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This is a list of famous or notable people born in El Salvador or of Salvadoran descent.
- Noe Canjura, painter
- Jose Mejia Vides, painter, sculptor
- Alejandro Cotto, filmaker
- Edwin Arévalo, filmmaker
- Pedro Ipiña, painter
- Fernando Llort, painter and sculptor
- Víctor Ruano, visual artist, filmmaker
- Toño Salazar, caricaturist
- Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, painter, sculptor, and author, wife of Antoine de Saint Exupéry
- Adrian Bellani,(Half Salvadoran), actor, plays Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald on the NBC daytime drama, Passions.
[edit] Scholars, Authors, and Educators
- Jose Samuel Ortiz, university professor, pharmacist
- Rafael Olmedo Artiga, music composer
- Emma Escalante Rubio (Carmen Navarro), singer
- Claribel Alegría,writer
- Manlio Argueta, novelist
- Alfredo Betancourt, educator, philosopher
- Carlos Córdova, writer
- Roque Dalton, poet
- Jacinta Escudos, novelist
- Pedro Geoffroy Rivas, poet, scholar
- Ana Sol Gutiérrez, educator
- David J. Guzmán, doctor, archeologist, botanist, writer, statesman
- Claudia Lars, poet
- Ignacio Martín-Baró, Social psychologist and Jesuit priest
- Alberto Masferrer, intellectual
- Salarrué (Salvador Salazar Arrué), novelist, poet, painter.
- Ramon Hernandez Quintanilla, journalist, intellectual, writer
- David Escobar Galindo, poet, educator
- Gianmarco Ruffatti, writer
[edit] Entertainment
[edit] Heroes and Martyrs
[edit] Fashion Designers and Models
- Francesca Miranda Fashion Designer
- Miguel Ángel Cerna
- Christy Turlington (Half Salvadoran), supermodel (born January 2, 1969 in Walnut Creek, California) is an American supermodel
- María Isabel Arrieta Gálvez The only Central American to win second place in the global contest "Miss Universe." (1955)
[edit] Past and Current Political Figures
- Ana Maria, guerrilla leader
- Lynda Barros, Latina Civil Rights Activist
- Gerardo Barrios, liberal president
- Armando Calderón Sol, former president
- Cayetano Carpio, guerrilla leader
- Antonio Claramount Lucero, "eternal" presidential candidate
- Alfredo Cristiani, former president
- Roberto D'Aubuisson, politician, ARENA founder
- José Napoleón Duarte, former president
- Liz Figueroa, California state senator
- Francisco Flores, former president
- Mauricio Funes, journalist, commentator, rising politician
- Rutilio Grande, martyred priest
- Schafik Hándal, guerrilla leader and presidential candidate
- Monica Lewinsky, (Salvadoran father),had affair with US President Clinton in 1990s
- Álvaro Magaña, banker and interim president
- Alejandro Melendez, san sebastian volunteer/leader
- Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, dictator-president
- Miguel Mármol, labor union activist
- Sigifredo Ochoa, colonel and ARENA deputy
- Farabundo Martí, communist leader
- Antonio Saca, current president
- Guillermo Ungo, opposition leader and former vice-president
- Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, defense minister, convicted of human rights abuses
- Joaquín Villalobos, guerrilla leader
- Rubén Zamora, opposition leader
- José Inocencio Alas, "Chencho", former priest and activist
[edit] Sportspeople
- Ronald Cerritos, footballer, in the MLS
- Mauricio Cienfuegos, footballer, former player for the Los Angeles Galaxy
- Jose Cortez, NFL Football
- Raúl Díaz Arce, footballer in the MLS
- Jorge González, footballer, better known as el Mágico González
- Carlos "El Famoso" Hernández, Boxer, holds the Jr. Lightweight world title
- Eliseo Quintanilla, footballer, in the MLS
- Jorge Rodríguez, footballer, in the MLS
- Jaime Rodriguez, footballer, former player of the Bayer Uerdingen
- Hugo Perez, footballer, born in El Salvador, played for United States in the 1994 world cup and 1984 summer olympic games
- Rosemary Casals, Salvadoran parents, American tennis player
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