
Ana María Cofiño Kepfer is a Guatemalan researcher, anthropologist, editor, and historian. She is the founder and co-editor of the feminist magazine La Cuerda and the bookstore El Pensativo. She is a prominent activist in favor of women's rights, gender equality, and the defense of indigenous communities from expropriation by the state and foreign companies.

Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán (1643–1700) was a Guatemalan criollo historian and poet. His only surviving work is the Recordación Florida.

Adrián Recinos (1886–1962) was a Guatemalan historian, essayist, Mayanist scholar and translator, and diplomat. Recinos was a great student of national history, mainly of the Maya civilization and the ancient history of the K'iche' and Kaqchikel people.

Virgilio Rodríguez Beteta (1885–1967) was a Guatemalan lawyer, historian, diplomat and writer.

E. Antonio Romero (1925–2005) was a Guatemalan philosopher, historian and writer.

Alberto G. Valveavellano was the first landscape and sports photographer of Guatemala.

Juan José de Jesús Yas, born Kohei Yasu, was a Japanese-born photographer who established himself in Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala and documented that city toward the end of the 19th century and early 20th century.