List of Famous people born in Cochabamba Department, Bolivia

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Eduardo Andres Villegas Camarena is a former Bolivian footballer and current manager of bolivian club Always Ready.

Ariana Campero Nava is a Bolivian doctor who was Minister of Health in the Cabinet of Bolivia. At the time of her appointment, at age 28, she was the youngest minister in the cabinet.

Jaime Laredo is a violinist and conductor. Currently the conductor and Music Director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, he began his musical career when he was five years old. In 1948 he came to North America and took lessons from Antonio de Grassi. He also studied with Frank Houser before moving to Cleveland, Ohio, to study under Josef Gingold in 1953. He studied with Ivan Galamian at the Curtis Institute of Music until his graduation. From 1960 to 1974 he was married to the pianist Ruth Laredo. Laredo is currently a professor at the renowned Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He served as artistic advisor for the Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra and guest conducted the orchestra on April 18, 2009, in a program featuring his wife, the cellist Sharon Robinson. He was scheduled to again conduct the orchestra for two programs during the 2009–10 season. Laredo and Robinson were also featured soloists in a special concert conducted by Andrew Constantine, who became the Philharmonic's music director in July 2009.