List of Salvadorans

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



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
 * 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