34 Notable alumni of
Autonomous University of Santo Domingo
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The Autonomous University of Santo Domingo is 1196th in the world, 44th in Latin America, and 1st in the Dominican Republic by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 34 notable alumni from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Juan Luis Guerra
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo
- Studied philosophy and literature
- Occupations
- songwritersingerrecord producerrecording artistcomposer
- Biography
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Juan Luis Guerra Seijas is a Dominican musician, singer, composer, and record producer. He has sold 15 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling Latin music artists. Throughout his career, he has won numerous awards including 24 Latin Grammy Awards, three Grammy Awards, and one Latin Billboard Music Award. He won 3 Latin Grammy Awards in 2010, including Album of the Year. In 2012, he won the Latin Grammy Award for Producer of the Year.
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Juaqín Balaguey
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teacherambassadorlawyerstatesperson
- Biography
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Joaquín Antonio Balaguer Ricardo was a Dominican politician, scholar, writer, and lawyer. He was President of the Dominican Republic serving three non-consecutive terms for that office from 1960 to 1962, 1966 to 1978, and 1986 to 1996.
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Leonel Fernández
- Occupations
- politicianwriterlawyer
- Biography
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Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna is a Dominican lawyer, academic, and was the 50th and 52nd President of the Dominican Republic from 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2012. From 2016 until 2020, he was the President of the EU–LAC Foundation.
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Danilo Medina
- Occupations
- politicianinternational forum participanteconomist
- Biography
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Danilo Medina Sánchez is a Dominican politician who was President of the Dominican Republic from 2012 to 2020.
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Pedro Mir
- Occupations
- writerlawyerpoet
- Biography
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Pedro Julio Mir Valentín was Dominican poet and writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984, and a member of the generation of "Independent poets of the 1940s" in Dominican poetry.
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Minerva Mirabal
- Enrolled in the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo
- Graduated with Licentiate in law
- Occupations
- political activistlawyer
- Biography
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María Argentina Minerva Mirabal Reyes, or Minerva, was the third Mirabal sister, born March 12, 1926, in the Dominican Republic to Mercedes Reyes Camilo and Enrique Mirabal. Like her older sisters, Minerva also received an education at El Colegio Inmaculada Concepción, at the urging of her mother, Mercedes Mirabal. Through their education, Minerva and her sisters began to recognize and speak out against the oppressive dictatorship of Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo.
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Freddy Beras-Goico
- Occupations
- writertelevision actortelevision produceractorcomposer
- Biography
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Freddy Reinaldo Antonio Beras-Goico, popularly known as "Freddy Beras" or just "Beras-Goico", was a Dominican comedian, TV presenter, writer and media personality for over 30 years. He hosted the TV show El Gordo de La Semana and he was a staple of primetime (and late night) TV. He was one of the most recognized personalities in the Dominican Republic.
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Marcio Veloz Maggiolo
- Occupations
- archaeologistanthropologistwriter
- Biography
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Marcio Veloz Maggiolo was a Dominican writer, archaeologist and anthropologist.
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Margarita Cedeño
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Margarita María Cedeño Lizardo, formerly known as Margarita Cedeño de Fernández, is a Dominican politician who served as Vice President of the Dominican Republic from 2012 to 2020. She was married to former president, Leonel Fernández and served as the First Lady of the Dominican Republic from 2004 to 2012.
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Jacobo Majluta Azar
- Occupations
- politicianaccountant
- Biography
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Jacobo Majluta Azar was Vice President of the Dominican Republic from 16 August 1978 to 4 July 1982. He was one of the generations of politicians in the Dominican Republic whose ambition was continually thwarted by the country's labyrinthine power struggles and sectarianism.
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Héctor García godoy
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Héctor Rafael García-Godoy Cáceres was a politician from the Dominican Republic. He served as president of the Dominican Republic from September 3, 1965, until July 1, 1966, following the Dominican Civil War.
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Reinaldo Pared Pérez
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Reinaldo de las Mercedes Pared Pérez was a Dominican politician. He represented Distrito Nacional in Chamber of Deputies from 1998 to 2002, and served in the Senate since 2006. Pared Pérez was president of the senate twice, between 2006 and 2014, and again between 2016 and 2020. A member of the Dominican Liberation Party, he was named general-secretary in 2001.
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Héctor Valdez Albizu
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Héctor Manuel Valdez Albizu is the current Governor of the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic, a position he first held from 31 August 1994 through 16 August 2000, and again since 17 August 2004. He is also a well known economist and author of numerous works relating to economics.
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Alfonso Rodríguez
- Occupations
- film directortelevision actorscreenwritertelevision producer
- Biography
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Alfonso Rodríguez is a Dominican director, producer, writer, actor and aspiring presidential candidate for the 2020 elections in the Dominican Republic.
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Rafael Alburquerque
- Occupations
- politicianwriterlawyer
- Biography
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Rafael Francisco Alburquerque de Castro is a Dominican politician who was Vice President of the Dominican Republic from August 2004 to August 2012, serving under President Leonel Fernández. Along with Fernández, he was re-elected in May 2008 for a four-year term. Before he became Vice President, he was Secretary of Labour twice between 1991 and 2000 under Presidents Joaquín Balaguer and during Fernández’s first term.
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Andrés Navarro García
- Occupations
- diplomatwriterpoliticianurban plannerarchitect
- Biography
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Andrés Navarro García is an architect, writer, professor and politician of the Dominican Republic. From 15 September 2014 to 16 August 2016 he was the Minister of Foreign Relations of the Dominican Republic.
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Juan Temístocles Montás
- Occupations
- economistwriter
- Biography
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Juan Temístocles Montás Domínguez is a Dominican politician, economist and former Minister of Industry and Trade of the Dominican Republic. He previously served as Minister of Economy, Planning and Development and Technical Secretary of State to the Presidency of the Dominican Republic from 1998 to 2016. Between October 28, 2019 and March 7, 2021, he was the President of the Dominican Liberation Party.
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Félix Bautista
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Félix Ramón Bautista Rosario is a Dominican Republic member of the Senate of the Dominican Republic since 2010. In the period 1996-2000 he was appointed Deputy Director of the Office of Supervising Engineers of State, term in which his privately held companies executed the biggest contracts of the state. Six months later, he was appointed as Director of the Coordinating Office of State Works, a post he held until the month of August 2000. He was Director of the Office of Supervising Engineers of State with the rank of Secretary of State during the period August 2004-August 2010. He is also an active businessman in the construction industry, the principal owner of HADOM Construction and ROFI SA., companies who have been year by year executing bulky contracts mysteriously won in "public" tenders He was sworn in as Senator of the Dominican Republic by the Province of San Juan on 16 August 2010.
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Renée Klang
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Renée Klang Avelino was a Dominican philanthropist and First Lady of the Dominican Republic from 1978 to 1982. The wife and widow of the Dominican President Antonio Guzmán, she founded the National Council for Childhood (CONANI) and earned the mote of "the Eternal First Lady". After the presidency of her late husband, she was devoted to philanthropy and volunteerism in the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
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Geovanny Vicente-Romero
- Occupations
- writerpoliticiancolumnistpolitical adviserprofessor
- Biography
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Geovanny Vicente-Romero is a Dominican political strategist, lawyer, columnist, international consultant and university professor who teaches strategic communications at Columbia University as an associate lecturer. He specializes in public policy and public administration, and has several years of experience in the public sector, academics, and journalism. He writes a weekly column for CNN as a political analyst.
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Cristina Lizardo
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Cristina Altagracia Lizardo Mézquita is a politician and academic from the Dominican Republic. She was Senator for the province of Santo Domingo from 2006 to 2020. Lizardo became the first woman to preside the Senate and the Congress of the Dominican Republic. She has a degree in education from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo.
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Víctor Gómez Bergés
- Occupations
- lawyerwriterpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Víctor Gómez Bergés was a Dominican politician, jurist, and diplomat.
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Miguel Cocco
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Miguel Salvador Cocco Guerrero was a Dominican businessman and politician.
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Pedro Borrell
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Pedro José Borrell Bentz is an internationally recognized Dominican architect and archeologist who has earned several awards and is recognized for the transcendence in his architectural designs.
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Sully Bonnelly
- Occupations
- fashion designer
- Biography
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Sully Osvaldo de Jesús Bonnelly Canaán is a Dominican-American fashion designer of women's ready-to-wear. Trained at Oscar de La Renta. He is the founder, owner, and creative director of Sully Bonnelly, the brand.
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Mateo Aquino Febrillet
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mateo Aquino Febrillet was a Dominican Republic educator, administrator, writer and politician. He was elected Dean of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo in 2011 and candidate for Senator of the Modern Revolutionary Party in the province of San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic in the last elections of 2016.
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Xiomara Fortuna
- Occupations
- singercomposer
- Biography
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Xiomara Fortuna is a Dominican singer and composer. She is known for her deep voice and her work in the genres of world music, música raíz (a Dominican style combining rock, jazz and afro-Dominican rhythms), jazz and contemporary music.
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Juan Manuel Taveras
- Occupations
- radiologistprofessor
- Biography
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Juan Manuel Taveras Rodríguez was a Dominican physician and scientist. He was Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and Radiologist-in-Chief Emeritus of the Massachusetts General Hospital.
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Rafael Camilo Abreu
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Eusebio Rafael Camilo Abreu is a sociologist, historian, economist and politician from the Dominican Republic. He was General Director of the Customs Office of the Dominican Republic and member of the Economic Cabinet during the last presidency of Leonel Fernández. He was appointed Superintendent of Banks in August 2012, by President Danilo Medina Sánchez, retaining this post until 15 September 2014.
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Marcos Devers
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Marcos A. Devers is a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, since January 2019, after having served in the same position from 2011 until 2017. Devers also is a former acting mayor of Lawrence, Massachusetts; when he served as acting mayor from September to November 2001, he became the first Dominican-American to execute the role of mayor in the United States and the first Latino mayor in Massachusetts.
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Mercedes Lourdes Frias
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mercedes Lourdes Frias is an Italian-Dominican politician. She was elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 2006, serving until 2008. She was the first Black woman to be a member of the Italian parliament.
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Emma Polanco
- Biography
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Emma Polanco Melo is a Dominican accountant and academic. She is the first woman to serve as rector of the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, and was the first woman elected dean of its Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences.
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Aníbal de Castro
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- diplomat
- Biography
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Aníbal de Jesús de Castro Rodríguez is a Dominican diplomat and journalist, who is currently the Dominican Republic Ambassador to Belgium and to the European Union.
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Glovis Reyes Aglon
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Lic. Glovis Reyes Aglón is the current Mayor of the city of Nizao, Dominican Republic, elected on the municipal elections celebrated on May 16, 2010.
