The Most Famous
SOCIAL ACTIVISTS from Uruguay
This page contains a list of the greatest Uruguayan Social Activists. The pantheon dataset contains 538 Social Activists, 2 of which were born in Uruguay. This makes Uruguay the birth place of the 55th most number of Social Activists behind Colombia and Latvia.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Uruguayan Social Activists of all time. This list of famous Uruguayan Social Activists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Luisa Cuesta (1920 - 2018)
With an HPI of 56.76, Luisa Cuesta is the most famous Uruguayan Social Activist. Her biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.
Maria Luisa Cuesta Vila (26 May 1920 Soriano - 21 November 2018 Montevideo) was an Uruguayan human rights activist. She dedicated herself to the search for missing detainees during the Uruguayan military dictatorship. Her son Nebio Melo Cuesta disappeared during that period and is still missing today.
2. Karina Pankievich (1950 - )
With an HPI of 43.14, Karina Pankievich is the 2nd most famous Uruguayan Social Activist. Her biography has been translated into 18 different languages.
Karina Pankievich is a Uruguayan trans rights activist. She is the president of Trans Association of Uruguay (Spanish: Asociación Trans del Uruguay, ATRU).
Pantheon has 2 people classified as social activists born between 1920 and 1950. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living social activists include Karina Pankievich. The most famous deceased social activists include Luisa Cuesta.
