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José Olaya

d. 1985

Photograph at the José Olaya Memorial

José Silverio Olaya Balandra or José O. Laya (1789 or July 20, 1791 – June 29, 1823) was an indigenous Peruvian fisherman who became a hero of the Peruvian War of Independence. The Peruvian sailor and geographer Germán Stiglich, when reviewing Peruvian port records, did not find any Olaya (a Spanish surname), but several Laya (a name of pre-Columbian origin), concluding that the martyr's real name was José O. Laya — a view later spread by the Peruvian historian Juan José Vega.

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