List of Famous people born in Guatemala
José Manuel Contreras
José Manuel "El Moyo" Contreras is a Guatemalan football midfielder who plays for Comunicaciones of the Guatemalan top division. He is also a member of the Guatemalan national team since 2006.
Paulo César Motta
Paulo César Motta Donis is a Guatemalan football goalkeeper who plays for Cobán Imperial in Guatemala's top division.
Alfred van Pruisen
Rina Lazo
Rina Lazo Wasem was a Guatemalan-Mexican painter, who began her career in mural painting with Diego Rivera as his assistant. She worked with him from 1947 until his death in 1957 on projects both in Mexico and Guatemala. Thereafter she remained an active painter, better known for her mural works than canvases although the latter have been exhibited in Mexico and other countries making her one of Guatemala's better known artists. She was a member of the Mexican muralism movement and while she criticized modern artists as too commercial and not committed to social causes. She believed muralism would revive in Mexico because of its history.
José Francisco Barrundia
José Francisco Barrundia y Cepeda was a liberal Central American politician. From June 26, 1829 to September 16, 1830 he was interim president of the United Provinces of Central America.
Gerardo Flores
Geraldo Humberto Flores Reyes was a Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate.
Pedro Molina Mazariegos
Doctor Pedro José Antonio Molina Mazariegos was a Central American politician, considered one of the founders of liberalism in Guatemala.
Luis von Ahn
Luis von Ahn is a Guatemalan-American entrepreneur and a Consulting Professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is known as one of the pioneers of crowdsourcing. He is the founder of the company reCAPTCHA, which was sold to Google in 2009, and the co-founder and CEO of Duolingo, the world's most popular language-learning platform.
Norma Torres
Norma Judith Torres, is an American politician. She is a member of the United States House of Representatives for California's 35th congressional district. Previously, she was a member of the California State Senate representing the 35th district. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri
Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri is a Guatemalan prelate of the Catholic Church who has been the Bishop of Huehuetenango since 2012. He was the Bishop of San Marcos from 1988 to 2012.