- Francisco Goldman
Francisco Goldman (born 1954) is an American novelist. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to a Guatemalan mother and Jewish-American father. His first novel, "The Long Night of White Chickens" (1992), won the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, and his second, "The Ordinary Seaman" (1997), was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award and The "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize, …
- Hector Tobar
Hector Tobar is a Los Angeles-born author and journalist whose work examines the evolving and interdependent relationship between Latin America and the United States. He is currently the Mexico City Bureau Chief for the "Los Angeles Times". Prior to Mexico City, he served as their Bureau Chief in Buenos Aires, Argentina and before that worked for several years as the National Latino Affairs Correspondent.
- David Unger
David Unger is a famous Guatemalan-American author and translator. He was born in 1950 in Guatemala City. In 1955, he emigrated to Hialeah, Florida with his parents. Unger graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with a B.A. and received an MFA from Columbia University. He is currently teaching at the City College of New York.
- Oscar Isaac
Oscar Isaac (born c.1980) is an American actor. Isaac was born in Guatemala to a Cuban father and a Guatemalan mother. He is also of French, Israeli, and other European descent. He has described his evangelical upbringing as "very Christian" and was raised in Miami. In Miami, he played lead guitar and sang vocals for his band "The Blinking Underdogs." A 2005 graduate of the Juilliard School, …
- Daphne Zuniga
Daphne Eurydice Zuniga (originally Zúñiga is an American actress
- Bridget Powers
Bridget Powers (born October 11, 1980 in Boise, Idaho) is the pseudonym of an American erotic film actress with dwarfism. She is a co-host on Ed Powers' radio show "Bedtime Stories". She is also in a band named Blakkout. She told Howard Stern on his radio show that she always wanted to be tall when she was young. She was discovered at a Goth nightclub by a woman casting for an adult movie.
- Ted Hendricks
Theodore (Ted) Paul Hendricks (born November 1, 1947 in Guatemala City, Guatemala) was an American football linebacker for the 1968 to 1973 Baltimore Colts (now Indianapolis Colts), 1974 Green Bay Packers and the 1975 to 1983 Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders.
- Kc Porter
KC Porter is a multi-grammy winning producer, famous for crossing over many artists, especially Ricky Martin.
- Anton Villatoro
Anton Villatoro (born June 6, 1970) is a Guatemalan former professional cyclist. He attended the University of Colorado, where he raced with future US Postal teammate Tyler Hamilton. Villatoro won the 1991 Junior Tour of Guatemala, a gold medal at the 1994 Central American Games (team time trial) and placed fourth at the 1995 Pan American Games (time trial). In 1996, he represented Guatemala at the Olympic Games in Atlanta.
- Willie Sims
Willie Sims (born January 18, 1984 in Guatemala City) is a Guatemalan-born soccer player, who currently plays forward for the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer. He was drafted in the 2nd round (23rd overall) of the 2006 MLS SuperDraft. Sims played college soccer at California State University, Northridge from 2003 to 2005 after redshirting in 2002. Sims was named the Big West Conference Co-Offensive Player of the Year in the 2003 and 2004 seasons, …
- Luis Beza
Luis Beza (born January 2, 1985 in Santa Ana, California) is the trumpet player for third-wave ska band Suburban Legends. He joined the band in Summer 2005 after the departure of Aaron Bertram, replacing him on trumpet. In July 2005 Luis started a hip-hop side-project called Lyricle Miracle with fellow Suburban Legends band member Derek Lee Rock and Jack Bartlett. He is American born, though he is half El Salvadorian and half Guatemalan.
- Luisa Moreno
Luisa Moreno was a leader in the United States labor movement and a social activist. She unionized workers, led strikes, wrote pamphlets in English and Spanish, and convened the 1939 "Congreso de Pueblos de Habla Española", the "first national Latino civil rights assembly", before "voluntarily" returning to Guatemala in 1950
- Myrna Mack
Myrna Mack Chang was a Guatemalan anthropologist. She was born in Barrio San Nicolás, Retalhuleu department, to a mixed Maya/Chinese family. She studied antropology in the United Kingdom, at both the University of Manchester and Durham University. Upon returning to Guatemala, she conducted fieldwork among several of the many Maya "campesino" communities uprooted during the Civil War.
- Eduardo Stein
Dr. Eduardo Stein Barillas is a Guatemalan politician. He is the current Vice President of Guatemala, serving a concurrent four-year mandate with that of President Óscar Berger, who took office on 14 January 2004. Prior to his election, he had held a number of positions with the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations Development Programme, and the Organization of American States.
- Miguel Ángel Asturias
Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales was a Guatemalan writer and diplomat. He was awarded the 1967 Nobel Prize in literature "for his vivid literary achievement, deep-rooted in the national traits and traditions of Indian peoples of Latin America." Asturias was born in Guatemala City and died in Madrid, Spain. In 1904 his family moved from the capital to Salamá, Baja Verapaz, where they remained until 1908.
- Estuardo Sanchez
Estuardo Sanchez (born January 16, 1988 in Los Angeles, California) is an American soccer player, who currently plays forward for C.D. Chivas USA of Major League Soccer. Sanchez signed with Chivas USA on March 17, 2006 after spendig time with their U-19 squad.
- Tecún Umán
Tecún Umán was the last ruler of the Quiché people, in the highlands of what is now Guatemala. According to the Kaqchikel annals, he was slain by Spanish Conquistador Don Pedro de Alvarado while waging battle against the Spaniards in the grasslands of El Pinar (Valley of Olintepeque) on February 20 1524.
- Mateo Flores
Mateo Flores (born Doroteo Guamuch Flores on February 11, 1922), is a former Guatemalan long-distance runner who won the Boston Marathon in 1952. Flores was born in Cotió, Mixco, a town near Guatemala City. During his career, which spanned from 1941 to 1957, he won multiple events, notably the marathon at the 1946 Barranquilla Games, the half marathon at the 1950 Central American and Caribbean Games in Guatemala, …
- Luis González Palma
Luis González Palma is a modernist Latin American photographer. Born in 1957 the artist grew up in Guatemala where he later continued to live and opened up a portrait studio. He studied architecture and cinematography at the Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala and then turned to photography. He has presented his work since 1989-present in more than 58 expositions in America and Europe.
- Clyde Snow
Clyde Snow (b. January 7, 1928 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a well known U.S. forensic anthropologist. Some of his skeletal confirmations include John F. Kennedy, victims of John Wayne Gacy, King Tutankhamun, victims of the Oklahoma City bombing, and Dr. Josef Mengele. Snow started his higher education at the New Mexico Military Institute were he earned an Associated Degree. He then flunked out of Southern Methodist University.
- David Lamotte
David LaMotte, born on April 25, 1968 in Norfolk, Virginia is a singer-songwriter currently based in Black Mountain and Montreat, North Carolina. His work includes original folk music, children's music, and peacemaking. He currently divides his time between touring and a non-profit corporation he created to aid Guatemalan schools, PEG (Proyecto para las Escuelas Guatemaltecas). Recently, while playing at the Montreat Conference Center, …
- Francisco Villagrán Kramer
Francisco Villagrán Kramer is a Guatemalan legal scholar and social democrat who served as vice-president under General Romeo Lucas García beginning in 1978. He resigned from office on September 1, 1980, before his term ended, citing differences with the Lucas regime and disapproval of Guatemala's worsening human rights situation. He then went into voluntary exile in the United States, taking a position in the Legal Department of the Inter-American Development Bank.
- Jorge Mario García Laguardia
Dr. Jorge Mario García Laguardia is a Guatemalan jurist. He has been a tenured lecturer at several Guatemalan and foreign universities, including the Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala City and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and he has served the Guatemalan state in several juridical capacities. García Laguardia's academic work has focussed on three main areas: the history of public law, Latin American integration (particularly that of Central America), …
- Pedro Yang
Pedro Alejandro Yang (born October 9, 1976) is a male badminton player from Guatemala. Yang played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's singles, losing in the round of 32 to Jim Ronny Andersen of Norway. He moved to Denmark at the age of 24 and started training at the International Badminton Academy (IBA). Yang has won a gold medal at the 2002 Central American and Caribbean Games in El Salvador and bronze medals at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, …
- Pablo Melgar Torino
Pablo Melgar Torino (born January 14, 1980) is a Guatemalan football defender who currently plays for CD Antofagasta of the Chilean top division. Before playing in Chile, Melgar played for local clubs Deportivo Zacapa, Antigua GFC, Aurora FC, and Municipal, the latter from 2004 to 2007, during which time the club won five league titles in a row. He is also a regular on the Guatemala national team, for which he has competed at the youth, Olympic, …
- Carlos Enrique Peña Aldana
Carlos Enrique Peña Aldana is a Guatemalan singer and songwriter who is participating as contestant in the 2nd season of Latin American Idol.<br /> Actually he is one of the contestants who have been qualified to the Top 10 Round, along with Arquimedes Torres from El Salvador, Ricardo Caballeros from Mexico, Juan Pablo Villacorta from Argentina, Silvia de Freitas from Venezuela and Francisco Perez from Colombia.
- Guillermo W. Méndez
Guillermo W. Méndez is a Guatemalan theologian, educated in Guatemala, Central America, and in North America. After two decades serving as a Theology Professor in Guatemala, deeply challenged by Liberation Theology, he researched Law, Economics and Politics. Former member of the Latin American Theological Fraternity and the theological commission of The World Evangelical Fellowship, …
- David Stoll
David Stoll (born 28 February 1952) is an American anthropologist who specializes in socio-cultural anthropology and the study of violence. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology from the University of Michigan and completed his Master's and Ph.D. at Stanford University. He spent much of the eighties and nineties in Latin American countries such as Colombia and Guatemala, where his research is concentrated.
- Arthur Demarest
Arthur Demarest is an anthropologist and archaeologist, known for his studies of the Maya civilization. He studied Mesoamerican anthropology and archaeology in Tulane University, from which he graduated. In 1981 Demarest was granted his Ph. D in Harvard University and he was admitted to the prestigious Society of Fellows -club. From 1984 on he has taught at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, USA, and is the head of the Department of Mesoamerican archaeology there.
- Dirck Halstead
Dirck Halstead, (born December 1936 in Huntington, New York), is a photojournalist, and editor and publisher of an online photojournalism magazine. Halstead started in photojournalism while in high school. At age 17, he became Life magazine's youngest combat photographer covering the Guatemalan Civil War. After attending Haverford College, he went on to work for UPI for more than 15 years. During the Vietnam War he was UPI's picture bureau chief in Saigon.
- Antilimon
- José María Reina Barrios
José María Reina Barrios was President of Guatemala from 15 March 1892 through 8 February 1898. He was nicknamed "Reinita", the diminutive form, because of his short stature. He was a moderate of Guatemala's Liberal Party, who worked to solidify the less controversial of the reforms of late president Justo Rufino Barrios. The power of the landowners over the rural peasantry increased during his presidency.
- Maximón
Maximón is a saint worshipped in various forms by Maya people of several towns in the highlands of Western Guatemala. The origins of his cult are not very well understood by outsiders to the different Mayan religions, but he is believed to be a form of the pre-Colombian Maya god Mam, blended with influences from Catholicism. Maximón may also be called San Simón. Originally, he was believed to be a catholic priest who had looked after aboriginals during early 1600s.
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