List of Uruguayan Americans
This is a list of notable Uruguayan Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Uruguayan American or must have references showing they are Uruguayan American and are notable.
List
- Fede Álvarez - filmmaker.
- Gisele Ben-Dor - American-Israeli orchestra conductor
- Juan José Calandria - painter and sculptor
- Luis Camnitzer - artist and academic
- Jaime Carbonell - computer scientist
- Natalia Cigliuti - actress
- Fernando Clavijo - footballer/soccer player
- Hiber Conteris - writer, playwright, literary critic
- David Cruz Thayne - businessman
- George Davidsohn - entrepreneur
- Miguel del Aguila - Uruguayan-born multiple Grammy nominated American composer
- Graciana del Castillo - Uruguayan-born economist and international strategist
- Jonathan Del Arco - actor and LGBT activist
- George DelHoyo - also known as George Deloy, actor
- José L. Duomarco - medical scientist
- Carlos Eduardo Espina - activist
- Fernando Espuelas - entrepreneur, author, media personality and philanthropist
- Diego Fagundez - professional footballer for the New England Revolution of Major League Soccer
- Francisco Fattoruso - musician, son of Hugo Fattoruso
- Cirilo “Pepe” Fernández - former soccer forward, current soccer businessman
- Bruno Fonseca - artist
- Caio Fonseca - painter, brother of Bruno Fonseca
- Isabel Fonseca - writer
- Rodolfo Gambini - physicist and professor, working on loop quantum gravity
- Jorge Gestoso - journalist and news anchor at CNN
- Enrique Graf - musician
- Sebastián Guenzatti - footballer
- Gabriela Hearst - fashion designer
- Sampson Lewkowicz - boxing promoter and manager
- Ricardo López - also known as the "Björk stalker", pest control officer who attempted to kill musician Björk
- Jorge Majfud - writer, professor at Jacksonville University
- Emir Rodríguez Monegal - scholar, literary critic, writer, professor of Latin American contemporary literature at Yale University
- Joseph Jacinto "Jo" Mora - cartoonist and artist
- Martín Núñez - footballer currently playing for Minnesota Stars FC in the North American Soccer League.
- Jorge Ottati Junior - television and radio sports announcer at beIN SPORTS
- Pedro Piedrabuena - professional three-cushion billiards player
- Daniel Pontet - artist
- Jorge Ramos - sports commentator at ESPN
- Tab Ramos - former footballer/soccer player, whom also served as co-assistant to U.S. team manager Bob Bradley from 2007 to 2011
- Rodrigo Santiago - footballer
- Gabe Saporta - vocalist of bands Midtown and Cobra Starship
- José Serebrier - conductor and composer
- Pedro Sevcec - television reporter who works for America TV / Miami in the United States
- Martin Sorrondeguy - singer of bands Los Crudos and Limp Wrist, the founder of Lengua Armada Discos, documentary film director
- Miguel Terekhov - ballet dancer and ballet instructor
- Carlos A. Vegh - academic economist and Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, son of former Finance Minister Alejandro Végh Villegas
- Agustín Viana - professional footballer
- Rafael Viñoly - architect
- Ida Vitale - prolific writer who played an important role in the Uruguayan art movement "Generation of 1945".
- Adrian Vallarino - TV and film producer and director
- Gabriel Wilensky - software developer, entrepreneur, and historian of the Holocaust
- Alejandro Zaffaroni - biotechnological entrepreneur