List of Uruguayans

Listed below are notable people from Uruguay.

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Artists

Vedettes, Singers, Actors, Dancers & Models

Natalia Oreiro

Natalia Oreiro – Latin Grammy-nominated singer, actress and fashion designer
China Zorrilla – award-winning theater, film and television actress
Andrea Ghidone – vedette, fashion model, professional dancer and actress of theater and television
Tina Ferreira – carnival and theater vedette, dancer and journalist
Mónica Farro – theatrical supervedette, model and professional theater and television actress
George DelHoyo – American theater and television actor, born in Canelones
Virginia Dobrich – professional theater and television dancer
Marcelo Buquet – actor and former model
Eunice Castro – fashion-runway model, professional theater dancer, television and runway hostess and actress of stage and screen
Daniel Hendler – film, television, and theatre actor
Osvaldo Laport – film and television actor
Laura Martínez (born 1964), actress, dancer, television star
Bárbara Mori – telenovela and film actress and model
Delfi Galbiati – theatre actor

Musicians

Main article: List of Uruguayan musicians

Politics and military

José Gervasio Artigas

Religious leaders

Writers

Eduardo Acevedo Díaz

Main article: List of Uruguayan writers

Film directors and screenwriters

Public figures

Indigenous people

Engineers and architects

Journalists

Jorge Gestoso – Spanish-language television host and President of GTN, Gestoso Television News
Pedro Sevcec – Spanish-language television news anchor for U.S. network Telemundo

Composers

Miguel del Aguila - (Grammy nominated classical composer)
Jorge Drexler – Academy Award-winning song composer (The Motorcycle Diaries)
Gerardo Matos Rodríguez – composer of the tango La Cumparsita
Guido Santórsola
Alfredo Zitarrosa

Scientists

Sports

Luis Suárez

Sebastián Abreu ("El Loco Abreu") – football player, member of national team
José Andrade – former football player and member of the 1930 FIFA World Cup-winning team.
Julio César Benítez Amodeo – Uruguayan football player, played seven seasons with Barcelona from 1961 to his sudden death in 1968
Esteban Batista – first Uruguayan to play in the National Basketball Association
José María Flores Burlón – boxer
Alfredo Evangelista – boxer
Diego Forlán – football player, member of national team and Mumbai City FC
Alcides Ghiggia – former football player, member of the 1950 FIFA World Cup-winning team
Diego Godín – football player, member of national team and team Atlético Madrid
John Harley – played with C.U.R.C.C./Peñarol from 1909 until his retirement from football in 1920
Marcelo Lipatin – football player, forward (Trofense)^[1]
Diego Lugano – football player, member of national team
Ladislao Mazurkiewicz – former football player
Oscar Moglia – Olympic medal-winning basketball player
Paolo Montero – former football player, member of the national team
Fernando Muslera – football player, member of national team and Galatasaray
José Nasazzi – former football player, captain of the 1930 FIFA World Cup-winning team
Álvaro Recoba – football player, member of the national team
Pedro Rocha – former football player, member of the national team
Juan Schiaffino – former football player, member of the 1950 FIFA World Cup-winning team
Luis Suárez – football player, member of national team and Barcelona
Milton Wynants – Olympic Silver Medal-winning cyclist
Enzo Francescoli – former football player, member of national team
Edinson Cavani – football player, member of national team and Paris Saint-Germain
Obdulio Varela – former football player, captain of the 1950 World Cup-winning team

Economists

Arturo C. Porzecanski – Wall Street economist and university professor

References

↑ Spunder, Or (5 July 2008). מכבי תל אביב פנתה רשמית למרסלו ליפאטין (in Hebrew). One.co.il. Retrieved 5 July 2008.

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