List of Famous people born in El Salvador

Nayib Armando Bukele Ortez is a Salvadoran politician and businessman who is the 46th and current President of El Salvador who has served since 1 June 2019 after winning the 2019 election. He ran as the candidate of the centre-right GANA party and became the first president since José Napoleón Duarte (1984–1989) not to have been elected as the candidate of one of the country's two major political parties: the FMLN and ARENA. He is also the founder of the political party Nuevas Ideas.

Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador who served as the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador. He spoke out against poverty, social injustice, assassinations, and torture amid a growing war between left-wing and right-wing forces. In 1980, Romero was assassinated while celebrating Mass in the chapel of the Hospital of Divine Providence. Though no one was ever convicted for the crime, investigations by the UN-created Truth Commission for El Salvador concluded that the extreme right-wing politician, founder of ARENA and the U.S.-backed death squad leader Roberto D'Aubuisson had given the order.

Imanol Uribe is a Spanish screenwriter and film director.

Eeileen Auxiliadora Romero Valle was a Salvadoran lawyer, politician and public servant. A member of the National Coalition Party, she served in the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador from 2018 to 2021.

Baroness Ariane de Rothschild is a French banker, president of the board of the Edmond de Rothschild Group since April 2019. She is the first woman to run a Rothschild-branded financial institution.

Alfredo Alberto Pacheco was a Salvadoran footballer who had the record for most appearances on the El Salvador national football team when he was banned for life in 2013, for match-fixing while playing for the national team. He was murdered on December 27, 2015.

Jorge Alberto González Barillas, popularly known as El Mágico, is a Salvadoran former footballer who played mainly as a forward.

General Carlos Humberto Romero Mena was a Salvadoran politician who served as President of El Salvador between July 1, 1977, and his overthrow on October 15, 1979.

Gabriela Roberta Rodríguez de Bukele is a Salvadoran educator, prenatal psychologist and the current first lady of El Salvador, as the wife of the 46th President of El Salvador Nayib Bukele. She is also a professional ballet dancer and is part of the dance company Fundación Ballet de El Salvador.

Francisco Guillermo Flores Pérez was a Salvadoran politician who served as President of El Salvador from June 1, 1999 to June 1, 2004 as a member of the conservative Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA). He previously served as a deputy of the Legislative Assembly from 1994 to 1999, having been president of the Assembly from 1997 to 1999.