List of Famous people born in Arequipa, Peru

Alejandro "Alex" Olmedo Rodríguez was a tennis player from Peru with American citizenship. He was listed by the USTA as a "foreign" player for 1958, but as a U.S. player for 1959. He helped win the Davis Cup for the United States in 1958 and was the No. 2 ranked amateur in 1959. Olmedo won two Majors in 1959 and the U.S. Pro Championships in 1960, and was inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987.

Jorge Yarur Banna was a Chilean banker. He served as the president of Banco de Crédito e Inversiones, a bank founded by his father, until 1991.

José Said Saffie was a Peruvian-born Chilean businessman of Palestinian ancestry and the founder and head of Parque Arauco S.A., one of the largest real estate developers and operators of shopping malls in both Chile and Argentina.

Juan Carlos Oblitas Saba is a retired Peruvian footballer, who is a football manager, who is nicknamed El Ciego. Oblitas was an extraordinary outside left wing forward at the national team level for Peru back in the 1970s and 1980s.

Víctor Andrés Belaúnde Diez Canseco was a Peruvian diplomat who chaired the fourteenth session and the fourth emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly (1959–1960).

Ezequiel Ataucusi Gamonal, also known as Brother Ezequiel, was a Peruvian politician and prophet of the religious movement he founded. He was the founder of an Evangelical Association of the Israelite Mission of the New Universal Covenant (AEMINPU) and their theocratic party known as Agricultural People's Front of Peru (FREPAP).

Jose Nicolás Baltasar Fernández de Piérola y Villena was a Peruvian politician and Minister of Finance who served as the 33rd and 39th President of the Republic of Peru, from 1879 to 1881 and 1895 to 1899.

Pedro Diez Canseco Corbacho was a Peruvian soldier and politician who served as Interim President of Peru on three occasions: 1863, 1865 and 1868. He served as the second vice president from October 1862 to 1863. He was the brother of Francisco Diez Canseco, and a great-grandfather of Fernando Belaunde Terry.