List of Famous people born in Arequipa, Peru

Francisco Diez Canseco served as Interim President of Peru for a brief period during 1872. He was the brother of General Pedro Diez Canseco.

José Luis Bustamante y Rivero was a lawyer, writer, politician, and diplomat who served as the 44th President of Peru from 1945 to 1948 and President of the International Court of Justice in The Hague from 1967 to 1970.

Piermaria Jorge Oddone is a Peruvian-American particle physicist.

José Alberto Bustamante Belaúnde was a Peruvian politician. He was the 48th Prime Minister of Peru and Minister of Justice from 1999 to 2000, under President Alberto Fujimori.

Juan Landázuri Ricketts was one of the most prominent Roman Catholic Churchmen during the 1960s and 1970s in Latin America. This was a period in which the Church took a strong stance against human rights abuses by numerous military juntas; it also expressed a preference for the poor and concerns about extreme poverty and wealth inequality. Before he turned 80 on December 19, 1993, Juan Landázuri Ricketts was the last Cardinal elevated by Pope John XXIII to retain voting rights in a papal conclave.

Carlos Ramos Núñez was a Peruvian jurist and academic. He was a justice of the Constitutional Court from 2014 until his death.

Andy Jeferson Polar Paredes is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a midfielder or winger for Binacional.

Madeleine Hartog-Bel is a Peruvian model and beauty queen who won the 1967 Miss World contest, representing Peru. After making it to the semi-finals of the Miss Universe pageant in 1966, she went on to win the Miss World title in London, UK the following year. After Miss World, she lived in Paris, France for many years, and now she resides in a South Florida island. She is married and has a daughter.