List of Famous people born in Quindío Department, Colombia

Carlos Enrique Lehder Rivas is a German-Colombian former drug lord who was co-founder of the Medellín Cartel. He was released from prison in the United States after 33 years in 2020. Born in Armenia, Colombia, Lehder eventually ran a cocaine transport empire on Norman's Cay island, 210 miles (340 km) off the Florida coast in the central Bahamas.

Luis Alfredo Garavito Cubillos, also known as La Bestia or Tribilín is a Colombian rapist and serial killer. In 1999, he admitted to the rape, torture and murder of 138 boys and teenagers. His victims, based on the locations of skeletons listed on maps that Garavito drew in prison, could exceed 300; Garavito continues to confess to more murders. He has been described by local media as "the world's worst serial killer." The Guinness Book of World Records lists another Colombian, Pedro Alonso López, known in Colombia as ''the Monster of the Andes,'' as the largest-scale serial killer of modern times; however, in terms of the number of murder convictions, Harold Shipman tops the list followed by Garavito, with López third. The judicial body ruled that all Garavito's sentences total 1,853 years and nine days in jail.

Rodrigo Londoño Echeverri, most known under the nom de guerre Timoleón Jiménez and the nickname Timochenko or Timochenco, is a Colombian politician and military officer. He is best known as the supreme leader of the rebel group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the current president of the Common Alternative Revolutionary Force political party with the same acronym, FARC.

Jorge Hernán Bermúdez Morales is a retired Colombian football defender. He played 56 times for the Colombia national team between 1995 and 2001.

Fabio Duque Jaramillo was a Colombian Roman Catholic prelate.

Luis Alberio Cortés Rendón was a Colombian Roman Catholic prelate.

Elizabeth Montoya de Sarria was allegedly an emissary from the Colombian drug-trafficking Cali Cartel to then-Colombian President. Ernesto Samper's 1994 presidential campaign. Her husband, Jesus Amado Sarria Agredo, was convicted of drug trafficking and a former police officer accused of having ties with the cartel. De Sarria was implicated in accusations of illegal funding to Samper's campaign after tapes of two phone calls between her and Samper and campaign treasurer Santiago Medina were published by the Bogota magazine Semana. Jesus Sarria was later found innocent after further investigation and absolved of all accusations.

María Fernanda Aristizábal Urrea is a Colombian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Señorita Colombia 2020. Aristizábal is the first delegate from Quindío to ever be crowned Miss Colombia. She will represent Colombia in Miss Universe 2022.