Matilde Pérez Palacio

Matilde Pérez Palacio Carranza (8 September 1913 – 16 August 1992) and a granddaughter of , a Congressman from the 1860s to 1890s. She attended the Colegio Sagrados Corazones Belén and earned a commercial accountancy diploma. After entering parliament, she sat on the Press and Publications commission, the Social Assistance commission and the Women and Minors commission. She was elected to the Senate in the annulled 1962 elections, but returned to Congress as a deputy following the 1963 elections, serving until the 1968 coup. During her second term she chaired the Women and Minors Legislation Commission.

After leaving Congress she became a director of the Association of Journalists of Peru, the Human Rights Commission of the Lima Bar Association and a UNESCO representative, and was awarded the Order of the Sun of Peru. She died in 1992.