List of Famous people born in Colombia

Salvatore Mancuso Gómez, also known as "el Mono Mancuso","Santander Lozada" or "Triple Cero", among other names is a Colombian paramilitary leader, once second in command of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) paramilitary group. The paramilitary groups commanded by Mancuso fought the guerrillas, and financed their activities by receiving donations from land owners, drug trafficking, extortions and robbery.

Óscar Eduardo Córdoba Arce is a retired Colombian footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He has played more than 70 games for the Colombia national team. He is also the only person to never concede a goal in a Copa América edition, having done so in 2001.

Miguel Ángel López Moreno is a Colombian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team.

Harold Preciado is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Deportivo Cali.

Manolo Cardona is a Colombian actor.

Manuel Elkin Patarroyo Murillo is a Colombian Professor of Pathology and Immunology who made the world's first attempt to create a synthetic vaccine against a parasite called the protozoa Plasmodium falciparum that causes severe malaria, a disease that causes death in tropical and subtropical regions, including parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa.

Jealisse Andrea Tovar Velásquez simply known as Andrea Tovar, is a Colombian model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Colombia 2015. She represented Chocó at the pageant and represented Colombia at Miss Universe 2016.

Oscar Albeiro Figueroa Mosquera is a Colombian weightlifter, and Olympic Champion competing in the 62 kg category until 2018 and 67 kg starting in 2018 after the International Weightlifting Federation reorganized the categories. He was born in Zaragoza, Cartago Valle del Cauca.

Zulay Henao is a Colombian-American film and television actress. She's co-starred in a number of films such as Illegal Tender (2007), Fighting (2009), Takers (2010), Boy Wonder (2011), Hostel: Part III, The Single Moms Club (2014), True Memoirs of an International Assassin (2016). In 2014 she began starring as one of the lead characters in the Oprah Winfrey Network series, If Loving You Is Wrong.

Cristian Daniel Arango Duque is a Colombian professional footballer who plays for Millonarios as a forward.