Costa Rica

This page lists 1,207 biographies of costa ricas, covering lives from 1510 to 2008. Featuring Abel Pacheco, Carlos Alvarado Quesada and Christiana Figueres. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People of this nationality

Miguel Mora Porras

1816 – 1887

politician

Bryan Vázquez

b. 1987

boxer

Cristián Samper

b. 1965

biologist

Roger Madrigal

b. 1972

canoeist

Paz Fábrega

b. 1979

film director

Álvaro Grant McDonald

b. 1939

association football player

Floyd Guthrie

b. 1966

association football player

José Marín Cañas

1904 – 1980

writer

Carmen Lyra

1887 – 1949

politician

Bernardo Rodríguez y Alfaro

1781 – 1899

politician

Ariel Soto

b. 1992

association football player

Julián Volio Llorente

1827 – 1889

politician

Braulio Carrillo Colina

1800 – 1845

politician

Brenda Castro

b. 1992

model

Maribel Guardia

b. 1959

singer

Carlos Fonseca Suárez

b. 1987

writer

Ricardo Toledo

politician

Juan Cayasso

b. 1961

association football player

Roy Smith

b. 1990

association football player

Jorge Vega Rodríguez

1904 – 2001

physician

Catalina Murillo

b. 1970

writer

Milagro Mena

b. 1993

sport cyclist

Austin Berry

b. 1971

association football player

Juan Gabriel Guzmán

b. 1987

association football player

Willy Eras

b. 1980

association football player

Dennis Marshall

1985 – 2011

association football player

Bismark Acosta

b. 1986

association football player

Alvaro Umaña

environmental engineer

Mauricio Alpízar

b. 1979

association football player

José Manuel Salazar-Xirinachs

b. 1953

economist

Josué González

b. 1988

sport cyclist

Rafael Otón Castro Jiménez

1877 – 1939

Catholic priest

Carlos Durán Cartín

1852 – 1924

physician

Sonia Marta Mora Escalante

b. 1953

politician

Carmen Naranjo

1928 – 2012

writer

Pablo Nassar

b. 1977

association football player

Berny Ulloa Morera

b. 1950

association football referee

Joseph Chavarría

b. 1992

sport cyclist

Víctor Coto Ortega

b. 1990

association football player

Eulalia Bernard

1935 – 2021

poet

Manfred Russell

b. 1988

association football player

Giannina Facio

b. 1955

film actor

Beatriz Zamora López

1871 – 1933

First Lady

Christopher Meneses

b. 1990

association football player

Silvia Poll

b. 1970

swimmer

Randall Arauz

environmentalist

Walter Kissling

1931 – 2002

chief executive officer

Fernando Contreras Castro

b. 1963

writer

Dagoberto Campos Salas

b. 1966

Catholic priest

Bernardo Soto Alfaro

1854 – 1931

politician

Priscilla Tapia

b. 1991

association football player

Marvin Rodríguez Cordero

b. 1960

politician

Teodoro Picado Michalski

1900 – 1960

writer

Edgar Marín

1943 – 2023

association football player

Fernando Hernández

1944 – 1997

association football player

Alexander Madrigal

b. 1972

association football player

Álvaro Ramos prado

b. 1983

economist

Corina Rodríguez López

1895 – 1982

academic

Andrés Brenes

b. 1964

sport cyclist

Gerardo Ureña

b. 1955

association football player

Margarita Penón

b. 1948

politician

Mauricio Alvarado

b. 2000

athlete

Brunhilda de Portilla

1929 – 2025

composer

Gerson Torres

b. 1997

association football player

Garabito

politician

Jairo Arrieta

b. 1983

association football player

Ray Tico

1928 – 2007

musician

Domingo González Pérez

1842 – 1927

politician

Heiner Oviedo

b. 1988

taekwondo athlete

Yamilka Noa

b. 1980

poet

Froylán Ledezma

b. 1978

association football player

Rafael Ángel García

1928 – 2023

association football player

José Miguel Cubero

b. 1987

association football player

Ana Helena Chacón

b. 1961

politician

Gloria Valerín Rodríguez

b. 1955

politician

Winston Parks

b. 1981

association football player

Viviana Chinchilla

b. 1994

association football player

Elena Gallegos Rosales

1882 – 1954

First Lady

Bernd H. Niehaus Quesada

b. 1941

politician

Guadalupe Urbina

b. 1959

singer

Henrietta Boggs

1918 – 2020

politician

Gabriel Badilla

1984 – 2016

association football player

Tobías Zúñiga Castro

1854 – 1918

politician

Yolanda Oreamuno

1916 – 1956

writer

Ruperto Marvin Atencio Delgado

politician

Juan José de Bonilla y Herdocia

1790 – 1847

politician

Dayana Hernández

1983 – 2024

social activist

Nazario Toledo

1807 – 1887

politician

Max Villalobos

b. 1928

association football player

Mauro Fernández Acuña

1843 – 1905

politician

Luis Miguel Valle

b. 1989

association football player

Carlos Hernández

b. 1982

association football player

Rónald Gómez

b. 1975

association football player

Kenneth Tencio

b. 1993

sport cyclist

Bryan Oviedo

b. 1990

association football player

Jazmín Elizondo

b. 1994

association football player

Francisco Zúñiga

1912 – 1998

sculptor

Álvaro Zamora

b. 2002

association football player

Porfirio López

b. 1985

association football player

David Myrie

b. 1988

association football player