Famous people born in Montevideo
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Alejandro Zaffaroni
Alejandro Zaffaroni was a serial entrepreneur who was responsible for founding several successful biotechnology companies in Silicon Valley. Products that he was involved in developing include the birth control pill, the nicotine patch, corticosteroids, and the DNA microarray.....
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Pedro Figari
Pedro Figari was a Uruguayan painter, lawyer, writer, and politician. Although he did not begin the practice until his later years, he is best known as an early modernist painter who emphasized capturing the everyday aspects of life in his work. In most of his pieces, he attempts to capture the essence of his home by painting local customs that he had observed in his childhood.....
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Orestes Acquarone
Orestes Acquarone Salaberry was a Uruguayan lithographist, painter, cartoonist, watercolourist, sculptor and poet. Between 1909 and 1914 he was in charge of La Semana magazine.....
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Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Hughes Galeano was an Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, global soccers preeminent man of letters and a literary giant of the Latin American left.....
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Luca Barbareschi
Luca Barbareschi is an ItalianUruguayan actor, television presenter, and former member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies.....
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Gerardo Matos Rodr guez
Gerardo Hernn Matos Rodrguez Montevideo, Uruguay, also known as Becho, was a Uruguayan musician, composer and journalist.....
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George Hilton actor
George Hilton is an actor well known for his many spaghetti western performances. He was born Jorge Hill Acosta y Lara on 16 July 1934 in Montevideo, Uruguay.....
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Daniel Viglietti
Daniel Alberto Viglietti Indart is a Uruguayan folk singer, guitarist, composer, and political activist. He is one of the main exponents of Uruguayan popular song and also of the Nueva Cancin or New Song of the 1960s and early 1970s.....
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Isabelino Canaveris
Isabelino Canaveris was a Uruguayan military and politician, militated in the Partido Nacional.....
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Laura Dupuy Lasserre
Laura Dupuy Lasserre is a Uruguayan diplomat, and since 2009 the Permanent Representative of Uruguay to the United Nations Office at Geneva with the rank of Ambassador. She was elected President of the United Nations Human Rights Council in 2011.....
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