List of Salvadorans
This is a list of notable people born in El Salvador or of Salvadoran descent.
Arts
- Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry, painter, sculptor, and author; wife of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Fernando Llort, painter and sculptor
- Noe Canjura, painter
- Nicolas F. Shi, painter
- Patricia Chica, filmmaker
- Ana Maria de Martinez, artist
- Toño Salazar, caricaturist
- Retna, graffiti artist
- Giovanni Gil, painter, engraver and watercolorist
- Rubén Martínez Bulnes, sculptor, architect
Scholars, authors and educators
- Alberto Masferrer, intellectual
- Alfredo Betancourt, educator, philosopher
- Ana Sol Gutiérrez, educator
- Claribel Alegría, writer
- Claudia Lars, poet
- René Núñez Suárez, engineer
- Ignacio Martín-Baró, social psychologist and priest
- José Matías Delgado, writer, father of the Salvadoran fatherland
- Juan José Cañas, writer, the national anthem
- Manlio Argueta, novelist
- Marcos Villatoro, author
- Martin Guardado, applied linguist, sociolinguist, educator
- Matilde Elena López, poet, essayist, playwright
- Pedro Geoffroy Rivas, poet, scholar
- Roque Dalton, poet
- Salarrué, novelist, poet, painter
Entertainment
- Ana Villafañe, actress
- Cesar Ventura, actor
- Gerardo Celasco, Miami-born Italian-Salvadoran actor
- Álvaro Torres, singer
- Cáthia, singer, season 4 of the American The Voice
- Sabi, singer
- Efren Ramirez, actor
- Isabel Dada, actress
- J.D. Pardo, actor
- DJ Keoki, techno DJ
- Martina Topley-Bird, vocalist and songwriter
- Pescozada, Latino rap artist
- Pete Sandoval, drummer for the group Morbid Angel
- The Fabulous Wonder Twins, entertainment personalities
- Fernanfloo, Comedy YouTuber
- Julio Torres, writer, comedian, actor, and producer
Fashion designers and models
- Christy Turlington, American-Salvadoran supermodel
- Francesca Miranda, internationally renowned fashion designer
Politicians
- Alfredo Cristiani, former president
- Álvaro Magaña, banker and interim president
- Ana Maria, guerrilla leader
- Anastasio Aquino, King of the Nonualco tribes, who defeated the government army in 1833
- Antonio Saca, former president
- Armando Calderón Sol, former president
- Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, defense minister, convicted of human rights abuses
- Cayetano Carpio, leader of the leftist insurgency, founder of the FPL.
- Egriselda López, diplomat, Permanent Representative to the UN
- Domingo Monterrosa, military commander of the Armed Forces of El Salvador during the Salvadoran Civil War
- Farabundo Martí, revolutionary
- Francisco Flores, former president
- Gerardo Barrios, liberal president
- Guillermo Ungo, opposition leader and former vice-president
- Joaquín Eufrasio Guzmán, national hero
- Joaquín Villalobos, noted guerrilla leader during Salvadoran civil war
- José Inocencio Alas, former priest and activist
- José Matías Delgado, national hero
- José Napoleón Duarte, former president
- Juan Rafael Bustillo, former Head of the Salvadoran Air Force
- Manuel José Arce, decorated General, president of the Federal Republic of Central America, 1825–1829
- Mauricio Funes, former president
- Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, dictator-president
- Nayib Bukele, current president
- Roberto D'Aubuisson, politician, ARENA
- Rutilio Grande, martyred priest
- Marisol Argueta de Barillas, chancellor, ARENA, Senior Director World Economic Forum
Humanitarians and activists
- María Álvarez de Guillén, women's rights activist, writer, and businessperson
- Prudencia Ayala, social activist and writer
- José Castellanos Contreras, humanitarian
- Rosa Amelia Guzmán, suffragette and journalist
- Vicky Guzman, doctor and humanitarian
- Morena Herrera, women's rights activist
- José Gustavo Guerrero, lawyer, diplomat, humanitarian, first president of the International Court of Justice
- María Teresa Rivera, women's rights activist
- Óscar Arnulfo Romero, humanitarian, fourth Archbishop of San Salvador
Sports
- Ronnie Aguilar, basketball player
- Dennis Alas, soccer player
- Jaime Alas, soccer player
- Rafael Alfaro, swimmer
- Arturo Alvarez, soccer player
- Frank Avelar, boxer
- Juan Barahona, soccer player
- Pamela Benítez, swimmer
- Léster Blanco, soccer player
- Nelson Bonilla, soccer player
- Junior Burgos, soccer player
- Rosemary Casals, tennis player
- Darwin Cerén, soccer player
- Óscar Cerén, soccer player
- Mauricio Cienfuegos, soccer player
- Jose Cortez, former NFL football player
- Raúl Díaz Arce, soccer player
- Roberto Domínguez, soccer player
- Carlos Figueroa, judoka
- Edwin Figueroa, mixed martial arts fighter
- Andrés Flores, soccer player
- Evelyn García, cyclist
- Mágico González, soccer player
- Tomás Granitto, soccer player
- Carlos Hernandez, boxer
- Emerson Hernández, racewalker
- Gladys Landaverde, runner
- Roberto López, rower
- Ivan Menjivar, mixed martial arts fighter
- Melissa Mikec, sports shooter
- Alfredo Pacheco, soccer player
- Denis Pineda, soccer player
- Steve Purdy, soccer player
- Joaquín Rivas, soccer player
- Steve Rodriguez, baseball player
- Ramón Sánchez, soccer player
- Ricardo Saprissa, athlete, coach, and sport promoter
- Rodolfo Zelaya, soccer player
Other
- Ingmar Guandique, undocumented U.S. immigrant convicted in the death of Chandra Levy and two other American women
- Jose Domingo Medrano, doctor and medical inventor
- Antonia Ramírez, singer, writer and language activist
- Adela del Rosario Cabezas de Allwood early woman doctor
- José Salvador Alvarenga, claimed to have spent 13 months adrift in a fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean