List of Famous people born in Lempira Department, Honduras

Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado is the President of Honduras, who assumed office on 27 January 2014, after winning the 2013 Honduran general election. He began his second presidential term on 27 January 2018.

Juan Antonio Hernández Alvarado, known as Tony Hernández, is a Honduran convicted drug trafficker lawyer, politician, member of the National Party of Honduras and former deputy in the National Congress of Honduras (2014–2018) representing Lempira. He is the brother of Juan Orlando Hernández, the current President of Honduras. On November 23, 2018, Juan Antonio Hernández was arrested in Miami on drug trafficking charges. On November 26, 2018, he was formally charged in a federal court with importing tons of cocaine into the United States between 2004 and 2016, as well as on weapons charges.

Hilda Rosario Hernández Alvarado was an agronomy engineer and Honduran politician. She held posts in the nationalist governments of Ricardo Maduro, Porfirio Lobo Sosa and of her brother, Juan Orlando Hernández, current Honduran president. From January 2017 until her death she was political advisor to her brother in his campaign for re-election in the general election, 2017. There are also allegations that she never died and the press never showed evidence of the crashed helicopter. Some other say that Chapo Guzman sent to kill her due to her brother Juan Orlando ties with drug trafficking.