Diamond Konex Award winners
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This is the list of all the Diamond Konex Award winners.

1980 - Sports - Juan Manuel Fangio
Juan Manuel Fangio
Juan Manuel Fangio , nicknamed El Chueco or El Maestro , was a racing car driver from Argentina, who dominated the first decade of Formula One racing...



1981 - Entertainment - Alfredo Alcón | Luisa Vehil
Luisa Vehil
Luisa Vehil was an Uruguayan theater and movie actress who had a notable career in Argentina...



1982 - Visual Arts - Horacio Alberto Butler

1983 - Science and Technology - Luis Federico Leloir
Luis Federico Leloir
Luis Federico Leloir was an Argentine doctor and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was the first Spanish-speaking scientist to ever receive the award...



1984 - Literature - Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...



1985 - Popular Music - Atahualpa Yupanqui
Atahualpa Yupanqui
Atahualpa Yupanqui was an Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist, and writer. He is considered the most important Argentine folk musician of the 20th century....



1986 - Humanities - Gregorio Weinberg

1987 - Communication-Journalism - Félix Hipólito Laíño

1988 - Institutions-Communities-Companies - Foundation Alfredo Fortabat
Alfredo Fortabat
Alfredo Fortabat was a prominent Argentine industrialist.-Life and times:Alfredo Fortabat was born in Azul, a small city in Buenos Aires Province, in 1894; his parents, Helen Pourtal and Lucien Fortabat, were recently-arrived French Argentines...

 and María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat
María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat
María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat is a prominent Argentine executive and philanthropist.-Life and times:María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat was born in 1921 to a prominent Argentine family; a grandfather, Federico Lacroze, developed Buenos Aires' first tramway line, in the 1880s...

 | Guillermo Eduardo Alchouron

1989 - Classical Music - Ljerko Spiller
Ljerko Spiller
Ljerko Spiller was a famous Croatian and Argentine violinist.-Early life and education:Spiller was born in Crikvenica to a Croatian Jewish family...



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1990 - Sports - Diego Armando Maradona

1991 - Entertainment - María Rosa Gallo
María Rosa Gallo
María Rosa Gallo was an Argentine actress.-Theatre:* 1943 "El Carnaval del Diablo", de Juan Oscar Ponferrada.* 1946 "Fascinación", de M. Winter. Premio de la Crítica y Revista Talía....



1992 - Visual Arts - Juan Carlos Distéfano

1993 - Science and Technology - René Favaloro
René Favaloro
Dr. René Gerónimo Favaloro was an Argentine cardiac surgeon who created the technique for coronary bypass surgery....

 | César Milstein
César Milstein
César Milstein FRS was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels K. Jerne and Georges Köhler.-Biography:...



1994 - Literature - Adolfo Bioy Casares
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Adolfo Bioy Casares was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, and translator. He was a friend and collaborator with his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges, and wrote what many consider one of the best pieces of fantastic fiction, the novella The Invention of Morel.-Biography:Adolfo Bioy...



1995 - Popular Music - Mercedes Sosa
Mercedes Sosa
Haydée Mercedes Sosa, known as La Negra, was an Argentine singer who was popular throughout South America and some countries outside the continent. With her roots in Argentine folk music, Sosa became one of the preeminent exponents of nueva canción. She gave voice to songs written by both...



1996 - Humanities - Gregorio Klimovsky

1997 - Communication-Journalism - Mariano Grondona
Mariano Grondona
Mariano Grondona is an Argentine lawyer, sociologist, political scientist, essayist and commentator. He has been a journalist for several decades, appearing in print media and on television, and has written several books...



1998 - Institutions-Communities-Companies - Caritas
Caritas (charity)
Caritas Internationalis is a confederate of 164 Roman Catholic relief, development and social service organisations operating in over 200 countries and territories worldwide....

 Argentina | Carlos Manuel Muñiz | Roberto Rocca
Roberto Rocca
Roberto Rocca was a prominent Italian Argentine businessman.-Overview:Roberto Rocca was born in Milan, in 1922, as the eldest son of Maria Queirazza and Agostino Rocca...



1999 - Classical Music - Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich
Martha Argerich is an Argentine pianist.-Early life:Argerich was born in Buenos Aires and started playing the piano at age three...



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2000 - Sports - Gabriela Sabatini
Gabriela Sabatini
Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini is a former professional Argentine tennis player. She was one of the leading players on the women's circuit in the late-1980s and early-1990s...



2001 - Entertainment - Norma Aleandro
Norma Aleandro
Norma Aleandro Robledo is an Argentine actress and screenwriter, born in Buenos Aires to Pedro Aleandro and María Luisa Robledo, both actors. Her sister, María Vaner, was a famous actress in Argentina.- Life and career :...



2002 - Visual Arts - Víctor Grippo
Víctor Grippo
Víctor Grippo was an Argentine painter, engraver and sculptor, considered the father of conceptual art in Argentina...

 | Luis Felipe Noé
Luis Felipe Noé
Luis Felipe Noé is an artist, writer, intellectual and teacher from Buenos Aires, Argentina where he is known as Yuyo. In 1961 he formed Otra Figuración with three other Argentine artists. Their eponymous exhibition and subsequent work greatly influenced the Neofiguration movement...



2003 - Science and Technology - Luis Caffarelli
Luis Caffarelli
Luis A. Caffarelli is an Argentinian mathematician and leader in the field of partial differential equations and their applications....

 | Mirta Roses Periago
Mirta Roses Periago
Dr. Mirta Roses Periago is an Argentine epidemiologist. As of 2009, she is the Director of the Pan American Health Organization .She received a medical degree in 1969 from Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, and additional qualifications in tropical medicine, public health, and epidemiology...



2004 - Literature - Héctor Tizón

2005 - Popular Music - Horacio Salgán
Horacio Salgán
Horacio Adolfo Salgán is an Afro-Argentine pianist, composer, orchestra leader, and arranger who specializes in tango music....



2006 - Humanities - Julio H. G. Olivera

2007 - Communication-Journalism - Magdalena Ruiz Guiñazú 

2008 - Institutions-Communities-Companies - Carlos Fayt
Carlos Fayt
Carlos Santiago Fayt is an Argentine lawyer, politician, academic and a member of Supreme Court of Justice of Argentina since 1983....



2009 - Classical Music - Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim
Daniel Barenboim, KBE is an Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor. He has served as music director of several major symphonic and operatic orchestras and made numerous recordings....



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2010 - Sports - Emanuel Ginóbili

2011 - Entertainment - Ricardo Darín
Ricardo Darín
Ricardo Darín is an Argentine actor, screenwriter and film director.Darín is one of the biggest movie stars in Argentina. He played a number of parts in TV series for several years where he became popular as a young leading actor...

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