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Pope Francis
Pope Francis was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 13 March 2013 until his death in 2025. He was the first Jesuit pope, the first Latin American, and the first pope born or raised outside Europe since the 8th-century Syrian pope Gregory III.
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Argentine activist, architect and sculptor
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
movement of Argentine mothers who campaigned for their children who had been "disappeared"
Estela Barnes de Carlotto
Argentine human rights activist, leader of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Argentine human rights organization
Azucena Villaflor
Argentine activist (1924-1977)
Susana Trimarco
Argentine activist
Susana Rinaldi
Argentine tango singer
Amancay Diana Sacayán
Argentinian LGBT rights activist (1975-2015)
Héctor Timerman
Argentine journalist and politician
Victoria Donda
Argentine politician
Esther Ballestrino
Paraguayan activist killed (1918–1977)
Jerónimo Podestá
Argentine Roman Catholic bishop (1920-2000)
Alice Domon
Argentine activist (1937–1977)
Rosa Tarlovsky de Roisinblit
Argentine activist
Jorge Novak
Argentine bishop (1928-2001)
Ilse Fuskova
Argentinian feminist, activist and journalist (1929–2024)
Vicente Faustino Zazpe
Archbishop of Santa-Fe
Vera Vigevani Jarach
Italian writer (1928–2025)
Adela Forestello
Argentine professor (1923-2021)
Lucia Alberti
Argentinian politician
Gabriela Cerruti
Argentinian writer and journalist
Josefina García de Noia
Argentinian activist (1921-2015)

Delia Giovanola
Argentine human rights activist
Cora Ratto de Sadosky
Argentinian mathematician, human rights activist and Adjunct professor (1912-1981)
Juan Cabandié
Argentinian politician

Ángela Auad
social activist (1945-1977)
Félix Díaz
Argentine indigenous rights activist
Alicia Zubasnabar de De la Cuadra
Argentine human right activist

Eduardo Rabossi
Argentine philosopher (1930–2005)
María Rachid
Argentinian politician and LGBT rights activist

Claudia Castrosín Verdú
Argentinian LGBT rights activist

Nélida Gómez de Navajas
human rights activist (1927–2012)
Robert Cox
British journalist in Argentina and United States
HIJOS
HIJOS is a recursive acronym for Hijas e Hijos por la Identidad y la Justicia contra el Olvido y el Silencio (English: Daughters and Sons for Identity and Justice Against Forgetfulness and Silence). It is the name of two organizations founded by children of people who were forcibly "disappeared" by military dictatorships in Argentina and Guatemala. The Argentine organization was founded in 1995 in the town of Río Ceballos, north of Córdoba, by activists from different parts of the country. The Guatemalan organization, founded in 1999 and based in Guatemala City, has received many death threats
Eduardo Jozami
Argentinian politician
Taty Almeida
Argentine human rights activist
Elena Reynaga
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Patrick Rice
former Catholic priest and human rights activist
Beatriz H. C. Aicardi de Neuhaus
Argentine human rights activist
Olga Cabrera Hansen
Argentine lawyer and activist (born 1935)

Dora Barrancos
Argentine sociologist