List of Guatemalans
A list of notable Guatemalans.
A
- Abularach, Rodolfo, painter
 - Álvarez, José Luis (1917–2012), painter
 - Jackie Amezquita (born 1985), performance artist
 - Andrade, Sergio, musician (bassist founder of Lifehouse)
 - Acuña, Angelina writer of prose and poetry
 - Argueta, Luis, film director
 - Arbenz Vilanova, Arabella, actress, model, socialite
 - Arbenz, Jacobo (1913–1971), military officer, former president
 - Manuel José Leonardo Arce Leal (1935-1985), poet and dramatist
 - Arenales Catalán, Emilio (1922–1969), diplomat. Foreign minister of Guatemala from 1966 to 1969 and the president of the United Nations Twenty-Third General Assembly from 1968 to 1969.
 - Arévalo, Juan José, first democratically elected president
 - Arjona, Ricardo, international singer
 - Asturias, Miguel Ángel, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1967)
 - Asturias, Rodrigo, guerrilla leader of ORPA, a.k.a. Comandante Gaspar Ilom, son of writer Miguel Ángel Asturias
 - Ayala Acevedo, Allan, track athlete, national record holder in 400, 400 hurdles, and 1600 relay
 - Aycinena y Piñol, Juan José, ecclesiastical and intellectual conservative in Central America
 
B
- Barrios, Justo Rufino, General, leader of the Liberal movement, dictator
 - Barrondo, Erick, Olympic Silver medalist racewalker
 - Batres Montúfar, José, writer
 - Berganza, Eddie, writer, Executive Editor of DC Comics
 - Bressani Castignoli, Ricardo, nutrition expert and biochemist
 - Bosch Gutierrez, Felipe A., businessman
 - Bosch Gutierrez, Juan Luis, businessman
 
C
- Cardoza y Aragón, Luis, writer, essayist, poet, art critic, and diplomat
 - Carnage, DJ and music producer
 - Carrera, Rafael, general, conservative politician, and President of Guatemala
 - Castillo Armas, Carlos, colonel, politician
 - Rafael Castillo Valdez, politician and diplomat
 - Castillo, Otto René, poet, guerrilla member of FAR
 - Chacón González, Lázaro Army General, former President
 - Chinchilla Recinos, María (1909–1944), schoolteacher
 - Cordón, Kevin, national badminton player
 - Coroy, María Mercedes, Mayan actress
 - Cumez, Paula Nicho, artist
 - Rosa Elena Curruchich (1958-2005), painter
 - Curruchich, Sara, singer-songwriter
 - del Águila, Cynthia (born 1959), Minister of Education 2012–2015
 
E
- Estrada Cabrera, Manuel, lawyer. Secretary of Foreign during Jose Maria Reina Barrios government. President of Guatemala from 1898 to 1920.
 - Espada, Rafael, Vice President of Guatemala and former cardio-thoracic surgeon
 
F
- Flaquer Azurdia, Irma, journalist
 - Flores, Alejandra, soprano
 - Flores, Mateo, athlete
 
G
- Franz Galich (1951–2007), writer
 - Galeotti Torres, Rodolfo, sculptor
 - García Granados y Saborío, María (1860–1878), socialite
 - García Granandos y Zavala, María Josefa (1796–1848), intellectual, writer, journalist and poet
 - García Laguardia, Jorge Mario, jurist, magistrate of the Constitutional Court, and Ombudsman for Human Rights
 - Gerardi Conedera, Juan José, Roman Catholic bishop
 - Goldman, Francisco, writer
 - Gomez Carrillo, Enrique (1873–1927), writer
 - González Palma, Luis, photographer
 - Gutierrez, Juan José, businessman
 - Dionisio Gutierrez Mayorga, businessman
 
H
- Hendricks, Ted, retired American Football linebacker
 - Baudilio Hichos, politician
 
I
- Isaac, Oscar, Guatemalan-American actor
 
J
- Jensen, Alfred Julio, artist
 
L
- La Rue, Frank William, human rights activist
 - Lehnhoff, Dieter, composer, conductor, musicologist
 - Lopez, Antonio, Guatemalan-Mexican soccer player
 - Lubitch Domecq, Alcina, writer
 - Lucas García, Fernando Romeo, general, former President
 
M
- Mack, Myrna, anthropologist
 - Marroquin, Manny, Grammy Award-winning mixer/engineer
 - Martinez, Benito, American actor of Guatemalan descent
 - Menchú, Rigoberta, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1992), indigenous woman, activist, author
 - Menkos, Jonathan, politician, economist and writer
 - Mérida, Carlos, painter
 - Mendez, Francisco, (1907–1962) writer
 - Milla y Vidaurre, José (Salome Jil) (1822–1882), writer
 - Monteforte Toledo, Mario, writer
 - Monterroso, Augusto, writer, winner of the Prince of Asturias Award of literature (2000)
 - Monterroso, Sandra, visual artist and designer
 - Montúfar y Rivera, Lorenzo (1823–1898), politician and lawyer.
 - Morales, Jimmy, President of Guatemala
 - Moreno, Gaby, singer and songwriter
 - Mulet, Edmond, diplomat
 - Óscar Murúa, artist
 
P
- Palencia, Karl M., Record Producer (Pina Records), aka Myztiko
 - Palma, Gustavo Adolfo (1920–2010), singer, lyric tenor
 - Paniagua España, Carlos Eduardo (1915-1988), diplomat
 - Pappa, Marco, Guatemalan national team and Seattle Sounders FC footballer
 - Peña Aldana, Carlos Enrique, winner of Latin American Idol 2nd season
 - Pezzarossi, Dwight, retired Guatemalan National Team and CSD Comunicaciones footballer
 - Plata, Juan Carlos, retired Guatemalan National Team and CSD Municipal footballer
 
Q
- Quevedo, Fernando, Professor of theoretical physics, Cambridge, England
 - Quezada Toruño, Rodolfo, Cardinal, Archbishop of Guatemala City
 
R
- Ramírez, Guillermo, retired Guatemalan national team footballer
 - Ramirez de León, Arnoldo, guerrilla leader of EGP a.k.a. Comandante Rolando Morán
 - Raudales, Henry, violinist
 - Recinos, Adrián, lawyer, historian, Mayanist scholar, essayist, and diplomat
 - Recinos, Efraín, engineer, architect, painter, sculptor, muralist, scenographer, inventor
 - Robles, Rodolfo, physician, discovered onchocercosis (Robles disease)
 - Rodriguez Macal, Virgilio, writer
 - Ríos Montt, Efraín, general, dictator, stands accused of genocide
 - Rodríguez Beteta, Virgilio (1885–1967), lawyer, historian, diplomat and writer
 - Rosenthal, Gert, economist and diplomat
 - Ruiz, Carlos, Guatemalan national team and CSD Municipal footballer
 
S
- Sandarti, Héctor, television personality
 - Sandoval, Kevin, soccer player, 1988 Summer Olympics
 - Saravia, Rodrigo, Guatemala national team footballer
 - Shery, singer, songwriter and producer
 - Soluna Samay, singer, songwriter
 
T
- Tecún Umán, sixteenth century leader of the K'iche' Maya people
 - Tobar, Hector, writer/journalist
 - Turcios Lima, Luis Augusto, Guatemalan army officer, guerrilla leader (FAR)
 
U
- Ubico, Jorge, military dictator
 - Unger, David, author
 - Urruela Federico, diplomat
 
V
- Villatoro, Anton, professional cyclist
 - Villatoro, Alan, International Christian singer, music producer
 - Viñals, Jaime, mountaineer (scaled seven highest peaks in the world)
 - von Ahn, Luis, computer scientist, creator of CAPTCHA technology, professor of Carnegie Mellon University
 - Luis H. Velasquez, (30 December 1919 – 9 February 1997) was a Guatemalan long-distance runner who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was third in the 1951 Pan American Games marathon and third in the 1955 Pan American Games marathon.
 
W
- Wurmser, Juan Mauricio, advertising firm founder, president and CEO[1]
 - Whitbeck, Harris, CNN's International Correspondent based in Mexico City
 
Y
- Yela Günther, Rafael, sculptor
 - Yon Sosa, Marco Antonio, Guatemalan army officer, guerrilla leader MR-NOV13
 
Z
- Zamora, José Rubén, journalist
 - Zuniga, Daphne, Guatemalan-American actress
 
References
- ^ Hunter, B. (28 December 2016). The Statesman's Year-Book 1997-8. Springer. p. 600. ISBN 978-0230271265. Retrieved 15 April 2022.
 
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