List of Famous people born in Peru

Jorge Moisés Cori Tello is a Peruvian chess grandmaster. A former chess prodigy, he was twice world champion and four-time Pan American champion in his age category. Cori competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2011, 2013 and 2017. He has played for the Peruvian team in the Chess Olympiad since 2010.

Teófilo Juan Cubillas Arizaga is a Peruvian former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He was selected as Peru's greatest ever player in an IFFHS poll, in which he was also included in the world's Top 50. He was renowned for his technique, shooting ability and free kick ability. He was considered one of the best players in the world of the 1970s and the best in his position of the decade only behind the Dutch Johan Cruyff. Among his main achievements are the FIFA awards for the best young player and the bronze boot in Mexico 1970, as well as the silver boot and member of the ideal team of Argentina 1978, he was also champion and best player of the 1975 Copa América. He is regarded one of the best attacking midfielders in the history of football.

Pedro Jesús Aquino Sánchez is a Peruvian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Liga MX club América and the Peru national football team.

Cesar Acuña Peralta is a Peruvian politician and entrepreneur in the field of education. A controversial figure in Peruvian politics, he is the founder and leader of the Alliance for Progress party, which has achieved recognition for being the first party of provincial origin to gain electoral popularity at national level since its foundation in 2001.

Karina is a Peruvian-born Venezuelan Latin pop music singer, songwriter, and actress.

Vladimiro Lenin Ilich Montesinos Torres is a former long-standing head of Peru's intelligence service, National Intelligence Service (SIN), under President Alberto Fujimori. In the year 2000, the infamous "Vladi-videos" came to light through the television: they were secret videos recorded by Montesinos that showed him bribing elected congressmen into leaving the opposition and joining the pro-Fujimori group of the Congress. The ensuing scandal caused Montesinos to flee the country and prompted Fujimori's resignation.

Pilar Elena Mazzetti Soler is a Peruvian physician and health administrator who served as Minister of Health from July 2020 to February 2021, excluding her for nine days from office during the brief presidency of Manuel Merino. She previously held the position from February 2004 to July 2006, and was briefly Minister of the Interior from July 2006 to February 2007, being the first woman to reach said position in the Peruvian government.

Carlos Alberto Alcántara Vilar is a Peruvian stand-up comedian and actor.

Carolina Lizárraga Houghton is a Peruvian lawyer, jurist, and politician who serves as a member of the Congress of the Republic of Peru (PM), representing the Lima constituency.

María Teresa Cabrera Vega is a Peruvian politician. She is a Congresswoman representing Lima for the 2020–2021 term, and belongs to the Podemos Perú party.