Famous People
Actors and Actresses
- Bárbara Mori
- China Zorrilla
- Daniel Hendler
- Marcelo Buquet
- Natalia Oreiro
Artists
- Martin Sastre
Composers
- Alfredo Zitarrosa
- Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, Composer of the tango La Cumparsita
- Jorge Drexler, Academy Award winning song composer Motorcycle Diaries
Engineers and Architects
- Eladio Dieste
- Gaston Gonnet
- Gonzalo Frasca
Film Directors and Screenwriters
- Juan Pablo Rebella
- Pablo Stoll
Journalists
- Pedro Sevcec
Musicians
- Alfredo Zitarrosa
- Carlos Gardel
- Daniel Viglietti
- Edgardo Cambón
- Eduardo Mateo
- Fernando Cabrera
- Gabe Saporta
- Jaime Roos
- Jorge Drexler
- Julio Sosa
- Martín López
- Martín Méndez
- Rubén Rada
Politics and Military
- Alfredo Baldomir
- Aparicio Méndez
- Aparicio Saravia
- Baltasar Brum
- Danilo Astori
- Didier Opertti Badan
- Emilio Frugoni
- Feliciano Viera
- Fructuoso Rivera
- Gabriel Terra
- Gregorio Álvarez
- Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz
- Hugo Batalla
- Hugo Fernández Faingold
- Jorge Batlle
- Jorge Pacheco Areco
- José Batlle y Ordóñez
- José Gervasio Artigas
- José Mujica
- Juan Antonio Lavalleja
- Juan José de Amézaga
- Juan Lindolfo Cuestas
- Juan María Bordaberry
- Julio María Sanguinetti
- Lorenzo Batlle
- Luis Alberto Lacalle
- Luis Batlle Berres
- Manuel Oribe
- Rafael Michelini
- Raúl Sendic
- Reinaldo Gargano
- Rodolfo Nin Novoa
- Tabaré Vázquez
- Venancio Flores
Scientists
- Dr. José L. Duomarco
Sports
- Diego Forlán, soccer player, member of national team
- Esteban Batista, first Uruguayan to play in the NBA
- Jose Maria Flores Burlon, boxer
- Milton Wynants, Olympic Silver Medal winning cyclist
