







The Most Famous
Soccer Players from Peru
Trending Soccer Players from Peru This Week
The top 10 Soccer Players from Peru trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
- #1

Christian Cueva
b. 1991
Trending in Portuguese (#102) Wikipedia (556 views, on Apr 9).
- #2

Paolo Guerrero
b. 1984
Trending in Portuguese (#110) Wikipedia (539 views, on Apr 9).
This page contains a list of the greatest Peruvians Soccer Players. The pantheon dataset contains 21,273 Soccer Players, 130 of which were born in Peru. This makes Peru the birth place of the 38th most number of Soccer Players behind Slovakia and Ghana.
Top 10 Peruvian Soccer Players
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Peruvians Soccer Players of all time. This list of famous Peruvians Soccer Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Peruvians Soccer Players.
- #1

Teófilo Cubillas
b. 1949
HPI 67.7744 langsPeruvian footballer
- #2

Hugo Sotil
1949 - 2024
HPI 63.3027 langsPeruvian footballer
- #3

Claudio Pizarro
b. 1978
HPI 61.5854 langsPeruvian footballer
- #4

Teodoro Fernández
1913 - 1996
HPI 58.8528 langsPeruvian footballer
- #5

Héctor Chumpitaz
b. 1943
HPI 58.0620 langsPeruvian footballer
- #6

Plácido Galindo
1906 - 1988
HPI 57.0921 langsPeruvian footballer
- #7

Alberto Gallardo
1940 - 2001
HPI 56.2018 langsPeruvian footballer
- #8

Mario de las Casas
1905 - 2002
HPI 56.1220 langsPeruvian footballer
- #9

Víctor Benítez
1935 - 2022
HPI 56.0617 langsPeruvian footballer
- #10

Jefferson Farfán
b. 1984
HPI 55.7243 langsPeruvian footballer
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Peruvians Soccer Players grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
1990s(27)
1980s(19)
1950s(18)
1940s(22)
1920s(1)
Overlapping Lives
Which Soccer Players were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Soccer Players since 1700.































































