Carlos Varela | Florencio Varela | Leonor Varela | José Pedro Varela | Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires | Jacobo Zabludovsky | Jesus Varela | Jacobo Kyushei Tomonaga | Florencio Varela (writer) | Felix Varela High School | Félix Varela | Felipe Varela |
Uruguay pioneered universal, free, and compulsory primary education in the Americas under the influence of José Pedro Varela, whose writings convinced the government to pass the 1877 Law of Common Education (which was implemented by his brother Jacobo Varela, Orestes Araújo and others).