100 Notable alumni of
National University of La Plata

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The National University of La Plata is 539th in the world, 13th in Latin America, and 2nd in Argentina by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the National University of La Plata sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

    Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
    Graduated with Título de abogado
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner, often referred to by her initials CFK, is an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as president of Argentina from 2007 to 2015 and later as vice president of Argentina from 2019 to 2023 under President Alberto Fernández, as well as the first lady of Argentina during the tenure of her husband, Néstor Kirchner, from 2003 to 2007. She was the second female president of Argentina (after Isabel Perón) and the first elected female president of Argentina. Ideologically, she identifies herself as a Peronist and a progressive, with her political approach called Kirchnerism.

  2. Néstor Kirchner

    Néstor Kirchner
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1950-2010 (aged 60)
    Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
    1969-1976 graduated with Juris Doctor
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Néstor Carlos Kirchner Ostoić was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007. A member of the Justicialist Party, he previously served as Governor of Santa Cruz Province from 1991 to 2003, and mayor of Río Gallegos from 1987 to 1991. He later served as the first ever (and still only) First Gentleman of Argentina during the first tenure of his wife, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. By the time he died in October 2010, he was First Gentlemen from 2007, President of the Justicialist Party and National Deputy from 2009, and Secretary General of UNASUR from May 2010. Ideologically, he identified himself as a Peronist and a progressive, with his political approach called Kirchnerism.

  3. René Favaloro

    René Favaloro
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1923-2000 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    cardiac surgeon
    Biography

    René Gerónimo Favaloro was an Argentine cardiac surgeon and educator best known for his pioneering work on coronary artery bypass surgery using the great saphenous vein.

  4. Raúl Alfonsín

    Raúl Alfonsín
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1927-2009 (aged 82)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín was an Argentine lawyer and statesman who served as President of Argentina from 10 December 1983 to 8 July 1989. He was the first democratically elected president after more than seven years of military dictatorship, and is considered the "father of modern democracy in Argentina". Ideologically, he identified as a radical and a social democrat, serving as the leader of the Radical Civic Union from 1983 to 1991, 1993 to 1995, 1999 to 2001, with his political approach being known as "Alfonsinism".

  5. Horacio Pagani

    Horacio Pagani
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    engineerentrepreneur
    Biography

    Horacio Pagani is an Argentine-Italian businessman and engineer in the automotive industry. He is the founder of Pagani Automobili S.p.A., an Italian specialty auto-maker.

  6. Ernesto Sabato

    Ernesto Sabato
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1911-2011 (aged 100)
    Occupations
    writerpoetpainterphysicistessayist
    Biography

    Ernesto Sabato was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter, and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world throughout Latin America". Upon his death El País dubbed him the "last classic writer in Argentine literature".

  7. Mario Bunge

    Mario Bunge
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1919-2020 (aged 101)
    Occupations
    university teachersociologistwriterphysicistphilosopher
    Biography

    Mario Augusto Bunge was an Argentine-Canadian philosopher and physicist. His philosophical writings combined scientific realism, systemism, materialism, emergentism, and other principles.

  8. Juan José Arévalo

    Juan José Arévalo
    Born in
    Guatemala Flag Guatemala
    Years
    1904-1990 (aged 86)
    Occupations
    diplomatpoliticianwriter
    Biography

    Juan José Arévalo Bermejo was a Guatemalan statesman and professor of philosophy who became Guatemala's first democratically elected president in 1945. He was elected following a popular uprising against the United States-backed dictator Jorge Ubico that began the Guatemalan Revolution. He remained in office until 1951, surviving 25 coup attempts. He did not contest the election of 1951, instead choosing to hand over power to Jacobo Árbenz. As president, he enacted several social reform policies, including an increase in the minimum wage and a series of literacy programs. He also oversaw the drafting of a new constitution in 1945. He is the father of the current President of Guatemala Bernardo Arévalo.

  9. Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

    Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1931-.. (age 93)
    Occupations
    writerpainteruniversity teacherarchitectsculptor
    Biography

    Adolfo Pérez Esquivel is an Argentine activist, community organizer, painter, writer and sculptor. He was the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize for his opposition to Argentina's last civil-military dictatorship (1976–1983), during which he was detained, tortured, and held without trial for 14 months. He also received, among other distinctions, the Pacem in Terris Award.

  10. Florentino Ameghino

    Florentino Ameghino
    Born in
    Italy Flag Italy
    Years
    1853-1911 (aged 58)
    Occupations
    naturalistuniversity teacherornithologistarchaeologistanthropologist
    Biography

    Florentino Ameghino was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries on the Argentine Pampas, especially on Patagonia, rank with those made in the western United States during the late 19th century. Along with his two brothers – Carlos and Juan – Florentino Ameghino was one of the most important founding figures in South American paleontology.

  11. Miguel Ángel Pichetto

    Miguel Ángel Pichetto
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1950-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Miguel Ángel Pichetto is an Argentine lawyer and conservative Peronist politician. He is Auditor General of the Nation. He was National Senator for Río Negro Province for eighteen years and was the vice-presidential candidate of Juntos por el Cambio in the 2019 general election.

  12. Mariana Enriquez

    Mariana Enriquez
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1973-.. (age 51)
    Occupations
    journalistwriterteacher
    Biography

    Mariana Enríquez is an Argentine journalist, novelist, and short story writer. She is a part of the group of writers known as "new Argentine narrative". Her short stories fall within the horror genre, and have been published in international magazines such as Granta, Electric Literature, Asymptote, McSweeney's, Virginia Quarterly Review and The New Yorker.

  13. Ricardo Piglia

    Ricardo Piglia
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1941-2017 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    journalistliterary criticwriterscreenwriter
    Biography

    Ricardo Piglia was an Argentine author, critic, and scholar best known for introducing hard-boiled fiction to the Argentine public.

  14. Carlos Saavedra Lamas

    Carlos Saavedra Lamas
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1878-1959 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    diplomatlawyeruniversity teacherpoliticianjurist
    Biography

    Carlos Saavedra Lamas was an Argentine academic and politician, and in 1936, the first Latin American Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

  15. Ricardo López Murphy

    Ricardo López Murphy
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1951-.. (age 73)
    Occupations
    economistpolitician
    Biography

    Ricardo Hipólito López Murphy is an Argentine economist, academic and politician. He served as Minister of Defense and Minister of Economy during the presidency of Fernando de la Rúa. His time at the helm of the economy portfolio lasted only 15 days, as he was forced to leave office after announcing an unpopular austerity plan. Since 2021, he has been a National Deputy elected in Buenos Aires for the Juntos por el Cambio coalition.

  16. Silvina Batakis

    Silvina Batakis
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1968-.. (age 56)
    Occupations
    economist
    Biography

    Silvina Aída Batakis is an Argentine economist and politician, and the country’s former Minister of Economy. Previously, she served as Secretary of Provinces in the Ministry of the Interior and as economy minister of Buenos Aires Province under Governor Daniel Scioli from 2011 to 2015.

  17. Héctor Magnetto

    Héctor Magnetto
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1944-.. (age 80)
    Occupations
    entrepreneurbusinesspersoncertified public accountanteconomistmerchant
    Biography

    Héctor Horacio Magnetto is an Argentine executive CEO of the Clarín Group, the country's largest media company.

  18. Florencio Randazzo

    Florencio Randazzo
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    economistpolitician
    Biography

    Aníbal Florencio Randazzo in an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He was Minister of the Interior and Transport during the presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, from 2007 to 2015. An ally of Kirchner's during most of his political career, Randazzo fell out with her and ran against her for a seat in the Senate in 2017.

  19. Federico Sturzenegger

    Federico Sturzenegger
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1966-.. (age 58)
    Occupations
    economistinternational forum participantpoliticianbanker
    Biography

    Federico Sturzenegger is an Argentine economist who was President of the Central Bank between 2015 and 2018. Sturzenegger has a PhD in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  20. Emilio Pettoruti

    Emilio Pettoruti
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1892-1971 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    painterillustrator
    Biography

    Emilio Pettoruti was an Argentine painter, who caused a scandal with his avant-garde cubist exhibition in 1924 in Buenos Aires. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Buenos Aires was a city full of artistic development. Pettoruti's career was thriving during the 1920s when "Argentina witnessed a decade of dynamic artistic activity; it was an era of euphoria, a time when the definition of modernity was developed." While Pettoruti was influenced by Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Abstraction, he did not claim to paint in any of those styles in particular. Exhibiting all over Europe and Argentina, Emilio Pettoruti is remembered as one of the most influential artists in Argentina in the 20th century for his unique style and vision.

  21. Carlos López Puccio

    Carlos López Puccio
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1946-.. (age 78)
    Occupations
    film directorconductor
    Biography

    Carlos Alberto Daniel López Puccio is an Argentinian multi-instrumentalist, orchestral and choral conductor, composer, arranger and one of the current members of Les Luthiers.

  22. William John Cookezkere

    William John Cookezkere
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1919-1968 (aged 49)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    John William Cooke was an Argentine lawyer and politician. An early follower of President Juan Perón, Cooke went on to form part and lead the revolutionary leftist wing of the Peronist movement. Following the 1955 coup d'état, an exiled Perón appointed Cooke as his proxy in Argentina.

  23. Ricardo Balbín

    Ricardo Balbín
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1904-1981 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Ricardo Balbín was an Argentine lawyer and politician, and one of the most important figures of the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR), for which he was the presidential nominee four times: in 1951, 1958, and twice in 1973.

  24. Néstor García Canclini

    Néstor García Canclini
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1939-.. (age 85)
    Occupations
    sociologistanthropologist
    Biography

    Néstor García Canclini is an Argentinian academic and anthropologist known for his theorization of the concept of "hybridity."

  25. Martín Perez Disalvo

    Martín Perez Disalvo
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1991-.. (age 33)
    Occupations
    gamerYouTubersingerpresenterInternet celebrity
    Biography

    Martín Pérez Disalvo, better known as Coscu, is an Argentine Twitch streamer, gamer, internet celebrity and singer.

  26. César Mascetti

    César Mascetti
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1941-2022 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    television presenterjournalist
    Biography

    César Alberto Mascetti was an Argentine journalist and television news host. He worked for Channel 13 starting in 1971 and presented the network's Telenoche program until his retirement in 2003.

  27. Francisco Salamone

    Francisco Salamone
    Born in
    Italy Flag Italy
    Years
    1897-1959 (aged 62)
    Occupations
    architectengineer
    Biography

    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.

  28. Federico Storani

    Federico Storani
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1950-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Federico Storani is an Argentine politician, who served as Minister of the Interior during the presidency of Fernando de la Rúa between December 1999 and March 2001. A member of Radical Civic Union, he served several times as National Deputy representing the Buenos Aires Province.

  29. Gabriela Cerruti

    Gabriela Cerruti
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1965-.. (age 59)
    Occupations
    journalistwriterpolitician
    Biography

    Gabriela Carla Cerruti is an Argentine journalist, writer, and politician. She was a member of the Chamber of Deputies representing Buenos Aires from 2017 to 2021, as part of the Front for Victory bloc, and later as part of the Frente de Todos bloc. She served as the official spokesperson for Alberto Fernández, President of Argentina.

  30. Marcelo Piñeyro

    Marcelo Piñeyro
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    screenwriterfilm director
    Biography

    Marcelo Piñeyro is an Argentine award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer.

  31. Elpidio González

    Elpidio González
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1875-1951 (aged 76)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    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.

  32. Jorge Remes Lenicov

    Jorge Remes Lenicov
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1948-.. (age 76)
    Occupations
    economistpolitician
    Biography

    Jorge Remes Lenicov is an Argentine peronist economist and politician who served as Minister of Economy and Production from January 3 till April 27, 2002 under Acting President Eduardo Duhalde.

  33. Tomás Romero Pereira

    Tomás Romero Pereira
    Born in
    Paraguay Flag Paraguay
    Years
    1886-1982 (aged 96)
    Occupations
    politicianarchitect
    Biography

    Tomás Romero Pereira was a Paraguayan architect and politician who served as President of Paraguay from May to August of 1954. He was installed as president by Alfredo Stroessner after the coup of 4 May against President Federico Chaves. Romero Pereira quickly held elections, which fraudulently elected Stroessner president.

  34. Julio Alak

    Julio Alak
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1958-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Julio César Alak is an Argentine politician. Since 10 December 2023, intendente (mayor) of La Plata, the capital city of Buenos Aires Province. He previously held the post from 1997 to 2007.

  35. Patricia Walsh

    Patricia Walsh
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1952-.. (age 72)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Patricia Walsh is an Argentine political activist, daughter of Rodolfo Walsh.

  36. Roberto Noble

    Roberto Noble
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1902-1969 (aged 67)
    Occupations
    politicianjournalist
    Biography

    Roberto Noble was an Argentine politician, journalist and publisher, perhaps best known for having founded Clarín, long Argentina's leading news daily and the most or second-most circulated in the Spanish-speaking world.

  37. Hernán Lorenzino

    Hernán Lorenzino
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1972-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyereconomist
    Biography

    Hernán Gaspar Lorenzino is an Argentine lawyer and public policy maker. He was appointed Minister of Economy of Argentina by President Cristina Kirchner in 2011.

  38. Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa

    Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa
    Born in
    Venezuela Flag Venezuela
    Years
    1917-2009 (aged 92)
    Occupations
    politicianbusinessperson
    Biography

    Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa was a Venezuelan scientific researcher and agricultural engineer. He served the government of Rómulo Betancourt, becoming the youngest cabinet minister in Venezuelan history at the age of 28. His appointment was problematic due to his young age and required a constitutional amendment. Betancourt had insisted on the appointment and vastly expanded the portfolio of the Secretary of Agriculture to include all immigration matters.

  39. Carlos Kunkel

    Carlos Kunkel
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1945-.. (age 79)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Carlos Kunkel is an Argentine lawyer and politician. He was part of the Montoneros organization, and was a national deputy from 2005 to 2017 for the Front for Victory - PJ. He was head of the Peronist Youth in the city of La Plata in the 1970s.

  40. Juan Carlos Pugliese

    Juan Carlos Pugliese
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1915-1994 (aged 79)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyereconomist
    Biography

    Juan Carlos Pugliese was an Argentine politician. He served as minister of interior and minister of economy during the presidency of Raúl Alfonsín.

  41. José Antonio Balseiro

    José Antonio Balseiro
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1919-1962 (aged 43)
    Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
    Graduated with doctorate
    Occupations
    physicistnuclear physicist
    Biography

    José Antonio Balseiro was an Argentine physicist.

  42. Miguel Lunghi

    Miguel Lunghi
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1943-.. (age 81)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Miguel Ángel Lunghi is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician, paediatrician and mayor of Tandil, where he was born.

  43. Adriana Calvo

    Adriana Calvo
    Years
    1947-2010 (aged 63)
    Occupations
    physicistuniversity teacherhuman rights activistdocenttrade unionist
    Biography

    Adriana Lelia Calvo was an Argentine physicist, university professor, and researcher. After being kidnapped by the military government during the Argentine civil-military dictatorship, she became a human rights activist, and was the first witness to testify at the Trial of the Juntas in 1985.

  44. Martín Almada

    Martín Almada
    Born in
    Paraguay Flag Paraguay
    Years
    1937-.. (age 87)
    Occupations
    writerlawyerhuman rights activist
    Biography

    Martín Almada is a lawyer, writer and educationalist from Paraguay. A noted dissident and human rights activist, he was a prisoner of the Alfredo Stroessner regime. He is notable for uncovering the Archives of Terror.

  45. Pablo Tonelli

    Pablo Tonelli
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Pablo Gabriel Tonelli is an Argentine lawyer and politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in the Federal Capital. A member of Republican Proposal, Tonelli was first elected in 2011, and has been re-elected in 2015 and 2019. Tonelli has also been one of the Chamber's representatives in the Council of Magistracy since 2016.

  46. Carlos Rafael Fernández

    Carlos Rafael Fernández
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    politicianaccountant
    Biography

    Carlos Rafael Fernández is an Argentine economist and was, from April 2008 to July 2009, the Minister of the Economy of the country.

  47. Damian Salas

    Damian Salas
    Years
    1975-.. (age 49)
    Occupations
    poker player
    Biography

    Damian Salas is an Argentine professional poker player from Chascomús. He won the World Series of Poker Main Event in 2020, becoming the first person from Argentina to win the world championship of poker and the second person from South America to win the championship, after 2001 champion Carlos Mortensen. He made the Main Event final table in 2017, where he finished in 7th place earning $1,425,000.

  48. María Laura Leguizamón

    María Laura Leguizamón
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1965-.. (age 59)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    María Laura Leguizamón is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. She was a National Senator for Buenos Aires Province from 2011 to 2017 and for the City of Buenos Aires from 2003 to 2007. She also served in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and in the Buenos Aires City Legislature.

  49. Pablo Bruera

    Pablo Bruera
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Pablo Oscar Bruera is an Argentine politician, who was the mayor of La Plata, the capital of Buenos Aires province, from 2007 to 2015. On December 9, 2007, Bruera replaced incumbent Julio Alak. His run as mayor ended in 2015 when he was replaced by Julio Garro.

  50. Martín Tetaz

    Martín Tetaz
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1974-.. (age 50)
    Occupations
    economistpolitician
    Biography

    Martín Alberto Tetaz is an Argentine economist and politician, and a National Deputy since 2021.

  51. Cristian Alarcón Casanova

    Cristian Alarcón Casanova
    Born in
    Chile Flag Chile
    Years
    1970-.. (age 54)
    Occupations
    writerjournalist
    Biography

    Cristian Alarcón Casanova is a Chilean writer and journalist. He was born in La Union and studied at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Since the early 1990s, he has devoted himself to investigative journalism. His work has been published in newspapers such as Clarín, Página 12, Crítica de Argentina and in the magazines TXT, Rolling Stone and Gatopardo. In 2012 he founded the Revista Anfibia magazine and the Cosecha Roja website, and he has since taken further his experimentation with non-fiction narrative.

  52. Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú

    Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1882-1967 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    university teacherdiplomat
    Biography

    Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú was an Argentine politician who is best remembered for his spell as Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship in the 1940s.

  53. Nicolás García Mayor

    Nicolás García Mayor
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1978-.. (age 46)
    Occupations
    designer
    Biography

    Nicolás García Mayor is an Argentine entrepreneur and industrial designer focused in humanitarian development. He is the CEO of Cmax System INC and other Corp's and NGO's. He worked and lived in Europe conducting various architectural and innovation design projects. Since 2000 he has been working as an Industrial Humanitarian Designer, identifying, designing, developing and implementing innovative solutions in countries in South America and abroad, including China, Austria, Spain, France, United Arab Emirates.

  54. Florentina Gómez Miranda

    Florentina Gómez Miranda
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1912-2011 (aged 99)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Florentina Gómez Miranda was an Argentine teacher and lawyer. Born in Olavarría in the province of Buenos Aires, she attended the National University of La Plata, from which she graduated in 1945. From then on, she was active in the struggle for women's rights. Among the laws she promoted, the divorce law was the most important. From 1983 to 1991, Miranda was a member of the Chamber of Deputies for the Unión Cívica Radical. After her death, Miranda lay in state in the “Salón de los pasos perdidos” in the National Congress building.

  55. H. A. Murena

    H. A. Murena
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1923-1975 (aged 52)
    Occupations
    writertranslator
    Biography

    Héctor Alberto Álvarez, better known under his pen name of H. A. Murena, was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet, and translator. He wrote over twenty books on various topics, and was an important disseminator of German thought into the Spanish-speaking world. He is perhaps best remembered for Las Leyes de la Noche (1958), translated into English as The Laws of the Night. In addition to his books, Murena was a contributor to the Argentinian literary review Sur, and to Argentinian newspaper La Nación.

  56. Arturo Sampay

    Arturo Sampay
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1911-1977 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    politicianphilosopherlawyer
    Biography

    Arturo Enrique Sampay, was an Argentine lawyer, constitutionalist and professor. He is considered the "father" of the Argentine Constitution of 1949.

  57. Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca

    Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1948-.. (age 76)
    Occupations
    judgelawyer
    Biography

    Justice Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca is an Argentine Judge of the Supreme Court of city of Buenos Aires and a Judge of the United Nations Appeals Tribunal in New York City. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 16, 1948.

  58. Rubén Marín

    Rubén Marín
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1934-2024 (aged 90)
    Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
    In 1961 graduated with Juris Doctor
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Rubén Hugo Marín was an Argentine politician who was a Senator for La Pampa Province. He was also a governor of the province on two occasions. Marín, a lawyer by profession, was a member of the Justicialist Party.

  59. Genaro Carrió

    Genaro Carrió
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1922-1997 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    judgelawyer
    Biography

    Genaro Rubén Carrió was an Argentinian jurist and translator. He served as President of the Supreme Court of Argentina between 1983 and 1985 designated by president Raúl Alfonsín.

  60. Héctor Icazuriaga

    Héctor Icazuriaga
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1955-.. (age 69)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Héctor Icazuriaga is the former Secretary of Intelligence of Argentina who served from 2004 until 2014.

  61. Silvia Pessah

    Silvia Pessah
    Born in
    Peru Flag Peru
    Years
    1967-.. (age 57)
    Occupations
    surgeon
    Biography

    Silvia Ester Pessah Eljay is a Peruvian surgeon. She served as the country's Minister of Health from 2 April 2018 to 5 January 2019, in the government of Martín Vizcarra.

  62. Patricio Lorente

    Patricio Lorente
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1969-.. (age 55)
    Occupations
    professor
    Biography

    Patricio Lorente is an Argentine scholar and General Secretary of the National University of La Plata.

  63. Hernando Cevallos

    Hernando Cevallos
    Born in
    Peru Flag Peru
    Years
    1956-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    physicianpolitician
    Biography

    Hernando Ismael Cevallos Flores is a Peruvian doctor and former Minister of Health of Peru.

  64. Leopoldo Bravo

    Leopoldo Bravo
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1919-2006 (aged 87)
    Occupations
    diplomatpoliticianlawyer
    Biography

    Leopoldo Bravo was an Argentine politician and diplomat. A Senator and Ambassador to the Soviet Union, he was a three-time governor of San Juan Province, where he came to be regarded as a caudillo (kingmaker).

  65. Marcelo Fuentes

    Marcelo Fuentes
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1948-.. (age 76)
    Occupations
    politicianlawyer
    Biography

    Marcelo Jorge Fuentes is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He was a National Senator for the Neuquén Province for the Frente de Todos. In 2019, Fuentes, became Parliamentary Secretary to the Argentine Senate.

  66. Martha Mercader

    Martha Mercader
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1926-2010 (aged 84)
    Occupations
    politicianwriteressayist
    Biography

    Martha Evelina Mercader was an Argentine politician and writer, known for novels, short stories, essays and children's books.

  67. Carlos Casamiquela

    Carlos Casamiquela
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1948-2020 (aged 72)
    Occupations
    agronomistagricultural engineercivil servant
    Biography

    Carlos Horacio Casamiquela was an Argentine agricultural engineer and public official. He was appointed Minister of Agriculture of Argentina in November 2013, replacing Norberto Yauhar.

  68. Facundo Suárez

    Facundo Suárez
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1923-1998 (aged 75)
    Occupations
    politiciandiplomat
    Biography

    Facundo Suárez was an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician.

  69. Julio Godio

    Julio Godio
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1939-2011 (aged 72)
    Occupations
    historianassociation football playersociologist
    Biography

    Julio Godio was an Argentine sociologist.

  70. Claudia Alicia Bernazza

    Claudia Alicia Bernazza
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1960-.. (age 64)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Claudia Alicia Bernazza is an Argentine teacher, social activist and politician who served as a National Deputy elected in Buenos Aires Province on two occasions: from 2007 to 2009, when she filled in the vacancy left by Graciela Rosso, and later from 2020 to 2021, filling the vacancy left by Daniel Scioli, who was appointed Ambassador in Brazil.

  71. María Angélica Barreda

    María Angélica Barreda
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1882-1963 (aged 81)
    Occupations
    lawyer
    Biography

    María Angélica Barreda became in 1910 the first woman admitted to practice law in Argentina. She graduated from the National University of La Plata, receiving her degree on 28 December 1909.

  72. Noemí Zaritzky

    Noemí Zaritzky
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1951-.. (age 73)
    Occupations
    researcherchemistchemical engineer
    Biography

    Noemí Elisabet Zaritzky is an Argentine chemistry professor and researcher.

  73. Virpi Niemelä

    Virpi Niemelä
    Born in
    Finland Flag Finland
    Years
    1936-2006 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    astronomerastrophysicist
    Biography

    Virpi Sinikka Niemelä was a leading Finnish Argentine astronomer. She was the second Argentine to be elected for Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society.

  74. Pedro Guillermo Ángel Guastavino

    Pedro Guillermo Ángel Guastavino
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Pedro Guillermo Angel Guastavino is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. Between 2007 and 2019, he sat in the Argentine Senate representing Entre Ríos Province in the block of the majority Front for Victory.

  75. Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini

    Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1944-.. (age 80)
    Occupations
    archaeologistbiologistpaleontologistanthropologistzoologist
    Biography

    Zulma Nélida Brandoni de Gasparini is an Argentine paleontologist and zoologist. She is known for discovering the fossils of the dinosaur Gasparinisaura, which was named after her.

  76. María Teresa Dova

    María Teresa Dova
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    20th Century
    Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
    In 1988 graduated with doctorate
    Occupations
    physicist
    Biography

    María Teresa Dova is an Argentine physicist. She is a senior researcher at National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina and professor in the Physics Department of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at the National University of La Plata.

  77. Cecilia Lueza

    Cecilia Lueza
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1971-.. (age 53)
    Occupations
    sculptorpainter
    Biography

    Cecilia Lueza is an Argentine-American painter and sculptor.

  78. Alfredo Martínez

    Alfredo Martínez
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1951-.. (age 73)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Alfredo Anselmo "Fredi" Martínez is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician. He sat in the Argentine Senate representing Santa Cruz Province from 2005 to 2017.

  79. Jorge Sahade

    Jorge Sahade
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1915-2012 (aged 97)
    Occupations
    astrophysicistuniversity teacherastronomer
    Biography

    Jorge Sahade was an Argentine astronomer with more than 200 publications in journals and conferences. He was the first Latin American to achieve the presidency of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) between 1985 and 1988, and was also the first director of the Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales. He held this position between 1991 and 1994.

  80. Germán López

    Germán López
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1919-1989 (aged 70)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Germán Osvaldo López was an Argentine politician who served as minister of defense of Raúl Alfonsín.

  81. Gloria Dubner

    Gloria Dubner
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1950-.. (age 74)
    Occupations
    astronomerastrophysicist
    Biography

    Gloria Dubner is an Argentinian astrophysicist and Director of the Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio in Buenos Aires and a Senior Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council. She is known for her research on supernovas.

  82. Leticia Cugliandolo

    Leticia Cugliandolo
    Years
    1965-.. (age 59)
    Occupations
    physicist
    Biography

    Leticia Fernanda Cugliandolo is an Argentine condensed matter physicist known for her research on non-equilibrium thermodynamics, spin glass, and glassy systems. She works in France as a professor of physics at the Sorbonne University.

  83. Teófilo Tabanera

    Teófilo Tabanera
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1909-1981 (aged 72)
    Occupations
    engineer
    Biography

    Teófilo Tabanera was an Argentine engineer and air force officer and an instrumental figure in space exploration.

  84. José Luis Sérsic

    José Luis Sérsic
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1933-1993 (aged 60)
    Occupations
    astronomer
    Biography

    José Luis Sérsic was an Argentine astronomer who studied the morphology of galaxies. He is most widely known for the mathematical model of galaxy brightness, the Sersic profile, which bears his name. José Luis Sérsic first published his law in 1963.

  85. Gustavo Esteban Romero

    Gustavo Esteban Romero
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1964-.. (age 60)
    Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
    Studied in 1984-1991
    Occupations
    university teacherastrophysicist
    Biography

    Gustavo E. Romero is a professor of Relativistic Astrophysics at the University of La Plata in Argentina. In addition to his academic role, he serves as a Superior Researcher of the National Research Council of Argentina. Romero also holds the position of Director of the Argentine Institute of Radio Astronomy. Additionally, Romero has previously served as President of the Argentine Astronomical Society and is currently the leader of the GARRA research group and a Helmholtz International Fellow.

  86. Miguel Ángel Virasoro

    Miguel Ángel Virasoro
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1900-1966 (aged 66)
    Occupations
    philosophertranslator
    Biography

    Miguel Ángel Virasoro was an Argentine philosopher.

  87. Oreste Piro

    Oreste Piro
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    biophysicistuniversity teacherphysicist
    Biography

    Oreste Piro is a dynamical systems theorist and biophysicist. He is at the Universitat de les Illes Balears in Palma de Mallorca.

  88. Raúl Adolfo Ringuelet

    Raúl Adolfo Ringuelet
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1914-1982 (aged 68)
    Occupations
    arachnologistlimnologistecologist
    Biography

    Raúl Adolfo Ringuelet Ph.D. was an Argentine zoologist.

  89. Adela Ringuelet

    Adela Ringuelet
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1930-2023 (aged 93)
    Occupations
    astronomerastrophysicist
    Biography

    Adela Emilia Ringuelet was an Argentine astrophysicist and astronomer at the Félix Aguilar Observatory in Argentina.

  90. Oscar R. Gómez

    Oscar R. Gómez
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1956-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    psychoanalystwriter
    Biography

    Oscar R. Gómez is an Argentine writer, psychoanalyst and academic researcher who became renown as an integrator of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism with Western formal sciences and who constituted the first religious organization in Argentina engaged in the Tantric Worship practice in children and adults.

  91. Ernesto Ueltschi

    Ernesto Ueltschi
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1922-2014 (aged 92)
    Occupations
    lawyer
    Biography

    Ernesto Arturo Ueltschi was an Argentine politician, lawyer, and teacher. Ueltschi served as the Governor of Mendoza from May 1, 1958, until October 12, 1961. His political career spanned from 1940 until 1995, when he tendered his resignation from the Integration and Development Movement (MID).

  92. Emma de Cartosio

    Emma de Cartosio
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1928-2013 (aged 85)
    Occupations
    writerpoet
    Biography

    Emma de Cartosio was an Argentine writer, poet, storyteller, essayist and teacher. The Emma de Cartosio poetry contest was established in Entre Ríos Province in 2015.

  93. Mario Zaritzky

    Mario Zaritzky
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1956-.. (age 68)
    Occupations
    surgeon
    Biography

    Mario Zaritzky is MD, scientist and inventor and currently lives and works as an associate professor of Radiology at Jackson Memorial Center. Previously, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatric Radiology Department of Radiology, University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Zaritzky coordinated the Argentine Network of Science in Midwestern, United States, from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation Programme of Argentina.

  94. Jorge Sarghini

    Jorge Sarghini
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    economistpolitician
    Biography

    Jorge Emilio Sarghini is an Argentine economist and politician. Historically a member of the Justicialist Party, Sarghini has served in a number of political posts throughout his career, most notably as a member and president of the Buenos Aires Province Chamber of Deputies, as Minister of Economy of Buenos Aires Province during the successive administrations of Eduardo Duhalde and Carlos Ruckauf, and briefly as Secretary of Communications during Duhalde's interim presidency in 2002.

  95. Arturo Vera

    Arturo Vera
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1946-.. (age 78)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Arturo Vera is an Argentine Radical Civic Union politician. He was a member of the Argentine Senate representing Entre Ríos Province from 2007 to 2013.

  96. Carlos Lousto

    Carlos Lousto
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Occupations
    researcherastrophysicistmathematician
    Biography

    Carlos O. Lousto is a Distinguished Professor in the School of Mathematical Sciences in Rochester Institute of Technology, known for his work on black hole collisions.

  97. Hector Borda Leaño

    Hector Borda Leaño
    Born in
    Bolivia Flag Bolivia
    Years
    1927-2022 (aged 95)
    Occupations
    writerpoliticianacademicpoetanthropologist
    Biography

    Héctor Borda Leaño was a Bolivian politician, anthropologist and poet. He was born into an intellectual family as son of a farmacologist from Potosí and a lady of landowner gentry from Sucre. His father and two uncles fought in the Chaco war, and much of his childhood was marked by difficulties. Borda joined the Falange Socialista Boliviana (FSB), as a teenager in the early 1940s. Eventually he was elected for this party to the national congress 1966-1969. In the early 1970s he broke out from the FSB together with Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz and Walter Vasquez Michel. After the military coup led by Hugo Banzer in 1971 Borda was forced into exile, first to Argentina and again in 1977 to Sweden. He returned to Bolivia in 1982 as elected senator for the newly formed Partido Socialista (PS-1).

  98. Nidia Morrell

    Nidia Morrell
    Born in
    Argentina Flag Argentina
    Years
    1953-.. (age 71)
    Occupations
    astronomer
    Biography

    Nidia Irene Morrell is an Argentine astronomer who is a permanent staff member at the Las Campanas Observatory in La Serena, Chile. She was a member of the Massive Stars research group led by Virpi Niemelä and the Hubble Heritage Project. Professionally, she is known for her numerous contributions related to the astrophysics of massive stars. She participates in the systematic search for variations of brightness in stellar objects, including the observation of a candidate for the Thorne–Żytkow object. She was also a member of the team that discovered the supernova ASASSN-15lh.

  99. Ofelia Olivero

    Ofelia Olivero
    Enrolled in the National University of La Plata
    Graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in cytogenetics
    Occupations
    biologistmedical researcher
    Biography

    Ofelia Ana Olivero is an Argentine-American biologist specialized in HIV/AIDS and biomedical research. She pioneered the discovery of nucleoside analogs induced centrosomal amplification and aneuploidy while working as a senior staff scientist at the National Cancer Institute. In 2016, she became chief of the NCI diversity intramural workforce branch.

  100. Julio José Gustavo Sardagna

    Julio José Gustavo Sardagna
    Years
    1932-2009 (aged 77)
    Occupations
    physiciansurgeonneurologist
    Biography

    Julio José Gustavo Sardagna was an Argentine neurologist and neurosurgeon.