37 Notable alumni of
University of Antioquia
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The University of Antioquia is 871st in the world, 29th in Latin America, and 6th in Colombia by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 37 notable alumni from the University of Antioquia sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Karol G
- Enrolled in the University of Antioquia
- Studied music
- Occupations
- singer-songwriter
- Biography
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Carolina Giraldo Navarro, known professionally as Karol G, is a Colombian singer and songwriter. Considered as one of the most influential reggaeton and urban pop artists, she has received awards including a Grammy, eight Latin Grammy Awards (including Album of the Year and Song of the Year) and five Billboard Music Awards. She was recognized as Woman of the Year and with a Rulebreaker Award at Billboard Women in Music, with the Spirit of Hope Award at the Billboard Latin Music Awards, and has eleven Guinness World Records.
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Álvaro Uribe Vélez
- Occupations
- lawyerwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Álvaro Uribe Vélez CYC is a Colombian politician who served as the 32nd President of Colombia from the 7th of August, 2002 to the 7th of August, 2010. He is member and leader of the right-wing political party Democratic Center.
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Carolina Ramírez
- Occupations
- ballet danceractor
- Biography
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Carolina Ramírez is a Colombian actress. She is best known for her roles in television as La hija del mariachi, and her portrayal of revolutionary Policarpa Salavarrieta in La Pola.
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Feid
- Occupations
- songwriterrappersingerrecord producer
- Biography
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Salomón Villada Hoyos, better known by his stage names Feid and Ferxxo, is a Colombian singer, songwriter, and record producer. Born in Medellín, Colombia, he has worked with several well-known singers including Bad Bunny, J Balvin, Sebastián Yatra, Manuel Turizo, Maluma, and Karol G.
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Sergio Fajardo
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianenvironmentalistjournalistmathematician
- Biography
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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 was 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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Julián Román
- Occupations
- television presenteractortelevision actor
- Biography
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Julián Edgardo Román Rey is a Colombian actor, has been involved in theater, film and television.
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Francisco Maturana
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football coach
- Biography
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Francisco Antonio Maturana García, also known as Pacho Maturana is a Colombian ex-football player and football manager. Under his management, Atletico Nacional was the first team of the nation to win the Copa Libertadores in 1989, and the Colombia national football team to win Colombia's first ever International title: the Copa America in 2001.
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Tomás Carrasquilla
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Tomás Carrasquilla Naranjo was a Colombian writer who lived in the Antioquia region. He dedicated himself to very simple jobs: tailor, secretary of a judge, storekeeper in a mine, and worker at the Ministry of Public Works. He was an avid reader, and one of the most original Colombian literary writers, greatly influencing the younger generation of his time and later generations. Carrasquilla was little known in his time, according to Federico de Onís, a scholar of Carrasquilla's works. It was only after 1936, when he was already 78 years old, when he was awarded with the National Prize of Literature, that Carrasquilla got a national recognition. Tomás Carrasquilla Library Park is named in his honor.
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Mariano Ospina Pérez
- Occupations
- mining engineercivil engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Luis Mariano Ospina Pérez, commonly known as Mariano Ospina Pérez, was a Colombian politician and a member of the Colombian Conservative Party. He served as the 18th President of Colombia between 1946 and 1950.
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Rafael Uribe Uribe
- Occupations
- military personnelpoliticianlawyerdiplomatjournalist
- Biography
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Rafael Victor Zenón Uribe Uribe was a Colombian lawyer, journalist, and general in the liberal party rebel army.
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Julieth Restrepo
- Occupations
- modeltelevision actorfilm directoractor
- Biography
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Julieth Restrepo is a Colombian model and actress.
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Gustavo Quintero
- Occupations
- singer-songwritermusician
- Biography
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Gustavo de Jesus Quintero Morales, better known as "El Loko", was a Colombian singer-songwriter. He is considered one of the great representatives of the Colombian tropical music.
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Daniel Quintero
- Occupations
- politicianbusinesspersonelectronic engineer
- Biography
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Daniel Quintero Calle is a Colombian politician who served as the mayor of Medellín between 2020 and 2023. Quintero was controversially suspended from 10 May to 21 June 2022 by inspector general Margarita Cabello Blanco for allegedly attempting to interfere in the 2022 presidential election. The youngest individual to hold that office thus far, Quintero was previously the Deputy Minister of the Digital Economy from 2016 to 2017, in the government of President Juan Manuel Santos.
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Mariano Ospina Rodríguez
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticianjournalist
- Biography
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Mariano Ospina Rodríguez was a Colombian politician, journalist and lawyer, founder of the Colombian Conservative Party and later President of Colombia between 1857 and 1861 during the Granadine Confederation.
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León de Greiff
- Years
- 1895-1976 (aged 81)
- Occupations
- musicologistpoetjournalistdiplomat
- Biography
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Francisco de Asís León Bogislao de Greiff Haeusler, was a Colombian poet known for his stylistic innovations and deliberately eclectic use of obscure lexicon. Best known simply as León de Greiff, he often used different pen names. The most popular were Leo le Gris and Gaspar Von Der Nacht. De Greiff was one of the founders of Los Panidas, a literary and artistic group established in 1915 in the city of Medellín.
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Pedro Nel Ospina Vázquez
- Occupations
- mining engineerengineerpolitician
- Biography
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Pedro Nel Ignacio Tomás de Villanueva Ospina Vásquez was a Colombian general and political figure. He served as president of Colombia between 1922 and 1926.
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Gonzalo Arango
- Occupations
- librarianpoetjournalistphilosopher
- Biography
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Gonzalo Arango Arias was a Colombian writer, poet, and journalist. In 1958 he led a modern literary and cultural movement known as Nadaism (Nothing-ism), inspired by surrealism, French existentialism, beat generation, dadaism, and influenced by the Colombian writer and philosopher Fernando González Ochoa.
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Ilia Calderón
- Occupations
- journalisttelevision presenter
- Biography
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Ilia Calderón Chamat is a Colombian journalist. Born in Chocó, Calderón currently works as the news anchor for Univision's national evening newscast Noticiero N+ Univision. She is also the presenter of the Univision weekly newsmagazine Aquí y Ahora.
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Carlos Gaviria Díaz
- Occupations
- lawyerjudgeuniversity teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Carlos Gaviria Díaz was a Colombian lawyer, professor and politician. He served as the 5th Chief Magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Colombia, where he served as a Magistrate from 1993 to 2001. After retiring from the Court he went into politics, becoming a Senator of Colombia in 2002, and running for President as an Alternative Democratic Pole candidate in the 2006 presidential election, ultimately losing to ex-president Álvaro Uribe Vélez, who was seeking his second term in office.
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Iván Velásquez Gómez
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Iván Velásquez Gómez is a Colombian lawyer, jurist, academic, politician and diplomat who has served as Ambassador of Colombia to the Holy See and the Order of Malta since 2025. He served as Minister of national defence and head of the international commission against impunity in Guatemala.
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Víctor Gaviria
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwriter
- Biography
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Víctor Manuel Gaviria González is a Colombian film director, writer and poet. His four feature-length films are acclaimed and have won many international awards. He is the first Colombian filmmaker to be featured at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Andrés Cadavid
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Andrés Felipe Cadavid Cardona, known as Andrés Cadavid, is a Colombian footballer who plays for Envigado Fútbol Club.
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Fidel Cano Gutiérrez
- Occupations
- journalistpolitician
- Biography
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Fidel Cano Gutiérrez was a Colombian journalist, founder of El Espectador, Colombia's oldest newspaper.
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Fernando González
- Occupations
- philosopherjudgewriter
- Biography
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Fernando González Ochoa, was a Colombian writer and existentialist philosopher known as "el filósofo de Otraparte" (The Philosopher from Elsewhere). He wrote about sociology, history, art, morality, economics, epistemology and theology in a humorous, and creative style, in various genres of literature. González is considered one of the most original writers of Colombia during the 20th century. His ideas were controversial and had a great influence in the Colombian society at his time and still today. González work inspired Nadaism, a literary and cultural movement founded by Gonzalo Arango and some other writers, poets and painters that surrounded him. His Otraparte house in Envigado, is today a museum and the headquarters of the cultural foundation to preserve and promote his legacy. His house was declared a National Patrimony of Colombia in 2006.
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Fernando Pérez
- Occupations
- programmerprofessor
- Biography
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Fernando Pérez is a Colombian physicist, software developer, and free software advocate. He is best known as the creator of the IPython programming environment, for which he received the 2012 Free Software Award from the Free Software Foundation and for his work on Project Jupyter for which he received the 2017 ACM Software System Award. He is a fellow of the Python Software Foundation, and a founding member of the NumFOCUS organization.
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Jesús Abad Colorado
- Occupations
- photojournalist
- Biography
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Jesús Abad Colorado is a Colombian photojournalist. His work focuses on human rights and armed conflict.
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Fabio Valencia Cossio
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Fabio Valencia Cossio is a Colombian lawyer and politician. A Conservative party leader and politician, Valencia was first elected to Congress in 1982 as Representative for the department of Antioquia, continuing to be re-elected until 1991 when he successfully ran for Senate, where he rose to national prominence and was elected President of the Senate in 1998. In 2001, President Andrés Pastrana Arango appointed him Ambassador of Colombia to Italy with dual accreditation to Greece, Malta, San Marino, Cyprus, and the United Nations' agencies in Rome. He also served as the 4th Minister of the Interior and Justice of Colombia during the second administration of President Álvaro Uribe Vélez.
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Teresita Gómez
- Occupations
- pianist
- Biography
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María Teresa Gómez Arteaga, also known as Teresa Gómez and Teresita Gómez, is a Colombian pianist and music educator.
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Iván Marulanda
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Luis Iván Marulanda Gómez is a Colombian politician and economist. He was elected senator for the Colombian Green Party for the 2018–2022 term. He was previously a member of Colombian Liberal Party, where he was elected senator for four years (1986–1990). Liberals nominated him for Vice President of Colombia in the 2006 presidential election.
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Isabel Zuleta
- Occupations
- animal rights advocateenvironmentalisthuman rights defendersociologistwomen's rights activist
- Biography
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Isabel Cristina Zuleta López is a Colombian activist, environmental advocate, and politician. An outspoken defender of environmental, women's, and human rights, she is recognized for her leadership in grassroots movements resisting extractivist megaprojects and defending the rights of marginalized communities.
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Liborio Mejía
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Liborio Mejía Gutiérrez was a Colombian colonel and politician during the struggle for Independence from Spain, and in 1816 Liborio Mejía became president of the United Provinces of the New Granada making him the youngest person to ever hold the presidency of Colombia at the age of 24. He was executed three months later during the Reconquista led by the Spaniard Pablo Morillo.
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Amilkar Acosta Medina
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Amilkar David Acosta Medina is a Colombian economist, and the 31st Minister of Mines and Energy of Colombia, serving in the administration of President Juan Manuel Santos Calderón. A former member of the Board of Directors of Ecopetrol and of the National Federation of Biofuels, Acosta was a professor of mining law at the Universidad Externado de Colombia, and had served as Deputy Minister of Mines and Energy from 1990 to 1991.
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Leonor Zalabata
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Leonor Zalabata Torres is a Colombian Arhuaco politician, writer, chronicler and defender of human rights. Zabalata has worked for the vindication and rights of indigenous communities since her leadership role and was part of the Constituent Assembly of Colombia.
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Enrique Gil Botero
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Enrique de Jesús Gil Botero is a Colombian politician and lawyer, who was a Magistrate of the State Council, rapporteur of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and a specialist in Administrative and Constitutional Law.
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Carlos Vieco Ortiz
- Years
- 1900-1979 (aged 79)
- Occupations
- composer
- Biography
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Carlos Vieco Ortiz was a musician and composer from Medellín, Colombia. The open air theater on Nutibara Hill in Medellín is named after him.
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Cecilia María Vélez
- Occupations
- economistbusinesspersonpolitician
- Biography
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Cecilia María Vélez White is a Colombian economist, politician and business executive. She served as Colombia's Secretary of Education (from 1998) and Minister of Education from 2002 to 2010. Since 2011, she has been President of Jorge Tadeo Lozano University. In April 2021, she was appointed an independent board member of the Colombian petroleum company Ecopetrol.
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John Paul Ospina
- Occupations
- singersongwriter
- Biography
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John Paul Ospina Morales, is a Colombian singer, songwriter, producer, actor and TV host. He is well known for his participation on Latin American Idol (Season 1), aired by Sony Entertainment Television Latin America, and for hosting the Latin version of E! News for E! Entertainment Television Latin America.
