(born 1972) Alfonso Arau (born 1932) Carlos Saldanha (born 1965) animator Adolfo Aristarain (born 1943) Héctor Babenco (born 1946) Luis Buñuel (1900–1983) Juan José Campanella (born 1959) Román Chalbaud (born 1931) Alfonso Cuarón (born 1961) Juan Downey (1940–1993) Sara Gómez (1942-1974) Guillermo Fantástico González (1945–2020) Alejandro González Iñárritu (born 1963) Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 1929) León Klimovsky (1906–1996) Claudia Llosa (born 1976) Fernando Meirelles (born 1955) Franco de Peña (born 1966) Lucía Puenzo (born 1976) Arturo Ripstein (born 1943) Raúl Ruiz (director) (1941–2011) Walter Salles (born 1956) Amy Serrano (born 1966) Guillermo del Toro (born 1964) Leaders and politicians José Mujica (born 1935), President of Uruguay Leandro N. Alem (1841–1896), politician Nayib Bukele (born 1981), President of El Salvador Óscar Arias (born 1940), statesman, Nobel Peace Prize Francisco de Miranda (1750–1813), Supreme Chief of First Republic of Venezuela Antonio Saca (born 1965), President of El Salvador Rómulo Betancourt (1908–1981), President of Venezuela Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), Libertador in Spanish American wars of independence Anastasio Bustamante (1780–1853), President of Mexico Plutarco Elías Calles (1877–1945), President of Mexico Fidel Castro (1926–2016), Prime Minister, later President of Cuba Alfonso García Robles (1911–1991), diplomat and politician, Nobel Peace Prize José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia (1766–1840), Supreme Dictator of Paraguay Che Guevara (1928–1967), Marxist revolutionary Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753–1811), Chief instigator of Mexican War of Independence Benito Juárez (1806–1872), President of Mexico Juscelino Kubitschek (1902–1976), President of Brazil Alberto Lleras Camargo (1906–1990), President of Colombia Leopoldo López (born 1971), Mayor of Chacao, Venezuela José Martí (1853–1895), leader of Cuban Independence movement Rigoberta Menchú (born 1959), activist, Nobel Peace Prize Chico Mendes (1944–1988), trade union leader and environmentalist Antonio Nariño (1765–1824), political and military leader Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (1920–2020), United Nations Secretary-General Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (born 1931), activist, Nobel Peace Prize Juan Perón (1895–1974), President of Argentina Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878–1959), academic and politician, Nobel Peace Prize José de San Martín (1778–1850), Libertador in Spanish American wars of independence Augusto César Sandino (1985–1934), guerilla leader and revolutionary Pancho Villa (1878–1923), guerrilla leader of the Mexican Revolution Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919), guerrilla leader of the Mexican Revolution Lula da Silva (born 1945), President of Brazil Pedro Albizu Campos (1891–1965), president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Evo Morales (born 1959), president of Bolivia Monarchs Agustin I (1783–1824), independence leader, Emperor of Mexico Pope Francis (born 1936), Sovereign of Vatican City State Pedro I (1798–1834), independence leader, Emperor of