23 Notable alumni of
University of La Laguna
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The University of La Laguna is 1495th in the world, 518th in Europe, and 25th in Spain by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 23 notable alumni from the University of La Laguna sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Alejandro Lerroux
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- lawyerpoliticianjournalist
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Alejandro Lerroux García was a Spanish politician who was the leader of the Radical Republican Party. He served as Prime Minister three times from 1933 to 1935 and held several cabinet posts as well. A highly charismatic politician, he was distinguished by his demagogical and populist political style.
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Carolina Darias San Sebastián
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- juristpolitician
- Biography
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Carolina Darias San Sebastián is a Spanish civil servant and Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) politician who served as minister of Health of Spain from 2021 to 2023. Before that, from 2020 to 2021, she served as Minister of Territorial Policy and Civil Service under Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
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Pedro Zerolo
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- LGBTQ rights activistlawyerpolitician
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Pedro González Zerolo was a Spanish-Venezuelan lawyer, politician and a town councillor of the city of Madrid, and a member of the Federal Executive Committee of the PSOE where he held the position of Secretary for Social Movements and Relations with NGOs. He was also a trustee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain's Socialist Party's think tank.
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Ángel Víctor Torres Pérez
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- politician
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Ángel Víctor Torres Pérez is a Spanish politician currently serving as minister for Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory since 2023 and secretary-general of the Socialist Party of the Canaries (PSC–PSOE) since 2019. Before that, he served as president of the Canary Islands from 2019 to 2023.
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Manuel Marchena Gómez
- Enrolled in the University of La Laguna
- In 1991 graduated with Doctor in law
- Occupations
- magistrateprosecutor
- Biography
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Manuel Marchena Gómez is a Spanish judge and prosecutor who serves as Magistrate of the Supreme Court.
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Ana Oramas
- Enrolled in the University of La Laguna
- Graduated with licentiate in economics
- Occupations
- politicianeconomist
- Biography
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Ana María Oramas González-Moro is a Spanish politician who has been a member of the Parliament of the Canary Islands from 1991 to 1999, and since 2023. She was a member of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council from 1979 to 1991, mayor of San Cristóbal de La Laguna from 1999 to 2008, and a member of the Congress of Deputies from 2007 to 2023. She is a member of the Canarian Coalition.
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Fernando Clavijo Batlle
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- businesspersonpolitician
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Fernando Clavijo Batlle is a Spanish politician and incumbent president of the Canary Islands. A member of the Canarian Coalition, he previously served as president from 2015 to 2019.
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Lorena Berdún Villegas
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- actorradio personalitysexologistpsychologiststage actor
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Lorena Berdún is a Spanish psychologist, television presenter and actress. She studied psychology in Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and has branched out into the area of sexology, graduating from the University of La Laguna in Tenerife. She is one of Spain's most prominent sexologists due to her appearances on radio and television, giving sexual advice and talking about sexual education.
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Cristina García Ramos
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- television presentertelevision directorjournalist
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Cristina García Ramos is a Spanish journalist.
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Paulino Rivero
- Enrolled in the University of La Laguna
- Graduated with licentiate in teaching
- Occupations
- school teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Paulino Rivero Baute is a Spanish politician and teacher. A member of the Canarian Coalition, he is the former president of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands.
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Mariano Hernández Zapata
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- politician
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Mariano Hernández Zapata is a Spanish politician serving as minister of ecological transition and energy in the government of the Canary Islands since 2023. From 2019 to 2023, he served as president of the cabildo insular of La Palma. From 2016 to 2019, he was a member of the Senate.
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Begoña Vila
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- astrophysicistengineerastronomer
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María Begoña Vila Costas is a Spanish astrophysicist specializing in the study of spiral galaxies. She currently resides in Washington, D.C. and works as a systems engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. She is the lead engineer for the Fine Guidance Sensor and Near Infrared Imager and Slitless Spectrograph (FGS-NIRISS) on the James Webb Space Telescope – the Hubble's successor – in addition to being in charge of the final cold test of the group of instruments before their integration with the telescope. She is now working on the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.
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Román Rodríguez Rodríguez
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- politicianphysician
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Román Rodríguez Rodríguez is a Canarian politician who was the president of the Canary Islands between 1999 and 2003. He was licensed in medicine at the University of La Laguna. He worked as a medical assistant for one year and as a university professor.
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Rafael Rebolo López
- Enrolled in the University of La Laguna
- In 1987 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Occupations
- astrophysicist
- Biography
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Rafael Rebolo López is a Spanish astrophysicist. In October 2013 he became the director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands; IAC). He is a professor at the Spanish National Research Council. In 2002 Rebolo became an external professor at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and a member of the Max Planck Society.
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María José Guerra Palmero
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- writerphilosopheropinion journalistuniversity teacher
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María José Guerra Palmero is a Spanish philosopher, writer, and feminist theorist. She holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and is a professor in the area of moral philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of La Laguna (ULL) in the Canary Islands. Since 2017, she has been president of the Red española de Filosofía (Spanish Philosophy Network). From July 2019 until May 25, 2020, she served as Minister of Education, Universities, Culture and Sports of the Gobierno de Canarias under Ángel Víctor Torres.
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Natacha Aguilar de Soto
- Enrolled in the University of La Laguna
- In 2006 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy
- Graduated with doctorate in biology
- Occupations
- university teachermarine biologist
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Natacha Aguilar de Soto is a Spanish marine biologist at the University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands. She is a Ramón y Cajal research and teaching fellow at ULL and has been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at ULL and at the Center for Research in Ecological Modeling (CREEM) of the University of St. Andrews (SMRU). She is the director of cetacean research within ULL's BIOECOMAC (Grupo de Investigación en Biodiversidad, Ecología Marina y Conservación).
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Antonio Alarcó Hernández
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- politician
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Antonio Alarco Hernandez is a Spanish politician, surgeon and professor. He was elected into the senate of Spain since 2008 representing Tenerife under the People's Party (Spain). He has served on the 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14th Cortes Generales of Spain. He is a professor of surgery at the University of La Laguna and a physician.
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Maria Rozman
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- journalisttelevision producer
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Noticias. Maria Rozman is currently Senior Director of News at Spectrum Noticias, NY. Formerly, News Director of Telemundo Washington DC. She is of Spanish origin.Maria is a six times Emmy Award Winner.
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José Carlos Cataño
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- 1954-2019 (aged 65)
- Enrolled in the University of La Laguna
- Studied fine art
- Occupations
- poet
- Biography
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José Carlos Cataño is a Spanish poet.
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Juan Manuel Trujillo
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- writer
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Juan Manuel Trujillo was a Spanish essayist and publisher.
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Fernando Galván Reula
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- translatorphilologist
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Fernando Galván Reula OBE, FEA, is a literary scholar and former rector / president of the University of Alcalá (2010–2018), Madrid.
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Mercedes López-Morales
- Enrolled in the University of La Laguna
- Studied physics
- Occupations
- astrophysicistastronomer
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Mercedes López-Morales is a Spanish-American astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland, who works on detection and characterization of exoplanet atmospheres.
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Bujari Ahmed
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- diplomatpolitician
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Bujari Uld Ahmed Uld Barical-la, known as Bujari Ahmed or Boukhari Ahmed, was an intellectual, politician and Saharawi diplomat and from 1992 until his death in 2018 representative of the Polisario Front at the UN. He was a member of his National Secretariat and considered one of the most important Sahrawi negotiators in the history of the independence movement. He participated in the negotiations with Morocco after the ceasefire under the auspices of the United Nations in 1991. In 1978 he was the first representative of the Polisario Front in Spain.
