Juliane Koepcke

German Peruvian mammalogist, also known by her married name Juliane Diller, who was the sole survivor of the LANSA Flight 508 plane crash as a teenager on 24 December 1971. She survived eleven days alone in the Amazon rainforest, including a fall of 2,800 m (9,200 ft), still strapped to her seat. After her rescue and recovering from her injuries, Koepcke assisted search parties in locating the crash site and recovering the bodies of victims. Her mother's body was discovered on 12 January 1972.

She moved to Germany, where she fully recovered from her injuries. Like her parents, she studied biology at the University of Kiel and graduated in 1980. She received a doctorate from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and returned to Peru to conduct research in mammalogy, specializing in bats.

Now known as Juliane Diller, she serves as librarian at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology in Munich. Her autobiography, When I Fell From the Sky (German: Als ich vom Himmel fiel), was released on 10 March 2011, for which she received the Corine Literature Prize in 2011. In 2019, the government of Peru awarded her the Order of Merit for Distinguished Services, in the degree of Grand Officer.