Luis Pérez Aguirre (22 April 1941−25 January 2001) was an Uruguayan jesuit priest who highlighted for his human rights activism.
His priestly vocation was born in 1960s and he began his jesuit novitiate: he studied and graduated in Classical Humanities at the Colegio Loyola in Chile.
From 1967 to 1970, he studied in Canada at the University of Toronto, obtaining there a master's degree in Religious Sciences.
His postgraduate studies in Sociology were carried out in 1978 at the Comillas Pontifical University in Cantabria, Spain.
Similarly, was ordained as a Jesuit priest on July 4, 1970, at Sacred Heart Parish in Montevideo.