Famous people born in Montevideo
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Nando Parrado
Fernando Nando Seler Parrado Dolgay is one of the sixteen Uruguayan survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed in the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972. After spending two months trapped in the mountains with the other crash survivors, he, along with Roberto Canessa, climbed through the Andes mountains over a 10day period to find help. His efforts, supported in various ways by the entire group, have been recognized through books and other media. He was portrayed by Ethan Hawke....
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Pedro Bordaberry
Juan Pedro Bordaberry Herrn is a Uruguayan political figure from the Colorado Party. He is the son of the former Uruguayan dictator Juan Mara Bordaberry....
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Marcos Sastre
Marcos Sastre was an Argentine writer, born in neighboring Uruguay. He founded, along with Juan B. Alberdi, Juan Mara Gutirrez and Esteban Echeverra, the Saln Literario, the beginning of the Generation of 37.....
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Isaac Alfie
He was Minister of Economy and Finance during the final years of Jorge Batlles presidential term .....
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Jaime Carbonell
Jaime Guillermo Carbonell is a computer scientist who has made seminal contributions to the development of natural language processing tools and technologies. His extensive research in machine translation has resulted in the development of several stateoftheart language translation and artificial intelligence systems. He earned his B.S. degrees in Physics and in Mathematics from MIT in 1975 and did his Ph.D. under Dr. Roger Schank at Yale University in 1979. He joined Carnegie Mellon University....
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C sar Amaro
Csar Nicanor Amaro Carlevaro was a Uruguayan classical guitarist. He was well known to many guitar players and listeners.....
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C sar Gallardo
Csar Gallardo was a Uruguayan fencer. He competed in the team foil event at the 1948 Summer Olympics.....
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Gabriela Toscano
Gabriela Toscano is an Uruguayan actress who works in Argentina.....
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Gabriel Melconian Alvez
Jose Gabriel Melconian Alvez is an Olympic freestyler swimmer from Uruguay, with Armenian background.....
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Hanoch Piven
Hanoch Piven is an Israeli mixed media artist best known for his celebrity caricatures.....
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Eduardo Juan Couture
Eduardo Juan Couture was an Uruguayan jurist whose works are fundamental to the teaching of procedural law in Latin America.....
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Haroldo Gonz lez
Haroldo Gonzlez was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1941. Up to date he has made nineteen solo exhibitions and he has participated in fifty six collective exhibitions. His artworks have been exhibited at several cities of America, Europe, Japan and Africa.....
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Eitel Cantoni
Eitel Danilo Cantoni was a racing driver from Uruguay. He participated in three World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 19 July 1952. He was the patron of the Escuderia Bandeirantes outfit, which entered Maserati A6GCM cars for Cantoni and other drivers. He scored no championship points, but also competed in four other Grands Prix during that year, his best finish being seventh at the Modena Grand Prix. Cantoni later competed in South American endurance races.....
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