Philosophers and Humanists
- Juan Bautista Alberdi (1810–1884), political theorist.
- Andrés Bello (1781–1865), humanist, poet, lawmaker, philosopher, educator and philologist.
- Leonardo Boff (born 1938), one of the most known first Liberation theologians.
- Mario Bunge (born 1919), philosopher, author of the Treatise on Basic Philosophy (8 volumes, 1974–1989).
- Miguel Antonio Caro (1843–1909), humanist, linguist and politician.
- Rufino José Cuervo (1844–1911), philologist and linguist.
- José Ingenieros (1877–1925), philosopher, sociologist and science theoretician.
- Enrique Krauze (born 1947), historian, political and social essayist and publisher.
- Manuel de Landa (born 1952), philosopher, professor at Columbia University.
- Humberto Maturana (born 1928), major proponent of the embodied philosophy.
- Edmundo O'Gorman (1906–1995), philosopher.
- Francisco Varela (1946–2001), major proponent of the embodied philosophy.
- José Vasconcelos (1882–1959), thinker, educator and essayist.
- Antonio Nariño (1765-1824).
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