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.

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.

After being Chile's ambassador to Colombia, he continued to live there, until his death in 2002, from lung cancer.