List of Famous people born in Bolivia
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.