# List of Salvadorans

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

* 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

## Scholars, authors and educators

* 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

## Entertainment

* Ana Villafañe, actress
* Cesar Ventura, actor
* 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

## Fashion designers and models

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

## Politicians

* 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

* 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

## Sports

* 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

## Other

* 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