List of Famous people born in Lima Province, Peru
José Vega
José Alejandro Vega Antonio is a Peruvian politician and a Congressman representing Lima since 2020. He was previously congressman for the 2006-2011 term representing Lima. He was First Vice President of the Congress between 2006 and 2007 under the leadership of Mercedes Cabanillas. In the 2020 snap parliamentary election, after a nine-year absence, he was once again elected as Congressman representing the same constituency to complete the 2016-2021 term that was interrupted following to the dissolution of the Congress. Vega belongs to the Union for Peru party in which, he is the party's Secretary General. He is running for President in the 2021 elections.
Lucía Cayetana Aljovín Gazzani
Lucía Cayetana Aljovín Gazzani is Peruvian lawyer, journalist and public administrator. In Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's administration, she served in three different portfolios between 2016 and 2018.
Gino Guerrero
Gino Guerrero Lara is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a winger for Universidad Técnica de Cajamarca in the Peruvian Primera División.
Fernando Cillóniz
Fernando José Cillóniz Benavides is a Peruvian engineer and politician who served as Governor of the Ica Region from January 2015 to December 2018, elected as invited candidate under Popular Force.
Christofer Gonzáles
Christofer Gonzáles Crespo is a Peruvian footballer that currently plays for Peruvian Primera División club Sporting Cristal as a midfielder.
Deysi Cori
Deysi Estela Cori Tello is a Peruvian chess player, who holds the title of Woman Grandmaster (WGM), and a three-time American Continental women's champion. At junior level, she was twice world champion and six-time Pan American champion in her age girls category. Cori is the top ranked female player of Peru and has played for the national team of her country in the Women's Chess Olympiad since 2004. She competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2013 and 2015, and in the Women's World Chess Championship in 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2017.
Silvana Arias
Silvana Arias is a Peruvian actress. She also holds a degree in fashion design.
Harold Forsyth
Harold Winston Forsyth Mejía is a Peruvian diplomat and former politician who has served as Peru's ambassador to the United States, Italy, Colombia, the People's Republic of China and, as of 2019, is serving as ambassador of Peru to Japan. From 1995 until 2000, he sat for one term in the Congress of the Republic of Peru.
Maricarmen Marín Salinas
Maricarmen Marín Salinas is a Peruvian actress, cumbia singer, dancer, and TV host. She started as a dancer in the musical show "La movida de los Sabados" and she became famous as the lead singer of the female technocumbia musical group "Agua Bella". Maricarmen participated in El Gran Show in 2010. In 2011 she currently stars as Natasha in the América Televisión series "Yo no me llamo Natacha" for which she also performed the theme song. She is also currently a solo singer. In 2018, she released her new hit song ¿Por Qué Te Fuiste? which had airplay success throughout Latin America and Europe.
Juan Flores
Juan Ángel Flores Ascencio is a Peruvian footballer who played as a goalkeeper.