The Most Famous
JOURNALISTS from El Salvador
This page contains a list of the greatest Salvadoran Journalists. The pantheon dataset contains 127 Journalists, 1 of which were born in El Salvador. This makes El Salvador the birth place of the 28th most number of Journalists behind Switzerland and Malta.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Salvadoran Journalists of all time. This list of famous Salvadoran Journalists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Mauricio Funes (1959 - )
With an HPI of 50.44, Mauricio Funes is the most famous Salvadoran Journalist. His biography has been translated into 48 different languages on wikipedia.
Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena (born 18 October 1959) is a Salvadoran politician and former journalist who served as the 41st President of El Salvador from 2009 to 2014. Funes won the 2009 presidential election as the candidate of the left-wing Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) party and took office on 1 June 2009. Since 2014, Funes and his immediate family have been living in exile in Nicaragua due to allegations of criminality during his tenure. In July 2023, he was placed under sanctions by the U.S. State Department due to his conviction in absentia for negotiations related to the gang truces he made while in office, illicit enrichment, and tax evasion.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as journalists born between 1959 and 1959. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living journalists include Mauricio Funes.
