This is a list of notable people born in El Salvador or of Salvadoran descent (also see Salvadoran American).

República de El Salvador

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Arts

Consuelo de Saint Exupéry, painter, sculptor, and author; wife of Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Fernando Llort, painter and sculptor
Noe Canjura, painter
Nicolas F. Shi, painter
Patricia Chica, filmmaker
Ana Maria de Martinez, artist
Toño Salazar, caricaturist
Retna, graffiti artist
Giovanni Gil, painter, engraver and watercolorist
Rubén Martínez Bulnes, sculptor, architect

Scholars, authors and educators

Alfredo Cristiani, former president
Álvaro Magaña, banker and interim president
Ana Maria, guerrilla leader
Anastasio Aquino, King of the Nonualco tribes, who defeated the government army in 1833
Antonio Saca, former president
Armando Calderón Sol, former president
Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, defense minister, convicted of human rights abuses
Cayetano Carpio, leader of the leftist insurgency, founder of the FPL.
Egriselda López, diplomat, Permanent Representative to the UN
Domingo Monterrosa, military commander of the Armed Forces of El Salvador during the Salvadoran Civil War
Farabundo Martí, revolutionary
Francisco Flores, former president
Gerardo Barrios, liberal president
Guillermo Ungo, opposition leader and former vice-president
Joaquín Eufrasio Guzmán, national hero
Joaquín Villalobos, noted guerrilla leader during Salvadoran civil war
José Inocencio Alas, former priest and activist
José Matías Delgado, national hero
José Napoleón Duarte, former president
Juan Rafael Bustillo, former Head of the Salvadoran Air Force
Manuel José Arce, decorated General, president of the Federal Republic of Central America, 1825–1829
Mauricio Funes, former president
Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, dictator-president
Nayib Bukele, current president
Roberto D'Aubuisson, politician, ARENA
Rutilio Grande, martyred priest
Marisol Argueta de Barillas, chancellor, ARENA, Senior Director World Economic Forum

María Álvarez de Guillén, women's rights activist, writer, and businessperson
Prudencia Ayala, social activist and writer
José Castellanos Contreras, humanitarian
Rosa Amelia Guzmán, suffragette and journalist
Vicky Guzman, doctor and humanitarian
Morena Herrera, women's rights activist
José Gustavo Guerrero, lawyer, diplomat, humanitarian, first president of the International Court of Justice
María Teresa Rivera, women's rights activist
Óscar Arnulfo Romero, humanitarian, fourth Archbishop of San Salvador

Ingmar Guandique, undocumented U.S. immigrant convicted in the death of Chandra Levy and two other American women
Jose Domingo Medrano, doctor and medical inventor
José Salvador Alvarenga, claimed to have spent 13 months adrift in a fishing boat in the Pacific Ocean