page_title: List of Salvadorans
section_title: Politicians
hierarchical_section_title: List of Salvadorans / Politicians
caption_attribution_description: Español: Prudencia Ayala (c. 1920).
context_page_description: This is a list of notable people born in El Salvador or of Salvadoran descent.
context_section_description: 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
  Oscar Eusebio Argueta, politician, ARENA Founder
  Marisol Argueta de Barillas, Chancelor, ARENA, Senior Director World Economic Forum
caption: Prudencia Ayala, social activist.
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