26 Notable alumni of
University of El Salvador
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The University of El Salvador is 1659th in the world, 67th in Latin America, and 1st in El Salvador by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 26 notable alumni from the University of El Salvador sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Roque Dalton Garcia
- Occupations
- journalistpoetwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Roque Antonio Dalton García was a Salvadoran poet, essayist, journalist, communist activist, and intellectual. He is considered one of Latin America's most compelling poets. He wrote emotionally strong, sometimes sarcastic, and image-loaded works dealing with life, death, love, and politics.
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Farabundo Martí
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- political activist
- Biography
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Agustín Farabundo Martí Rodríguez was a Marxist-Leninist activist and a revolutionary leader in El Salvador during La Matanza.
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Alfredo Espino Najarro
- Enrolled in the University of El Salvador
- Studied in 1920
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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Alfredo Espino was a poet from El Salvador. Born in Ahuachapán, his only book is Jícaras Tristes (Sad Vessels), a collection of 96 poems. It is one of the most published books of poetry in El Salvador. Espino died in San Salvador. His poetry has been described as part of the El Salvadoran development of costumbrismo.
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Salvador Moncada
- Enrolled in the University of El Salvador
- Studied in 1962-1970
- Occupations
- university teacherpharmacologist
- Biography
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Sir Salvador Enrique Moncada Seidner, FRS, FRCP, FMedSci is a Honduran pharmacologist and professor. He is currently Research Domain Director for Cancer at the University of Manchester.
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Manuel Enrique Araujo
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- physicianpolitician
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Doctor Manuel Enrique Araujo was a Salvadoran politician and physician who served as president of El Salvador from 1 March 1911 until his death on 9 February 1913 to his injuries sustained in an assassination attempt five days prior. Araujo is the only Salvadoran president to have been assassinated while in office.
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María Isabel Rodríguez
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- physician
- Biography
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María Isabel Rodríguez is a Salvadoran physician, academic, and government official. In 1956, she became one of the first group of four women to enter the Legislative Assembly. From 1999 to 2007, she was the rector of the University of El Salvador. She was appointed El Salvador's Minister of Health in 2009, a position she held until 2014. She is currently the Presidential Advisor on Health and Education.
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Hugo Lindo
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- lawyerpoetpoliticiandiplomat
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Hugo Lindo Olivares was a Salvadorian writer, diplomat, politician, and lawyer.
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Norman Quijano
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- politician
- Biography
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Norman Noel Quijano González is a Salvadoran politician and former Mayor of San Salvador, under the Nationalist Republican Alliance ticket, serving from 1 May 2009 until his resignation on 15 August 2013 in order to run as a presidential candidate. He is said to have a net worth of $2.2billion. He was succeeded by Gloria Calderón de Oñate while the presidential campaign was taking place. After the election, he returned to the mayor office to resume his duties.
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Miguel Ángel Espino Najarro
- Enrolled in the University of El Salvador
- In 1921 graduated with Licentiate
- Occupations
- journalistwriterlawyer
- Biography
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Miguel Ángel Espino was an Salvadoran writer, journalist and lawyer.
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Rafael Zaldívar
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- physicianpolitician
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Rafael Zaldívar was President of El Salvador from 1 May 1876 until 21 June 1885, and later a diplomat.
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Ana María
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- politician
- Biography
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Ana María was the nom-de-guerre of Dr. Mélida Anaya Montes, the second in command of the Fuerzas Populares de Liberación Farabundo Martí (FPL), the oldest of the five guerilla organizations making up the FMLN, in El Salvador.
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Juan José Cañas
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- politician
- Biography
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Juan José Cañas Pérez is known for possibly having written the Himno Nacional De El Salvador (national hymn of El Salvador) along with Italian-born composer Juan Aberle.
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Hugo Martínez
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- politicianengineer
- Biography
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Hugo Roger Martínez Bonilla is a Salvadoran industrial engineer, politician, diplomat and writer. He is a member of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), one of the two major political parties in El Salvador. Martínez served as Foreign Minister of El Salvador from 2009 until 2013 under former President Mauricio Funes and again from 2014 to 2018 within the government of President Salvador Sánchez Cerén. In 2019, being the ruling party presidential candidate, he came 3rd with 14%.
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Francisco Bertrand
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- politician
- Biography
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Francisco Bertrand Barahona was a Honduran politician. He was a two-term President of Honduras, first from 28 March 1911 to 1 February 1912, and then again between 21 March 1913 and 9 September 1919. His successor and predecessor was Manuel Bonilla, and Bertrand served as the Vice President in Bonilla's cabinet. He was a member of the National Party.
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Rubén Ignacio Zamora Rivas
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- politician
- Biography
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Rubén Ignacio Zamora Rivas is a Salvadoran politician.
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Marianella García Villas
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- politicianlawyer
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Marianella García Villas was a Salvadoran attorney, who served in the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador from 1974 to 1976 before resigning her post to found the first independent human rights commission in the country. After the 1979 coup d'état led to the installation of a military junta, she began documenting human rights abuses in the country, helping families report disappearances and imprisonments. Under personal threat and with escalating violations of rights, García took her documentation to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, gaining international notice of the situation inside the country. She was assassinated by the Salvadoran Armed Forces in 1983 and was posthumously awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize for Services to Human Rights.
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Sigfrido Reyes Morales
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- politician
- Biography
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Othon Sigfrido Reyes Morales, is a Salvadoran politician. He served as President of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador from 2011 to 2015.
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Violeta Menjívar
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- physicianpolitician
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Elvia Violeta Menjívar Escalante is a Salvadoran politician affiliated with the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front. She has been Minister of Health and Social Welfare since 1 June 2014. She is the former mayor of San Salvador.
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Lil Milagro Ramírez
- Enrolled in the University of El Salvador
- Studied in 1963
- Occupations
- writerpoet
- Biography
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Lil Milagro de la Esperanza Ramírez Huezo Córdoba was a Salvadoran poet and revolutionary leader, a founding member of the first guerrilla organizations that would come together in 1980 to form the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). She was captured by agents of the National Guard in November, 1976. Her detention was kept secret and from that moment on she was considered "disappeared" until she was murdered inside the clandestine jails of the National Guard on October 17, 1979, after being tortured for three years. She is now remembered for her courage and determination in favor of the unprivileged lower classes.
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Reynaldo Galindo Pohl
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- diplomatwriterlawyer
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Reynaldo Galindo Pohl was a Salvadoran lawyer and diplomat. He actively participated in the military movement which led to overthrew of Salvador Castaneda Castro in 1948. Galindo Pohl was a member of Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador and presided over the Constituent Assembly that drafted the Constitution of 1950. He was the minister of education in the first half of 1950s and after that begun working for United Nations in 1960s.
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José Antonio Morales Erlich
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- politician
- Biography
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José Antonio Morales Ehrlich, also spelt Erlich, was a Salvadoran politician from the Christian Democratic Party who was a member of the Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador from 1980 to 1982.
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Jorge Arturo Reina Idiáquez
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
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Jorge Arturo Reina Idiáquez is a Honduran politician and diplomat. He is the brother of former President Carlos Roberto Reina.
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Nora Méndez
- Occupations
- writerpoet
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Nora Méndez is a Salvadoran poet.
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Antonia Navarro
- Enrolled in the University of El Salvador
- 1887-1889 graduated with doctorate
- Occupations
- engineercivil engineerprofessor
- Biography
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Antonia Navarro Huezo was a topographic engineer and teacher from El Salvador. She was the first woman in Central America to graduate from university, earning a PhD from the University of El Salvador in 1889.
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Carlos Irigoyen Ruiz
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- conductorcomposer
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Carlos Irigoyen Ruiz was a renowned Salvadoran musician during the 1920s-1940s. He directed the philharmonic and owned several of the most renowned marimba bands performing at the national and international level at the time.
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Victoria Marina Velásquez de Avilés
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Victoria Marina Velásquez de Avilés is a Salvadoran jurist.
