Prof. Dra. Visitación Conforti is an Argentine biologist, algologist, botanist, taxonomist and ecologist. She is a professor in the Department of Biodiversity and Experimental Biology in the University of Buenos Aires in Buenos Aires. She is noted for her numerous taxonomic studies of Euglenophyta, including in polluted rivers in Argentina. Camaleão Lake in Brazil in 1994 and the Caura River in Venezuela in the late 1990s.
Visitación Padilla (1882–1960) was an Honduran educator and feminist activist.Padilla organized the mutual aid societies of Honduras, strengthened anti-alcohol leagues and fervently organized the rights of Honduran women.