Notable Residents
- Business people
- Simón Iturri Patiño (1862–1947), mining magnate
- Educators and Intellectuals
- Jaime Escalante, professor and teacher whose life was dramatized in the 1988 film Stand and Deliver
- Renato Prada Oropeza, professor, semiologist, writer
- Musicians
- Edwin Arturo Castellanos Mendoza (b. 1966), musician, artist, politician, Mayor of Cochabamba (2010 - 2015 term)
- Jaime Laredo, classical violinist
- Teófilo Vargas Candia (1866–1961), musician and composer,
author of the Cochabamba Hymn
- Los Kjarkas (since 1965) Cochabambino folk music group, an exemplar of Bolivian traditional music, performers and authors of the famous song "Llorando se Fue", which has been covered internationally
- Literary figures
- Nataniel Aguirre (1843–1888), author.
- Guido Ernesto Cabrerizo (1954), author and poet.
- Adela Zamudio (1874–1925), author and poet, a strong defender of women's rights
- Jesús Lara (1898–1975), author and poet
- Ramon Rocha Monroy (1950-), author, journalist
- Gaby Vallejo Candia (1841), author, professor of Literature
- Edmundo Paz Soldán author
- Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz (1931–1980), author and prominent politician
- Javier del Granado (1913–1996), poet laureate
- Renato Prada Oropeza (1937–2011), novelist and poet
- Oscar Únzaga de la Vega (1916–1959), journalist and historian
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