List of Argentines


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Argentines are people from Argentina. They are also called Argentinians. They are the citizens of Argentina, or their descendants abroad. Argentina is a multiethnic society, which means that it is home to people of many different ethnic backgrounds.

The list below are Argentines who are famous or notable.

[change] Writers

Roberto Arlt

Adolfo Bioy Casares

Jorge Luis Borges

Juan Gelman

Beatriz Guido

José Hernández

Leopoldo Lugones

Silvina Ocampo

Ernesto Sabato

María Elena Walsh

[change] Composers

Juan de Dios Filiberto

Ástor Piazzolla

Ariel Ramírez

Lalo Schifrin

[change] Arts

Martha Argerich

Marcelo Álvarez

Daniel Barenboim

Norma Fontenla

Sol Gabetta

Joaquín Lavado (Quino)

Lola Mora

Emilio Pettoruti

Eduardo Sívori

Xul Solar

Roberto Aizenberg, painter and sculptor
Oscar Alemán, jazz guitarist
Antonio Alice, portrait painter
Martha Argerich, concert pianist
Marcelo Álvarez, tenor
Daniel Barenboim, pianist and conductor
Ricardo Basta, jewelry designer
Adolfo Bellocq, lithographer
Antonio Berni, painter
Norma Bessouet, painter
Erminio Blotta, sculptor
Julio Bocca, ballet dancer
Gino Boccasile, advertiser
Fabiana Bravo, soprano
Alberto Breccia, cartoonist
Jorge Calandrelli, composer
Emilio Caraffa, painter
Ricardo Carpani, muralist
Carybé, Argentine-Brazilian painter
Eleonora Cassano, dancer
Juan Carlos Castagnino, painter
Eduardo Catalano, architect and sculptor
Alejandro Christophersen, painter and architect
Ciruelo, cartoonist
Gustavo Cochet, painter
Pío Collivadino, painter
Copi (Raúl Damonte Botana), cartoonist
José Cura, tenor
Pablo Curatella Manes, sculptor
Ernesto de la Cárcova, painter
Jorge de la Vega, painter
Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós, painter
Ángel María de Rosa, sculptor
Helmut Ditsch, painter
Jorge Donn, dancer
Julio Ducuron, painter
Fernando Fader, painter
León Ferrari, constructivist sculptor
Bernarda Fink, mezzosoprano
Leonor Fini, painter
Ingrid Fliter, pianist
Lucio Fontana, sculptor
Roberto Fontanarrosa, satirist and cartoonist
Norma Fontenla, ballerina
Raquel Forner, painter
Sol Gabetta, cellist
Manuel García Ferré, cartoonist
Nicolás García Uriburu, painter and ecologist
Guillermo Gianninazzi, sculptor
Paloma Herrera, dancer
Martín Irigoyen, composer and musician
María Cristina Kiehr, soprano
Gyula Kosice, sculptor
Sebastian Krys, music producer
Horacio Lavandera, concert pianist
Julio Le Parc, sculptor
Cándido López, painter
Alberto Lysy, concert violinist
Rómulo Macció, painter
Eduardo Mac Entyre, painter
Maitena (Maitena Burundarena), cartoonist
Tomás Maldonado, painter
Martín Malharro, painter
Marcel Martí, sculptor
Lucien-Achille Mauzan, advertiser, sculptor
Marta Minujín, conceptual artist
Florencio Molina Campos, illustrator
Lola Mora (Dolores Mora de la Vega), sculptor
Guillermo Mordillo, cartoonist
José Neglia, ballerino
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
Polo Piatti, composer, concert pianist
Alberto Portugheis, concert pianist
Anselmo Piccoli, painter
Eolo Pons, painter
Prilidiano Pueyrredón, painter
Antonio Pujía, sculptor
Benito Quinquela Martín, painter
Silvia Roederer, pianist
Guillermo Roux, painter
Hermenegildo Sábat, cartoonist
Alberto Saichann, illustrator
Eduardo Schiaffino, painter
Antonio Seguí, painter
María Isabel Siewers, classical guitarist
Ramón Silva, painter
Eduardo Sívori, painter
Xul Solar, watercolorist, sculptor, inventor of languages
Benjamín Solari Parravicini, painter and psychic
Raúl Soldi, painter
Lino Enea Spilimbergo, painter
Sebastian Spreng, painter and stage designer
Juan Carlos Stekelman, painter
Ricardo Supisiche, painter
Carlos Trillo, cartoonist
Luigi Trinchero, sculptor
Terig Tucci, violinist and composer
Rogelio Yrurtia, sculptor

[change] Fashion

Alan Faena, fashion designer and developer
Paco Jamandreu, haute couturier, confidant of First Lady Eva Perón

[change] Entertainment

Héctor Alterio

Pampita Ardohain

Gato Barbieri

María Luisa Bemberg

Gustavo Cerati

Ricardo Darín

Raúl di Blasio

Ulíses Dumont

Charly García and Nito Mestre

Carlos Gardel

León Gieco

Roberto Goyeneche

Rocío Guirao Díaz

Olivia Hussey

Libertad Lamarque

Lorenzo Lamas

Federico Luppi

Fito Páez

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

Lita Stantic

Marcello Tinelli

Leopoldo Torre Nilsson and Alfredo Alcón

Aníbal Troilo

Chunchuna Villafañe

Atahualpa Yupanqui

[change] A-K

Miguel Abuelo, musician
Alejandro Agresti, filmmaker
Antonio Agri, violinist
Pablo Alarcón, actor
Charly Alberti, drummer and activist
Tito Alberti, jazz drummer
Oscar Alemán, guitarist
Alfredo Alcón, actor
Norma Aleandro, actress
Leonardo Nam, actor
Pola Alonso, actress
Malena Alterio, actress
Héctor Alterio, actor
Luis César Amadori, film director
Blanquita Amaro, actress
Brenda Asnicar, actress and singer
Mike Amigorena, actor and musician
Elvia Andreoli, actress
Héctor Anglada, actor
Ana Arneodo, actress
Pampita (Carolina Ardohain), model and actress
Imperio Argentina, actress and flamenco dancer
Ana Arneodo, actress
Emilia Attias, actress, dancer and model
Federico Aubele, musician
Fernando Ayala, filmmaker
Pedro Aznar, jazz bass guitarist
Héctor Babenco, filmmaker
Christian Bach, actress
Carlos Balá, children's television host
Amelita Baltar, tango singer
Gato Barbieri, saxophonist
Dora Baret, actress
Daniel Barone, filmmaker
Sara Barrié, actress
Berenice Bejo, actress
María Luisa Bemberg, filmmaker
Lorena Bernal, model and actress
Florencia Bertotti, actress, producer and singer
Amelia Bence, actress
Lola Berthet, actress
Héctor Bidonde, actor and politician
Fabián Bielinsky, filmmaker
Mauricio "Moris" Birabent, rock composer and musician
Thelma Biral, actress
Betiana Blum, actress
Camila Bordonaba, actress, singer and musician
Tato Bores, humorist
Graciela Borges, actress
Patricio Borghetti, actor
Aída Bortnik, screenwriter
Juan Diego Botto, actor
Sofía Bozán, actress
Luis Brandoni, actor and politician
Fabiana Bravo, soprano
Norman Briski, actor and theatre director
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, bandoneónist
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
Felipe Colombo, actor, songwriter and musician Mexican-Argentine
María Concepción César, vedette
Julio Chávez, actor
Paula Chaves, model and actress
Chenoa, singer
Graciana Chironi, actress
Agustina Cherri, actress and dancer
Jesica Cirio, dancer and model
María Teresa Costantini, actress
Pascual Contursi, lyricist
Juan Carlos Copes, tango dancer and choreographer
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
Antonio Cunill Cabanellas, theatre director
Patricia Dal, actress
Elsa Daniel, actress
Juan d'Arienzo, tango composer and bandleader
Ricardo Darín, actor
Pamela David, model
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 Diaz-Rahi, model
Raúl di Blasio, pianist
Alejandro Dolina, writer, 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
Laura Natalia Esquivel, actress and singer
Juan Falú, guitarist
Leonardo Favio, actor, singer and filmmaker
Ada Falcón, actress
Soledad Fandiño, actress and model
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
Guillermo Francella, actor and comic
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
Antonio Gasalla, comedian
León Gieco, singer and musician
Susana Giménez, actress, show host
Javier Gómez, actor
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 Ibáñez Menta, actor and filmmaker
Imperio Argentina, actress and singer
Adrián Iaies, jazz pianist
Carlos Inzillo, jazz clarinetist and producer
Martín Irigoyen, composer, musician
Carlos La Mona Jiménez, singer
Kevin Johansen, singer and musician
Juan José Jusid, filmmaker
Guido Kaczka, actor, producer and television show host
Martín Karadagian, professional wrestler
Sergio Kleiner, actor
León Klimovsky, filmmaker

[change] L-Z

La Argentina, flamenco dancer
La Argentinita, flamenco dancer
Lydia Lamaison, actress
Libertad Lamarque, singer and actress
Fernando Lamas, actor
Justo Lamas, singer
Kurt Land, screenwriter and director
Lang, cartoonist
Romina Lanaro, model
Víctor Laplace, actor
Raúl Lavié, tango vocalist
Ricardo Lavié, actor
Inda Ledesma, actress and theatre director
Nélida Lobato, vedette
María Cristina Laurenz, actress
René Lavand, magician
Mirtha Legrand (María Rosa Martínez), actress and show host
Silvia Legrand, actress
Libertad Leblanc, actress
Ana Lenchantin, cellist
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 and model
Florencia Lozano, actress
Silvina Luna, model and actress
Virginia Luque, actress
Federico Luppi, actor
Tito Lusiardo, actor
Mía Maestro, actress
Ángel 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
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
Juan Carlos Mesa, humorist and screenwriter
Nito Mestre, singer and rock musician
Eduardo Mignogna, filmmaker
Alberto Migré, writer and director
Amanda Miguel, singer
Sandra Mihanovich, musician
Juan Minujín, actor
Osvaldo Miranda, actor
Marianela Mirra, model and actress
Luis Moglia Barth, filmmaker
Juana Molina, actress and 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), actress, writer and producer of television
Zully Moreno, actress
Viggo Mortensen, actor
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
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 and model
Mario Pergolini, variety show host
Diego Peretti, actor
Carla Peterson, actress
Melina Petriella, actress
Roberto Pettinato, TV entertainer
Ana María Picchio, actress
Cecilia Pillado, actress, classical pianist, Argentine by birth
Marcelo Piñeyro, filmmaker
Lucciano Pizzichini,is a child prodigy guitarist and the youngest artist sponsored by Gibson Guitars
Jorge Polaco, filmmaker
Lola Ponce, singer, actress and model
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
Coki Ramírez,singer and model
Rodolfo Ranni, actor Italian-born
Daniel Rabinovich, musician
Sergio Renán, director of film and theatre
Alejandro Rey, actor
Susana Rinaldi, singer
Calu Rivero, actress
Edmundo Rivero, tango singer
Inés Rivero, model
Nélida Roca, vedette
Belén Rodríguez, model and actress
Elena Roger, actress
Benjamín Rojas, actor, singer and musician
Alita Román, actress
Manuel Romero, filmmaker
Cecilia Roth, actress
Ariel Rotter, filmmaker
Ingrid Rubio, actress
Sebastián Rulli, Argentine-born, Mexican citizen, actor
Mario Sábato, filmmaker
Sabrina Sabrok, model and TV-entertainer
Horacio Salgán, pianist
Dino Saluzzi, jazz bandoneónist
Miguel Sánchez, comedian, actor, show host
Sandro de América, 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
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
René Strickler, actor
Adrián Suar, actor and producer
Silvana Suárez, Miss World 1978
Eliséo Subiela, filmmaker
Damián Szifrón, actor and television director
María del Luján Telpuk, model
Juan Carlos Thorry, actor and tango musician
Marcelo Tinelli, TV entertainer
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, filmmaker
Diego Torres, actor, singer and musician
Leopoldo Torres Ríos, filmmaker
Yésica Toscanini, model
Pablo Trapero, filmmaker
Aníbal Troilo, tango bandoneónist and songwriter
Paulina Trotz Fernández, model
Daniela Urzi, model
Héctor Varela, tango musician
Micaela Vázquez, actress
Natalia Verbeke, actress
Diego Verdaguer, actor
Candela Vetrano, actress
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
Olga Zubarry, actress

[change] 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
Daniel Frescó, radio and television anchor
Andrew Graham-Yooll, news editor and writer
Enrique Gratas, television news reporter
Mariano Grondona, television anchorman
Hugo Guerrero Marthineitz, Peruvian-Argentine radio host and commentator
Leonardo Henrichsen, photojournalist
David Kraiselburd, newspaper publisher
Jorge Lanata, journalist and writer
José Mármol, 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
José María Pasquini Durán, journalist and writer
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

[change] Other categories

Ladislao Biro

Alejandro Bustillo

Mauricio Macri

Jorge Newberry

Carlos Thays

Amancio Alcorta, diplomat and scholar
Marcella Althaus-Reid, theologian
Mario Roberto Álvarez, architect
Jorge Antonio, industrialist
José Arce, diplomat
Otto Bemberg, industrialist
Pedro Benoit, urbanist and architect
Ladislao Biró, inventor of the ballpoint pen
Eduardo Bradley, aerostat pilot
Jorge Brito, banker
Carlos Bulgheroni, industrialist
Juan Antonio Buschiazzo, architect
Alejandro Bustillo, architect
Dante Caputo, diplomat
Evangelina Carrozzo, model and activist
Eduardo Costantini, businessman
Guido di Tella, diplomat
Torcuato di Tella, industrialist
Julio Dormal, architect
Orlando Sconza, professor
Luis María Drago, diplomat
Gato Dumas, chef and restaurateur
Eduardo Elsztain, businessman
Carlos Escudé, political scientist
Alfredo Fortabat, industrialist
Inès de La Fressange, designer and model half-Argentine
María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, executive
Fanne Foxe, woman of scandal
Marcos Galperin, internet entrepreneur
Francisco Gianotti, architect
Julio Godio, historian
Carlos Bernardo González Pecotche, pedagogian and philosopher
Roberto Grau, chess player
Soto Grimshaw, explorer and naturalist
Daniel Grinbank, producer
Ernesto Garzón Valdés, philosopher
Paul Groussac, encyclopedist and librarian
Juan María Gutiérrez, educator
Daniel Hadad, businessman
Carlos Heller, credit union leader
Otto Krause, educator
Juan Carlos Lectoure, boxing promoter
Patrick Lynch, businessman and ancestor of Che Guevara
Francisco Macri, industrialist
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
Patricio Peralta Ramos, developer
César Pelli, architect
Gregorio Pérez Companc, businessman
Patricio Pouchulu, architect
Jorge Preloran, filmmaker
Agostino Rocca, industrialist
Paolo Rocca, industrialist
Francisco Salamone, architect
Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz, political and social theorist
José María Sobral, Antarctic explorer
Gerardo Sofovich, producer
Vicente Solano Lima, publisher and politician
Santiago Soldati, businessman
Viktor Sulčič, 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
Amancio Williams, architect
Jaime Yankelevich, businessman and television pioneer

[change] Sports teams

[change] Sports

Gabriel Batistuta

Juan Martín del Potro

Jonathan Erlich

Juan Manuel Fangio

Emanuél Ginobili

Giselle Kañevsky

Mario Kempes

Diego Maradona

Lionel Messi

David Nalbandian

Andrés Nocioni

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
Daniel Brailovski, football player, midfielder^[1]
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
Martín Castrogiovanni, rugby player
Fernando Cavenaghi, football (soccer) player
Juan Ignacio Chela, tennis player
Germán 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
Jonathan Erlich, tennis player
Carlos "Camau" Espínola, sailor
Gastón Etlis, tennis player
Guillermo Falasca, boleyball player
Miguel Ángel Falasca, boleyball player
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
Andrés Franzoia, football player
Germán Frers, yachting
Víctor Galíndez, world champion boxer
Oscar Gálvez, race car driver
José Eulogio Gárate, football player
Alejandra García, high jumper
José María Gatica, boxer
Gastón Gaudio, tennis player.
Manu Ginóbili, basketball player
Griselda González, runner
Inés Gorrochategui, tennis player
Estanislao Goya, golf player
Martín Gramática, American football player
Gabriel Heinze, football player
Martín Jaite, tennis player, highest world ranking # 10
Juan Martín Hernández, rugbyer
María de la Paz Hernández, known as "Maripí", hockey player
Giselle Kañevsky, field hockey Olympic bronze
Mario Kempes, football player
Daniela Krukower, judoka, World Champion (under 63 kg)^[2]
Santiago Lange, sailor
Santos Laciar, world champion boxer
Mario Ledesma, rugbyer
Lucas Legnani, ten-pin bowler
Lucas Licht, football player, left defender/left winger (Racing Club de Avellaneda)^[3]
Pechito López, race car driver
Germán Lux, football player
Enrique Mansilla, racing driver
Diego Armando Maradona, Soccer player
Héctor Leonardo Marinaro, Soccer player
Karina Masotta, field hockey player
Leonardo Mayer, tennis player
César Luis Menotti, Soccer 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
Andrea Orlandi, sportwooman half-Argentine
Luciano Orquera, rugby player
Martín Palermo, football player
Oscar Panno, chess grandmaster
Paula Pareto, judoka
Sergio Parisse, rugby player
Mercedes María Paz, tennis player
José Pekerman, football player and coach^[4]
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
Cristian Rodríguez, boxer
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
Juan Pablo Sorín, football player, defender
Alejandro Spajic, volleyball player
Osvaldo Suárez, olympic marathonist
Paola Suárez, tennis player
Patricia Tarabini, tennis player
Nicolás Tauber, football player
Diana Taurasi, WNBA basketball player; parents are Argentine
Carlos Tévez, football player
David Trezeguet, football player (half Argentine, son of Jorge Trezeguet)
Jorge Trezeguet, football player
Esteban Tuero, racing driver
Fabiana Vallejos, 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

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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, 19th century healer
Claudio Lepratti, assassinated priest and anti-poverty activist
Carlos Mugica, assassinated priest and anti-poverty activist
Ceferino Namuncurá, divinities student, recently beatified
Pedro Opeka, priest, missionary and humanitarian
Mario Pantaleo, priest, healer and humanitarian
Mario Rodríguez Cobos (Silo), spiritual leader, writer and activist

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José de San Martín

Cristina and Néstor Kirchner

Mariano Moreno

Evita and Juan Perón

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Roque Sáenz Peña

Domingo Sarmiento

Hipólito Yrigoyen

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Carlos María de Alvear, early military leader
Pedro Aramburu, dictator, 1955–58
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Federico de Brandsen, early military leader
Guillermo Brown, distinguished admiral
Hippolyte de Bouchard, privateer and early captain of Argentine Navy
Eustaquio Díaz Vélez, early military leader
Leopoldo Galtieri, dictator, 1981–82
Antonio González de Balcarce, early military leader
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
Enrique Mosconi, petroleum industry promoter
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
Samuel Spiro, navy captain
Jorge Videla, dictator, 1976–81

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Oscar Alende, reformist governor
Raúl Alfonsín, president, 1983–89
Ricardo Alfonsín, politician
Álvaro 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
Jorge Cepernic, governor
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, Marxist 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 Sársfield, author of civil and commercial codes
Hipólito Yrigoyen, president 1916–22, 1928–30

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René Favaloro

Bernardo Houssay

Luis Federico Leloir

Domingo Liotta

Juan Vucetich

Luis Agote, M.D. devised first safe blood transfusion
Juan Bautista Ambrosetti, anthropologist and naturalist
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-Menéndez, 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
Salvador Debenedetti, archaeologist
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
Mario Giovinetto, geographer
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
Guillermo O'Donnell, politic scientist
Miguel Ondetti, pharmaceutical scientist
Virpi Niemelä, astronomer
Raúl Pateras Pescara, helicopter pioneer
Livio Dante Porta, mechanical engineer
Verónica Prego MDoctor
German Pugnali, ornithologist
Jorge Sabato, physicist
Julio José Gustavo Sardagna, neurologist and neurosurgeon
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 Zaldívar, M.D.

[change] References

↑ Guy Ben-Porat, Amir Ben-Porat (December 2004). (Un)Bounded Soccer; Globalization and Localization of the Game in Israel. 39. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. pp. 421–36. http://irs.sagepub.com/content/39/4/421.short. Retrieved December 24, 2010.
↑ Day by day in Jewish sports history. http://books.google.com/books?id=aOTWUl-9LQoC&pg=PA347&dq=%22formula+one%22+driver+jewish#v=snippet&q=judo&f=false. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
↑ Baram, Sagiv (June 13, 2007). "המסורת היהודית" (in Hebrew). Walla!. http://euro.walla.co.il/?w=//1168489. Retrieved June 30, 2008. "לפני כשנתיים הגיע לארץ שחקן יהודי ארגנטינאי בשם לוקאס לישט (בתקשורת קראו לו אז ליכט)."
↑ Decomposition: post-disciplinary performance. http://books.google.com/books?id=Tauk2_kpguoC&pg=PA132&dq=jewish+%22jose+pekerman%22. Retrieved July 1, 2010.

[1] Guy Ben-Porat, Amir Ben-Porat (December 2004). (Un)Bounded Soccer; Globalization and Localization of the Game in Israel. 39. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. pp. 421–36. http://irs.sagepub.com/content/39/4/421.short. Retrieved December 24, 2010.

[2] Day by day in Jewish sports history. http://books.google.com/books?id=aOTWUl-9LQoC&pg=PA347&dq=%22formula+one%22+driver+jewish#v=snippet&q=judo&f=false. Retrieved January 29, 2011.

[3] Baram, Sagiv (June 13, 2007). "המסורת היהודית" (in Hebrew). Walla!. http://euro.walla.co.il/?w=//1168489. Retrieved June 30, 2008. "לפני כשנתיים הגיע לארץ שחקן יהודי ארגנטינאי בשם לוקאס לישט (בתקשורת קראו לו אז ליכט)."

[4] Decomposition: post-disciplinary performance. http://books.google.com/books?id=Tauk2_kpguoC&pg=PA132&dq=jewish+%22jose+pekerman%22. Retrieved July 1, 2010.

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