Notable Residents
Raúl Aguilar Batres, Engineer, creator of Guatemala City's system of avenue/street notation
- Miguel Ángel Asturias, writer and diplomat, Nobel Prize Laureate
- Manuel Colom Argueta, Former mayor of Guatemala City and politician
- Jorge de León, performance artist
- Carlos Mérida, painter
- Carlos Peña, singer, Winner of Latin American Idol 2007
- Fernando Quevedo, Theoretical Physicist, currently a professor of High Energy Psysics at the university of Cambridge
- Rodolfo Robles, Physician, discovered onchocercosis "Robles' Disease"
- Fabiola Rodas, Winner of The Third TV Azteca's Desafio de Estrellas 2nd Place in The Last Generation of La Academia
- Carlos Ruíz, football/soccer player
- Shery, singer / songwriter
- Jaime Viñals, Mountaineer (Scaled seven highest peaks in the world)
- Luis von Ahn, Computer Scientist, CAPTCHA's creator and Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University
- Ted Hendricks, Oakland Raiders NFL Hall Of Fame Linebacker. 5-Time Super Bowl Champion
- Ricardo Arjona, Singer /songwriter
- Gaby Moreno, Singer/ Songwriter
- Juan José Gutiérrez, CEO of Pollo Campero and on the board of directors of Corporación Multi Inversiones. Has been featured on the cover of Newsweek as Super CEO and named one of the Ten Big Thinkers for Big Business.
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