List of Famous people born in Montevideo Department, Uruguay
Jorge Fucile Cannavaro
Jorge Ciro Fucile Perdomo is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays for Juventud de Las Piedras. A defender, he is equally at ease on the right or left flank.
Leonardo Fernández
Leonardo Cecilio Fernández López is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Liga MX club Tigres UANL.
Edgardo Codesal
Edgardo Codesal Méndez is an Uruguayan-Mexican football (soccer) referee, who controlled the final match of the 1990 World Cup held in Italy.
Pablo Granoche
Pablo Mariano Granoche Louro is a Uruguayan football player, in the role of striker in Italy for Triestina. He is nicknamed El Diablo.
Alejandro Silva González
Alejandro Daniel Silva González is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a right midfielder for Paraguayan Primera División side Club Olimpia.
Guillermo Sanguinetti
Guillermo Óscar Sanguinetti Giordano is a Uruguayan football manager and former player who played as a defender. He is the current manager of Ecuadorian club Deportivo Cuenca.
Héctor Castro
Héctor Castro was a Uruguayan football player and coach.
Jorge Fossati
Jorge Daniel Fossati Lurachi is a former Uruguayan footballer and coach. He was played as a goalkeeper, mainly in Peñarol. While playing at Peñarol, he helped the club win five league titles. He also had spells in Argentina with Independiente and Rosario Central, in Chile with Green Cross Temuco and with Brazilian team Coritiba.
Mónica Farro
Mónica Patricia Farro Dávila is a Uruguayan theatre vedette, model and actress of theatre and television who started her career as a child commercial model and then worked as an erotic actress and fetish model for Playboy TV. She was chosen as Miss Uruguay for Playboy's 2004 Miss Playboy. Farro is often compared with fellow supervedettes Adabel Guerrero and Valeria Archimó.
Jonathan Lacerda
Jonathan Leonardo Lacerda Araujo is an Uruguayan football defender who currently plays for FC Juárez.