59 Notable alumni of
El Rosario University
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El Rosario University is 750th in the world, 26th in Latin America, and 4th in Colombia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 59 notable alumni from El Rosario University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Andrés Pastrana Arango
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- diplomatlawyerpoliticianbusinesspersonjournalist
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Andrés Pastrana Arango is a Colombian politician who was the 30th President of Colombia from 1998 to 2002, following in the footsteps of his father, Misael Pastrana Borrero, who was president from 1970 to 1974.
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Rafael Pombo
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- diplomatwriterpoettranslatorjournalist
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José Rafael de Pombo y Rebolledo was a Colombian poet born in Bogotá. Trained as a mathematician and an engineer in a military school, Rafael Pombo served in the army and he traveled to the United States of America as Secretary of the Legation in Washington. After completing his diplomatic assignment, he was hired by D. Appleton & Company in New York to translate into Spanish nursery rhymes from the Anglo-Saxon oral tradition. The product of this work, more than a translation, was a transformative adaptation published in two books under the titles Cuentos pintados para niños and Cuentos morales para niños formales.
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Alfonso López Michelsen
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- lawyerpoliticianuniversity teacherdiplomat
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Alfonso López Michelsen was a Colombian politician and lawyer who served as the 24th President of Colombia from 1974 to 1978. He was nicknamed "El Pollo" (The Chicken), a popular Colombian idiom for people with precocious careers.
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Alberto Lleras Camargo
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- diplomatjournalistpolitician
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Alberto Lleras Camargo was President of Colombia twice (1945-1946, 1958–1962), and the 1st Secretary General of the Organization of American States (1948–1954). A journalist and liberal party politician, he also served as Minister of Government, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and as Minister of National Education in the administrations of President Alfonso López Pumarejo. He briefly attended the National University of Colombia in Bogotá to study politics, but dropped out later to pursue journalism.
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Camilo Torres Tenorio
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- politicianlawyer
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José Camilo Clemente de Torres Tenorio was a Colombian politician. He is credited as being an early founder of the nation due to his role in early struggles for independence from Spain.
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Germán Vargas Lleras
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- politicianlawyer
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Germán Vargas Lleras is a Colombian politician who recently served as Vice President of Colombia under President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón. A member of the Radical Change political party, he served four consecutive terms in the Senate, having been elected in 1994. German Vargas also served in the Cabinet as the Minister of Interior and then as the Minister of Housing, City and Territory. He was elected Vice President of Colombia in 2014, running alongside Juan Manuel Santos who was seeking re-election for a second term as President. On 15 March 2017, Vargas Lleras resigned as Vice President in order to be eligible to run for President in the 2018 presidential elections. He finished in fourth place.
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Francisco José de Caldas
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- astronomerlawyerbotanistmilitary engineerjournalist
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Francisco José de Caldas was a Colombian lawyer, military engineer, self-taught naturalist, mathematician, geographer and inventor (he created the first hypsometer), who was executed by orders of Pablo Morillo during the Spanish American Reconquista for being a forerunner of the fight for the independence of New Granada (modern day Colombia). Arguably the first Colombian scientist, he is often nicknamed "El Sabio" (Spanish for "The learned," "The sage" or "The wise").
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Rafael Uribe Uribe
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- diplomatlawyerpoliticianmilitary personneljournalist
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Rafael Victor Zenón Uribe Uribe was a Colombian lawyer, journalist, and general in the liberal party rebel army.
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Clara Rojas
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- politicianlawyer
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Clara Leticia Rojas González is a Colombian lawyer, university lecturer, and campaign manager for former senator and presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt. She was kidnapped along with Betancourt by the FARC guerrilla group near San Vicente del Caguán on February 23, 2002, while Betancourt was campaigning for the presidency. After the kidnapping, Rojas was named as Betancourt's vice-presidential candidate.
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez
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- journalistnovelisttranslatorwriter
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Juan Gabriel Vásquez is a Colombian writer, journalist and translator. He has written many novels, short stories, literary essays, and numerous articles of political commentary.
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Samuel Moreno Rojas
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- politicianlawyer
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Samuel Gustavo Moreno Rojas was a Colombian lawyer and politician, son of former congressman Samuel Moreno Díaz and former presidential candidate María Eugenia Rojas Correa, grandson of former Colombian political-military authoritarian leader and ex-president Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. His brother Iván Moreno Rojas is a former Mayor of Bucaramanga, minister and senator. On 28 October 2007, Moreno Rojas was elected Mayor of Bogotá representing the Alternative Democratic Pole (PDA) for the 2008–2012 term. On 3 May 2011, Moreno was suspended and stripped of his office by the Office of the Inspector General for improprieties in the appropriation of city contracts. For the same accusations, the Office of the Attorney General of Colombia argued for a pretrial detention, and Moreno was arrested on 23 September 2011. He was sentenced in 2016 to 18 years of prison for his direct involvement in a corruption scheme during his term.
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Miguel Abadía Méndez
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- lawyerwriterpoliticiandiplomat
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Miguel Abadía Méndez was the 12th President of Colombia (1926–1930). A Conservative party politician, Abadía was the last president of the period known as the Conservative Hegemony, running unopposed and forming a one party Cabinet.
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Jorge Tadeo Lozano
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- journalistpoliticianbotanistchemist
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Jorge Tadeo Lozano de Peralta, Viscount of Pastrana was a Neogranadine (now Colombian) scientist, journalist, and politician who presided over the Constituent College of Cundinamarca and was elected President of Cundinamarca in 1811.
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Roy Barreras
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- physicianpolitician
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Roy Leonardo Barreras Montealegre is a Colombian politician and 2018 presidential candidate, he had served as senator from 2010 to 2023 and President of the Senate of Colombia from July 2022 to May 2023. In addition to senator, Barreras served as chairman of former governing party, the Union Party for the People. He entered politics in 2006 when he was elected as a member of the Chamber of Representatives.
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Viviane Morales Hoyos
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- politicianlawyer
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Viviane Aleyda Morales Hoyos was the 7th Attorney General of Colombia and the first woman to hold that post. She was elected by the Supreme Court of Justice out of a list of three candidates presented by President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón that also included Juan Carlos Esguerra Portocarrero and Carlos Gustavo Arrieta Padilla. On 2 March 2012, she resigned days after her election as Attorney General was invalidated by the Council of State due to irregularities in her election. Her resignation was accepted on 5 March 2012 by the Supreme Court.
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Eduardo Santos
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- journalistlawyerpoliticiandiplomat
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Eduardo Santos Montejo was a leading Colombian publisher and politician, active in the Colombian Liberal Party. He purchased the prominent Bogotá newspaper El Tiempo in 1913; El Tiempo was founded by his brother-in-law Alfonso Villegas Restrepo in 1911. Members of the Santos family were the main shareholders of the paper until 2007.
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Ramón González Valencia
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- politicianmilitary personnel
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Ramón González Valencia was a Colombian conservative, military officer and statesman. He participated in the civil wars of 1876, Colombian Civil War of 1895, and the Thousand Days War.
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Antonio Villavicencio
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- politicianmilitary personnel
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Antonio Villavicencio y Verástegui was a statesman and soldier of New Granada, born in Quito, and educated in Spain. He served in the Battle of Trafalgar as an officer in the Spanish Navy with the rank of Second Lieutenant. He was sent as a representative of the Spanish Crown to New Granada, where his arrival was used as an excuse in Santafé de Bogotá to start a revolt; this was known as the Florero de Llorente, which culminated in the proclamation of independence from Spain. After this incident he resigned his office and joined the cause of independence. He was later captured and became the first martyr executed during the reign of terror of Pablo Morillo.
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Darío Echandía
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- 1897-1989 (aged 92)
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- diplomatpoliticianjurist
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Darío Echandía Olaya was a lawyer and a Colombian political figure, a member of the Colombian Liberal Party. He was born on October 13, 1897, in Chaparral, Tolima, son of Vincente Enchandia and Carlota Olaya de E. The elder of seven brothers, he was educated at Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Senora del Rosario and Colegio de Araujo (Bogota) receiving degrees of Attorney and Doctor in Law, 1917. He married Emilia Arciniegas, August 2, 1936. He died on May 7, 1989, in Ibagué, Tolima.
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Diego Molano
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- politician
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Diego Andrés Molano Aponte is a Colombian politician and business administrator who served as the Minister of National Defense from February 2021 to August 2022 under president Ivan Duque.
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Cecilia Álvarez-Correa Glen
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- politicianengineerinternational forum participant
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Cecilia Álvarez-Correa Glen is an Industrial Engineer and Colombian politician who served as Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia under President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón. Álvarez-Correa is credited as the second woman to hold this post in Colombian history. Previously, Álvarez-Correa served as the 12th Minister of Transport of Colombia.
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José Manuel Restrepo Abondano
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- journalisteconomistinternational forum participantAlfonso de Alemcastre
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José Manuel Restrepo Abondano is a Colombian academic, economist, journalist and politician who served as the Minister of Finance and Public Credit from 3 May 2021 to 7 August 2022, he also served as Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia since 7 August 2018 until 3 May 2021.
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Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez
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- politicianlawyer
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Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez Castañeda is a Colombian lawyer and politician. She served as Senator of Colombia and Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, having served in both chambers as president.
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Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo
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- politician
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Guillermo Alfonso Jaramillo Martínez is a Colombian politician and surgeon, graduated from the Universidad del Rosario, with specializations in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery from the University of Lund, and in pediatric cardiac surgery from the University of Uppsala, both in Sweden. He was elected governor of the department of Tolima on two occasions, one by presidential appointment and the other by popular election. He was a Senator of Colombia and Secretary of Government and Health of Bogotá Was elected mayor of Ibagué, for the period 2016–2019. Since May 1, 2023, he is the Minister of Health and Social Protection, in the administration of Gustavo Petro.
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Mauricio Lizcanø
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- politicianlawyer
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Óscar Mauricio Lizcano Arango is a Colombian politician and lawyer, graduated from the Faculty of Jurisprudence of the University of the Rosario. He was elected member of the Chamber of Representatives in 2006, senator of Colombia in 2010, and re-elected again in 2014. He is the son of former representat Óscar Tulio Lizcano, kidnapped in 2000 by members of the FARC guerrilla, from where he ran to escape in 2008. He served as President of the Senate in the period 2016 and 2017. He is Minister of Information Technology and Communications since May 1, 2023.
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José Fernández Madrid
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- diplomatwriterpoliticianphysicianjournalist
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José Luis Álvaro Alvino Fernández Madrid was a Neogranadine statesman, physician, scientist and writer, who was President of the interim triumvirate of the United Provinces of New Granada in 1814, and President of the United Provinces of the New Granada in 1816. After the Spanish retook New Granada, he was barred from the country and was exiled in Havana, where he continued his scientific studies and worked as a doctor. He was later pardoned and allowed to come back to Colombia, and was appointed ambassador to France and to the United Kingdom where he died in 1830.
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David Luna Sánchez
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- politicianinternational forum participantlawyer
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David Luna Sánchez is a Colombian lawyer, politician, and former Minister of Information Technologies and Communications. He previously served in Congress as the Member of House of Representatives for the Bogotá Constituency from 2006-2010.
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José Domingo de Obaldía
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- politician
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José Domingo de Obaldía Gallegos was President of Panama from October 1, 1908 to March 1, 1910.
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Jaime Castro Castro
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- lawyerstatespersonpoliticiandiplomat
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Jaime Castro Castro is a Colombian lawyer and politician, who served as Mayor of Bogotá from 1992 to 1994. A Liberal Party politician, he served as Minister of Government under President Belisario Betancur Cuartas, and as Minister of Justice under President Misael Pastrana Borrero.
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Katherine Miranda
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- political scientist
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Luvi Katherine Miranda Peña is a Colombian political scientist and political activist with studies in identity and conflict and with academic immersion in Culture of Peace, Social Cohesion and Intercultural Dialogue from the University of Barcelona, Spain. She participated in Antanas Mockus' presidential campaign in 2010 and for years she dedicated himself to defending the peace process between the Colombian state and the FARC guerrillas, carried out in Havana, Cuba between 2012 and 2016. In 2018 she was elected as a member of the Congress of the Republic of Colombia, in the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, for the period of 2018 and 2022.
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Santos Acosta
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- politician
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Manuel María de los Santos Acosta Castillo was a Colombian General and political figure. He served as the president of Colombia from 1867 until 1868.
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Carlos Antonio Mendoza
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- politicianlawyer
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Carlos Antonio Mendoza Soto was a Panamanian politician who served in 1908 and 1909 as the second presidential designate in the government of José Domingo de Obaldía. After the death of the first presidential designate José Agustín Arango in 1909 he was first in line to the presidency. In that capacity, Mendoza became President of Panama from 1 March 1910 to 1 October 1910. He belonged to the Liberal Party.
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Luis Vidales
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- journalistpoetwriterart critic
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Luis Vidales was a Colombian poet, writer, statistician and politician. Born in Calarcá, Quindío, Colombia. In Bogotá, he was a founding member of the literary group Los Nuevos, where he participated in various literary and political gatherings with Luis Tejada, Ricardo Rendon, León de Greiff, José Mar and others.
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Domingo Caycedo
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- soldierpolitician
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Domingo de Caycedo y Sanz de Santamaría was a Colombian statesman who served as the vice president of Gran Colombia and the Republic of New Granada. He served as acting President of Colombia a total of eleven times, the most terms any president has served to date. He is also credited for creating the Republic of New Granada after the division of Venezuela and Ecuador.
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Joaquín Camacho
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- journalistlawyerhistorianpolitician
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José Joaquín Justo Camacho y Rodriguez de Lago was a Neogranadine statesman, lawyer, journalist and professor, who worked for the Independence of the New Granada, what is now Colombia, and participated in the Open Cabildo which declared the Act of Independence, of which he was also a signer. He was executed during the Reign of Terror of Pablo Morillo after the Spanish invasion of New Granada.
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María del Rosario Guerra
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- economistpolitician
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María del Rosario Guerra de La Espriella is a Colombian economist, professor and politician who has served as Senator since 2014. She was elected under a newly created political party, the Democratic Center, which is led by former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. Guerra was the Minister of Communications under President Uribe from July 2006 until January 2010. In March 2017, Guerra announced her candidacy for President of Colombia.
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Joaquín Mosquera
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- politiciandiplomat
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Joaquín Mariano de Mosquera-Figueroa y Arboleda-Salazar was a Colombian statesman and a Founding Father of Colombia who served as the 3rd and 5th President of Gran Colombia. Mosquera also served as Vice President of the Republic of New Granada. During the administration of President Simón Bolívar, he was named as the 1st Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the nascent states of Peru, the United Provinces of South America, and Chile with the purpose of creating unity amongst the South American nations.
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José Eusebio Otalora
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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José Eusebio Otálora Martínez was a Colombian statesman and General who became President of the United States of Colombia in 1882 in his capacity as the Second Presidential Designate following the death of President Francisco Javier Zaldúa, and the non-acceptance of the office by the First Designate Rafael Núñez.
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Manuel Rodríguez Torices
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- journalistpoliticianlawyer
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Manuel Rodríguez Torices was a Neogranadine statesman, lawyer, journalist, and Precursor of the Independence of Colombia. He was part of the Triumvirate of the United Provinces of New Granada in 1815, and served as Vice President of the United Provinces after the triumvirate. He was executed during the Reign of Terror of Pablo Morillo in 1816.
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Clímaco Calderón
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Clímaco Calderón Reyes was a Colombian lawyer and politician, who became 15th President of Colombia for one day, following the death of President Francisco Javier Zaldúa.
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Guillermo Reyes
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- writeracademiclawyer
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Guillermo Francisco Reyes González is a Colombian lawyer, writer and academic. Since August 11, 2022, he has held the position of Minister of Transport of his country, under the government of Gustavo Petro. Previously he was Deputy Minister of Justice, Counselor Minister of the Colombian Embassy before the United Nations and President of the National Electoral Council.
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Luis Antonio Robles Suárez
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- politicianlawyer
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Luis Antonio Robles Suárez also known as "El Negro Robles", was a Colombian lawyer and politician. He was the first Afro-Colombian to hold a cabinet-level ministry in Colombia serving as Secretary of the Treasury and Public Credit during the administration of President Aquileo Parra Gómez, as well as being the first Afro-Colombian Congressperson as Member of the Chamber of Representatives for Magdalena, and the first Afro-Colombian Governor of a Department, as the 16th President of the Sovereign State of Magdalena. He graduated a lawyer from Our Lady of the Rosary University in 1872, thus also becoming the first Afro-Colombian to ever serve as a lawyer in Colombia.
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José María del Castillo y Rada
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- politicianlawyereconomist
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José María del Castillo y Rada was a neo-granadine politician, President of the United Provinces of the New Granada from October 5, 1814, until January 21, 1815. Castillo y Rada also served as Vice President of the Republic of Colombia from June 6, 1821, until October 3, 1821.
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Salvador Camacho
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- sociologistlawyereconomistdiplomatjournalist
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Salvador Camacho Roldán was a Colombian lawyer, businessman and politician who, as Presidential Designate, served as President of Colombia ad interim in 1868 and again in 1871. He also served as Congressman in both houses, Governor of Panama, and Secretary Foreign Affairs, of Finance and Development, and of Treasury and Public Credit.
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Fernando Serrano
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- politicianlawyer
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Manuel Fernando Serrano Uribe was a Neogranadine statesman, lawyer, and officer who became Governor of the Province of Pamplona and wrote its Constitution in 1815. He also served as the last President of the United Provinces of the New Granada before its dissolution and complete Reconquista.
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Joaquín Acosta
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- historiangeographerexplorerscientistgeologist
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Tomás Joaquín de Acosta y Pérez de Guzmán was a Colombian explorer, historian, chorographer, and geologist.
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Nicolás Esguerra
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- politicianlawyercivil servant
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Nicolás Esguerra was a Colombian lawyer and statesman.
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Diego Uribe Vargas
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- lawyerdocentpoliticiandiplomat
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Diego Uribe Vargas was a Colombian diplomat and politician. A member of the Colombian Liberal Party, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1978 to 1981.
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Gloria María Borrero
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- politicianlawyer
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Gloria María Borrero is a Colombian politician who served as Minister of Justice from 2018 to 2019.
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Beatriz Elena Uribe Botero
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- economistpolitician
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Beatriz Elena Uribe Botero is a Colombian economist and politician currently serving as the 1st President of the National Mining Agency Colombia.
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Néstor Osorio Londoño
- Years
- 1947-.. (age 77)
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Néstor Osorio Londoño is a Colombian diplomat who was the former Ambassador of Colombia to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and former Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He has been President of both the United Nations Security Council and the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
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Liborio Zerda
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- physiciananthropologist
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Liborio Zerda was a Colombian physician and Muisca scholar. Zerda has been important in the natural sciences of the late 19th and early 20th century in Colombia, publishing many articles about various topics, from medicine to chemical analysis, radioactivity and the popular drink chicha.
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Mauricio Gómez Amín
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- politicianlawyer
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Mauricio Gómez Amín is a Colombian lawyer, politician and a member of the Liberal Party.
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Tulio Botero Salazar
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- Catholic bishopLatin Catholic priest
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Tulio Botero Salazar, C.M., was a Colombian ecclesiastic of the Catholic Church, belonging to the Congregation of the Mission. He was auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Cartagena, first bishop of the Diocese of Zipaquirá and archbishop of the Archdiocese of Medellín.
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Juan Agustín Uricoechea Navarro
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- politician
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Juan Agustín Uricoechea Navarro was a Colombian lawyer and politician, interim president of the United States of Colombia temporarily replacing Tomás Cipriano de Mosquera during the war with ecuador
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Sandra Urrutia
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- lawyer
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Sandra Milena Urrutia Pérez is a Colombian lawyer specializing in telecommunications and administrative law. from 2022 to 2023 as the Minister of Information and Communication Technologies
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Elíseo Arango Ramos
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- politiciandiplomat
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Elíseo Arango Ramos was a Colombian lawyer and diplomat who served as the fourth Permanent Representative of Colombia to the United Nations and as Minister of Foreign Affairs. A Conservative Party ideologue and politician, he was part of the far-right group known as "Los Leopardos" (The Leopards).
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José María García de Toledo
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- lawyer
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José María García de Toledo y de Madariaga was a Neogranadine lawyer and politician, who fought against the Royalist forces during the Patria Boba period that preceded the Colombian War of Independence.
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José Telésforo Paúl
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- rhetoricianCatholic priest
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José Telésforo Paúl y Vargas, SJ was a Colombian Catholic bishop and Jesuit who worked in Panama and Colombia. Born in Bogotá, he served as bishop of Panamá from 1876 to 1884 and as archbishop of Santafé en Nueva Granada (now the Archdiocese of Bogotá, Colombia) from 1884 until his death in 1889.
