Historical Figures

• José de Armendáriz

  José de Armendáriz, first Marquis of Castelfuerte and XXVIII viceroy of Peru . He was born in Ribagorza (Navarra) in 1670. Son of Juan de Armendáriz Irisarri and Josefa de Perurena y Muguiro. It is said that he was the most distinguished soldier who came from the peninsula to hold a position in the

• José María Arguedas

  Jose Maria Arguedas Altamirano , was born on January 18, 1911 in the city of Andahuaylas, department of Apurímac. His father was a landowner from the region who, having been widowed by the future writers mother, married a rich landowner from San Juan de Lucanas for the second time. Arguedass childho

• Santiago Antúnez de Mayolo

  Santiago Antunez de Mayolo he was an engineer and learned naturalist. He is the son of Ángel Custodio Antúnez and María Bárbara Gomero Quijano. He was born in Aija (Ancash) on January 10, 1887 and died in Miraflores (Lima) on April 20, 1967 . He studied primary school in his hometown and in Huaraz,

• Manuel de Amat and Junyent

  Manuel de Amat y Junyent (1702 – 1782), was XXXI Viceroy of Peru . He was born in Barcelona in 1702. Son of José de Amat y Planella and María Ana Junient Vargas. From the age of eleven he embraced a military career and, as a member of the order of Knights of Saint John, one of his destinies was the

• Walter Alva

  Walter Alva Alva He was born in Cajamarca on June 28, 1951. He lived in Trujillo at a very early age and completed his secondary studies at the San Juan National College. As a schoolboy he had the friendship of Professor Max Díaz, who had been director of the Archeology Museum of the National Univer

• Daniel Alomía Robles

  Daniel Alomía Robles He was born in Huánuco, in 1871. His parents were Marcial Alomía and Micaela Robles. In 1882, when he moved to Lima, at the end of his primary education, he expressed his deep-rooted artistic vocation in choral groups. In 1887, this composer and folklorist began his musical tra

• Guillermo Almenara

  Guillermo Almenara Irigoyen, was born in Lima in 1890 and died in the same city in 1974 . His father was Francisco Almenara Butler, a pioneer of Peruvian pediatrics, and his mother Elvira Irigoyen Irigoyen. Doctorate in Medicine from the National University of San Marcos, where for a decade he held

• Diego de Almagro

  Diego de Almagro , was born in the La Mancha town of Almagro, Ciudad Real, Spain (1508). He was the illegitimate son of Juan de Montenegro and Elvira Gutiérrez. He did not have a happy childhood:abandoned by his mother, he was raised by Sancha López del Peral. His father would pick him up when he wa

• Ciro Alegría Bazán

  Ciro Alegría Bazán (1909- 1967) , was the author of The world is wide and alien was born in the farm Quilca, district of Sartimbamba, in the province of Huamachuco (department of La Libertad), on November 4, 1909. His parents were José Eliseo Alegría Lynch and María Herminia Bazán Lynch, natives of

• José Bernardo Alcedo

  Jose Bernardo Alcedo , was born in Lima in 1798 . His parents were the doctor José Isidoro Alcedo and Rosa Reluerto. In 1807 he wears the habit of tertiary brother or donated of the convent of Santo Domingo. He discovers his vocation for music and receives the teachings in that field from the fria

• Juana Alarco de Dammert

  Juana Alarco de Dammert , philanthropist, benefactor of childhood. She was born of an illustrious family, in Lima, on May 27, 1842. She was the daughter of Julián Alarco and Mercedes Espinoza. She attended the school run by Cruz Andrade de Noel and received private lessons in French and music. She m

• Elías Aguirre Romero

  Elias Aguirre Romero , was born in Chiclayo, department of Lambayeque, in 1843, the son of Carlos Aguirre and María Candelaria Romero. At the age of eleven he moved to Lima, studying at the high school of the brothers Manuel and Isidro Pérez and later with Jacobo López Castilla. In 1858 he entered t

• Gabriel Aguilar Narvarte

  Gabriel Aguilar Narvarte (1775-1805) , was born in Huánuco in 1775 and his parents were Salvador Aguilar and Clara Narvarte. From a very young age he made various trips to the south of the continent, reaching the Chilean mining area and then Mendoza and Buenos Aires. Later, in Spain, he soaked up th

• Martín Adán

  The Peruvian poet Martín Adán, whose real name was Ramón Rafael de la Fuente Benavides , was born on October 27, 1908 in Lima, on Corazón de Jesús street (current Jirón Apurímac). His parents were Santiago de la Fuente Santolalla and Rosa Mercedes Benavides, whose marriage did not last long and both

• Xavier Abril

  The writer Xavier Abril was born in Lima on November 4, 1905 . He is the son of Carlos Abril Borgoño and Amalia de Vivero Merino, who formed a traditional family with extensive cultural interests. He begins his studies at the German school, between 1911 and 1923; there he has as partners Estuardo Nú

• José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa

  Jose Fernando de Abascal y Sousa , XXXVIII viceroy of Peru. He became Marquis de la Concordia and Knight of the Order of Santiago. He was born in Oviedo (Asturias) on May 30, 1743. Son of Don José de Abascal y Sainz de Trueba and Doña Gertrudis de Sousa y Sánchez. From an early age he had a distingu

• Winston Churchill

  A war correspondent during his military career (1895-1899), his escape from prison in South Africa during the Boer War where he was to do a report brought him a certain celebrity. He was appointed Conservative MP in 1900, then joined the Liberal Party in 1904. Between 1906 and 1908, he was Under-Se

• Virgil

  Virgil was born in Padua (northern Italy) and studied Latin, Greek, rhetoric and philosophy between the cities of Cremona, Milan, Rome and Naples where he spent most of his time. A powerful Roman, Maecenas, supports him financially, so Virgil can devote himself to writing. He writes the Bucoliques ,

• Victor Schoelcher

  Following his travels in the Caribbean, the United States and Africa, Victor Schœlcher advocated since 1840 the economic and intellectual autonomy of slaves in several studies intended for colonial societies. Under-Secretary of State in the Ministry of the Navy in the provisional government after t

• Vercingetorix

  Image credit: Statue of Vercingetorix, Aimé Millet. Photo credit:Myrabella Originally from Arvernes, Vercingetorix has gone down in history for having resisted the great military strategist Julius Caesar. Indeed, refusing the Roman invasion, Vercingetorix calls the other Gallic peoples to the insu