University of Buenos Aires - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

  • Ernesto Guevara, physician, former Cuban Minister of Agriculture, revolutionary leader
  • Esther Hermitte, anthropologist
  • Juan Cabral, film director
  • Alberto Prebisch, architect.
  • Raul Prebisch, economist.
  • Luis Agote, physician.
  • Inés Mónica Weinberg de Roca, lawyer, former Judge at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
  • Juan Rosai, physician, Italian-born American surgical pathologist
  • Luis Moreno-Ocampo, lawyer, jurist and Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.
  • Julio Cortázar, writer.
  • José Luis Murature, foreign minister of Argentina.
  • Richard Tomlinson, former British spy.
  • Rafael Viñoly, Uruguayan architect.
  • Claudio Vekstein, an architect specialized in public architecture.
  • Clorindo Testa, an architect and painter.
  • Patricio Pouchulu, architect and educator.
  • Alberto Calderón, mathematician.
  • Luis Caffarelli, mathematician.
  • Juan Martín Maldacena, physicist.

The following former students and professors of the university have received the Nobel Prize:

  • Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Peace, 1936.
  • Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Peace, 1980.
  • Bernardo Houssay, Physiology, 1947.
  • Luis Federico Leloir, Chemistry, 1970.
  • César Milstein, Medicine, 1984.

The following Presidents of Argentina have earned their degrees at the university:

  • Carlos Pellegrini (1890–1892, National Autonomist Party), lawyer.
  • Luis Sáenz Peña (1892–1895, National Autonomist Party), lawyer.
  • Manuel Quintana (1904–1906, National Autonomist Party), lawyer.
  • Roque Sáenz Peña (1910–1914, National Autonomist Party), lawyer.
  • Victorino de la Plaza (1914–1916, National Autonomist Party), lawyer.
  • Hipólito Yrigoyen (1916–1922 and 1928–1930, Radical Civic Union), lawyer.
  • Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear (1922–1928, Radical Civic Union), lawyer.
  • Agustín Pedro Justo (1932–1938, "Concordancia" (UCR and PAN)), engineer.
  • Roberto Marcelino Ortiz (1938–1942, "Concordancia" (UCR and PAN)), lawyer.
  • Ramón Castillo (1942–1943, "Concordancia" (UCR and PAN)), lawyer.
  • Arturo Frondizi (1958–1962, Intransigent Radical Civic Union), lawyer.
  • Arturo Umberto Illia (1963–1966, People's Radical Civic Union), medic.
  • Raúl Alfonsín (1983–1989, Radical Civic Union), lawyer.
  • Adolfo Rodríguez Saá (2001, Justicialist Party), lawyer.
  • Eduardo Duhalde (2002–2003, Justicialist Party), lawyer.

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