Croatian-born Argentinian anthropologist and police official who pioneered the use of fingerprinting. Argentine police adopted his method of fingerprinting classification and it spread to police forces all over the world.

Born July 20 of 1858 on the island of Hvar in the archipelago of Dalmatia (then part of Austria-Hungary , now Croatia ) the perhaps anthropologist Ivan Vučetić (studies are unknown) was established in Argentina, in 1882, at the age of 23.

It nationalized Argentine by the name of Juan Vucetich, admitted in 1888 to the central of the Police of the Province of Buenos Aires (in the city of La Plata ). Initially employed in the accounting with the degree of merit, a year and a half later he was appointed chief of the Bureau of Statistics. After created the Office of Identification Anthropometric and later fingerprinting Center was director.

He was noted for commitment, well-spoken, according to the logic and clarity of expression of ideas.

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