List of Famous people born in Peru

Patty Wong is a Peruvian model. She formerly co-hosted a popular youth-oriented Peruvian show called R con R. She also won in "Miss Perú Tusan," a beauty contest for Peruvian-Chinese girls, like her. She also co-hosts a Peruvian television show in the singing talent contest format, called Camino a la fama. She was also the host of the cancelled children's show Zoombate along with Cati Caballero as co-host, another famous Peruvian model that started her career in R con R.

Claude Maurice Mulder Bedoya, known as Mauricio Mulder, is a Peruvian politician, lawyer and former journalist. One of the most prominent and influential members of the Peruvian Aprista Party, he served in the Peruvian Congress from 2001 to 2019, representing Lima. From 2004 to 2010, he held the office of party Secretary General.

Renzo Andrés Reggiardo Barreto is a Peruvian Fujimorist politician and a former Congressman representing the city of Lima for two terms for the 2006–2011 term and the 2011–2016 term.

Kelin Poldy Rivera Kroll is a Peruvian business manager, entrepreneur, social advocate, model, and beauty pageant titleholder who holds the international crown of World Miss University 2016 and the national crown of Miss Peru 2019. She represented Peru at the Miss Universe 2019 competition where she placed as a Top 10 finalist.

Rosa María Bartra Barriga is a Peruvian lawyer, politician and pharmaceutical chemist who served as a congressman for La Libertad from 2016 to 2020. She successfully ran for the post of parliamentarian in the 2016 elections with the fujimorism party, Popular Force and in the 2020 elections with National Solidarity, not obtaining the seat, being invited by these two political organizations on both occasions.

Susana María del Carmen Villarán de la Puente is a centre-left politician in Peru, a former presidential candidate, and in municipal elections in 2010 became the first woman to be elected Mayor of Lima.

Marino Morikawa is a Peruvian-Japanese scientist. He has a master's degree in Interdisplinary Biodiplomacy and a doctorate in Environmental Sciences from the prestigious Tsukuba University in Japan. His work became well known when a short NatGeo news report featured him for the decontamination process of the small lake El Cascajo in Chancay, Peru, where he grew up as a child, using what he terms as "bubble nanotechnology." He had done research about this process. However, he had never tried it before. His father contacted him when he heard that there were plans to cover it, due to the fact it was contaminated. The recently graduated Morikawa made the decision to travel to his childhood home and decontaminate it himself. Many residents warned him that the lake was so contaminated that he'd get sick, but he paid no heed to their words. The process to decontaminate the lake took him 15 days. Because of his efforts, more than 70 species of birds and fish returned to the area. The residents have also started efforts to take care of the lake.

Cristopher Paolo César Hurtado Huertas, commonly known as Paolo Hurtado, is a Peruvian professional footballer who plays as a winger.

Carlos Alberto Cáceda Ollaguez is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Melgar. Cáceda is known as a secured goal-stopper with quick reflexes and a speedy pace to rush off his line. He played all games when Universitario under-20 squad won the 2011 U-20 Copa Libertadores.

Héctor Eduardo Chumpitaz Gonzáles is a former footballer from Peru. Voted one of the greatest defenders of all times, among the 30 best defenders in football history and included within the 100 best players in the history of the Soccer World Cup by FIFA in 2018. He is also a member of the Historic Ideal Team of Copa América by CONMEBOL. In addition to being the seventh South American defender with the highest score in soccer history, after scoring 65 official goals.