List of Famous people born in Peru

Rafael Rey Rey is a Peruvian engineer, political commentator and politician who currently serves as member of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru Board of Directors since 2016. Throughout his political life, he served in the Peruvian Congress from 1990 to 2006 and as a Representative to the Andean Parliament from 2006 to 2016. During the Second presidency of Alan García, he was appointed Minister of Production, Ambassador to Italy and Minister of Defense.

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.

Fernando Iwasaki Cauti is a Peruvian writer and historian. Born into a family with multiple roots. While in Peru, he taught at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and the Universidad del Pacífico in Lima. Since 1989, he has lived in Seville.

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 Lara is a Peruvian footballer who plays as a winger for Universidad Técnica de Cajamarca in the Peruvian Primera División.

Irven Beybe Ávila Acero is a Peruvian striker currently playing for Peruvian club Sporting Cristal.

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 Crespo is a Peruvian footballer that currently plays for Peruvian Primera División club Sporting Cristal as a midfielder.

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.

Osmán Morote Barrionuevo known with the alias of Comrade Nicolas was one of Efraín Morote Best's sons. At one point in his life, he became the Shining Path's second-in-command. His two siblings, Arturo and Katia, also became members of the Shining Path, a Maoist insurgency in Peru that launched a terrorist movement.