List of Famous people born in Peru

Zenón Noriega Agüero was a Peruvian army general who briefly served as the Interim President of Peru through a military junta for two months in 1950.

Jenny Gago is a Peruvian-American actress.

Luis Alberto Ramírez Lucay is a Peruvian footballer who plays for Sport Boys.

Alexis Amore is a Peruvian pornographic actress and feature dancer.

Ronald Álex Gamarra Herrera is a Peruvian politician and lawyer specializing in human right issues. During 2008 to 2010, Gamarra was Executive Secretary of the Coordinadora Nacional de Derechos Humanos and one of the lawyers representing the civil parties -the families of the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta victims- in the proceedings against former president Alberto Fujimori. Between 2001 and 2004, he served as Ad Hoc Deputy Attorney General for corruption cases and human rights violations attributed to Fujimori and his principal adviser, Vladimiro Montesinos. Gamarra also participated in the process of extraditing the former president back to Peru from Chile. From 1988 to 2000, he directed the Justice Program at the Instituto de Defensa Legal. Gamarra Herrera writes a weekly column in the Lima daily La República and teaches at Universidad Mayor de San Marcos.