeles, California.- Early life :Born in Arequipa, Lucioni moved to South Pasadena, California with her family when she was 15 years old...
  
  
• Juana Burga Cervera
  Juana Burga Cervera
  Juana Burga Cervera: "Juanita" is a Peruvian fashion model. She won the 2007 Elite Model Look contest of Peru. She also appeared in campaigns for Ripley, Urban Outfitters, Vera Wang, Aveda, and Levi's...
  
  

Military heroes

• Tupac Amaru II
  Túpac Amaru II
  Túpac Amaru II was a leader of an indigenous uprising in 1780 against the Spanish in Peru...
  
  
• Francisco Bolognesi
  Francisco Bolognesi
  Francisco Bolognesi Cervantes was a Peruvian military hero. He is considered national hero in Peru and was declared patron of the Army of Peru by the government of Peru on January 2 of 1951.- Early life and education :...
  
  
• Calcuchímac
• José Gálvez
• Miguel Grau
  Miguel Grau Seminario
  Miguel María Grau Seminario was a renowned Peruvian naval officer and hero of the Naval Battle of Angamos during the War of the Pacific . He was known as the el Caballero de los Mares for his chivalry and is esteemed by both Peruvians and Chileans...
  
  
• José Olaya
  José Olaya
  José Silverio Olaya Balandra was a Peruvian cultural figure and fighter for the independence. He is remembered for the enunciation of his clear political position towards independence with his declaration "If I have a thousands lives, I would give them very glad before reject my country..."-...
  
  
• Alfonso Ugarte
  Alfonso Ugarte
  Alfonso Ugarte was a Peruvian military commander during the War of the Pacific, between Peru and Bolivia against Chile. He ultimately rose to the rank of Colonel....
  
   y Moscoso
• Andrés Avelino Cáceres
  Andrés Avelino Cáceres
  Andrés Avelino Cáceres Dorregaray was three times President of Peru during the 19th century, from 1884 to 1885, then from 1886 to 1890, and again from 1894 to 1895...
  
  
• Leoncio Prado
• José Abelardo Quiňones
• Emilio Cavenecia
  Emilio Cavenecia
  Emilio Cavenecia was a nineteenth century Peruvian military hero killed in battle during the War of the Pacific. Emilio Cavenecia Avenue, in the financial district of San Isidro, Peru, is named in his honor.-Bibliography:...
  
  
• Andrea Giraldo

Politicians and activists

• Fernando Belaúnde Terry
  Fernando Belaúnde Terry
  Fernando Belaúnde Terry was President of Peru for two non-consecutive terms . Deposed by a military coup in 1968, he was re-elected in 1980 after eleven years of military rule...
  
  
• Luis Bedoya Reyes
  Luis Bedoya Reyes
  Luis Bedoya Reyes was a Peruvian Christian Democrat and Christian People's Party politician in the late 1960s. He was the mayor of Lima from 1964 to 1969. He is also a former Minister of Justice, member of the Peruvian Congress and ran for Peruvian president two times...
  
  
• Óscar R. Benavides
  Óscar R. Benavides
  Óscar Raymundo Benavides Larrea , prominent Peruvian field marshal, diplomat and politician, and was the President of Peru from 1914 to 1915 and from 1933 to 1939.- Early life :...
  
  
• Nicolás de Piérola
  Nicolás de Piérola
  H.E. Don Jose Nicolás Baltasar Fernández de Piérola y Villena was a prominent Peruvian politician, the Finance Minister and twice President of the Republic of Peru .-Early years:Nicolás de Piérola was born and educated in the southern Peruvian city of Arequipa...
  
  
• Augusto B. Leguía
  Augusto B. Leguía
  Augusto Bernardino Leguía y Salcedo was a Peruvian politician who twice occupied the Presidency of Peru, from 1908 to 1912 and from 1919 to 1930.-Early life:...
  
  
• José Bustamante y Rivero
  José Bustamante y Rivero
  José Luis Bustamante y Rivero was a lawyer, writer, politician, diplomat, President of Peru from 1945 to 1948 and President of the International Court of Justice in The Hague from 1967 to 1969.- Early years :...
  
  
• Héctor Cornejo Chávez
• Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre
  Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre
  Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre was a Peruvian political leader who founded the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance political movement.-Life:Haya de la Torre was born in the northern Peruvian city of Trujillo...
  
  
• Luis Alberto Sánchez
  Luis Alberto Sánchez
  Luis Alberto Félix Sánchez Sánchez was a Peruvian lawyer, jurist, philosopher, historian, and politician. A historic leader of the Partido Aprista Peruano, he became a Senator, President of the Senate, Vice President of the Republic and Prime Minister.His studies began in 1917...
  
  
• Luis José Orbegozo
• Juan Velasco Alvarado
  Juan Velasco Alvarado
  Juan Francisco Velasco Alvarado was a left-leaning Peruvian General who ruled Peru from 1968 to 1975 under the title of "President of the Revolutionary Government."- Early life :...
  
  
• Francisco Morales Bermudez
  Francisco Morales Bermúdez
  Francisco Morales Bermúdez Cerruti is a Peruvian general who came to power in Peru in 1975 after deposing his predecessor, General Juan Velasco. His grandfather and all his original family were from the old Peruvian department of Tarapacá, which is now part of the Chilean territory...
  
  
• Alan García Pérez
  Alan García Pérez
  Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez was the President of Peru, having won the 2006 elections on 4 June 2006 in a run-off against Union for Peru candidate Ollanta Humala. He is the leader of the APRA and the only party member ever to have served as President of Peru. He served a first term as...
  
  
• Alberto Fujimori
  Alberto Fujimori
  Alberto Fujimori Fujimori served as President of Peru from 28 July 1990 to 17 November 2000. A controversial figure, Fujimori has been credited with the creation of Fujimorism, uprooting terrorism in Peru and restoring its macroeconomic stability, though his methods have drawn charges of...
  
  
• Vladimiro Montesinos
  Vladimiro Montesinos
  Vladimiro Ilyich Montesinos Torres was the long-standing head of Peru's intelligence service, Servicio de Inteligencia Nacional , under President Alberto Fujimori. In 2000, secret videos, which he had recorded, were televised that showed his bribing an elected congressman to leave the opposition...
  
  
• Alejandro Toledo
  Alejandro Toledo
  Alejandro Celestino Toledo Manrique is a politician who was President of Peru from 2001 to 2006. He was elected in April 2001, defeating former President Alan García...
  
  
• Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
  Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
  Javier Pérez de Cuéllar y de la Guerra is a Peruvian diplomat who served as the fifth Secretary-General of the United Nations from January 1, 1982 to December 31, 1991. He studied in Colegio San Agustín of Lima, and then at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. In 1995, he ran unsuccessfully...
  
  
• José Carlos Mariátegui
  José Carlos Mariátegui
  José Carlos Mariátegui La Chira was a Peruvian journalist, political philosopher, and activist. A prolific writer before his early death at age 35, he is considered one of the most influential Latin American socialists of the 20th century...
  
  
• Ramón Castilla
  Ramón Castilla
  Ramón Castilla y Marquesado was a Peruvian caudillo and President of Peru four times. His earliest prominent appearance in Peruvian history began with his participation in a commanding role of the army of the Libertadores that helped Peru become an independent nation...
  
  
• Víctor Andrés Belaúnde
  Víctor Andrés Belaúnde
  Víctor Andrés Belaúnde Diez Canseco was a Peruvian diplomat who chaired the Fourteenth session and the fourth emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly .Victor Andrés Belaúnde was born in Arequipa, Peru...
  
  

Revolutionaries

• Abimael Guzmán
  Abimael Guzmán
  Manuel Rubén Abimael Guzmán Reynoso , also known by the nom de guerre Presidente Gonzalo , a former professor of philosophy, was the leader of the Shining Path during the Maoist insurgency known as the internal conflict in Peru...
  
  
• Edith Lagos
  Edith Lagos
  Edith Lagos Saez was a member of the Shining Path who was killed by the Peruvian security forces when she was nineteen years old. Her funeral was attended by thousands of people. The Rodrigo Franco Command later bombed her tomb.-References:...
  
  
• Óscar Ramírez
  Óscar Ramírez
  Óscar Ramírez Durand , who is commonly known as Comrade Feliciano, was one of the leaders of the Shining Path, a Maoist guerrilla movement in Peru....
  
  
• Tupac Amaru II
  Túpac Amaru II
  Túpac Amaru II was a leader of an indigenous uprising in 1780 against the Spanish in Peru...
  
  
• Mateo Pumacahua
  Mateo Pumacahua
  Mateo García Pumacahua was a Peruvian revolutionary in the War of Independence.-Biography:Pumacahua was the cacique of Chinchero, brigadier of the militia of the Viceroyalty of Peru, and interim president of the Audiencia of Cuzco...
  
  
• Mariano Melgar
  Mariano Melgar
  Mariano Melgar was a Peruvian patriot, poet, artist, and warrior for the cause of independence from Spain. As a poet, Melgar became one of the most prominent romantic poets of Peru in the 19th century history, best known for his famous poetic love songs known as yaravíes...
  
  

Hurin dynasty

1. Manco Cápac
   Manco Capac
   Manco Cápac was the legendary first Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cusco and a figure of Inca mythology. There are several versions of his origin story, which connect him to the foundation of Cusco.- Inti legend :In one myth, Manco Cápac was a son of the sun god Inti and Mama Quilla, and brother of...
   
   
2. Sinchi Roca
   Sinchi Roca
   Sinchi Roca was the second Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cuzco and a member of the Húrin dynasty...
   
   
3. LLoque Yupanqui
   Lloque Yupanqui
   Lloque Yupanqui was the third Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cuzco and a member of the Hurin dynasty. He was the son and successor of Sinchi Roca and the father of Mayta Cápac...
   
   
4. Mayta Cápac
   Mayta Capac
   Mayta Cápac was the fourth Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cuzco and a member of the Hurin dynasty. As son of Lloque Yupanqui, he was his heir and the father of Cápac Yupanqui...
   
   
5. Cápac Yupanqui
   Capac Yupanqui
   Cápac Yupanqui was the fifth Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cusco and the last of the Hurin dynasty. He was the son and successor of Mayta Cápac. His wife Mama Cusi Hilpay or Qorihillpay was the daughter of the lord of Anta, previously a great enemy of the Incas...
   
   

Hanan dynasty 

1. Inca Roca
   Inca Roca
   Inca Roca was the sixth Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cusco and the first of the Hanan dynasty. His wife was Mama Michay, and his son was Yáhuar Huácac.- Biography :...
   
   
2. Yahuar Huaca
3. Wiracocha
4. Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui
5. Tupac. Inca Yupanqui
6. Huayna Capac
   Huayna Capac
   Huayna Capac was the eleventh Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire and sixth of the Hanan dynasty. He was the successor to Tupac Inca Yupanqui.-Name:In Quechua, his name is spelled Wayna Qhapaq, and in Southern Quechua, it is Vaina Ghapakh...
   
   
7. Huáscar
   Huáscar
   Huáscar Inca was Sapa Inca of the Inca empire from 1527 to 1532 AD, succeeding his father Huayna Capac and brother Ninan Cuyochi, both of whom died of smallpox while campaigning near Quito.After the conquest, the Spanish put forth the idea that Huayna Capac may have...
   
   
8. Atahualpa
   Atahualpa
   Atahualpa, Atahuallpa, Atabalipa, or Atawallpa , was the last Sapa Inca or sovereign emperor of the Tahuantinsuyu, or the Inca Empire, prior to the Spanish conquest of Peru...
   
   

Incas of Vilcabamba [Inca rulers during the Spanish Colony]

• Manco Inca Yupanqui
  Manco Inca Yupanqui
  Manco Inca Yupanqui was one of the Incas of Vilcabamba. He was also known as "Manco II" and "Manco Cápac II" . Born in 1516, he was one of the sons of Huayna Cápac and came from a lower class of the nobility.Túpac Huallpa, a puppet ruler crowned by conquistador Francisco Pizarro, died in 1533...
  
  
• Sayri Tupac Inca
• Titu Cusi Yupanqui
• Túpac Amaru
  Túpac Amaru
  Túpac Amaru, also called Thupa Amaro , was the last indigenous leader of the Inca state in Peru.-Accession:...
  
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Scientists

• Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo
  Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo
  Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo was born on January 10, 1887 in the country estate of Vista Bella, province of Aija, Peru, department of Ancash.His secondary education was realized in the convent of San Agustín of Huaraz and in the school Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe in Lima.Later, in the Universidad...
  
  
• Anthony Atala
  Anthony Atala
  Anthony Atala, M.D., is the W.H. Boyce Professor and Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and Chair of the Department of Urology at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine in North Carolina...
  
  
• Alberto Barton
  Alberto Barton
  Alberto Barton, was a Peruvian microbiologist who discovered the etiologic agent of Carrion´s disease or Oroya fever. The bacteria was named: Bartonella bacilliformis, in his honor.-Youth and education:...
  
  
• G. E. Berrios
  G. E. Berrios
  German E. Berrios is a Professor of Psychiatry at Cambridge University in the UK.He was born in Tacna, Peru, and studied medicine and philosophy at the University of San Marcos . Subsequently, he read psychology and philosophy at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, where he was a scholar by...
  
  
• Jaime Campos
• Sebastian Echegaray
• Pedro Paulet
  Pedro Paulet
  Pedro Paulet Mostajo was a Peruvian scientist who claimed he, in 1895, was the first person to build a liquid-fuel rocket engine and, in 1900, the first person to build a modern rocket propulsion system. Paulet is considered one of the "fathers of aeronautics"...
  
  
• Diego Ferreyra
• Pedro Ruiz Gallo
• Jorge Heraud
• Julio C. Tello
  Julio C. Tello
  Julio César Tello was a Peruvian archaeologist. Tello is considered the "father of Peruvian archeology" and was America's first indigenous archaeologist...
  
  
• Eduardo A. Pretell
• Javier Mariátegui
  Javier Mariategui
  Javier Mariategui Chiappe was a renowned Peruvian intellectual and psychiatrist. He was born the 13th September 1928. Was the latest of the children of Jose Carlos Mariategui and Ana Chiappe. Studied at the University of San Marcos where also he started teaching; he was also a founder of the...
  
  
• Michel Angelo Mendoza
• Gastón Pons Muzzo
  Gastón Pons Muzzo
  Gastón Pons Muzzo was an eminent Peruvian chemist. He was born in Tacna, Peru and joined National University of San Marcos staff in 1960s to lecture general chemistry laboratory at the Department of Chemistry. He also was renowned for the teaching of physical chemistry and for the accompanying...
  
  
• Carlos Villavicencio
• Barton Zwiebach
  Barton Zwiebach
  Barton Zwiebach is a string theorist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, born in Lima, Perú. His undergraduate work was in Electrical Engineering at the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería in Peru, from which he graduated in 1977.His graduate work was in physics at the...
  
  
• Brenda Alvarez Negli
• Gustavo R. Paz-Pujalt
  Gustavo R. Paz-Pujalt
  Gustavo R. Paz-Pujalt is a Peruvian American scientist and inventor. He holds 45 US Patents and 59 International Patents mainly in the areas of remote sensing, thin films, sensors, upconversion materials, and business processes...
  
  
• Piermaria Oddone
  Piermaria Oddone
  Piermaria J Oddone is a Peruvian-American particle physicist.Born in Peru, Oddone earned his bachelor's degree in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1965 and a PhD in Physics from Princeton University in 1970....
  
  
• Carlos Carrillo Parodi
  Carlos Carrillo Parodi
  Dr.PhD Carlos Carrillo Parodi, medical microbiologist, professor and founder of the University Cayetano. He was National Coordinator of the Global Programme of eradication of smallpox in Peru in 1972, founding member of the Society of Infectious Diseases in 1978, Head of the National Institute of...
  
  

Writers

• Martín Adán
  Martín Adán
  Martín Adán , pseudonym of Rafael de la Fuente Benavides, was a Peruvian poet whose body of work is notable for its hermeticism and metaphysical depth....
  
  
• Ciro Alegría
  Ciro Alegría
  Ciro Alegría Bazán was a Peruvian journalist, politician, and novelist.-Biography:Born in Huamachuco District, he exposed the problematic of the native Peruvians, learning about their way of life. This understanding of how they were oppressed was the focus for his novels...
  
  
• José María Arguedas
  José María Arguedas
  José María Arguedas Altamirano was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist who wrote mainly in Spanish, although some of his poetry is in Quechua...
  
  
• Jaime Bayly
  Jaime Bayly
  Jaime Bayly Letts is a Peruvian writer, journalist and television personality. He is the third of 10 children and is known as "el niño terrible" .-Early life:...
  
  
• Alfredo Bryce Echenique
• José María Eguren
  José María Eguren
  José María Eguren Rodríguez was a Peruvian writer. Although principally known for his poetry, Eguren was also a journalist, painter, photographer and even an inventor....
  
  
• Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
  Inca Garcilaso de la Vega
  Garcilaso de la Vega , born Gómez Suárez de Figueroa, was a historian and writer from the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru. The son of a Spanish conquistador and an Inca noblewoman, he is recognized primarily for his contributions to Inca history, culture, and society...
  
  
• Manuel González Prada
  Manuel González Prada
  Jose Manuel de los Reyes González de Prada y Ulloa was a Peruvian politician and anarchist, literary critic and director of the National Library of Peru...
  
  
• Eduardo Gonzalez Viaña
  Eduardo Gonzalez Viaña
  Eduardo González Viaña is a writer and professor of Spanish at Western Oregon University....
  
  
• Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala
• Javier Heraud
  Javier Heraud
  Javier Heraud Pérez was a Peruvian poet and member of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional .In January 1963, a group led by the 21-year-old poet Javier Heraud and Alain Elias crossed through Bolivia, where they picked up weapons, and entered southern Peru...
  
  
• Luis Jochamowitz
  Luis Jochamowitz
  Luis Jochamowitz is a Peruvian journalist and writer.Jochamowitz has worked for the Peruvian magazines Variedades and Caretas. In 1993, while Alberto Fujimori was president of Peru, he published Ciudadano Fujimori...
  
  
• José Carlos Mariátegui
  José Carlos Mariátegui
  José Carlos Mariátegui La Chira was a Peruvian journalist, political philosopher, and activist. A prolific writer before his early death at age 35, he is considered one of the most influential Latin American socialists of the 20th century...
  
  
• Clorinda Matto de Turner
  Clorinda Matto de Turner
  Clorinda Matto de Turner was a Peruvian writer who lived during the age of the Latin American independence movements. Her own independence inspired women throughout the region as her writings sparked controversy in her own culture.- Biography :She was born and raised in Cuzco, Peru...
  
  
• Ricardo Palma
  Ricardo Palma
  Manuel Ricardo Palma Soriano was a Peruvian author, scholar, librarian and politician. His magnum opus is the Tradiciones peruanas.- Biography :...
  
  
• Julio Ramón Ribeyro
  Julio Ramón Ribeyro
  Julio Ramón Ribeyro Zúñiga was a Peruvian writer best known for his short stories. He was also successful in other genres: novel, essay, theater, diary and aphorism. In the year of his death, he was awarded the US$100,000 Premio Juan Rulfo de literatura latinoamericana y del Caribe...
  
  
• José Santos Chocano
  José Santos Chocano
  José Santos Chocano Gastañodi was a Peruvian poet who is also known as "The Singer of Americas", because the first line of one of his most celebrated poems: "I am the singer of the America, Autochthonous and Savage""...
  
  
• Julio Ugarte y Ugarte
  Julio Ugarte y Ugarte
  Julio Ugarte y Ugarte was a Peruvian writer and founder of the Society of Transcendental Philosophy in Brazil.-Career:...
  
  
• Abraham Valdelomar
  Abraham Valdelomar
  Pedro Abraham Valdelomar Pinto was a Peruvian narrator, poet, journalist, essayist and dramatist; he is considered the founder of the avant-garde in Peru, although more for his dandy-like public poses and his founding of the journal Colónida than for his own writing, which is lyrically...
  
  
• César Vallejo
  César Vallejo
  César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was a Peruvian poet. Although he published only three books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century in any language. Thomas Merton called him "the greatest universal poet since Dante"...
  
  
• Mario Vargas Llosa
  Mario Vargas Llosa
  Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquis of Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian-Spanish writer, politician, journalist, essayist, and Nobel Prize laureate. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists, and one of the leading authors of his generation...
  
   Nobel Prize of Literature
• José Watanabe
  José Watanabe
  José Watanabe was a Peruvian poet who won a number of literary awards.Watanabe was born in Laredo, a large sugar cane farm in northern Peru. His father was a Japanese immigrant and his mother was a Peruvian of Andean origin...
  
  
• Michael Bentine
  Michael Bentine
  Michael Bentine CBE was a British comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons. A Peruvian Briton by heritage as a result of his father's nationality, In 1971 Bentine received the Order of Merit of Peru because of his fund-raising work for the 1970 Great Peruvian...
  
  

Social Scientists

• Jorge Basadre
  Jorge Basadre
  Jorge Basadre Grohmann was a Peruvian historian known for his extensive publications about the independent history of his country...
  
  
• Hernando de Soto
  Hernando de Soto (economist)
  Hernando de Soto is a Peruvian economist known for his work on the informal economy and on the importance of business and property rights. He is the president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy , located in Lima, Peru.-Childhood and education:Hernando de Soto was born in 1941 in Arequipa,...
  
  
• Alberto Flores Galindo
  Alberto Flores Galindo
  Alberto Flores Galindo was a famous Peruvian historian, social scientist, and essay writer. He was the founder of the Centro de Investigacion Casa SUR.-Biography:...
  
  
• Gustavo Gutiérrez
  Gustavo Gutiérrez
  Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino, O.P., is a Peruvian theologian and Dominican priest regarded as the founder of Liberation Theology...
  
   Theologian
• Anibal Quijano
  Anibal Quijano
  Anibal Quijano is a Peruvian sociologist and humanist thinker, known for having developed the concept of "coloniality of power". His body of work has been influential in the fields of post-colonial studies and critical theory....
  
  

Other

• Gustavo Gutiérrez
  Gustavo Gutiérrez
  Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino, O.P., is a Peruvian theologian and Dominican priest regarded as the founder of Liberation Theology...
  
   Theologian
• Saint Rose of Lima
• Saint Martin de Porres
• Jorge Chavez
  Jorge Chávez
  Jorge Chávez Dartnell , also known as Géo Chávez, was a Franco – Peruvian aviator. At a young age, he achieved fame for his aeronautical feats...
  
  , airplane pilot
• Carlos I. Noriega
  Carlos I. Noriega
  Carlos Ismael Noriega is a Peruvian born NASA employee, a former NASA astronaut and a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel.-Personal:...
  
  , astronaut
• Eduardo Tokeshi
  Eduardo Tokeshi
  Eduardo Tokeshi Namizato is a contemporary Peruvian artist.Eduardo Tokeshi was born on August 12, 1960 in Lima. His parents are Victor Tokeshi and Sara Namizato; he has one brother Jorge and one sister Maritza...
  
  , artist
• Richiardi Jr
  Richiardi Jr
  Richiardi Jr. , was the stage name of magician Aldo Izquierdo , who became infamous for dramatic and gory stage presentations of classic stage illusions....
  
  , stage magician