100 Notable alumni of
National University of Cordoba
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The National University of Cordoba is 568th in the world, 15th in Latin America, and 3rd in Argentina by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the National University of Cordoba sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Carlos Menem
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- politicianbusinesspersonlawyer
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Carlos Saúl Menem was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the president of Argentina from 1989 to 1999. Ideologically, he identified as a Peronist and supported economically liberal policies. He led Argentina as president during the 1990s and implemented a free market liberalization. He served as President of the Justicialist Party for thirteen years (from 1990 to 2001 and again from 2001 to 2003), and his political approach became known as Menemism.
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Fernando de la Rúa
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- politicianlawyer
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Fernando de la Rúa was an Argentine politician and a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) political party who served as President of Argentina from 10 December 1999 to 21 December 2001. De la Rúa was born in Córdoba; he entered politics after graduating with a degree in law. He was elected senator in 1973 and unsuccessfully ran for the office of Vice President as Ricardo Balbín's running mate the same year. He was re-elected senator in 1983 and 1993, and as deputy in 1991. He unsuccessfully opposed the pact of Olivos between President Carlos Menem and party leader Raúl Alfonsín, which enabled the 1994 amendment of the Argentine Constitution and the re-election of Menem in 1995.
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José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia
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- politicianlawyer
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José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia y Velasco was a Paraguayan lawyer and politician, and the first dictator (1814–1840) of Paraguay following its 1811 independence from the Spanish Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. His official title was "Supreme and Perpetual Dictator of Paraguay", but he was popularly known as El Supremo.
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Juan Bautista Alberdi
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- philosopherwriterdiplomatjournalistmusician
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Juan Bautista Alberdi was an Argentine political theorist and diplomat. Although he lived most of his life in exile in Montevideo, Uruguay and in Chile, he influenced the content of the Constitution of Argentina of 1853.
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Sergio Fajardo
- Enrolled in the National University of Cordoba
- In 2015 graduated with honorary doctorate
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- environmentalistpoliticianuniversity teachermathematicianjournalist
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Sergio Fajardo Valderrama is a Colombian politician and mathematician. He first entered politics in 2003 when he was elected Mayor of Medellín, the second-largest city in Colombia and the capital of Antioquia. He was the mayor of Medellín from 2003 to 2007 and is widely recognized for transforming the city from a violent and impoverished place to a model of social and urban development. Fajardo was the vice presidential nominee of Antanas Mockus in 2010, finishing in second place after losing the runoff against Juan Manuel Santos and Angelino Garzon. Fajardo served as the governor of Antioquia from 2012 to 2016. Fajardo brands himself as a pragmatic politician with no particular ideology, with political analysts and media outlets in Colombia labelling him as a centrist politician not tied to the traditional parties in Colombia.
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Héctor José Cámpora
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- diplomatpoliticiandentist
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Héctor José Cámpora was an Argentine politician. A major figure of left-wing Peronism, Cámpora was briefly Argentine president from 25 May to 13 July 1973 and subsequently arranged for Juan Perón to run for president in an election that he subsequently won. The modern left-wing Peronist political youth organization La Cámpora is named after him. He was a dentist by trade.
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Domingo Cavallo
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- economistpoliticianuniversity teacherdiplomat
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Domingo Felipe Cavallo is an Argentine economist and politician. Between 1991 and 1996, he was the Minister of Economy during Carlos Menem's presidency. He is known for implementing the convertibility plan, which established a pseudo-currency board with the United States dollar and allowed the dollar to be used for legal contracts. This brought the inflation rate down from over 1,300% in 1990 to less than 20% in 1992 and nearly to zero during the rest of the 1990s. He implemented pro-market reforms which included privatizations of state enterprises. Productivity per hour worked during his five-years as minister of Menem increased by more than 100%. In 2001, he was the economy minister for nine months during the 1998–2002 Argentine great depression. During a bank run, he implemented a restriction on cash withdrawing, known as corralito. This was followed by the December 2001 riots in Argentina and the fall of Fernando de la Rúa as president.
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Juan Schiaretti
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- politician
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Juan Schiaretti, known as El Gringo, is an Argentine accountant and Justicialist Party politician. He was Governor of Córdoba Province from 2015 to 2023.
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Nicolás del Caño
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- politicianmerchant
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Nicolás del Caño is an Argentine politician from the Socialist Workers' Party. He was twice the presidential candidate for the Workers' Left Front (FIT).
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José Manuel de la Sota
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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José Manuel de la Sota was an Argentine politician who was a member of Justicialist Party. He was the governor of Córdoba Province from 1999 until 2007, and was reelected to the post for the 2011–15 term.
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Ginés González García
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- physiciansurgeonpoliticiandiplomat
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Ginés González García is an Argentine medical doctor who served twice as the country's Minister of Health under President Alberto Fernández, from 2019 to 2021, and under the successive presidencies of Eduardo Duhalde and Néstor Kirchner, from 2002 to 2007. A specialist on public healthcare, González García also served as Argentine Ambassador to Chile from 2007 to 2015.
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Salvador Minuchin
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- university teacherpsychotherapistpsychiatrist
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Salvador Minuchin was a family therapist born and raised in San Salvador, Entre Ríos, Argentina. He developed structural family therapy, which addresses problems within a family by charting the relationships between family members, or between subsets of family (Minuchin, 1974). These charts represent power dynamics as well as the boundaries between different subsystems. The therapist tries to disrupt dysfunctional relationships within the family, and cause them to settle back into a healthier pattern.
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Carlos Zannini
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- politicianlawyer
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Alberto Carlos Zannini is an Argentine lawyer and politician who was the Legal and Technical Secretary of the Presidency under presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner from 2003 to 2015.
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Stephen Hopkins
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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Stephen Hopkins was a Founding Father of the United States, a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, a chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and a signer of the Continental Association and Declaration of Independence. He was from a prominent Rhode Island family, the grandson of William Hopkins who was a prominent colonial politician. His great-grandfather Thomas Hopkins was an original settler of Providence Plantations, sailing from England in 1635 with his cousin Benedict Arnold who became the first governor of the Rhode Island colony under the Royal Charter of 1663.
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Juan José Paso
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- politicianlawyer
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Juan José Esteban Paso, was an Argentine politician who participated in the events that started the Argentine War of Independence known as May Revolution of 1810.
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Álvaro Alsogaray
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- engineereconomistpoliticiandiplomat
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Álvaro Carlos Alsogaray was an Argentine politician and economist. He was Minister of Economy and was the principal proponent of classical liberalism in Argentina.
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Santiago Derqui
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Santiago Rafael Luis Manuel José María Derqui Rodríguez was president of Argentina from March 5, 1860 to November 5, 1861. He was featured on the 10 australes note, which is now obsolete.
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Camila Sosa Villada
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- actorwriterplaywright
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Camila Sosa Villada is a transgender Argentine writer and theatre, film, and television actress.
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Francisco Salamone
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- architectengineer
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Francisco Salamone was an Argentine architect born in Italy who, between 1936 and 1940, during the Infamous Decade, built more than 60 municipal buildings with elements of Art Deco style in 25 rural communities on the Argentine pampas within the Buenos Aires Province. These buildings were some of the first examples of modern architecture in rural Argentina.
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Luis Juez
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- politicianlawyer
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Luis Alberto Juez is an Argentine politician who served as Mayor of the City of Córdoba and was later elected to the Senate. Since 2019 he has been a National Deputy.
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Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield
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- lawyeruniversity teacherpoliticianeconomistjournalist
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Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield was an Argentine lawyer and politician who wrote the Civil Code of Argentina of 1869, which remained in force until 2015, when it was replaced by the new Código Civil y Comercial de la Nación.
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Mario Negri
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- politicianlawyer
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Mario Raúl Negri is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician and lawyer. He was a National Deputy for Córdoba Province from 2011 to 2023, leading the UCR parliamentary bloc during most of his tenure. In addition, he was a member of the Council of Magistracy appointed by the Chamber of Deputies from 2017 to 2018.
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Manuel Alberti
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- priestjournalistpolitician
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Manuel Maximiliano Alberti was an Argentine priest from Buenos Aires when the city was part of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata. He had a curacy at Maldonado, Uruguay during the British invasions of the River Plate, and returned to Buenos Aires in time to take part in the May Revolution of 1810. He was chosen as one of the seven members of the Primera Junta, considered the first national government of Argentina. He supported most of the proposals of Mariano Moreno and worked at the Gazeta de Buenos Ayres newspaper. The internal disputes of the Junta had a negative effect on his health, and he died of a heart attack in 1811.
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Joaquín Víctor González
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- philosopherwriterhistorianjournalisttranslator
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Joaquín Víctor González was an Argentine educator, political scientist, writer, magistrate, and politician.
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Eduardo Angeloz
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- politician
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Eduardo César Angeloz was an Argentine politician. He was a presidential candidate and Governor of Córdoba from 1983 to 1995.
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Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman
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- politicianlawyer
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Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman was an Argentine lawyer and politician. President of the Nation from October 12, 1886 until his resignation on August 6, 1890.
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Oscar Raúl Aguad
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- politicianlawyer
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Oscar Raúl Aguad is an Argentine politician who served as the Minister of Defense from 2017 to 2019, serving in the cabinet of President Mauricio Macri. He was a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2005 to 2015, where he became chief of the UCR bloc.
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Rodrigo de Loredo
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- lawyer
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Rodrigo de Loredo is an Argentine politician and lawyer who has been a National Deputy elected in Córdoba Province since 2021. He belongs to the Radical Civic Union (UCR), and since 2023 he has been president of the UCR parliamentary bloc in the Chamber of Deputies.
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Elpidio González
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- politician
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Elpidio González was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union. He was Vice President from 1922 to 1928 in the Marcelo T. de Alvear administration.
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Rodolfo Suárez
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- lawyer
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Rodolfo Alejandro Suarez is an Argentine Radical Civic Union politician who is currently serving as a National Senator for Mendoza Province since 10 December 2023. He previously served as governor of Mendoza from 2019 to 2023, and from 2014 to 2019, he was intendente (mayor) of the City of Mendoza, having assumed office following the death of then-mayor Víctor Fayad.
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Fernando de la Mora
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- politicianlawyer
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Fernando de la Mora was one of the founding fathers of Paraguay, and was an early leader of the country between 1811 and 1813, but soon lost his power and died imprisoned. The Paraguayan city Fernando de la Mora is named in his honor.
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Domingo Liotta
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- cardiac surgeon
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Domingo Santo Liotta was an Argentine surgeon and pioneer of heart surgery who created multiple cardiac prostheses, including the first total artificial heart.
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Arabela Carreras
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- politician
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Arabela Marisa Carreras is an Argentine teacher and politician. She was Governor of Río Negro Province since from 2019 to 2023, the first woman to hold the post. From 2017 to 2019 she was the province's Minister of Tourism, Culture and Sports. She also served as a provincial legislator and as councilwoman in her hometown, San Carlos de Bariloche.
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Valentín Alsina
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- journalistlawyerwriterpolitician
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Valentín Alsina was an Argentine lawyer and politician.
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Gabriela González
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- researcherastronomerprofessor
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Gabriela Ines González, is a professor of physics and astronomy at the Louisiana State University and was the spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration from March 2011 until March 2017.
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Ricardo Jaime
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- politician
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Ricardo Raúl Jaime is an Argentine politician who was the longtime Secretary of Transportation under Presidents Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Since he resigned that position in 2009, Jaime has been charged in dozens of criminal cases with such crimes as embezzlement, irregularities in awarding subsidies, abuse of authority, misappropriation of public funds, and conspiracy. In 2013, he received a suspended sentence of six months for concealment of evidence. In 2015 Jaime received an 18-month sentence for accepting bribes from the former train operator Trenes de Buenos Aires during his time as Secretary of Transport. Later that year, he then received a further six years imprisonment for failure to prevent the 2012 Buenos Aires rail disaster.
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Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi
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- lawyeruniversity teacherjudgediplomat
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Silvia Alejandra Fernández de Gurmendi is an Argentine lawyer, diplomat and judge. She has been a judge at the International Criminal Court (ICC) since 20 January 2010 and was the first woman President of the ICC from March 2015 to March 2018. She was elected to the presidency for a three-year term and served until March 2018. In 2020 she was elected to serve as President of the Assembly of States Parties to Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court for the twentieth to twenty-second sessions (2021-2023).
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Ramón Mestre
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- politiciandentist
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Ramón Bautista Mestre, an Argentine politician, was Governor of Córdoba from July 12, 1995 to July 12, 1999. He also served as Federal Interventor of Corrientes Province (December 16, 1999 to March 20, 2001), Minister of the Interior (from March 20, 2001 to December 21, 2001), and Mayor of the City of Córdoba (from December 1983 to December 1991).
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Juan Filloy
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- writerlawyercaricaturistjuristjudge
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Juan Filloy was an Argentine writer. At various times, he was also a swimmer and a boxing referee. He was a polyglot, speaking seven languages. Most of his life was spent in Rio Cuarto where he served as a magistrate.
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Pilar Nores de García
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- economist
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María del Pilar Nores Bodereau de García is an Argentine-born Peruvian economist and the widow of former President of Peru Alan García, she was that nation's First Lady on two occasions.
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Sandra M. Díaz
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- ecologistbiologist
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Sandra Myrna Díaz ForMemRS is an Argentine ecologist and professor of ecology at the National University of Córdoba. She studies the functional traits of plants and investigates how plants impact the ecosystem.
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Ramón Javier Mestre
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- politicianlawyer
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Ramón Javier Mestre, is an Argentine lawyer and politician for the Unión Cívica Radical. In the elections of September 2011, he was elected mayor of the city of Córdoba, a role he assumed 10 December of that year.
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Salvador María del Carril
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- diplomatlawyerjudgepoliticianeconomist
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Salvador María del Carril was a prominent Argentine jurist and policy-maker, as well as his country's first Vice President.
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Lucía Corpacci
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- politiciansurgeon
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Lucía Benigna Corpacci is an Argentine physician and politician. A member of the Justicialist Party, she was governor of Catamarca Province from 2011 to 2019, the first female governor in Catamarca and the fourth female governor of a province in Argentina.
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Antonio Erman González
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- economistpolitician
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Antonio Erman González was an Argentinian politician. He occupied many charges during the presidency of Carlos Menem, like Minister of Economy, Minister of Health, Minister of Defense, Minister of Labour and President of Central Bank of Argentina. He also was National Deputy for Buenos Aires district and Ambassador of Argentina in Italy.
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Víctor Hipólito Martínez
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- politicianlawyer
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Víctor Hipólito Martínez was an Argentine lawyer and politician, best known for his role as vice president during Raúl Alfonsín's 1983–89 tenure.
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Amadeo Sabattini
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- physicianpharmacistpolitician
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Amadeo Tomás Sabattini was an Argentine politician. He served as Governor of Córdoba from May 17, 1936, to May 17, 1940.
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Omar De Marchi
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- politicianlawyer
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Omar Bruno De Marchi is an Argentine lawyer and politician. He served as a National Deputy elected in Mendoza Province on two occasions, from 2005 to 2013 and later from 2019 to 2023.
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Gabriel Rabinovich
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- biochemistuniversity teacher
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Gabriel A. Rabinovich is an Argentine biochemist who is currently a professor at the School of Exact and Natural Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires. He is also the deputy director of Immunopathology Laboratories, and the head of Structural and Functional Glycomic Laboratories.
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José Antonio Balseiro
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- physicistnuclear physicist
- Biography
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José Antonio Balseiro was an Argentine physicist.
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Jorge Raúl Yoma
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- politicianlawyer
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Jorge Raúl Yoma is an Argentine politician and lawyer who served as both a national deputy and senator on various occasions, as well as positions in the province of La Rioja. He was Argentine ambassador to Mexico between 2007 and 2010. In March 2018, he was appointed by President Mauricio Macri as Argentine ambassador to Peru.
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Roque Fernández
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- economistpolitician
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Roque Benjamín Fernández is an Argentine economist, former President of the Central Bank and Minister of Economy, and the only member of the Chicago Boys ever to have been the chief economic policy maker in Argentina.
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Norma Morandini
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- journalistwriterpolitician
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Norma Elena Morandini is an Argentine journalist and politician. She was elected to the Argentine Senate in 2009, and was nominated as running mate by Progressive Front presidential candidate Hermes Binner for the 2011 campaign
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Ricardo Obregón Cano
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- politiciandentist
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Ricardo Obregón Cano was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. Born in Río Cuarto, Córdoba, he was Governor of Córdoba from May 25, 1973, to February 28, 1974. A left-wing Peronist, he was deposed by a police coup in 1974, which was later backed by Juan Perón.
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Julio Martínez
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- politicianengineer
- Biography
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Julio César Martínez is an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union (UCR). Among other posts, he served as a National Senator for La Rioja from 2017 to 2023, as Minister of Defense under President Mauricio Macri (2015–2017), as a National Deputy (2009–2015), and as a member of the Legislature of La Rioja (1999–2003).
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Julio Cabrera
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- philosopheracademic
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Julio Cabrera is an Argentine philosopher living in Brazil. He is a retired professor of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Brasília and former head of the department. Previously he taught in Argentina, at the National University of Córdoba, the University of Belgrano and then in Brazil at the Federal University of Santa Maria. He is best known for his works on "negative ethics" and cinema and philosophy. Other areas of philosophy that he deals with are philosophy of language, logic and Latin American philosophy.
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José Gabriel Funes
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- astronomerLatin Catholic priest
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José Gabriel Funes, S.J. is an Argentine Jesuit priest and astronomer. He was the Director of the Vatican Observatory from August 19, 2006, until September 18, 2015, when he was succeeded by Pope Francis's appointment of the Reverend Brother Guy Consolmagno, S.J. Funes serves on the Advisory Council of METI (Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence).
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Laura Rodríguez Machado
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- politician
- Biography
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Laura Elena Rodríguez Machado is an Argentine politician who has been a National Deputy elected in Córdoba Province since 2021, and served as a National Senator for Córdoba from 2015 to 2021. A member of Republican Proposal (PRO), Rodríguez Machado previously served as a provincial legislator of Córdoba from 1991 to 1995 for the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCEDE). In the National Congress, she sits in the Juntos por el Cambio parliamentary inter-bloc. She is also the second vice president of PRO.
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José María Vernet
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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José María Vernet is an Argentine politician of the Justicialist Party. He served as Governor of Santa Fe from 1983 to 1987.
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Maristella Svampa
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- environmentalistsociologist
- Biography
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Maristella Noemi Svampa is an Argentine sociologist.
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Gustavo Santos
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- politician
- Biography
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Gustavo Santos is an Argentine politician. He was appointed minister of Tourism by Mauricio Macri. Since 2021, he has been a National Deputy elected in Córdoba for the Juntos por el Cambio coalition.
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Francisco Xavier Bogarin
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- priest
- Biography
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Francisco Javier Bogarín was a Catholic priest and teacher who actively participated in the process of independence of Paraguay. Born in Carapeguá, Paraguarí Department, 66 kilometers from Asunción, in 1763. For a couple of months in 1811 he was a member of the five-man governing junta of Paraguay.
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Carlos Astrada
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- philosopher
- Biography
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Carlos Astrada was an Argentine philosopher.
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Alejandro Heredia
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- military personnel
- Biography
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Alejandro Heredia was an Argentine soldier and politician. He fought in the war of independence, and in the subsequent civil war. He was governor and caudillo of Tucumán Province.
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Néstor Braunstein
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- university teacherpsychologistpsychoanalyst
- Biography
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Néstor Alberto Braunstein was an Argentine-Mexican physician, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
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Magdalena Odarda
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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María Magdalena Odarda is an Argentine lawyer and politician. From 2019 to 2023, she served as president of the National Institute for Indigenous Affairs, under the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights.
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Ramón J. Cárcano
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- lawyerhistorianpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Ramón José Cárcano was an Argentine lawyer, historian and politician who served as Governor of Córdoba from 1913 to 1916, and from 1925 to 1928.
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Jorge Busti
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Jorge Pedro Busti was an Argentine politician who served as Justicialist Party governor and senator for Entre Ríos Province.
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Raúl Baglini
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Raúl Eduardo Baglini was an Argentine politician and lawyer who served in both houses of the National Congress of Argentina, representing the Radical Civic Union.
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Jorge O. Calvo
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- geologistpaleontologist
- Biography
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Jorge Orlando Calvo was an Argentine geologist and paleontologist working for "Centro de Investigaciones Paleontológicas Lago Barreales" (National University of Comahue).
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Enrique Martínez
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- politician
- Biography
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Enrique Martínez was an Argentine lawyer and politician, governor of Córdoba Province Argentine Vice President during the second Hipólito Yrigoyen administration.
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Eduardo Brizuela del Moral
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- politician
- Biography
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Eduardo Segundo Brizuela del Moral was an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician. He was governor of Catamarca Province from 2003 to 2011, heading the Civic and Social Front of Catamarca.
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Marcelo Orrego
- Enrolled in the National University of Cordoba
- In 2001 graduated with Licentiate in law
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Humberto Marcelo Orrego is an Argentine lawyer and politician, currently serving as Governor of San Juan since 2023. He previously served as National Deputy from 2019 to 2023, and as intendente (mayor) of his hometown, Santa Lucía, from 2011 to 2019. He is a member of the minor local Production and Labour party.
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Mauro Cabral
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- LGBTQI+ rights activisthuman rights activistactivist
- Biography
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Mauro Cabral Grinspan, also known as Mauro Cabral, is an Argentinian intersex and trans activist, who serves as the Senior Officer for Gender Justice and Equity at the Global Philanthropy Project. Before that, he was the Executive Director of GATE. His work - as a signatory of the Yogyakarta Principles - focuses on the reform of medical protocols and law reform. In July 2015, Cabral received the inaugural Bob Hepple Equality Award.
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Juan Fernando Brügge
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- lawyerjuristpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Juan Fernando Brügge is an Argentine politician, vice president of the Christian Democratic Party of Argentina and former Deputy of the Argentine Nation for the Province of Córdoba within the UNA parliamentary bloc.
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Carlos Washington Lencinas
- Years
- 1888-1929 (aged 41)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Carlos Washington Lencinas was an Argentine politician and governor of Mendoza, Argentina.
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Daniel Giacomino
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- politician
- Biography
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Daniel Oscar Giacomino is an Argentine politician elected Mayor of Córdoba in 2007. He was elected National Deputy for Córdoba Province for second non-sequent term in 2011.
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Pedro Francisco de Uriarte
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Pedro Francisco Uriarte was an Argentine statesman and priest. He was a representative to the Congress of Tucumán which on 9 July 1816 declared the Independence of Argentina.
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Carlos Enrique Gómez Centurión
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- politiciangeologist
- Biography
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Carlos Enrique Gómez Centurión was an Argentine politician.
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Ángel Guido
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- writerengineerarchitect
- Biography
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Ángel Francisco Guido was an Argentine architect, engineer and writer.
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Mirta Arlt
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Electra Mirta Arlt was an Argentine writer, translator, professor and researcher specializing in theater. She was the daughter of the writer, Roberto Arlt.
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Víctor Reviglio
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- politiciandiplomat
- Biography
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Víctor Félix Reviglio is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician and diplomat. He was the governor of the province of Santa Fe from 11 December 1987 to 11 December 1991.
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Héctor Enrique Olivares
- Enrolled in the National University of Cordoba
- Graduated with agricultural engineer
- Occupations
- agricultural produceragricultural engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Héctor Enrique Olivares was an Argentine politician, engineer and agricultural producer. A representative of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), he served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 2015 until his death in 2019. He was born in La Rioja.
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Perla Suez
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- children's writerwriteressayist
- Biography
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Perla Suez is an Argentinean novelist, translator, and children's author. She is a recipient of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize.
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Cecilia Biagioli
- Occupations
- swimmer
- Biography
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Cecilia Elizabeth Biagioli is an Olympic and national record-holding swimmer from Argentina. She swam for Argentina at the 2000, 2004, 2008 and 2012 Olympics. She represented Argentina at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Alfredo Avelín
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- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Alfredo Avelín was an Argentine politician, physician and author. He served as Governor of his province of San Juan and as a member of the Argentine Senate and Chamber of Deputies.
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Miguel Saiz
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- lawyer
- Biography
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Miguel Ángel Saiz was an Uruguay-born Argentine politician latterly of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), who served as governor of Río Negro Province between 2003 and 2011.
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Gerónimo Salguero
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Gerónimo Salguero de Cabrera Moynos, sometimes seen as Luis Jerónimo Cabrera y Cabrera or some variant, was an Argentine statesman and lawyer. He was a representative to the Congress of Tucumán, which on 9 July 1816 declared the Independence of Argentina.
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Pedro Miguel Aráoz
- Occupations
- newspaper editor
- Biography
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Pedro Miguel Aráoz was an Argentine statesman and priest. He was a representative in the 1816 Congress of Tucumán, which declared the Independence of Argentina.
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Roberto Urquía
- Years
- 1948-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- politicianbusinesspersoncertified public accountant
- Biography
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Roberto Daniel Urquía is a former Argentine Senator for Córdoba Province and a member of the Justicialist Party. Urquía, an accountant by profession, is a wealthy businessman and owner of the vegetable oil processing plant Aceitera General Deheza (AGD).
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Miguel Angel Cárcano
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Miguel Ángel Cárcano was an Argentinian politician, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs during the presidency of Arturo Frondizi, between 1961 and 1962, and Ambassador of Argentina to France and to United Kingdom.
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Miriani Griselda Pastoriza
- Occupations
- astronomer
- Biography
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Miriani Griselda Pastoriza is an Argentine-born Brazilian astronomer, tenured professor in the Department of Astronomy of the Institute of Physics, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, and is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
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Horacio Guzmán
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Horacio Guzmán was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as Governor of Jujuy Province from 1958 to 1962, and from 1963 to 1964.
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José Néstor Lencinas
- Years
- 1859-1920 (aged 61)
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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José Néstor Lencinas was an Argentine politician and former Governor of Mendoza Province.
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Ángel Maza
- Occupations
- politiciangeologist
- Biography
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Ángel Eduardo Maza is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician. He was the governor of La Rioja Province during several terms, until he was ousted by impeachment in 2007. His sister, Ada Maza, is a national senator.
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Mirta Roses Periago
- Years
- 1945-.. (age 79)
- Occupations
- surgeonepidemiologist
- Biography
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Mirta Roses Periago is an Argentine epidemiologist who served as Director of the Pan American Health Organization from 2003 until 2013.
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Soher El Sukaria
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Soher El Sukaria is a Lebanese-born Argentine politician. She was a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies elected in Córdoba Province from 2019 to 2023. A member of Republican Proposal, El Sukaria previously served as a member of the Córdoba Provincial Legislature from 2015 to 2019.
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Carolina Scotto
- Occupations
- politicianprofessorphilosopher
- Biography
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Silvia Carolina Scotto is an Argentine history professor, with degrees in philosophy and politics. In 2007, she became the first woman to take over as rector of the National University of Córdoba, in an institution that is more than 400 years old. In 2013, she was elected a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for the Front for Victory in the Córdoba Province. On 6 August 2014, she resigned for "strictly personal reasons".
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Diego Matías Mestre
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Diego Matías Mestre is an Argentine politician who served as a National Deputy elected in Córdoba Province from 2013 to 2021. He is a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR). Mestre is one of former Córdoba governor Ramón Mestre's children.
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Elizabeth Salguero
- Occupations
- journalistwriterpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Elizabeth Cristina Salguero Carrillo is a Bolivian diplomat, journalist, politician, and women's rights activist who served as minister of cultures from 2011 to 2012. A member of the Movement for Socialism, she previously served as a party-list member of the Chamber of Deputies from La Paz from 2006 to 2009. In 2009, she was elected as a substitute party-list member of the Chamber of Deputies from La Paz but resigned before taking office in order to launch an ultimately unsuccessful La Paz mayoral campaign. From 2012 to 2015, she served as ambassador of Bolivia to Germany, and since then has worked as an international expert in strategic planning at UN Women.
