* Rafael Pombo ( 1833 – 1912 ) Colombian fabulist, poet and writer.

* 1895 – León de Greiff, Colombian poet ( d. 1976 )

* January 14 – Porfirio Barba-Jacob, Colombian poet and writer ( b. 1883 )

* July 11 – León de Greiff, Colombian poet ( b. 1895 )

* July 22 – León de Greiff, Colombian poet ( d. 1976 )

* Dorila Antommarchi, Colombian poet ( b. 1850s )

* Hortensia Antommarchi, Colombian poet ( d. 1915 )

* Eduardo Cote Lamus ( 1928 – 1964 ), Colombian politician and poet

** Adolfo León Gómez, Colombian poet ( born 1857 )

* Rafael Pombo, a Colombian poet, made a translation and adaptation of this nursery rhyme in Spanish language entitled " Simon, el Bobito ".

* José Asunción Silva ( 1865 – 1896 ), Colombian poet

José Eustasio Rivera Salas ( February 19, 1888-December 1, 1928 ) was a Colombian lawyer and poet primarily known for his national epic The Vortex.

* Gonzalo Arango ( 1931 – 1975 ), Colombian poet / novelist and founder of Nadaism

Miguel Ángel Osorio Benítez ( July 29, 1883 – January 14, 1942 ), better known by his pseudonym, Porfirio Barba-Jacob, was a Colombian poet and writer.

Valencia was born in Popayán, Cauca on April 27, 1909, to Colombian poet and politician Guillermo Valencia, and his wife Josefina Muñóz.

* Miguel Ángel Osorio Benítez, Colombian poet and writer better known by his pseudonym, Porfirio Barba-Jacob

Gonzalo Arango Arias ( born in Andes, Antioquia 1931-Tocancipá, Cundinamarca 1976 ) was a Colombian poet, journalist and philosopher.

Adolfo León Gómez ( 1857-1927 ) was a Colombian poet, jurist and politician born in Pasca, Cundinamarca.

The Colombian poet Dr. Prospero Pereira Gamba ( 1830 – 1896 ), who lived in Argentina as an exile, reflected on this tragic moment experienced by the president in his work " The Spectre ".

Guillermo Valencia Castillo ( October 29, 1873, Popayán, Colombia – July 8, 1943, Popayán ) was a Colombian poet and translator.

* 1959 – Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian painter and sculptor

* 1951 – Juan Manuel Santos, Colombian politician, 59th President of Colombia

* 1988 – Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, Colombian footballer

* 1975 – Juan Pablo Ángel, Colombian footballer

Panamanians Mariano Arosemena, Manuel María Ayala, and Juan José Calvo, as well as Colombian Juan José Argote, formed the writing team of the new newspaper, whose stories would circulate throughout every town in the isthmus.

The strength of the FARC – EP forces is indeterminate ; in 2007, the FARC said they were an armed force of 18, 000 men and women ; in 2010, the Colombian military calculated that FARC forces consisted of approximately 18, 000 members, 50 per cent of which were armed guerrilla combatants ; and, in 2011, the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, said that the FARC – EP forces comprised fewer than 8, 000 members.

His death would be kept a secret, until Colombian magazine, Revista Semana, published an interview with Colombian defense minister Juan Manuel Santos on 24 May 2008 in which Santos mentions the death of Manuel Marulanda Vélez.

Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos used Twitter to welcome the move as a " necessary, if insufficient, step in the right direction ".

* August 27 – Juan Fernando Cobo, Colombian artist

Juan Pablo Montoya Roldán ( born September 20, 1975 ) is a Colombian race car driver known internationally for participating in and winning Formula One and CART race competitions.

Montoya's helmet was silver ( or white ) with red and blue arrow designs on the sides with yellow lines on the arrows ' center and the yellow mouthplate area, some of the helmets ( such as the silver one with the flaming Colombian flag ) were winning entries of Échele Cabeza al casco de Juan Pablo Montoya contest.

After having worked for more than two decades at the Hospital San Juan de Dios, Dr. Patarroyo could not deter the demise of this very important Colombian teaching hospital.

Since 2008 he has been managing and working with Colombian pop artist Juan Galeano.

Broadcaster Chris Spielman asked where Colombian NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya was on the list.

Fainberg himself gained a reputation as an ambassador among international crime groups, becoming especially close to Juan Almeida, a Colombian cocaine dealer.

García Márquez based his fictional dictator on a variety of real-life autocrats, including Gustavo Rojas Pinilla of his Colombian homeland, Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain ( the novel was written in Barcelona ), and Venezuela's Juan Vicente Gómez.

* The novel Historia secreta de Costaguana by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, tells the fictional story of José Altamirano, the Colombian " informant " of Joseph Conrad that the Polish-born author all but erased from his famous tale.

** Juan Valdez, fictional character appearing in advertisements for Colombian coffee

He received his first piano lessons from Juan Buitrago, a Colombian violinist who was living with the MacDowell family at the time.

Juan Pablo Ángel Arango ( born October 24, 1975 in Medellín ) is a Colombian footballer.

Other well-known Colombian musicians who sing vallenatos are Diomedes Díaz, Jorge Oñate, Ivan Villazon, Nicolas " Colacho " Mendoza ( accordion player and composer ), Juan Humberto " Juancho " Rois ( accordion player and composer ), Omar Geles ( accordion player and composer ), Israel Romero, Peter Manjarrez, Silvestre Dangond, Rafael Orozco, Los Gigantes Del Vallenato and Lisandro Meza among others.

O ' Leary managed to push a limited squad to perform successfully and consistently, led by the revitalised Colombian striker Juan Pablo Angel, and by the final weeks of the season they were in with a real chance of a European competition qualification place.