100 Notable alumni of
University of Buenos Aires
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The University of Buenos Aires is 82nd in the world, 3rd in Latin America, and 1st in Argentina by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Buenos Aires sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. 1 individual affiliated with the University of Buenos Aires won Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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Che Guevara
- Enrolled in the University of Buenos Aires
- 1948-1953 studied medicine
- Occupations
- partisanrevolutionary
- Biography
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Ernesto "Che " Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a ubiquitous countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.
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Pope Francis
- Enrolled in the University of Buenos Aires
- Graduated with master's degree in chemistry
- Occupations
- writerCatholic bishopLatin Catholic priesttheologianchemist
- Biography
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Pope Francis is the head of the Catholic Church, the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He is the only pope to be a member of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), the only one from the Americas, the only one from the Southern Hemisphere, and the only one born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century papacy of the Syrian Pope Gregory III.
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Julio Cortázar
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- writer
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Julio Florencio Cortázar was an Argentine, naturalised French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in America and Europe.
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Alberto Fernández
- Enrolled in the University of Buenos Aires
- Graduated with Título de abogado
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Alberto Ángel Fernández is an Argentine politician, lawyer, and academic who served as 57th president of Argentina from 2019 to 2023.
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Raúl Alfonsín
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- politicianlawyer
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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".
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Hipólito Yrigoyen
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- authorpoliticianlawyer
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Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union and two-time President of Argentina, who served his first term from 1916 to 1922 and his second term from 1928 to 1930. He was the first president elected democratically by means of the secret and mandatory male suffrage established by the Sáenz Peña Law of 1912. His activism was the prime impetus behind the passage of that law in Argentina.
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Arturo Frondizi
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- lawyeruniversity teacherpoliticianjuristjournalist
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Arturo Frondizi Ércoli was an Argentine lawyer, journalist, teacher and politician, who was elected President of Argentina and ruled between May 1, 1958, and March 29, 1962, when he was overthrown by a military coup.
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Luciana Pedraza
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- film actorscreenwritereconomist
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Luciana Pedraza is an Argentine actress and director. She is married to American actor Robert Duvall, who is exactly 41 years her senior. She is the granddaughter of Argentine aviation pioneer Susana Ferrari Billinghurst.
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Arturo Umberto Illia
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- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Arturo Umberto Illia was an Argentine politician and physician, who was President of Argentina from 12 October 1963, to 28 June 1966. He was a member of the centrist Radical Civic Union.
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Alejandra Pizarnik
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- translatorwriterpoetlinguistliterary critic
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'Flora' Alejandra Pizarnik was an Argentine poet. Her idiosyncratic and thematically introspective poetry has been considered "one of the most unusual bodies of work in Latin American literature", and has been recognized and celebrated for its fixation on "the limitation of language, silence, the body, night, the nature of intimacy, madness, death".
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Axel Kicillof
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- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Axel Kicillof is an Argentine Peronist economist and politician who has been Governor of Buenos Aires Province since 2019.
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Carlos Bilardo
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- gynaecologistassociation football playerphysicianassociation football managerjournalist
- Biography
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Carlos Salvador Bilardo Digiano is an Argentine former physician, football player, and manager.
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Eduardo Duhalde
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Eduardo Alberto Duhalde is an Argentine former peronist politician who served as the interim President of Argentina from January 2002 to May 2003. He also served as Vice President and Governor of Buenos Aires in the 1990s.
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Janet Hsieh
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- violinisttelevision presentertaekwondo athlete
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Janet Josephine Hsieh is a Taiwanese-American television personality, model, and violinist based in Taipei, Taiwan. She is the host of the Discovery Travel and Living Channel's long-running series Fun Taiwan. The program is currently in its 16th season and has expanded to include Fun Asia, Fun Taiwan Challenge,Fun Taiwan All Stars, and Aquachallenge. She has been nominated four times and won once for the Taiwanese Golden Bell Awards as Best Host of a Travel Program, and once for Best Host of a Variety Program.
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Horacio Rodríguez Larreta
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- politicianinternational forum participanteconomist
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Horacio Rodríguez Larreta is an Argentine economist, politician and the former Chief of Government of the City of Buenos Aires. Larreta was re-elected in 2019 with almost 56% of the votes, becoming the first candidate to win a mayoral election in the first round since the adoption of Buenos Aires's autonomous constitution. He won in every comuna, except Comuna 4 and Comuna 8.
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Jorge Bucay
- Enrolled in the University of Buenos Aires
- In 1973 studied medicine
- Occupations
- writerpsychotherapistplaywrightphysicianpsychologist
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Jorge Bucay is an Argentine gestalt psychotherapist, psychodramatist and writer. His books have sold more than 2 million copies around the world, and have been translated into more than seventeen languages.
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Nicolás Avellaneda
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- journalistpoliticianlawyer
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Nicolás Remigio Aurelio Avellaneda Silva was an Argentine politician and journalist, and President of Argentina from 1874 to 1880. Avellaneda's main projects while in office were banking and education reform, leading to Argentina's economic growth. The most important events of his government were the Conquest of the Desert and the transformation of the Buenos Aires into a federal district.
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Adolfo Bioy Casares
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- journalistwriterscreenwritereditor
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Adolfo Bioy Casares was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, diarist, and translator. He was a friend and frequent collaborator with his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges. He is the author of the Fantastique novel The Invention of Morel.
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Juan Grabois
- Enrolled in the University of Buenos Aires
- In 2010 graduated with Licentiate in law
- Occupations
- professor
- Biography
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Juan Grabois is an Argentine lawyer, professor, writer and social leader. He is the founder of the Movimiento de Trabajadores Excluidos ("Excluded Workers Movement"; MTE), the Confederation of Popular Economy Workers (CTEP, now known as UTEP), and the Patria Grande Front.
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Victoria Villarruel
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- politicianlawyer
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Victoria Eugenia Villarruel is an Argentine politician, lawyer, writer, and activist who has served as vice president of Argentina since 2023. Described as an ultraconservative politician, she is the founder of the civil association Centro de Estudios Legales sobre el Terrorismo y sus Víctimas (transl. Center for Legal Studies on Terrorism and its Victims), which she has chaired since its inception. She was a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies from 2021 to 2023. Villarruel belongs to the La Libertad Avanza political coalition. She has been accused of Argentine state terrorism denial by several media outlets and human rights organisations. Villarruel denies such accusations, maintaining that she does not support the last Argentine military dictatorship.
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Adolfo Rodríguez Saá
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- politicianlawyer
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Adolfo Rodríguez Saá is an Argentine Peronist politician. Born in a family that was highly influential in the history of the San Luis Province, he became the province's governor in 1983, after the end of the National Reorganization Process military dictatorship. He remained governor up to 2001, being re-elected in successive elections.
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Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear
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- politiciansport shooterlawyer
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Máximo Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear Pacheco, was an Argentine lawyer and politician, who served as president of Argentina between from 1922 to 1928.
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Paula Pareto
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- traumatologistjudoka
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Paula Belén Pareto is an Argentine retired judoka and physician. She was the flag bearer for her country at the closing ceremony of the 2016 Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Julio César Strassera
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- judgelawyer
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Julio César Strassera was an Argentine lawyer and jurist. He served as Chief Prosecutor during the Trial of the Juntas in 1985.
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Ernesto Laclau
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- university teachersociologistphilosopher
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Ernesto Laclau was an Argentine political theorist and philosopher. He is often described as an 'inventor' of post-Marxist political theory. He is well known for his collaborations with his long-term partner, Chantal Mouffe.
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Nancy Dupláa
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- actor
- Biography
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Nancy Verónica Dupláa is an Argentine actress.
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Marcela Iacub
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- poet lawyerwriterlawyer
- Biography
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Marcela Iacub is an Argentine writer and jurist specializing in bioethics research, living in France. In 2013, Iacub was successfully sued for invasion of privacy by Dominique Strauss-Kahn: her novel Belle et Bête included a character based on him.
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Roberto Lavagna
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- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Roberto Lavagna is an Argentine economist and politician who was Minister of Economy and Production from April 27, 2002 until November 28, 2005.
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Julieta Lanteri
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- women's rights activistsuffragettepharmacologistphysicianpolitician
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Julieta Lanteri was an Argentine physician, leading freethinker, and activist for women's rights in Argentina as well as for social reform generally.
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Luis Moreno Ocampo
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- university teacherpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Luis Moreno Ocampo is an Argentine lawyer who served as the first Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) from 2003 to 2012. Previously, he had played a major role in Argentina's democratic transition (1983–1991).
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Eduardo Feinmann
- Enrolled in the University of Buenos Aires
- Graduated with Licentiate in law
- Occupations
- journalistlawyerradio personality
- Biography
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Guillermo Eduardo Feinmann is an Argentine journalist, columnist, and lawyer. He works on Radio Rivadavia and La Nación.
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Saskia Sassen
- Occupations
- writeruniversity teachereconomistsociologisturban planner
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Saskia Sassen is a Dutch-American sociologist noted for her analyses of globalization and international human migration. She is a professor of sociology at Columbia University in New York City, and the London School of Economics. The term global city was coined and popularized by Sassen in her 1991 work, The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo.
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Manuel Puig
- Occupations
- writernovelistscreenwriteractivistplaywright
- Biography
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Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne, commonly called Manuel Puig, was an Argentine author. Among his best-known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth (Betrayed by Rita Hayworth, 1968), Boquitas pintadas (Heartbreak Tango, 1969), and El beso de la mujer araña (Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1976) which was adapted into the film released in 1985, directed by the Argentine-Brazilian director Héctor Babenco; and a Broadway musical in 1993.
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Cecilia Grierson
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- university teacherphysiciansuffragette
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Cecilia Grierson was an Argentine physician, reformer, nurse educator, feminist and prominent Freethinker. She had the distinction of being the first woman to receive a Medical Degree in Argentina.
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Luis Federico Leloir
- Enrolled in the University of Buenos Aires
- Studied Medical science
- Occupations
- physicistuniversity teacherphysicianbiochemistchemist
- Biography
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Luis Federico Leloir was an Argentine physician and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the metabolic pathways by which carbohydrates are synthesized and converted into energy in the body. Although born in France, Leloir received the majority of his education at the University of Buenos Aires and was director of the private research group Fundación Instituto Campomar until his death in 1987. His research into sugar nucleotides, carbohydrate metabolism, and renal hypertension garnered international attention and led to significant progress in understanding, diagnosing and treating the congenital disease galactosemia. Luis Leloir is buried in La Recoleta Cemetery, Buenos Aires.
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Agustín Pedro Justo
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Agustín Pedro Justo Rolón was an Argentine military officer, diplomat and politician, who served as the president of Argentina from 1932 to 1938 during the Infamous Decade. Justo took part in the coup of 1930, becoming president two years later thanks to widespread electoral fraud. His presidency was part of the period known as the Infamous Decade, which lasted from 1930 until 1943. He established the country's central bank and introduced a nationwide income tax.
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César Milstein
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- university teacherbiologistimmunologistmolecular biologistchemist
- Biography
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César Milstein, CH, FRS was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels Kaj Jerne and Georges J. F. Köhler for developing the hybridoma technique for the production of monoclonal antibodies.
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Martina Gusmán
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- film producerfilm actor
- Biography
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Martina Gusmán is an Argentine actress and film producer.
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Roque Sáenz Peña
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- lawyermilitary personnelpoliticiandiplomat
- Biography
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Roque José Antonio del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Sáenz Peña Lahitte was an Argentine politician and lawyer who served as President of Argentina from 12 October 1910 to his death in office on 9 August 1914. He was the son of former president Luis Sáenz Peña. He was a candidate for an internal, modernist line within the National Autonomist Party.
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Juan Manuel Urtubey
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- politicianlawyer
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Juan Manuel Urtubey is an Argentine politician, lawyer, university professor and former governor of Salta Province. Formerly a senior figure in the ruling Front for Victory faction of the Justicialist Party (PJ) in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and chairman of both the Constitutional Affairs Committee and the Peronist Caucus, Urtubey became governor in the 2007 elections, being only 38 years old. He was reelected in 2011 with almost 60% of the vote, and in 2015 with 51% of the vote.
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Rafael Viñoly
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- architect
- Biography
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Rafael Viñoly Beceiro was an Uruguayan-born architect based in New York. He was the principal of Rafael Viñoly Architects, which he founded in 1983. The firm has offices in New York City, Palo Alto, London, Manchester, Abu Dhabi, and Buenos Aires. Viñoly designed landmark buildings internationally.
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Eduardo de Pedro
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eduardo Enrique "Wado" de Pedro is an Argentine lawyer and Justicialist Party politician who has served as National Senator since 2023. He previously served as the country's Minister of the Interior from 2019 to 2023, National Deputy for Buenos Aires Province, as member of the Council of Magistracy, and General Secretary to President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
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Irene María Bernasconi
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- biologistzoologistteacher
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Irene Bernasconi was an Argentine marine biologist specializing in echinoderm research and best known for her work in the Antarctic. She was the first echinoderm specialist in Argentina and spent 55 years conducting research into echinoderms found in the Argentine Sea. Her main focus was sea stars; however, she also conducted research into brittle stars and sea urchins.
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Esther Vilar
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- writerphysicianpsychologistsociologist
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Esther Margareta Vilar is an Argentine-German writer. She trained and practised as a medical doctor before establishing herself as an author. She is best known for her 1971 book The Manipulated Man and its various follow-ups, which argue that, contrary to common feminist and women's rights rhetoric, women in industrialized cultures are not oppressed, but rather exploit a well-established system of manipulating men.
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Débora Pérez Volpin
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- journalist
- Biography
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Débora Denise Pérez Volpin was an Argentine politician, journalist and television host. She was the host of the news program Todo Noticias since 1996 and the program Arriba Argentinos since its inception in 2005.
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María Kodama
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- writertranslator
- Biography
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María Kodama Schweizer was an Argentine writer and translator. The widow of author Jorge Luis Borges, she was the sole owner of his estate after his death in 1986. Borges had bequeathed to Kodama his rights as author in a will written in 1979, when she was his literary secretary, and bequeathed to her his whole estate in 1985. They were married in 1986, shortly before Borges' death.
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Santiago Cafiero
- Enrolled in the University of Buenos Aires
- Graduated with Licentiate in political science
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Santiago Andrés Cafiero is an Argentine political scientist and politician, currently serving as a National Deputy elected in Buenos Aires Province. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship (2021–2023) and as Cabinet Chief (2019–2021) in the cabinet of President Alberto Fernández.
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Victoria Donda
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- politicianlawyerhuman rights activist
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Victoria Analía Donda Pérez is an Argentine human rights activist and legislator. She is the first daughter of a "disappeared" person, born in captivity, to become a member of the Argentine National Congress. She was the youngest woman to hold that office.
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Carlos Pellegrini
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- journalistlawyertranslatorpolitician
- Biography
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Carlos Enrique José Pellegrini Bevans was Vice President of Argentina and became President of Argentina from August 6, 1890 to October 12, 1892, upon Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman's resignation (see Revolución del Parque).
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Facundo Manes
- Occupations
- researcherphysicianneuroscientist
- Biography
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Facundo Manes is an Argentine neurologist and politician. Since 2021, he has been a Chamber of Deputies|National Deputy of Argentina elected in Buenos Aires Province. He is a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR).
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Leandro N. Alem
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- politicianstatesperson
- Biography
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Leandro Nicéforo Alem was an Argentine politician, founder and leader of the Radical Civic Union. He was the uncle and political teacher of Hipólito Yrigoyen. He was also an active Freemason.
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Juan Martín Maldacena
- Enrolled in the University of Buenos Aires
- Studied in 1986-1988
- Occupations
- university teacherphysicisttheoretical physicist
- Biography
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Juan Martín Maldacena is an Argentine theoretical physicist and the Carl P. Feinberg Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has made significant contributions to the foundations of string theory and quantum gravity. His most famous discovery is the AdS/CFT correspondence, a realization of the holographic principle in string theory.
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Roberto María Ortiz
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- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Jaime Gerardo Roberto Marcelino María Ortiz Lizardi was the 19th President of Argentina from 20 February 1938 to 27 June 1942.
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Ramón Castillo
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Ramón Antonio Castillo Barrionuevo was a conservative Argentine politician who served as President of Argentina from June 27, 1942 to June 4, 1943. He was a leading figure in the period known as the Infamous Decade, characterised by electoral fraud, corruption, and rule by conservative landowners heading the alliance known as the Concordancia.
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Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni
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- lawyercriminologistuniversity teacherjudge
- Biography
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Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni is a former Argentine polititian and judge. He served as a member of the Supreme Court of Argentina from 2003 until 2015, when he resigned due to age restrictions to hold the position. He subsequently served in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights from 2016 to 2022.
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Carlos Mugica
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- Catholic priestwritercolumnistteacher
- Biography
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Carlos Mugica was an Argentine Roman Catholic priest and activist.
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Arturo Jauretche
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- sociologisthistorianwriterpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Arturo Martín Jauretche was an Argentine writer, politician, and philosopher.
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Ramón Carrillo
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- politicianneurologistneuroscientist
- Biography
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Ramón Carrillo was an Argentine neurosurgeon, neurobiologist, physician, academic, public health advocate, and from 1949 to 1954 the nation's first Minister of Public Health.
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Alicia Moreau de Justo
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- suffragettepoliticianuniversity teacherphysicianjournalist
- Biography
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Alicia Moreau de Justo was an Argentine physician, politician, pacifist and human rights activist. She was a leading figure in feminism and socialism in Argentina. Since the beginning of the 20th century, she got involved in public claims for opening rights for women. In 1902, joined by a fellow activists, she founded the Feminist Socialist Center of Argentina and the Feminine Work Union of Argentina.
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Cris Miró
- Occupations
- actormedia personalityvedetteentertainershowgirl
- Biography
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Cris Miró was an Argentine entertainer and media personality who had a brief but influential career as a top-billing vedette in Buenos Aires' revue theatre scene during the mid-to-late 1990s. Miró began her acting career in the early 1990s in fringe theatre plays and later rose to fame as a vedette at the Teatro Maipo in 1995. For years, she hid her HIV positive status from the press until her death on 1 June 1999, due to AIDS-related lymphoma.
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Carlos Melconian
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Carlos Alberto Melconian is an Argentine economist and politician. He served as president of the Banco de la Nacion Argentina from December 23, 2015, to 18 January 2017.
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Myriam Bregman
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Myriam Bregman is an Argentine lawyer, activist, and politician. Raised in a Jewish family, Bregman joined the Socialist Workers' Party (PTS) – a Trotskyist Argentine party of which she is among the most prominent members – while studying a degree in law at the University of Buenos Aires in the 90s.
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Carlos Saavedra Lamas
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- diplomatlawyeruniversity teacherpoliticianjurist
- Biography
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Carlos Saavedra Lamas was an Argentine academic and politician, and in 1936, the first Latin American Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
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Gerardo Romano
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- actorlawyertelevision actor
- Biography
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Gerardo Romano is an Argentine actor who has made some 45 appearances in mainstream film and television in Argentina since 1979. He is widely regarded as one of Argentina's leading actors.
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Raúl Prebisch
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Raúl Prebisch was an Argentine economist known for his contributions to structuralist economics such as the Prebisch–Singer hypothesis, which formed the basis of economic dependency theory. He became the executive director of the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA or CEPAL) in 1950. In 1950, he also released the very influential study The Economic Development of Latin America and its Principal Problems.
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Samanta Schweblin
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Samanta Schweblin is an Argentine author currently based in Berlin, Germany. She has published three collections of short stories, a novella and a novel, besides stories that have appeared in anthologies and magazines such as The New Yorker, Granta,The Drawbridge, Harper’s Magazine and McSweeney’s. She has won numerous awards around the world and her books have been translated into more than forty languages and adapted for film.
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Andrés Oppenheimer
- Occupations
- political scientistjournalist
- Biography
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Andrés Oppenheimer is the editor and syndicated foreign affairs columnist with The Miami Herald, anchor of "Oppenheimer Presenta" on CNN En Español, and author of seven books, several of which have been published in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Japanese. His column, "The Oppenheimer Report," appears twice a week in The Miami Herald and more than 60 U.S. and international newspapers, including the Miami Herald, El Mundo of Spain, La Nación of Argentina, Reforma of Mexico, El Mercurio of Chile and El Comercio of Peru. He is the author of Saving the Americas (Random House, 2007) and six other books, and is a regular political analyst with CNN en Español. His previous jobs at The Miami Herald included Mexico City bureau chief, foreign correspondent, and business writer. He previously worked for five years with The Associated Press in New York, and has contributed on a free-lance basis to The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, the BBC, CBS’ “60 Minutes”, and El Pais of Spain.
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Antonio Cafiero
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianuniversity teachereconomiststatesperson
- Biography
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Antonio Francisco Cafiero was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. Cafiero held a number of important posts throughout his career, including, most notably, the governorship of Buenos Aires Province from 1987 to 1991, the Cabinet Chief's Office under interim president Eduardo Camaño from 2001 to 2002, and a seat in the Senate of the Nation from 1993 to 2005.
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Rogelio Frigerio
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Rogelio Frigerio is an Argentine economist and politician. Since 2023, he has been Governor of Entre Ríos Province.
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José Ingenieros
- Occupations
- writerpsychiatristsociologistpsychologistphilosopher
- Biography
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José Ingenieros was an Argentine physician, pharmacist, positivist philosopher and essayist.
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Diego Santilli
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Diego César Santilli is an Argentine accountant and politician. A member of Republican Proposal (PRO), Santilli has served in a number of posts in the Buenos Aires city government, most notably as Deputy Deputy Chief of Government (deputy mayor) under Horacio Rodríguez Larreta from 2015 to 2021.
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Mariano Grondona
- Occupations
- journalistlawyeruniversity teachersociologist
- Biography
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Mariano Grondona is an Argentine lawyer, sociologist, political scientist, essayist, and commentator. He has been a journalist for several decades, contributing to print media and television, and has authored numerous books. Additionally, he has held teaching positions in several universities, both in Argentina and abroad.
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Daniel Angelici
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- businesspersonlawyersports executive
- Biography
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Daniel Angelici is an Argentine lawyer, entrepreneur and football executive. He was 33° President of Boca Juniors and Vice-President of the Argentine Football Association.
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Enrique Pichon-Rivière
- Occupations
- university teacherpsychiatristpsychoanalyst
- Biography
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Enrique Pichon-Rivière was a Swiss psychiatrist naturalized Argentine, considered one of the introducers of group psychoanalysis in Argentina and generator of the group theory known as Grupo operativo (Operative Groups).
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Luis Caputo
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- economisttraderpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Luis Andrés Caputo is an Argentine economist who is the current Minister of Economy under Javier Milei's presidency, having assumed office on December 10, 2023. He previously served as Minister of Public Finances from 2017 to 2018 and President of the Central Bank of Argentina in 2018.
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José Pablo Feinmann
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterscreenwriterplaywrighttelevision presenter
- Biography
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José Pablo Feinmann was an Argentine philosopher, writer, playwright, and television host. He also penned several screenplays for domestic film production and international coproductions.
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Felipe Solá
- Occupations
- politicianagricultural engineer
- Biography
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Felipe Solá is an Argentine agricultural engineer and politician. He previously served as Governor of Buenos Aires Province, from 2002 to 2007, and as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship under President Alberto Fernández, from 2019 to 2021.
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Carlos Núñez Cortés
- Years
- 1942-.. (age 82)
- Occupations
- composermalacologistchemistpianistfilm director
- Biography
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Carlos Núñez Cortés is an actor, composer, multi-instrumentist and singer. He has been a member of Les Luthiers since 1965 (during the "prehistory" of the group) until 2017, when he retired. He also wrote 3 books (in Spanish): "Los juegos de Mastropiero", "100 caracoles argentinos" and "Memorias de un luthier".
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Lisandro de la Torre
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- journalistlawyerwriterpolitician
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Lisandro de la Torre was an Argentine politician, born in Rosario, Santa Fe. He was considered as a model of ethics in politics. He was a national deputy and senator, a prominent polemicist, and founder of the Democratic Progressive Party in 1914. He ran twice for the office of President, in 1916 and in 1931.
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José Figueroa Alcorta
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- politicianjudgelawyer
- Biography
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José María Cornelio Figueroa Alcorta was an Argentine lawyer and politician, who managed to be the only person to head the three powers of the State: Vice President of the Nation (President of the Senate), from October 12, 1904 to March 12, 1906, President of the Nation from that date and until October 12, 1910; and President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Argentine Nation, from 1929 until his death in 1931.
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Julio de Vido
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- politician
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Julio Miguel de Vido is an Argentine politician who was Minister of Planning and Public Investment between 2003 and 2015.
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Florencio Randazzo
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- economistpolitician
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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.
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Federico Pinedo
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- politicianlawyer
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Federico Pinedo is an Argentine politician, provisional president of the Argentine Senate between 2015 and 2019. He was in charge of the executive branch on 10 December 2015 until the assumption of Mauricio Macri on the same day.
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Leandro Santoro
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- political scientist
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Leandro Santoro is an Argentine political scientist, professor and politician, currently serving as a National Deputy since 2021. Santoro previously served as a member of the Buenos Aires City Legislature from 2017 to 2021.
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Bernardo Houssay
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- biologistphysicianpharmacistchemistentomologist
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Bernardo Alberto Houssay was an Argentine physiologist. Houssay was a co-recipient of the 1947 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for discovering the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of glucose in animals, sharing the prize with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Cori. He is the first Latin American Nobel laureate in the sciences.
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Alfredo Palacios
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Alfredo Lorenzo Palacios was an Argentine socialist politician.
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Mario Aurelio Poli
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- church historianCatholic priestuniversity teacherCatholic bishop
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Mario Aurelio Poli is an Argentine prelate of the Catholic Church who was the Archbishop of Buenos Aires from 2013 to 2023. He was the Bishop of Santa Rosa from 2008 to 2013 and before that an auxiliary bishop in Buenos Aires from 2002 to 2008. Pope Francis, his predecessor in Buenos Aires, made him a cardinal in 2014.
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Beatriz Sarlo
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- writeressayistliterary criticsociologistjournalist
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Beatriz Sarlo is an Argentine literary and cultural critic. She was also founding editor of the cultural journal Punto de Vista ("Point of View"). She became an Order of Cultural Merit laureate in 2009.
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Carlos Ruckauf
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- lawyertrade unionistpoliticiandiplomat
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Carlos Federico Ruckauf is a Peronist politician in Argentina, member of the Justicialist Party. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from January 2002 to March 2003. He had earlier served as Vice-President of Argentina from 1995 to 1999, with Carlos Menem, and as his Interior Minister during his first administration. He was twice elected to the National Assembly following the restoration of democratic rule.
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Aníbal Ibarra
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- politicianlawyer
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Aníbal Ibarra is an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Buenos Aires.
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anib pachanish
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- choreographeractorarchitect
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Aníbal Pachano is an Argentine choreographer, actor, dancer, director and architect. Together with his ex-wife Ana Sans, he created the art group "Bottom Tap."
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Manuel Quintana
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- politicianlawyer
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Manuel Pedro Quintana Sáenz was the President of Argentina from 12 October 1904 to 12 March 1906. He died in office.
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Alicia Kirchner
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- politician
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Alicia Margarita Kirchner Ostoić is an Argentine politician. She is the elder sister of the late former President Néstor Kirchner and served in his government as Minister of Social Development, a role which she held under President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, her sister-in-law, until the end of her presidential term on 9 December 2015. She served two consecutive terms as governor of her native Santa Cruz Province from 2015 to 2023.
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María Onetto
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- psychologistactor
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María Onetto was an Argentine theatre, film, and television actress. She received the a 2011 Konex Award in entertainment for her theatrical work, and is also well known for her role in the 2006 Argentine TV series Montecristo, for which she won the Clarín and Martín Fierro Awards as best actress in drama and rising star. She also directed a localized production of rock musical Passing Strange in 2011.
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Luis Sáenz Peña
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- politicianlawyer
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Luis Sáenz Peña Dávila was a lawyer and President of Argentina. He was the father of president Roque Sáenz Peña.
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Luana Volnovich
- Enrolled in the University of Buenos Aires
- Graduated with political science
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- politician
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Luana Volnovich is an Argentine political scientist and Justicialist Party politician. She currently serves as a National Deputy elected in Buenos Aires Province, a position she previously held from 2015 to 2019.
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Martin Redrado
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- bankerpoliticianeconomist
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Hernán Martín Pérez Redrado is an Argentine economist. He served as President of the Central Bank between 2004 and 2010.
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Victorino de la Plaza
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- diplomatlawyerpoliticianmilitary personneleconomist
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Victorino de la Plaza was an Argentine politician and lawyer who served as President of Argentina from 9 August 1914 to 11 October 1916.
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Vilma Ibarra
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- politicianlawyer
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Vilma Lidia Ibarra is an Argentine lawyer and politician, formerly a Senator and National Deputy representing Buenos Aires. From 2019 to 2023, she served as the Legal and Technical Secretary of the Presidency under President Alberto Fernández.
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Carlos Álvarez
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- politician
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Carlos Alberto "Chacho" Álvarez is an Argentine politician. He was Vice President of Argentina during the first 10 months of President Fernando de la Rúa's term, and headed the ALADI Secretariat from 2011 to 2017.
