List of Guatemalans
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This is a list of Guatemalans who are famous or notable. For a list of Guatemalan Presidents see President of Guatemala.
- Rodolfo Abularach, painter
- Luis Argueta, film director
- Jacobo Arbenz, former president
- Ricardo Arjona, internationally acclaimed singer incorporating political and social satire
- Juan José Arévalo, former president
- Miguel Ángel Asturias, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature (1967).
- Justo Rufino Barrios, former dictator
- Óscar Berger Perdomo, current President
- Rafael Landivar y Cabellero (1731-1793), writer
- Luis Cardoza y Aragón, writer
- Rafael Carrera, former dictator
- Carlos Castillo Armas, former president
- Jesus Castillo, musician
- Federico Urruela, Diplomat
- Álvaro Colom Caballeros, politician
- Deborah David, fashion model
- Manuel Estrada Cabrera, former dictator
- Irma Flaquer, journalist (assassinated)
- Rodolfo Galeotti Torres, sculptor
- Manuel Gallardo, painter
- Francisco Goldman, author, Half Guatemalan Half Jewish American
- Enrique Gomez Carrillo (1873-1927), writer
- Luis González Palma, photographer
- Alfred Jensen, artist
- Robert Karimi, American poet, half Guatemalan half Iranian
- Alcina Lubitch Domecq, author
- Fernando Romeo Lucas García, former dictator
- Myrna Mack, political activist (assassinated)
- Virgilio Rodriguez Macal author
- Benito Martinez (actor), Guatemalan actor
- Susana Mercedes, fashion model turned fashion designer
- Jose Milla y Vidaurre (Salome Jil) (1822-1882), writer
- Mario Monteforte Toledo, author
- Augusto Monterroso, winner of the Prince of Asturias Award of literature (2000).
- Carlos Mérida, painter
- Edmond Mulet, UN Diplomat
- Victor Perera Guatemalan author, co-founder of the Los Angeles Jewish organization Ivri-NASAWI
- Igal Permuth, photographer
- Jaime Permuth, photographer
- Mario Permuth, lawyer, diplomat, and photographer
- Carmen de Petterson, painter
- KC Porter, multiple Grammy winning producer
- Alfonso Portillo Cabrera, former president
- Fernando Quevedo, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Cambridge England.
- Héctor Sandarti, television personality
- Ricardo Arnoldo Ramirez de León, leftist guerrilla leader (Guerrilla Army of the Poor), a.k.a. Rolando Morán.
- Efraín Ríos Montt, retired general, politician, former dictator
- Zury Ríos Sosa, congresswoman
- Eduardo Stein, Guatemalan vice-president under Oscar Berger
- Héctor Fernando Ramírez
- Elmar René Rojas, artist and architect
- Carlos Ruiz, FC Dallas soccer player
- Kevin Sandoval, Guatemalan soccer player, 1988 Summer Olympics
- Max Saravia Gual, painter
- Juan Manuel Sisay, painter
- Pablo Sweezey, sculptor
- Elías Jimenéz Trachtenberg, film director
- Rigoberta Menchú Tum, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1992).
- Jorge Ubico, former dictator
- David Unger, author
- Ilma Julieta Urrutia Chang, Miss International 1984
- Victor Vaskestler, painter
- Harris Whitbeck, CNN correspondent
- Rafael Yela Günther, sculptor
- José Rubén Zamora, journalist
- Daphne Zuniga, Guatemalan-American actress
- Manny Marroquin, Grammy Award Winning Mixer/Engineer
- Jerry Hernandez, actor
- Oscar Isaac, Guatemalan-American actor
- Erica Porter, WWA wrestler
- Ted Hendricks, american football linebacker
- Miroslava, vocalist trainer living in Europe
- Henry Raudales, Guatemalan violinist
- Ricardo Del Carmen, Distinguished musician and conductor.
- Jaime Vinals, the only central american that has scaled the 7 highest mountains in the world, including Mount Everest
- Carlos Leon Roldan, guatemalan ophtalmologist that invented a new treatment for blindness
- Edward Hirst), A Guatemalan that works for NASA.
- David Estrada, Guatemalan-Mexican boxer
- Gary Stark Jr., featherweight
- Sabrina, Guatemalan singer
- Lorena Mena, Guatemalan actress
- Luis Alfonso Zepeda, prisoner who ran a luxury prison
- Mario Mejia, Singer/Composer
- Anton Villatoro professional cyclist
- David Longo Drummer, singer , and young actor
See also: President of Guatemala
