100 Notable alumni of
National Major San Marcos University
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National Major San Marcos University is 237th in the world, 6th in Latin America, and 1st in Peru by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from National Major San Marcos University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Mario Vargas Llosa
- Enrolled in National Major San Marcos University
- 1953-1958 studied literary studies and law
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- philosopherliterary criticjournalistprose writerplaywright
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Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa, more commonly known as Mario Vargas Llosa, is a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and former politician. Vargas Llosa is one of Latin America's most significant novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a larger international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." He also won the 1967 Rómulo Gallegos Prize, the 1986 Prince of Asturias Award, the 1994 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1995 Jerusalem Prize, the 2012 Carlos Fuentes International Prize, and the 2018 Pablo Neruda Order of Artistic and Cultural Merit. In 2021, he was elected to the Académie française.
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Túpac Amaru II
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- revolutionarypoliticianrebelindigenous leader of the Americas
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José Gabriel Condorcanqui – known as Tupaq Amaru II – was an Indigenous leader who led a large Andean rebellion against the Spanish in Peru as self-proclaimed Sapa Inca of a new Inca Empire. He later became a mythical figure in the Peruvian struggle for independence and indigenous rights movement, as well as an inspiration to myriad causes in Spanish America and beyond.
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César Vallejo
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- short story writerplaywrightjournalistwritertranslator
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César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. Although he published only two books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century in any language. Thomas Merton called him "the greatest universal poet since Dante". The late British poet, critic and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, called Vallejo "the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language." He was a member of the intellectual community called North Group formed in the Peruvian north coastal city of Trujillo.
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José María Arguedas
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- anthropologistshort story writerpoetindigenistjournalist
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José María Arguedas Altamirano was a Peruvian novelist, poet, and anthropologist. Arguedas was an author of mestizo descent who was fluent in the Quechua language. That fluency was gained by Arguedas’s living in two Quechua households from the age of 7 to 11. First, he lived in the Indigenous servant quarters of his stepmother's home, then, escaping her "perverse and cruel" son, with an Indigenous family approved by his father. Arguedas wrote novels, short stories, and poems in both Spanish and Quechua.
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Bernardo O'Higgins
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- politicianwritermilitary personnelmilitary officer
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Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme was a Chilean independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. He was a wealthy landowner of Basque-Spanish and Irish ancestry. Although he was the second Supreme Director of Chile (1817–1823), he is considered one of Chile's founding fathers, as he was the first holder of this title to head a fully independent Chilean state.
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Alan García
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- sociologistpoliticianlawyerwriterjurist
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Alan Gabriel Ludwig García Pérez was a Peruvian politician who served as President of Peru for two non-consecutive terms from 1985 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2011. He was the second leader of the Peruvian Aprista Party and to date the only party member ever to have served as President. Mentored by the founder of the APRA, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, he served in the Constituent Assembly of 1978–1979. Elected to the Peruvian Congress in 1980, he rose to the position of General Secretary of the APRA in 1982, and was subsequently elected to the presidency in 1985 in a landslide victory at the age of 35 years.
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Steve Fossett
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- businesspersonexploreradventurersailorballoonist
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James Stephen Fossett was an American businessman and a record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer. He was the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon and in a fixed-wing aircraft. He made his fortune in the financial services industry and held world records for five nonstop circumnavigations of the Earth: as a long-distance solo balloonist, as a sailor, and as a solo flight fixed-wing aircraft pilot.
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Ricardo Palma
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- politicianjournalisthistorianwriterlexicographer
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Manuel Ricardo Palma Soriano was a Peruvian author, scholar, librarian and politician. His magnum opus is the Tradiciones peruanas.
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Hilda Gadea
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- writereconomistpolitical activist
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Hilda Gadea Acosta was a Peruvian economist, Communist leader, and author. She was the first wife of communist revolutionary Che Guevara.
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Abraham Valdelomar
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- writerjournalistcomics artist
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Pedro Abraham Valdelomar Pinto was a Peruvian narrator, poet, journalist, essayist and dramatist. He is considered the founder of the avant-garde in Peru, although more for his dandy-like public poses and his founding of the journal Colónida than for his own writing, which is lyrically posmodernista rather than aggressively experimental. Like Charles Baudelaire in 19th century Paris, he claimed to have made his country aware for the first time of the relationship between poetry and the market, and to have recognized the need for the writer to turn himself into a celebrity.
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José Joaquín de Olmedo
- Enrolled in National Major San Marcos University
- 1799-1808 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- poetpoliticianland ownerlawyerwriter
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José Joaquín de Olmedo y Maruri was President of Ecuador from 6 March 1845 to 8 December 1845. A patriot and poet, he was the son of the Spanish Captain Don Miguel de Olmedo y Troyano and the Guayaquilean Ana Francisca de Maruri y Salavarría.
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Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre
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- political theoristpolitical activistpoliticianlawyerjurist
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Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre was a Peruvian politician, philosopher, and author who founded the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) political movement, the oldest currently existing political party in Peru by the name of the Peruvian Aprista Party (PAP).
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Manuel González Prada
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- politicianwriteranarchistphilosopherjournalist
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Jose Manuel de los Reyes González de Prada y Ulloa was a Peruvian politician and anarchist, literary critic and director of the National Library of Peru. The first writer to criticize the oligarchy within Peru, he is well remembered as a social critic who helped develop Peruvian intellectual thought in the early twentieth century, as well as the academic style known as modernismo.
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José Santos Chocano
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- playwrightjournalistdiplomatsingerpoet
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José Santos Chocano Gastañodi, more commonly known by his pseudonym "El Cantor de América" ( Spanish pronunciation: [tʃoˈkano]), was a Peruvian poet, writer and diplomat, whose work was widely praised across Europe and Latin America. Considered by many to be one of the most important Spanish-American poets, his poetry of grandiloquent tone was very sonorous and full of color.
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Daniel Alcides Carrión
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- medical studentscientist
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Daniel Alcides Carrión García was a Peruvian medical student after whom Carrion's disease is named.
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Valentín Paniagua
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- politicianjuristlawyer
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Valentín Toribio Demetrio Agustin Paniagua Corazao was a Peruvian lawyer and politician who briefly served as 55th President of Peru from 2000 to 2001. Elected President of Congress on 16 November 2000, he ascended to the presidency as incumbent Alberto Fujimori and both his Vice Presidents resigned by 22 November 2000.
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Manuel Prado Ugarteche
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- civil engineerbankeruniversity teacherpoliticianmathematician
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Manuel Carlos Prado y Ugarteche was a Peruvian politician and banker who served twice as president of Peru. Son of former President Mariano Ignacio Prado, he was born in Lima and served as the nation's 43rd (1939–1945) and 46th (1956–1962) president. His brother, Leoncio Prado Gutiérrez, was a military hero who died in 1883, six years before Manuel Prado was born.
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Julio C. Tello
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- physicianpoliticiananthropologistarchaeologist
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Julio César Tello Rojas was a Peruvian archaeologist. Tello is considered the "father of Peruvian archeology" and was the first indigenous archaeologist in South America.
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Gustavo Gutiérrez
- Enrolled in National Major San Marcos University
- Studied medicine
- Occupations
- university teacherCatholic priesttheologianphilosopherCatholic theologian
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Gustavo Gutiérrez-Merino Díaz OP was a Peruvian philosopher, Catholic theologian, and Dominican priest who was one of the founders of liberation theology in Latin America. His 1971 book A Theology of Liberation is considered pivotal to the formation of liberation theology. He held the John Cardinal O'Hara Professorship of Theology at the University of Notre Dame and was a visiting professor at universities in North America and Europe.
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Alfredo Bryce Echenique
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- writernovelistlawyerpoet lawyer
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Alfredo Bryce Echenique is a Peruvian writer born in Lima. He has written numerous books and short stories.
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Gladys Tejeda
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- teachermarathon runner
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Gladys Lucy Tejeda Pucuhuaranga is a Peruvian long-distance runner who has represented Peru in various international competitions, including the Olympics and the Pan American Games.
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Manuel Pardo
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- politicianeconomist
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Manuel Justo Pardo y Lavalle was a Peruvian politician who served as the 20th President of Peru. He was the first civilian President in Peru's history.
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Hipólito Unanue
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- botanistpoliticianmathematicianphysician
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José Hipólito Unanue y Pavón was a physician, naturalist, meteorologist, cosmographer, the first Minister of Finance of Peru, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Protomédico (equivalent to Minister of health combining with head of "Escuela de Medicina del Peru"), university professor, founder of the San Fernando Medical School (now the Medicine faculty of San Marcos University), representative of Arequipa in the Cortes of Cádiz, President of the Junta de Gobierno (highest executive power in the Peruvian government at that time), Protector of the province of Arequipa (during the Spanish Empire), independence precursor and a Peruvian politician, active in politics in the early years after independence. He served as the President of the Congress from 1822 to 1823.
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Jorge Basadre
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- politicianhistorianlibrarian
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Jorge Alfredo Basadre Grohmann was a Peruvian historian known for his extensive publications about the independent history of his country. He served during two different administrations as Minister of Education and was also director of the Peruvian National Library.
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Manuel A. Odría
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- politicianmilitary officer
- Biography
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Manuel Arturo Odría Amoretti was a military officer who served as the 45th President of Peru.
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José Pardo y Barreda
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- politiciandiplomatlawyer
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José Simón Pardo y Barreda was a Peruvian politician who served as the 35th (1904–1908) and 39th (1915–1919) President of Peru.
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José Faustino Sánchez Carrión
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- politician
- Biography
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José Faustino Sánchez Carrión was a pro-independence politician from Peru. Also known as the "Solitario de Sayán" (English: "Solitary man from Sayán"), he had a decisive role in the establishment of the republican system of government in post-independence Peru. He was one of the writers of the first political constitution of Peru, of liberal tendencies. He later participated in the diplomatic mission which traveled to Guayaquil to invite Simon Bolivar to Peru. He died prematurely, victim of an unknown sickness.
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Enrique López Albújar
- Enrolled in National Major San Marcos University
- In 1899 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- memoiristjournalistnovelistjudgepoet
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Enrique López Albújar was a Peruvian writer who focused mainly on poetry.
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Javier Heraud
- Enrolled in National Major San Marcos University
- 1960-1963 studied licentiate degree in law
- Occupations
- writerpoetteacher
- Biography
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Javier Heraud Pérez was a Peruvian poet and member of the Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN). In his early life he studied at Markham College and later he continued his studies at Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
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Marco Aurelio Denegri
- Enrolled in National Major San Marcos University
- Studied law
- Occupations
- sexologistlinguistliterary critic
- Biography
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Marco Aurelio Denegri Santa Gadea was a Peruvian intellectual, literary critic, television host and sexologist.
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Daniel Alomía Robles
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- composermusicologistethnomusicologist
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Daniel Alomía Robles was a Peruvian composer and ethnomusicologist. He is best known for composing the song "El Cóndor Pasa" in 1913 as part of a zarzuela — a musical play that alternates between spoken and sung parts — of the same name. This song was based on Andean folk songs and is possibly the best known Peruvian song, partly due to the worldwide success that the melody obtained when it was used by Simon & Garfunkel as their music for "El Cóndor Pasa (If I Could)", although that song has different lyrics.
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Numa Pompilio Llona
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- writerdiplomatpoet
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Numa Pompilio Llona Echeverri was an Ecuadorian poet, journalist, educator, diplomat, and philosopher.
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Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza
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- Player efficiency ratinguniversity teachereducator
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Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza was a Peruvian academic. He was a precursor of national independence. He was a priest, a professor, and a tribune.
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Antonio Raimondi
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- botanistgeographernaturalistexplorer
- Biography
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Antonio Raimondi was an Italian-born Peruvian geographer and scientist. Born in Milan, Raimondi emigrated to Peru, arriving on July 28, 1850, at the port of Callao. In 1851 he became a professor of natural history. In 1856, he was one of the founding professors of the medical school at the National University of San Marcos; in 1861, he founded the analytical chemistry department.
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Martha Hildebrandt
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- university teacherpoliticianwriterlinguist
- Biography
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Martha Luz Hildebrandt Pérez-Treviño was a Peruvian linguist and Fujimorist politician. She was first elected to Congress in 1995 and, in 1999, she became the second woman to serve as President of the Congress of the Republic of Peru (following Martha Chávez's term in 1995–1996).
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María Rostworowski
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- ethnologisthistorianscientist
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María Rostworowski Tovar de Diez Canseco was a Peruvian historian known for her extensive and detailed publications on Peruvian Ancient Cultures and the Inca Empire.
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Anibal Quijano
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- sociologist
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Aníbal Quijano was a Peruvian sociologist and humanist thinker, known for having developed the concepts of "coloniality of power" and "coloniality of knowledge". His body of work has been influential in the fields of decolonial studies and critical theory.
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José Gálvez Egúsquiza
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- politicianmilitary personnellawyer
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José Gabriel Gálvez Egúsquiza was a Peruvian lawyer, professor and liberal politician. During the presidential government of Mariano Ignacio Prado he was Secretary—i.e. Minister—of War and Navy (1865). He was killed in action during the Battle of Callao, where he died fighting the Spanish squadron, thus becoming a symbol of the independence of America.
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Manuel Scorza
- Enrolled in National Major San Marcos University
- Studied in 1945
- Occupations
- indigenistpoetnovelistpolitical activist
- Biography
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Manuel Scorza was an important Peruvian novelist, poet, and political activist, exiled under the regime of Manuel Odría. He was born in Lima.
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Ruth Shady
- Enrolled in National Major San Marcos University
- Studied education
- Occupations
- anthropologistuniversity teacherarchaeologist
- Biography
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Ruth Martha Shady Solís is a Peruvian anthropologist and archaeologist. She is the founder and director of the archaeological project at Caral.
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Pablo de Olavide
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- translatorpoet lawyerpoliticianwriterjurist
- Biography
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Pablo de Olavide y Jáuregui was a Spanish politician, lawyer and writer.
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Martín Adán
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- poetwriter
- Biography
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Martín Adán, pseudonym of Rafael de la Fuente Benavides, was a Peruvian poet whose body of work is notable for its hermeticism and metaphysical depth.
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Felipe Santiago Salaverry
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- military personnelpolitician
- Biography
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Felipe Santiago Salaverry del Solar was a Peruvian soldier and politician who served as the Supreme Chief of Peru.
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Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo
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- engineerphysicistmathematician
- Biography
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Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo was born on 10 January 1887 in the country estate of Vista Bella, province of Aija, Peru, department of Áncash. He was an engineer, physicist and mathematician.
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Aníbal Torres
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- politicianuniversity teacherlawyer
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Aníbal Torres Vásquez is a Peruvian lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as prime minister of Peru from February 2022 to November 2022. He was also Minister of Justice and Human Rights from July 2021 to February 2022 under the government of Pedro Castillo.
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Juan de Velasco
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- historian
- Biography
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Juan de Velasco y Pérez Petroche was an 18th-century Jesuit priest, historian, and professor of philosophy and theology from the Royal Audience of Quito. He was born in Riobamba to Juan de Velasco y López de Moncayo and to María Pérez Petroche. Among the universities where he taught was the Universidad de San Marcos in Lima in the Viceroyalty of Peru. He is best known for his history book Historia del Reino de Quito, although he also wrote books in fields other than history, such as physics textbooks and poetry anthologies.
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Raúl Porras Barrenechea
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- politicianlibrarianlawyerschool teacheruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Raúl Porras Barrenechea was a Peruvian diplomat, historian and politician. He was President of the Senate in 1957 and Minister of Foreign Affairs between 1958 and 1960. A well-known figure of the student movement in San Marcos in the early 20th century, Porras became one of the most prominent hispanist historians of his generation and a leading figure of the Peruvian diplomacy.
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Ernest Malinowski
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- engineer
- Biography
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Adam Stanisław Hipolit Ernest Nepomucen Malinowski was a Polish civil engineer best known for constructing the world's highest railway at the time, the Ferrovias Central, in the Peruvian Andes between 1871–1876. He participated in the Battle of Callao in 1866 and was also a corresponding member of the Polish Museum in Rapperswil Society in Switzerland.
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José de la Torre Ugarte y Alarcón
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- lawyerwriter
- Biography
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José de la Torre Ugarte y Alarcón was a Peruvian lyricist. He is most notable for writing the lyrics of the National Anthem of Peru.
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Luis Bedoya Reyes
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Luis Fernán Bedoya Reyes was a Peruvian Christian Democrat (PDC) and Christian People's Party (PPC) politician who served as the Mayor of Lima from 1964 to 1969. He was also a Minister of Justice, member of the Peruvian Congress, and ran unsuccessfully for the Peruvian presidency two times. He was the founder of the Christian People's Party (PPC). He was the father of Javier Bedoya, a former congressman and deputy, and Luis Bedoya de Vivanco, former mayor of Miraflores.
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Carlos Oquendo de Amat
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- poet
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Carlos Oquendo de Amat was a Peruvian poet born in Moho, generally recognized by his only book of poetry 5 Meters of Poems, first published on 1927, which is an accordion book or pop-up book which extends to approximately 5 meters in length when fully opened. In the words of Urayoán Noel "5 Meters of Poems is a joy to read, and a significant contribution to our understanding of Latin American vanguard poetry beyond such canonical figures as Neruda and Vallejo. Here’s hoping for many more meters!".
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Antero Flores Aráoz
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Ántero Flores-Aráoz Esparza is a Peruvian lawyer and politician who briefly served as Prime Minister of Peru in November 2020. Once a prominent member and leader of the Christian People's Party, he left and founded the Order Party in order to run for the presidency at the 2016 general election, in which he placed tenth and last with 0.4% of the popular vote.
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Antonio Flores Jijón
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- politicianmilitary personnelwriterlawyerdiplomat
- Biography
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Juan Antonio María Flores y Jijón de Vivanco as 13th President of Ecuador 17 August 1888 to 30 June 1892. He was a member of the Progressive Party, a Liberal Catholic party.
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Juan Antonio Pezet
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- military personnelpolitician
- Biography
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Juan Antonio Pezet y Rodríguez de la Piedra was a Peruvian military officer and politician who served in the positions of Secretary of War, First Vice President and the 16th President of Peru throughout his life. As President, his moderate and cautious attitude towards the occupation of the Chincha Islands by a Spanish Fleet in 1864 was used as an excuse to launch a military uprising that drove him out of power.
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Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro
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- Catholic bishopCatholic deaconpoliticianCatholic priestlawyer
- Biography
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Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro was a Peruvian priest, politician and lawyer. He served as Archbishop of Lima from 1846 to 1855, deputy for Cusco and Arequipa, and President of the Constituent Congresses of 1822, 1828 and 1834.
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Héctor Béjar
- Enrolled in National Major San Marcos University
- Graduated with Doctor in sociology
- Occupations
- politiciansenior lecturerpartisanwritersociologist
- Biography
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Héctor Béjar Rivera is a Peruvian author, university professor. He served as the minister of foreign affairs of Peru from 29 July 2021 until 17 August 2021.
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Rocío Silva-Santisteban
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- politicianwriterdocentpoet
- Biography
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Rocío Yolanda Angélica Silva-Santisteban Manrique is a Peruvian poet, academic, activist, and journalist. Since March 2020, she serves as a Member of Congress for the Lima constituency representing the Broad Front. Previously, she served as Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Coordinator.
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Federico Kauffmann Doig
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- anthropologisthistorianarchaeologist
- Biography
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Federico Kauffmann Doig is a Peruvian historian, archaeologist, and anthropologist. He has made great contributions to the study of the civilizations of Ancient Peru, particularly on the Chavín culture and the Chachapoya culture.
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Javier Diez Canseco
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- sociologistpoliticianLGBTQ rights activist
- Biography
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Javier Diez Canseco Cisneros was a Peruvian politician and member of the Peruvian Congress representing the Socialist Party of Peru (PS), of which he was a founding member and also served as its Party President.
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Víctor Andrés García Belaúnde
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Víctor Andrés García Belaúnde, is a Peruvian lawyer and politician belonging to the Popular Action and a former Congressman representing Lima between 2006 and 2019. He was president of the Popular Action from 2004 to 2009.
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Jorge Eduardo Eielson
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- artist
- Biography
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Jorge Eduardo Eielson was a Peruvian artist and writer. As an artist, he is known for his quipus, a reinterpretation of an ancient Andean device, they are considered precursors of conceptual art.
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Manuel Candamo
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- businesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Manuel González de Candamo e Iriarte served as the 33rd President of Peru from 1903 until his death in 1904. He also served as Interim President of Peru, officially as the President of the Government Junta, from September 8, 1903, until his death the following year.
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Jorge del Castillo
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Jorge Alfonso Alejandro del Castillo Gálvez is a Peruvian lawyer and politician. In his career, he has served in the now abolished Peruvian Chamber of Deputies between 1990 and 1992, in the unicameral Congress of the Republic for six non-consecutive terms, between 1995 and 2011 and again from 2016 to 2019, five of which are consecutive terms, and as Mayor of Lima and the District of Barranco during the 1980s.
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Víctor Andrés Belaúnde
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- politicianwriterhistoriandiplomatjurist
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Víctor Andrés Belaúnde Diez Canseco was a Peruvian diplomat, politician, philosopher and scholar. He chaired the 14th Session and the 4th Emergency Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly between 1959 and 1960 and was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Peru in 1958. A distinguished scholar, Belaúnde was an important catholic thinker and a professor at the San Marcos University and then at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, where he was Emeritus Rector.
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Clemente Palma
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- essayistpoliticianshort story writernovelistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Clemente Palma was a Peruvian writer. He was the son of famous Peruvian author and scholar Ricardo Palma and Ecuadorian Clemencia Ramínez. His halfsister Angélica Palma was also a writer.
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Violeta Bermúdez
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Violeta Bermúdez Valdivia is a Peruvian lawyer, writer and diplomat. On 18 November 2020, Bermúdez became the Prime Minister of Peru. Previously, she held positions in the United States Agency for International Development and worked during the cabinets of President Alejandro Toledo and Prime Minister Beatriz Merino.
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Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra
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- military commanderseafarerexplorermilitary personnel
- Biography
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Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra was a Spanish Criollo naval officer operating in the Americas. Assigned to the Pacific coast Spanish Naval Department base at San Blas, in Viceroyalty of New Spain (present-day Mexico), he explored the Northwest Coast of North America as far north as present day Alaska. Bodega Bay in California is named for him.
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Santiago Fujimori
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Santiago Fujimori Inomoto is a Peruvian lawyer, politician and a former congressman, representing Lima for the 2006–2011 term. Of Japanese descent, Fujimori is the younger brother of former President Alberto Fujimori who was the President of Peru from 1990 until 2000 and the uncle of Keiko Fujimori and Kenji Fujimori. During his brother's presidency, he served as an advisor.
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Isaac Humala
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Isaac Humala Núñez is a Peruvian labour lawyer and the ideological leader of the Movimiento Etnocacerista, a group of ethnic nationalists in Peru.
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Vicky Peláez
- Occupations
- journalistspy
- Biography
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Virginia "Vicky" Peláez Ocampo is a Peruvian journalist and columnist, currently for The Moscow News newspaper. She is known for pleading guilty on 8 July 2010 for working in the United States as an unregistered foreign agent for Russia. She is also known for her leftist writings in El Diario La Prensa, a New York City Spanish language newspaper. Prior to working in the United States, Peláez was one of the first female television reporters in Peru where she reported for Frecuencia Latina.
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Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio
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- Catholic bishopCatholic deaconuniversity teacherCatholic priestCatholic theologian
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Carlos Gustavo Castillo Mattasoglio is a Peruvian prelate of the Catholic Church whom Pope Francis named Archbishop of Lima on 25 January 2019 and made a cardinal on 7 December 2024. From completing his training in theology in 1987 until his episcopal appointment, he devoted himself to both pastoral care and theological education in Peru.
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Luis Guillermo Lumbreras
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- anthropologistarchaeologist
- Biography
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Luis Guillermo Lumbreras Salcedo was a Peruvian archaeologist, anthropologist and academic.
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Susel Paredes
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- politicianLGBTQ rights activistlawyer
- Biography
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Susel Ana María Paredes Piqué is a Peruvian lawyer, LGBT rights activist, and politician. She was elected to the Congress of the Republic of Peru for the 2021-2026 term.
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José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma
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- essayistpoliticianphilosopherhistorianuniversity teacher
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José de la Riva-Agüero y Osma, 6th Marquess of Montealegre de Aulestia and 5th of Casa-Dávila was a Peruvian lawyer, historian, writer, essayist and politician who served as Prime Minister of Peru, Minister of Justice and Mayor of Lima. He was a leading member of the so-called Generation of 900 (also known as the Arielist generation), a conservative ideological movement of the early 20th century that also included other important member of Peruvian society, such as Víctor Andrés Belaúnde, Francisco García Calderón Rey, Óscar Miró Quesada de la Guerra and José Gálvez Barrenechea.
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Pilar Mazzetti
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- physicianministerdirector
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Pilar Elena Mazzetti Soler is a Peruvian physician and health administrator who served as Minister of Health from July 2020 to February 2021, excluding her for nine days from office during the brief presidency of Manuel Merino. She previously held the position from February 2004 to July 2006, and was briefly Minister of the Interior from July 2006 to February 2007, being the first woman to reach said position in the Peruvian government.
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Héctor Valer
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- lawyerpolitician
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Héctor Valer Pinto is a Peruvian politician who served as Prime Minister of Peru from 1 February 2022 to 8 February 2022.
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Antonio Cisneros
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- screenwriterwritertranslatorpoet
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Antonio Alfonso Cisneros Campoy was a Peruvian poet, journalist and academic. He was born in Lima on 27 December 1942 and died there of lung cancer on 6 October 2012, aged 69.
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Beatriz Merino
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- politicianuniversity teacherlawyer
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Martha Beatriz Merino Lucero is a Peruvian lawyer, academic and politician who served as the first female Prime Minister of Peru, in 2003. She previously served as Senator and Congresswoman from 1990 until 2000. Following her tenure in Alejandro Toledo's cabinet, Merino was appointed by the Peruvian Congress as the national ombudswoman for Peru, serving from 2005 to 2011, a position officially known as the Public Defender, being the second to hold the position.
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Héctor Becerril
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- politician
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Héctor Virgilio Becerril Rodríguez is a Peruvian Fujimorist politician and pharmaceutical chemist. He was a congressman in the period 2011-2016 representing the department of Amazonas and in the period 2016-2019 representing the department of Lambayeque.
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Laura Esther Rodriguez Dulanto
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- physicianprofessor
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Laura Esther Rodríguez Dulanto was the first female physician in Peru.
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Francisco García Calderón
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- bankerpoliticiandiplomatjuristlawyer
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Francisco García Calderón Landa was a lawyer and Provisional President of the Republic of Peru for a short seven-month period in 1881, during the War of the Pacific. García Calderón was a key figure in the final peace accords between Peru and Chile. Later in post-presidential career, in 1892, he was commissioned to arbitrate land disputes between Peru and Ecuador, which centered on the contested provinces of Mainas, Jaén and Tumbes. He was an academic as well, having authored a comprehensive history of the previously-mentioned contested provinces, as well as a monograph on Peruvian legislation titled, Diccionario de la Legislación Peruana.
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César Hinostroza
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- prosecutorjudge
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César Hinostroza is a Peruvian judge, lawyer, and fugitive who was a judge in the Peruvian Supreme Court from 2 January 2017 until his escape on July 11, 2018, in the midst of the political crisis in Peru. He is known for being involved in the CNM Audios scandal, a corruption scandal which led to his escape. When he escaped on 17 October, he was arrested following a warrant by Interpol, but was provisionally released on April 11, 2019.
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Cayetano Heredia
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- university teacherphysician
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Cayetano Heredia was a Peruvian physician, born in Catacaos, Piura, northwestern Peru. He studied medicine at the Royal College of Medicine and Surgery of the National University of San Marcos. Together with Hipólito Unanue, he was one of the two greatest Peruvian physicians of the 19th century. He happened to live through the tense period of the struggle for independence of Peru from Spain, and his participation in political life was as intense as the time and effort he devoted to medicine. He was the fist dean of the Faculty of Medicine San Fernando (ex College of the Independence). He died in Lima on 1861.
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Pedro Peralta y Barnuevo
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- writerastronomermathematician
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Pedro Peralta y Barnuevo was an Enlightenment-era Peruvian mathematician, cosmographer, historian, scholar, poet, and astronomer, and was considered a polymath. He was rector of University of San Marcos in Lima.
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Alejandro Romualdo
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- poetuniversity teacherwritercaricaturistjournalist
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Alejandro Romualdo was a Peruvian poet of the 20th century. His best known work is the Song of Tupac Amaru, exalting the revolutionary spirit of the 18th-century leader. The poem, which glorified the Peruvian independence movement, won the Peruvian National Prize for Poetry in 1997.
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Javier Alva Orlandini
- Enrolled in National Major San Marcos University
- 1946-1953 studied economics and law
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- lawyerpolitician
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Javier Alva Orlandini was a peruvian lawyer and politician. A prominent member of the political party Popular Action, he served as the President of the party. He served as the Second Vice President of Peru during the government of Fernando Belaúnde from 1980 to 1985. Throughout his life he became a Deputy (1963–1968), Minister of Government and Police (1965–1966), Senator (1980–1985 and 1990–1992), President of the Senate (1981–1982), and Congressman (1995–2000). In 2002, he became a Magistrate of the Constitutional Court, at the same time being elected by Congress as the President of the Court for a 3-year term. He was a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic in 1985, but he only got 7.3% of the popular vote, placing fourth and lost the election to Alan García. He later served as President of Peru's Constitutional Tribunal from 2002 to 2005.
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Magda Portal
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- writernovelistpoet
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Magda Portal was a Peruvian poet, feminist, author, and political activist and leader. She was recognized in the vanguardia poetry literary movement in Peru and Latin America, and she was one of the founders of the APRA (American Popular Revolutionary Alliance) political party.
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Elizabeth Hinostroza
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- police officerpoliticianphysician
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María Elizabeth Jacqueline Hinostroza Pereyra is a Peruvian neurosurgeon, and medical general (retired) of the National Police of Peru (PNP). She served as the country's Minister of Health from 18 November 2019 to 20 March 2020, in the government of Martín Vizcarra.
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José Gálvez Barrenechea
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- politicianjournalistdiplomatpoetlawyer
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José Gálvez Barrenechea was a Peruvian poet, writer, journalist, university professor, and politician. He was Minister of Justice, Worship and Instruction (1931); Minister of Foreign Relations (1931); First Vice President of the Republic (1945–1948); President of the Senate (1956–1957), and also Grand Master of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Peru (1955–1956), among other academic and political positions, which he carried out with notable success.
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Pablo Macera
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- politicianuniversity teacherhistorian
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Pablo Macera was a Peruvian historian.
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Augusto Vargas Alzamora
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- Catholic priesttheologianCatholic bishop
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Augusto Vargas Alzamora S.J. was a Cardinal Priest and Archbishop of Lima in the Roman Catholic Church.
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Óscar Maúrtua
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- politiciancivil servantlawyerdiplomat
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Óscar José Ricardo Maúrtua de Romaña is a Peruvian diplomat and jurist who served as Minister of Foreign Relations of Peru from August 2021 to February 2022, under the presidency of Pedro Castillo. He previously occupied the office under President Alejandro Toledo during the last of year of his presidency.
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Luis Iberico Núñez
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- journalistpolitician
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Luis Carlos Antonio Iberico Núnez is an Argentine-born Peruvian journalist and politician. Throughout his journalistic career, he served in various news stations during the 1980s and 1990s. He gained prominence for his fight against the Alberto Fujimori administration, denouncing several allegations of corruption involving the press. Alongside Fernando Olivera, he presented the first "Vladi-videos" that would prove the major corruption operations headed by Intelligence Chief Vladimiro Montesinos. His role in Fujimori's downfall would gain him support in a career in politics.
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Armando Robles Godoy
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- screenwriterwriterfilm directorjournalist
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Armando Robles Godoy was a Peruvian film director. He was son of the Peruvian composer Daniel Alomía Robles and Carmela Godoy. His 1967 film En la selva no hay estrellas won the Golden Prize at the 5th Moscow International Film Festival in 1967. In 1971 he was a member of the jury at the 7th Moscow International Film Festival. Director of Espejismo, so far the only Peruvian film to have been nominated to a Golden Globe award.
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Melchor de Talamantes
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- priest
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Melchor de Talamantes, was a Mercedarian friar and priest, a political liberal, and a leader in Mexico's movement for independence from Spain.
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Pedro Zulen
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- writerlibrarianphilosopher
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Pedro Salvino Zulen Aymar was a Peruvian philosopher and librarian of Chinese descent, who dedicated the most part of his short life to the fight for decentralised politics and the defense of indigenous rights.
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Alberto Andrade
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- businesspersonpoliticianlawyer
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Alberto Manuel Andrade Carmona was a Peruvian lawyer and politician, born in Lima who served as the Mayor of Lima from 1996 to 2002 and as a Congressman from 2006 until his death.
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Pedro Beltrán
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- politicianeconomistjournalistdiplomat
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Pedro Gerardo María Beltrán Espantoso, was a Peruvian journalist, economist and politician. From 1959 to 1961, he was the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance under Manuel Prado Ugarteche.
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Marco Martos Carrera
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- poetwriter
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Marco Martos Carrera is a Peruvian poet and the President of the Academia Peruana de la Lengua. It's assumed from critics to be one of the most important persons of the Peruvian "60's generation". Critics also appoints that he uses a simple way of expression with an ironic way to project the life. We can find in his work topics like 'loneliness' and 'existentialism'.
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Zoraida Ávalos
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- lawyer
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Zoraida Ávalos Rivera is a Peruvian jurist who served as the country's attorney general from 8 January 2019 to 30 March 2022.
