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LIMA
Most Famous People Born in Lima, Peru
- Notable people
- 2,379
- Peak decade
- 1980s
- Median birth year
- 1958
- Most distinctive
- Presenter 5.3×
A colonial capital whose 20th-century bench reads almost like a screen test. Lima's distinctive professions are television presenters and models at the top — the legacy of a Peruvian beauty-pageant and broadcast tradition that has produced Mario Testino and a generation of newsreaders — alongside lawyers, diplomats, and economists from the city that has always run Peru. The 17th-century shelf is still unusually heavy, the era of Rose of Lima and the first canonised saints of the Americas, and the modern half runs through Ricardo Palma and Vargas Llosa.
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Lima during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Lima Is Known For
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Football is Lima's biggest profession — 25% of all notables (596).
Lima over-indexes on presenter — 5.3× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Lima's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
- Sports
- Politics & Law
- Film & TV
- Writing
- Music
- Science
- Other
- Filtered to 1840s Clear ×
Manuel González Prada
1844 - 1918
Manuel Candamo
1841 - 1904
Ricardo Rossel
1841 - 1909
Eugenio Larrabure y Unanue
1844 - 1916
Cesáreo Chacaltana Reyes
1845 - 1906
Aurelio Denegri
1840 - 1909
Melitón Carvajal
1847 - 1935
Juana Alarco de Dammert
1842 - 1932
César Canevaro
1846 - 1922
Guillermo Seoane
1848 - 1924
Lastenia Larriva
1848 - 1924
Manuel González de la Rosa
1841 - 1912
Carlos Maria Elías y de la Quintana
1841 - 1907
Manuel Villavicencio
1842 - 1925
Alberto Elmore Fernández de Córdoba
1844 - 1916
Juan Norberto Eléspuru
1846 - 1923
Guillermo García y García
1847 - 1879
José Melitón Rodríguez Pérez
1848 - 1879
Adolphe Dubreuil
Born 1844
Juan Martín Echenique
1841 - 1912
Nemesio Vargas Valdivieso
1849 - 1921
Manuel Cuadros
1849 - 1898
Andrés Avelino Aramburú Sarrio
1845 - 1916
Carlos Ferreyros y Senra
1843 - 1910
José Antonio Roca y Boloña
1845 - 1914
Manuel María del Valle
1846 - 1921
Ramón Freire Goytizolo
1849 - 1903
Rebeca Oquendo
1847 - 1941
Pedro Emilio Dancuart
1847 - 1911
Domingo Olavegoya Yriarte
1844 - 1916
Rosendo Melo
1847 - 1915