List of Argentines

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Argentines who are famous or notable include:

[edit] Writers

Roberto Arlt

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Jorge Luis Borges

Juan Gelman

Beatriz Guido

José Hernández

Leopoldo Lugones

Silvina Ocampo

Ernesto Sabato

María Elena Walsh

Rodolfo Walsh

Main article: List of Argentine writers

César Aira
Almafuerte (Pedro Bonifacio Palacios)
Juan Argerich
Roberto Arlt
Hilario Ascasubi
Enrique Banchs
Roni Bandini
Héctor Bianciotti
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Isidoro Blaisten
Jorge Luis Borges
Elsa Bornemann
Silvina Bullrich
Susana Calandrelli
Eugenio Cambaceres
Miguel Cané
Martín Caparrós
Evaristo Carriego
Leonardo Castellani
Abelardo Castillo
Julio Cortázar
Estanislao del Campo
Haroldo Conti
Gabino Coria Peñaloza
Roberto Cossa
Agustín Cuzzani
Marco Denevi
Antonio di Benedetto
Osvaldo Dragún
Esteban Echeverría
Samuel Eichelbaum
Fogwill
Jorge Fondebrider
Luis Franco
Rodrigo Fresán
Silvio Frondizi
Griselda Gambaro
Juan Gelman
Alberto Gerchunoff
Oliverio Girondo
Angélica Gorodischer
Carlos Gorostiza
Juana Manuela Gorriti
Paul Groussac
Eduardo Gudiño Kieffer
Beatriz Guido
Ricardo Güiraldes
Eduardo Gutiérrez
Tulio Halperín Donghi
José Hernández
Guillermo Enrique Hudson
José Ingenieros
Isol (Marisol Misenta)
Roberto Juarroz
Joseph Kessel
Alejandro Korn
Osvaldo Lamborghini
Alfredo Le Pera
Vicente López y Planes
Leopoldo Lugones
Benito Lynch
Eduardo Mallea
Leopoldo Marechal
Guillermo Martínez
Tomás Eloy Martínez
Ezequiel Martínez Estrada
Carlos Mastronardi
José Nicolás Matienzo
Leonardo Moledo, science writer, novelist
Ricardo Molinari
Eduardo Montes-Bradley
Manuel Mujica Láinez
Silvina Ocampo
Victoria Ocampo
Pacho O'Donnell
Héctor Germán Oesterheld
Olga Orozco
Juan L. Ortiz
Calixto Oyuela
Alicia Partnoy
Ivo Pelay
Ricardo Piglia
Felipe Pigna, historian
Alejandra Pizarnik
Antonio Porchia
Juan Carlos Portantiero
Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
Andrés Rivera
Arturo Andrés Roig
Ricardo Rojas
Ernesto Sabato
Juan José Saer
Osvaldo Soriano, author and film maker
Rafael Squirru
Alfonsina Storni
Mario Trejo
Alberto Vaccarezza
Luisa Valenzuela
Florencio Varela
María Elena Walsh, author and songwriter
Rodolfo Walsh, journalist, writer, and revolutionary
Juan Rodolfo Wilcock

[edit] Composers

Juan de Dios Filiberto

Ástor Piazzolla

Ariel Ramírez

Lalo Schifrin

[edit] Arts

Daniel Barenboim

Joaquín Lavado (Quino)

Lola Mora

Emilio Pettoruti

Eduardo Sívori

Xul Solar

Daniel Barenboim, pianist and symphony conductor
Adolfo Bellocq, lithographer
Antonio Berni, painter
Norma Bessouet, painter
Erminio Blotta, sculptor
Julio Bocca, dancer
Gino Boccasile, advertiser
Fabiana Bravo, soprano
Alberto Breccia, cartoonist
Jorge Calandrelli, composer
Eleonora Cassano, dancer
Juan Carlos Castagnino, painter
Eduardo Catalano, architect and sculptor
Ciruelo, cartoonist
Copi (Raúl Damonte Botana), cartoonist
José Cura, tenor
Ernesto de la Cárcova, painter
Jorge de la Vega, painter
Ángel María de Rosa, sculptor
Jorge Donn, dancer
Julio Ducuron, painter
Fernando Fader, painter
Leonor Fini, painter
Lucio Fontana, sculptor
Roberto Fontanarrosa, satirist and cartoonist
Manuel García Ferré, cartoonist
Nicolás García Uriburu, painter and ecologist
Paloma Herrera, dancer
Martin Irigoyen, composer and musician
Gyula Kosice, sculptor
Julio Le Parc, sculptor
Cándido López, painter
Romulo Macció, painter
Eduardo Mac Entyre, painter
Maitena (Maitena Burundarena), cartoonist
Tomás Maldonado, painter
Martín Malharro, painter
Marcel Martí, sculptor
Lucien-Achille Mauzan, advertiser, sculptor
Florencio Molina Campos, illustrator
Lola Mora (Dolores Mora de la Vega), sculptor
Guillermo Mordillo, cartoonist
Luis Felipe Noé, painter
Marianela Núñez, dancer
Oscar Conti (Oski), cartoonist
Quino (Joaquín Salvador Lavado), cartoonist
Raquel Partnoy, painter
Pérez Celis, painter and muralist
Emilio Pettoruti, painter
Anselmo Piccoli, painter
Eolo Pons, painter
Prilidiano Pueyrredón, painter
Benito Quinquela Martín, painter
Hermenegildo Sábat, cartoonist
Eduardo Schiaffino, painter
Ramón Silva, painter
Eduardo Sívori, painter
Xul Solar, watercolorist, sculptor, inventor of languages
Benjamin Solari Parravicini, painter and psychic
Raúl Soldi, painter
Lino Enea Spilimbergo, painter
Juan Carlos Stekelman, painter
Ricardo Supisiche, painter
Luigi Trinchero, sculptor
Rogelio Yrurtia, sculptor

[edit] Fashion

Marisol Deluna, fashion designer, born in the United States, resides in Buenos Aires and New York
Alan Faena, fashion designer and developer
Paco Jamandreu, haute couturier, confidant of First Lady Eva Perón

[edit] Entertainment

Norma Aleandro

Hector Alterio

Pampita Ardohain

Martha Argerich

Gato Barbieri

María Luisa Bemberg

Gustavo Cerati

Ricardo Darín

Raúl di Blasio

Ulíses Dumont

Charly Garcia and Nito Mestre

Carlos Gardel

León Gieco

Roberto Goyeneche

Rocío Guirao Díaz

Olivia Hussey

Libertad Lamarque

Lorenzo Lamas

Federico Luppi

Fito Paez

Mario Pergolini

Osvaldo Pugliese

Edmundo Rivero

Gustavo Santaolalla

Lidia "Pinky" Satragno

María Marta Serra Lima

Fernando "Pino" Solanas

Pepe Soriano and Julia von Grolman

Mercedes Sosa

Luis Alberto Spinetta

Marcello Tinelli

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson and Alfredo Alcón

Aníbal Troilo

Chunchuna Villafañe

Atahualpa Yupanqui

[edit] A-K

Miguel Abuelo, musician
Alejandro Agresti, filmmaker
Antonio Agri, violinist
Pablo Alarcón, actor
Oscár Alemán, guitarrist
Alfredo Alcón, actor
Norma Aleandro, actress
Pola Alonso, actress
Héctor Alterio, actor
Luis César Amadori, film director
Blanquita Amaro, actress
Elvia Andreoli, actress
Héctor Anglada, actor
Ana Arneodo, actress
Pampita (Carolina Ardohain), model and actress
Norma Argentina, actress
Martha Argerich, pianist
Ana Arneodo, actress
María Arrieta, actress
Brenda Asnicar, actress
Emilia Attias, dancer and model
Fernando Ayala, filmmaker
Héctor Babenco, filmmaker
Carlos Balá, children's television host
Amelita Baltar, tango singer
Gato Barbieri, saxophonist
Dora Baret, actress
Daniel Barone, filmmaker
Sara Barrié, actress
Marco Bechis, filmmaker
María Luisa Bemberg, filmmaker
Lorena Bernal, model and actress
Florencia Bertotti, actress and singer
Amelia Bence, actress
Lola Berthet, actress
Héctor Bidonde, actor and politician
Fabián Bielinsky, filmmaker
Thelma Biral, actress
Alexis Bledel, actress (half Argentine)
Betiana Blum, actress
Julio Bocca, ballet dancer
Andres Boiarsky, saxophonist
Camila Bordonaba, actress
Tato Bores, humorist
Graciela Borges, actress
Aída Bortnik, screenwriter
Sofía Bozán, actress
Luis Brandoni, actor and politician
Fabiana Bravo, soprano
Argentina Brunetti, actress and writer
Alicia Bruzzo, actress
Rodrigo Bueno (El Potro Rodrigo), cuarteto singer
Chris de Burgh, singer
Daniel Burman, film director
Facundo Cabral, singer
Miguel Caló, bandoneonist
Marciano Cantero, singer
Israel Adrián Caetano, Uruguayan-Argentine filmmaker
Andrés Calamaro, songwriter and rock keyboard player
Juan José Campanella, filmmaker
Norma Gladys Cappagli, Miss World 1960
Diego Capusotto, comedian
Moria Casán, dancer and actress
Ana Casares, actress
Alfredo Casero, TV entertainer
Gustavo Cerati, guitarist of Soda Stereo
Segundo Cernadas,, actor
María Concepción César, vedette
Julio Chávez, actor
Chenoa, singer
Graciana Chironi, actress
Agustina Cherri, model
Jesica Cirio, dancer and model
Grecia Colmenares, Venezuelan born actress, Argentine citizen
María Teresa Constantini, actress
Pascual Contursi, lyricist
Juan Carlos Copes, tango dancer and coreographer
Irma Córdoba, actress
Ada Cornaro, actress
Ignacio Corsini, singer
Antonella Costa, actress
Edgardo Cozarinsky, filmmaker
Linda Cristal, actress
Quirino Cristiani, cartoonist and film director
Lito Cruz, actor and theatre director
José Cura, singer tenor
Patricia Dal, actress
Elsa Daniel, actress
Juan D'Arienzo, tango composer and bandleader
Ricardo Darín, actor
Pamela David, actress
Andrea Del Boca, actress
Hugo del Carril, tango vocalist
Florencia De La V, transsexual actress
Alberto de Mendoza, actor
Iván de Pineda, model and talk show host
Julieta Díaz, actress
Yamila Díaz Rahí, model
Raúl Di Blasio, pianist
Alejandro Dolina, commentator and critic
Juanjo Domínguez, folk guitarist
Martin Donovan, filmmaker
Alejandro Doria, filmmaker
Dorismar, model, show host
Ulises Dumont, actor
Nancy Dupláa, actress
Paulette Duval, actress
María Clara D'Ubaldo, singer
Pablo Echarri, actor
Emanuel, magician
Roberto Escalada, actor
Juan Falú, guitarist
Leonardo Favio, filmmaker
Ada Falcón, actress
Soledad Fandiño, actress
Luján Fernández, model
Gachi Ferrari, actress and model
José A. Ferreyra, filmmaker
Candela Ferro, journalist and model
Golde Flami, actress
Gabriela Flores, actress
Vera Fogwill, actress
Dolores Fonzi, actress
Hugo Fregonese, film director
Catherine Fulop, actress, Venezuelan by birth, Argentine citizen
Mario Gallo, pioneering filmmaker
Verónica Gamba, model
Carlos Gandolfo, stage actor and director
Delia Garcés, actress
Charly García, musician
Carlos Gardel, singer
Antonio Gasalla, comedian
León Gieco, singer and musician
Susana Giménez, actress, show host
Araceli González, model and actress
Julie Gonzalo, actress
Roberto Goyeneche, tango vocalist
Darío Grandinetti, actor
Eliana Guercio, model
Jorge Guinzburg, humorist and journalist
Rocío Guirao Díaz, model
Antonia Herrero, actress
Olivia Hussey (Olivia Osuna), actress
Narciso Ibañez Menta, actor and filmmaker
Imperio Argentina, actress and singer
Adrián Iaies, jazz pianist
Martin Irigoyen, composer, musician
Carlos La Mona Jiménez, pop singer
Kevin Johansen, singer and musician
Juan José Jusid, filmmaker
Guido Kaczka, actor and television show host
Martín Karadagian, professional wrestler

[edit] L-Z

La Argentina, flamenco dancer
La Argentinita, flamenco dancer
Fernando Lamas, actor
Justo Lamas, singer
Lorenzo Lamas, actor
Kurt Land, screenwriter and director
Lang, cartoonist
Victor Laplace, actor
Raúl Lavié, tango vocalist
Nélida Lobato, vedette
María Cristina Laurenz, actress
René Lavand, magician
Mirtha Legrand (María Rosa Martínez), actress and show host
Silvia Legrand, actress
Libertad Lamarque, singer
Libertad Leblanc, actress
Paz Lenchantin, bassist-violinist
Alejandro Lerner, songwriter and pianist
Saúl Lisazo, actor
Marga López, actress
Carlos López Puccio musician
Darío Lopilato, actor
Luisana Lopilato, actress
Silvina Luna, model and actress
Virginia Luque, actress
Federico Luppi, actor
Tito Lusiardo, actor
Mía Maestro, actress
Angel Magaña, actor
Jorge Maggio, actor
Arturo Maly, actor
Mona Maris, actress
Jorge Maronna, musician
José Marrone, children's television host
Jorge Marrale, actor
Niní Marshall, comedienne
Lucrecia Martel, theater and film director
Cristian Martínez, actor, comedian
Roxana Martínez, model
Juan Pablo Martínez Irtia, actor
Duilio Marzio, actor
Gerardo Masana, musician
Mirta Teresita Massa, Miss International 1967
Valeria Mazza, model
Claribel Medina, actress, Puerto Rican by birth, Argentine citizen
Esteban Mellino, comedian
Tita Merello, singer and actress
Cecilia Méndez, model
Nito Mestre, singer and rock musician
Eduardo Mignogna, filmmaker
Alberto Migré, director
Sandra Mihanovich, musician
Juan Minujín, actor
Osvaldo Miranda, actor
Marianela Mirra, model and actress
Luis Moglia Barth, filmmaker
Juana Molina, musician
Inés Molina, actress
Ricardo Montaner, singer, Argentine-born, Venezuelan citizen
Nuri Montsé, actress
Mercedes Morán, actress
Marcela Morelo, singer
Cris Morena (María Cristina di Giacomi), producer
Zully Moreno, actress
Bertha Moss, actress
Marcos Mundstock, musician
Berta Muñiz, actress
Napo, cartoonist
Norma Beatriz Nolan, Miss Universe 1962
Carlos Núñez Cortés, musician
Carlos Olguin-Trelawny, film director, screenwriter
Héctor Olivera, filmmaker
Alberto Olmedo, comedian
Natalia Oreiro, actress and singer, Uruguayan by birth, Argentine citizen
Palito Ortega, singer
Mecha Ortiz, actress
Fito Páez, songwriter and rock keyboard player
Pappo, (Norberto Napolitano), rock musician
Malvina Pastorino, actress
Soledad Pastorutti, folk & pop singer
Gastón Pauls, actor
Luciana Pedraza, actress and filmmaker
Carolina Peleritti, actress
Mario Pergolini, variety show host
Diego Peretti, actor
Melina Petriella, actress
Roberto Pettinato, TV entertainer
Ana María Picchio, actress
Cecilia Pillado, actress, classical pianist, Argentine by birth, Italian citizen based in Germany
Marcelo Piñeyro, filmmaker
Jorge Porcel, comedian
Luca Prodan, Italian-born rock composer and leader of Argentine band Sumo
Luis Puenzo, Academy Award-winning filmmaker
Osvaldo Pugliese, tango composer
Eugène Py, pioneering cinematographer
Lorenzo Quinteros, actor
Rodolfo Ranni, actor
Daniel Rabinovich, musician
Sergio Renán, director of film and theatre
Alejandro Rey, actor
Susana Rinaldi, singer
Edmundo Rivero, tango singer
Inés Rivero, model
Nélida Roca, vedette
Elena Roger, actress
Benjamín Rojas, actor
Alita Román, actress
Manuel Romero, filmmaker
Cecilia Roth, actress
Ariel Rotter, filmmaker
Ingrid Rubio, actress
Sebastián Rulli, Argentine-born, Mexican citizen, actor
Mario Sabato, filmmaker
Sabrina Sabrok, model and TV-entertainer
Horacio Salgán, pianist
Dino Saluzzi, jazz bandoneónist
Miguel Sánchez, comedian, actor, show host
Sandro, singer
Gustavo Santaolalla, composer and musician, Academy Award winner in 2006 and 2007
Julio Saraceni, filmmaker
Isabel Sarli, actress
Lidia Elsa Satragno, news anchor, talk show hostess and politician
Josefina Scaglione, actress and singer
Milagros Schmoll, model
María Martha Serra Lima, singer
Soledad Silveyra, actress
Fernando Siro, actor and director
Mario Soffici, actor
Alejandro Sokol, bassist and drummer
Miguel Ángel Solá, actor
Fernando Solanas, fimmaker and politician
Juan Soler, actor
Julia Solomonoff, actress
Pepe Soriano, actor
Carlos Sorín, filmmaker
Coti Sorokin, songwriter, musician, composer
Julio Sosa, tango singer
Mercedes Sosa, folk singer
Hugo Soto, actor
Chango Spasiuk, folk musician and singer
Luis Alberto Spinetta, rock musician and composer
Bruno Stagnaro, filmmaker
Lita Stantic, filmmaker
Adrián Suar, actor and producer
Betina Suárez Lynch, top model
Silvana Suárez, Miss World 1978
Eliséo Subiela, filmmaker
Damián Szifrón, actor and television director
Juan Carlos Thorry, actor and tango musician
Marcelo Tinelli, TV-entertainer
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, filmmaker
Diego Torres, singer
Leopoldo Torres Ríos, filmmaker
Yésica Toscanini, model
Pablo Trapero, filmmaker
Aníbal Troilo, tango bandoneonist and songwriter
Paulina Trotz Fernández, model
Daniela Urzi, model
Héctor Varela, tango musician
Micaela Vázquez, actress
Natalia Verbeke, actress
Sebastián Vilas, singer
Soledad Villamil, actress
Chunchuna Villafañe, actress
Lito Vitale, musician
Alejandro Wiebe, television host
Axel Witteveen, musician
Atahualpa Yupanqui, (Héctor Roberto Chavero) folk songwriter and musician
Sofía Zámolo, model
Pablo Ziegler, Grammy award-winning bandoneónist
China Zorrilla, actress
Olga Zubarry, actress

[edit] Journalism

Tomás Eloy Martínez

Roberto Noble

Fray Mocho (José Sixto Álvarez), journalist and writer
Osvaldo Bayer, journalist and filmmaker
Andrés Bellatti, journalist
José Luis Cabezas, photojournalist
Alicia Dujovne Ortiz, journalist and biographer
Nelson Castro, journalist and writer
Daniel Frescó, radio and television anchor
Andrew Graham-Yooll, news editor and writer
Enrique Gratas, television news reporter
Mariano Grondona, television anchorman
Hugo Guerrero Martinheitz, Peruvian-Argentine radio host and commentator
Leonardo Henrichsen, photojournalist
David Kraiselburd, newspaper publisher
Jorge Lanata, journalist and writer
José Marmol, journalist and writer
Karen Maron, war correspondent
Tomás Eloy Martínez, journalist, writer and newspaper founder
Eduardo Montes-Bradley, journalist, writer, filmmaker
Joaquín Morales Solá, journalist, commentator and anchor
Conrado Nalé Roxlo, journalist and writer
Roberto Noble, journalist, politician and publisher
Andrés Oppenheimer, television anchorman
Horacio Pagani, sportswriter and announcer
Roberto Payró, journalist and publisher
Pedro Sevcec, television anchorman
Rodolfo Terragno, journalist and politician
Jacobo Timerman, journalist and writer
Bernardo Verbitsky, journalist and writer
Horacio Verbitsky, journalist, activist and writer
Constancio C. Vigil, journalist, writer and publisher

[edit] Other categories

Ladislao Biro

Alejandro Bustillo

Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat

Mauricio Macri

Jorge Newberry

César Pelli

Amancio Alcorta, diplomat and scholar
Marcella Althaus-Reid, theologian
Jorge Antonio, industrialist
José Arce, diplomat
Rufino Pablo Baggio, industrialist
Pedro Benoit, urbanist and architect
Ladislao Biró, inventor of the Ball point pen
Hippolyte de Bouchard, pirate
Eduardo Bradley, aerostat pilot
Jorge Brito, banker
Juan Antonio Buschiazzo, architect
Alejandro Bustillo, architect
Dante Caputo, diplomat
Eduardo Constantini, businessman
Guido di Tella, diplomat
Torcuato di Tella, industrialist
Julio Dormal, architect
Luis María Drago, diplomat
Gato Dumas, chef and restaurateur
Carlos Escudé, political scientist
Alfredo Fortabat, industrialist
María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, executive
Fanne Foxe, woman of scandal
Marcos Galperin, internet entrepreneur
Francisco Gianotti, architect
Julio Godio, historian
Roberto Grau, chess player
Daniel Grinbank, producer
Paul Groussac, encyclopedist and librarian
Juan María Gutiérrez, educator
Daniel Hadad, businessman
Carlos Heller, credit union leader
Juan Carlos Lectoure, boxing promoter
Patrick Lynch, businessman and ancestor of Che Guevara
Mauricio Macri, businessman and Mayor of Buenos Aires
Eduardo Madero, businessman
Roberto Maidana, interviewer
Carlos Miguens Bemberg, businessman
Nicolás Mihanovich, businessman
Juan Moreira, righteous outlaw
José Luis Murature, diplomat and newspaper editor
Miguel Najdorf, chess player
Francisco de Narváez, businessman
Eduardo Newbery, aerostat pilot
Jorge Newbery, Argentine aviation pioneer
Ernestina Herrera de Noble, publisher
Alejandro Orfila, diplomat and winemaker
Horacio Pagani, auto designer
Mario Palanti, architect
Oscar Panno, chess player
José C. Paz, publisher
César Pelli, architect
Gregorio Pérez Companc, businessman
Patricio Pouchulu, architect
Francisco Salamone, architect
José María Sobral, Antarctic explorer
Gerardo Sofovich, producer
Vicente Solano Lima, publisher and politician
Viktor Sulĉiĉ, architect
Enrique Susini, businessman
Clorindo Testa, architect
Carlos Thays, renowned landscape architect
Ernesto Tornquist, businessman
Martín Varsavsky, businessman
Azucena Villaflor de Vicenti, murdered activist
Fausto Vitello, skateboarder and publisher
Jaime Yankelevich, businessman and television pioneer

[edit] Sports teams

The Argentine Nat'l. Football Team, 1978

[edit] Sports

Gabriel Batistuta

Roberto de Vicenzo

Juan Manuel Fangio

Emanuél Ginobili

Mario Kempes

Diego Maradona

Lionel Messi

David Nalbandian

Andrés Nocioni

Agustín Pichot

Gabriela Sabatini

Guillermo Vilas

(See Category:Argentine sportspeople for a complete list)

Magdalena Aicega, field hockey player
José Acasuso tennis player
Mariano Aguerre, polo player
Pablo Aimar, football player
Serena Amato, sailor
Osvaldo Ardiles, football (soccer) player
Luciana Aymar, hockey player
Carlos Baldomir, world champion boxer
Georgina Bardach, swimmer bronze medal in 2004 Summer Olympics
Alfio Basile, football player and coach
Gabriel Batistuta, football player
Carlos Bianchi, football player and coach
Carlos Bilardo, football player and coach
Ringo Bonavena, boxer
Delfo Cabrera, sprinter
Ángel Cabrera ("El Pato Criollo"), golfer
Agustín Calleri, tennis player
Adolfo Cambiaso, polo player
Esteban Cambiasso, football player
Mauro Camoranessi, football player
Guillermo Cañas, tennis player
Claudio Caniggia, football player
Bartolomé Castagnola, polo player
Jorge Castro, world champion boxer
Fernando Cavenaghi, football (soccer) player
Juan Ignacio Chela, tennis player
German Chiaraviglio, pole vaulter
José Luis Clerc, tennis player
José Cóceres, golfer
Juan Martín Coggi, world champion boxer
Felipe Contepomi, rugby player
Guillermo Coria, tennis player
Ignacio Corleto rugby player
Hernán Crespo, football player
Juan Esteban Curuchet, cyclist
Juan Martín del Potro, tennis player
Roberto DeVicenzo, golfer
Alfredo Di Stéfano, football player
Gisela Dulko, tennis player
Vito Dumas, yachting
Carlos "Camau" Espínola, sailor
Juan Manuel Fangio, Formula One five-time world champion race car driver
Clarisa Fernández, tennis player
Susana Ferrari Billinghurst aviator
Luis Firpo, boxer
Juan Antonio Flecha, cyclist
Andres Franzoia, football player
Germán Frers, yachting
Víctor Galíndez, world champion boxer
Oscar Gálvez, race car driver
Alejandra García, high jumper
José María Gatica, boxer
Gastón Gaudio, tennis player.
Manu Ginóbili, basketball player
Inés Gorrochategui, tennis player
Estanislao Goya, golf player
Martín Gramática, American football player
Gabriel Heinze, football player
Juan Martín Hernández, rugbyer
María de la Paz Hernández, known as "Maripí", hockey player
Mario Kempes, football player
Daniela Krukower, judoka
Santiago Lange, sailor
Santos Laciar, world champion boxer
Mario Ledesma, rugbyer
German Lux, football player
Enrique Mansilla, racing driver
Diego Armando Maradona, football player
Leonardo Mayer, tennis player
Cesar Luis Menotti, football player and coach
José Meolans, swimmer
Lionel Messi, football player
Marcos Milinkovic, volleyball player
Juan Mónaco, tennis player
Lucas Monteverde, polo player
Carlos Monzón, world champion boxer
Claudio Morresi, football player
David Nalbandián, tennis player
Andrés Nocioni, basketball player
José María Núñez Piossek, rugby player
Fabricio Oberto, basketball player
Martín Palermo, football player
Paula Pareto, judoka
Mercedes María Paz, tennis player
José Pekerman, football player and coach
Pascual Pérez, first Argentine world boxing champion
Ramiro Pez, rugbier
Walter Pérez, cyclist
Agustín Pichot, captain of Los Pumas, the national rugby team
Facundo Pieres, polo player
Gonzalo Pieres, Jr., polo player
Hugo Porta, rugby player
Mariano Puerta, tennis player
Carlos Reutemann, Formula One race car driver and politician
Juan Román Riquelme, football player
Cecilia Rognoni, grass hockey player
Juan Martillo Roldán, boxer
Andrés Romero, golfer
Eduardo Romero, golfer
Gabriela Sabatini, tennis player
Pitu Salerni (María Emilia Salerni), tennis player
Javier Saviola, football player
Lionel Scaloni, football player
Hugo Sconochini, basketball player
Noemí Simonetto de Portela, athlete, silver medal at 1948 Summer Olympics
Alejandro Spajic, volleyball player
Paola Suárez, tennis player
Osvaldo Suárez, olympic marathonist
Patricia Tarabini, tennis player
Diana Taurasi, WNBA basketball player; parents are Argentine
Carlos Tévez, football player
Fabiana Vallejo, women's soccer player
Julio Velasco, former volleyball coach
Juan Sebastián Verón, football player
Guillermo Vilas, tennis player
Solange Witteveen, high jumper
Juan Carlos Zabala, sprinter

[edit] Religion

Ceferino Namuncurá

Ángel Abrea, General Authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Enrique Angelelli, assassinated Bishop of La Rioja
Jorge Bergoglio, Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires
Mamerto Esquiú, friar and activist
José Gabriel Funes, Jesuit priest and current director of the Vatican Observatory
Antonio Gauchito Gil, 19^th century healer
Claudio Lepratti, assassinated priest and anti-poverty activist
Carlos Mugica, assassinated priest and anti-poverty activist
Ceferino Namuncurá, divinities student, recently beatified
Mario Pantaleo, priest, healer and humanitarian
Mario Rodríguez Cobos (Silo), spiritual leader, writer and activist

[edit] Royalty

Princess Máxima of the Netherlands

Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands, half-Argentine
Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, half-Argentine
Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, half-Argentine
Princess Máxima of the Netherlands (Máxima Zorreguieta), Argentine

[edit] Public service

Manuel Belgrano

Guillermo Brown

José de San Martín

Cristina and Néstor Kirchner

Mariano Moreno

Evita and Juan Perón

Roque Sáenz Peña

Domingo Sarmiento

Hipólito Yrigoyen

[edit] Military

Ignacio Álvarez Thomas, early military leader
Carlos María de Alvear, early military leader
Pedro Aramburu, dictator, 1955-58
Antonio González de Balcarce, early military leader
Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician, creator of the Argentine flag in 1812
Federico de Brandsen, early military leader
Guillermo Brown, distinguished admiral
Eustaquio Díaz Vélez, early military leader
Leopoldo Galtieri, dictator, 1981-82
Martín Miguel de Güemes, early military leader
Juan Gregorio de las Heras, early military leader
Juan Lavalle, early military leader

Juan Carlos Onganía, dictator, 1966-70
José María Paz, early military leader
Juan Martín de Pueyrredón, early military leader
Martín Rodríguez, early military leader
José Rondeau, early military leader
José de San Martín, general, liberator of Argentina, Chile and Perú from Spain
Manuel Savio, steel industry promoter
Jorge Videla, dictator, 1976-81

[edit] Politics

Juan Bautista Alberdi, constitutional scholar
Leandro Alem, founder of the centrist Radical Civic Union
Oscar Alende, reformist governor
Raúl Alfonsín, president, 1983-89
Alvaro Alsogaray, conservative economist
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, president, 1922-28
Ricardo Balbín, prominent leader of the "Unión Cívica Radical" party
José Ber Gelbard, Peronist economic adviser
Hermes Binner, Socialist governor of Santa Fé Province, the first so elected
Hebe de Bonafini, head of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Ángel Borlenghi, labor leader
Leopoldo Bravo, politician and diplomat
Teodoro Bronzini, former Socialist mayor of Mar del Plata, the first to head a major Argentine city
Elisa Carrió, politician
Domingo Cavallo, economist
Julio Cobos, Vice President of Argentina
Fernando de la Rúa, president, 1999-2001
Francisco de Narváez, politician
Luis Drago, diplomat
Eduardo Duhalde, president, 2002-03
Aldo Ferrer, economist
Rogelio Frigerio, economist
Arturo Frondizi, president, 1958-62
Rubén Giustiniani, politician
Ernesto Che Guevara, revolutionary
Arturo Illía, president, 1963-66
Juan B. Justo, founder of the Argentine Socialist Party
Alicia Moreau de Justo, wife of Juan B. Justo and prominent socialist leader
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, president since 2007
Néstor Kirchner, president, 2003-07
Roberto Lavagna, economist
Estanislao López, early pro-autonomy leader
José López Rega, fascist adviser to Pres. Perón
José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, conservative economist
Francisco Manrique, politician, creator of current national medical and housing funds
Carlos Menem, president, 1989-99
Lorenzo Miguel, labor leader
Bartolomé Mitre, president, 1862-68
Mariano Moreno, independence-era leader and reformer
Enrique Mosconi, promoter of national oil industry
Hugo Moyano, labor leader
Raimundo Ongaro, labor leader
Alfredo Palacios, socialist leader
Raúl Prebisch, economist
Juan Domingo Perón, president, 1946-55, 1973-74
Eva Duarte de Perón, influential first lady
Isabel Martínez de Perón, first lady and president, 1974-76
Juan Pistarini, public works minister and vicepresident
Facundo Quiroga, early pro-autonomy leader
Bernardino Rivadavia, president
Julio Roca, president, 1880-86, 1898-1904
Dardo Rocha, reformist governor and founder of La Plata
Juan Manuel de Rosas, strongman, 1829-52
José Ignacio Rucci, labor leader
Carlos Saavedra Lamas, diplomat
Amadeo Sabattini, reformist governor
Roque Sáenz Peña, president and promulgator of the secret ballot in Argentina
Domingo Sarmiento, writer, educator and president (1868-74)
Daniel Scioli, former speedboater, later vice president and governor
Jorge Enea Spilimbergo, poet, Marxist theorist and politician
Margarita Stolbizer, politician
Saúl Ubaldini, labor leader
Justo José de Urquiza, first president of the modern era
Dalmacio Vélez Sarsfield, author of civil and commercial codes
Hipólito Yrigoyen, president 1916-22, 1928-30

[edit] Sciences

René Favaloro

Bernardo Houssay

Luis Federico Leloir

Domingo Liotta

Juan Vucetich

Luis Agote, M.D. devised first safe blood transfusion

Florentino Ameghino, naturalist
Cosme Argerich, M.D.
José Antonio Balseiro, nuclear physicist
Lino Barañao, biochemist and current Minister of Science
Dan Jacobo Beninson, nuclear physicist
Jorge Bobone, astronomer
José Bonaparte, paleontologist
Eduardo Braun-Menendez, physiologist
Mario Bunge, physicist
Hermann Burmeister, naturalist
Luis Caffarelli, mathematician
Alberto Calderón, mathematician
Ramón Carrillo, neurosurgeon and first Minister of Health
Carlos Ulrrico Cesco, astronomer
Rodolfo Coria, paleontologist
Miguel Rolando Covian, physiologist
Roberto Dabbene, ornithologist
Pablo de León, space scientist
Vera de Spinadel, mathematician
René Favaloro, surgeon, inventor of the coronary bypass surgery
Hilario Fernández Long, structural engineer and educator
Enrique Finochietto, surgeon and inventor of numerous surgical tools
Richard Gans, physicist
Mario Garavaglia, physicist
Ramón Enrique Gaviola, astrophysicist
Juan Hartmann, astronomer
Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg, geologist and zoologist
Bernardo Houssay, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology
Luis Huergo, engineer
Armando Theodoro Hunziker, botanist
Miguel Itzigsohn, astronomer
Jakob Laub, physicist
Luis Federico Leloir, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Domingo Liotta M.D. cardiologist and inventor of the first purely artificial heart
Juan Martín Maldacena, physicist
José María Mainetti, oncologist
Julio Isidro Maiztegui, epidemiologist
Salvador Mazza, epidemiologist
César Milstein, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Pharmacology
Francisco Moreno, explorer
Julio Navarro, astrophysicist
Fernando Novas, paleontologist
Miguel Ondetti, pharmaceutical scientist
Virpi Niemelä, astronomer
Raúl Pateras Pescara, helicopter pioneer
Livio Dante Porta, mechanical engineer
German Pugnali, ornithologist
Diego Lucio Rapoport, physicist
Jorge Sabato, physicist
Tito Scaiano, laser chemist
Carlos Segers, astronomer
Manuel Sadosky, computer scientist
Luis Santaló, mathematician
Friedrich Schickendantz, naturalist
Carlos Varsavsky, astrophysicist
Juan Vucetich, inventor of the modern technique of fingerprinting.
Abraham Willink, entomologist
Roberto Zaldivar, M.D.

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