WCarmen Acevedo Vega was an Ecuadorian poet, writer, and journalist.
WMaría Fernanda Ampuero is an Ecuadorian feminist writer and journalist.
WAminta Buenaño Rugel is an Ecuadorian writer and politician.
WSilvia Elena Buendía Silva is an Ecuadorian lawyer, TV host, columnist, and feminist activist. She is noted for her campaigning for the legalization of gay marriage in her country. She writes a column in El Telégrafo, and has contributed to other newspapers and magazines in Ecuador. In the 2010s she has become known as a television presenter, hosting shows such as Así Somos and Ventana Ciudadana on Ecuador TV.7.
WMaría Isabel Crespo de Lebed is an Ecuadorian journalist, reporter, and news presenter.
WRafael Díaz Ycaza was an Ecuadorian poet, novelist, short story writer, and columnist for the Ecuadorian newspaper El Universo.
WFreddy Ehlers Zurita is an Ecuadorian politician. As of June 2013, he is Ecuador's State Secretary for the Presidential Initiative for the Construction of a Society of Good Life. Previously, he was Minister of Tourism from 10 May 2010 until June 2013. In 1996 and 1998, Ehlers stood candidate for the office of President of Ecuador. Between 1 February 2007 and 7 May 2010, Ehlers was the Secretary-General of the Andean Community of Nations
WEstéfani Espín is an Ecuadorian TV presenter.
WIleana Espinel Cedeño was an Ecuadorian journalist, poet and writer. She was born and died in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Her pen name was Ileana Espinal.
WPablo Alfonso Espinosa de los Monteros Rueda is an Ecuadorian news anchor and vice-president of news of Ecuavisa in Quito. He holds the Guinness World Record for "Longest career as Television News broadcaster".
WJenny María Estrada Ruiz is an Ecuadorian writer and journalist.
WDalia Susana González Rosado is an Ecuadorian politician, currently the viceprefect of Guayas Province. She is a professional journalist with a licentiate in Social Communication and master's degree in International Political Science and Diplomacy.
WJanet Hinostroza is a television journalist from Ecuador. Her work focuses on the exposure of government corruption. She is the anchor on a morning news program, La Mañana de 24 Horas, and was the creator and anchor of the long-running investigative news program 30 Plus, which aired on Teleamazonas for more than a decade, investigating such subjects as human trafficking, arms trafficking, government and police corruption, and extrajudicial killings.
WIsmael Pérez Pazmiño was founder of El Universo newspaper of Guayaquil, Ecuador, and former senator of El Oro province.
WNela Martínez Espinosa was an Ecuadorian communist, political militant, activist, and writer.
WPedro Moncayo y Esparza was an Ecuadorian journalist and politician. He was the son of an Ecuadorian mother and Colombian father. He was politically active during the period of Caudillismo of Ecuador, being an opponent of the caudillos, writing for the weekly newspaper El Quiteño Libre. He later became diplomatically active and was ambassador to Peru, France and the United Kingdom. He lived the remainder of his life in Chile, dying in Valparaíso.
WAlfredo Pareja Diezcanseco — born Alfredo Pareja y Díez Canseco — was a prominent Ecuadorian novelist, essayist, journalist, historian and diplomat. An innovator of the 20th-century Latin American novel, he was a founding member of the literary Grupo de Guayaquil, which brought a new emphasis to realistic novels.
WMaría Manuela Dominga de Espejo y Aldaz, known as Manuela de la Santa Cruz y Espejo was an Ecuadorian journalist, nurse, feminist, and revolutionary. She was the sister of Eugenio Espejo, with whom she discussed and shared Enlightenment and revolutionary, pro-revolutionary thought and ideas.
WDoménica Cristina Tabacchi Rendón is an Ecuadorian journalist and politician. She currently serves as Vice mayor of Guayaquil, which is Ecuador's largest city, being the first woman ever to obtain the charge.
WTania Tinoco is an Ecuadorian journalist, author, television producer, director, TV and radio presenter, reporter, interviewer, and opinion leader. For more than 30 years she has been known as the host of the Ecuavisa nightly newscast, Telemundo.
WZoila Ugarte de Landívar, also known by her pseudonym Zarelia, was an Ecuadorian writer, journalist, librarian, suffragist, and feminist. She was the first female journalist in Ecuador. Together with Hipatia Cárdenas de Bustamante, she was a key defender of women's suffrage in Ecuador.
WFausto Guido Valdiviezo Moscoso was a senior Ecuadorian journalist and television presenter who was murdered after 29 years in journalism.
WAndrés Vallejo Arcos is an Ecuadorian lawyer, journalist and politician who served as the Mayor of Quito. He assumed the role after the previous mayor, Paco Moncayo, resigned to run for congress. Vallejo previously served as a city councilman. Vallejo has also served in high-profile roles such as the President of the National Congress from 1986 to 1987, and the minister of the Ministerio de Gobierno from 1988 to 1990.
WLincoln Savonarola Verduga Loor was an Ecuadorian journalist and politician known for a long career in public service in his country.
WCynthia Fernanda Viteri Jiménez de Villamar is an Ecuadorian lawyer, journalist and politician. On March 24, 2019, she was elected Mayor of Guayaquil, the largest city in Ecuador, in the sectional elections of Ecuador for a term from May 14, 2019 until May 14, 2024. She was the presidential candidate for Partido Social Cristiano in the 2017 presidential elections, and was a candidate in the 2006 presidential elections of Ecuador and finished fifth. Between 1998 and 2007 she was a member of the National Congress. In 2009 she became a member of the National Assembly.