- Juan Manuel Santos
Juan Manuel Santos Calderón is a Colombian politician born 10 August 1951 in the capital city of Bogotá, currently serving as Colombian Minister of National Defense. - Salvatore Mancuso
Salvatore Mancuso Gómez also known as "el Mono Mancuso","Santander Lozada" or "Triple Cero", among other names (born August 17, 1964 in Montería, Córdoba) is a Colombian paramilitary leader, once second in command of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) paramilitary group. The paramilitary groups commanded by Mancuso fought the guerrillas (mainly EPL, … - Jorge Eliécer Gaitán
Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was a politician, a leader of a populist movement in Colombia, a former Education Minister (1940) and Labor Minister (1943-1944), mayor of Bogotá (1936) and chief of the Colombian Liberal Party (1947-1948). 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" (approx. 1948 to 1958). - Antonio Nariño
Antonio Nariño was an ideological precursor and one of the early political and military leaders of the independence movement in Colombia, then known as New Granada. Nariño was born in Santa Fé de Bogotá in 1765 and died in Villa de Leyva in 1823. - Enrique Peñalosa
Enrique Peñalosa Londoño is a Colombian journalist and politician, former mayor of Bogotá, from 1998 until the year 2001. He is currently on a lecture tour about his Politics of Happiness. - Antanas Mockus
Antanas Mockus Šivickas, is a Colombian mathematician, philosopher, and politician. The only son of Lithuanian immigrants, he left his post as principal of the National University of Colombia in Bogotá in 1993, and later that year ran a successful campaign for mayor. He proceeded to preside over Bogotá as mayor for two terms, during which he became known for springing surprising and humorous initiatives upon the city's inhabitants. - Luis Eduardo Garzón
Luis Eduardo Garzón (nicknamed "Lucho" is currently the Mayor of Bogotá (2004-2007), a left-wing Colombian political activist and a former union leader. He is a member of the Alternative Democratic Pole (PDA), a new, democratic left-wing party that seeks to position itself as the main opposition party to the Uribe government. - Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta is an Italian professional tennis player, most recently of Milan. She has won three career Women's Tennis Association singles titles, all on clay courts, including back-to-back titles in Bogotá and Acapulco in 2005. Her maiden title came in 2004, when she won the title in Sopot, beating Czech Klára Koukalová in the final in three sets. She also beat former world number one Swiss Martina Hingis in Australia at the beginning of the 2006 season. - Juan Pablo Montoya
Juan Pablo Montoya Roldán is a race car driver in NASCAR for Chip Ganassi Racing. He is a former Formula One driver. He was born in Bogotá where he was taught the techniques of karting from an early age by his father Pablo, an architect and motorsport enthusiast. He has enjoyed great success, most famously in top open wheel racing series. The highlights of his career include winning the International F3000 championship in 1998, and the CART Championship Series in 1999, … - Gustavo Rojas Pinilla
Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (born in the city of Tunja, Boyacá on March 12, 1900 died in Melgar, Tolima on January 17, 1975) was a Colombian General, military dictator of Colombia from 1953 to 1957 and Colombian political figure, as well as a 1966 and 1970 presidential candidate on behalf of the National Popular Alliance, "Alianza Nacional Popular",(ANAPO) political movement that he founded. He was the son of Julio Rojas and Hermecia Pinilla. - Carlos Lleras Restrepo
Carlos Lleras Restrepo was an important Colombian lawyer and political figure. Carlos Lleras was the third son of the prominent physician and researcher, Dr. Federico Lleras. He went to school in La Salle Institute in Bogotá and later studied law at Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He was also a member of Phi Iota Alpha. He became involved in politics at an early age. By the time he was 21 years old he was a member in the Directory of the Colombian Liberal Party, … - Fernando Vicente
Fernando Vicente Fibla is a tennis player from Spain, who turned professional in 1996. The righthander won four singles (1999, Merano, 2000, Casablanca, 2001, Bogotá and 2006, Bermuda) and one doubles title (2004, Casablanca) so far. He reached his highest singles ATP-ranking on June 12, 2000, when he became the number 29 of the world. He is currently the number 126 in the ATP Rankings, on May 7 2007. - Alberto Carrasquilla
Alberto Carrasquilla (Born April 24, 1959 in Bogotá, Colombia was the Minister of Finance and Public Credit under the government of president Álvaro Uribe until February 2007. - Noemi Sanin
Noemi Sanin Posada (Born June 6, 1949) is a Colombian politician and former presidential candidate. She is the current ambassador of Colombia in Spain. - Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada
Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada was a Spanish explorer and conquistador in Colombia. While successful in many of his exploits, acquiring massive amounts of gold and emeralds, he ended his career disastrously; he has been suggested as a possible model for Cervantes' "Don Quixote". He was a lawyer by training. He was appointed chief justice of Santa Marta colony (on the north coast of Colombia), where he arrived in 1535 with the fleet of Pedro Fernández de Lugo. - Steve Lonegan
Steve Lonegan is the mayor of Bogota, New Jersey, a small community just west of New York City. In the 2005 race, Lonegan ran for Governor of New Jersey. He lost the Republican nomination for governor to businessman Doug Forrester and 2001 nominee and former Mayor of Jersey City Bret Schundler in second place. In July of 2006, Mayor Lonegan called for a boycott of McDonald's, after the chain posted a Spanish-language billboard in the borough promoting its iced-coffee, … - Rafael Pombo
Rafael Pombo was a Colombian poet born in Bogotá on November 7 1833. Trained as a mathematician and an engineer in a military school, Rafael Pombo served in the army and traveled to the United States of America as Secretary of the Legation in Washington. After the termination of this diplomatic position, he was hired by D. Appleton & Company in New York to translate into Spanish nursery rhymes from the Anglo-Saxon oral tradition. - José Celestino Mutis
José Celestino Mutis (Cádiz, Spain, April 6, 1732-Bogotá (now in Colombia), September 11, 1808) was a Spanish botanist and mathematician. - Andrés Cepeda
Andrés Cepeda is a popular Colombian singer and songwriter. He was born in Bogotá in 1973 and started his musical career as the lead voice of Poligamia, a latin rock-pop group which he founded with some friends during his adolescence. After Poligamia was disbanded, Andrés Cepeda continued with his musical career as a soloist, trying to find success in different musical genres such as bolero and balada, among other romantic genres. - Andrea Serna
Andrea Serna is a famous Colombian model, TV presenter (RCN TV News), reporter, TV show hostess, radio DJ and TV producer. She was born in Caldas, but she was raised in Santiago de Cali and currently lives in Bogotá with her husband, Colombian TV producer Frank Scheuermann. In 2005 she was the hostess and co-producer of Colombian version of "The X Factor" singer talent contest. - Jorge Isaacs
Jorge Isaacs Ferrer was a Colombian writer, politician and soldier. His only novel, "María", became one of the most notable works of the Romantic movement in Spanish literature. His father was George Henry Isaacs, an English Jew originally from Jamaica. He first settled in Chocó, Colombia, where he made a fortune from gold mining and trade with Jamaica. He then moved to Cali where he converted to Christianity, … - Laura Restrepo
Laura Restrepo is a Colombian writer. She was born in Bogotá in 1950. She graduated from the University of the Andes with a degree in Philosophy and Literature and afterwards completed postgraduate work in Political science. In the 1960s Restrepo gave up her teaching post at the National University to focus on left wing politics, and spent time in Spain and Argentina where she was part of the underground resistance. - Laureano Gómez
Laureano Eleuterio Gómez Castro was President of Colombia from 1950 to 1953, and long time leader of the Colombian Conservative Party. Gómez was born into an aristocratic family in Bogotá on February 20, 1889. He studied engineering at the National University, graduating in 1909. He was the founder and editor of the periodical "La Unidad" from 1909 to 1916. he was first elected to parliament in 1911, serving until 1918. - Jorge Alberto Uribe
Jorge Alberto Uribe Echavarría is a Colombian politician and businessman. He was educated at primary and secondary schools in Colombia, with two years spent at Culver Military Academy in the United States. He completed a first degree in economics at George Washington University in the USA and did post-graduate work in international marketing at Besançon University in France. He served as his country's minister of defense, succeeding Martha Lucía Ramírez, … - Miguel Antonio Caro
Miguel Antonio José Zoilo Cayetano Andrés Avelino de las Mercedes Caro Tobar was a Colombian scholar and politician. Though he never used the title of President, but the one of Vice President of Colombia in charge of the Executive authority from 1894-1896 and 1896-1898., by respect to his mentor Rafael Núñez, whose illness forced him to cede day-to-day power. - Francisco Santos Calderón
Francisco Santos Calderón also known as Pacho Santos born in the city of Bogotá, is a Colombian politician and journalist. Santos was elected as Alvaro Uribe's second runner up and became Vice President in the Colombian elections of 2002. Santos was re-elected in the presidential elections of 2006 for a second term once again with President Uribe to continue as Vice President of Colombia. - Catalina Sandino Moreno
Catalina Sandino Moreno is an Academy Award-nominated Colombian actress. Sandino was born in Bogotá, Colombia to a pathologist mother. Before becoming an actress, she studied advertising at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. She relocated to New York City in 2004, after she was "discovered" at the Rubén Di Pietro acting school in Bogotá. - José Asunción Silva
José Asunción Silva was a Colombian poet. He wrote his first work, "Primera Comunión", in 1875. Traveling to Europe, he met Mallarmé and Gustave Moreau in Paris. On May 23, 1896, about eleven pm, Jose Asuncion Silva, a 31-year-old poet from Bogotá's aristocracy, said goodbye to the friends with whom he would talk in tertulias--daily social gatherings--and gave his mother and sister Julia a kiss goodnight. - Porfirio Barba-Jacob
Miguel Ángel Osorio Benítez, better known by his pseudonym, Porfirio Barba-Jacob, was a Colombian poet and writer. Born in Santa Rosa de Osos, Antioquia, to parents Antonio María Osorio and Pastora Benítez, he was raised up by his grandparents in Angostura. In 1895 he started a journey, first through Colombia, and after 1907 to Central America and the US, which ended in 1930 when he settled down in Mexico City. - Diego Suarez
Diego Suarez (born 1888 in Bogotá, Colombia) was the garden designer whose lasting work are the gardens of James Deering's Villa Vizcaya, Miami. His father having died, his Italian mother returned to Italy with her childen. Suarez took courses as an architectural designer at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence. There the young man was taken up by Arthur Acton, of the well-known English expatriate family, … - Misael Pastrana Borrero
Misael Pastrana Borrero (November 14, 1923, Neiva, Huila Department, Colombia - August 21, 1997, Santa Fe de Bogotá) was a Conservative Party politician and president of Colombia from 1970 to 1974, the last presidential period of the National Front. - Virgilio Barco Vargas
Virgilio Barco Vargas was a politician and diplomat from Colombia. He was a member of the Colombian Liberal Party and served as president of Colombia from August 7, 1986 until August 7, 1990. Barco was born in Cúcuta, Norte de Santander Department, in north-eastern Colombia. Graduated of Civil Engineer from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1958, He entered politics in 1943 when he became a city council member in the town of Durania for the Liberal Party. - César López
César López is a Colombian musician, vegetarian and peace activist. For the past several years, López has been part of a group called the Battalion of Immediate Artistic Reaction, which consists of various other musicians and activists who seek an alternative to the ever-present violence that plagues Colombia, and specifically the capital, Bogotá. When the group receives news of another violent attack in the city, … - Camilo Torres Restrepo
Father Camilo Torres Restrepo (born in Bogotá, Colombia 3 February, 1929 - Santander, 15 February 1966) was a Colombian Roman Catholic priest, a predecessor of the Liberation Theology and a member of the National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group. During his life, he tried to reconcile revolutionary Marxism with Catholicism, or vice-versa. Torres was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1954, … - Patricia Janiot
Ángela Patricia Janiot Martirena is a Colombian journalist and news presenter. Before becoming a journalist, Janiot was the first-runner up on "Miss Colombia" pageant in 1983. She studied Social Communication at University of the Savannah in Bogotá. She joined CNN in 1992, where she hosted the "Noticiero CNN Internacional". Since CNN en Español was founded in 1997, she became one of its main news presenter. - Manuel Elkin Patarroyo
Manuel Elkin Patarroyo (born November 3, 1947) is a Colombian pathologist who developed the world's first synthetic vaccine for malaria, a disease transmitted by mosquitos that affects millions of people in the Third World every year. The vaccine was evaluated in clinical trials carried out by the WHO in Gambia, Tanzania and Thailand, and had mixed results. - Manuel Ancízar
Manuel Ancizar was a writer, politician, professor, and journalist of Colombia. He was born in the state of Cundinamarca and educated in Bogotá. He then spent time in Cuba and Caracas, Venezuela, returning in 1847. He founded a publishing house and a newspaper before joining the Chorographic Commission in 1850. The Commission's goal was to produce a complete record of the geography, natural history, culture, and economy of the country. - Christian Meier
Christian Meier is well-known in Peru as an actor and singer. He was the keyboarder of Arena Hash, a Peruvian alternative rock band in the 1980s and early 1990s. Performing in soap operas and movies, he has achieved some notoriety in other Latin American countries. He is currently living in Bogotá, Colombia. Currently he is the star of the Telemundo RTI telenovela "Zorro: La Espada y la Rosa", … - Lucho Bermúdez
Luis Eduardo Bermúdez also known as Lucho Bermúdez - Died April 24, 1994 in Bogotá) was a Colombian musician, composer and interpreter of Boleros, Cumbias and Porros and other Colombian folcloric rhythms stylized by orchestras. - Jorge Barón
Jorge Barón is a Colombian television presenter, and media personality and businessman, born 28 June 1949 in Ibagué. He started his career working as an announcer for a Ibagué radio station. Later he moved to Bogotá, hired by "La Voz de Colombia" station (which would be later bought by Caracol Radio). Around 1965 he founded his television production company, "Jorge Barón Televisión".
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