List of Famous people born in Colombia
Liz Solari
María Isabel Solari Poggio, known as Liz Solari, is an Argentine actress who began her career as a model, before becoming established in local and foreign cinema. She is a Unicef Ambassador in Argentina.
Andrés Parra
Andrés Parra Medina is a Colombian film and television actor. He is best known for portraying the drug lord Pablo Escobar in the Canal Caracol TV series Pablo Escobar, el patrón del mal.
José Quintana
José Guillermo Quintana is a Colombian professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Cubs.
Edgar Rentería
Édgar Enrique Rentería Herazo, nicknamed "The Barranquilla Baby," is a Colombian former professional baseball shortstop. He threw and batted right-handed. He played for the Florida Marlins, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Boston Red Sox, the Atlanta Braves, the Detroit Tigers, San Francisco Giants and Cincinnati Reds.
Arturo Ernesto Reyes Montero
Arturo Ernesto Reyes Montero is a Colombian football coach and former player who is currently the head coach of the Colombia national under-23 and under-20 teams. He was the interim manager of the Colombian national football team.
Claudia Morales
Claudia Morales Medina is a journalist, broadcaster, and presenter on Colombian radio and television. She is recognized as one of the leading voices on Colombia radio.
Cecilia Brækhus
Cecilia Carmen Linda Brækhus is a Norwegian professional boxer and former kickboxer. In boxing she reigned as the undisputed female welterweight champion from 2014 to August 2020, and is the first woman in any weight class to hold the WBA, WBC, IBF and WBO titles simultaneously. She is also one of only eight boxers in history, female or male, to hold all four major world titles simultaneously, along with Bernard Hopkins (2004–2005), Jermain Taylor (2005), Terence Crawford (2017), Oleksandr Usyk (2018–2019), Claressa Shields (2019–2020), Katie Taylor (2019–), and Jessica McCaskill (2020–). In 2016, she captured the IBO title, becoming the first ever boxer to hold five world titles from sanctioning bodies simultaneously.
María Fernanda Yepes
María Fernanda Yépes Alzate is a Colombian actress and model. She is mostly known for playing Yesica, in the hit Telemundo soap opera Sin Senos no hay Paraíso. She also played the title role in the Colombian television series Rosario Tijeras.
Nicolás Benedetti
Nicolás Benedetti Roa is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Liga MX club América.
Santiago Tréllez
Santigo Tréllez Vivero is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Sport Recife, on loan from São Paulo FC.