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22 Notable alumni of National University of Engineering, Peru

Updated: May 22, 2026 EliteDegrees

National University of Engineering, Peru is ranked #2,713 in the world and #9 in Peru by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 22 notable alumni from National University of Engineering, Peru sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with National University of Engineering, Peru won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Gonzalo García Núñez

1. Gonzalo García Núñez

1947-2024 (aged 77)
economist businessperson politician
Gonzalo García Núñez was a Peruvian industrial engineer from the Peruvian National University of Engineering Lima (1968), a graduate of the French centre of economics programs (CEPE), and the holder of a Ph.D. in economics from Grenoble University. He was a professor, banker, entrepreneur, economist and politician. García Núñez was a full professor of macroeconomics and industrial organisation at the...
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Eduardo Orrego Villacorta

2. Eduardo Orrego Villacorta

1933-1994 (aged 61)
architect politician
Eduardo Orrego Villacorta, was a Peruvian architect and politician in the early 1980s.
Rosa Galvez

3. Rosa Galvez

1961-. (aged 65)
engineer environmental consultant university teacher politician
The Honourable Rosa Galvez is a Canadian Senator representing Québec (Bedford) and an expert in pollution and its effects on human health. She was appointed to the Senate on December 6, 2016.
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Wenceslao Sarmiento

4. Wenceslao Sarmiento

1922-2013 (aged 91)
architect
Wenceslao Alfonso Sarmiento, also known as W.A. Sarmiento, was a Peruvian-born American modernist architect.
Miguel Romero Sotelo

5. Miguel Romero Sotelo

1947-. (aged 79)
educator
Miguel Eugenio Romero Sotelo is a Peruvian architect and politician, who served as the mayor of Lima from May 2022 to January 2023. He joined the Popular Action party in 2014.
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Albina Ruiz

6. Albina Ruiz

engineer environmentalist
Albina Ruiz Ríos is a Peruvian environmentalist, social activist and social entrepreneur who served as the minister of environment of Peru from 10 December 2022 until 13 February 2024.
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René Cornejo

7. René Cornejo

1962-. (aged 64)
electrical engineer mechanical engineer politician
René Cornejo Diaz is a Peruvian politician who was Prime Minister of Peru from February to July 2014, following the resignation of César Villanueva. He resigned after a political scandal that involved his office. He was replaced by the Minister of Labor Ana Jara.
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Humberto Lay

8. Humberto Lay

1934-. (aged 92)
architect politician
Pastor Humberto Lay Sun is a Peruvian evangelical minister, architect, and politician belonging to the National Restoration Party. He is of Chinese descent. He studied at the Colegio San Andrés (Anglo-Peruvian School). He was also a commissioner on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that investigated abuses by the Shining Path, Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, and the Military of Peru during...
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Barton Zwiebach

9. Barton Zwiebach

1954-. (aged 72)
physicist university teacher
Barton Zwiebach is a Peruvian string theorist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Federico Villarreal

10. Federico Villarreal

1850-1923 (aged 73)
mathematician physicist Esperantist politician
Federico Villarreal Villarreal was a Peruvian scientist, engineer and politician.
Máximo San Román

11. Máximo San Román

1946-. (aged 80)
mechanical engineer engineer businessperson politician
Máximo San Román Cáceres is a Peruvian mechanical engineer, businessman and former politician. He was President of Peru between 1992 and 1993, a term that was marked by the authoritarian government of Alberto Fujimori. Considered the legal Head of State during Fujimori's ruling by decree of his self-coup, he did not hold real power.
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Modesto Montoya

12. Modesto Montoya

1949-. (aged 77)
university teacher nuclear physicist politician
Modesto Montoya is a nuclear physicist and former president of the Peruvian Institute for Nuclear Energy in Lima, Peru. He is a former president and current member of the Peruvian Academy of Nuclear Sciences, former president of the Peruvian Physical Society and member for Peruvian National Academy of Sciences. In 2021, he became an advisor to President Pedro Castillo on...
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Salomón Lerner Ghitis

13. Salomón Lerner Ghitis

1946-. (aged 80)
engineer businessperson politician
Salomón Lerner Ghitis, also known as Siomi Lerner is a Peruvian businessman and politician, who was the Prime Minister of Peru from 28 July to 10 December 2011 and leader of the political movement Citizens for Change (CxC). He was appointed prime minister following the 2011 general election which was won by Ollanta Humala. Lerner resigned on 10 December 2011.
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Henri Ciriani

14. Henri Ciriani

1936-2025 (aged 89)
university teacher architect
Enrique Ciriani was a Peruvian architect and teacher.
Francisco Sagasti

15. Francisco Sagasti

1944-. (aged 82)
industrial engineer politician
Francisco Rafael Sagasti Hochhausler is a Peruvian engineer, academic, politician, and author who served as the president of Peru from November 2020 to July 2021.
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Fernando Belaúnde Terry

16. Fernando Belaúnde Terry

1912-2002 (aged 90)
university teacher architect politician
Fernando Sergio Marcelo Marcos Belaúnde Terry was a Peruvian politician who twice served as President of Peru (1963–1968 and 1980–1985). Deposed by a military coup in 1968, he was re-elected in 1980 after twelve years of military rule.
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Susana Higuchi

17. Susana Higuchi

1950-2021 (aged 71)
civil engineer politician
Susana Shizuko Higuchi Miyagawa was a Peruvian politician and engineer. She served as First Lady of Peru from 1990 to 1994 as the wife of President Alberto Fujimori. In 1994, she described her husband as a corrupt tyrant and divorced him in 1995.
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Manuel Prado Ugarteche

18. Manuel Prado Ugarteche

1889-1967 (aged 78)
banker university teacher politician mathematician civil engineer
Manuel Carlos Prado y Ugarteche was a Peruvian politician and banker who served twice as president of Peru. Son of former President Mariano Ignacio Prado, he was born in Lima and served as the nation's 43rd (1939–1945) and 46th (1956–1962) president. His brother, Leoncio Prado Gutiérrez, was a military hero who died in 1883, six years before Manuel Prado was...
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Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne

19. Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne

1943-. (aged 83)
basketball player Catholic bishop Catholic priest
Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne is a Peruvian Catholic who served as Archbishop of Lima from 1999 to 2019. He has been a bishop since 1988 and was made a cardinal in 2001.
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Fernando de Szyszlo

20. Fernando de Szyszlo

1925-2017 (aged 92)
painter artist
Fernando de Szyszlo Valdelomar was a Peruvian painter, sculptor, printmaker and teacher. He was a key figure in advancing abstract art in Latin America since the mid-1950s, and one of the leading plastic artists in Peru.
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Martín Vizcarra

21. Martín Vizcarra

1963-. (aged 63)
civil engineer politician
Martín Alberto Vizcarra Cornejo OSP CYC GColIH is a Peruvian engineer and politician who served as President of Peru from 2018 to 2020. Vizcarra previously served as Governor of the Department of Moquegua (2011–2014), First Vice President of Peru (2016–2018), Minister of Transport and Communications of Peru (2016–2017), and Ambassador of Peru to Canada (2017–2018), with the latter three during...
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Allan Wagner

22. Allan Wagner

1942-. (aged 84)
diplomat lawyer politician
Allan Wagner or Edward Allan Wagner-Tizón is a Peruvian diplomat who has served three times as his country's Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1985 to 1990, 2002 to 2003, and also in 2021. He also served as Peru's Minister of Defense from 2006 to 2007.
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