List of Uruguayans

Last updated July 11, 2025

Artists

Vedettes, singers, actors, dancers and models

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Alicia Alfonso (born 1963) – actress
Marcelo Buquet – actor and former model
César Campodónico – actor
Eunice Castro – fashion-runway model, professional theater dancer, television and runway hostess and actress of stage and screen
Mateo Chiarino (born 1983) – actor, writer, and director
Mary da Cuña (1942–2016) – actress and theater director
George DelHoyo – American theater and television actor, born in Canelones
Virginia Dobrich – professional theater and television dancer
Mónica Farro – theatrical supervedette, model and professional theater and television actress
Tina Ferreira – carnival and theater vedette, dancer and journalist
Delfi Galbiati – theatre actor
Andrea Ghidone – vedette, fashion model, professional dancer and actress of theater and television
Daniel Hendler – film, television, and theatre actor
Osvaldo Laport – film and television actor
Laura Martínez (born 1964) – actress, dancer, television star
María Mendive (born 1968) – actress and theater director
Mónica Mesones – model and TV presenter
Bárbara Mori – telenovela and film actress and model
Natalia Oreiro – Latin Grammy-nominated singer, actress and fashion designer
María Padín (1888–1970) – actress and producer
Pelusa Vera (born 1940) – theater, radio, and television actress
Imilce Viñas (1939–2009) – actress, comedian, teacher, and theater director
China Zorrilla – award-winning theater, film and television actress

Politics and military

Gregorio Álvarez
Juan José de Amézaga
Mariano Arana
Líber Arce (1938–1968), martyred student activist
José Gervasio Artigas
Danilo Astori
Alfredo Baldomir
Hugo Batalla
Jorge Batlle
José Batlle y Ordóñez
Lorenzo Batlle
Luis Batlle Berres
Tomas Berreta
Graciela Bianchi (born 1954), professor, politician, lawyer, notary
Eduardo Blanco Acevedo
Juan María Bordaberry
Pedro Bordaberry
Baltasar Brum
Lorenzo Carnelli
Juan Lindolfo Cuestas
José Eugenio Ellauri
Hugo Fernández Faingold
Venancio Flores
Emilio Frugoni
Reinaldo Gargano
Julio César Grauert
Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz
Luis Alberto de Herrera
Luis Alberto Lacalle
Juan Antonio Lavalleja
Aparicio Méndez
Rafael Michelini
Zelmar Michelini
Martha Montaner (1955–2016), deputy and senator
José Mujica
Rodolfo Nin Novoa
Didier Opertti Badan
Manuel Oribe
Jorge Pacheco Areco
Susana Pintos (1939–1968), martyred student activist
Fructuoso Rivera
Julio María Sanguinetti
Aparicio Saravia
Raúl Sendic
Joaquín Suárez
Gabriel Terra
Tabaré Vázquez
Feliciano Viera

Religious leaders

Film directors and screenwriters

Public figures

Irma Avegno (1881–1913), businesswoman
Roberto Canessa
Alberto Mechoso (1936–1976), anarchist
Mariana Mota, judge
Nando Parrado
Gustavo Zerbino

Indigenous people

Engineers and architects

Educators

Enriqueta Compte y Riqué (1866–1949), educational theorist
María Stagnero de Munar (1856–1922), educational reformer and feminist
Pablo Román Pérez Torres, Uruguayan translator and lecturer^[3]

Journalists

Susana Andrade (born 1963) – attorney, journalist, columnist, politician
Clara Berenbau (1980–2013) – presenter, announcer, columnist, actress, writer, and journalist
Dolores Castillo (1920-1991) – journalist, philosophy professor, and trade union activist
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

Beatriz Álvarez Sanna (born 1968), biochemist
Rodrigo Arocena
Teresita de Barbieri, feminist sociologist, academic, and researcher
José L. Duomarco
Erna Frins (born 1960), physicist
Rodolfo Gambini
Gaston Gonnet
Esmeralda Mallada (born 1937), astronomer
José Luis Massera
Mariana Meerhoff (born 1975), researcher, professor, and biologist
Mario Wschebor
Camila Rodriguez political scientist and activist

Sports

Football

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
Felipe Avenatti – former football player
Julio César Benítez Amodeo – Uruguayan football player, played seven seasons with Barcelona from 1961 to his sudden death in 1968
Edinson Cavani – football player, member of national team and Manchester United
Héctor Codevila – footballer
César Falletti – football player, forward
Diego Forlán – former football player, member of national team
Enzo Francescoli – former football player, member of national team
Alcides Ghiggia – former football player, member of the 1950 FIFA World Cup-winning team
Diego Godín – football player, member of national team and Cagliari
Wilson Graniolatti – former football player
Carlos Grossmüller – former football player
John Harley – played with C.U.R.C.C./Peñarol from 1909 until his retirement from football in 1920
Luis Jonne – former football player, member of national team
Gary Kagelmacher – football player, defender
Marcelo Lipatin – football player, forward (Trofense)^[4]
Diego Lugano – former football player, member of national team
Francisco Majewski – former football player
Juan Masnik – former football player
Ladislao Mazurkiewicz – former football player
Hugo Modernell – football 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
Hugo Rivero – former football player^[5]
Diego Rossi – football player, forward
Juan Schiaffino – former football player, member of the 1950 FIFA World Cup-winning team
Luis Suárez – football player, member of national team and Atlético Madrid
Obdulio Varela – former football player, captain of the 1950 World Cup-winning team
Matías Vitkieviez – former football player
Gerardo Vonder – former football player

Others

Celia Barboza (born 1977) – surfing champion
Esteban Batista – first Uruguayan to play in the National Basketball Association
Alfredo Evangelista – boxer
José María Flores Burlón – boxer
Marcel Felder (born 1984) – tennis player
Emiliano Lasa, track and field athlete, Olympic finalist^[6]
Oscar Moglia – Olympic medal-winning basketball player
Andy Ram (born 1980) – Uruguay-born Israeli tennis player
Uriel Trocki (born 1996) – Uruguayan-Israeli basketball player for national team and in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
Milton Wynants – Olympic silver medal-winning cyclist

Economists

Azucena Arbeleche (born 1970) –economist, professor, and civil servant
Arturo C. Porzecanski – Wall Street economist and university professor

References

↑ "The 77th Academy Awards 2005". Oscars.org. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
↑ "Cervantes Prize". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
↑ "Interview mit Übersetzer und Dolmetscher - Pablo Román Pérez Torres". 22 March 2023.
↑ Spunder, Or (5 July 2008). מכבי תל אביב פנתה רשמית למרסלו ליפאטין (in Hebrew). One.co.il. Retrieved 5 July 2008.
↑ "Hugo Rivero". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
↑ "Long Jump, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 6 March 2021.

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[1] "The 77th Academy Awards 2005". Oscars.org. Retrieved 6 March 2021.

[2] "Cervantes Prize". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 6 March 2021.

[3] "Interview mit Übersetzer und Dolmetscher - Pablo Román Pérez Torres". 22 March 2023.

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

[5] "Hugo Rivero". worldfootball.net. HEIM:SPIEL Medien GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved 16 April 2024.

[6] "Long Jump, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 6 March 2021.

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