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Abularach, Rodolfo, painter •
Álvarez, José Luis (1917–2012), painter •
Jackie Amezquita (born 1985), performance artist •
Andrade, Sergio, musician (bassist founder of Lifehouse) •
Acuña, Angelina writer of prose and poetry •
Argueta, Luis, film director •
Arbenz Vilanova, Arabella, actress, model, socialite •
Arbenz, Jacobo (1913–1971), military officer, former president •
Manuel José Leonardo Arce Leal (1935-1985), poet and dramatist •
Arenales Catalán, Emilio (1922–1969), diplomat.
Foreign minister of
Guatemala from 1966 to 1969 and the president of the
United Nations Twenty-Third General Assembly from 1968 to 1969. •
Arévalo, Juan José, first democratically elected president •
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 •
Aycinena y Piñol, Juan José, ecclesiastical and intellectual conservative in Central America ==B==