People from Peru

9 people remembered here.

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  Mario Vargas Llosa

  1936 – 2025 · Novelist

  Nobel Boom novelist who mapped power, liberty, and Peru for the world.

  208 candles · 18 tributes
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  Edith Barr

  1936 – 2026 · Singer (musica criolla / Peruvian Creole music)

  Peru's Flor Morena who carried criolla song from La Victoria to the Waldorf and the Pope.

  59 candles · 8 tributes
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  Gastón Acurio Velarde

  1930 – 2026 · Civil engineer

  Cusco engineer who helped found Acción Popular, built roads as minister, and served three Senate terms.

  30 candles · 6 tributes
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  Susy Aponte

  † 2026 · Journalist

  A journalist and candidate who kept speaking after the threats came.

  7 candles · 1 tributes
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  Enrique Espejo (Yuca)

  1951 – 2026 · Actor and comedian

  Peruvian TV comedian known as Yuca, sidekick and improviser across four decades of sketch shows.

  7 candles · 1 tributes
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  Dennis Vargas Marín

  1952 – 2026 · Radio journalist

  The voice who helped build RPP's newsroom and brought Quechua to a World Cup broadcast.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Pascualillo Coronado

  1959 – 2026 · Peruvian chicha and cumbia singer

  El Rey de la Carretera Central. Voice of Peruvian cumbia carretera for more than five decades.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Susy Aponte Polo

  † 2026 · Investigative journalist

  Digital journalist and Áncash candidate who kept reporting after threats.

  6 candles · 1 tributes
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  Rosa Fung Pineda

  † 2026 · Archaeologist

  Peruvian archaeologist who opened San Marcos teaching to women and mapped the coastal Preceramic.

  3 candles · 1 tributes