List of Paraguayans

The following is a list of people from Paraguay.

B

• Cecilio Báez, politician and writer
• Agustín Barboza, singer and composer
• Agustín Barrios-Mangoré, guitarist and composer
• Edgar Baumann, track and field athlete
• Yohana Benítez, beauty queen and model
• Emilio Bigi, musician
• Luis Bordón, harp player
• José Bozzano, military engineer who led the Paraguayan war effort during the Chaco War designed gunboats for the Chaco War
• Karina Buttner, beauty queen and model

C

• Victor Caballero, former tennis player
• Gabriel Casaccia, writer
• José Cardozo, former professional footballer
• Leonor Cecotto, artist
• Feliciano Centurión, painter
• Teresio Centurión, footballer
• José Luis Chilavert, former professional footballer
• Julio Correa, playwright
• Raúl Cubas Grau, politician and former president

D

• Rogelio Delgado, former professional footballer
• Nicanor Duarte Frutos, former President of Paraguay

E

• Egni Eckert, beauty queen and model
• Arsenio Erico, soccer player
• Víctor Espínola, harp player

F

• Amilcar Ferreira, economist and politician
• Buenaventura Ferreira, former professional footballer
• Diego Ferreira, track and field athlete
• Nadia Ferreira, Miss Universe Paraguay & Miss Universe 2021 first runner-up
• Diego Martínez Ferreira, professional footballer
• Ramona Ferreira, Paraguayan journalist and feminist
• Renée Ferrer de Arréllaga, writer
• José Asunción Flores, director and composer
• Carlos Franco, professional golfer
• Julio César Franco, politician and former vice-president
• Leryn Franco, track and field athlete
• Carlos Filizzola, politician and major of Asunción

G

• Carlos Gamarra, former professional footballer
• Herminio Giménez, composer
• Sila Godoy, guitarist and composer
• Juan Natalicio González, former president and writer
• Yanina González, beauty queen and model
• Guadalupe González beauty queen and model
• Luis González Macchi, politician and former president
• Julieta Granada, golfer
• Cesar Grillon, former Paraguayan ambassador to Indonesia

J

• Ramón Jiménez Gaona, track and field athlete
• Juliana, 16th-century Guaraní rebel

K

• Nery Kennedy, track and field athlete
• Eduard Klassen, harpist

L

• Nicolás Léoz, CONMEBOL president
• Carlos Antonio López, politician and former president
• Francisco Solano López, politician and former president
• Aníbal Lovera, composer and singer
• Rafael Lovera, professional boxer
• Lourdes Arévalos beauty queen and model

M

• María Maldonado, beauty queen, model and singer
• Fiorella Migliore beauty queen, model and actress
• Ricardo Migliorisi, painter, costume designer, scenery designer and architect

N

• Jorge Daniel Núñez (born 1984), professional football player
• Jorge Martín Núñez (born 1978), professional football player

O

• Christian Ovelar, professional footballer
• Lino Oviedo, general and coup leader

P

• Víctor Pecci, tennis player
• Silvio Pettirossi, aviator
• Josefina Pla, poet and artist

Q

• Andrea Quattrocchi, actress and ballerina

R

• Gabriela Rejala, beauty queen and model
• Alba Riquelme, beauty queen and model.
• Blas Riquelme, politician, businessman and landowner
• Larissa Riquelme, model and actress, named "Girl of the FIFA 2010 World Cup"
• Augusto Roa Bastos, writer, novelist
• Andrés Rodríguez, army general and former president
• Guido Rodríguez Alcalá, writer
• Hugo Rodríguez-Alcalá, writer
• José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, first Paraguayan head of government
• Yren Rotela (born 1981), activist for rights of LGBT people and sex workers

S

• Roque Santa Cruz, professional footballer
• Oscar Vicente Scavone, businessman
• Clara Sosa beauty queen and model, winner of Miss Grand International 2018
• Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay

T

• Tsiweyenki (Gloria Elizeche), leader of indigenous Maká people

V

• Pablo Medina Velázquez, journalist

W

• Juan Carlos Wasmosy, president of Paraguay

Z

• Pablo Zeballos, professional footballer

See also

• List of people by nationality
• List of presidents of Paraguay
• Hispanics