16.4953° S, 68.1484° W
LA PAZ
Most Famous People Born in La Paz, Bolivia
- Notable people
- 395
- Peak decade
- 1950s
- Median birth year
- 1950
- Most distinctive
- Presenter 7.8×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in La Paz during each.
Notable Births by Decade
Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1950s with 48 notable births.
What La Paz Is Known For
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Politician is La Paz's biggest profession — 18% of all notables (72).
La Paz over-indexes on presenter — 7.8× the global rate.
La Paz under-produces actor — only 0.6× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of La Paz's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Andrés de Santa Cruz
1792 - 1865
Carlos Mesa
Born 1953
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
Born 1930
Alcides Arguedas
1879 - 1946
Hernán Siles Zuazo
1914 - 1996
Verona Pooth
Born 1968
Mauro Formica
Born 1988
Luis García Meza
1929 - 2018
Alejandro Chumacero
Born 1991
Jorge Sanjinés
Born 1936
Manuel Isidoro Belzu
1808 - 1865
Bautista Saavedra
1870 - 1939
José Ballivián
1805 - 1852
Jaime Sáenz
1921 - 1986
Mauricio Baldivieso
Born 1996
Jaime Escalante
1930 - 2010
Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas
1925 - 2005
Ximena Herrera
Born 1979
Ismael Montes
1861 - 1933
Joaquín Botero
Born 1977
Agustín Morales
1808 - 1872
Enrique Peñaranda
1893 - 1969
Franz Tamayo
1879 - 1956
Adolfo Ballivián
1831 - 1874
José Luis Tejada Sorzano
1882 - 1938
Marina Núñez del Prado
1910 - 1995
Ernesto Cavour
Born 1940
María Luisa Pacheco
1919 - 1982
Víctor Montoya
Born 1958
Pedro Domingo Murillo
1757 - 1810
Graciela Rodo Boulanger
Born 1935
Sergio Galarza
Born 1975
Augusto Andaveris
Born 1979
Wilfred von Oven
1912 - 2008
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Born 1949
Arturo Borda
1883 - 1953
Juan Carlos Aduviri
Born 1976
Bartolina Sisa
1753 - 1782
Gustavo Pinedo
Born 1988
Ramiro Blacut
Born 1944
Teresa Gisbert Carbonell
1926 - 2018
Antonio Paredes Candia
1924 - 2004
Ana María Romero de Campero
1941 - 2010
Jaime Arrascaita
Born 1993
Yolanda Bedregal
1916 - 1999
Juan Pereda
1931 - 2012
Óscar Cerruto
1912 - 1981
Rafael Méndez (footballer)
1904 - 1982
Raúl Castro (footballer)
Born 1989
Percy Colque
Born 1976
Emilio Villanueva
1882 - 1970
María Galindo
Born 1964
Eusebio Guilarte Vera
1805 - 1849
José Miguel García Lanza
1779 - 1828
Guido Vildoso
Born 1937
Maria Otero
Born 1950
Félix Patzi
Born 1967
José María Pérez de Urdininea
1784 - 1865
Jorge Córdova
1822 - 1861
Mario Martínez (tennis)
Born 1961
Casiano Chavarría
Born 1901
Javier Parrado
Born 1964
Jaime Mirtenbaum Zenamon
Born 1953
Mario Pinedo
Born 1964
Nelson Sossa
Born 1986
Diógenes Lara
1902 - 1971
Néstor Guillén
1890 - 1966
Felipe S. Guzmán
1879 - 1932
Eduardo Reyes Ortiz
Born 1907
Bernardino de Cárdenas
1562 - 1668
José Bustamante (footballer, born 1907)
Born 1907
Leonel Reyes
Born 1976
Carlos Romero (politician)
Born 1966
Antonio Greco
Born 1923
Armando Loaiza
1943 - 2016
Carlos Palenque
1944 - 1997
Jorge Siles Salinas
1926 - 2014
Blanca Wiethüchter
1947 - 2004
René Fernández
1906 - 1956
Demetrio Angola
Born 1965
Miguel Murillo (Bolivian footballer)
1898 - 1968
Jesús Alejandro Gómez
Born 1979
Renato Sáinz
1899 - 1982
Germán Efromovich
Born 1950
Helmut Gutiérrez
Born 1987
René Blattmann
Born 1948
Maurice Barthélemy (acteur)
Born 1969
Benedicto Godoy Véizaga
Born 1924
Danner Pachi
Born 1984
Juan Arricio
Born 1923
Enrique Hertzog
1896 - 1980
Gastón Ugalde
Born 1946
José Andrëa
Born 1971
Jesús Barrios
Born 1961
Juan Guerra (footballer)
Born 1927
Ángela Castro
Born 1993
Juan Argote
Born 1906
Francisco Tadeo Díez de Medina
1725 - 1803
Gilberto Baires
Born 1990
Eduardo Díez de Medina
1881 - 1955
Luis Alí
Born 1994
Jenaro Flores Santos
1942 - 2019
Hugo Ballivián
1901 - 1993
Jaime Aparicio Otero
Born 1955
José Efromovich
Born 1955
Alberto Villalpando
Born 1940
Manfred Reyes Villa
Born 1955
Alberto Aparicio
Born 1923
Modesta Sanginés Uriarte
1832 - 1887
Soledad Chapetón
Born 1980
Hamlet Barrientos
Born 1978
Lupe Cajías
Born 1955
Jaime Mendoza-Nava
1925 - 2005
Marcelo Villena Alvarado
Born 1965
René Ortubé
Born 1964
Samuel Jorge Doria Medina Auza
Born 1958
Sonia Calizaya
Born 1976
Néstor Taboada Terán
1929 - 2015
Pedro José Domingo de Guerra
1809 - 1879
Fernando Huanacuni Mamani
Born 1966
Carlos Mendoza (footballer)
Born 1992
Antonio Eguino
Born 1938
Pato Hoffmann
Born 1956
Carmen Perrin
Born 1953
Gabriela Montaño
Born 1975
Alfonso Gumucio Dagron
Born 1950
Adrián Patiño
1895 - 1951
Fabián Gianola
Born 1963
Antonio Díaz Villamil
1896 - 1948
Ramiro Benavides
Born 1947
María Eugenia Estenssoro
Born 1958
Víctor Hugo Viscarra
1958 - 2006
Daniel Chávez Betancourt
Born 1990
Iván Guzmán de Rojas
Born 1934
Serapio Reyes Ortiz
1822 - 1900
Loyola Guzmán
Born 1942
Rodolfo Illanes
1958 - 2016
Kori Udovički
Born 1961
Roberto Prudencio Romecín
1908 - 1975
Porfirio Díaz Machicao
1909 - 1981
Camila Urioste
Born 1980
Gustavo Adolfo Otero
1896 - 1958
Daniel Sánchez Bustamante
1871 - 1933
Manuel Vargas
Born 1952
Rubén Silva
Born 1955
Rodrigo Vargas Touchard
Born 1989
Abel Alarcón
1881 - 1954
Roberto Valcárcel
Born 1951
Carlos Ponce Sanginés
1925 - 2005
Oscar Omar Aparicio Céspedes
Born 1959
Jorge Carrasco
1919 - 2006
Yashira Jordán
Born 1985
Mónica Moraes
Born 1960
Erika Andia
Born 1972
Andrés Túpac Amaru
1763 - 1795
Fernando Larrañaga
Born 1942
María Renée Prudencio
Born 1974
Amparo Acebey
Born 1973
Armando Chirveches
1881 - 1926
Clara Ant
Born 1948
Franz Freudenthal
-
Pedro Caino
1956 - 2014
Juan José Paz
Born 1980
Grillo Villegas
Born 1968
Carmelo Algarañaz
Born 1996
Juan de Recacoechea
1935 - 2017
José Luis Exeni
-
Carola Antezana
Born 1974
Mila D. Aguilar
Born 1949
Óscar Soria
1917 - 1988
Marcos Loayza
Born 1959
Julieta Paredes
Born 1967
Esteban Um Lee
Born 1999
Vicenta Juaristi Eguino
1780 - 1857
Willka
Died 1905
Hernán Ergueta
Born 1974
Leslie Cayola
Born 1976
María Esther Ballivián
1927 - 1977
Wilma Alanoca Mamani
Born 1985
Daniel Nuñez del Prado
1840 - 1891
Felix Streng
Born 1995
Juan del Granado
Born 1953
David Santalla
Born 1939
Abdón Saavedra
1872 - 1942
Gonzalo Romero Álvarez García
1916 - 1989
Juan Claudio Lechín
Born 1956
Teresa Ortuño Limarino
Born 1968
Vera Stein
Born 1958
Asbel Valenzuela
Born 1978
Luis Alberto Arce Catacora
Born 1963
Catalina Rivas
Born 1944
Nina Uma
Born 1975
Federico Diez de Medina
1839 - 1904
Carlos Eduardo Vargas
Born 1987
Salvador Romero Pittari
1938 - 2012
Ivar Mendez
-
Roberto Iván Aguilar Gómez
Born 1958
Eneida Zurita
Born 1976
Steve Gay
Born 1947
Ronald MacLean Abaroa
Born 1949
Juan Carlos Aranda
1963 - 2015
Serena Isabel Achá
Born 1986
Alfredo Arce Carpio
1941 - 2001
Jorge Escobari
1926 - 2000
Mónica Medina
Born 1964
José Rosendo Gutiérrez
1840 - 1883
Jaime Nisttahuz
Born 1942
Óscar Saavedra San Martín
1940 - 2018
Rosa Ríos
1935 - 2018
Yayo Morales
-
Juan Carlos Calderón Romero
1932 - 2017
Jorge de Benavente y Macoaga
1784 - 1839
Úrsula Goyzueta
1787 - 1854
Isabel Loza
Born 1982
Máxima Apaza
Born 1960
Susy Fuentes Bazán
Born 1977
Jaime Otero Calderón
1921 - 1970
Wilhelm Wichtendahl
1902 - 1992
Vania Torrez
Born 1981
Elsa Paredes de Salazar
1918 - 2013
José Antonio Arce Murillo
1924 - 2000
Natalia Palacios
1837 - 1918
Jorge Vazquez Viana
1939 - 1967
Aida Gainsborg vda. de Aguirre
1896 - 1979
Flavio Machicado Viscarra
1898 - 1986
Mónica Rina Mamani
Born 1990
Ricardo Udler
-
Mónica Ergueta
Born 1977
Carmen Sánchez de Bustamante Calvo
Born 1891
Daniel Santalla
Born 1948
Alberto Crespo Rodas
1917 - 2010
José Ramón de Loayza Pacheco
1751 - 1839
Gabriela Zapata
Born 1986
Rafael Pabón
1903 - 1934
Fidel Surco
Born 1975
Nardi Suxo
Born 1961
Oscar Ortubé
Born 1944
Carlos Scott
Born 1952
Alejandro Delius
Born 1977
Cristina Corrales
1962 - 2010
Eugenio Rojas Apaza
1962 - 2020
Jenny Cárdenas
-
Juancito Pinto
1867 - 1880
Antonio Arguedas Mendieta
1929 - 2000
Belisario Salinas
1833 - 1893
Remedios Loza
1949 - 2018
Manuel Antonio Sánchez
Died 1861
Cecilia Scholz Delgado
Born 1956
Grisel Quiroga
-
Gabriela Gottschalk
Born 1978
Macario Pinilla Vargas
1855 - 1927
René Bascopé
1951 - 1984
Luis Galarza
Born 1985
Giovana Chávez
Born 1969
Andrés Rojas
Born 1966
José Luis Paredes
Born 1956
Froilán Pinilla
Born 1900
Gonzalo de Jesús María del Castillo Crespo – W
1936 - 2019
María Udaeta
Born 1964
Jhosimar Prado
Born 1986
Cayetano Marcellano y Agramont
1751 - 1759
José Alberto Gonzales
Born 1962
Sandra Alcázar
Born 1987
Mariana Prado
Born 1982
Gerson Martínez (El Salvador)
Born 1954
Hugo San Martín
-
Fernando Cajías
Born 1949
César Dockweiler
Born 1967
Omar Duranboger
1936 - 1962
Ricardo Roberts
Born 1917
Boris Arias
Born 1993
María Manuela Campos y Seminario de García Lanza
1780 - 1820
Juan José Pérez
1814 - 1880
Jorge Manrique Hurtado
1911 - 1995
Wally Zeballos
Born 1975
Ronald Ramos
Born 1997
Carlos Salazar Mostajo
1916 - 2004
Luis Adolfo Flores
Born 1972
Hugo Moldiz
-
Mario Hada
Born 1952
Verónica Palenque
Born 1967
Juan Bautista Sagárnaga
1766 - 1810
Christian Valenzuela
Born 1977
Abraham Bojórquez
1981 - 2009
Ramiro Soriano
Born 1956
Alejandro Mendoza (tennis)
Born 1990
Justa Canaviri
Born 1963
Juan Carlos Monrroy
Born 1978
Walker San Miguel
Born 1963
Reynaldo Pacheco
-
Germán Monroy Block
1914 - 1986
Beatriz Canedo Patiño
1950 - 2016
Walter Tataque Quisbert
1958 - 2019
Virginia Ayllón Soria
Born 1958
Iván Aguilar Murguía
Born 1947
Susana Villegas Arroyo
Born 1975
Álvaro Diez de Medina
Born 1957
Verónica Ramos
-
María Duchen
Born 1965
Alexandra Moreira
-