María Julia Mantilla (María Julia Mantilla García, born 1984), Peruvian beauty queen
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Maria Malibran (María Felicia García Sitches, 1808–1836), opera singer
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Cárdenas was born in Llerena, Spain, son to Alonso de Cárdenas y doña Elvira de Figueroa and Maria García Osorio.
He married Ana María García Bottino, the daughter of Vespancio García Cuervo and Colomba Bottino Capiro, on June 17, 1904 in San José.
Also, it is relevant the work of new Peruvian poets as Jose Pancorvo, Jorge Eslava, Rossella di Paolo, Domingo de Ramos, Rocio Silva Santisteban, Odi González, Ana Varela, Rodrigo Quijano, Jorge Frisancho, Mariela Dreyfus, Gonzalo Portals, Rafael Espinosa, Lorenzo Helguero, José Carlos Yrigoyen, Montserrat Álvarez, Ana María García, Alberto Valdivia Baselli, Grecia Cáceres, Xavier Echarri, among others.