List of Guatemalans

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This is a list of Guatemalans who are famous or notable. For a list of Guatemalan Presidents see President of Guatemala.

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[edit]A

• Abularach, Rodolfo, painter
• Andrade, Sergio, musician (bassist founder of Lifehouse)
• Argueta, Luis, film director
• Arbenz, Jacobo, military officer, former president, deposed by CIA and Guatemalan military
• Arévalo, Juan José, first democratically elected president, Jacobo Arbenz was the second
• Arjona, Ricardo, international singer
• Asturias, Miguel Ángel, writer, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature (1967)
• Asturias, Rodrigo, guerrilla leader of ORPA, a.k.a Comandante Gaspar Ilom, son of writer Miguel Ángel Asturias
• Ayala Acevedo, Allan, track athlete, national record holder in 400, 400 hurdles, and 1600 relay

[edit]B

• Barrios, Justo Rufino, General, leader of the Liberal movement, dictator, attempted Central-American union by force
• Batres Montúfar, José, writer
• Bosch Gutierrez, Felipe A., international businessman
• Bosch Gutierrez, Juan Luis, international businessman

[edit]C

• Cardoza y Aragón, Luis, writer, essayist, poet, art critic, and diplomat
• Carrera, Rafael, general, conservative politician
• Castillo Armas, Carlos, colonel, politician
• Castillo, Otto René, poet, guerrilla member of FAR

[edit]E

• Estrada Cabrera, Manuel, general, former dictator
• Espada, Rafael, Vice President of Guatemala and former cardiothoracic surgeon

[edit]F

• Flaquer Azurdia, Irma, journalist
• Flores, Mateo, athlete

[edit]G

• Galeotti Torres, Rodolfo, sculptor
• García Laguardia, Jorge Mario, jurist, magistrate of the Constitutional Court, and Ombudsman for Human Rights
• Gerardi Conedera, Juan José, Roman Catholic bishop and human rights defender
• Goldman, Francisco, writer
• Gomez Carrillo, Enrique (1873-1927), writer
• González Palma, Luis, photographer
• Gutierrez, Juan José, international businessman
• Gutierrez Mayorga, Dionisio, international businessman

[edit]I

• Isaac, Oscar, Guatemalan-American actor

[edit]J

• Jensen, Alfred Julio, artist

[edit]K

• Kayb'il B'alam, 16th-century leader of the Mam people Maya kingdom

[edit]L

• La Rue, Frank William, human rights activist, UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression
• Lehnhoff, Dieter, composer, conductor, musicologist
• Lubitch Domecq, Alcina, writer
• Lucas García, Fernando Romeo, general, former President

[edit]M

• Mack, Myrna, anthropologist
• Marroquin, Manny, Grammy Award winning mixer/engineer
• Martinez, Benito, actor
• Menchú Tum, Rigoberta, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (1992), indigenous woman, activist, author
• Mérida, Carlos, painter
• Mendez, Francisco, (1907-1962) writer and member of Tepeus Group
• Milla y Vidaurre, José (Salome Jil) (1822-1882), writer
• Monteforte Toledo, Mario, writer
• Monterroso, Augusto, writer, winner of the Prince of Asturias Award of literature (2000)
• Moreno, Gaby, singer and songwriter
• Mulet, Edmond , diplomat, head of mission of MINUSTAH

[edit]P

• Palencia, Karl M., Record Producer (Pina Records), aka Myztiko
• Palma, Gustavo Adolfo (1920-2010), Singer - Lyric Tenor
• Peña Aldana, Carlos Enrique, winner of Latin American Idol 2nd season

[edit]Q

• Quevedo, Fernando, Professor of theoretical physics, Cambridge, England
• Quezada Toruño, Rodolfo, Cardinal, Archbishop of Guatemala City

[edit]R

• Ramirez de León, Arnoldo, guerrilla leader of EGP a.k.a. Comandante Rolando Morán
• Raudales, Henry, violinist
• Recinos, Adrián, Lawyer, historian, Mayanist scholar, essayist, and diplomat
• Robles, Rodolfo, physician, discovered onchocercosis (Robles Disease)
• Rodriguez Macal, Virgilio, writer
• Ríos Montt, Efraín, general, dictator, stands accused of genocide
• Rodríguez Beteta, Virgilio (1885-1967), lawyer, historian, diplomat and writer
• Ruiz, Carlos, Toronto FC soccer player

[edit]S

• Sandarti, Héctor, television personality
• Sandoval, Kevin, Soccer player, 1988 Summer Olympics
• Tobar, Hector, writer/journalist

[edit]T

• Tecún Umán, sixteenth century leader of the K'iche' Maya people
• Turcios Lima, Luis Augusto, Guatemalan army officer, guerrilla leader (FAR)

[edit]U

• Ubico, Jorge, military dictator
• Unger, David, author
• Urruela Federico, diplomat

[edit]V

• Villatoro, Anton, professional cyclist
• Viñals, Jaime, mountaineer (scaled seven highest peaks in the world)
• von Ahn, Luis, computer scientist, creator of CAPTCHA technlogy, professor of Carnegie Mellon University

[edit]W

• Whitbeck, Harris, CNN's International Correspondent based in Mexico City.

[edit]Y

• Yela Günther, Rafael, sculptor
• Yon Sosa, Marco Antonio, Guatemalan army officer, guerrilla leader MR-NOV13

[edit]Z

• Zamora, José Rubén, journalist
• Zuniga, Daphne, Guatemalan-American actress

Pedro Rafael Gonzalex Chavajay

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	Lake Atitlán is a beautiful, idyllic lake in the mountain highlands of Guatemala. On the north side of the lake the mountains drop off sharply at the lake. On the far side of the lake are three prominent volcanoes. The classically shaped Volcano San Pedro stands alone, apart from the other two. At its foot on a shelf overlooking the lake is the village of San Pedro. The Indian villages on this side of the lake speak the Mayan dialect Tz'utuhil. San Pedro can be reached by boat, on clear days a ride of a little more than one hour. Although the lake can now be crossed almost hourly any day of the week, just a few years ago the boats came and went only two days a week.It was in San Pedro la Laguna in 1929, that Rafael González y González mixed aniline dyes, available for dying the colorful Guatemalan fabrics, with the sap of a local tree in order to paint. Two of Rafael's sons followed in their father's footsteps to become painters. One continues to live in Chicacao, like his father. The other went to live in Guatemala City to be closer to art buyers. The two older sons became albaniles(masons) and returned to San Pedro la Laguna—where they had spent their early childhood—to marry and raise families. The older of the two in turn had a son named Pedro Rafael Gonzalez, who grew up to become the first of the oil painters now living in San Pedro.
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	As a child, Pedro Rafael would accompany his father on trips to visit his grandfather in his plantation home, and was fascinated by watching him bring colors to canvas to create real-life scenes. In grade school young Pedro Rafael distinguished himself in drawing, and he impressed his grandfather by his skill in carrying out drawing assignments. When the boy was in fifth grade his grandfather gave him a set of water colors to practice painting. The following year he made him a gift of oil paints and a brush and showed him how to mount a canvas and to mix colors. In sixth grade, the final year of primary school, Pedro Rafael painted a landscape showing a quetzal in flight with a volcanic peak in the background. A school teacher from Santiago Atitlán who had come to San Pedro to administer year end examinations asked whether the painting was in oils. Assured that it was, he bought it for a $1.50. In 1973 Pedro Rafael, then age 16, had sold his first painting. His grandfather, not Pedro Rafael, was the first person in San Pedro to become a painter, but his grandson was San Pedro's first resident to paint in oils.
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	At age 17 Pedro Rafael went to live for a few years in Guatemala City with his uncle Jose Antonio, one of the two artist sons of old Rafael Gonzalez. The two collaborated in turning out pictures for sale. Pedro Rafael, more adept at drawing than his uncle, did the sketching. José Antonio supplied the motifs and did most of the coloring. On Sundays they exhibited their wares on the street. One day they had about thirty paintings on display in front of the Camino Real Hotel on the fashionable Avenida de la Reforma when along came Ruth Bunge, who was amplifying the stock of "primitivistic" paintings in her El Sombol gallery across the street from the hotel. She bought most of the paintings. Her price was low but the quantity offer was persuasive. She invited the men to bring more paintings to her gallery when they had them. With the discovery of a steady market, Pedro Rafael decided to go it alone. He returned to San Pedro, signed his own pictures and in 1979 began selling El Sombol about three paintings a month, realizing between $10 and $30 apiece, depending on the size.That same year he started to enter painting exhibitions, mostly to compete for prizes rather than to make sales, first in a Sololá gallery, then in Chichicastenango, then in a big exhibit in Guatemala City called "Adios a 79" [Goodbye to 1979]. For a few years in the early 80's, until he found he could get better prices elsewhere, El Sombol was his main outlet. In 1983 he took a job as an instructor of bilingual education. He had no formal education as a teacher and the job pays less than the salary earned by accredited grade school instructors, but he had a growing family to support and felt he could not rely solely on an unpredictable market for works of art. Teachers in Guatemala regularly work five forenoons a week and are on vacation from the end of October until January, and so Pedro Rafael has considerable time to satisfy his urge to paint. Pedro Rafael is distinguished among the painters of San Pedro by the thoughtfulness that pervades all aspects of his work, ranging from the painstaking choice of subject matter to the meticulous application of paint. Other artists may be willing to paint for money but Pedro Rafael says he can't paint unless he feels inspired. He asserts that his small canvases require almost as much mental preparation as the large ones do. He ponders ideas for subjects until he feels the right moment has come. Then at night after others have gone to bed and he can work without interruption, he carefully draws his sketch. For Pedro Rafael the most creative part of the painting process is transforming his mental image into a sketch on canvas. For him the actual painting is nearly automatic. Proceeding slowly, he dabs a spot of paint on the canvas with his brush and spends several minutes working it in before applying the next dab.
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	A sure painter, he clearly has in mind what colors go where and how to mix them. A remarkable feature of his painting is the way he proceeds: starting at an upper corner of the canvas, he paints the painting in virtually its final form as he progresses down to the opposite corner, as though he were unrolling an oriental rug. His paintings are rich in subtle colors but this richness is put into the painting as he proceeds inch by inch, not by subsequent reworking. Overpainting is limited to completing the designs of the woven fabrics worn by the figures or a foreground branch framing the edge of the picture. Some observers claim to see a resemblance to Rembrandt in Pedro Rafael's predilection for dark tones and the artful interplay of light and shadow.

Mayan Artists

	Diego Isaias Hernandez Mendez Texeles y Sacristanes se Asustaron por el Eclipse [Texels y sacristans surprised by the eclipse]
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	In three of the hundreds of communities that make up the vast Maya population of present day Guatemala Indian artists produce oil paintings about Mayan life. Those communities are Cakchiquel speaking San Juan Comalapa, and the Tz'utuhil speaking towns of Santiago Atitlan and San Pedro la Laguna. At present this website deals only with the Tz'utuhil-speaking artists, and mainly with the artists from San Pedro la Laguna and its close neighbor San Juan la Laguna.	Pintores y Pinturas de las tierras altas de Guatemala: En tres de los cientos de comunidades que conforman la extensa población Maya de la Guatemala de hoy, artistas indígenas producen pinturas al óleo acerca de la vida Maya. Estas comunidades son San Juan Comalapa, donde se habla Cakchiquel y las ciudades de Santiago Atitlán y San Pedro la Laguna donde se habla Tz’utuhil. De momento, este Sitio trata únicamente con los artistas de habla Tz’utuhil, y principalmente con los artistas de San Pedro la Laguna y su vecino cercano San Juan la Laguna
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	The most important sections of this website can be reached by the buttons to the above left. The small text buttons at the top and bottom of the pages link to the pages which make up the particular section. To find out what's new  (updated 07/20/09) on our website click the button at left.	Las secciones más importantes de este Sitio de Internet pueden ser contactadas a través de los botones de la parte superior izquierda. Los botones pequeños de texto en la parte superior e inferior de las páginas enlazan a las páginas que conforman la sección específica. Para enterarse qué hay de nuevo (puesto al día 20/07/09) en nuestro Sitio de Internet, haga clic en el botón de la izquierda.
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	All the paintings in this section, Paintings, are for sale. There are also quality limited edition prints for sale.
.	Pinturas a la Venta: Todas las pinturas en esta sección, Pinturas [Paintings], están a la venta. También hay a la venta ediciones limitadas de tipografías de calidad.
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	The Archive is an visual exhibition of Tz'utuhil Mayan paintings for your on-line enjoyment (as contrasted to the Paintings where the paintings are for sale). The paintings are arranged by artist, and listed more or less chronologically by when the artist painted them.
.	Pinturas en Exposición: El Archivo es una exhibición visual de pinturas Mayas Tz’utuhiles para que las disfrute en línea (en contraste con la Pinturas [Paintings] dónde las pinturas están a la venta). Las pinturas están organizadas por artista, y enumeradas más o menos cronológicamente según la fecha en que el artista las pintó.
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	The biographies of some of the better known Tz'utuhil Mayan artists, tell how painting began in San Pedro and then spread to San Juan. Included in this section are two articles by Benjamin Paul an anthropologist emeritus from Stanford University, has been writing about the customs of San Pedro since he first visited there in 1940. One article called The Maya Bonesetter as Sacred Specialist is about the curanderos of San Pedro la Laguna who were famous throughout Guatemala; the other written with William Demarest is called The Operation of a Death Squad in San Pedro la Laguna. All the articles are illustrated by paintings by these artists.
.	Historias—Artículos: Las biografías de algunos de los más conocidos artistas Mayas Tz’utuhiles cuentan como empezó la pintura en San Pedro y luego se difundió a San Juan. En esta sección están incluidos dos artículos de Benjamín Paul, un antropólogo emérito de la Universidad de Stanford que ha estado escribiendo acerca de las costumbres de San Pedro desde que estuvo de visita por primera vez en 1,940. Un artículo titulado Los Curanderos Mayas como Especialistas Sagrados es acerca de los curanderos de San Pedro la Laguna que era famosos en toda Guatemala; el otro escrito por William Demarest titulado La Operación de un Escuadrón de Muerte en San Pedro la Laguna. Todos los artículos están ilustrados con pinturas de estos artistas.
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	The Mayan weaving typical of Guatemala is a vast subject, larger still if the Mayans in southern Mexico are included. By limiting ourselves to the textiles produced in the towns and villages surrounding Lake Atitlán, the area where the Tz'utuhil Mayan artists live, we can get a good idea of the richness and variety of Mayan textiles throughout. After a long haitus we have expanded this section with separate pages for a number of the towns around the lake. Margot Blum Shevill, the author much of this section, has written numerous books and articles on the textiles of Guatemala. We are fortunate to have her working with us.
.	Tejidos típicos del Lago de Atitlán: Los tejidos Mayas típicos de Guatemala es un tema extenso, aún más grande si se incluyen los Mayas del sur de México. Al limitarnos a los tejidos típicos producidos en pueblos y aldeas que rodean el lago de Atitlán, el área donde viven los artistas Mayas Tz’utuhiles, nos podemos hacer una buena idea de la riqueza y variedad de tejidos Mayas en todo el territorio. Después de mucho tiempo hemos ampliado esta sección con páginas separadas para varias de las ciudades alrededor del lago. Margot Blum Shevill, autora de la mayor parte de esta sección, ha escrito numerosos libros y artículos sobre los tejidos de Guatemala. Somos afortunados de tenerla trabajando con nosotros.
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	Two other sites on the WWW deal with Tz'utuhil Mayan artists. Sites which we find exceptional and relate in some manner to our goals may occasionally be included in our list of links. Many sites spend a lot of energy maintaining excellent lists of links on such related topics as: art, Guatemala, Mayans, or Native Americans. Rather than try to duplicate their contributions, we would rather spend our time finding good lists of links and point you in their direction.	Enlaces: Hay Otros dos Sitios en la Red que tratan con artistas Mayas Tz’utuhiles. Sitios que encontramos excepcionales y se relacionan de alguna manera con nuestro objetivo podrían ser incluidos ocasionalmente en nuestra lista de enlaces. Muchos Sitios pasan mucho tiempo manteniendo excelentes listas de enlaces de dichos temas relacionados, por ejemplo, arte, Guatemala, Mayas, o Nativos Americanos. En lugar de tratar de duplicar sus contribuciones, preferimos pasar nuestro tiempo buscando buenas listas de enlaces y dirigirlos a ustedes en esa dirección.
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	This section includes a magazine interview with us which perhaps better explains who we are and how we got started than anything we have tried to write about the subject.  We also have a page which talks about a  project spearheaded by artist Pedro Rafael to get pencils for all the children in the school where he teaches. Arte Maya Tz'utuhil has helped actualize the vision of one Pedrano to establish a Spanish school for travelers in San Pedro la Laguna.
	El Arte Maya Tz’utuhil: Esta sección incluye una entrevista que nos hizo una revista, que explica mejor que cualquier cosa que hemos tratado de escribir al respecto, quienes somos y como empezamos. También tenemos una página que habla de un proyecto encabezado por el artista Pedro Rafael, para obtener lápices para todos los estudiantes de la escuela donde él enseña. Arte Maya Tz’utuhil ha ayudado a actualizar la visión de un nativo de San Pedro de establecer una escuela de español para viajeros en San Pedro la Laguna.
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	Spanish Translation: Romana Straley: www.drs-translations.com email: rstraley@drs-translations.com.
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