WMaría Chinchilla Recinos, commonly known as María Chinchilla, was a Guatemalan schoolteacher who was assassinated by the cavalry of General Jorge Ubico while taking part in a peaceful anti-government demonstration. She is honoured as a national heroine.
WErnesto Cofiño (1899–1991) was a Guatemalan physician. He was a pioneer in pediatric research in Guatemala. He founded hospitals, was director of Caritas, and promoted youth development. Having died with a reputation for sanctity, his cause of beatification was granted a nihil obstat by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints on July 7, 2000.
WAldo Iván Dávila Morales is a Guatemalan politician. He was elected to the Congress of Guatemala in the 2019 election as a member of Winaq. He is the first openly gay man and first HIV-positive member elected to Congress. He will also be the only openly LGBT member of Congress, as Sandra Morán declined to run for re-election.
WEsther de Mézerville Ossaye was a Guatemalan teacher, feminist, suffragette and activist who worked to help women obtain the vote in Costa Rica.
WMyrna Mack Chang, born Sau Ha, was a Guatemalan anthropologist. In 1990 she was murdered by the Guatemalan military because of her criticism of the Guatemala government's treatment of the indigenous Maya, and its human rights abuses against the people.
WRigoberta Menchú Tum is a K'iche' Guatemalan human rights activist, feminist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Menchú has dedicated her life to publicizing the rights of Guatemala's Indigenous peoples during and after the Guatemalan Civil War (1960–1996), and to promoting Indigenous rights internationally.
WSandra Morán Reyes is a Guatemalan politician, who was elected to the Congress of Guatemala in the 2015 election. An out lesbian, she is noted as the first out LGBT person ever elected to the national legislature in Guatemala. She is a member of Convergence, a new progressive party which had two other members elected to the assembly.