Álvaro Salvadores Salvi (born 12 October 1928 in Chile[1] – died 13 April 2002 in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia) was a Chilean-Spaniard basketball player who competed at the 1950 FIBA World Championship in the Spain national team, and at the 1952 Summer Olympics, in the Chile.

As a young boy, Salvadores' family immigrated from Spain to Chile by boat, due to the Spanish Civil War.

He studied Law at the Universidad de Concepción, but gave it up a couple of years later.

Álvaro Salvadores went to Cartagena de Indias, Colombia for a basketball competition.

There, he met his future wife, Elsa de la Espriella, with whom he fell in love, and he decided to stay in Colombia.