Notable Alumni of University of Buenos Aires [Sorted List]

1. Alfredo Palacios

1880-1965 (aged 85)

diplomat lawyer politician

Alfredo Lorenzo Palacios was an Argentine socialist politician.

2. Julio de Vido

1949-. (aged 77)

politician

Julio Miguel de Vido is an Argentine politician who was Ministry of Federal Planning, Public Investment and Services between 2003 and 2015.

3. Vilma Ibarra

1960-. (aged 66)

lawyer politician

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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4. Carlos Álvarez

1952-. (aged 74)

police officer

Carlos Alberto 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.

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5. María Onetto

1966-2023 (aged 57)

actor psychologist

María Onetto was an Argentine theatre, film, and television actress. She received the 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...

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6. Manuel Quintana

1835-1906 (aged 71)

lawyer politician

Manuel Pedro Quintana Sáenz was the President of Argentina from 1904 until his death in 1906.

7. Emilio Monzó

1965-. (aged 61)

politician

Emilio Monzó is an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as President of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies from 2015 to 2019. In 2015, he founded the Dialogue Party, which is affiliated with Republican Proposal (PRO) and forms part of the Juntos por el Cambio coalition.

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8. Aníbal Pachano

1955-. (aged 71)

actor choreographer architect

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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9. Federico Pinedo

1955-. (aged 71)

lawyer politician

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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10. Miss Bolivia

1976-. (aged 50)

writer yogi singer psychologist

María Paz Ferreyra, known as Miss Bolivia, is an Argentine singer, songwriter, producer and DJ, who fuses styles such as cumbia, hip hop, dance, cumbia villera, and reggae.

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11. José Ingenieros

1877-1925 (aged 48)

writer sociologist university teacher philosopher psychiatrist

José Ingenieros was an Argentine physician, pharmacist, positivist philosopher and essayist.

12. José Pablo Feinmann

1943-2021 (aged 78)

playwright screenwriter writer university teacher philosopher

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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13. Enrique Pichon-Rivière

1907-1977 (aged 70)

university teacher psychoanalyst psychiatrist

Enrique Pichon-Rivière was a Swiss-born Argentine psychiatrist, 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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14. Daniel Angelici

1964-. (aged 62)

sports executive lawyer businessperson

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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15. Bernardo Houssay

1887-1971 (aged 84)

biologist entomologist chemist pharmacist physician

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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16. Beatriz Sarlo

1942-2024 (aged 82)

literary critic writer sociologist university teacher essayist

Beatriz Sarlo was an Argentine literary and cultural critic. She was a 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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17. Carlos Núñez Cortés

1942-. (aged 84)

film director pianist chemist malacologist composer

Carlos Núñez Cortés is a pianist, actor, composer, multi-instrumentist and singer. He has been a member of Les Luthiers since 1969 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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18. José Figueroa Alcorta

1860-1931 (aged 71)

lawyer judge politician

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...

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19. Lisandro de la Torre

1868-1939 (aged 71)

writer lawyer journalist politician

Lisandro de la Torre was an Argentine politician, born in Rosario, Santa Fe. He was and is considered as a paramount 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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20. Aníbal Ibarra

1958-. (aged 68)

lawyer politician

Aníbal Ibarra is an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as mayor of Buenos Aires.

21. Clorindo Testa

1923-2013 (aged 90)

sculptor painter architect

Clorindo Manuel José Testa was an Italian-Argentine architect and artist.

22. Felipe Solá

1950-. (aged 76)

agricultural engineer politician

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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23. Julia Mengolini

1979-. (aged 47)

journalist lawyer

Julia Mengolini is an Argentine journalist and lawyer. She works on radio and television on topics such as gender perspective, social justice and environmentalism.

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24. Rogelio Frigerio

1970-. (aged 56)

politician economist

Rogelio Frigerio is an Argentine economist and politician. Since 2023, he has been Governor of Entre Ríos Province.

25. Roberto Marcelino Ortiz

1886-1942 (aged 56)

lawyer politician

Jaime Gerardo Roberto Marcelino María Ortiz was President of Argentina from 1938 until his resignation in 1942. He became president in 1938 following the 1937 presidential election, described as being among the most fraudulent in Argentine history. His main management objective was to end fraud. The attempt to normalize the institutions confronted him with his vice president, Ramón Castillo, leader...

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26. Arturo Jauretche

1901-1974 (aged 73)

historian sociologist journalist poet lawyer

Arturo Martín Jauretche was an Argentine writer, politician, and philosopher.

27. Ramón Carrillo

1906-1956 (aged 50)

neuroscientist neurologist politician

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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28. Alicia Moreau de Justo

1885-1986 (aged 101)

university teacher politician suffragette journalist physician

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 and the Feminine Work...

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29. Gerardo Romano

1946-. (aged 80)

actor television actor lawyer

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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30. Raúl Prebisch

1901-1986 (aged 85)

politician economist

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...

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31. Leandro Santoro

1976-. (aged 50)

university teacher political scientist

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. He is member of the centre-left political coalition Union for the Homeland.

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32. Carlos Ruckauf

1944-. (aged 82)

lawyer diplomat politician trade unionist

Carlos Federico Ruckauf is an Argentine Peronist politician and a member of the Justicialist Party. He served as minister of foreign affairs from January 2002 to March 2003. Earlier, he was vice president of Argentina from 1995 to 1999 under President Carlos Menem, and also served as minister of the interior during Menem’s first term. After the return of democratic...

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33. Mariano Grondona

1932-. (aged 94)

lawyer journalist sociologist university teacher

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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34. Antonio Cafiero

1922-2014 (aged 92)

university teacher politician diplomat statesperson economist

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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35. Andrés Oppenheimer

1951-. (aged 75)

journalist political scientist

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 nine books. 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,...

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36. Carlos Melconian

1956-. (aged 70)

economist

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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37. Samanta Schweblin

1978-. (aged 48)

writer short story writer

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, The Paris Review, Granta, The Drawbridge, Harper’s Magazine and McSweeney’s. She has won numerous awards around the world and her books have...

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38. Carlos Mugica

1930-1974 (aged 44)

Catholic priest teacher columnist writer

Carlos Mugica was an Argentine Roman Catholic priest and activist.

39. Victoria Donda

1977-. (aged 49)

human rights defender lawyer politician

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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40. Diego Santilli

1967-. (aged 59)

politician economist

Diego César Santilli is an Argentine accountant and politician. A member of the political coalition La Libertad Avanza, 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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41. Carlos Pellegrini

1846-1906 (aged 60)

translator lawyer journalist politician

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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42. Facundo Manes

1969-. (aged 57)

physician researcher neuroscientist

Facundo Manes is an Argentine neurologist and politician. Since 2021, he has been a National Deputy of Argentina elected in Buenos Aires Province. He is a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR).

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43. Eduardo de Pedro

1976-. (aged 50)

politician

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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44. Irene María Bernasconi

1896-1989 (aged 93)

biologist scientific collector teacher zoologist

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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45. Leandro N. Alem

1842-1896 (aged 54)

statesperson politician

Leandro Nicéforo Alem was an Argentine politician, founder and leader of the Radical Civic Union. He was the uncle and political mentor of Hipólito Yrigoyen. Alem was also an active Freemason.

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46. Débora Pérez Volpin

1967-2018 (aged 51)

journalist

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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47. Ramón Castillo

1873-1944 (aged 71)

diplomat lawyer politician

Ramón Antonio Castillo Barrionuevo was President of Argentina from 1942 to 1943. He took office after the resignation of President Roberto María Ortiz, under whom he was the Vice President. 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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48. Myriam Bregman

1972-. (aged 54)

lawyer politician

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 for a degree in law at the University of Buenos Aires in the 1990s.

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49. Rafael Viñoly

1944-2023 (aged 79)

architect

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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50. Esther Vilar

1935-. (aged 91)

writer sociologist psychologist physician

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...

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51. César Milstein

1927-2002 (aged 75)

chemist molecular biologist immunologist biologist university teacher

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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52. Martina Gusmán

1978-. (aged 48)

film actor film producer

Martina Gusmán is an Argentine actress and film producer.

53. Roque Sáenz Peña

1851-1914 (aged 63)

military personnel lawyer diplomat politician

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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54. Santiago Cafiero

1979-. (aged 47)

politician

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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55. Juan Manuel Urtubey

1969-. (aged 57)

lawyer politician

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...

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56. María Kodama

1937-2023 (aged 86)

translator writer

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...

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57. Cecilia Grierson

1859-1934 (aged 75)

university teacher suffragette physician

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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58. Roberto Lavagna

1942-. (aged 84)

politician economist

Roberto Lavagna is an Argentine economist and politician who was Minister of Economy and Production from April 27, 2002 until November 28, 2005.

59. Luis Federico Leloir

1906-1987 (aged 81)

university teacher physicist chemist biochemist physician

Luis Federico Leloir ForMemRS 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...

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60. Agustín Pedro Justo

1876-1943 (aged 67)

military personnel politician

Agustín Pedro Justo Rolón was 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...

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61. Saskia Sassen

1947-. (aged 79)

economist theorist scientist university teacher writer

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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62. Luis Caputo

1965-. (aged 61)

trader economist university teacher politician

Luis Andrés "Toto" Caputo is an Argentine economist who is the current Minister of Economy under Javier Milei's presidency, having assumed office on 10 December 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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63. Julio César Strassera

1933-2015 (aged 82)

lawyer judge

Julio César Strassera was an Argentine lawyer and jurist. He served as Chief Prosecutor during the Trial of the Juntas in 1985.

64. Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear

1868-1942 (aged 74)

lawyer sport shooter politician

Máximo Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear y Pacheco served as president of Argentina from 1922 to 1928.

65. Nancy Dupláa

1969-. (aged 57)

actor

Nancy Verónica Dupláa is an Argentine actress.

66. Ernesto Laclau

1935-2014 (aged 79)

university teacher philosopher sociologist

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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67. Paula Pareto

1986-. (aged 40)

judoka traumatologist

Paula Belén Pareto is an Argentine retired judoka and physician. She was the flag bearer for her country at the 2016 Summer Olympics closing ceremony held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She was the first Argentinian woman to become Olympic Champion having won gold at the women's 48 kg event at the 2016...

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68. Eduardo Feinmann

1958-. (aged 68)

radio personality lawyer journalist

Guillermo Eduardo Feinmann is an Argentine journalist, columnist, and lawyer. He works on Radio Mitre and A24.

69. Luis Moreno Ocampo

1952-. (aged 74)

prosecutor university teacher lawyer jurist politician

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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70. Marcela Iacub

1964-. (aged 62)

poet lawyer lawyer writer

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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71. Manuel Puig

1932-1990 (aged 58)

playwright film screenwriter novelist activist screenwriter

Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne, commonly called Manuel Puig, was an Argentine author and LGBTQ activist. 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...

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72. Julieta Lanteri

1873-1932 (aged 59)

pharmacologist suffragette women's rights activist suffragist politician

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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73. Nicolás Avellaneda

1837-1885 (aged 48)

lawyer politician journalist

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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74. Adolfo Rodríguez Saá

1947-. (aged 79)

lawyer politician

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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75. Hipólito Yrigoyen

1850-1933 (aged 83)

author lawyer politician

Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union who served as President of Argentina from 1916 to 1922 and again from 1928 until his overthrow in 1930. He was the first president elected democratically by means of the secret ballot and mandatory male suffrage established by the Sáenz Peña Law of...

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76. Luciana Pedraza

1972-. (aged 54)

screenwriter economist film director film actor

Luciana Pedraza is an Argentine actress and director. She was married to American actor Robert Duvall from 2005 until his death in 2026. She is the granddaughter of Argentine aviation pioneer Susana Ferrari Billinghurst.

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77. Alejandra Pizarnik

1936-1972 (aged 36)

linguist poet writer translator diarist

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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78. Arturo Frondizi

1908-1995 (aged 87)

politician university teacher lawyer journalist jurist

Arturo Frondizi Ércoli was an Argentine lawyer, journalist, teacher, statesman, and politician. He was elected president of Argentina and governed from May 1, 1958, to March 29, 1962, when he was overthrown in a military coup. His government was characterized by its strong developmentalist policies (inspired by Rogelio Frigerio), that was less promoted by the State and more oriented to...

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79. Axel Kicillof

1971-. (aged 55)

politician economist

Axel Kicillof is an Argentine economist and politician who has been Governor of Buenos Aires Province since 2019. He is a member of the peronist left political coalition Homeland Force (formerly Union for the Homeland). Kicillof also served as Argentina's Minister of Economy from 2013 to 2015 under the presidency of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

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80. Carlos Bilardo

1939-. (aged 87)

gynecologist journalist association football coach physician association football player

Dr. Carlos Salvador Bilardo is an Argentine former physician, football player, and manager.

81. Arturo Umberto Illia

1900-1983 (aged 83)

politician physician

Arturo Umberto Illia was President of Argentina from 1963 until his overthrow in 1966. He was part of the Radical Civic Union, and the People's Radical Civic Union during his presidency.

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82. Eduardo Duhalde

1941-. (aged 85)

lawyer politician

Eduardo Alberto Duhalde is a former politician from Argentina. A member of the Peronist party, Duhalde served as the interim president of Argentina from January 2002 to May 2003. In the 1990s, he also held the positions of vice president and governor of Buenos Aires.

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83. Janet Hsieh

1980-. (aged 46)

taekwondo athlete television presenter violinist actor

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...

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84. Horacio Rodríguez Larreta

1965-. (aged 61)

politician economist

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...

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85. Jorge Bucay

1949-. (aged 77)

playwright psychotherapist writer psychiatrist psychologist

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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86. Adolfo Bioy Casares

1914-1999 (aged 85)

writer journalist editor screenwriter

Adolfo Bioy Casares was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, diarist, and translator. He was a friend and frequent collaborator of his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges. He is the author of the Fantastique novel The Invention of Morel.

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87. Cris Miró

1965-1999 (aged 34)

showgirl entertainer vedette media personality actor

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...

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88. Alberto Fernández

1959-. (aged 67)

university teacher lawyer politician

Alberto Ángel Fernández is an Argentine politician, lawyer, and academic who served as President of Argentina from 2019 to 2023. He was also the Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers from 2003 to 2008. His tenure as Cabinet Chief remains the longest since the post was created in 1994.

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89. Che Guevara

1928-1967 (aged 39)

revolutionary partisan

Ernesto "Che" Guevara de la Serna was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat, politician and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, his stylized visage has become a countercultural symbol of rebellion and global insignia in popular culture.

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90. Julio Cortázar

1914-1984 (aged 70)

writer

Julio Florencio Cortázar was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, 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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91. 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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92. 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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93. 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.

94. Ginés González García

1945-2024 (aged 79)

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Ginés González García was an Argentine politician and physician who served twice as the country's Minister of Health under the successive presidencies of Eduardo Duhalde and Néstor Kirchner, from 2002 to 2007, and under President Alberto Fernández, from 2019 to 2021. A specialist in public healthcare, González García also served as Argentine Ambassador to Chile from 2007 to 2015.

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95. Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni

1940-. (aged 86)

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Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni is a former Argentine politician 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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96. Victoria Villarruel

1975-. (aged 51)

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Victoria Eugenia Villarruel is an Argentine politician, lawyer, writer, and activist who has served as the 38th vice president of Argentina since 2023. Described as a conservative 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...

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97. Juan Martín Maldacena

1968-. (aged 58)

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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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98. Mario Aurelio Poli

1947-. (aged 79)

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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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99. Juan Grabois

1983-. (aged 43)

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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. Since 2025 he has sat in the lower house of the National Congress as a deputy for Buenos Aires...

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100. Alicia Kirchner

1946-. (aged 80)

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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...

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