List of Guatemalans

List of Guatemalans

This is a list of Guatemalans who are famous or notable. For a list of Guatemalan Presidents see President of Guatemala.
*Alvaro Colom, president
* Rodolfo Abularach, painter
* Chris Michelson, Famous Brewmeister
* Luis Argueta, film director
* Jacobo Arbenz, former president, deposed by CIA & Guatemalan Military
* Ricardo Arjona, International Singer
* [http://homohominilupus.wordpress.com/2006/10/31/cesar-branas-antigua-guatemala-1899-1976/ César Brañas] , writer, poet, journalist and literary critic (1899-1976)
* Juan José Arévalo, First democratically elected president ever
* Miguel Ángel Asturias, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature (1967).
* Rodrigo Asturias (aka Gaspar Ilom), lawyer, revolutionary leader, communist
* Allan Ayala Acevedo, Track Athlete, National Record Holder in 400, 400 Hurdles, and 1600 Relay.
* Justo Rufino Barrios, general, dictator, attempted Central-American union by force
* Alida Boer, Fashion Model/ Entrepenuer / Miss Guatemala 2007
* Felipe A. Bosch Gutierrez, international businessman
* Juan Luis Bosch Gutierrez, international businessman
* Rafael Landivar y Cabellero (1731-1793), writer
* Luis Cardoza y Aragón, writer
* Rafael Carrera, general, dictator
* Pablo G. Castañeda R., writer
* Alex Castillo, Actor
* Carlos Castillo Armas, coronel, CIA agent, Operation PBFORTUNE, Operacion PBSUCCESS
* Ernest Brian Castillo, actor, entrepreneur
* Jesus Castillo, musician
* Otto Rene Castillo, poet (assassinated)
* Antonio Chocano Batres, retired protocol minister, Embajador de Guatemala
* Ana Maria Cisneros Alvarez, Entrepreneur
* Rogelia Cruz Martínez, Miss Universe contestant, JPT Member, Assassinated
* Deborah David, fashion model
* Zipacná de León, painter
* Ricardo Del Carmen, musician and conductor.
* Manuel Estrada Cabrera, general, former dictator
* David Estrada, Guatemalan-Mexican boxer
* Donye Fernandez, Famous Bass and Guitar player
* Irma Flaquer, journalist (assassinated)
* Mateo Flores, marathoner
* Rodolfo Galeotti Torres, sculptor
* Luis Galich, singer and composer
* Rodolfo Galeotti Torres, sculptor
* Manolo Gallardo, painter
* Maria Victoria García, Artist and painter
* Francisco Goldman, author,
* Enrique Gomez Carrillo (1873-1927), writer
* Luis González Palma, photographer
* Juan Jose Gutierrez, international businessman and restaurateur
* Dionisio Gutierrez Mayorga, international businessman, journalist
* Ted Hendricks, Football linebacker
* Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American actor
* Alfred Jensen, artist
* Elías Jimenéz Trachtenberg, film director
* Robert Karimi, Guatemalan/Iranian/American poet,
* Dieter Lehnhoff, composer, conductor, musicologist
* Alcina Lubitch Domecq, author
* Fernando Romeo Lucas García, general, dictator, stands accused of genocide
* Myrna Mack, anthropologist (assassinated)
* Manny Marroquin, Grammy Award winning mixer/engineer
* Benito Martinez (actor), actor
* Shery, singer and songwriter
* Susana Mercedes, fashion model, fashion designer
* Lorena Mena, actress
* Francisco Mendez, (1907-1962) author and member of Tepeus Group
* Jose Milla y Vidaurre (Salome Jil) (1822-1882), writer
* Miroslava Mendoza, vocalist trainer
* Mario Monteforte Toledo, author
* Augusto Monterroso, author, winner of the Prince of Asturias Award of literature (2000).
* Carlos Mérida, painter
* Rigoberta Menchú Tum, human rights activist, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1992).
* Edmond Mulet, UN, Diplomat
* Rodrigo Olivero Guatemalan golf player, youngest national champion
* Juan Carlos Plata , Guatemalan professional soccer league all-time career scoring leader
* Fernando Quevedo, Professor of theoretical physics, Cambridge, England.
* Ricardo Arnoldo Ramirez de León, guerrilla leader (Guerrilla Army of the Poor), a.k.a. Rolando Morán.
* Henry Raudales, violinist
* Rodolfo Robles, physician, discovered onchocercosis "Robles' Disease"
* Virgilio Rodriguez Macal, author
* Efraín Ríos Montt, general, dictator, stands accused of genocide
* Elmar René Rojas, artist and architect
* Carlos Ruiz, Toronto FC soccer player
* Igor Sarmientos, Symphonic and Opera Conductor
* Héctor Sandarti, television personality
* Kevin Sandoval, Soccer player, 1988 Summer Olympics
* Gary Stark Jr., featherweight boxer
* Pablo Sweezey, sculptor
* Ricardo Rosales Román, guerrilla leader (Guatemalan Workers Party), a.k.a. Carlos Gonzalez.
* Monica Sarmientos, actress and musician
* Hector Tobar, writer/journalist
* Luis Augusto Turcios Lima, Guatemalan army officer, guerrilla leader (FAR)
* Atanasio Tzul, mayan leader, revolt against the Spaniards in 1820
* Jorge Ubico, militar, dictator
* David Unger, author
* Ilma Julieta Urrutia Chang, Miss International 1984
* Federico Urruela, Diplomat
* Victor Vaskestler, painter
* Hugo Arce writer, journalist
* Anton Villatoro professional cyclist
* Jaime Viñals, mountaineer (scaled seven highest peaks in the world)
* Harris Whitbeck, CNN correspondent
* Rafael Yela Günther, sculptor
* Marco Antonio Yon Sosa, Guatemalan army officer, guerrilla leader MR-NOV13
* José Rubén Zamora, journalist
* Daphne Zuniga, Guatemalan-American actress
* Carlos Enrique Peña Aldana, winner of Latin American Idol 2nd season
* Sergio Andrade, musician. (bassist founder of LIFEHOUSE)
* Jorge Sarmientos, musician, composer, conductor
* Juan Sisay, painter and photographer
* Gaby Moreno, singer and songwriter
* Brianna Maczko, singer and actress
* Gia Darling, transsexual adult film actress
* Rafael Espada, Vice President of Guatemala and a former a Cardiothoracic Surgeon
* Luis von Ahn, computer scientist, creator of CAPTCHA technlogy, professor of Carnegie Mellon University.
* Carlos "Cash" Luna, international christian minister

"See also:" President of Guatemala


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