ALT St. Martin de Porres, first back saint of the Americas and a pioneer in medicine was afro peruvian and El Señor de los Milagros, Peru's largest religious devotion, painted by a Angolan man in the 17th century in Pachacamilla. Celebrated every October during what we proudly call El Mes Morado.

ALT Catalina Buendía [Heroine, leader] Tomasa de Alcalá [Heroine, leader] Caitro Soto [Musician] (With a cajón, afro peruvian musical instrument such as Quijada de Burro, cajita and checo) Lucha Reyes [Musician] Susana Baca [Musician, Musicologist] Pancho Fierro [Painter] José María Escobar [Leader] Arturo Cavero [Musician] Victoria Santa Cruz [poet, activist, choreographer, Composer] Teresa Izquierdo [Chef] José Manuel Valdés [Medical surgeon, Procer, Poet] Antonio Oblitas [Revolutionary leader, painter] María Elena Moyano [Social leader, activist] Nicomedes Santa Cruz [poet, décima writer and folklorist] Alejandro Villanueva [Footballer] Mauro Mina [Boxer] Ana Cecilia "Anacé" Carrillo [Voleyball captain in 1979] Lucha Fuentes [Voleyball captain in 1973 until 1979] Teófilo Cubillas [Footballer], Also Eva Ayllon, Francisco Congo, Alfredo Maldonado Arias and the list goes on, they are all important to the history and culture of peru