Simón Bolívar

Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar y Palacios (July 24, 1783 – December 17, 1830) was a South American revolutionary leader. Credited with leading the fight for independence in what are now the nations of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, today's Panama and Bolivia, he is revered as a hero in these countries and throughout much of the rest of Latin America.

See also

• Bolivar's War
• List of places named after Simón Bolívar and Bolívar
• The Bolivian Boliviano and Bolivian peso and the Venezuelan Bolivar are currencies named after him
• Gabriel García Márquez's novel The General in his Labyrinth (1989), a fictionalized account of Bolívar's last years
• Brigadier General Antonio Valero de Bernabé
• Simon Bolivar University
• USS Simon Bolivar (SSBN-641)
• ΦΙΑ – A U.S. university fraternity that takes Simón Bolívar as one of its "five pillars"
• Manuela Sáenz, Bolívar's lover 1822-1830