(1934–1967) Otto René Castillo was born in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala.

(1952–2019) Humberto Ak’abal was born in Momostenango, Guatemala. 

(1917–1980) Archbishop Oscar Romero was a religious leader and activist in El Salvador during the 1960s and 1970s.

(1893–1932) Farabundo Marti was born in Teotepeque, a small farming community in El Salvador.

Claudia Lars was born in Armenia, El Salvador in 1899 as Margarita del Carmen Brannon Vega.

(1944– ) Alvaro Rogelio Gómez Estrada was born in Santa Cruz del Quiché, Guatemala.

(1935–1975) Roque Dalton was born in Quetzaltepeque, El Salvador.

(1885–1936) Prudencia Ayala was a Salvadoran Afro-indigenous writer, social activist, and early campaigner for women's rights in El Salvador and first woman to run for president in El Salvador and Latin America.

(1935– ) Manlio Argueta was born in San Miguel, El Salvador. A student at the University of San Salvador, he helped found the University Literary Circle in 1956…

(1963– ) A politician and economist who served as the first Black woman vice president in Latin America in Costa Rica from 2018–2022.

Mini bios of important figures from Central America in the LGBTQ+ community.

Kiara Aileen Machado is a contemporary artist born in Lynwood, California, who depicts and explores the construction of identity, familial lineage, intergenerational trauma, and culture in her work.

(1949–1990) Myrna Mack Chang was born in Barrio San Nicolás, Retalhuleu, in southwestern Guatemala. Her parents were ethnic Chinese. Myrna trained as a teacher, then as a social worker, then as an anthropologist. For her advocacy for the Maya community, she was labeled an “internal enemy” by the government.

(1950– ) Maria Serrano, born in El Salvador, was a young mother when she began organizing her fellow campesinos (farmers) to ask for land and rights from the corrupt Salvadoran government during the U.S.-backed civil war.