Paolo Guerrero, Peruvian footballer
José Paolo Guerrero Gonzales (Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse paˈolo ɣeˈreɾo ɣonˈsales]; born 1 January 1984) is a Peruvian professional footballer who plays as a striker for the Peru national team. He is an international with the Peru national football team since 2004, of which he is captain and top scorer in history.

Guerrero spent his early career in Germany, formed at Bayern Munich, and later playing at Hamburger SV, amassing Bundesliga totals of 161 games and 47 goals across eight seasons. He later played in Brazil, scoring the goal which won the 2012 FIFA Club World Cup Final for Corinthians.

Since his international debut in 2004, Guerrero has earned over 100 caps for Peru and is the nation's all-time top goalscorer with 38 goals, representing them at five Copa América and one FIFA World Cup tournaments. He helped them to third place in the 2011 and 2015 editions, and to runners-up in 2019, finishing as top scorer in all three of these tournaments. He is also the current all-time top scorer in the history of the Copa América among active players. He was one of 59 nominees for the 2015 FIFA Ballon d'Or, the first Peruvian to receive that recognition. He's also the oldest Peruvian player to appear in a World Cup, at the age of 34 and 177 days.

In 2021, the International Federation of Football History & Statistics included Guerrero in the best South American team of the last decade, being recognized as the best South American center forward between 2010 and 2020 (joining the podium with Neymar and Sergio Agüero).

In addition, he was elected the "best forward center in America" in 2012 and 2017 by the newspaper El País, based on the opinion of some two hundred journalists from the region, where he was a member of America's ideal team. In the same way, CONMEBOL included him in the team of the tournament for the Copa América in 2011, 2015 and 2019.