People on Uruguay's street signs

José Gervasio Artigas

162 José Gervasio Artigas Arnal was a soldier and statesman who is regarded as a national hero in Uruguay and the father of Uruguayan nationhood.

Fructuoso Rivera

118 José Fructuoso Rivera y Toscana was a Uruguayan general and patriot who fought for the liberation of Banda Oriental from Brazilian rule, thrice served as President of Uruguay and was one of the...

Juan Antonio Lavalleja

115 Juan Antonio Lavalleja y de la Torre was an Uruguayan libertador, revolutionary, military general, and political figure. He was born in Minas, in a region now named after him as the Lavalleja...

José Pedro Varela

83 José Pedro Varela Berro was an Uruguayan sociologist, journalist, politician, and educator. He was born in Montevideo. Uruguay adopted free, compulsory, and secular education in 1876, thanks to his...

Manuel Oribe

66 Manuel Ceferino Oribe y Viana was the 2nd Constitutional president of Uruguay and founder of Uruguay's National Party, the oldest Uruguayan political party and considered one of the two Uruguayan...

José Enrique Rodó

58 José Enrique Camilo Rodó Piñeyro was a Uruguayan essayist. He cultivated an epistolary relationship with important Hispanic thinkers of that time, Leopoldo Alas (Clarín) in Spain, José de la...

Luis Alberto de Herrera

57 Luis Alberto de Herrera was a Uruguayan lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician.               

Aparicio Saravia

56 Aparicio Saravia da Rosa was a Uruguayan politician and military leader. He was a member of the Uruguayan National Party and was a revolutionary leader against the Uruguayan government.

Joaquín Suárez

49 Joaquín Luis Miguel Suárez de Rondelo y Fernández fue un político uruguayo, prócer de la independencia y Presidente de Uruguay.

José Batlle y Ordóñez

48 José Pablo Torcuato Batlle y Ordóñez, nicknamed Don Pepe, was a prominent Uruguayan politician who served two terms as President of Uruguay for the Colorado Party. The son of a former president, he...

Líber Seregni

45 Líber Seregni Mosquera was a Uruguayan military officer and politician. In his youth he was a member of the Colorado Party. Under successive governments of that party, he had a successful military...

Wilson Ferreira Aldunate

45 Wilson Ferreira Aldunate (1919–1988) was a Uruguayan politician and a historically important member of the National Party.

Juan Zorrilla de San Martín

44 Juan Zorrilla de San Martín was an Uruguayan epic poet and political figure. He is referred to as the "National Poet of Uruguay".

Florencio Sánchez

38 Florencio Sánchez was a Uruguayan playwright, journalist and political figure. He is considered one of the founding fathers of theater in the River Plate region of Argentina and Uruguay.

Leandro Gómez

37 José María Leandro Gómez Calvo, better known as Leandro Gómez was a Uruguayan military officer and politician. A member of the National Party, he is best remembered for his heroical defense during...

Christopher Columbus

36 Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening...

Treinta y Tres Orientales

36 Los Treinta y Tres Orientales es el nombre con el que se conoce a los hombres que, liderados por Juan Antonio Lavalleja y Manuel Oribe, en 1825, emprendieron una insurrección para reincorporar la...

Cry of Asencio

32 The Cry of Asencio or Admirable alarm was an 1811 pronunciamiento that took place at the Banda Oriental against the Spanish rule in Montevideo. Made in support of Buenos Aires, which had already...

Saint Joseph

31 According to the canonical Gospels, Joseph was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.

Juana de Ibarbourou

30 Juana Fernández Morales de Ibarbourou, also known as Juana de América, was a Uruguayan poet and one of the most popular writers of Spanish America. Her poetry, the earliest of which is often highly...

José de San Martín

26 José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras, nicknamed "the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru", was an Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern and central parts of South America's...

Tomás Berreta

24 Tomás Berreta Gandolfo was the President of Uruguay for five months in 1947.                       

Baltasar Brum

23 Baltasar Brum Rodríguez, GCTE was a Uruguayan political figure. He was President of Uruguay from 1919 to 1923.

Juan Manuel Blanes

23 Juan Manuel Blanes was a Uruguayan painter of the Realist school.                                   

Francisco Acuña de Figueroa

23 Francisco Esteban Acuña de Figueroa was a Uruguayan poet and writer. He was born in Montevideo, on September 3, 1791 and died on October 6, 1862. He was the son of the Treasurer of the Royal...

Zapicán (cacique)

22 Zapicán fue un cacique de la tribu Charrúa, conocido por haber vencido a los conquistadores españoles comandados por el Adelantado Juan Ortiz de Zárate en el Combate de San Gabriel en 1573

Leonardo Olivera

22 Leonardo Olivera Texeyra fue un militar uruguayo que participó en las luchas de independencia de su país. Algunos historiadores consideran que su casa natal se encontraba en el Rincón de los Olivera,...

Carlos Gardel

20 Carlos Gardel was a French-born Argentine singer, composer and actor, and the most prominent figure in the history of tango. He was one of the most influential interpreters of popular music in the...

Juan Díaz de Solís

20 Juan Díaz de Solís was a 16th-century navigator and explorer. He is also said to be the first European to land in what is now Uruguay.

Zelmar Michelini

18 Zelmar Raúl Michelini Guarch was a Uruguayan reporter and politician, assassinated in Buenos Aires in 1976 as part of Operation Condor.

Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz

18 Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz was a former President of the Chamber of Deputies of Uruguay who was assassinated in Operation Condor.

Francisco Antonio Maciel

18 Francisco Antonio Maciel, was a Montevidean Criollo industrialist and philanthropist of the time of the Spanish colony. He was known as the "father of the poor."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

18 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the US, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving US president and the only one to have served more...

Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga

17 Dámaso Antonio Larrañaga was a Uruguayan priest, naturalist and botanist.                           

Javier de Viana (author)

17 Javier de Viana was a Uruguayan writer.                                                             

Elías Regules

16 Elías Regules (1861–1929) was a Uruguayan physician, teacher, writer and politician.               

Carlos Reyles

15 Carlos Claudio Reyles Gutiérrez fue un narrador y ensayista uruguayo.                               

Bartolomé Hidalgo

15 Bartolomé José Hidalgo was a Uruguayan writer and poet.                                             

Eduardo Fabini

15 Eduardo Fabini was a Uruguayan composer and musician.                                               

Simón Bolívar

14 Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco was a Venezuelan military officer and statesman who led what are currently the countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador,...

Paul Harris (Rotary)

14 Paul Percy Harris was a Chicago, Illinois-based attorney. He founded the club that became the humanitarian organisation Rotary International in 1905.

Manuel Freire

13 Manuel Freire is a Portuguese influential left-wing singer and composer, although he also works as a computer technician. Freire was born in Vagos, Aveiro District on 25 April 1942.

Luis Batlle Berres

12 Luis Conrado Batlle y Berres was a Uruguayan politician who was President of Uruguay from 1947 to 1951.

Manuel Calleros

12 Manuel Francisco Calleros 1763-1841, hijo de D. Roberto Calleros y Da Isabel de la Cruz Texera El 14 de junio de 1825 en la ciudad de la Florida, se constituyó presidente del Primer Gobierno Patrio...

Carlos Roxlo

12 Carlos Félix Roxlo y Miralles fue un poeta, periodista y político uruguayo.                         

Delmira Agustini

12 Delmira Agustini was a Uruguayan poet of the early 20th century.                                   

Giuseppe Garibaldi

11 Giuseppe Maria Garibaldi was an Italian general, revolutionary and republican. He contributed to the Unification of Italy (Risorgimento) and the creation of the Kingdom of Italy. He is considered to...

Emilio Frugoni

11 Emilio Frugoni Queirolo was a Uruguayan socialist politician, lawyer, poet, essayist, and journalist. He founded the Socialist Party of Uruguay (PS) in 1910 and was its first general secretary, as...

Saint Lucy

11 Lucia of Syracuse, also called Santa Lucia and better known as Saint Lucy, was a Roman Christian martyr who died during the Diocletianic Persecution. She is venerated as a saint in Catholic,...

Alfredo Zitarrosa

11 Alfredo Zitarrosa was a Uruguayan singer-songwriter, poet and journalist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential singer-songwriters of Latin America. He pioneered a new path in...

Jesus

10 Jesus, also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and by various other names and titles, was a 1st-century Jewish preacher and religious leader in the Roman province of Judaea. He is the...

Pedro Figari

10 Pedro Figari was a Uruguayan painter, lawyer, writer, and politician. Although he did not begin painting until his later years, he is best known as an early modernist painter who emphasized capturing...

Horacio Quiroga

10 Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza was a Uruguayan playwright, poet, and short story writer. The jungle settings of his stories emphasized the conflict between humans and nature. His portrayals of...

George Washington

10 George Washington was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the...

Eudoro Melo

10 Eudoro Melo (1889–1975) was an Uruguayan poet, politician, and journalist.                         

Alberto Gallinal Heber

10 Alberto Gallinal Heber fue un abogado, político, filántropo y productor rural de Uruguay.           

Louis IX of France

10 Louis IX, also known as Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 until his death in 1270. He is widely recognized as the most distinguished of the Direct Capetians. Following the death of his...

José Eugenio Ellauri

9 Jose Eugenio Ellauri y Obes (1834–1894) was a Uruguayan political figure who was President of Uruguay from 1873 until he was overthrown in a military coup in 1875.

Ferdinand Magellan

9 Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer best known for planning and leading the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies. During this expedition, he discovered the Strait of Magellan,...

José Belloni

9 José Belloni was a Uruguayan sculptor of the Realist school.                                       

Miguel Barreiro

9 Miguel Manuel Francisco Barreiro fue un patriota y político uruguayo.                               

Manuel Lavalleja

9 El capitán Juan Joaquín Manuel Eustaquio Lavalleja y de la Torre fue un militar uruguayo, soldado y oficial del general Gervasio Artigas. «Servidor de la Independencia», fue uno de los Treinta y Tres...

Santiago Gadea

9 Santiago Cristóbal Gadea Magallanes fue un militar de la independencia de Uruguay y uno de los Treinta y Tres Orientales. Hijo de Diego Antonio Gadea Escobar y Ana María Magallanes, pertenecía a una...

Gabriela Mistral

9 Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral, was a Chilean poet-diplomat, journalist and educator. She read widely in theosophy, became a member of the Secular Franciscan Order or...

Mary, mother of Jesus

8 Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under various titles such as virgin or queen, many...

Alejandro Gallinal

8 Alejandro Claudio Gallinal Conlazo fue un médico, estanciero, filántropo y político uruguayo.       

Juan Rosas

8 Juan Rosas fue un baqueano uruguayo que luchó contra la dominación de su patria por el Imperio del Brasil y en las guerras civiles de su país.

Pablo Zufriátegui

8 Pablo Zufriátegui Mas de Ayala fue un militar uruguayo que participó en las guerras de independencia de la Argentina y Uruguay y contra el Imperio del Brasil.

Fernando Otorgués

8 Fernando Otorgués fue un militar oriental de las guerras de la independencia. Jefe militar de la primera época del Uruguay, fue objeto de fuertes controversias debido a su escasa adaptabilidad a...

Juan Francisco Larrobla

8 Juan Francisco de Larrobla Pereyra was a Uruguayan Roman Catholic cleric, theologian and patriot.   

Joaquín Suárez

8 Joaquín Luis Miguel Suárez de Rondelo was a Uruguayan politician.                                   

María Micaela Guyunusa

8 María Micaela Guyunusa was a Minuán-Charrúa native from present day Uruguay of Güenoa descent.     

Juan Antonio de Artigas

7 Juan Antonio de Artigas y Ordovás era un militar, colonizador, hacendado y funcionario español que combatió en el bando borbónico de la guerra de sucesión y cuando pasó a la sudamericana gobernación...

Yamandú Rodríguez

7 Yamandú Rodríguez fue un poeta, dramaturgo y narrador uruguayo.                                     

Benito Nardone

7 Benito Nardone Cetrulo was a Uruguayan journalist and political figure.                             

Peter Campbell (naval officer)

7 Peter Campbell, also known in Spanish as Pedro Campbell, was an Irish naval officer who founded the Uruguayan Navy.

Julio Herrera y Reissig

7 Julio Herrera y Reissig was a Uruguayan poet, playwright and essayist, who began his career during the late Romanticist period and later became an early proponent of Modernism.

José Hernández (writer)

7 José Hernández was an Argentine journalist, poet, and politician best known as the author of the epic poem Martín Fierro. In his tribute, his birthday is celebrated in Argentina as a national...

Washington Beltrán

7 Washington Beltrán Mullin was a Uruguayan politician and journalist.                               

Francisco Canaro

7 Francisco Canaro, also known by the nickname Pirincho, was a Uruguayan violinist and tango orchestra leader.

Silvestre Blanco

7 Silvestre Eulogio Blanco fue un militar y político, miembro del Congreso que sancionó la constitución argentina de 1826, cuando el actual Uruguay formaba aún parte de la República Argentina, y...

José Martí

7 José Julián Martí Pérez was a Cuban nationalist, poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, and publisher, who is considered a Cuban national hero because of his role in the...

Venancio Flores

7 Venancio Flores Barrios was a Uruguayan political leader and general who served as President of Uruguay from 1854 to 1855 (interim) and from 1865 to 1868.

Antonio Lussich

7 Antonio Dionisio Lussich was an Uruguayan sailor, arboricultorist and writer.                       

Rose of Lima

7 Rose of Lima, TOSD, was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, Spanish Empire, who became known for both her life of severe penance and her care of the poverty stricken of the...

Eugenio Garzón

6 Eugenio Garzón fue un militar uruguayo que participó en la guerra de la independencia y en las guerras civiles de la Argentina y el Uruguay.

Julián Laguna

6 Julián Laguna fue un militar uruguayo, que participó en la Revolución oriental y en la Guerra del Brasil, así como en las guerras civiles de su país y contra los indígenas charrúas. Era hijo de...

Tomás Gomensoro Albín

6 Tomás José Gomensoro Albín was a Uruguayan political figure.                                       

Francisco de los Santos

6 Francisco de la Plaza Cuéllar, en religión Francisco de los Santos fue un religioso, músico, escritor e historiador español, miembro de la Orden de San Jerónimo y electo obispo de Cortón en Nápoles.

Julio Sosa

6 Julio María Sosa Venturini, usually referred to simply as Julio Sosa or El Varón del Tango, was a Uruguayan tango singer.

César Mayo Gutiérrez

6 César Mayo Gutiérrez (1892-1951) fue un periodista y político uruguayo perteneciente al Partido Colorado. Fue diputado, senador y ministro de Industria.

Carlos Vaz Ferreira

6 Carlos Vaz Ferreira was a Uruguayan philosopher, lawyer, writer, and academic. Influenced by John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer, he is notable for introducing liberal, pluralistic political values...

Juan Spikerman

6 Juan Spikerman fue un militar y político uruguayo de las guerras de independencia del siglo XIX.   

Atanasio Lapido

6 Atanasio Lapido fue un militar y político uruguayo, que participó en la Revolución Oriental, en las guerras civiles argentinas y en la Guerra Grande en su país.

Francis of Assisi

6 Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. Inspired to lead a Christian life of...

Federico García Lorca

6 Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of...

Eladio Dieste

6 Eladio Dieste was a Uruguayan engineer who made his reputation by building a range of structures from grain silos, factory sheds, markets and churches, most of them in Uruguay and all of exceptional...

Serafín J. García

6 Serafín José García Correa fue un escritor y poeta uruguayo.                                       

Pablo Neruda

6 Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles, including...

Rita of Cascia

6 Rita of Cascia, OSA, was an Italian widow and Augustinian nun. After Rita's husband died, she joined a small community of nuns, who later became Augustinians, where she was known both for practicing...

Eduardo Acevedo Díaz

5 Eduardo Acevedo Díaz, was an Uruguayan writer, politician and journalist.                           

Ignacio Oribe

5 Ignacio Abdón del Corazón de Jesús Oribe y Viana fue un militar uruguayo, que participó en las guerras de independencia y civiles de su país en la primera mitad del siglo XIX. Era hermano menor del...

Carlos Anaya

5 Carlos Anaya Lopez Camelo was a Uruguayan politician and historian from Buenos Aires, who served as interim President of the Republic between 1834 and 1835, in his capacity as President of the Senate.

Juan Diego

5 Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin (1474–1548), also known simply as Juan Diego, was a Nahua peasant and Marian visionary. He is said to have been granted apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe on four...

Isidoro de María

5 Isidoro de María was a Uruguayan writer, historian, journalist, politician and diplomat.           

Francisco Soca

5 Vicente Francisco Soca Barreto fue un médico y político uruguayo.                                   

Timoteo Aparicio

5 Timoteo Aparicio (1814–1882) was a Uruguayan politician and military figure that was a member of the National Party who was most notable for spearheading the Revolution of the Lances.

John Bosco

5 John Melchior Bosco, SDB, popularly known as Don Bosco, was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and writer. While working in Turin, where the population suffered many of the ill effects of...

Eduardo Víctor Haedo

5 Eduardo Víctor Haedo Roubin was a Uruguayan political figure.                                       

Rafael Barradas

5 Rafael Pérez Giménez Barradas, was an Uruguayan modernist painter and graphic artist who worked in Spain.

Miguel Febres Cordero

5 Francisco Luis Febres-Cordero y Muñoz, known as Miguel Febres Cordero and Brother Miguel, was an Ecuadorian Roman Catholic religious brother. He became a professed member of the Brothers of the...

Lázaro Gadea

5 Lázaro Gadea fue un fraile franciscano rioplatense, de destacada participación política en la Argentina y el Uruguay durante la primera mitad del siglo XIX.

Obdulio Varela

5 Obdulio Jacinto Muiños Varela was a Uruguayan football player. He was the captain of the Uruguay national team that won the 1950 World Cup after beating Brazil in the decisive final round match...

Andrés Guazurary

5 Andrés Guaçurary or Andrés Guazurarí, popularly known as Andresito was a caudillo of the province of Misiones, present-day Argentina, being governor of said province between 1811 and 1822. He was one...

Manuel Francisco Artigas

5 Manuel Francisco Artigas fue el hermano del caudillo José Gervasio Artigas y uno de los jefes de la Banda Oriental que permanecieron leales a la causa artiguista hasta el final.

Juan José Morosoli

5 Juan José Morosoli was a Uruguayan writer. His masterpiece is Perico, a collection of short stories for children, which included "Arenero" and "La Querencia Olvidada" in 1947.

María Eugenia Vaz Ferreira

5 Maria Eugenia Vaz Ferreira (1875–1924) was an Uruguayan teacher and poet. She was the younger sister of philosopher Carlos Vaz Ferreira and a contemporary of Delmira Agustini and Julio Herrera y...

Carlos María Ramírez

4 Carlos María Ramírez (1847–1898) was a Uruguayan journalist, essayist and politician. He was Minister of Finance from 1891 to 1892.

Américo Ricaldoni Saroldi

4 José Domicio Américo Ricaldoni Saroldi fue un médico uruguayo.                                     

Lorenzo Batlle Pacheco

4 Lorenzo Batlle Pacheco was a Uruguayan political figure and journalist.                             

María Stagnero de Munar

4 María Stagnero de Munar (1856–1922) was a liberal Uruguayan teacher and feminist. She was a pioneering player in the reform of the Uruguayan school system in the 1880s, establishing the country's...

Tiburcio Gómez

4 Tiburcio Gómez fue un patriota Argentino que colaboró formando parte de los llamados Treinta y Tres Orientales que inició el levantamiento en la Banda Oriental contra la ocupación brasileña.

Antonio Machado

4 Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, known as Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the...

Gobierno de Bernardo Berro

4 El gobierno de Bernardo Berro comenzó el 1.° de marzo de 1860, fecha en la que asumió como presidente de la República Oriental del Uruguay luego de haber ganado en la elección presidencial ante la...

Miguel Martínez (actor)

4 Miguel Martínez is a Mexican actor and singer.                                                     

Julio Herrera y Obes

4 Julio Herrera y Obes was a Uruguayan politician who was President of Uruguay from 1890 to 1894.     

Ernesto Herrera (playwright)

4 Ernesto Herrera (1889–1917) was a Uruguayan playwright, short story writer and journalist.         

Javier Barrios Amorín

4 Javier Barrios Amorín fue un político uruguayo, perteneciente al Partido Nacional.                 

Máximo Tajes

4 Máximo Tajes Caceres was a Uruguayan political figure.                                             

Benjamin Franklin

4 Benjamin Franklin was an American polymath: a writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher. Among the most influential intellectuals of his time,...

Francisco Piria

4 Fernando Juan Santiago Francisco María Piria de Grossi was a Uruguayan inventor, alchemist, writer, politician and businessman of Italian descent. He was notable for establishing the city and seaside...

Miguel de Unamuno

4 Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher and academic. His major philosophical essay was Tragic Sense of Life (1913), and his most famous novels were...

José Nasazzi

4 José Nasazzi Yarza fue un futbolista uruguayo que lideró la Selección de Uruguay a las conquistas de las medallas de oro en los Juegos Olímpicos de 1924 y 1928 y el Mundial de fútbol celebrada en su...

Luis Eduardo Pérez

4 Luis Eduardo Pérez was the first interim president of Uruguay.                                     

Ignacio Barrios

4 Ignacio Barrios was a Mexican painter mostly known for his absolute commitment to watercolour painting. He earned the reputation of one of the top watercolour painters in his country of origin and...

Saint Sebastian

4 Sebastian was an early Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians. He was initially tied to a post or tree and shot...

Lauro Ayestarán

4 Lauro Costa was an Uruguayan musicologist.                                                         

Felisberto Hernández

4 Felisberto Hernández was an Uruguayan writer, composer, and pianist, regarded as one of the most distinctive and original figures in 20th-century Latin American literature.

Manuel Artigas

4 Manuel Artigas y Cuerva was a Filipino journalist and historian who prolifically wrote in the Spanish language.

Setembrino Pereda

4 Setembrino Ezequiel Pereda fue un historiador, escritor, periodista y político uruguayo que perteneció al partido Colorado.

Héctor Scarone

4 Héctor Pedro Scarone Berreta was a Uruguayan footballer who played as inside forward. Known as "the Gardel of Football" and El Mago due to his extraordinary skills with the ball, Scarone was...

Feliciano Viera

4 Feliciano Alberto Viera Borges was a Uruguayan political figure.                                   

Claudio Williman

4 Claudio Wílliman Gonzalez was a Uruguayan political figure.                                         

Gerardo Matos Rodríguez

4 Gerardo Hernán Matos Rodríguez, also known as Becho, was a Uruguayan musician, composer and journalist.

Luis Morquio

4 Luis Morquio was a Uruguayan physician and professor. A medical condition, Morquio syndrome, is named in his honor.

Clemente Estable

4 Clemente Estable was a Uruguayan biologist, researcher, and professor, best known for his work in cellular biology and neurobiology research.

Néstor Feria

4 Néstor Acosta Feria war ein uruguayischer Tangosänger, Gitarrist, Komponist und Schauspieler.       

Melvin Jones (Lions Club)

4 Melvin Jones was the founder and secretary-treasurer of Lions Clubs International.                 

Santiago Chalar

4 Carlos Alfredo Paravís Salaverry, known as Santiago Chalar, was a Uruguayan physician traumatologist, poet, songwriter, musician, guitarist and singer. He studied music and medicine. He used an alias...

Francisco Espínola

4 Francisco Espínola fue un escritor, periodista y docente uruguayo, perteneciente a la «Generación del centenario».

Carlos Roldán

4 Carlos Roldán, cuyo nombre real era Carlos Belarmino Porcal, fue un cantor de tango uruguayo de reconocida trayectoria en su país y en Argentina.

Jacinto Vera

4 Blessed Jacinto Vera Durán was a Uruguayan Roman Catholic prelate who served as the first bishop of Montevideo. He was an active minister in Uruguay, although his efforts to renew the priesthood and...

Basilio Muñoz

4 Basilio Muñoz fue un escribano público, militar y político uruguayo, perteneciente al Partido Nacional.

Saint Peter

4 Saint Peter, also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church. He appears...

Rubén Darío

4 Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as modernismo (modernism) that flourished at the end of the 19th...

Alfonsina Storni

4 Alfonsina Carolina Storni was a Swiss-Argentine poet and playwright of the modernist period.       

Andrés Latorre

3 Andrés Felipe Latorre fue un militar uruguayo que luchó en las guerras por la independencia, uno de los primeros capitanes de Artigas.

Francisco Solano López

3 Francisco Solano López Carrillo was a Paraguayan statesman, military officer and politician who served as President of Paraguay between 1862 and 1870, of which he served mostly during the Paraguayan...

Francisco José Debali

3 Francisco José Debali, born Debály Ferenc József, was a Hungarian-born composer who emigrated to Uruguay in 1838. He authored the national anthem of Uruguay and, possibly, the tune to Paraguayos,...

Venancio Benavides

3 Venancio Benavides fue un cabo de milicias de la guarnición de Santo Domingo Soriano, siendo nativo del lugar. El 28 de febrero, junto a Pedro José Viera, ante la inminencia del pasaje de José...

Juan Benito Blanco

3 Juan Benito Blanco Farías fue un político uruguayo, contemporáneo de las luchas por la independencia.

Mariano Soler

3 Monsignor Dr. Mariano Soler was a Uruguayan cleric and the first Roman Catholic archbishop of Montevideo, Uruguay.

Agustín Muñoz y Borbón, 1st Duke of Tarancón

3 Don Agustín Maria Muñoz y de Borbon, 1st Duke of Tarancón, Grandee of Spain was the eldest son of Maria Christina, Queen mother and Regent of Spain, and of her morganatic second husband Agustín...

Eduardo Paz Aguirre

3 Eduardo Paz Aguirre, político, abogado y periodista uruguayo perteneciente al Partido Colorado. Presidió la última sesión de la Cámara de Senadores antes del golpe de Estado del 27 de junio de 1973...

Ignacio Núñez

3 Ignacio Benito Núñez fue un político e historiador argentino, que tuvo una actuación destacada en los veinte años posteriores a la Revolución de Mayo.

Pedro Berro

3 Pedro Francisco Berro fue un empresario y político, constituyente de Uruguay en 1830. Fue el padre de Bernardo Prudencio Berro, quien fue presidente de la República Oriental del Uruguay.

Mario Cassinoni

3 Mario Cassinoni fue un médico y profesor uruguayo que ocupó el cargo de Rector de la Universidad de la República de Uruguay entre 1956 y 1964. Fue durante su rectorado que se aprobó la Carta Orgánica...

Domingo Arena

3 Domenico Arena, conocido como Domingo Arena, fue un abogado, periodista y político ítalo-uruguayo, perteneciente al Partido Colorado, que ejerció como diputado, senador, director del diario El Día,...

Martín Fierro

3 Martín Fierro, also known as El Gaucho Martín Fierro, is a 2,316-line epic poem by the Argentine writer José Hernández. The poem was originally published in two parts, El Gaucho Martín Fierro (1872)...

Héctor Castro

3 Agustín Héctor Castro Rodríguez was a Uruguayan football player and coach. He scored Uruguay's first ever goal in a World Cup against Peru at the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930 a tournament they...

John Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby

3 John Brabazon Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Ponsonby, GCB was an Anglo-Irish diplomat, politician and peer.

Horacio Arredondo

3 Horacio Arredondo de Navas fue un historiador, escritor y silvicultor uruguayo, al que se debe, entre otras cosas, la restauración de importantes monumentos históricos y la creación del parque...

Juan María Gutiérrez

3 Juan María Gutiérrez was an Argentine statesman, jurist, surveyor, historian, critic, and poet.     

Luisa Luisi

3 Luisa Luisi Janicki, was a Uruguayan poet, teacher, and literary critic.                           

Pedro Blanes Viale

3 Pedro Blanes Viale fue un pintor uruguayo.                                                         

Alcides de María

3 Alcides de María Navarrete fue un escritor y poeta de literatura gauchesca uruguayo. En el Barrio Nuevo Paris de Montevideo, una calle lleva su nombre. Va desde Maria Orticochea, pasa Av Islas...

Daniel Fernández Crespo

3 Daniel Fernández Crespo(28 April 1901 – 28 July 1964) was a Uruguayan political figure.             

Galileo Galilei

3 Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei, commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei, was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. He was born in the city of...

Heraclio C. Fajardo

3 Heraclio C. Fajardo fue un poeta, periodista y político uruguayo afiliado al Partido Colorado.     

León Felipe

3 León Felipe Camino Galicia was an anti-fascist Spanish poet who also worked as a professor of literature in Spain and the US.

Baltasar Vargas de Figueroa

3 Baltasar Vargas de Figueroa fue un pintor neogranadino.                                             

Romeo Gavioli

3 Romeo Alfredo Gavioli Fraquia fue un músico, cantante de tango, candombe y director de orquesta típica uruguayo.

Bernardo Berro

3 Bernardo Prudencio Berro was the President of Uruguay from 1860 to 1864.                           

Amerigo Vespucci

3 Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence after whom America is named.

Emilio Oribe

3 Emilio Nicolás Oribe, was a Uruguayan poet and philosopher.                                         

Felipe Ferreiro

3 Felipe Ferreiro Gamio fue un político y escritor uruguayo.                                         

Eduardo Dieste

3 Eduardo Dieste Gonçalves fue un escritor y diplomático uruguayo.                                   

Juan Ponce de León

3 Juan Ponce de León was a Spanish explorer and conquistador known for leading the first official European expedition to Puerto Rico in 1508 and Florida in 1513. He was born in Santervás de Campos,...

Mario Arregui

3 Mario Alberto Arregui Vago fue un escritor uruguayo.                                               

Ignacio Medina y Fernández de Córdoba

3 Ignacio Medina y Fernández de Córdoba xix duque de Segorbe y xx conde de Ribadavia. Ejerce de arquitecto y restaurador actividad que empezó en el año 1969 y que continúa hoy en día.

Agustín Velázquez de Tineo

3 Agustín Velázquez de Tineo fue un religioso español que alcanzó las dignidades eclesiásticas de capellán de honor de Felipe IV de España y obispo de Popayán.

Juan Pablo Terra

3 Juan Pablo Terra (1924–1991) was a Uruguayan architect, sociologist, and political figure.         

José Alonso y Trelles

3 José Alonso y Trelles (1857–1924) was a Uruguayan poet who wrote under the pseudonym El Viejo Pancho.

Carlos Racine

3 Charles Racine, paisajista francés, que tuvo una destacada actuación en Uruguay.                   

Tabaré Etcheverry

3 José Francisco Etcheverry Tort, más conocido como Tabaré Etcheverry o por su apodo "Pecho e' fierro", fue un cantante y compositor uruguayo en el género de la proyección folclórica de la región y en...

Juan José Burgos

3 Juan José Burgos Freitas fue un político uruguayo perteneciente al Partido Nacional.               

Gonzalo Rodríguez (racing driver)

3 Gonzalo "Gonchi" Rodríguez Bongoll was a Uruguayan racing driver. He was killed in a crash at Laguna Seca Raceway during practice for the 1999 Honda Grand Prix of Monterey CART race which would have...

Alberto Boerger

3 Albert Boerger was a German scientist who worked in the field of phytotechnology. In 1911, the government of Uruguay hired him to breed plants in that country, taking as starting points the...

William Brown (admiral)

3 William Brown was an Irish sailor, merchant, and naval commander who served in the Argentine Navy during the wars of the early 19th century. Brown's successes in the Argentine War of Independence,...

Lorenzo Latorre

3 Lorenzo Latorre, full name Lorenzo Antonio Inocencio Latorre Jampen, was a Uruguayan officer and politician, who was a dictator and President of Uruguay from 10 March 1876 until 15 March 1880. During...

Óscar Diego Gestido

3 Óscar Diego Gestido Pose, was a Uruguayan politician and military officer who was the 32nd President of Uruguay from March 1967 until his death in December of the same year.

Juan Sebastián Elcano

3 Juan Sebastián Elcano was a Spanish navigator, ship-owner and explorer best known for having completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth in the ship Victoria on the Magellan expedition to the...

Antonio José de Sucre

3 Antonio José de Sucre y Alcalá, known as the "Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho", was a Venezuelan general and politician who served as the president of Bolivia from 1825 to 1828. A close friend and...

Amalia de la Vega

3 Amalia de la Vega was a Uruguayan singer.                                                           

Gumercindo Saraiva

3 Gumercindo Saraiva was a Brazilian soldier, being one of the commanders of the rebel troops known as maragatos, during the Federalist Revolution.

Miguel de Cervantes

3 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his two-part novel...

Louis Pasteur

3 Louis Pasteur was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was...

Lorenzo Carnelli

3 Lorenzo Carnelli was a Uruguayan lawyer and politician who belonged to the National Party.         

Ismael Cortinas (politician)

3 Ismael Cortinas (1884–1940) was a Uruguayan political figure, journalist and playwright.