List of Famous people with last name Gaitan

Osvaldo Nicolás Fabián "Nico" Gaitán is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Portuguese club Braga and the Argentina national team, mainly as an attacking midfielder.

Carolina Gaitán is a Colombian actress and singer. She studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute in New York and her talent and versatility has awarded with two Premios Tu Mundo from Telemundo.

Paulina Gaitán Ruíz is a Mexican actress. She is best known throughout Mexican television and movies. She is more recently known for her role in the popular Netflix series, Narcos, as the devoted young wife of Colombian drug kingpin Pablo Escobar.

Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala was a politician, a leader of a socialist movement in Colombia, a former Education Minister (1940) and Labor Minister (1943–1944), mayor of Bogotá (1936) and one of the most charismatic leaders of the Liberal Party. He was assassinated during his second presidential campaign in 1948, setting off the Bogotazo  and leading to a violent period of political unrest in Colombian history known as La Violencia.

Miguel Ángel Gaitán, also known as El Angelito Milagroso was an Argentine baby who died of meningitis, fifteen days before his first birthday.

Walter Nicolás Gaitán Sayavedra is a retired Argentine professional footballer.

Haramara Gaitán Fausto is a Mexican badminton player. She competed at the 2015 Toronto and 2019 Lima Pan American Games. Gaitan won a bronze medal at the 2018 Pan Am Championships in the women's singles event.

Natalia Gaitán Laguado is a Colombian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Spanish Primera División club Sevilla FC and captains the Colombia women's national team. With her country Gaitán played at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics and also made a powerful appearance at the 2015 Women's World Cup in Canada.