List of Famous people born in Lima region, Peru
Paolo Guerrero
José Paolo Guerrero Gonzales is a Peruvian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Brazilian club Internacional and the Peru national team.
Alberto Fujimori
Alberto Kenya Fujimori Inomoto is a former Peruvian engineer and politician who served as the President of Peru from 28 July 1990 until 22 November 2000. A controversial figure in Peruvian politics, his government is credited with the creation of Fujimorism, defeating the Shining Path insurgency and restoring Peru's macroeconomic stability. Fujimori ended his presidency by fleeing Peru for Japan amid a major scandal involving corruption and human rights abuses. Even amid his prosecution in 2008 for crimes against humanity relating to his presidency, two-thirds of Peruvians polled voiced approval for his leadership in that period.
Susana Higuchi
Susana Shizuko Higuchi Miyagawa is a Japanese Peruvian politician and engineer, better known as the former wife of President Alberto Fujimori. A member of the Peruvian Congress for two terms from 2000 to 2006, she was elected as a member of the Frente Independiente Moralizador (FIM),, a reformist political party allied with then president Alejandro Toledo, in both the 2000 and 2001 general elections.
Keiko Fujimori
Keiko Sofía Fujimori Higuchi is a Peruvian politician. She is the daughter of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and Susana Higuchi. Following her parents' divorce, she served as First Lady from 1994 to 2000, becoming the youngest First Lady in the history of the Americas. In 2006, she was elected to the Congress of Peru under the Alliance for the Future. Fujimori leads the right-wing party Fuerza Popular and was their presidential candidate in the 2011 election runoff and the 2016 election runoff, losing both times, the 2016 election being a very close call, with the final count difference of less than 0.25%. She is running as a candidate for president in the general elections that will be held on April 11, 2021.
Jefferson Farfán
Jefferson Agustín Farfán Guadalupe is a Peruvian professional footballer who mainly plays as a forward or winger for the Peru national football team and is currently a free agent having last played for Lokomotiv Moscow. Commonly known as Farfán or the nickname Foquita, he is known for his speed and technical ability and was one of the best providers of assists during his time in the Bundesliga.
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski
Pedro Pablo Kuczynski Godard, also known simply as PPK, is a Peruvian economist, politician and public administrator who served as President of Peru from 2016 to 2018. He was previously the Prime Minister of Peru from 2005 to 2006. His administration ended abruptly on 23 March 2018, following his address to the nation two days earlier, announcing his resignation from the presidency. Since 10 April 2019 he has been in pretrial detention, due to an ongoing investigation on corruption, money laundering, and connections to Odebrecht, a public works company accused of paying bribes.
Juliane Koepcke
Juliane Koepcke, also known by her married name Juliane Diller, is a German Peruvian mammalogist.
Gustavo Dulanto
Gustavo Alfonso Dulanto Sanguinetti is a Peruvian professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Sheriff Tiraspol.
Francisco Sagasti
Francisco Rafael Sagasti Hochhausler OSP is a Peruvian engineer, academic, and author, who is the current President of Peru since 17 November 2020.
Nathalie Kelley
Nathalie Kelley, originally Nathalie Pérez is a Peruvian–Australian actress known for her role as Neela in the 2006 action film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and for her roles in various television series including Body of Proof (2011–2012), Unreal (2015), The Vampire Diaries (2016–2017) and Dynasty (2017–2018). In 2020, she debuted in the lead role of Noa Hamilton in the ABC series The Baker and the Beauty.