17 Notable alumni of
National University of Tucuman
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The National University of Tucuman is 1941st in the world, 81st in Latin America, and 10th in Argentina by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 17 notable alumni from the National University of Tucuman 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 Pelli
- Enrolled in the National University of Tucuman
- In 1948 studied architecture
- Occupations
- university teacherentrepreneurarchitect
- Biography
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César Pelli was an Argentine-American architect who designed some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. Two of his most notable buildings are the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur and the World Financial Center in New York City. The American Institute of Architects named him one of the ten most influential living American architects in 1991 and awarded him the AIA Gold Medal in 1995. In 2008, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat presented him with The Lynn S. Beedle Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Cristina Perez
- Enrolled in the National University of Tucuman
- 1991-1992 graduated with not completed
- Occupations
- actorjournalistwriter
- Biography
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Cristina Pérez is an Argentine television news journalist. Since 2002, she has worked alongside Rodolfo Barilli, as news anchor of Telefe's Telefe Noticias a las 20 ("Telefe News at 8 PM").
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Juan Manzur
- Occupations
- politiciansurgeon
- Biography
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Juan Luis Manzur is an Argentine surgeon and politician currently serving as a National Senator for Tucumán Province. A member of the Justicialist Party, he previously served as Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers from 2021 to 2023, under President Alberto Fernández. He previously served as Minister of Health of Argentina from 2009 to 2015, and as Governor of Tucumán from 2015 to 2021.
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Tomás Eloy Martínez
- Occupations
- journalistwriterscreenwriteruniversity teacher
- Biography
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Tomás Eloy Martínez was an Argentine journalist and writer.
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Leda Valladares
- Occupations
- ethnographerwritermusicianfolklorist
- Biography
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Leda Valladares was an Argentine singer, songwriter, musicologist, folklorist, and poet. Born in San Miguel de Tucumán in northern Argentina, she grew up surrounded by both classical European music and the folk music of the Amerindian people living in the area. From a young age she studied piano and in her teens began a band with her brother that explored folk music, jazz, and blues. She published works of poetry throughout her life. Although she began her university studies at the National University of Tucumán as an English major, after a year she changed course and studied philosophy and education, graduating in 1948. Her schooling was interrupted by a foray into the study of music at the Academy of Fine Art and in independent research among those who performed traditional folk music.
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Joaquín Morales Solá
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Joaquín Morales Solá is an Argentine political journalist. Since 2003 he started working for news television channel Todo Noticias and since 1993 he became a political columnist for the conservative newspaper La Nación.
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Silvana Tenreyro
- Years
- 1976-.. (age 48)
- Occupations
- economistuniversity teacher
- Biography
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María Silvana Tenreyro is a British-Argentine economist who is professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and an external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee since July 2017. She served as the president of the European Economic Association for 2021.
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José Manuel Cano
- Occupations
- politiciandentist
- Biography
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José Manuel Cano is an Argentine dentist and politician of the Radical Civic Union (UCR). He was a National Deputy from 2013 to 2015, and later from 2017 to 2021. He also served as a National Senator for his home province of Tucumán from 2009 to 2013.
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José Ignacio García Hamilton
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- journalistlawyerhistorianpolitician
- Biography
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José Ignacio García Hamilton was an Argentine writer, noted historian, lawyer and politician. He was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for the Radical Civic Union representing Tucumán Province.
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Violeta Hemsy de Gainza
- Occupations
- pianistwritermusic teacher
- Biography
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Violeta Hemsy de Gainza was an Argentine pianist and music pedagogue. She focused on the music education of children, improvisation and music therapy, considering learning music a human right. Her books were translated into many languages. She served in international organisations, as a board member of the International Society for Music Education from 1985 to 1990, and as president of the Latin American Forum of Musical Education from its foundation in 1995 to 2005.
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Guillermo Snopek
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Guillermo Eugenio Mario Snopek is an Argentine politician of the Justicialist Party. He has served as a National Senator for Jujuy Province from 2017 to 2023, having served in lower chamber of Congress from 2015 to 2017 and in the Legislature of Jujuy from 2009 to 2015.
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Ana Falú
- Occupations
- architect
- Biography
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Ana María Falú is an Argentine architect and a social activist for human rights and for women's rights. She has been Regional Director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM; now part of UN Women) for the Andean Region (2002–2004) and for Brazil and the Southern Cone Countries (2004–2009). She is a researcher and Professor at the National University of Córdoba (UNC), where she is the Director of the Housing and Habitat Research Institute (INVIHAB). In the field of feminist action, she promoted numerous institutional initiatives and contributed to the establishment of women's rights to the city, to housing, and to the habitat. She is co-founder of the Women and Habitat Network of Latin America, of the Centro de Intercambio y Servicios para el Cono Sur Argentina (CISCSA), of UNC's Interdisciplinary Program of Women's and Gender Studies (PIEMG), and of Articulación Feminista Marcosur, among other areas of action in favor of women's rights. In 2013 she won the Feminist Career Award together with other Argentine women.
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Walter Barrionuevo
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Walter Basilio Barrionuevo is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, and governor of Jujuy Province.
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Liliana Fellner
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Liliana Beatriz Fellner is an Argentine politician. She was a National Senator representing Jujuy Province from 2005 to 2017, and a National Deputy elected in the same province from 2003 to 2005.
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Mario Acuña
- Occupations
- astrophysicist
- Biography
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Mario Acuña was an Argentine research scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the Space Plasmas and Planetary Magnetospheres Branches, and then as a Senior Astrophysicist. He was a major pioneer in the field of planetary magnetism.
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Pedro R. David
- Years
- 1929-2022 (aged 93)
- Occupations
- judge
- Biography
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Pedro R. David was an Argentine magistrate.
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María Elisa Castro
- Occupations
- politicianarchitect
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María Elisa Castro is an Argentine architect and politician from the Justicialist Party (PJ), who served as national senator for the Santiago del Estero Province between 2001 and 2007. By lot, she was awarded a six-year term that ended in 2007.
