4.6096° N, 74.0817° W

BOGOTA

Most Famous People Born in Bogota, Colombia

Notable people
1,278
Peak decade
1960s
Median birth year
1964
Most distinctive
Model 4.5×

A highland capital whose bench is dominated by the television, diplomatic, and legal class of a city that has always run Colombia. Bogotá's distinctive professions are models, diplomats, actors, sport figures, journalists, lawyers, film workers, and writers — the profile of a capital that exports telenovela leads and news anchors at densities rare outside Caracas. García Márquez defined its literary self-image from afar, and the modern half of the bench runs through the RCN and Caracol generation that came up in the 1990s.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Bogota during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1960s with 203 notable births.

What Bogota Is Known For

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Actor is Bogota's biggest profession — 16% of all notables (202).

Bogota over-indexes on model4.5× the global rate.

  1. Actor202
  2. Football194
  3. Politician114
  4. Writer67
  5. Sport63
  6. Journalist59
  7. Lawyer49
  8. Painter32
  1. Model154.5×
  2. Diplomat233.1×
  3. Actor2023.0×
  4. Sport633.0×
  5. Journalist592.9×
  6. Lawyer492.2×
  7. Film312.0×
  8. Writer671.6×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Bogota's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

160016501700175018001850190019502000
  • Sports
  • Film & TV
  • Politics & Law
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Art & Design
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Showing 114 of 1,278 notable people

0002 POLITICIAN

Juan Manuel Santos

Born 1951

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Íngrid Betancourt

Born 1961

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0008 POLITICIAN

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán

1905 - 1948

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0014 POLITICIAN

Carlos Lleras Restrepo

1908 - 1994

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0019 POLITICIAN

Ernesto Samper

Born 1950

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0020 POLITICIAN

Eduardo Santos

1888 - 1974

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0027 POLITICIAN

Clara Rojas

Born 1964

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0030 POLITICIAN

José Manuel Marroquín

1827 - 1908

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0063 POLITICIAN

Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez

1858 - 1927

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0064 POLITICIAN

Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez

1890 - 1972

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0074 POLITICIAN

José Vicente Concha

1867 - 1929

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0084 POLITICIAN

Álvaro Gómez Hurtado

1919 - 1995

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0085 POLITICIAN

Indalecio Liévano

1917 - 1982

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0092 POLITICIAN

Domingo Caycedo

1783 - 1843

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0093 POLITICIAN

Germán Vargas Lleras

Born 1962

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0104 POLITICIAN

Clara López Obregón

Born 1950

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0110 POLITICIAN

Claudia López Hernández

Born 1970

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0132 POLITICIAN

Mauricio Cárdenas Santamaría

Born 1962

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0135 POLITICIAN

Luis Eduardo Garzón

Born 1951

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0136 POLITICIAN

Rafael Pardo Rueda

Born 1953

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0154 POLITICIAN

Iván Cepeda Castro

Born 1962

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0175 POLITICIAN

Francisco Santos Calderón

Born 1961

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0182 POLITICIAN

Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera

Born 1959

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0231 POLITICIAN

Juan Manuel Galán Pachón

Born 1971

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0234 POLITICIAN

Paul Fromm (white supremacist)

Born 1949

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0238 POLITICIAN

Vera Grabe

Born 1951

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0242 POLITICIAN

Tana De Zulueta

Born 1951

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0246 POLITICIAN

José María Carbonell

1778 - 1816

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0252 POLITICIAN

María Cristina Arango Vega

1928 - 2017

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0261 POLITICIAN

Andrés González Díaz

Born 1955

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0267 POLITICIAN

Mauricio Santa María Salamanca

Born 1966

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0278 POLITICIAN

Alexandra Moreno Piraquive

Born 1969

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Blanca Inés Durán Hernández

Born 1971

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Rudolf Hommes Rodríguez

Born 1943

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0296 POLITICIAN

Eustorgio Salgar

1831 - 1885

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Eugene Semple

1840 - 1908

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0309 POLITICIAN

José Miguel Pey de Andrade

1763 - 1838

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Manuel de Bernardo Álvarez del Casal

1743 - 1816

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0367 POLITICIAN

Yolanda Pulecio

Born 1939

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0384 POLITICIAN

Ricardo Gaitán Obeso

1851 - 1886

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0394 POLITICIAN

Armando Samper Gnecco

1920 - 2010

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0400 POLITICIAN

Estanislao Vergara Sanz de Santamaría

1790 - 1855

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0411 POLITICIAN

José María Robles Fraga

Born 1956

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0414 POLITICIAN

Roy Barreras

Born 1963

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0452 POLITICIAN

Óscar Naranjo

Born 1956

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0465 POLITICIAN

Gina Parody

Born 1973

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0468 POLITICIAN

Francisco de Narváez

Born 1953

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0511 POLITICIAN

David Luna Sánchez

Born 1975

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0535 POLITICIAN

Joaquín París Ricaurte

1795 - 1868

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0537 POLITICIAN

Gloria Gaitán

Born 1937

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0541 POLITICIAN

Alberto Casas Santamaría

Born 1944

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0562 POLITICIAN

Beatriz Londoño Soto

Born 1959

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0573 POLITICIAN

Marie Nagy

Born 1957

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0574 POLITICIAN

Frank Pearl González

Born 1962

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0597 POLITICIAN

María Lorena Gutiérrez

Born 1968

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Andrés París

Born 1955

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0614 POLITICIAN

Alfonso López Caballero

Born 1944

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0624 POLITICIAN

Jorge Leyva Urdaneta

1912 - 1968

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0629 POLITICIAN

Gilma Jiménez

1956 - 2013

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0631 POLITICIAN

Hernando Durán Dussán

1920 - 1998

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0642 POLITICIAN

Gloria Stella Díaz

Born 1964

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0648 POLITICIAN

Guillermo Botero

Born 1948

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0652 POLITICIAN

Carlos Albornoz Guerrero

Born 1955

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0655 POLITICIAN

Álvaro Leyva

Born 1942

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0660 POLITICIAN

Luis Guillermo Plata Páez

Born 1967

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0683 POLITICIAN

Carlos Julio González

Born 1963

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0692 POLITICIAN

Juan Agustín Uricoechea Navarro

1824 - 1883

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0694 POLITICIAN

Carlos Eduardo Guevara Villabón

Born 1977

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0697 POLITICIAN

Germán Varón

Born 1964

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0698 POLITICIAN

Margarita Holguín y Caro

1875 - 1959

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0760 POLITICIAN

María Fernanda Suárez

Born 1974

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0842 POLITICIAN

Aurelio Suárez Montoya

Born 1953

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0854 POLITICIAN

Juan Manuel González Torres

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0856 POLITICIAN

Juan Luis Londoño

1958 - 2003

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0864 POLITICIAN

Camilo Sánchez Ortega

Born 1960

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0896 POLITICIAN

Juan Mario Laserna

1967 - 2016

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0898 POLITICIAN

Miguel Gómez Martínez

Born 1961

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Juanita Goebertus

Born 1983

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Carlos Fernando Galán

Born 1977

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Daniel Raisbeck

Born 1982

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José Gabriel Ortiz

Born 1954

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José Antonio Montalvo

1892 - 1970

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0957 POLITICIAN

Luis Carlos Avellaneda

Born 1951

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0971 POLITICIAN

Venus Albeiro Silva

Born 1963

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0993 POLITICIAN

Leonardo Posada

1947 - 1986

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1008 POLITICIAN

Diego Molano

Born 1970

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1012 POLITICIAN

Yezid García Abello

Born 1948

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Paul Bromberg

-

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1040 POLITICIAN

Antonio París Ricaurte

1793 - 1846

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1052 POLITICIAN

Jerónimo de Mendoza Galavís

1773 - 1839

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1057 POLITICIAN

Orlando Castañeda

-

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1080 POLITICIAN

Inti Asprilla

Born 1981

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1108 POLITICIAN

Pedro Groot

1755 - 1821

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1109 POLITICIAN

Tatiana Cabello Flórez

Born 1977

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1110 POLITICIAN

Manuel Camacho Quesada

1775 - 1834

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1119 POLITICIAN

Jesús María Botero

-

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1120 POLITICIAN

Ángel Custodio Cabrera

Born 1956

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1121 POLITICIAN

Patricio Samper Gnecco

1930 - 2006

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1128 POLITICIAN

Edilberto Castro Rincón

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1133 POLITICIAN

Efrén Hernández (abogado)

Born 1957

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1142 POLITICIAN

Daniel Enrique Medina Velandia

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1146 POLITICIAN

Santiago Valencia

Born 1983

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1162 POLITICIAN

Pedro Aquilino López

1857 - 1935

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1163 POLITICIAN

Ivonne González

Born 1980

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1171 POLITICIAN

Augusto Galán

Born 1956

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1184 POLITICIAN

Carlos Echeverri Cortés

1900 - 1974

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1203 POLITICIAN

Jorge Eduardo Torres

Born 1979

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1215 POLITICIAN

Gloria Arias Haskins

Born 1956

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1221 POLITICIAN

Cornelia Schroeder-Piller

Born 1960

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1233 POLITICIAN

Roy Alejandro Barreras Cortes

Born 1986

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1241 POLITICIAN

Henrique París Zamudio

1901 - 1989

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1248 POLITICIAN

Rafael Julián París Rubio

1840 - 1919

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1257 POLITICIAN

Eduardo Tous de la Ossa

Born 1974

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1277 POLITICIAN

Clemencia Forero

Born 1948

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