List of Famous people born in Bolivia
Marcelo Martins Moreno
Marcelo Martins Moreno, known as Marcelo Martins in Bolivia and as Marcelo Moreno in other countries, is a Bolivian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Cruzeiro and the Bolivia national football team. He is considered one of the greatest Bolivian strikers of all time. With 21 goals, he is the national team's all-time top goalcorer.
Verona Pooth
Verona Pooth is a German television personality, model, and occasional actress. In 1993, she was Miss Germany and Miss Intercontinental and represented Germany at the Miss Universe 1993 contest.
Evo Morales
Juan Evo Morales Ayma is a Bolivian politician and former cocalero activist who served as the 65th President of Bolivia from 2006 to 2019. Widely regarded as the country's first president to come from its indigenous population, his administration focused on the implementation of leftist policies and combating the influence of the United States and multinational corporations. Ideologically a socialist, he has led the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party since 1998.
Jeanine Áñez
Jeanine Áñez Chávez is a Bolivian politician and lawyer who served as the 66th President of Bolivia on an interim basis from 2019 to 2020, following the resignation of President Evo Morales after the disputed 2019 Bolivian general election. She is Bolivia's second female president after Lidia Gueiler Tejada.
Carlos Lampe
Carlos Emilio Lampe Porras is a Bolivian football goalkeeper who currently plays for Club Always Ready.
Luis Arce
Luis Alberto Arce Catacora, also known as Lucho Arce, is a Bolivian politician who has served as the 67th President of Bolivia since 2020. He served as Minister of Economy and Public Finance from 2006 to 2017 and in 2019 during the administration of Evo Morales. He is a member of the Movement for Socialism (MAS-IPSP) political party.
Carlos Mesa
Carlos Diego Mesa Gisbert is a Bolivian historian and politician who served as the 63rd President of Bolivia from 2003 to 2005. He was the 37th Vice President of Bolivia from 2002 to 2003. Mesa previously had been a television journalist. His widespread recognition prompted the MNR candidate Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada to pick him as running mate in the 2002 Bolivian presidential elections.
Juan Carlos Arce
Juan Carlos Arce Justiniano is a Bolivian professional footballer who plays for Bolívar.
Luis Fernando Camacho
Luis Fernando Camacho Vaca is a Bolivian lawyer, businessman, activist and politician. He is a member of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR) in Bolivia, and has been the chair of the Civic Committee of Santa Cruz since 2019. He emerged as a major critic of President Evo Morales and influential public figure during the highly controversial 2019 Bolivian general election, demanding Morales resign on 5 November 2019.
Henry Vaca
Henry Vaca Urquiza is a Bolivian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for The Strongest.
Adriana Salvatierra
Adriana Salvatierra Arriaza is a Bolivian-Chilean politician. She was the President of the Senate of Bolivia from January 2019 to November 2019. In 2015, she was elected to the Senate as a member of the Movement for Socialism from the Santa Cruz Department.
Ignacio Mateo
Alejandro Saúl Chumacero Bracamonte is a Bolivian international footballer who plays for Chilean club Unión Española and the Bolivia national team as a midfielder.
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada
Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada Sánchez Bustamante, familiarly known as "Goni", is a Bolivian politician and businessman, who served as the 61st President of Bolivia for two nonconsecutive terms from 1993 to 1997 and from 2002 to 2003. He is a lifelong member of the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement. As Minister of Planning in the government of President Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Sánchez de Lozada used "shock therapy" in 1985 to cut hyperinflation from an estimated 25,000% to a single digit within a period of less than 6 weeks.
Álvaro García Linera
Álvaro Marcelo García Linera is a Bolivian politician and marxist theorist and sociologist who served as the 38th Vice President of Bolivia from 2006 until his resignation in 2019. García Linera was also the leader of the Túpac Katari Guerrilla Army in the early 1990s.
Hugo Dellien
Hugo Dellien Jr. is a Bolivian tennis player.
Andrónico Rodríguez
Andrónico Rodríguez Ledezma is a Bolivian political scientist, cocalero, and politician serving as President of the Senate of Bolivia since 3 November 2020. In 2018, he was elected Vice President of the Six Coca Federations of the Tropic of Cochabamba.
Lilly Gabriela Montaño Viaña
Lilly Gabriela Montaño Viaña is a Bolivian physician, politician, and former senator. She was the elected President of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly, a position she accepted and would hold until 2020 while still the presidential representative of Santa Cruz de la Sierra for the Movement for Socialism (MAS) party. In 2012, Montaño was made the acting President of Bolivia for a short time. Montaño is a feminist and vocal defender of the rights of the LGBT community. She has been a regular guest and speaker at forums and conferences in different parts of the world. She married Argentine citizen Fabián Restivo, with whom she has had two daughters.
Jorge Quiroga
Jorge Fernando Quiroga Ramírez, nicknamed Tuto Quiroga is a Bolivian politician who served as the 36th Vice President of Bolivia from 1997 to 2001 under President Hugo Banzer. Following Banzer's resignation due to terminal illness, Quiroga assumed the presidency and served as the 62nd President of Bolivia from 2001 to 2002.
Felix Streng
Felix Streng is a German Paralympic track and field athlete. A single leg amputee, Streng competes in both sprint and long jump events, competing in the T44 classification. He has won medals at both European and World Championship level and was part of the German Athletics at the 2016 Summer Paralympics – Men's 4 × 100 metres relay team that won gold at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio.
Germán Efromovich
Germán Efromovich is a Bolivian-born entrepreneur with multiple citizenship: Brazilian, Colombian, and Polish. He was born into a family of Polish Jews. His net worth is estimated to be $1 billion.