Hildebrando Fuentes

Hildebrando Fuentes (1860 – December 1917) was a Peruvian politician and lawyer and was one of the prominent figures in the social and intellectual life of Lima, Peru.

He entered the University of San Marcos at a very early age and completed his course in law with distinction.

He volunteered for the military during the War of the Pacific and was distinguished in battle, earning the rank of colonel and winning the lasting friendship of General Andrés Avelino Cáceres, under whose subsequent administration he held various important offices.

Following this, he was appointed Minister of Government and Police (ministro de gobierno y policia) in the cabinet.

He died in December 1917 in a sanatorium in Rochester, New York, to which he had traveled on account of his ill health.