14 Notable alumni of
National University of Trujillo
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The National University of Trujillo is 1892nd in the world, 78th in Latin America, and 7th in Peru by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 14 notable alumni from the National University of Trujillo sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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César Vallejo
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- translatorwriterjournalistplaywrightshort story writer
- Biography
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César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. Although he published only two books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century in any language. He was always a step ahead of literary currents, and each of his books was distinct from the others, and, in its own sense, revolutionary. Thomas Merton called him "the greatest universal poet since Dante". The late British poet, critic and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, called Vallejo "the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language." He was a member of the intellectual community called North Group formed in the Peruvian north coastal city of Trujillo.
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Ciro Alegría
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- translatorwriteruniversity teacherjournalistpolitician
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Ciro Alegría Bazán was a Peruvian journalist, politician, and novelist.
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Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre
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- lawyerpoliticianpolitical activistpolitical theoristjurist
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Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre was a Peruvian politician, philosopher, and author who founded the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA) political movement, the oldest currently existing political party in Peru by the name of the Peruvian Aprista Party (PAP).
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María Julia Mantilla
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- modelbusinesspersonbeauty pageant contestantathleteactor
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María Julia "Maju" Mantilla García is a Peruvian actress, dancer, model, teacher and beauty queen who won Miss World 2004 in China.
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Rosa Bartra
- Enrolled in the National University of Trujillo
- Studied in 1991-1996
- Occupations
- pharmacistpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Rosa María Bartra Barriga is a Peruvian lawyer, politician and pharmaceutical chemist who served as a congresswoman for La Libertad from 2016 to 2020. She successfully ran for the post of parliamentarian in the 2016 elections with the Fujimorist party, Popular Force and in the 2020 elections with National Solidarity, failing to be elected, being invited by these two political organizations on both occasions.
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Antenor Orrego
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- journalistpoliticianphilosopheressayist
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Antenor Orrego Espinoza was a Peruvian writer and political philosopher of Basque ancestry. He was a member of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA). The Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego (Antenor Orrego Private University), founded in Trujillo, Peru in 1988, is named after him.
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Héctor Becerril
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- politician
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Héctor Virgilio Becerril Rodríguez is a Peruvian Fujimorist politician and pharmaceutical chemist. He was a congressman in the period 2011-2016 representing the department of Amazonas and in the period 2016-2019 representing the department of Lambayeque.
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Walter Alva
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- archaeologistanthropologist
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Walter Alva, born Walter Alva Alva, is a Peruvian archaeologist specializing in the study and excavation of the prehistoric Moche culture. He is known for two major finds: the tomb of the Lord of Sipan and related people in 1987, and 2007.
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Luis de la Puente Uceda
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- politicianrevolutionary
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Luis de la Puente Uceda was a Peruvian activist, politician, land reformer, and guerrilla who protested against the political coexistence and coalition between his party, American Popular Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), and the conservative forces who supported the second government of Manuel Prado Ugarteche (1956-1962), and helped pioneer land reform in Peru.
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Luis Alva Castro
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- economistpoliticiancivil servant
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Luis Juan Alva Castro is a Peruvian economist and politician. In his political career, he achieved the government positions of Second Vice President of Peru, Prime Minister of Peru, President of the Congress and among other portfolios during both administrations of President Alan García.
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Allan Wagner
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Edward Allan Wagner Tizón is a Peruvian diplomat who most recently served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from February 2021 to July 2021. He previously served twice in the position from 2002 to 2003 and from 1985 to 1988. In addition, he served as Minister of Defense from 2006 to 2007.
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Eduardo González Viaña
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- novelistjournalistwriter
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Eduardo González Viaña is a writer and professor of Spanish at Western Oregon University.
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Carlos Hugo Garrido Chalén
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- writer
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Carlos Hugo Garrido Chalén is a Peruvian poet award winner World Literature "Andres Bello" version poetry, 2009 in Venezuela, this poet has been declared living cultural Heritage of the Nation by the National Institute of Culture of the Peruvian republic. He studied journalism and law at the National University of Trujillo. Garrido Chalén is one of the present representatives of the North Group that was born in Trujillo city in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Ramón Kobashigawa Kobashigawa
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- politician
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Ramón Kobashigawa Kobashigawa was a Peruvian Fujimorist politician and a former Congressman, representing the La Libertad Region between 2011 and 2016 under the Popular Force party.
