79 Notable alumni of
National University of Colombia
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The National University of Colombia is 438th in the world, 12th in Latin America, and 2nd in Colombia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 79 notable alumni from the National University of Colombia sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Sofía Vergara
- Occupations
- film actortelevision actortelevision presenteractortelevision producer
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Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara is a Colombian and American actress and television personality. She is known for her role as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett in the ABC sitcom Modern Family (2009–2020) and Griselda Blanco in the Netflix miniseries Griselda (2024). She received five nominations each at the Primetime Emmy Awards and the Golden Globe Awards for both performances. The former also established her as one of the highest-paid actresses in the United States.
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Gabriel García Márquez
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- film screenwriterpoet lawyerwritershort story writerjournalist
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Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo ([ˈɡaβo]) or Gabito ([ɡaˈβito]) throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature for One Hundred Years of Solitude. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his criticism of Colombian and foreign politics. In 1958, he married Mercedes Barcha Pardo; they had two sons, Rodrigo and Gonzalo. It is a lesser known fact that Gabriel had a daughter with Mexican writer Susana Cato, part of an extramarital affair. They named her Indira, and she took her mother's last name.
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Fernando Botero
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- draftspersonarchitectural draftspersonpainterillustratorsculptor
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Fernando Botero Angulo was a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor. His signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political criticism or humor, depending on the piece. He was considered the most recognized and quoted artist from Latin America in his lifetime, and his art can be found in highly visible places around the world, such as Park Avenue in New York City and the Champs-Élysées in Paris, at different times.
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Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala
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- university teacherpoliticianjuristlawyer
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Jorge Eliécer Gaitán Ayala Spanish pronunciation: ['xoɾxe eʎ'eθeɾ gai'tan aʝala] was a Colombian politician with nationalist ideals and leader of the Liberal Party. He served as the mayor of Bogotá from 1936–37, the national Education Minister from 1940–41, and the Labor Minister from 1943–44. He was assassinated during his second presidential campaign in 1948, setting off the Bogotazo and leading to a violent period of political unrest in Colombian history known as La Violencia (approx. 1948 to 1958). His ideas, known as Gaitanismo, are considered a form of liberal socialism in Colombia.
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Jaime Garzon Forero
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- journalistpeace activistdissident
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Jaime Hernando Garzón Forero was a Colombian comedian, journalist, politician, and peace activist. He was popular on Colombian television during the 1990s for his unique political satire. In addition to his work on television, he also had roles as a peace negotiator in the release of FARC guerrillas' hostages. He was murdered in 1999 by right-wing paramilitary hitmen, with suspected support from members of the Colombian military, security services and politicians, according to testimonies of former paramilitaries commanders.
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Carlos Pizarro Leongómez
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- politicianpartisanlawyer
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Carlos Pizarro Leongómez was a Colombian guerilla leader and politician who was the fourth commander of the 19th of April Movement (Spanish: Movimiento 19 de Abril, or M-19). Pizarro oversaw the demobilization of M-19 that transformed the guerilla army into a political party, the M-19 Democratic Alliance (Alianza Democrática M-19) (AD/M-19). Pizarro was assassinated on 26 April 1990 while running for the presidency of Colombia.
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Virgilio Barco Vargas
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- civil engineerpoliticianengineerdiplomat
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Virgilio Barco Vargas was a Colombian politician and civil engineer who served as the 27th President of Colombia serving from 7 August 1986 to 7 August 1990.
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Manuel Elkin Patarroyo Murillo
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- immunologistresearcherpathologist
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Manuel Elkin Patarroyo Murillo was a Colombian immunologist, pathologist and academic who was Professor of Pathology and Immunology. He was behind the world's first attempt to create a synthetic vaccine against the protozoal parasite Plasmodium falciparum, the cause of severe malaria, and which is responsible for the death of ~1.5 million people per year in tropical and subtropical regions, including parts of the Americas, Asia, and Africa.
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Rodolfo Hernández Suárez
- Enrolled in the National University of Colombia
- Studied civil engineering
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianbusinesspersoncivil engineer
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Rodolfo Hernández Suárez was a Colombian politician, civil engineer, and businessman who served as a senator of Colombia from July to October 2022. He was mayor of Bucaramanga from 2016 until his resignation in 2019. As the nominee for the League of Anti-Corruption Governors (LIGA) coalition, Hernández placed second in the first round of the 2022 Colombian presidential election, and he was ultimately defeated by Gustavo Petro in the second round run-off election. Hernández briefly served in a senate seat offered to the runner-up in a presidential election and took office on 20 July and resigned in October that same year.
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Antanas Mockus
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- university teacherpoliticianphilosopherjournalistmathematician
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Aurelijus Rūtenis Antanas Mockus Šivickas is a Colombian mathematician, philosopher, and politician. He has a master's degree in philosophy from the National University of Colombia, and a Honoris Causa PhD from the University of Paris.
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Laureano Gómez
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- engineercivil engineerpoliticiandiplomatjournalist
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Laureano Eleuterio Gómez Castro was a Colombian politician and civil engineer who served as the 18th President of Colombia from 1950 to 1953. In November 1951 poor health led him to cede presidential power to Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez. On 13 June 1953, when he tried to resume his presidency, he was overthrown in a military coup led by Gustavo Rojas Pinilla.
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Pati Jinich
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- chefpolitical scientistlawyer
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Patricia Jinich is a Mexican chef, TV personality, cookbook author, educator, and food writer. She is best known for her James Beard Award-winning and Emmy-nominated public television series Pati's Mexican Table and her James Beard Award-winning PBS primetime docuseries La Frontera with Pati Jinich. Her first cookbook, also titled Pati's Mexican Table, was published in March 2013, her second cookbook, Mexican Today, was published in April 2016, and her third cookbook, Treasures of the Mexican Table, was published in November 2021.
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José Eustacio Rivera
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- writerdiplomatlawyer
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José Eustasio Rivera Salas was a Colombian lawyer and author primarily known for his national epic The Vortex.
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Fernando Vallejo
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- screenwriternovelistfilm directorbiologistwriter
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Fernando Vallejo Rendón is a Colombian-born novelist, filmmaker and essayist. He obtained Mexican nationality in 2007.
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Enrique Olaya Herrera
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- politicianlawyerdiplomatjournalistpublisher
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Enrique Alfredo Olaya Herrera was a Colombian journalist and politician. He served as President of Colombia from 7 August 1930 until 7 August 1934 representing the Colombian Liberal Party.
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Alfonso Cano
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- partisan
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Guillermo León Sáenz Vargas, more commonly known by his nom de guerre Alfonso Cano, was the commander of the militant group known as Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC). He succeeded founder Manuel Marulanda (alias Sureshot, in Spanish: Tirofijo) in March 2008 and commanded the Marxist rebel group until being killed in action by the Colombian Army.
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Ciro Guerra
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- film directorscreenwriter
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Ciro Guerra is a Colombian film director and screenwriter. He is best known for his 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 88th Academy Awards, and for The Wind Journeys, selected as the Colombian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards.
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Totó la Momposina
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- composersinger
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Sonia Bazanta Vides, better known as Totó la Momposina, is a Colombian singer of Afro-Colombian and Indigenous descent. She reached international attention with the release of her 1993 album La Candela Viva on Peter Gabriel's Real World Records label. Totó accompanied Gabriel García Márquez to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982 as part of a Colombian cultural delegation performing during the award ceremony.
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Luis Carlos Sarmiento
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- civil engineerassociation football playerengineerentrepreneur
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Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo is a Colombian billionaire and the second wealthiest man in Colombia, with a net worth of US$6.6 billion, as of December 2024, estimated by Forbes, that derives from the banking conglomerate Grupo Aval, of which he is the majority shareholder and chairman.
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Alejandro Obregón
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- paintersculptormuralistprintmaker
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Alejandro Jesús Obregón Rosės was a Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver.
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León de Greiff
- Years
- 1895-1976 (aged 81)
- Occupations
- musicologistpoetjournalistdiplomat
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Francisco de Asís León Bogislao de Greiff Haeusler, was a Colombian poet known for his stylistic innovations and deliberately eclectic use of obscure lexicon. Best known simply as León de Greiff, he often used different pen names. The most popular were Leo le Gris and Gaspar Von Der Nacht. De Greiff was one of the founders of Los Panidas, a literary and artistic group established in 1915 in the city of Medellín.
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Manuel Zapata Olivella
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- physicianprose writerwriterjournalistanthropologist
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Manuel Zapata Olivella was a Colombian doctor, anthropologist, and writer.
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Álvaro Fayad
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- politician
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Álvaro Fayad Delgado a.k.a. "The Turk" was a Colombian guerrilla who co-founded and lead the 19th of April movement (M-19), founded in 1970.
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Roy Barreras
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- politicianphysician
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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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José Antonio Ocampo
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- politiciansociologisteconomist
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José Antonio Ocampo Gaviria is a Colombian writer, economist and academic who was the professor of professional practice in international and public affairs and director of the Economic and Political Development Concentration at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University from July 2007 to August 2022. Prior to his appointment, Ocampo served in a number of positions in the United Nations and the Government of Colombia, most notably in the United Nations as Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs and Executive Secretary for the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, and in Colombia as Minister of Finance and Public Credit and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
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Jorge Velosa
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- musiciansinger-songwriterveterinarian
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Jorge Luis Velosa Ruiz is a distinguished Colombian singer-songwriter, professor, actor, and writer, recognized as one of the leading exponents and initiators of carranguera music.
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Margalida Castro
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- actor
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Margalida Castro Rueda was a Colombian theatre and television actress.
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Jaime Pardo Leal
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- politiciantrade unionistlawyer
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Jaime Pardo Leal was a Colombian lawyer, union leader, and politician who ran as candidate of the Patriotic Union party for the presidency of Colombia in the 1986 elections and was later assassinated.
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Eduardo Santos
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- politicianlawyerjournalistdiplomat
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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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Candelario
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- translatorwriter
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Candelario Obeso was a Colombian poet. He is known as a precursor of the Poesía Negra y oscura (black and dark poetry) in Colombia.
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Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar
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- sculptorpainterdraftsperson
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Eduardo Ramírez Villamizar was a Colombian painter and sculptor. He is considered a pioneer of abstract, minimalist, and Constructivist art in Colombia, and in Latin America more broadly.
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David Manzurr
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- painter
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David Manzur Londoño is a Colombian painter, two time Guggenheim Fellowship winner and alumni of the Art Students League and Pratt Institute of New York. His subjects include still lifes, mounted knights, and saints. In 2019 Manzur was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Boyacá, Colombia´s highest peacetime decoration. In the year 2020 king Felipe VI bestowed upon him the Order of Isabella the Catholic as a recognition for his work and his ties with Spain.
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Vera Grabe
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- anthropologistpolitician
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Vera Grabe Loewenherz is a Colombian anthropologist, politician, and former member of the Colombian guerrilla M-19, of which she was also a co-founder.
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Sebastián Silva
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- singeractorYouTuber
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Juan Sebastián Silva Martínez, commonly known as Sebastián Silva, is a Colombian internet personality, vlogger, actor, presenter and singer. He is best known for playing the roles of Pite in The Queen of Flow, and Rubén in Club 57 (2019). He studied cinema and television at the National University of Colombia.
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Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez
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- politiciandiplomatlawyer
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Roberto Urdaneta Arbeláez was a Colombian Conservative party politician and lawyer who served as Acting President of Colombia from November 1951 until June 1953, while President Laureano Gómez was absent due to health issues.
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Aída Abella
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- politician
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Aída Yolanda Avella Esquivel, or Aída Yolanda Abella Esquivel, is a Colombian pedagogue, psychologist, and politician belonging to the Patriotic Union party. She was a member of the Constituent Assembly of Colombia and a councilor of the city of Bogotá between 1992 and 1996. Avella was a candidate for Vice President in the 2014 presidential election for the Alternative Democratic Pole and Patriotic Union alliance. In the 2018 parliamentarian election, Avella was elected to the Colombian Senate.
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Germán Arciniegas
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- politicianpoet lawyerwriterhistorianjournalist
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Germán Arciniegas Angueyra was a Colombian historian, writer and journalist who was known for his advocacy of educational and cultural issues, as well as his outspoken opposition to dictatorship. He also served as a college professor and held positions in the government, including Minister of Education and several ambassadorships.
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Cristina Gallego
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- film producerfilm director
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Cristina Gallego is a Colombian producer, writer and director.
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Marta Traba
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- novelistliterary criticuniversity teacherart criticwriter
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Marta Traba Taín was an art critic and writer known for her contributions to Latin American art and literature.
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Eliana Rubashkyn
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- pharmacistLGBTQ rights activistchemist
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Eliana Rubashkyn is a Colombian pharmacist and chemist, known for being the first intersex person assigned male at birth legally recognised as a woman with a United Nations mechanism under the international refugee statute. Born in Colombia, Rubashkyn was formerly stateless. She currently works as a programme officer at ILGA world, and as a harm reduction scientist developing human right campaigns of support addressed to LGBTI asylum seekers, refugees and intersex persons around the world.
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Eustorgio Salgar
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- diplomatpolitician
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Eustorgio Salgar Moreno Salazar was a Colombian lawyer, general and political figure, who was president of the United States of Colombia from 1870 until 1872. Elected at age 39, he was the youngest president of Colombia.
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Patricia Ariza
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- playwrighttheatrical director
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Patricia Elia Ariza Flórez is a Colombian poet, playwright, actor and former Minister of Culture of the Government of Petro.
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Carlos Antonio Mendoza
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- lawyerpolitician
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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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Nemesio Camacho
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- businesspersonpoliticianlawyer
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Nemesio Camacho Macías was a Colombian businessman and politician. The Stadium Nemesio Camacho in Bogotá is named after him.
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Luis Carlos Restrepo Ramírez
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- psychiatristphilosopher
- Biography
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Luis Carlos Restrepo Ramírez is a Colombian psychiatrist and philosopher, who served as the 5th High Commissioner for Peace of Colombia from August 2002 to March 2009.
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Teresita Gómez
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- pianist
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María Teresa Gómez Arteaga, also known as Teresa Gómez and Teresita Gómez, is a Colombian pianist and music educator.
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Gabriel Turbay
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- physicianpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Gabriel Turbay Abinader was a Colombian politician of Lebanese descent. He was a Congressman, Senator, and Foreign Minister in the 1930s. He served as Colombia's Ambassador to the United States from 1939 to 1945. He was an unsuccessful candidate for president in 1946.
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José de Obaldía
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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José Arsenio Vicente del Carmen de Obaldía y Orejuela was the 7th Vice President of New Granada, and as such served as Acting President in two occasions.
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Dolly Montoya Castaño
- Enrolled in the National University of Colombia
- 1970-1976 graduated with pharmacist
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- academic administrationuniversity teacherresearcher
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Dolly Montoya Castaño, is a Colombian university professor and scientist, and rector of the National University of Colombia. She was re-elected for the period 2021–2024, having already served in 2018–2021 when she became the first woman to hold the position.
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Jaime Jaramillo Arango
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- physicianpoliticianwriterdiplomat
- Biography
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Jaime Jaramillo Arango was a Colombian professor of medicine and surgery, author, diplomat, and politician. He was dean of medicine of the National University of Colombia and Director of the same institution, pioneer of modern medicine, Minister Plenipotentiary in the Colombian foreign policy during the Second World War, Minister of education, and founder of the Anglo Colombian School.
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Carlos Jacanamijoy
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- painter
- Biography
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Carlos Jacanamijoy is a Colombian painter of native South American origin of the Inga people. His artwork has been exhibited in more than 25 individual shows and is part of the permanent collection of the National Museum of the American Indian as well as several Colombian museums. He lives and works in Bogotá.
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Andrés de Santa Maria
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- sculptoruniversity teacherpainter
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Andrés de Santa María was the most internationally known Colombian painter of his time and the pioneer of impressionism in Colombia. His work in solitary as a vanguardist painter frames the beginnings of modern art in Colombia. Santa Maria's search for new artistic expressions generated rejection and controversies around his work. He lived a great part of his life in Europe.
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María Teresa Uribe
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- university teachersociologist
- Biography
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María Teresa Uribe de Hincapié was a Colombian sociologist, specialising in research into conflict and violence.
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Ochy Curiel
- Occupations
- women's rights activistmusicianwriteracademic
- Biography
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Rosa Inés Curiel Pichardo, better known as Ochy Curiel, is an Afro-Dominican feminist academic, singer and social anthropologist. She is known for helping to establish the Afro-Caribbean women's movement and maintaining that lesbianism is neither an identity, orientation nor sexual preference, but rather a political position. She is one of the most prominent feminist scholars in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Rafael Humberto Moreno-Durán
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- writernovelistplaywright
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Rafael Humberto Moreno Durán, also known by his acronym R.H. Moreno Durán was a novelist, essayist and playwright considered one of the most remarkable Colombian writers of the 20th century. His work includes the trilogy Femina Suite (comprising Juego de Damas, El toque de Diana and Finale Capriccioso con Madonna), and the play Cuestión de Habitos, for which he received the Ciudad de San Sebastián prize. He collaborated with several publications, including El País and La Vanguardia newspapers. He also was director of the Latin-American edition of Quimera journal.
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Jaime Caycedo
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- anthropologistpolitician
- Biography
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Jaime Caycedo Turriago is an anthropologist and Colombian politician. He was the General Secretary of the Colombian Communist Party (PCC) from 1994 until December 2022, when he assumed the newly created position of the party's President.
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Helena Araújo
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- hispanistliterary criticwriteruniversity teachernovelist
- Biography
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Helena Araújo Ortiz was a writer and an international professor of Latin American literature and women's studies. Her works of literary criticism have appeared in various Latin American and European literary journals.
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Armando Villegas
- Occupations
- painter
- Biography
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Armando Villegas was a Peruvian-born Colombian painter, whose career spanned nearly six decades.
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Andrés Uriel Gallego
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianengineercivil engineer
- Biography
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Andrés Uriel Gallego Henao was a Colombian civil engineer and politician. He served as the 8th Minister of Transport from 2002 to 2010 during the administration of President Álvaro Uribe.
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Julio Abril
- Occupations
- paintersculptor
- Biography
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Julio Vicente Agapito Abril Mayorga was a Colombian sculptor, painter, and draughtsman.
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Lisandro Duque Naranjo
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Lisandro Duque Naranjo is a Colombian film director and screenwriter. He has directed ten films since 1974. His 1983 film The Bicycle Racer was entered into the 13th Moscow International Film Festival. His 2001 film, The Invisible Children, was selected as the Colombian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 75th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.
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Carlos Rodado Noriega
- Occupations
- engineereconomistcivil engineerpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Carlos Enrique Rodado Noriega is a Colombian engineer and politician currently serving as Ambassador of Colombia to Argentina. He served as the 28th and 9th Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia, first in the administration of President Julio César Turbay Ayala and again in the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón. Rodado, a civil engineer and economist, has also served as Ambassador of Colombia to Spain, President of Ecopetrol, Member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, and as the 58th Governor of Atlántico.
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Tatiana Toro
- Occupations
- university teachermathematicianacademic
- Biography
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Tatiana Toro is a Colombian-American mathematician at the University of Washington. Her research is "at the interface of geometric measure theory, harmonic analysis and partial differential equations". Toro was appointed director of the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute for 2022–2027.
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Germán Cardona
- Occupations
- engineerpoliticiancivil engineer
- Biography
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Germán Cardona Gutiérrez is a Colombian politician who served as the ninth Minister of Transport of Colombia in the Administration of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón from 2010 to 2012. A civil engineer and businessman, he was twice elected Mayor of Manizales, once appointed Governor of the Department of Caldas and served as chairman of the Once Caldas in 2005.
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Jhenifer Mojica
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianlawyerhuman rights
- Biography
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Jhenifer María Sindei Mojica Flórez is a Colombian lawyer and human rights defender. On May 1, 2023, she assumed the position of Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development in the administration of Gustavo Petro. Mojica had been working as director of Ethnic Affairs of the Land Restitution Unit in the same government and led the team to link up with the previous government in the area of agriculture
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Darío Botero Uribe
- Occupations
- philosopher
- Biography
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Darío Botero Uribe was a Colombian writer, thinker, professor emeritus and teacher at the National University of Colombia; he received a Doctorate degree from the National University with the title of Master. He studied law, political science and philosophy at the same university, where he held the position of Dean of the Faculty of Law, Political and Social Sciences (1986-1988). He developed an original philosophical project that he called Cosmic Vitalism. He was vitalist and utopian. He contributed to Colombian and Latin American thought.
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Guillermo Bermúdez
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Guillermo Bermúdez Umaña was a Colombian architect and professor of the National University of Colombia. His works are mainly private homes and public buildings, mostly in Bogota.
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Ana María Groot
- Occupations
- anthropologistarchaeologisthistorian
- Biography
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Ana María Groot de Mahecha is a Colombian historian, archaeologist, anthropologist and associate professor at the Department of Anthropology of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Ana Mariá Groot speaks Spanish, English and French.
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Alfonso Dávila Ortiz
- Occupations
- engineerpoliticiancivil engineer
- Biography
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Alfonso Dávila Ortiz was a Colombian civil engineer, diplomat, businessman and forester, former ambassador to Spain and Kuwait, Chargé d'Affaires in the United States of America, Governor of the Province of Cundinamarca, President of the Colombian Banker’s Association, twice President of the Colombian Association of Engineers, Councilor of the city of Bogotá, lifelong President of Bogotá’s Jockey Club and member of Colombia’s National Council of Public Works.
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Rodrigo Bernal
- Occupations
- biologistbotanist
- Biography
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Rodrigo Bernal González is a Colombian botanist who specialises in the palm family. Bernal was a faculty member at the Institute of Natural Sciences, National University of Colombia until 2007. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Aarhus, Denmark, in 1996. He was general curator of the National Colombian Herbarium (1986-1987), and editor of the scientific journal Caldasia (1989-1991, 1997-1999).
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Liliana Angulo Cortés
- Occupations
- sculptoruniversity teacherresearcher
- Biography
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Astrid Liliana Angulo Cortés is a Colombian visual artist with a degree in sculpture from the National University of Colombia, an MFA from the University of Illinois (Chicago) and a Master’s in Anthropology from the University of Los Andes (Colombia). Through her artistic practice, she uses the lens of gender, race and identity to explore representations of the black woman in contemporary culture.
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Laura Martignon
- Occupations
- teachermathematician
- Biography
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Laura Martignon is a Colombian and Italian professor and scientist. From 2003 until 2020 she served as a Professor of Mathematics and Mathematical Education at the Ludwigsburg University of Education. Until 2017 she was an Adjunct Scientist of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, where she previously worked as Senior Researcher. She also worked for ten years as a Mathematics Professor at the University of Brasília and spent a period of one and a half years, as visiting scholar, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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Enrique Forero
- Occupations
- university teachernaturalistbotanist
- Biography
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Enrique Forero González was a Colombian botanist. He died on 5 September 2023, at the age of 80.
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Beatriz González
- Occupations
- paintercuratorart criticart historiansculptor
- Biography
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Beatriz González is a Colombian painter, sculptor, critic, curator and art historian. González is often associated with the Pop Art movement. She is best known for her bright and colorful paintings depicting life in Colombia during the war-torn period known as La Violencia.
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Nelly Garzón Alarcón
- Occupations
- university teachernurse
- Biography
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Nelly Garzón Alarcón was a Colombian nurse and teacher, recognized as the first Latin American nurse to be president of the International Council of Nurses (ICN). In her day, she was one of the Colombian women who had the greatest relevance in science at the international level.
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Isabel Agatón Santander
- Occupations
- lawyerpoet
- Biography
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Isabel Agatón Santander is a Colombian poet, lawyer, writer and feminist. Promoter of the Rosa Elvira Cely Law (Law 1761 of 2015) which defines femicide as a crime in Colombia, she integrated the editorial commission of Law 1257 of 2008 about violence against women. She was a judge in the Tribunales de Conciencia de Justicia Para las Mujeres in Nicaragua (2015) and El Salvador (2014 and 2015) in which they tried cases of sexual violence and femicide convened by the Red Feminista frente a la Violencia contra las Mujeres (REDFEM) (Feminist Network Front against the Violence against Women) and the Red contra Violencia (Network against Violence) of the respective countries.
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Miguel Moyano
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- painter
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Miguel Moyano is a Colombian artist born in Bogotá, he studied at the National University of Colombia, specializing in three-dimensional drawing at the Schule für Gestaltung Bern, he took anatomy drawing classes with the Russian master Udo Siig, engraving classes with master Luis Paz and painting classes with the Vatican miniaturist, Marisa Schmitt-Viassone.
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Nirma Zárate
- Occupations
- painter
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Nirma Zárate Mejía was a Colombian artist, professor, and researcher famously known for her abstract works. Zárate was born in Bogotá, Colombia. She grew up in Colombia during World War II. The war had many implications on Colombian lifestyle and politics at the time. Colombia first supported the Axis powers and was in a constant state of shifting between its military powers and societal aspects due to U.S. intervention. Colombia finally shifted to supporting the allies after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. During this time, Colombia was in a severe state of poverty, where impoverished children roamed the streets in high numbers and were called gamines. During this time, discrimination and violence from police towards impoverished children were extremely high. Zárate experimented with different mediums and styles, such as Abstract Art or Pop Art. Her first exhibition was as a student in Bogotá and shortly after, she moved to the United States where she lived for four years. She settled in Washington where she was chosen by Union Panamericana De Washington to participate in an exhibition of great Colombian art. Later in her career, Zárate was one of the co-directors of Taller 4 Rojo, a collective of Colombian artists interested in representing the political and social reality of Colombia. Her art during this period in her life turned shifted to more politically active art. She also taught at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia for many years. Zárate died in her hometown of Bogotá, in 1999, at the age of sixty-three.
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Gladys Patricia Abdel Rahim Garzón
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Colombia - Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacher
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Gladys Patricia Abdel Rahim Garzón is a Colombian physicist. She is Researcher-Associate Professor of the Francisco José de Caldas District University. Her research is in materials physics.
