Teófilo Cubillas
b. 1949
HPI 67.7744 languages
Peruvian footballer
The Most Famous
Soccer Players from Peru
130 notable people
This page contains a list of the greatest Peruvians Soccer Players. The pantheon dataset contains 24,321 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 Peruvian Soccer Players of all time. This list of famous Peruvian 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 Peruvian Soccer Players.
#1 #2 
Hugo Sotil
1949 - 2024
HPI 63.3027 languagesPeruvian footballer
#3 
Claudio Pizarro
b. 1978
HPI 61.5854 languagesPeruvian footballer
#4 
Teodoro Fernández
1913 - 1996
HPI 58.8528 languagesPeruvian footballer
#5 
Héctor Chumpitaz
b. 1943
HPI 58.0620 languagesPeruvian footballer
#6 
Plácido Galindo
1906 - 1988
HPI 57.0921 languagesPeruvian footballer
#7 
Alberto Gallardo
1940 - 2001
HPI 56.2018 languagesPeruvian footballer
#8 
Mario de las Casas
1905 - 2002
HPI 56.1220 languagesPeruvian footballer
#9 
Víctor Benítez
1935 - 2022
HPI 56.0617 languagesPeruvian footballer
#10 
Jefferson Farfán
b. 1984
HPI 55.7243 languagesPeruvian 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.
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