Famous People

Carlos Mejia Godoy, musician, composer, singer
Dimension Costeña, musican
J Smooth, bilingual hip hop and reggaeton singer
José Areas, percussionist, former drummer for Santana
Tony Melendez, guitar player, singer and Christian rock songwriter who was born without arms
Torombolo, reggaeton and hip hop singer

Adolfo Díaz
Anastasio Somoza Debayle
Anastasio Somoza García, dictator, 34th and 39th President of Nicaragua
Arnoldo Alemán, former President of Nicaragua from 1997-2002.
Daniel Ortega, current President of Nicaragua, leader of the FSLN
Edén Pastora
Eduardo Montealegre, politician, businessman
Emiliano Chamorro, former President of Nicaragua from 1917-1920 and part of 1926
Fruto Chamorro, first President of Nicaragua 1854-1855
Herty Lewites, politician
José Santos Zelaya, former President of Nicaragua from 1893-1909
Juan Bautista Sacasa, former President of Nicaragua from 1933-1936
Luis Somoza Debayle
Pedro Chamorro, former President of Nicaragua from 1875-1879
Sergio Ramírez, Vice President of Nicaragua during the Junta, writer, intellectual
Violeta Chamorro, first female president in Latin America, second in North America and 48th President of Nicaragua

Adolfo Calero, leader of the contras
Arlen Siu, martyr of the Sandinista revolution
Arturo Cruz, politician, banker, technocrat
Augusto César Sandino, revolutionary, symbol of the FSLN
Carlos Fonseca, teacher, founder of FSLN
Dora María Téllez, Commandante during the Sandinista revolution, founded the MRS, historian
Enrique Bermúdez, founder and commander of the contras
Nora Astorga, Sandinista revolutionary, lawyer, politician, judge and Nicaraguan ambassador to the UN
Patrick Argüello, martyr of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine PFLP
Tomás Borge, co-founder of the Sandinistas

Blanca Castellon, poet
Claribel Alegría, writer, received the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2006
Daisy Zamora, poet, guerrilla fighter during the Sandinista revolution
Emilio Alvarez Lejarza, writer, government official and jurist
Emilio Alvarez Montalván, writer, ophthalmologist and a former Foreign Minister of Nicaragua
Ernesto Cardenal, Catholic priest, liberation theologists and poet
Gioconda Belli, author, novelist and poet
José Coronel Urtecho, writer and intellect
Omar Cabezas, author, revolutionary and politician
Pedro Chamorro, journalist, editor of La Prensa
Rigoberto López Pérez, poet
Rubén Darío, Poet, regarded as the "Father of Modernism"
Salomón Ibarra Mayorga, poet, political thinker, and the lyricist of "Salve a ti, Nicaragua", the Nicaraguan national anthem

Miguel D'Escoto, Roman Catholic priest, former foreign minister of Nicaragua, received the Lenin Peace Prize in 1985
Miguel Obando y Bravo, former Archbishop of Managua
Uriel Molina, ordained as a Franciscan

Albert Williams, Major League Baseball player
Alexis Argüello, boxer, former world champion
Claudia Poll, swimmer, won the Gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics
David Green, former Major League Baseball player
Denis Espinoza, professional football (soccer) player
Dennis Martínez, first Nicaraguan to play in Major League Baseball, pitched the 13th perfect game in major league history.
Devern Hansack, Major League Baseball player
Emilio Palacios, professional soccer player, Nicaraguan to score a hat-trick in an international competition
Luis Alberto Pérez, boxer, current IBF world junior-bantamweight champion
Marvin Benard, former Major League Baseball player
Porfi Altamirano, former Major League Baseball player
Ricardo Mayorga, boxer, former WBA/WBC Welterweight champion and WBC Junior Middleweight champion of the world
Rosendo Alvarez, boxer, former world champion, only person to hold the undefeated flyweight champion to a draw
Shawn Hasani Martin, professional football (soccer) player
Silvia Poll, swimmer, won the silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Vicente Padilla, Major League Baseball player