Diego Jacinto Agustín Barros Arana was a Chilean professor, legislator, minister and diplomat. He is considered the most important Chilean historian of the 19th century. His main work General History of Chile is a 15-volume work that spanned over 300 years of the nation's history.
The Royal Governor of Chile ruled over the Spanish colonial administrative district called the Captaincy General of Chile, and as a result the Royal Governor also held the title of a Captain General. There were 66 such governors or captains during the Spanish conquest and the later periods of Spanish-centered colonialism. Since the first Spanish–Mapuche parliaments in the 17th century it became an almost mandatory tradition for each governor to arrange a parliament with the Mapuches.
Manuel de Mendiburu (1805–1885) was a Peruvian statesman and historian born in Lima.
Víctor Celorio is an author, entrepreneur, inventor, and former union organizer. He is best known as the inventor of InstaBook, a digital printing technology. He lives and works in Gainesville, Florida.
The Real Academia de la Historia is a Spanish institution in Madrid that studies history "ancient and modern, political, civil, ecclesiastical, military, scientific, of letters and arts, that is to say, the different branches of life, of civilisation, and of the culture of the Spanish people". The Academy was established by royal decree of Philip V of Spain on 18 April 1738.
Jonas Halstead Coe, sometimes given in Spanish as Comodoro Juan Coe, was an American-born naval commander, notable in the early naval history of Argentina and Uruguay.
Celestino Barcala, the warrior son of Independence Colonel Lorenzo Barcala, was a key player on the Argentine civil wars in the north-west, reaching the rank of major national army.
Pedro Pablo Figueroa Luna was a Chilean writer and researcher. Among his works is the Diccionario biográfico de Chile, first published in 1887.
Francisco Vassallo was Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, in 1820 and 1832.
Dr. Santiago María del Granado y Navarro Calderón, 1st Count of Cotoca, was a Spanish nobleman and physician, who at the beginning of the 19th century traveled through some of the most remote regions of South America where epidemics were raging, to inoculate Native Americans with the recently discovered vaccine and prevent the spread of smallpox.
Gabriel Cevallos García was an Ecuadorian writer, historian, professor, and philosopher.
Juan María Mundó Freixas was a Spanish explorer and diamond trader.
Emilio Leciguyena was a Spanish alcalde and supporter of the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War. He was executed by the Nationalist supporters of Francisco Franco during the White Terror (Spain).
Roque Augusto Saldías Maninat was a Venezuelan-born Peruvian admiral and politician. He was born in Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela. He returned to Peru with his family in 1895. In 1908, he enrolled at the Naval Academy of Peru and graduated in 1912. He went to France on the cruiser Comandante Aguirre and returned to Peru in 1915. He later served on the cruiser Almirante Grau. He was minister of health (1936–1937), navy and aviation (1937–1939), navy (1948–1955) and economy and finance in the Government of Peru. He served under Presidents Óscar Benavides, José Bustamante y Rivero and Manuel A. Odría. He eventually rose to the rank of vice admiral in the Peruvian Navy.
Juan Gregorio Lemos (1764-1822) was an Argentine military man and politician who served in the Army of the Andes under the command of General San Martín. He had outstanding participation in the politics of the province of Mendoza, exerting diverse public positions.
Diccionario biográfico español is a Spanish biographical dictionary published by the Real Academia de la Historia.
Domingo de Acassuso (1658–1727) was a Spanish politician and military man, who served as mayor of Buenos Aires in 1716. He was the founder of the city of San Isidro in Buenos Aires Province.
Héctor González González was a Mexican and regiomontano lawyer, politician, writer, journalist, and intellectual. He was a founder and the first rector of the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
Marina del Pilar Avila Olmeda is a Mexican lawyer, politician, and member of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) political party, currently serving as Governor of Baja California, she is the first woman as governor. She was formerly a Federal Representative for Baja California's 2nd electoral district at the LXIV Legislature in the Chamber of Deputies of the General Congress of the United Mexican States, which she fulfilled from 2018 to 2019, also the first woman as Mayor of Mexicali, from 2019 to 2021.
Francisco Manuel Sánchez de Tagle was a Mexican poet, writer, and conservative statesman.
