Alumni
Alumni include many of Argentina's founding fathers, Presidents, members of political parties of all ideologies, internationally recognized scientists, artists, and two Nobel laureates. A partial list includes:
- Alberto Manguel - writer, bibliophile, essayist, journalist
- Luis Agote - devised the first effective method of blood transfusion
- Roberto Aizenberg - Surrealist painter
- Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear - President of Argentina, 1922-1928
- Manuel Belgrano - leader in the Argentine War of Independence, creator of the national flag
- Fabián Bielinsky - Argentine cinema director
- Miguel Cané - writer, diplomat and lawmaker
- Martín Caparrós - journalist, writer
- Gregorio de Laferrère - playwright and lawmaker
- Juan Bautista Egusquiza - President of Paraguay, 1894-1898
- Bernardo Houssay - Nobel laureate in Medicine, 1947
- Agustin P. Justo - President of Argentina, 1932-1938
- Alejandro Korn - philosopher and lawmaker
- Salvador Mazza - epidemiologist who helped control Chagas disease locally
- Father Carlos Mugica - activist priest, assassinated in 1974
- José Pablo Ventura - student activist, assassinated in 1977
- José Luis Murature - Foreign Minister of Argentina, 1914-1916
- Carlos Pellegrini - President of Argentina, 1890-1892
- Ignacio Pirovano - surgeon, performed first local laparotomy
- Nicolás Repetto - co-founder of the Socialist Party of Argentina and Cooperative movement leader
- Carlos Saavedra Lamas - Nobel laureate
- Roque Sáenz Peña - President of Argentina, 1910-1914
- Lalo Schiffrin - composer and pianist, born Boris Claudio Schifrin, Grammy-award winner and Academy award nominee
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