Medardo Ángel Silva
 Medardo Ángel Silva (June 8 1898 – June 10 1919) was a renowend Ecuadorian poet and a member of the Generación decapitada.The Generación Decapitada (Decapitated Generation) was a literary group formed by four young Ecuadorian poets in the first decades of the 20th century. Two men from Guayaquil Medardo Ángel Silva and Ernesto Noboa y Caamaño and two men from Quito Arturo Borja and Humberto Fierro were the precursors of modernismo in Ecuador.