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List of Salvadorans

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This is a list of notable people born in El Salvador or of Salvadoran descent (also see Salvadoran American).

República de El Salvador

Flag of El Salvador Coat of arms

• Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, painter, sculptor, and author; wife of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Fernando Llort, painter and sculptor
• Noe Canjura, painter
• Nicolas F. Shi, painter
• Patricia Chica, filmmaker
• Ana Maria de Martinez, artist
• Toño Salazar, caricaturist
• Retna, graffiti artist
• Giovanni Gil, painter, engraver and watercolorist
• Rubén Martínez Bulnes, sculptor, architect

• Alberto Masferrer, intellectual
• Alfredo Betancourt, educator, philosopher
• Ana Sol Gutiérrez, educator
• Claribel Alegría, writer
• Claudia Lars, poet
• René Núñez Suárez, engineer
• Ignacio Martín-Baró, social psychologist and priest
• José Matías Delgado, writer, father of the Salvadoran fatherland
• Juan José Cañas, writer, the national anthem
• Manlio Argueta, novelist
• Marcos Villatoro, author
• Martin Guardado, applied linguist, sociolinguist, educator
• Matilde Elena López, poet, essayist, playwright
• Pedro Geoffroy Rivas, poet, scholar
• Roque Dalton, poet
• Salarrué (Salvador Salazar Arrué), novelist, poet, painter

• Ana Villafañe, actress
• Gerardo Celasco, Miami-born Italian-Salvadoran actor
• Álvaro Torres, singer
• Cáthia, singer, season 4 of the American The Voice
• Sabi, singer
• Efren Ramirez, actor
• Isabel Dada, actress
• J.D. Pardo, actor
• DJ Keoki, techno DJ
• Martina Topley-Bird, vocalist and songwriter
• Pescozada, Latino rap artist
• Pete Sandoval, drummer for the group Morbid Angel
• The Fabulous Wonder Twins, entertainment personalities
• Fernanfloo, Comedy YouTuber
• Julio Torres, writer, comedian, actor, and producer

• Christy Turlington, American-Salvadoran supermodel
• Francesca Miranda, internationally renowned fashion designer

• Alfredo Cristiani, former president
• Álvaro Magaña, banker and interim president
• Ana Maria, guerrilla leader
• Anastasio Aquino, King of the Nonualco tribes, who defeated the government army in 1833
• Antonio Saca, former president
• Armando Calderón Sol, former president
• Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, defense minister, convicted of human rights abuses
• Cayetano Carpio, leader of the leftist insurgency, founder of the FPL.
• Egriselda López, diplomat, Permanent Representative to the UN
• Domingo Monterrosa, military commander of the Armed Forces of El Salvador during the Salvadoran Civil War
• Farabundo Martí, revolutionary
• Francisco Flores, former president
• Gerardo Barrios, liberal president
• Guillermo Ungo, opposition leader and former vice-president
• Joaquín Eufrasio Guzmán, national hero
• Joaquín Villalobos, noted guerrilla leader during Salvadoran civil war
• José Inocencio Alas, former priest and activist
• José Matías Delgado, national hero
• José Napoleón Duarte, former president
• Juan Rafael Bustillo, former Head of the Salvadoran Air Force
• Manuel José Arce, decorated General, president of the Federal Republic of Central America, 1825–1829
• Mauricio Funes, former president
• Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, dictator-president
• Nayib Bukele, current president
• Roberto D'Aubuisson, politician, ARENA
• Rutilio Grande, martyred priest
• Marisol Argueta de Barillas, chancellor, ARENA, Senior Director World Economic Forum

• María Álvarez de Guillén, women's rights activist, writer, and businessperson
• Prudencia Ayala, social activist and writer
• José Castellanos Contreras, humanitarian
• Rosa Amelia Guzmán, suffragette and journalist
• Vicky Guzman, doctor and humanitarian
• Morena Herrera, women's rights activist
• José Gustavo Guerrero, lawyer, diplomat, humanitarian, first president of the International Court of Justice
• María Teresa Rivera, women's rights activist
• Óscar Arnulfo Romero, humanitarian, fourth Archbishop of San Salvador

• Ronnie Aguilar, basketball player
• Dennis Alas, soccer player
• Jaime Alas, soccer player
• Rafael Alfaro, swimmer
• Arturo Alvarez, soccer player
• Frank Avelar, boxer
• Juan Barahona, soccer player
• Pamela Benítez, swimmer
• Léster Blanco, soccer player
• Nelson Bonilla, soccer player
• Junior Burgos, soccer player
• Rosemary Casals, tennis player
• Darwin Cerén, soccer player
• Óscar Cerén, soccer player
• Mauricio Cienfuegos, soccer player
• Jose Cortez, former NFL football player
• Raúl Díaz Arce, soccer player
• Roberto Domínguez, soccer player
• Carlos Figueroa, judoka
• Edwin Figueroa, mixed martial arts fighter
• Andrés Flores, soccer player
• Evelyn García, cyclist
• Mágico González, soccer player
• Tomás Granitto, soccer player
• Carlos Hernandez, boxer
• Emerson Hernández, racewalker
• Gladys Landaverde, runner
• Roberto López, rower
• Ivan Menjivar, mixed martial arts fighter
• Melissa Mikec, sports shooter
• Alfredo Pacheco, soccer player
• Denis Pineda, soccer player
• Steve Purdy, soccer player
• Joaquín Rivas, soccer player
• Steve Rodriguez, baseball player
• Ramón Sánchez, soccer player
• Ricardo Saprissa, athlete, coach, and sport promoter
• Rodolfo Zelaya, soccer player

• Ingmar Guandique, undocumented U.S. immigrant convicted in the death of Chandra Levy and two other American women
• Jose Domingo Medrano, doctor and medical inventor
• Adela del Rosario Cabezas de Allwood early woman doctor
• José Salvador Alvarenga, claimed to have spent 13 months adrift in a fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean

• List of Salvadoran Americans
• List of Salvadorian Olympians