- Rafael Correa
Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (born 6 April 1963 in Guayaquil) is the President of the Republic of Ecuador. A trained economist, he previously served as the country's finance minister
- Simón Bolívar
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios (born July 24, 1783 in Caracas, Venezuela – died December 17, 1830, in Santa Marta, Colombia) was a leader of several independence movements throughout South America, collectively known as Bolívar's War. Credited with leading the fight for independence in what are now the countries of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia, …
- Raúl Reyes
Luis Edgar Devia Silva aka Raúl Reyes, (September 30, 1948 – March 1, 2008) was a Secretariat Member, spokesperson and Advisor to the Southern Bloc of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-EP. Reyes was born in the Colombian town of La Plata, Huila Department.[1] He was a Marxist by conviction who joined a trade union movement while working for a milk plant of Nestlé in the department of Caquetá.
- Eloy Alfaro
Eloy Alfaro Delgado (June 25, 1842-January 28, 1912), born in the town of Montecristi, was president of Ecuador from 1895 to 1901 and from 1906 to 1911. Eloy Alfaro was the leader of the Ecuadorian Liberal Revolution which he fought since his youth until 1895 when the liberals took power. The revolution was fought between the liberals and the conservatives. The legitimate government in Quito opposed the revolution, conducted by Alfaro, but lost.
- Lucio Gutiérrez
Lucio Edwin Gutiérrez Borbúa, Ecuadorian soldier and politician. President of Ecuador from January 15, 2003 to April 20, 2005.
- Alfredo Palacio
Luis Alfredo Palacio González served as President of Ecuador from April 2005 to January 2007. From January 15 2003 to April 20 2005, he served as vice president, after which he was appointed to the presidency when the Ecuadorian Congress removed President Lucio Gutiérrez from power following a week of growing unrest with his government. Born in Guayaquil, Palacio is a physician by profession, specializing in cardiology. He studied in his home town and, later, …
- Jamil Mahuad
Jorge Jamil Mahuad Witt was President of Ecuador from August 10, 1998 to January 21, 2000. He was forced to resign after a week of demonstrations by indigenous Ecuadorians and a military revolt led by Lucio Gutiérrez. He is of Lebanese and German descent. He proposed economic reforms that produced the "dollarization" of the economy. He declared a freeze in bank accounts in order to control the countries' inflation.
- Antonio Valencia
Luis Antonio Valencia Mosquera (born August 4 1985 in Sucumbios) is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays for Wigan Athletic after signing on two successive year loans after been granted a work permit, from Villarreal CF. Valencia was one of just three European-based players named in the Ecuador national team for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. However, due to the excellent performances the team and its players has produced, …
- Edgardo Bauza
Edgardo Bauza is a retired football (soccer) defender from Argentina and current coach. He played most of his career for Rosario Central, but he also had short spells with Independiente in Argentina, Atlético Junior in Colombia and CD Veracruz in Mexico. Bauza scored 80 league goals in 310 league appearances for Rosario Central making him one of the highest scoring defenders in the history of Argentine football.
- Patricio Urrutia
Patricio Javier Urrutia Espinoza, nicknamed "Pato" (born 15 October 1977) is an Ecuadorian soccer player of international distinction. A central midfielder for the Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito, he was chosen to be part of Ecuador's team in the World Cup games in Germany in 2006. His appointment to the Ecuadorian squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup raised a few eyebrows mainly because his last international appearance was against Brazil in 2004.
- Carlos Tenorio
Carlos Vicente Tenorio Medina (born May 14 1979) is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays for Al-Sadd in Qatar. Tenorio is an experienced striker known for his heading ability.
- Segundo Castillo
Segundo Alejandro Castillo (born May 15 1982 in Esmeraldas, Ecuador) is an Ecuadorian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Red Star Belgrade in Serbia. He has recently broken into the Ecuador national team and has been included in their squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup due to his remarkable willingness to attack even as a defensive midfielder. On May 24, 2006 in a friendly game against Colombia, he scored a goal for his country in the second half.
- Ulises de la Cruz
Ulises Hernán de la Cruz Bernoid is an Ecuadorian footballer who currently plays for English club Reading. Born in Piquiucho, a small village in the Valle del Chota, one Ecuador’s poorest regions, De la Cruz has set up a foundation there to fund a number of projects serving the local community to which he donates about 10% of his salary. At one of the Reading FC matches the fans were asked to donate money to his fund and he raised a few thousand pounds.
- José De San Martín
José Francisco de San Martín Matorras, also known as José de San Martín, was an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern part of South America's successful struggle for independence from Spain. Born on February 25, 1778 in Yapeyú, he left his mother country at an early age and studied in Madrid, Spain where he met and befriended Chilean Bernardo O'Higgins. In 1789, after joining the Spanish forces to fight against the French, …
- Neicer Reasco
Neicer Reasco Yano is an Ecuadorian footballer. He is a full back or midfielder who played for LDU Quito in Ecuador until 2006, winning four league titles with them. After he competed for the Ecuador national team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, he joined São Paulo FC in Brazil. He is known as a great attacker, as well as a defender. He is the only non-Brazilian in his club of Sao Paulo. He was named as part of Ecuador's squad for the 2007 Copa America
- Paco Moncayo
Paco Moncayo Gallegos (1940-) is an Ecuadorian politician and retired "General of the Army". Paco Mancayo was born in Quito in 1940. He is a retired "General of the Army" of the Ecuadorian Army and a very important politician of Ecuador. During his military career he gained the respect and admiration of his fellow Ecuadorians mostly because of his conduct of the Alto Cenepa War between Ecuador and Perú. He's the current mayor of Quito, the capital city of Ecuador.
- Eugenio Espejo
Francisco Javier Eugenio de Santa Cruz y Espejo (born "Luis Chuzhig") (Royal Audience of Quito, 1747-1795) was a medical pioneer, writer and lawyer of mestizo origin in colonial Ecuador. Although he was a notable scientist and writer, he stands out as a polemicist who inspired the separatist movement in Quito. He is regarded as one of the most important figures in colonial Ecuador. He was Quito's first journalist and hygienist.
- Abdalá Bucaram
Abdalá Jaime Bucaram Ortiz is an Ecuadorian lawyer and politician, He was also a sprinter in the 1972 Olympic team, the police chief of Guayas and the president of Barcelona Sporting Club, a soccer team from his hometown. Bucaram is the grandson of Lebanese immigrants. He grew up playing soccer in the streets of Guayaquil and later went on to become a successful athlete and earn a degree in physical education.
- Cristian Mora
Cristian Rafael Mora is an Ecuadorian soccer football player. He is a goalkeeper who plays with LDU Quito in Ecuador. He is considered a hero in San Miguel for being the first player from San Miguel ever to be considered for the Ecuadorian national team. Mora once attended Colegio de las Hermanas Betlemitas and first played in Cóndor Futbol Club of San Miguel as goalkeeper at an early age.
- Juan Montalvo
Juan María Montalvo Fiallos was an Ecuadorian author and essayist, generally thought to be one of Ecuador's best writers of the period. A political liberal, Montalvo's beliefs were marked by anti-clericism and a keen hatred for Ecuador's two dictators that ruled during his life: Gabriel García Moreno and Ignacio de Veintemilla. After an issue of his book, "El Cosmopolita", viciously attacked Moreno, Montalvo was exiled to Colombia, …
- Luis MacAs
Luis Macas Ambuludí is a Kichwa politician and intellectual from Saraguro, Ecuador. Macas has university degrees in anthropology, linguistics and jurisprudence. He was one of the founders of the CONAIE and of the Pachakutik Movement, and was member of the National Congress of Ecuador. In 2003 he joined Lucio Gutiérrez's government as Minister of Agriculture, quit because of disagreements with his neoliberal policies.
- Jaime Roldós Aguilera
Jaime Roldós Aguilera was President of Ecuador from 10 August 1979 to 24 May 1981. He was a reformer, and was threatened more than once by personal enemies. Roldós and his wife founded the People, Change and Democracy Party or "Partido Pueblo, Cambio y Democracia" in Spanish. He was President during a brief military encounter with Peru in 1981.
- Álvaro Noboa
Álvaro Fernando Noboa Pontón is an Ecuadorian businessman and politician. Noboa is actively involved in politics, running for president in 1998, 2002 and 2006. Noboa is the wealthiest man in Ecuador. He assumed control of the Noboa Group of companies after a lengthy legal battle with his siblings following the death of his father, a banana magnate and billionaire, in 1993. His foundation Crusade for a New Humanity draws on his personal fortune to fund social projects.
- Jefferson Pérez
Jefferson Leonardo Pérez Quezada (born on July 1, 1974 in Cuenca) is an Ecuadorian track and field athlete. He has specialised in 20 km race walk. His medal at the 1996 Olympics was the first Olympic medal ever for Ecuador. In the 2003 World Championships in Paris, France, Pérez also set the world best performance (as there are no world records in race walking) with 1:17:21. Pérez also had 4th place finishes in the 20 km walk at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, …
- Gerardo Torrado
Gerardo Torrado Diez de Bonilla is an international Mexican football player, currently playing as a defensive midfielder for Cruz Azul in the Primera División de México.
- Huayna Capac
Huayna Capac was the eleventh Sapa Inca (1493 - 1527) of the Inca Empire, and sixth of the Hanan dynasty. He was the successor to Tupac Inca Yupanqui. He was the father of Ninan Cuyochi, Huáscar, Atahualpa, Tupac Huallpa, Manco Inca Yupanqui and Pawllu Inca -- all of whom could be said to be his successors. Huayna Capac extended the Inca empire ("Tahuantinsuyu") significantly to the south, into present-day Chile and Argentina.
- Edison Méndez
Edison Vicente Méndez Méndez is an Ecuadorian football midfielder. He plays for PSV Eindhoven, and the Ecuadorian national team.
- Agustín Delgado
Agustín Javier Delgado Chala (nicknamed "Tin"; born December 23, 1974, in Piquiucho, a small village in the Chota River valley in Imbabura) is an Ecuadorian football player. He plays center forward for Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito in the Ecuadorian Copa Pilsener 2006 as well as in the national football team, where he surpassed Eduardo Hurtado as top scorer in 2002.
- Franklin Salas
Franklin Agustín Salas Narváez is an Ecuadorian football striker currently playing for Red Star Belgrade in the Serbian Superliga. His nickname is Mago, meaning "wizard". He was a regular member of the national team, but was not called up to the 2006 FIFA World Cup squad due to a serious knee injury which required surgery. He scored the winning goal against Colombia in World Cup Preliminaries, 2 June 2004.
- Felipe Caicedo
Felipe Caicedo is an Ecuadorian football striker. He was born on September 5 1988. He currently plays for FC Basel of the Super League in Switzerland. FC Basel signed Caicedo from Rocafuerte FC in his native Ecuador during the Swiss 2006/07 season for an undisclosed fee while he was just 18 years old. He went on to play 20 games for Basel that season, accompanied by 3 goals.
- León Febres Cordero
León Febres Cordero Ribadeneyra was President of Ecuador for a four-year term 10 August 1984 to 10 August 1988. He has been credited with helping to stop terrorism in Ecuador at his presidency. The Febres Cordero government promoted a policy of economic liberalism. Initially, Febres Cordero achieved to improve the economy, but an earthquake and the fall of the international price of the petroleum caused a great economic slum at the end of the government's term.
- Edwin Tenorio
Edwin Rolando Tenorio Montaño is an Ecuadorian football (soccer) player who currently plays as a defensive midfielder for LDU Quito. Before playing for his current club, Tenorio played for Barcelona Sporting Club and Sociedad Deportiva Aucas. He has currently won over 70 caps for Ecuador and was recently called up to the squad to participate in the 2006 World Cup.
- Giovanni Lapentti
Giovanni Lapentti (born January 25, 1983) is a tennis player from Guayaquil, Ecuador. His brother is Nicolas Lapentti, another professional tennis player. Lapentti announced his ATP debut in 2002, but he actually had his first tour game in 2003, at the Franklin Templeton Classic in Scottsdale, Arizona, United States. Lapentti obtained his first professional victory at that tournament's first round, defeating Paradorn Srichaphan, 7-6 (7-2), 6-2.
- Juan León Mera
Juan León Mera Martínez was an Ecuadorian poet, novelist, journalist, critic, politician and satirist. Mera is known as the the father of Ecuadoran literature, principally for being the author of "Cumandá" (1879). This is a novel about the clandestine love affair between a young indigenous woman from an Amazonian tribe, and the son of a Spanish Dominican friar. Their relationship is doubly doomed: not only because it is opposed by the girl's father, …
- Roberto Palacios
Roberto Carlos Palacios Mestas is a Peruvian soccer midfielder from the district of Chorrillos in Lima, the capital of Peru. He is nicknamed "El Chorrillano", and has played for several teams, e.g. Sporting Cristal (Peru), Puebla (Mexico), Cruzeiro (Brasil), Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (Mexico), Monarcas Morelia (Mexico), Deportivo Cali (Colombia) and Liga Deportiva Universitaria from Quito in Ecuador.
- Juan Fernando Velasco
Juan Fernando Velasco (born 1972-01-17 in Quito, Ecuador) is an Ecuadorian musician.
- Giovanny Espinoza
Giovanny Espinoza (born April 12 1977 in Charguacayo) is a footballer from Ecuador. He plays as a defender for Dutch football club Vitesse. He currently is the second highest capped player for his country behind Ivan Hurtado with 95 caps. He made his international debut in 1996 just a week after his 19th birthday in a World Cup qualification match where Ecuador beat Peru 4-1. Espinoza is a strong and experienced centre back noted for his strength and determination.
- José Joaquín de Olmedo
José Joaquín de Olmedo y Maruri was President of Ecuador from June 6, 1845, to December 8, 1845 although on June 18 of that year there was an attempted coup. He was also a noted poet with an emphasis on patriotic themes, author of poems such as "La victoria de Junin", which pictures the Latin American fighters for independence from Spain as the legitimate heirs of the Incas. The José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport in Guayaquil is named after him.
- Vicente Rocafuerte
Vicente Rocafuerte y Ortiz de Cevallos (1783-05-01 - 1847-05-16) was an influential figure in Ecuadorian politics and President of Ecuador from 1834-09-10 to 1839-01-31. He was born into an aristocratic family in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and, as a youth, was sent to Madrid to finish his education. He returned to Ecuador in 1807, and committed himself to freeing his land, first from Spanish rule, and later from the Republic of Gran Colombia.
- Philip Agee
Philip Burnett Franklin Agee (born July 19, 1935) is a former CIA employee and author who wrote the controversial book, "Inside the Company: CIA Diary" (1975) He resigned from the CIA in 1968. From the early 1970s, he became the most visible opponent of CIA practices.