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

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• 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

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• 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

 

Humanitarians and activists edit

• 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

 

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