List of Famous people born in Uruguay

Edgardo Codesal Méndez is an Uruguayan-Mexican football (soccer) referee, who controlled the final match of the 1990 World Cup held in Italy.

Pablo Mariano Granoche Louro is a Uruguayan football player, in the role of striker in Italy for Triestina. He is nicknamed El Diablo.

Alejandro Daniel Silva González is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a right midfielder for Paraguayan Primera División side Club Olimpia.

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 was a Uruguayan football player and coach.

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 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.

Daniel Fonseca Garis is a retired Uruguayan footballer and a current football agent. A former forward, throughout his playing career, he played for Uruguayan side Nacional, as well as Italian clubs Cagliari, Napoli, Roma, Juventus, and Como, and Argentine side River Plate, winning titles with both Nacional and Juventus. At international level, he represented Uruguay on 30 occasions between 1990 and 1997, scoring 11 goals, and also took part at the 1990 World Cup and the 1995 Copa América, winning the latter tournament.

Jonathan Leonardo Lacerda Araujo is an Uruguayan football defender who currently plays for FC Juárez.

Carlos Heber Bueno Suárez is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays for Artigas F.C. as a striker.