12.0598° S, 77.0374° W
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.
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- Filtered to 1880s Clear ×
Manuel Prado Ugarteche
1889 - 1967
José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma
1885 - 1944
Julia Codesido
1883 - 1979
Rubén Vargas Ugarte
1886 - 1975
Juan Bielovucic
1889 - 1949
Carlos Monge Medrano
1884 - 1970
Felipe Sassone
1884 - 1959
Luis Miró Quesada
1880 - 1976
Victor Llona
1886 - 1953
Pedro Zulen
1889 - 1925
Óscar Miró Quesada de la Guerra
1884 - 1981
Rosa Mercedes Ayarza de Morales
1881 - 1969
Godofredo García
1888 - 1970
Luis Alayza y Paz Soldán
1883 - 1976
Elena Izcue
1889 - 1970
Rafael Marquina y Bueno
1884 - 1964
Enrique Bustamante y Ballivián
1883 - 1937
Carlos Camino Calderón
1884 - 1956
Carlos Enrique Paz Soldán
1885 - 1972
Manuel Beingolea Balarezo
1881 - 1953
Héctor Boza
1888 - 1974
Guillermo Garrido Lecca
1887 - 1959
Juan Bautista de Lavalle y García
1887 - 1970
Sergio Bernales
1885 - 1959
Jorge Prado Ugarteche
1887 - 1970
Alfredo Benavides Diez Canseco
1881 - 1967
Renzo Bracesco
1888 - 1982
Pedro Yrigoyen Diez Canseco
1886 - 1957
Andrés Avelino Aramburú Salinas
1883 - 1933
Diómedes Arias Schreiber
1888 - 1959
José Evaristo Uriburu Tezanos Pinto
1880 - 1956
Federico Díaz Dulanto
1888 - 1954
Héctor Mercado
1885 - 1958
Ernesto Diez-Canseco Masías
1883 - 1953
Foción Mariátegui
1885 - 1961
Pedro M. Oliveira
1882 - 1958
Daniel Olaechea
1884 - 1956
Julio Goicochea Álvarez
1880 - 1951
Carlos Rotalde
1886 - 1974
Aurelio García Godos
1881 - 1956
Manuel González Olaechea
1883 - 1959