List of Famous people born in Bolivia
Branko Marinkovic
Branko Marinković Jovičević is a Bolivian-Croatian elechtrochemical engineer, economist, businessman, and politician who served as the Minister of Development Planning and Minister of Economy and Public Finance during the interim presidency of Jeanine Áñez.
Eduardo Rodríguez
Eduardo Rodríguez Veltzé is a Bolivian judge who briefly served as the 64th president of Bolivia from 2005 to 2006 on an interim basis following the resignation of President Carlos Mesa during the 2005 political crisis. Prior to his temporary role as president, he was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Bolivia.
Mauro Formica
Mauro Abel Formica is an Argentine footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Newell's Old Boys in the Argentine Primera División. He is nicknamed El Gato.
Simeón Cuba-Sanabria
Simeón Cuba Sarabia, also known as Willy, was a member of the Ñancahuazú guerrilla column led by Che Guevara in Bolivia. Born in the Cochabamba region of Bolivia, he became a leader among tin miners in Huanuni and served as the secretary of organization and secretary of militias of the local mine workers' union. He also carried out various social service activities for the benefit of the miners' families. Cuba Sarabia joined the Communist Party of Bolivia (PCB) but resigned from it in 1965 to become a member of the Bolivian Marxist–Leninist Party which favored armed struggle. When he urged that group to put its principles into practice, he was expelled from it along with Moisés Guevara. It was Moisés Guevara who brought him into Che Guevara's Ñancahuazú guerrilla group in March 1967.
Mario Terán
Mario Terán Salazar is a retired Bolivian Army warrant officer who carried out the execution of Che Guevara as a young sergeant in 1967. Guevara, a Marxist revolutionary from Argentina, had played a major role in the Cuban Revolution, in which the 26th of July Movement led by Fidel Castro ousted U.S.-backed dictator Fulgencio Batista and replaced his government with a revolutionary socialist state.
Ronald Raldes
Ronald Raldes Balcázar is a former Bolivian football defender. He is the first Bolivian player in history to reach 100 international appearances.
Jorge Wilstermann
Jorge Wilstermann was the first Bolivian commercial pilot. The son of a mechanic who worked for Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano, Wilstermann took an interest in aviation, and became Bolivia's first civilian aviator. Jorge Wilstermann died in 1936, after an aeroplane accident when flying the Cochabamba–Oruro route on his Junkers airplane. Wilstermann's pioneerism inspired homages in Bolivia. His friend and the then boss of Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano, Wálter Lemm, requested that the name of the local airport in Cochabamba and the local football team's name be changed to Jorge Wilstermann in his honour.
Mariana Prado
Mariana Prado Noya is a Bolivian business administrator and politician. She served as the Minister of Development Planning from 2017 to 2019, during the third government of Evo Morales.
Jhasmani Campos
Jhasmani Campos Dávalos is a Bolivian football midfielder who plays for The Strongest.
Óscar Ortiz Antelo
Oscar Miguel Ortiz Antelo is a Bolivian businessman and politician who served as minister of economy and public finance from July to September 2020 and as minister of productive development from May to July 2020. As a member of the Social Democratic Movement, he previously served two terms as a senator for Santa Cruz from 2015 to 2020 on behalf of the Democratic Unity coalition and from 2006 to 2010 on behalf of the Social Democratic Power alliance. Nearing the end of his second term, Ortiz was his party's presidential candidate, attaining fourth place in the annulled 2019 general elections. During his first term, he served as president of the Senate from 2008 to 2010, the last opposition legislator to preside over the upper chamber as of 2022. Outside of national politics, Ortiz served as president of the Union of Latin American Parties from 2018 to 2021 and has been the rector of the Bolivian Catholic University at Santa Cruz since 2021.