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 law and literary studies
- Occupations
- essayistopinion journalistpoliticianplaywrightprose writer
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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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César Vallejo
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- translatorwriterjournalistplaywrightshort story writer
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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. He was always a step ahead of literary currents, and each of his books was distinct from the others, and, in its own sense, revolutionary. 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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Alan García
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- writerlawyerpoliticiansociologistjurist
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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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Bernardo O'Higgins
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- military personnelwriterpoliticianmilitary 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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José María Arguedas
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- novelistethnologistuniversity teacherjournalistindigenist
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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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Steve Fossett
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- financierracing automobile driveraircraft pilotballoonistsailor
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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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- lexicographerwriterhistorianjournalistpolitician
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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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- economistwriterpolitical activist
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Hilda Gadea Acosta was a Peruvian economist, Communist leader, and author. She was the first wife of Che Guevara.
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Abraham Valdelomar
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- journalistwritercomics 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
- lawyerpoetwriterpolitician
- Biography
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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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Vladimiro Montesinos
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- military personnelpoliticianarms trafficker
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Vladimiro Lenin Ilich Montesinos Torres is a Peruvian former intelligence officer who was the long-standing head of Peru's National Intelligence Service (SIN) and was reportedly the de facto leader of Peru while President Alberto Fujimori served as a figurehead leader. Montesinos had strong connections with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for over 25 years and was said to have received $10 million from the agency for his government's anti-terrorist activities, with international bank accounts possessed by Montesinos reportedly holding at least $270 million. The United States reportedly supported the candidacy of Fujimori during 1990 Peruvian general election due to his links to Montesinos and ignored human rights abuses performed under Montesinos during the 1990s. In 2000, the infamous "Vladi-videos" came to light when they were broadcast on the news. They were secret videos recorded by Montesinos that showed him bribing elected congressmen into leaving the opposition and joining the pro-Fujimori group of the Congress. The ensuing scandal caused Montesinos to flee the country and prompted Fujimori's resignation.
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Mariano Melgar
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- translatorwriterpoet
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Mariano Lorenzo Melgar Valdivieso was a Peruvian revolutionary, poet, artist, translator and patriot soldier during the Peruvian War of Independence from Spain. As a poet, Melgar became one of the most prominent romantic poets of Peru in the 19th century history, best known for his poetic love songs known as yaravíes. He is often considered to be the equivalent of the Ecuadorian José Joaquín Olmedo and the Cuban José Martí as patriots of their respective countries.
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Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre
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- lawyerpoliticianpolitical activistpolitical theoristjurist
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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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- philosopheranarchistwriterpoliticianliterary critic
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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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- writerpoetsingerdiplomatjournalist
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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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- scientistmedical student
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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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- politicianlawyerjurist
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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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- politicianuniversity teacherbankercivil engineermathematician
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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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- anthropologistpoliticianphysicianarchaeologist
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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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Alfredo Bryce Echenique
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- lawyernovelistwriterpoet 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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- marathon runnerteacher
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Gladys Lucy Tejeda Pucuhuaranga is a Peruvian long-distance runner.
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Manuel Pardo
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- economistpolitician
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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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Gustavo Gutiérrez
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- Catholic priesttheologianuniversity teacherphilosopher
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Gustavo Gutiérrez Merino is a Peruvian philosopher, Catholic theologian, and Dominican priest, regarded as one of the founders of Latin American liberation theology. He currently holds the John Cardinal O'Hara Professorship of Theology at the University of Notre Dame, and has previously been a visiting professor at many major universities in North America and Europe.
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Hipólito Unanue
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- mathematicianpoliticianbotanistphysician
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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 combines 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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- historianpoliticianlibrarian
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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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- military officerpolitician
- 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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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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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
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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
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- judgenovelistjournalistmemoiristshort story writer
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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
- poetwriterteacher
- 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
- linguistsexologistliterary 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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- musicologistcomposerethnomusicologist
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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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- diplomatwriterpoet
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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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- university teacherPlayer efficiency ratingeducator
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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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- explorernaturalistgeographerbotanist
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Antonio Raimondi was a prominent 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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- writerpoliticianuniversity teacherlinguist
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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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- historianethnologistscientist
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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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José Gálvez Egúsquiza
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- military personnelpoliticianlawyer
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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
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- novelistpoetindigenistpolitical activist
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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
- archaeologistuniversity teacheranthropologist
- 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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Anibal Quijano
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- sociologist
- Biography
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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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Martín Adán
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- writerpoet
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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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Pablo de Olavide
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- writerpoliticianpoet lawyertranslatorjurist
- Biography
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Pablo de Olavide y Jáuregui was a Spanish politician, lawyer and writer.
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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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- historianuniversity teacherschool teacherlawyerlibrarian
- 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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Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo
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- physicistengineermathematician
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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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- university teacherpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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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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José de la Torre Ugarte y Alarcón
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- writerlawyer
- 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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Felipe Santiago Salaverry
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- politicianmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Felipe Santiago de Salaverry was a Peruvian soldier and politician who served as the Supreme Chief of Peru.
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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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Arturo Cavero Velásquez
- Enrolled in National Major San Marcos University
- Graduated with postgraduate education
- Occupations
- singerteacher
- Biography
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Arturo Cavero Velásquez, better known by the pseudonym "Zambo Cavero", was a Peruvian singer, representative of Afro-Peruvian identity.
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Luis Fernan Bedoya Reyes
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- politicianlawyer
- 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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- politicianlawyer
- 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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- diplomatlawyerwritermilitary personnelpolitician
- 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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- politicianmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Juan Antonio Pezet Rodríguez 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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- lawyerCatholic priestpoliticianCatholic deaconCatholic bishop
- 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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Rocío Silva-Santisteban
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- poetdocentwriterpolitician
- 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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Héctor Béjar Rivera
- Enrolled in National Major San Marcos University
- Graduated with Doctor in sociology
- Occupations
- plastic artistsociologistwriterpartisansenior lecturer
- 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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Federico Kauffmann Doig
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- ambassadoranthropologisthistorianarchaeologist
- 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 Díez Canseco
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- LGBTQI+ rights activistpoliticiansociologist
- 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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- politicianlawyer
- 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 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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Violeta Bermúdez
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- politicianlawyer
- 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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Clemente Palma
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- university teachernovelistshort story writerpoliticianessayist
- 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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Víctor Andrés Belaúnde
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- diplomathistorianwriterpoliticianjurist
- Biography
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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, where he was Emeritus Rector.
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Jorge del Castillo
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- politicianlawyer
- 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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Manuel Candamo
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- politicianbusinessperson
- 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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Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra
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- military personnelexplorerseafarermilitary commander
- 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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Luis Alberto Sánchez
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- historiantranslatoruniversity teacherjournalistlawyer
- Biography
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Luis Alberto Félix Sánchez Sánchez was a Peruvian lawyer, jurist, philosopher, historian, writer and politician. A historic member of the Peruvian Aprista Party, he became a Senator and member of two Constitutional Assemblies, in which the second one (1978–1980), he occupied the vice-presidency of the Assembly and the presidency of the Constitution Committee. During the presidency of Alan García (1985–1990), he was his Second Vice President and was appointed for a short period as Prime Minister of Peru. In Congress he served as President of the Senate two occasions (1966–1967 and 1985–1986). He is the oldest Vice President of Peru, taking office at the age of 84 years, 289 days.
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Vicky Peláez
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- spyjournalist
- 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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Pilar Mazzetti
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- ministerphysiciandirector
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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 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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Héctor Valer
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- politicianlawyer
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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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- poettranslatorwriterscreenwriter
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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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Luis Guillermo Lumbreras
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- archaeologistanthropologist
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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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- LGBTQI+ rights activistpoliticianlawyer
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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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Beatriz Merino
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- university teacherpoliticianlawyer
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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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Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio
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- Catholic priestCatholic bishopCatholic deacon
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Carlos Gustavo Castillo Mattasoglio is Peruvian prelate of the Catholic Church whom Pope Francis named Archbishop of Lima on 25 January 2019.
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Santiago Fujimori
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- politicianlawyer
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Santiago Fujimori Inomoto is a Peruvian lawyer, politician and a former congressman, representing Lima for the 2006–2011 term. Fujimori is of Japanese descent. He is the younger brother of former President Alberto Fujimori who was the President of Peru from 1990 until his downfall in 2000 and the uncle of Keiko Fujimori and Kenji Fujimori. During his brother's presidency, he served as an advisor.
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Laura Esther Rodriguez Dulanto
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- professorphysician
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Laura Esther Rodríguez Dulanto was the first female physician in Peru.
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Cesar José Hinostroza Pariachi
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- judgeprosecutor
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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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Pedro Peralta y Barnuevo
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- astronomerwritermathematician
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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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Cayetano Heredia
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- physicianuniversity teacher
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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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Alejandro Romualdo
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- caricaturistwriteruniversity teacherpoetjournalist
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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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Francisco García Calderón
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- university teacherlawyerjuristdiplomatpolitician
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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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Elizabeth Hinostroza
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- physicianpoliticianpolice officer
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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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Javier Alva Orlandini
- Enrolled in National Major San Marcos University
- 1946-1953 studied law and economics
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- politicianlawyer
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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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- writerpoet
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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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Óscar Maúrtua
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- lawyercivil servantpoliticiandiplomat
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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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José Gálvez Barrenechea
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- writerlawyerpoetdiplomatjournalist
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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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Augusto Vargas Alzamora
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- theologianCatholic priestCatholic 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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Luis Iberico Núñez
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- politicianjournalist
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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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- film directorwriterscreenwriterphilosopher
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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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- writerphilosopherlibrarian
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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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Marco Martos Carrera
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- writerpoet
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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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Javier Arias Stella
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- pathologistpolitician
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Javier Arias Stella was a Peruvian pathologist, politician, diplomat, academic, and lecturer who variously served as Minister of Public Health of Peru (1963-1965, 1967-1968), Minister of Foreign Relations of Peru (1980-1983), and President of the United Nations Security Council (March 1984, April 1985), the former two positions having been served under Peruvian president Fernando Belaúnde Terry. He was best known in medical circles for having discovered the eponymously-named Arias-Stella reaction.
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Pedro Beltrán
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- journalisteconomistpoliticiandiplomat
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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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Flor Pablo Medina
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- politicianeducator
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Flor Aideé Pablo Medina is a Peruvian teacher, educator, and politician. She is currently a member of Congress from the Purple Party. She ran as Julio Guzmán's first running-mate in the 2021 general election.
