List of Salvadorans

This is a list of famous or 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)

Arts

Augusto Crespin, painter
Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, painter, sculptor, and author; wife of Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Fernando Llort, painter and sculptor
Noe Canjura, painter
Patricia Chica, filmmaker
Toño Salazar, caricaturist

Consuelo de Saint Exupéry writer, poet, sculptural, wife of French writer and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Alberto Masferrer, intellectual
Alfredo Betancourt, educator, philosopher
Ana Sol Gutiérrez, educator
Claribel Alegría, writer
Claudia Lars, poet
Ignacio Martín-Baró, social psychologist and priest
Manlio Argueta, novelist
Marcos Villatoro, author
Pedro Geoffroy Rivas, poet, scholar
Roque Dalton, poet
Salarrué (Salvador Salazar Arrué), novelist, poet, painter.
Dr. Tania Pleitez, art historian, author

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.
Domingo Monterrosa, was a 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, was a decorated General and president of the Federal Republic of Central America from 1825 to 1829.
Mauricio Funes, current President
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, dictator-president
Roberto D'Aubuisson, politician, ARENA
Rutilio Grande, martyred priest

José Castellanos Contreras, humanitarian
Óscar Arnulfo Romero, humanitarian he was the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador.
Vicky Guzman, doctor and humanitarian
Sabino Larios, humanitarian, christian

Arturo Alvarez, soccer player
Edwin Figueroa, Mixed Martial Arts Fighter.
Ivan Menjivar, Mixed Martial Arts Fighter.
Jaime Alas, soccer player
Jose Cortez, former NFL football player
Léster Blanco, soccer player
Mágico González, soccer player.
Mauricio Cienfuegos, soccer player
Raúl Díaz Arce, soccer player
Ricardo Saprissa, athlete, coach, and sport promoter
Rodolfo Zelaya, soccer player.
Roger Huerta, Mixed martial arts Fighter.
Ronnie Aguilar, basketball player who also played in NBA
Rosemary Casals, former tennis player and winner of many Grand Slam women's doubles and mixed doubles tournaments.
Steve Purdy, soccer player
Carlos Hernandez, boxer

Ingmar Guandique Undocumented US immigrant convicted in death of Chandra Levy and two other American women
José Salvador Alvarenga Claimed to have spent 13 months adrift in a fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean.^[1]