Famous People with Name Azucena

Azucena Villaflor            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Azucena Villaflor: was an Argentine social activist, and one of the founders of the human rights association called Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, which looked for desaparecidos (victims of forced disappearance during Argentina's Dirty War).Villaflor was the daughter of a lower class family, and her mother, Emma Nitz, was only 15 years old when Azucena was born; her father, Florentino Villaflor, was 21 and worked in a wool factory. Villaflor's paternal family had a history of militance in Peronism.

Azucena Grajo Uranza            Origin/Culture/Country: Philippines

Azucena Grajo Uranza: is a Filipino novelist, short story writer, and playwright in the English language.[1]She has written the novels, Bamboo in the Wind (1990), A Passing Season (2002), Feast of the Innocents (2003) and the Women of Tammuz (2004). It spans a hundred years of Philippine history and, in terms of chronology, A Passing Season is the first (set in 1898, during the Philippine American war),