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100 Notable alumni of National University of La Plata

Updated: May 11, 2026 EliteDegrees

National University of La Plata is ranked #564 in the world and #2 in Argentina by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from National University of La Plata sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff. Many individuals affiliated with National University of La Plata won Nobel Prizes for Peace, in Physics, Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine, and Economics.

Jorge Sarghini

1. Jorge Sarghini

1953-. (aged 73)
politician economist
Jorge Emilio Sarghini is an Argentine economist and politician. Historically a member of the Justicialist Party, Sarghini has served in a number of political posts throughout his career, most notably as a member and president of the Buenos Aires Province Chamber of Deputies, as Minister of Economy of Buenos Aires Province during the successive administrations of Eduardo Duhalde and Carlos...
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Oreste Piro

2. Oreste Piro

1954-. (aged 72)
biophysicist university teacher
Oreste Piro is a dynamical systems theorist and biophysicist. He is at the Universitat de les Illes Balears in Palma de Mallorca.
Margrete Heiberg Bose

3. Margrete Heiberg Bose

1865-1952 (aged 87)
physicist chemist
Margrete Elisabeth Heiberg Bose was an Argentine physicist of Danish origin, the first woman to receive a chemistry degree in Denmark, possibly the first female physicist to work in Latin America, and one of the first in the Americas.
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José Luis Sérsic

4. José Luis Sérsic

1933-1993 (aged 60)
astronomer
José Luis Sérsic was an Argentine astronomer who studied the morphology of galaxies. He is most widely known for the mathematical model of galaxy brightness, the Sersic profile, which bears his name. José Luis Sérsic first published his law in 1963.
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Teófilo Tabanera

5. Teófilo Tabanera

1909-1981 (aged 72)
engineer
Teófilo Tabanera was an Argentine engineer and air force officer and an instrumental figure in space exploration.
Magdalena Mouján

6. Magdalena Mouján

1926-2005 (aged 79)
computer scientist science fiction writer mathematician
Magdalena Araceli Mouján Otaño was an Argentine mathematician of Basque descent, a pioneer of Argentine computer science, operations research, and nuclear physics, and an award-winning science fiction author.
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Miguel Ángel Virasoro

7. Miguel Ángel Virasoro

1900-1966 (aged 66)
translator philosopher
Miguel Ángel Virasoro was an Argentine philosopher.
Raúl Adolfo Ringuelet

8. Raúl Adolfo Ringuelet

1914-1982 (aged 68)
researcher arachnologist ecologist limnologist
Raúl Adolfo Ringuelet Ph.D. was an Argentine zoologist.
Adela Ringuelet

9. Adela Ringuelet

1930-2023 (aged 93)
astrophysicist astronomer
Adela Emilia Ringuelet was an Argentine astrophysicist and astronomer at the Félix Aguilar Observatory in Argentina.
Hector Borda Leaño

10. Hector Borda Leaño

1927-2022 (aged 95)
academic politician writer anthropologist poet
Héctor Borda Leaño was a Bolivian politician, anthropologist and poet. He was born into an intellectual family as son of a farmacologist from Potosí and a lady of landowner gentry from Sucre. His father and two uncles fought in the Chaco war, and much of his childhood was marked by difficulties. Borda joined the Falange Socialista Boliviana (FSB), as a...
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Glenn Postolski

11. Glenn Postolski

1966-2024 (aged 58)
university teacher docent
Glenn Alvin Postolski was an American-born Argentine researcher and academic who specialised in mass media policies and communication rights. Postolski served as dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires from 2014 to 2018.
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Gloria Dubner

12. Gloria Dubner

1950-. (aged 76)
astrophysicist astronomer
Gloria Dubner is an Argentinian astrophysicist and director of the Instituto de Astronomía y Física del Espacio in Buenos Aires and a senior researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council. She is known for her research on supernovas.
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Leticia Cugliandolo

13. Leticia Cugliandolo

1965-. (aged 61)
physicist
Leticia Fernanda Cugliandolo is an Argentine condensed matter physicist known for her research on non-equilibrium thermodynamics, spin glass, and glassy systems. She works in France as a professor of physics at the Sorbonne University.
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Jorge Sahade

14. Jorge Sahade

1915-2012 (aged 97)
astrophysicist astronomer university teacher
Jorge Sahade was an Argentine astronomer with more than 200 publications in journals and conferences. He was the first Latin American to achieve the presidency of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) between 1985 and 1988, and was also the first director of the Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales. He held this position between 1991 and 1994.
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Carlos Ulrrico Cesco

15. Carlos Ulrrico Cesco

1910-1987 (aged 77)
astronomer
Carlos Ulrrico Cesco was an Argentine astronomer. He lived most of his life in San Juan, Argentina. He was a well-known discoverer of minor planets credited by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) with the discovery of 19 numbered minor planets.
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Pedro Guillermo Ángel Guastavino

16. Pedro Guillermo Ángel Guastavino

1954-. (aged 72)
politician
Pedro Guillermo Angel Guastavino is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. Between 2007 and 2019, he sat in the Argentine Senate representing Entre Ríos Province in the block of the majority Front for Victory.
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Alfredo Martínez

17. Alfredo Martínez

1951-. (aged 75)
politician
Alfredo Anselmo "Fredi" Martínez is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician. He sat in the Argentine Senate representing Santa Cruz Province from 2005 to 2017.
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Cecilia Lueza

18. Cecilia Lueza

1971-. (aged 55)
painter sculptor
Cecilia Lueza is an Argentine-American painter and sculptor.
María Angélica Barreda

19. María Angélica Barreda

1882-1963 (aged 81)
lawyer
María Angélica Barreda became in 1910 the first woman admitted to practice law in Argentina. She graduated from the National University of La Plata, receiving her degree on 28 December 1909.
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Noemí Zaritzky

20. Noemí Zaritzky

1951-. (aged 75)
chemist researcher chemical engineer
Noemí Elisabet Zaritzky is an Argentine chemistry professor and researcher.
Gustavo Esteban Romero

21. Gustavo Esteban Romero

1964-. (aged 62)
astrophysicist university teacher
Gustavo E. Romero is a professor of Relativistic Astrophysics at the University of La Plata in Argentina. In addition to his academic role, he serves as a Superior Researcher of the National Research Council of Argentina. Romero also holds the position of Director of the Argentine Institute of Radio Astronomy. Additionally, Romero has previously served as President of the Argentine...
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Virpi Niemelä

22. Virpi Niemelä

1936-2006 (aged 70)
astrophysicist astronomer
Virpi Sinikka Niemelä was a leading Finnish Argentine astronomer. She was the second Argentine to be elected for Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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Zulma Nélida Brandoni de Gasparini

23. Zulma Nélida Brandoni de Gasparini

1944-. (aged 82)
archaeologist museologist university teacher biologist zoologist
Zulma Nélida Brandoni de Gasparini is an Argentine paleontologist and zoologist. She is known for discovering the fossils of the dinosaur Gasparinisaura, which was named after her.
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Hernando Cevallos

24. Hernando Cevallos

1956-. (aged 70)
politician physician
Hernando Ismael Cevallos Flores is a Peruvian doctor and former Minister of Health of Peru.
Silvia Pessah

25. Silvia Pessah

1967-. (aged 59)
surgeon
Silvia Ester Pessah Eljay is a Peruvian surgeon. She served as the country's Minister of Health from 2 April 2018 to 5 January 2019, in the government of Martín Vizcarra.
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Martha Mercader

26. Martha Mercader

1926-2010 (aged 84)
writer prose writer essayist politician
Martha Evelina Mercader was an Argentine politician and writer, known for novels, short stories, essays and children's books.
Marcelo Fuentes

27. Marcelo Fuentes

1948-. (aged 78)
lawyer politician
Marcelo Jorge Fuentes is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He was a National Senator for the Neuquén Province for the Frente de Todos. In 2019, Fuentes, became Parliamentary Secretary to the Argentine Senate.
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Carlos Casamiquela

28. Carlos Casamiquela

1948-2020 (aged 72)
civil servant agricultural engineer agronomist
Carlos Horacio Casamiquela was an Argentine agricultural engineer and public official. He was appointed Minister of Agriculture of Argentina in November 2013, replacing Norberto Yauhar.
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Rimas Álvarez Kairelis

29. Rimas Álvarez Kairelis

1974-. (aged 52)
rugby union player
Rimas Álvarez Kairelis is an Argentine rugby union rugby player. He currently plays for Perpignan in the Top 14 in France. He has represented Argentina, and was part of the Argentine squad at the 2003 Rugby World Cup and 2007 Rugby World Cup. His usual position is at lock.
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Leonardo Salgado

30. Leonardo Salgado

1962-. (aged 64)
researcher paleontologist investigator
Leonardo Salgado is an Argentine palaeontologist with a special interest in dinosaurs of the Cretaceous period and other investigations of the palaeobiology of fossil bearing geological formations. Salgado is the leading or coauthor of several taxa, notably the large carnivorous species, Giganotosaurus carolinii, discovered in Patagonia.
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Ana Teresa Diego

31. Ana Teresa Diego

1954-1976 (aged 22)
student astronomer
Ana Teresa Diego was an Argentine student of astronomy forcibly disappeared by the military dictatorship of Argentina during the Dirty War on 30 September 1976. The asteroid 11441 Anadiego now bears her name.
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María Teresa Dova

32. María Teresa Dova

1959-. (aged 67)
physicist
María Teresa Dova is an Argentine physicist, born in Alberti, Buenos Aires province. She is a senior researcher at National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina and professor in the Physics Department of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at the National University of La Plata.
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Julio Godio

33. Julio Godio

1939-2011 (aged 72)
historian sociologist association football player
Julio Godio was an Argentine sociologist.
Claudia Alicia Bernazza

34. Claudia Alicia Bernazza

1960-. (aged 66)
politician
Claudia Alicia Bernazza is an Argentine teacher, social activist and politician who served as a National Deputy elected in Buenos Aires Province on two occasions: from 2007 to 2009, when she filled in the vacancy left by Graciela Rosso, and later from 2020 to 2021, filling the vacancy left by Daniel Scioli, who was appointed Ambassador in Brazil.
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Leopoldo Bravo

35. Leopoldo Bravo

1919-2006 (aged 87)
diplomat lawyer politician
Leopoldo Bravo was an Argentine politician and diplomat. A Senator and Ambassador to the Soviet Union, he was a three-time governor of San Juan Province, where he came to be regarded as a caudillo (kingmaker).
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Patricio Lorente

36. Patricio Lorente

1969-. (aged 57)
professor
Patricio Lorente is an Argentine scholar and general secretary of the National University of La Plata.
Carlos Rafael Fernández

37. Carlos Rafael Fernández

1954-. (aged 72)
accountant politician
Carlos Rafael Fernández is an Argentine economist and was, from April 2008 to July 2009, the Minister of the Economy of the country.
María Laura Leguizamón

38. María Laura Leguizamón

1965-. (aged 61)
lawyer politician
María Laura Leguizamón is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. She was a National Senator for Buenos Aires Province from 2011 to 2017 and for the City of Buenos Aires from 2003 to 2007. She also served in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and in the Buenos Aires City Legislature.
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Cristian Alarcón Casanova

39. Cristian Alarcón Casanova

1970-. (aged 56)
journalist writer
Cristian Alarcón Casanova is a Chilean writer and journalist. He was born in La Union and studied at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Since the early 1990s, he has devoted himself to investigative journalism. His work has been published in newspapers such as Clarín, Página 12, Crítica de Argentina and in the magazines TXT, Rolling Stone and Gatopardo. In...
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Pablo Bruera

40. Pablo Bruera

1964-. (aged 62)
lawyer politician
Pablo Oscar Bruera is an Argentine politician, who was the mayor of La Plata, the capital of Buenos Aires province, from 2007 to 2015. On December 9, 2007, Bruera replaced incumbent Julio Alak. His run as mayor ended in 2015 when he was replaced by Julio Garro.
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Gerardo Caetano

41. Gerardo Caetano

1958-. (aged 68)
association football player university teacher writer historian political scientist
Gerardo Caetano Hargain is a Uruguayan historian, professor, political scientist, and former association football player.
Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú

42. Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú

1882-1967 (aged 85)
diplomat university teacher
Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú was an Argentine politician who is best remembered for his spell as Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship in the 1940s.
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Rubén Marín

43. Rubén Marín

1934-2024 (aged 90)
lawyer politician
Rubén Hugo Marín was an Argentine politician who was a Senator for La Pampa Province. He was also a governor of the province on two occasions. Marín, a lawyer by profession, was a member of the Justicialist Party.
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Florentina Gómez Miranda

44. Florentina Gómez Miranda

1912-2011 (aged 99)
lawyer politician
Florentina Gómez Miranda was an Argentine teacher and lawyer. Born in Olavarría in the province of Buenos Aires, she attended the National University of La Plata, from which she graduated in 1945. From then on, she was active in the struggle for women's rights. Among the laws she promoted, the divorce law was the most important. From 1983 to 1991,...
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Nicolás García Mayor

45. Nicolás García Mayor

1978-. (aged 48)
designer
Nicolás García Mayor is an Argentine entrepreneur and industrial designer focused in humanitarian development. He is the CEO of Cmax System INC and other Corp's and NGO's. He worked and lived in Europe conducting various architectural and innovation design projects. Since 2000 he has been working as an Industrial Humanitarian Designer, identifying, designing, developing and implementing innovative solutions in countries...
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Arturo Sampay

46. Arturo Sampay

1911-1977 (aged 66)
lawyer philosopher politician
Arturo Enrique Sampay, was an Argentine lawyer, constitutionalist and professor. He is considered the "father" of the Argentine Constitution of 1949.
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H. A. Murena

47. H. A. Murena

1923-1975 (aged 52)
poet writer translator
Héctor Alberto Álvarez Murena, better known under his pen name of H. A. Murena, was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet, and translator. He wrote over twenty books on various topics, and was an important disseminator of German thought into the Spanish-speaking world. He is perhaps best remembered for Las Leyes de la Noche (1958), translated into English as The Laws...
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Genaro Carrió

48. Genaro Carrió

1922-1997 (aged 75)
lawyer judge
Genaro Rubén Carrió was an Argentine jurist and translator. He served as President of the Supreme Court of Argentina between 1983 and 1985 designated by president Raúl Alfonsín.
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Héctor Icazuriaga

49. Héctor Icazuriaga

1955-. (aged 71)
lawyer politician
Héctor Icazuriaga is the former Secretary of Intelligence of Argentina who served from 2004 until 2014.
Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca

50. Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca

1948-. (aged 78)
lawyer judge
Justice Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca is an Argentine Judge of the Supreme Court of city of Buenos Aires and a Judge of the United Nations Appeals Tribunal in New York City. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on December 16, 1948.
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Tomás Romero Pereira

51. Tomás Romero Pereira

1886-1982 (aged 96)
architect politician
Tomás Romero Pereira was a Paraguayan architect and politician who served as President of Paraguay from May to August of 1954. He was installed as president by Alfredo Stroessner after the coup of 4 May against President Federico Chaves. Romero Pereira quickly held elections, which fraudulently elected Stroessner president.
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Jorge Remes Lenicov

52. Jorge Remes Lenicov

1948-. (aged 78)
politician economist
Jorge Remes Lenicov is an Argentine peronist economist and politician who served as Minister of Economy and Production from January 3 till April 27, 2002 under Acting President Eduardo Duhalde.
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Patricia Walsh

53. Patricia Walsh

1952-. (aged 74)
politician
Patricia Walsh is an Argentine political activist, daughter of Rodolfo Walsh.
Roberto Noble

54. Roberto Noble

1902-1969 (aged 67)
journalist politician
Roberto Noble was an Argentine politician, journalist and publisher, perhaps best known for having founded Clarín, long Argentina's leading news daily and the most or second-most circulated in the Spanish-speaking world.
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Hernán Lorenzino

55. Hernán Lorenzino

1972-. (aged 54)
economist lawyer politician
Hernán Gaspar Lorenzino is an Argentine lawyer and public policy maker. He was appointed Minister of Economy of Argentina by President Cristina Kirchner in 2011.
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Enrique Gaviola

56. Enrique Gaviola

1900-1989 (aged 89)
physicist astronomer
Ramón Enrique Gaviola was an Argentine astrophysicist. Student of Richard Gans at the Universidad de La Plata went in 1922 to Germany where he continued his studies in physics. He studied with Max Planck, Max Born and Albert Einstein, graduating from the University of Berlin in 1926.
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Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa

57. Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa

1917-2009 (aged 92)
businessperson politician
Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa was a Venezuelan scientific researcher and agricultural engineer. He served the government of Rómulo Betancourt, becoming the youngest cabinet minister in Venezuelan history at the age of 28. His appointment was problematic due to his young age and required a constitutional amendment. Betancourt had insisted on the appointment and vastly expanded the portfolio of the Secretary of...
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Martín Tetaz

58. Martín Tetaz

1974-. (aged 52)
politician economist
Martín Alberto Tetaz is an Argentine economist and politician, and a National Deputy since 2021.
Carlos Kunkel

59. Carlos Kunkel

1945-. (aged 81)
lawyer politician
Carlos Kunkel is an Argentine lawyer and politician. He was part of the Montoneros organization, and was a national deputy from 2005 to 2017 for the Front for Victory - PJ. He was head of the Peronist Youth in the city of La Plata in the 1970s.
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Martín Almada

60. Martín Almada

1937-2024 (aged 87)
human rights defender lawyer writer
Martín Almada was a Paraguayan lawyer, writer and educationalist. A noted dissident and human rights activist, he was imprisoned by the Alfredo Stroessner regime from 1974 to 1977. He was notable for uncovering the Archives of Terror in 1992, which documented repression by Stroessner's regime and proved the existence of Operation Condor.
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Adriana Calvo

61. Adriana Calvo

1947-2010 (aged 63)
university teacher physicist trade unionist docent human rights defender
Adriana Lelia Calvo was an Argentine physicist, university professor, and researcher. After being kidnapped by the military government during the Argentine civil-military dictatorship, she became a human rights activist, and was the first witness to testify at the Trial of the Juntas in 1985.
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Juan Carlos Pugliese

62. Juan Carlos Pugliese

1915-1994 (aged 79)
economist lawyer politician
Juan Carlos Pugliese was an Argentine politician. He served as minister of interior and minister of economy during the presidency of Raúl Alfonsín.
Damian Salas

63. Damian Salas

1975-. (aged 51)
poker player
Damian Salas is an Argentine professional poker player from Chascomús. He won the World Series of Poker Main Event in 2020, becoming the first person from Argentina to win the world championship of poker and the second person from South America to win the championship, after 2001 champion Carlos Mortensen. He made the Main Event final table in 2017, where...
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Miguel Lunghi

64. Miguel Lunghi

1943-. (aged 83)
politician
Miguel Ángel Lunghi is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician, paediatrician and mayor of Tandil, where he was born.
Pablo Tonelli

65. Pablo Tonelli

1954-. (aged 72)
lawyer politician
Pablo Gabriel Tonelli is an Argentine lawyer and politician, currently serving as National Deputy elected in the Federal Capital. A member of Republican Proposal, Tonelli was first elected in 2011, and has been re-elected in 2015 and 2019. Tonelli has also been one of the Chamber's representatives in the Council of Magistracy since 2016.
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Julio Alak

66. Julio Alak

1958-. (aged 68)
lawyer politician
Julio César Alak is an Argentine politician. Since 10 December 2023, intendente (mayor) of La Plata, the capital city of Buenos Aires Province. He previously held the post from 1991 to 2007.
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Silvina Batakis

67. Silvina Batakis

1968-. (aged 58)
economist
Silvina Aída Batakis is an Argentine economist and politician. She currently works as the Minister of Habitat and Urban Development of Buenos Aires Province. She was the President of the Banco de la Nación Argentina from 2022 to 2023, she also served as the Minister of Economy for a brief period in 2022. Previously, she served as Secretary of Provinces...
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Florencio Randazzo

68. Florencio Randazzo

1964-. (aged 62)
politician economist
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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Coscu

69. Coscu

1991-. (aged 35)
singer YouTuber gamer online streamer Internet celebrity
Martín Pérez Disalvo, better known as Coscu, is an Argentine Twitch streamer, gamer, internet celebrity and singer.
Mariana Enriquez

70. Mariana Enriquez

1973-. (aged 53)
teacher writer journalist
Mariana Enríquez is an Argentine journalist, novelist, and short story writer. She is a part of the group of writers known as "new Argentine narrative". Her short stories fall within the horror and gothic genres and have been published in international magazines such as Granta, Electric Literature, Asymptote, McSweeney's, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The New Yorker.
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William John Cookezkere

71. William John Cookezkere

1919-1968 (aged 49)
lawyer politician
John William Cooke was an Argentine lawyer and politician. An early follower of President Juan Perón, Cooke went on to form part and lead the revolutionary leftist wing of the Peronist movement. Following the 1955 coup d'état, an exiled Perón appointed Cooke as his proxy in Argentina.
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Emilio Pettoruti

72. Emilio Pettoruti

1892-1971 (aged 79)
illustrator painter
Emilio Pettoruti was an Argentine painter, who caused a scandal with his avant-garde cubist exhibition in 1924 in Buenos Aires. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Buenos Aires was a city full of artistic development. Pettoruti's career was thriving during the 1920s when "Argentina witnessed a decade of dynamic artistic activity; it was an era of euphoria, a time...
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Carlos López Puccio

73. Carlos López Puccio

1946-. (aged 80)
conductor film director humorist
Carlos Alberto Daniel López Puccio is an Argentinian multi-instrumentalist, orchestral and choral conductor, composer, singer, arranger and one of the current members of Les Luthiers.
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Ricardo Balbín

74. Ricardo Balbín

1904-1981 (aged 77)
lawyer politician
Ricardo Balbín was an Argentine lawyer and politician, and one of the most important figures of the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR), for which he was the presidential nominee four times: in 1951, 1958, and twice in 1973.
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Néstor García Canclini

75. Néstor García Canclini

1939-. (aged 87)
anthropologist sociologist
Néstor García Canclini is an Argentinian academic and anthropologist known for his theorization of the concept of "hybridity."
Jesús Reyes Heroles

76. Jesús Reyes Heroles

1921-1985 (aged 64)
minister lawyer politician
Jesús Reyes Heroles was a Mexican politician, jurist, historian and academic affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). The party acknowledges him as one of its leading ideologues.
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Federico Storani

77. Federico Storani

1950-. (aged 76)
politician
Federico Storani is an Argentine politician, who served as Minister of the Interior during the presidency of Fernando de la Rúa between December 1999 and March 2001. A member of Radical Civic Union, he served several times as National Deputy representing the Buenos Aires Province.
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Gabriela Cerruti

78. Gabriela Cerruti

1965-. (aged 61)
politician writer journalist
Gabriela Carla Cerruti is an Argentine journalist, writer, and politician. She was a member of the Chamber of Deputies representing Buenos Aires from 2017 to 2021, as part of the Front for Victory bloc, and later as part of the Frente de Todos bloc. She served as the official spokesperson for Alberto Fernández, President of Argentina.
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Marcelo Piñeyro

79. Marcelo Piñeyro

1953-. (aged 73)
film director screenwriter
Marcelo Piñeyro is an Argentine award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer.
Ricardo Piglia

80. Ricardo Piglia

1941-2017 (aged 76)
writer literary critic journalist screenwriter
Ricardo Piglia was an Argentine author, critic, and scholar best known for introducing hard-boiled fiction to the Argentine public.
Carlos Saavedra Lamas

81. Carlos Saavedra Lamas

1878-1959 (aged 81)
politician university teacher lawyer diplomat jurist
Carlos Saavedra Lamas was an Argentine academic and politician, and in 1936, the first Latin American Nobel Peace Prize recipient.
Héctor Magnetto

82. Héctor Magnetto

1944-. (aged 82)
economist certified public accountant businessperson entrepreneur accountant
Héctor Horacio Magnetto is an Argentine executive CEO of the Clarín Group, the country's largest media company.
Néstor Kirchner

83. Néstor Kirchner

1950-2010 (aged 60)
lawyer politician
Néstor Carlos Kirchner Ostoić was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the president of Argentina from 2003 to 2007. A member of the Justicialist Party, he previously served as Governor of Santa Cruz Province from 1991 to 2003, and mayor of Río Gallegos from 1987 to 1991. He later served as first gentleman of Argentina during the early...
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Horacio Pagani

84. Horacio Pagani

1955-. (aged 71)
entrepreneur engineer
Horacio Pagani is an Argentine-Italian businessman and automobile engineer in the automotive industry. He is the Founder and Chairman of Pagani Automobili S.p.A., an Italian specialty automaker.
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René Favaloro

85. René Favaloro

1923-2000 (aged 77)
cardiac surgeon
René Gerónimo Favaloro was an Argentine cardiac surgeon and educator best known for his pioneering work on coronary artery bypass surgery using the great saphenous vein.
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Raúl Alfonsín

86. Raúl Alfonsín

1927-2009 (aged 82)
lawyer politician
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 the National Reorganization Process. 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...
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Ernesto Sabato

87. Ernesto Sabato

1911-2011 (aged 100)
novelist teacher physicist painter poet
Ernesto Sabato was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter, and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world throughout Latin America". Upon his death El País dubbed him the "last classic writer in Argentine literature".
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Mario Bunge

88. Mario Bunge

1919-2020 (aged 101)
sociologist university teacher physicist critic writer
Mario Augusto Bunge was an Argentine-Canadian philosopher and physicist. His philosophical writings combined scientific realism, systemism, materialism, emergentism, and other principles.
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Juan José Arévalo

89. Juan José Arévalo

1904-1990 (aged 86)
diplomat writer politician
Juan José Arévalo Bermejo was a Guatemalan statesman and professor of philosophy who became Guatemala's first democratically elected president in 1945. He was elected following a popular uprising against the United States-backed dictator Jorge Ubico that began the Guatemalan Revolution. He remained in office until 1951, surviving 25 coup attempts. He did not contest the election of 1951, instead choosing...
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Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

90. Adolfo Pérez Esquivel

1931-. (aged 95)
university teacher painter writer sculptor architect
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel is an Argentine activist, community organizer, painter, writer and sculptor. He was the recipient of the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize for his opposition to Argentina's last civil-military dictatorship (1976–1983), during which he was detained, tortured, and held without trial for 14 months. He also received, among other distinctions, the Pacem in Terris Award.
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Florentino Ameghino

91. Florentino Ameghino

1853-1911 (aged 58)
zoologist biologist university teacher archaeologist anthropologist
Florentino Ameghino was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries on the Argentine Pampas, especially on Patagonia, rank with those made in the western United States during the late 19th century. Along with his two brothers – Carlos and Juan – Florentino Ameghino was one of the most important founding figures in South American paleontology.
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Miguel Ángel Pichetto

92. Miguel Ángel Pichetto

1950-. (aged 76)
lawyer politician
Miguel Ángel Pichetto is an Argentine lawyer and conservative Peronist politician. He is Auditor General of the Nation. He was National Senator for Río Negro Province for eighteen years and was the vice-presidential candidate of Juntos por el Cambio in the 2019 general election.
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Federico Sturzenegger

93. Federico Sturzenegger

1966-. (aged 60)
banker economist politician
Federico Sturzenegger is an Argentine economist who is the current head of the Ministry of Deregulation and State Transformation under Javier Milei's presidency. He previously served as President of the Central Bank between 2015 and 2018.
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Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

94. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner

1953-. (aged 73)
lawyer
Cristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner is an Argentine lawyer, politician who served as the 56th President of Argentina from 2007 to 2015, and later as the 37th Vice President of Argentina under President Alberto Fernández from 2019 to 2023. The widow of Néstor Kirchner, she was also First Lady during his presidency from 2003 to 2007. She was the second...
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José Antonio Balseiro

95. José Antonio Balseiro

1919-1962 (aged 43)
nuclear physicist physicist
José Antonio Balseiro was an Argentine physicist.
Elpidio González

96. Elpidio González

1875-1951 (aged 76)
politician
Elpidio González was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union. He was Vice President from 1922 to 1928 in the Marcelo T. de Alvear administration.
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Francisco Salamone

97. Francisco Salamone

1897-1959 (aged 62)
engineer architect
Francisco Salamone was an Argentine architect born in Italy who, between 1936 and 1940, during the Infamous Decade, built more than 60 municipal buildings with elements of Art Deco style in 25 rural communities on the Argentine pampas within the Buenos Aires Province. These buildings were some of the first examples of modern architecture in rural Argentina.
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Facundo Suárez

98. Facundo Suárez

1923-1998 (aged 75)
diplomat politician
Facundo Suárez was an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician.
Manuel Adorni

99. Manuel Adorni

1980-. (aged 46)
columnist university teacher conferencier accountant politician
Manuel Adorni is an Argentine politician, certified public accountant, and educator, currently serving as the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers and spokesperson for the President of Argentina.
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Ricardo López Murphy

100. Ricardo López Murphy

1951-. (aged 75)
politician economist
Ricardo Hipólito López Murphy is an Argentine economist, academic and politician. He served as Minister of Defense and Minister of Economy during the presidency of Fernando de la Rúa. His time at the helm of the economy portfolio lasted only 15 days, as he was forced to leave office after announcing an unpopular austerity plan. Since 2021, he has been...
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