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Argentines Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...
who are notable include:


Artists

* Roberto Aizenberg, painter and sculptor *
Oscar Alemán Oscar Marcelo Alemán (20 February 1909 – 14 October 1980) was an Argentine jazz multi instrumentalist, guitarist, singer, and dancer. Career Alemán was born in Machagai, Chaco Province, in northern Argentina. He was the fourth child of seve ...
, jazz guitarist * Antonio Alice, portrait painter * Marcelo Álvarez, tenor *
Martha Argerich Martha Argerich (; Eastern Catalan: ɾʒəˈɾik born 5 June 1941) is an Argentine classical concert pianist. She is widely considered to be one of the greatest pianists of all time. Early life and education Argerich was born in Buenos Ai ...
, concert pianist *
Daniel Barenboim Daniel Barenboim (; in he, דניאל בארנבוים, born 15 November 1942) is an Argentine-born classical pianist and conductor based in Berlin. He has been since 1992 General Music Director of the Berlin State Opera and "Staatskapellmeist ...
, pianist and conductor * Ricardo Basta, jewelry designer *
Adolfo Bellocq Adolfo Bellocq (1899–1972) was an influential Argentine artist known for his lithographs. Born in Buenos Aires, Bellocq was self-taught in the art of xylography and engraving. He was appointed Director of the Lithography Workshop at Buenos Aire ...
, lithographer *
Antonio Berni Delesio Antonio Berni (14 May 1905 – 13 October 1981) was an Argentine figurative artist. He is associated with the movement known as ''Nuevo Realismo'' ("New Realism"), an Argentine extension of social realism. His work, including a serie ...
, painter *
Norma Bessouet Norma Bessouet (October 15, 1940 – 11 June 2018) was an Argentine painter and sculptor. Bessouet's work focused primarily around portraits, domesticity and the female nude. Her paintings were abstract in their style and she also created equal ...
, painter * Miguel Ángel Biazzi, painter and sculptor * Erminio Blotta, sculptor *
Julio Bocca Julio Adrián Lojo Bocca (born March 6, 1967) is an Argentine ballet dancer. Bocca spent twenty years as a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre. From 2010 to 2018 he served as artistic director of the National Ballet of Uruguay, administe ...
, ballet dancer *
Gino Boccasile Gino Boccasile (14 July 1901 – 10 May 1952) was an Italian illustrator. Born in Bari, Boccasile was the son of a perfumer. Early in his youth, he lost his left eye by having it struck by a splash of quicklime while he was drinking from a fo ...
, advertiser *
Fabiana Bravo Fabiana Bravo (born in 1969), is an Argentina, Argentine operatic soprano. Life and work Fabiana Bravo was born in Guaymallén Department, outside Mendoza, Argentina, to a family of modest means. She moved to Buenos Aires at age 22, and sought p ...
, soprano *
Alberto Breccia Alberto Breccia (April 15, 1919 – November 10, 1993) was an Uruguayan-born Argentine artist and cartoonist. A gifted penciller and inker, Breccia is one of the most celebrated and famous comics/ Historieta creators in the world, and specially p ...
, cartoonist *
Emilio Caraffa Emilio Caraffa (1862–1939) was an Argentine painter of the post-impressionist school. Life and work Emilio Caraffa was born in San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, Catamarca, Argentina, in 1862. His family relocated to Rosario, where he atten ...
, painter *
Ricardo Carpani Ricardo Carpani (February 2, 1930 – September 9, 1997) was an Argentine artist. Life and work Born in Tigre, a northern suburb of Buenos Aires, his family moved to the city proper in 1936, and there Carpani finished his secondary school st ...
, muralist *
Carybé Héctor Julio Páride Bernabó (7 February 1911 – 2 October 1997) was an Argentine-Brazilian artist, researcher, historian and journalist. His nickname Carybé, a type of piranha, comes from his time in the scouts. He died of heart failure af ...
, Argentine-Brazilian painter *
Eleonora Cassano Eleonora Cassano (born January 5, 1965 in Boedo, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine ballet dancer and teacher. She is known for being the dancing partner of Julio Bocca since 1989. Cassano studied in the Teatro Colón's Advanced Arts Institute and be ...
, dancer *
Juan Carlos Castagnino Juan Carlos Castagnino (November 18, 1908April 21, 1972) was an Argentina, Argentine painter, architect, muralist and sketch artist. Born in the rural village of Camet, near the city of Mar del Plata, he studied in the ''Escuela de Bellas Artes'' ...
, painter *
Eduardo Catalano Eduardo Fernando Catalano (December 19, 1917 – January 28, 2010) was an Argentine architect. Life and career Born in Buenos Aires, Catalano went to the United States on a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Graduate ...
, architect and sculptor *
Alejandro Christophersen Alejandro Christophersen (1866–1946) was an Argentine architect and artist of Norwegian descent who designed many important buildings in the city of Buenos Aires, including the renowned Anchorena Palace. Biography Christophersen was bor ...
, painter and architect * Ciruelo, cartoonist * Leonor Cecotto, painter, engraver *
Gustavo Cochet Gustavo Cochet (May 6, 1894 – July 27, 1979) was a painter, engraver, and writer who worked in Barcelona and Rosario. Childhood Cochet was born in Rosario, Argentina, in 1894. His mother was of mestizo heritage, and his father was Fre ...
, painter *
Pío Collivadino Pío Collivadino (August 20, 1869August 26, 1945) was an Argentine painter of the post-impressionist school. Life and work Pío Collivadino was born in Buenos Aires, in 1869. He studied drawing at the Italian Argentine cultural society, the ''S ...
, painter * Oscar Conti (Oski), cartoonist *
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, cartoonist * Milagros Correch (born 1991), painter, muralist * Alicia Creus, visual artist *
José Cura José Luis Victor Cura Gómez (born 5 December 1962) is an Argentine operatic tenor, conductor, director, scenographer and photographer known for intense and original interpretations of opera characters, notably ''Otello'' in Verdi’s ''Otello' ...
, tenor *
Pablo Curatella Manes Pablo Curatella Manes (December 14, 1891November 14, 1962) was a prolific Argentine sculptor. Life and work Born in La Plata in 1891 to Clara Manes, a Greek Argentine immigrant, and Antonio Curatella, from Italy, Curatella Manes first acquired a ...
, sculptor *
Ernesto de la Cárcova Ernesto de la Cárcova y Arrotea (March 3, 1866 – December 28, 1927) was an Argentine painter of the Realist school. Life and work Ernesto de la Cárcova was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1866. Taking an early interest in the canvas, h ...
, painter *
Jorge de la Vega Jorge de la Vega (27 March 1930 – 26 August 1971) was an Argentine painter, graphic artist, draftsman, singer, and songwriter.Standish, Peter. Dictionary of Twentieth Century Culture : Hispanic Culture of South America. New York: Gale Research, ...
, painter *
Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós (May 27, 1879 – May 29, 1968) was an Argentine painter of the post-impressionist school. Life and work De Quirós was born in Gualeguay, Entre Ríos Province, in 1879. He began to paint at age eight, and shortly ...
, painter * Ángel María de Rosa, sculptor *
Helmut Ditsch Helmut Ditsch (born July 6, 1962) is an Argentine painter. Ditsch's work focuses on extreme natural phenomena such as mountains, desert, ice, and water. Life He was born in Villa Ballester, in the province of Buenos Aires, to grandparents f ...
, painter *
Jorge Donn Jorge Donn (25 February 1947 in Ciudad Jardin, Buenos Aires – 30 November 1992 in Lausanne, Switzerland), was an Argentine internationally known ballet dancer. He was best known for his work with Maurice Béjart's ''Ballet of the 20th Cen ...
, dancer * Julio Ducuron, painter * Elizabeth Eichhorn, sculptor *
Fernando Fader Fernando Fader (11 April 1882 – 25 February 1935) was a French-born Argentine painter of the Post-impressionist school. Life and work Fernando Fader was born in Bordeaux, France in 1882. His father, of Prussian descent, relocated the fami ...
, painter *
León Ferrari León Ferrari (September 3, 1920 – July 25, 2013) was an Argentine contemporary conceptual artist. During his extended art career (1954-2013), his artworks often protested the Argentinian government, the imperialist west, and the Church. Fe ...
, constructivist sculptor * Leonor Fini, painter *
Bernarda Fink Bernarda Fink (born 29 August 1955) is an Argentine mezzo-soprano. Born in Buenos Aires to Slovene parents who immigrated from Yugoslavia, Fink studied at the Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. She won First Prize at th ...
, mezzo-soprano *
Ingrid Fliter Íngrid Fliter (born September 23, 1973, Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian pianist. She began her formal piano studies with Elizabeth Westerkamp. Her first public appearance in recital was at age 11, and she made her concerto debut at the Teatro ...
, pianist *
Lucio Fontana Lucio Fontana (; 19 February 1899 – 7 September 1968) was an Argentine-Italian painter, sculptor and theorist. He is mostly known as the founder of Spatialism. Early life Born in Rosario, to Italian immigrant parents, he was t ...
, sculptor *
Roberto Fontanarrosa Roberto Alfredo Fontanarrosa, known popularly as ''El Negro'' Fontanarrosa (November 26, 1944 in Rosario – July 19, 2007), was an Argentine cartoonist, comics artist and writer. During his extended career, Fontanarrosa became one of the m ...
, satirist and cartoonist * Norma Fontenla, ballerina *
Raquel Forner Raquel Forner (1902–1988) was an Argentine painter known for her expressionist works. Life Forner was born in Buenos Aires in 1902. Her father was Spanish by nationality and her mother was an Argentine of Spanish descent. As a result of fr ...
, painter *
Sol Gabetta Sol Gabetta (born 18 April 1981) is an Argentine cellist. The daughter of Andrés Gabetta and Irène Timacheff-Gabetta, she has French and Russian ancestry. Her brother Andrés is a baroque violinist. Career Gabetta began to learn violin at ...
, cellist *
Manuel García Ferré Manuel García Ferré (8 October 1929 – 28 March 2013) was a Spanish Argentine animation director and cartoonist. Biography García Ferré was born in Almería, Spain, in 1929. He arrived in Argentina in 1947, and worked for advertising agenci ...
, cartoonist *
Nicolás García Uriburu Nicolás García Uriburu (December 24, 1937 – June 19, 2016) was an Argentine contemporary artist, landscape architect, and ecologist. His work in land art was aimed at raising consciousness about environmental issues such as water pollution. ...
, painter and ecologist *
Gabriel Garrido Gabriel Garrido is an Argentinian conductor specialising in Italian baroque and the recovery of the baroque musical heritage of Latin America. Garrido was born 1950 in Buenos Aires, and at the age of 17 with the Argentine recorder quartet, Pro Arte ...
, musician * José Walter Gavito, sculptor *
Guillermo Gianninazzi 240px, Monumento a Leandro N. Alem Guillermo Gianninazzi was an Argentine architect and sculptor, born in Italy around 1880 and died in Rosario, Argentina in 1948. He moved to Argentina in order to work as a sculptor and write artistic novels. ...
, sculptor *
Reinaldo Giudici Reinaldo Giudici (1853, Lenno – 30 August 1921, Buenos Aires) was an Italian-born Argentine painter, best known for his early genre works in the Costumbrismo style. Biography He emigrated to Uruguay with his father when he was eight ye ...
, painter *
Paloma Herrera Paloma Herrera (born 21 December 1975) is a prominent Argentine ballet dancer, choreographer, and artistic director who was a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, where she worked for twenty-four years. She was the director of Colo ...
, ballet dancer *
Isabel Iacona Isabel Iacona (born Buenos Aires, 1955) is an Argentine artist known for her detailed paintings of enlarged flowers and pop portraits of people and pets. She uses several mediums: oil on canvas, mixed techniques, watercolors and drawings. Her ...
, painter * Martín Irigoyen, composer and musician * Ana Kamien, dancer, choreographer, and actor *
María Cristina Kiehr María Cristina Kiehr (born in Tandil, Argentina) is a soprano vocalist associated with Baroque music. After receiving her early musical training in Argentina, she moved in 1983 to Europe and studied under René Jacobs at the Schola Cantorum Basil ...
, soprano *
Gyula Kosice Gyula Kosice ( hu, Falk Gyula; 26 April 1924 – 25 May 2016), born as Ferdinand Fallik, was a Czechoslovakian-born and naturalized Argentine sculptor, plastic artist, theorist, and poet. He played a pivotal role in defining the concrete and non ...
, sculptor *
Sebastian Krys Sebastian Krys (born November 11, 1970) is an Argentine-born American audio engineer, record producer and radio personality. A six-time Grammy and 13-time Latin Grammy winner, Krys has worked with many Spanish language pop and rock artists such as ...
, music producer *
Horacio Lavandera Horacio Lavandera (born Buenos Aires, December 1, 1984) is an Argentina, Argentine Piano, pianist, currently residing in Madrid, Spain. As its youngest competitor at the age of sixteen, he won the International Piano Competition Umberto Micheli ...
, concert pianist * Julio Le Parc, sculptor *
Saul Lisazo Saul (; he, , ; , ; ) was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the first monarch of the Kingdom of Israel (united monarchy), United Kingdom of Israel. His reign, traditionally placed in the late 11th century BCE, supposedly marked the transition of ...
, actor *
Cándido López Cándido López (29 August 1840 – 31 December 1902) was an Argentine soldier and painter who worked in the Naïve style. He is best known for his historical scenes from the Paraguayan War in which he fought. Biography Early life He be ...
, painter *
Alberto Lysy Alberto Lysy (February 11, 1935 – December 30, 2009) was a prestigious Argentine violinist and conductor of Ukrainian ancestry. The violin gifted to him was a very old Stradivarius. Among his friends were Charlie Chaplin and family whose Swis ...
, concert violinist *
Rómulo Macció Romulo Macció (1931 – 11 March 2016) was an Argentine painter who was associated with the avant-garde art movement named Nueva Figuracion, which favored a new form of figurative art. Apart from Nueva Figuracion he participated in another group ...
, painter *
Eduardo Mac Entyre Eduardo Mac Entyre (20 February 1929 – 5 May 2014) was an Argentine artist known for his geometric paintings. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to a Scottish father and Belgian mother, Mac Entyre began pursuing his talent for sketches at the ...
, painter * Maitena, cartoonist *
Tomás Maldonado Tomás Maldonado (25 April 1922 – 26 November 2018) was an Argentine painter, designer and thinker, considered one of the main theorists of design theory of the legendary Ulm Model, a design philosophy developed during his tenure (1954–1967) ...
, painter *
Martín Malharro Martín Malharro (1865–1911) was an Argentine painter that introduced Impressionism in the country in the early 20th century. Life and work Martín Malharro was born in the central Buenos Aires Province city of Azul in 1865. His childhood in ...
, painter *
Marcel Martí Marcel Martí (1925–2010) was an Argentine-born sculptor of Catalan descent. Life and work At the age of three, he returned with his parents to Spain, where the family became established in Barcelona. His father was imprisoned during the ...
, sculptor * Lucien-Achille Mauzan, advertiser, sculptor *
Dominic Miller Dominic James Miller (born 21 March 1960) is an Argentine-born guitarist. With much of his career as a sideman and guitarist for singer Sting (musician), Sting, he has also released several solo albums. Career Miller was born in Hurlingham, Bue ...
, guitarist *
Marta Minujín Marta Minujín (born 1943) is an Argentine conceptual and performance artist. Life and work Marta Minujín was born in the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Her father was a Jewish physician and her mother a housewife of Spanish de ...
, conceptual artist *
Florencio Molina Campos Florencio Molina Campos (birth name, Florencio de los Ángeles Molina Campos, August 21, 1891 – November 16, 1959) was an Argentine illustrator and a painter known by his typical traditional scenes of the Pampa. His work represents gauchesco ...
, illustrator *
Lola Mora Dolores Candelaria Mora Vega (November 17, 1866 – June 7, 1936) known professionally as Lola Mora, was a sculptor born in San Miguel de Tucumán, in Argentina. She is known today as a rebel and a pioneer of women in her artistic field. Early ...
, sculptor *
Guillermo Mordillo Guillermo Mordillo (4 August 1932 – 29 June 2019), known simply as Mordillo, was an Argentine creator of cartoons and animations and was one of the most widely published cartoonists of the 1970s. He is most famous for his humorous, colorful, su ...
, cartoonist * José Neglia, ballerino *
Luis Felipe Noé Luis Felipe Noé (born May 26, 1933) is an Argentine artist, writer, intellectual and teacher. He is known in his home country as ''Yuyo''. In 1961 he formed Otra Figuración (another figuration) with three other Argentine artists. Their eponymo ...
, painter *
Marianela Núñez Marianela Núñez (born 23 March 1982) is a British-Argentinian ballet dancer. She is a principal dancer with The Royal Ballet, London. Early life Marianela Núñez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has three brothers, all older than sh ...
, dancer *
Marie Orensanz Mari Nalte Orensanz (born 12 September 1936) is an Argentine artist. Her artwork examines the integration of thought and matter as a methodology to obtain a social consciousness. Orensanz's experience of Argentina's "Dirty War" has influenced he ...
, conceptual artist *
Ludmila Pagliero Ludmila Pagliero (born 15 October 1983) is an Argentinian ballet dancer. Since 2003, she dances with the Paris Opera Ballet, where she is a '' danseuse étoile'' (the highest rank of the Paris Opera Ballet) since 2012. Early life Pagliero was b ...
, ballet dancer * Raquel Partnoy, painter * Jorge Pepe, plastic artist and painter * Celis Pérez, painter and muralist *
Emilio Pettoruti Emilio Pettoruti (1892–1971) was an Argentine painter, who caused a scandal with his avant-garde cubist exhibition in 1924 in Buenos Aires. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Buenos Aires was a city full of artistic development. Pettorut ...
, painter *
Anselmo Piccoli Anselmo Piccoli (September 4, 1915 – July 12, 1992) was an Argentine Abstract artist. Life and work Anselmo Piccoli was born in Rosario, Argentina in 1915. Politically active as a Socialist during secondary school, Piccoli found time to attend ...
, painter *
Marcelo Pombo Marcelo Pombo (born 1959) is an Argentine artist. His work is in the collections of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, th ...
, visual artist *
Eolo Pons Eolo Pons (1914–2009) was an Argentine painter. Eolo Pons was born in Buenos Aires. He studied from 1935-38 in the studio of the influential Argentine painter and teacher Lino Enea Spilimbergo; among Pons' fellow students were his close friends ...
, painter *
Alberto Portugheis Alberto Portugheis (born January 1, 1941, in La Plata, Argentina) is an Argentine pianist, born to parents of Russian and Romanian descent. He is an international pianist and teacher, now living in London. After winning first prize at the Gene ...
, concert pianist * Elisa Pritzker, contemporary artist *
Prilidiano Pueyrredón Prilidiano Pueyrredón (January 24, 1823 – November 3, 1870) was an Argentine painter, architect and engineer. One of the country's first prominent painters, he was known for his costumbrist sensibility and preference for everyday themes. ...
, painter * Antonio Pujía, sculptor *
Quino Joaquín Salvador Lavado Tejón, better known by his pen name Quino (; 17 July 193230 September 2020), was an Argentinian cartoonist. His comic strip ''Mafalda'' (which ran from 1964 to 1973) is popular in many parts of the Americas and Euro ...
, cartoonist *
Benito Quinquela Martín Benito Quinquela Martín (March 1, 1890 – January 28, 1977) was an Argentine painter. Quinquela Martín is considered the port painter-par-excellence and one of the most popular Argentine painters. His paintings of port scenes show the activ ...
, painter *
Luciana Ravizzi Luciana Ravizzi (born 1982) is an Argentine retired ballerina who graduated from The Royal Ballet School and was a Soloist with Scottish Ballet until her retirement in 2015. Early life Luciana Ravizzi was born in 1982 in Buenos Aires, Argenti ...
, ballerina * Carlos P. Ripamonte, painter * Silvia Roederer, pianist *
Guillermo Roux Guillermo Roux (17 September 1929 – 28 November 2021) was an Argentine painter known for his watercolors, collages, and frescoes. Roux was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in September 1929. His father, Raúl Roux, was a well-known Uruguayan p ...
, painter * Hermenegildo Sábat, cartoonist *
Alberto Saichann Alberto Saichann is a comic book artist and penciller born in Argentina. He has worked for Marvel Comics (''Punisher: Return to the Big Nothing'', ''Punisher War Zone'') and DC Comics (''Looney Tunes''). References

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, illustrator *
Eduardo Schiaffino Eduardo Schiaffino (1858-1935) was an Argentine painter, critic, intellectual and historian. A member of a group known as the ''Generation of '80'', he founded the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires and sparked the development of pai ...
, painter *
Antonio Seguí Antonio Hugo Seguí (; 11 January 1934 – 26 February 2022) was an Argentine cartoonist, painter, engraver, book illustrator, and sculptor, who lived and worked in Paris. Seguí's work has been collected and exhibited worldwide in and by art in ...
, painter * Ronald Shakespear, graphic designer * María Isabel Siewers, classical guitarist *
Ramón Silva Ramón Silva (August 8, 1890 - June 17, 1919) was an Argentine painter of the Post-impressionist school. Life and work Ramón Silva was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1890. A self-taught painter, he learned the art beginning 1908 at the ate ...
, painter * María Simón, sculptor * Ricaro Liniers Siri, cartoonist *
Eduardo Sívori Eduardo Sívori (October 13, 1847 – June 5, 1918) was an Argentine artist widely regarded as his country's first realist painter. Life and work Born to Genoese immigrants in Buenos Aires, Sívori had harbored artistic leanings during childho ...
, painter *
Xul Solar Xul Solar was the adopted name of Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari (14 December 1887 – 9 April 1963), an Argentine painter, sculptor, writer, and inventor of imaginary languages. Biography Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari was born ...
, watercolorist, sculptor, inventor of languages * Benjamín Solari Parravicini, painter and psychic *
Raúl Soldi Raúl Soldi (27 March 1905 – 21 April 1994) was an Argentine painter and production designer whose work treated various subjects, including landscapes, portraits, the theater and the circus, and nature. His theatrical figures are renowned for ...
, painter * Lino Enea Spilimbergo, painter * Sebastian Spreng, painter and stage designer * Juan Carlos Stekelman, painter *
Ricardo Supisiche Ricardo Argentino Supisiche (November 6, 1912 – November 6, 1992) was an Argentine painter and engraver. Supisiche was born in Santa Fe, Argentina, Santa Fe, the capital of Santa Fe Province, in 1912. He studied drawing at the José Marí ...
, painter * Silvia Torras, painter *
Carlos Trillo Carlos Trillo (May 1, 1943 – May 8, 2011) was an Argentine comic book writer, best known for writing the '' Cybersix'' comics. Biography Born in Buenos Aires, Trillo began a prolific career as writer at the age of 20, penning his first story fo ...
, cartoonist *
Luigi Trinchero Luigi Trinchero (June 9, 1862 in Acqui Terme – February 6, 1944 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Italian sculptor, most active in Argentina after 1888, most notably the bas-reliefs and busts on the facade of the Teatro Colón. Biography ...
, sculptor *
Terig Tucci Terig Tucci (June 23, 1897 – February 28, 1973) was an Argentine composer, violinist, pianist, and mandolinist. Tucci was born in Buenos Aires, in 1897. His first composition, “Cariños de madre” was performed for a zarzuela at the ...
, violinist and composer *
Rogelio Yrurtia Rogelio Yrurtia (December 6, 1879 – March 4, 1950) was a renowned Argentine sculptor of the Realist school. Life and work Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Basque immigrants in 1879, Rogelio Yrurtia enrolled in the local Society for the ...
, sculptor


Business

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Jorge Antonio Jorge Antonio (October 14, 1917February 11, 2007) was an Argentine business man and political figure, a close adviser to President Juan Domingo Perón. Early life Born Jorge Antonio Chibene in La Boca, Buenos Aires to Syrian immigrants (his father ...
, industrialist *
Otto Bemberg Otto Bemberg (May 1, 1827 – March 2, 1895) was a German Argentine businessman prominent in the development of early Argentine industry. He is mostly notable for having been the founder of Cervecería y Maltería Quilmes, the largest brewery in t ...
, industrialist * Jorge Brito, banker *
Carlos Bulgheroni Carlos Alberto Bulgheroni (March 9, 1945 – September 3, 2016) was an Argentine businessman prominent in the nation's energy sector, and the country's richest man at the time of his death. Early life Carlos Bulgheroni was born in Rufino, Santa ...
, industrialist *
Eduardo Costantini Eduardo Francisco Costantini (born September 17, 1946) is an Argentine real estate developer and businessman and the founder and chairman of the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA). In April 2022, his net worth was estimated at U ...
, businessman *
Francisco de Narváez Francisco de Narváez Steuer (born 22 September 1953 in Bogotá), known as El Colorado or Pancho, is a Colombian-born naturalized Argentine businessman, politician who ran for governor of Buenos Aires Province on the Republican Proposal, Unión PR ...
, businessman * Torcuato di Tella, industrialist *
Eduardo Elsztain Eduardo Sergio Elsztain (born January 26, 1960) is a prominent Argentine businessman who is his country's largest real-estate developer. According to ''The Jerusalem Post'', Elsztain "stands atop Argentina's largest business empire, the country's ...
, businessman * Alfredo Fortabat, industrialist *
Marcos Galperin Marcos Eduardo Galperin (born October 31, 1971) is an Argentine billionaire businessman, who is best known as the co‑founder, Chairman, President and CEO of MercadoLibre. With an estimated net worth of 6.1 billion dollars, as of April 2021, he ...
, internet entrepreneur *
Daniel Hadad Daniel Hadad (born November 28, 1961) is an Argentine lawyer and businessman involved in telecommunications and media. Biography Daniel Hadad was born in Buenos Aires in 1961 into a family of Syrian origin. He earned degrees as a lawyer and jo ...
, businessman *
Miguel Kiguel Miguel Alberto Kiguel holds a degree in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires (1976) and a Ph. D. from Columbia University (1983). He is currently Director of EconViews, an economic and financial advisor to major corporations and financia ...
, economic and financial expert * Patrick Lynch, businessman and ancestor of
Che Guevara Ernesto Che Guevara (; 14 June 1928The date of birth recorded on /upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Ernesto_Guevara_Acta_de_Nacimiento.jpg his birth certificatewas 14 June 1928, although one tertiary source, (Julia Constenla, quoted ...
*
Francisco Macri Francesco Raùl Macri (15 April 1930 – 2 March 2019) was an Italian-Argentine contractor, developer, industralist and father of former Argentine President Mauricio Macri. Life and career Childhood in Italy Macri was born in Rome, to Giorgio M ...
, industrialist *
Mauricio Macri Mauricio Macri (; born 8 February 1959) is an Argentine businessman and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2015 to 2019. He has been the leader of the Republican Proposal (PRO) party since its founding in 2005. He previou ...
, businessman and president of
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* Eduardo Madero, businessman *
Carlos Miguens Bemberg Carlos J. Miguens Bemberg (born 16 February 1949), is an Argentine businessman and descendant of the wealthy Bemberg family of immigrants to Argentina. Overview His parents were the architect Carlos Miguens and the film director María Luisa B ...
, businessman *
Nicolás Mihanovich Nicolás Mihanovich (1846–1929) was a Croatian Argentine businessman closely linked to the development of the Argentine merchant marine. Life and times The Beginnings Nicolás Mihanovich was born Nikola Mihanović in the Kingdom of Dalmatia, A ...
, businessman *
Enrique Mosconi Enrique Carlos Alberto Mosconi (21 February 1877 – 4 June 1940) was an Argentine military engineer, who is best known as the pioneer and organizer of petroleum exploration and extraction in Argentina. Early life Mosconi was born in Buenos ...
, petroleum industry promoter *
Patricio Peralta Ramos Patricio Peralta Ramos (May 17, 1814April 25, 1887) was an Argentine businessman and landowner prominent in the foundation of the seaside city of Mar del Plata. Life and times Patricio Peralta Ramos was born in the San Nicolás, a Buenos Aires ...
, developer *
Gregorio Pérez Companc Gregorio Pérez Companc (born Jorge Gregorio Bazán; August 23, 1934) also known as "Don Gregorio" or "Goyo," is an Argentine businessman and one of Argentina's wealthiest individuals, with an estimated net worth of US$2.5 billion as of August 20 ...
, businessman *
Agostino Rocca Agostino Rocca (1895 – 17 February 1978) was an Italian Argentines, Italo-Argentine businessman. Life and times Agostino Rocca was born in 1895 in Milan. His family relocated to Rome early in his childhood, and he completed secondary school stu ...
, industrialist *
Paolo Rocca Paolo Rocca (born 1952) is an Argentine-Italian businessman, CEO of the Techint Group, which holds Tenaris, Ternium and other companies that operate in the engineering, construction and energy sectors. He is also chairman and CEO of Tenaris, ...
, industrialist * Santiago Soldati, businessman * Enrique Susini, businessman *
Ernesto Tornquist Ernesto Carlos Tornquist (31 December 1842 – 17 June 1908) was an Argentinian entrepreneur and businessman, considered to be one of the most important entrepreneurs in Argentina at the end of the 19th century. The diversified business empire he ...
, businessman *
Martín Varsavsky Martín Varsavsky Waisman-Diamond (born April 26, 1960) is an Argentine entrepreneur based in Spain who founded several companies worldwide, including Urban CapitalMedicorp Sciences Viatel, Jazztel, EINSTEINet, Ya.comEoliaLeandro Viotto, entrepreneur * Jaime Yankelevich, businessman and television pioneer


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Ernesto Acher Ernesto Acher (born in Buenos Aires on October 9, 1939) is an Argentine comedian, actor, composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and orchestral conductor. Between 1971 and 1986 he was a member of the celebrated Argentine group Les Luthiers, with ...
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Amancio Jacinto Alcorta Amancio Jacinto Alcorta (August 16, 1805 – May 3, 1862) was an Argentine composer, policy maker and politician. Life and times Musician and representative Amancio Jacinto Alcorta was born in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, in 1805. His fathe ...
* Eduardo Alonso-Crespo *
Eduardo Arolas Eduardo Arolas (February 24, 1892 – September 29, 1924) was an Argentine tango bandoneon player, leader and composer. Arolas first learned to play the guitar before learning the bandoneon which became his instrument of choice. His nickname w ...
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Luis Bacalov Luis Enríquez Bacalov (30 August 1933 – 15 November 2017) was an Argentine-born film composer. He learned music from Enrique Barenboim, father of Daniel Barenboim the conductor of the Berlin, and Chicago orchestras, and also Berta Sujovolsky ...
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Agustín Bardi Agustin Bardi (August 13, 1884 – April 21, 1941) was an Argentina, Argentine Argentine Tango, Tango pianist, violinist, and composer. Bardi was born in Las Flores, Buenos Aires, Las Flores district of Buenos Aires and was couched in music from a ...
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Esteban Benzecry Esteban Benzecry (born 1970) is an Argentine classical composer. Early years Benzecry was born in Lisbon, Portugal, in 1970 to Argentine parents. He grew up in Argentina where he studied musical composition with Sergio Hualpa and Haydee Gerardi ...
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José Antonio Bottiroli José Antonio Bottiroli (January 1, 1920 – March 15, 1990) was an Argentine classical music composer and poet. Biography José Antonio Bottiroli was born in Rosario, Argentina on 1 January 1920 and died in Rosario on 15 March 1990. From the ...
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Enrique Cadícamo Enrique Domingo Cadícamo ( Luján, Buenos Aires province, July 15, 1900 – Buenos Aires, December 3, 1999) was a prolific Argentine tango lyricist, poet and novelist. From an initial Symbolist bent, he developed a distinctive, lunfardo-ri ...
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Jorge Calandrelli Jorge Calandrelli is an Argentinian-born composer, arranger and conductor known for his work with Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Arturo Sandoval, Yo-Yo Ma, Tony Bennett, Elton John, Lady Gaga and John Legend. He has won 6 Grammy Awards and has rece ...
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Francisco Canaro Francisco Canaro (November 26, 1888 – December 14, 1964) was a Uruguayan violinist and tango orchestra leader. Canaro was born in San José de Mayo, Uruguay, in 1888. His parents were Italian immigrants, and later, when he was less than 10 y ...
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Juan José Castro Juan José Castro (March 7, 1895September 3, 1968) was an Argentine composer and conductor. Born in Avellaneda, Castro studied piano and violin under Manuel Posadas and composition under Eduardo Fornarini, in Buenos Aires. In the 1920s he was ...
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Mario Davidovsky Mario Davidovsky (March 4, 1934 – August 23, 2019) was an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the United States, where he lived for the remainder of his life. He is best known for his series of compositions ca ...
* Julio de Caro *
Carlos di Sarli Carlos Di Sarli (January 7, 1903January 12, 1960) was an Argentine tango musician, orchestra leader, composer and pianist. Early years Carlos di Sarli was born at 511 Buenos Aires street (now Yrigoyen) in the city of Bahía Blanca, located i ...
* Homero Expósito *
Gabino Ezeiza Gabino Ezeiza, nicknamed ''Negro''El negro Gabino Ez ...
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Eduardo Falú Eduardo Falú (July 7, 1923August 9, 2013) was an Argentine folk music guitarist and composer. Life and work Eduardo Falú was born in El Galpón, a village near San José de Metán in the province of Salta, in 1923. His parents, Fada and Juan ...
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Juan de Dios Filiberto Juan de Dios Filiberto (8 March 1885 11 November 1964) was an Argentine violinist, conductor, poet and composer who became prominent in the Argentine tango genre. Life and work He was born Óscar Juan de Dios Filiberti in 1885 to Josefa Roballo ...
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Roberto Firpo Roberto Firpo (May 10, 1884June 14, 1969) was an Argentine tango pianist, composer, and leader. Firpo was among the first innovators of the classic tango music genre. He was the establisher of the piano in the tango orchestra. Firpo was born ...
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Gilardo Gilardi Gilardo Gilardi (May 25, 1889 - January 16, 1963) was an Argentine composer, pianist, and conductor who was the eponym of the Gilardo Gilardi Conservatory of Music in La Plata, Buenos Aires. He was born in San Fernando, Argentina and first ...
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Alberto Ginastera Alberto Evaristo Ginastera (; April 11, 1916June 25, 1983) was an Argentinian composer of classical music. He is considered to be one of the most important 20th-century classical composers of the Americas. Biography Ginastera was born in Buen ...
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Osvaldo Golijov Osvaldo Noé Golijov (; born December 5, 1960) is an Argentine composer of classical music and music professor, known for his vocal and orchestral work. Biography Osvaldo Golijov was born in and grew up in La Plata, Argentina, in a Jewish family ...
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Carlos Guastavino Carlos Guastavino (5 April 1912 – 29 October 2000) was an Argentine composer, considered one of the foremost composers of his country. His production amounted to over 500 works, most of them songs for piano and voice, many still unpublished. ...
* Martín Irigoyen *
Rubén Juárez Rubén Juárez (5 November 1947 – 31 May 2010) was an Argentine bandoneón, bandoneonist and singer-songwriter of Tango (dance), tango. Juárez studied the bandoneón from the age of six. In 1956, he entered the Youth Orchestra of Club Atlético ...
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Mauricio Kagel Mauricio Raúl Kagel (; 24 December 1931 – 18 September 2008) was an Argentine-German composer. Biography Kagel was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, into an Ashkenazi Jewish family that had fled from Russia in the 1920s . He studied music, his ...
* Emilio Kauderer *
Carlos López Buchardo Carlos Félix López Buchardo (October 12, 1881 – April 21, 1948) was an Argentine composer of Classical music whose work was inspired by native music. He founded the Conservatorio Nacional Superior de Música in Buenos Aires, an instituti ...
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Enrique Maciel Enrique Maciel (July 13, 1897 – January 24, 1962) was a versatile and sensitive composer, lyricist, and harmonium, piano, bandoneon and guitar performer. The latter is the instrument that identified him permanently in the memory of tango listene ...
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Homero Manzi Homero Nicolás Manzione Prestera, better known as Homero Manzi (November 1, 1907 – May 3, 1951) was an Argentine tango lyricist, author of various famous tangos. He was born on November 1 of 1907 in Añatuya (province of Santiago del Ester ...
* Héctor Marcó *
Rodolfo Mederos Rodolfo Mederos (born March 25, 1940) is an Argentine bandoneonist, composer and arranger. He lived in Cuba and France; in Argentina, he founded the experimental group Generación Cero. Early life Mederos was born in the Constitución neig ...
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Silvina Milstein Silvina Milstein (born 12 February 1956, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine composer and scholar of twentieth-century music, living in the United Kingdom and teaching at King's College London. Her music has been described as "turbulent and hesitantl ...
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Juana Molina Juana Rosario Molina (; born 1 October 1961) is an Argentine singer, songwriter and actress, based in Buenos Aires. She is known for her distinctive sound, considered an exponent of folktronica, although it has also been described as ambient, exp ...
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Mariano Mores Mariano Alberto Martínez (18 February 1918 13 April 2016), known professionally as Mariano Mores, was an Argentine tango composer and pianist. Biography Mariano Martínez was born in the San Telmo section of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1918. ...
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Sixto Palavecino Sixto Doroteo Palavecino (March 31, 1915 – April 24, 2009) was a poet, musician and singer of Argentine folk music, who started playing the violin when he was 10-years old. Palavecino was influential as a player, a compiler of folk traditions ...
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Astor Piazzolla Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (, ; March 11, 1921 – July 4, 1992) was an Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger. His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed ''nuevo tango'', incorporating elements from ...
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Ariel Ramírez Ariel Ramírez (4 September 1921 – 18 February 2010) was an Argentine composer, pianist and music director. He was considered "a chief exponent of Argentine folk music" and noted for his "iconic" musical compositions. Ramírez is known primari ...
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Waldo de los Ríos Osvaldo Nicolás Ferraro Gutiérrez (7 September 1934 – 28 March 1977) better known as Waldo de los Ríos was an Argentine composer, conductor and arranger. De los Ríos was born in Buenos Aires into a musical family; his father was a musicia ...
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Gustavo Santaolalla Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla (born 19 August 1951) is an Argentine musician, composer, and record producer. He is known for composing his film scores with his collaborator and acclaimed director Alejandro González Iñárritu, which composed the ...
* Vicente Scaramuzza *
Lalo Schifrin Boris Claudio "Lalo" Schifrin (born June 21, 1932) is an Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger and conductor. He is best known for his large body of film and TV scores since the 1950s, incorporating jazz and Latin American musical elemen ...
* Oscar Strasnoy * Alicia Terzian * Alejandro Viñao *
Ezequiel Viñao Ezequiel Viñao (born July 21, 1960 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine- American composer. He emigrated to the United States in 1980 and studied at the Juilliard School. His compositions include ''La Noche de las Noches'' (1989) for string quartet ...
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Miguel Abuelo Miguel Angel Peralta, (March 21, 1946 – March 26, 1988) known by his artistic name Miguel Abuelo, was an Argentine rock musician and singer. Early days A native of Munro, in the Greater Buenos Aires industrial belt, Miguel Peralta was one of ...
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Alejandro Agresti Alejandro Agresti (born June 2, 1961, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film director, writer and producer. A prominent filmmaker in his country, he also directed ''The Lake House (film), The Lake House'' with Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood acto ...
, filmmaker * Antonio Agri, violinist * Pablo Alarcón, actor *
Charly Alberti Carlos Alberto Ficicchia Gigliotti (born March 27, 1963), known by his stage name Charly Alberti, is an Argentine rock musician, best known as the drummer of the influential Argentine rock band Soda Stereo. Because of this, he is considered one ...
, drummer and activist * Jorge Facundo Arana, actor and musician *
Tito Alberti Tito Alberti (January 12, 1923 – March 25, 2009) was an Argentine jazz drummer. Life and work Tito Alberti was born Juan Alberto Ficicchia in the port city of Zárate to an Argentine mother and a Sicilian father in 1923. Enjoying a gregariou ...
, jazz drummer *
Alfredo Alcón Alfredo Félix Alcón (; 3 March 1930 – 11 April 2014) was an Argentine theatre and film actor born in Buenos Aires. Widely regarded as one of the best and most important Argentine actors of the 20th century. He worked in more than 50 movies s ...
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Norma Aleandro Norma Aleandro (born 2 May 1936) is an Argentine actress. She is considered one of the most celebrated and prolific Argentine actresses of all time and is recognized as a cultural icon in her home country. Aleandro starred in the 1985 film '' T ...
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Oscar Alemán Oscar Marcelo Alemán (20 February 1909 – 14 October 1980) was an Argentine jazz multi instrumentalist, guitarist, singer, and dancer. Career Alemán was born in Machagai, Chaco Province, in northern Argentina. He was the fourth child of seve ...
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Pola Alonso Pola Alonso (16 November 1923 – 6 November 2004 Buenos Aires) was a classic Argentine film actress of the 1940s and 1950s. She appeared in the 1942 film ''Adolescencia'' and in 1955's '' Adiós muchachos''. She was the sister of Argentine a ...
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Héctor Alterio Héctor Benjamín Alterio Onorato (born 21 September 1929) is an Argentine theatre, film and television actor, well known both in Argentina and Spain. Biography Alterio's theatre debut came in 1948 as the lead in ''Cómo suicidarse en prima ...
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Malena Alterio Malena Grisel Alterio Bacaicoa (born 21 January 1974) is an Argentine-born Spanish actress. She became well known with the Spanish TV series ''Aquí no hay quien viva'', playing the role of Belén López Vázquez. Movies * ''Espejo, espejo' ...
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Luis César Amadori Luis César Amadori (28 May 1902 in Pescara, Abruzzi, Italy – 5 June 1977 in Buenos Aires) was an Italian - Argentine film director and screenwriter and one of the most influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era. ...
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Blanquita Amaro Blanquita Amaro (June 30, 1923 in San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba – March 15, 2007 in Miami, United States) was a Cuban film actress of the 1940s and early 1950s who starred in the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema. She appeared in some 17 fi ...
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Sandro de América Roberto Sánchez-Ocampo (August 19, 1945 – January 4, 2010), better known by his stage names Sandro or Sandro de América, was an Argentine singer and actor. He is considered a pioneer of Argentine rock for being one of the first rock artist ...
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Mike Amigorena Ricardo Luis Amigorena (born May 30, 1972 in Maipú, Mendoza Province, Argentina), better known as Mike Amigorena is an Argentine actor. Biography He was born in Maipú, Mendoza Province to a Basque Argentine father and an Italian Argentine ...
, actor and musician *
Elvia Andreoli Elvia Andreoli (4 January 1950 or 2 January 1951 – 28 March 2020) was an Argentina, Argentine film actress of Sicily, Sicilian, Jewish and Spanish people, Spanish descent. She appeared in over 30 films between 1965 and 1998. She starred in fil ...
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Héctor Anglada Héctor Anglada (January 31, 1976 – March 2, 2002) was an Argentinian film and television actor. He died in a road accident. Filmography * ''Cuesta abajo'' (1995) * '' La Furia'' (1997) aka ''The Fury'' * '' Mala época'' (1998) * '' Piz ...
, actor * Graciela Araujo, actress *
Carolina Ardohain Ana Carolina Ardohaín Dos Santos (born 17 January 1978) is an Argentine model, television personality, dancer, television host and actress. She is widely known by the nickname Pampita, a diminutive for La Pampa, the province where she was born ...
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Imperio Argentina María Magdalena Nile del Río (26 December 1906 – 22 August 2003) was an Argentine professional singer and movie actress, better known as Imperio Argentina; she became a citizen of Spain in 1999. María Magdalena Nile del Río was born ...
, actress and flamenco dancer * Helena Arizmendi, opera singer *
Ana Arneodo Ana Arneodo (1898 – 1977) was an Argentine actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Arneodo made her appearance in film in 1939 and made some 24 appearances between then and 1958, appearing in films such as the 1942 film ''Adolescencia'' alongsid ...
, actress * Brenda Asnicar, actress and singer *
Federico Aubele Federico Aubele is an Argentine singer-songwriter whose music blends a variety of genres and styles. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Aubele started playing music at age 12. He moved to Berlin in 2002, where he lived for several years. After su ...
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Fernando Ayala Fernando Ayala (2 July 1920 – 11 September 1997) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer of the classic era. He is widely considered one of the most important Argentine film directors and producers in the history of ...
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Pedro Aznar Pedro Aznar (born 23 July 1959) is an Argentine musician and singer-songwriter. He has a musical experience in jazz, Argentine folk and rock music and has a successful career as a solo artist. He is well known for giving rock songs a jazz-orient ...
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Héctor Babenco Héctor Eduardo Babenco (February 7, 1946July 13, 2016) was an Argentine-Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor who worked in several countries including Brazil, Argentina, and the United States. He was one of the first Braz ...
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Christian Bach Adela Christian Bach Bottino (May 9, 1959 – February 26, 2019), known as Christian Bach, was an Argentine-born Mexican actress and producer of telenovelas produced by companies such as Televisa, TV Azteca and Telemundo. Her most famous wor ...
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Carlos Balá Carlos Salim Balaa (13 August 1925 – 22 September 2022), known as Carlitos Balá, was an Argentine actor who specialized in children's entertainment. His trademarks were his bowl-cut hairstyle and nonsense catchphrases that include "¿Qué gus ...
, children's television host * Monchi Balestra, radio personality and television host * Amelita Baltar, tango singer * ''Gato'' Barbieri, saxophonist *
Dora Baret Dora Baret (born July 7, 1940) is an Argentine film, theatre and television actress. She was the female lead in '' Darse cuenta'' which won the 1984 Silver Condor Award for Best Film''.'' Life and work She was born Dora Barrera in 1940 in Huer ...
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Daniel Barone Daniel Barone (21 August 1965, Buenos Aires - ) is an Argentina, Argentine film director, film and television director. Although mainly based in work for TV he has directed films such as ''Cohen vs. Rosi'' (1998) and ''Un Amor en Moisés Ville'' ...
, filmmaker * Sara Barrié, actress *
Stephanie Beatriz Stephanie Beatriz Bischoff Alvizuri (born February 10, 1981) is an American actress, model and singer. She is known for playing Detective Rosa Diaz in the Fox/NBC comedy series ''Brooklyn Nine-Nine'' (2013–2021), and voicing protagonist Mira ...
, actress * Berenice Bejo, actress *
María Luisa Bemberg María Luisa Bemberg (April 14, 1922 – May 7, 1995) was an Argentine film writer, director and actress. She was one of the first Argentine female directors with a powerful presence both in the filmmaking and the intellectual world of Latin A ...
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Amelia Bence Amelia Bence (born María Amelia Batvinik; 13 November 1919 – 8 February 2016) was an Argentine film actress and one of the divas of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–60). Born to Belarusian Jewish immigrants, Bence began her ...
, actress * Lorena Bernal, model and actress *
Lola Berthet Lola Berthet (born January 3, 1977) is an Argentine actress. Berthet began acting at a young age, in her hometown of Buenos Aires, eventually becoming a well known telenovela actress in her home country as an adult. She made her first feature ...
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Florencia Bertotti María Florencia Bertotti (born 15 March 1983), better known as Florencia Bertotti is an Argentine actress, singer, songwriter and businesswoman. Biography Florencia Bertotti parents are Gustavo Bertotti, a jeweler and María Candelaria Pér ...
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Héctor Bidonde Héctor Pastor Bidonde (born March 3, 1937 in La Plata) is a noted Argentine theatre, film and television actor. He was a shift worker in a tool & dye factory when, in 1954, he was offered a part in Carlos P. Cabral's play ''Amarretes''. He was ...
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Fabián Bielinsky Fabián Bielinsky (3 February 1959 – 29 June 2006) was an Argentina, Argentine film director. Career Fabián Bielinsky was born in Buenos Aires on February 3, 1959. Bielinsky started to make films early in life, while still a high school stu ...
, filmmaker * Mauricio "Moris" Birabent, rock composer and musician * Thelma Biral, actress *
Betiana Blum Betiana Blum (born in Charata, Chaco in 1939 as Betty Ana Blum) is an Argentine actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatr ...
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Camila Bordonaba Camila Bordonaba Roldán (born September 4, 1984) is an Argentine actress, singer and theater director. She is known for her performances in the series ''Chiquititas'', ''Rebelde Way'', ''El Patrón de la Vereda'', ''Atracción x4 en Dream Beac ...
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Tato Bores Mauricio Borensztein (27 April 1927 – 11 January 1996), known by the stage name ''Tato Bores'', was an Argentine film, theatre and television comedian, who specialized in political humor. His ironic TV monologues, delivered at a fast pace, b ...
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Graciela Borges Graciela Borges (; born Graciela Noemí Zabala, June 10, 1941) is an Argentine television and film actress. Borges was born in Dolores. Having made her film debut at 14, she has acted in over fifty films and was featured in 2006 in ''Vogue P ...
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Patricio Borghetti Juan Patricio Borghetti Imérito (; born December 5, 1973, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine actor and singer. Life At the age of fourteen, he formed his first rock band, which was called "Sur" ("South"). He later worked as a model and appea ...
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Aída Bortnik Aída Bortnik (7 January 1938 – 27 April 2013) was an Argentine screenwriter, nominated for an Academy Award for her work in the film '' La historia oficial'' (1985). She has the notable distinction of having written the screenplay for both the ...
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Zeta Bosio Héctor Juan Pedro Bosio Bertolotti (born 1 October 1958) better known by his stage name Zeta Bosio, is an Argentine rock musician, record producer and disc jockey (DJ), better known as the bassist of the Argentine rock band Soda Stereo. He was ...
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Juan Diego Botto Juan Diego Botto Rota (born 29 August 1975) is an Argentine-Spanish film, stage and television actor. Born in Argentina, he moved to Spain together with his mother (the actress and acting coach Cristina Rota) in 1978. Following early film appe ...
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Sofía Bozán Sofía Bozán (5 November 1904 – 9 July 1958) was an Argentine film actress and tango performer of the 1930s and 1940s. She made almost 30 appearances in film between 1937 and 1959. She began her career in acting in 1931 and appeared in films ...
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Luis Brandoni Adalberto Luis Brandoni (born 18 April 1940) is an Argentine actor and politician. Biography Brandoni was born in Dock Sud, a port community east of Avellaneda. He debuted on the stage in 1962, television in 1963, and on film in 1966. He joined ...
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Fabiana Bravo Fabiana Bravo (born in 1969), is an Argentina, Argentine operatic soprano. Life and work Fabiana Bravo was born in Guaymallén Department, outside Mendoza, Argentina, to a family of modest means. She moved to Buenos Aires at age 22, and sought p ...
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Norman Briski Norman Briski (born January 2, 1938) is an Argentine theatre actor, director and playwright, as well as a cinema and television actor. Life and work Naum Normando Briski was born in Santa Fe, Argentina, in 1938. His Jewish Argentine family relo ...
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Argentina Brunetti Argentina Brunetti (born Argentina Ferraù; August 31, 1907 – December 20, 2005) was an Argentinian stage and film actress and writer. Biography Brunetti was born Argentina Ferraù in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Italian parents; her moth ...
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Alicia Bruzzo Alicia Liliana Estela Bruzzo (29 September 1945 – 13 February 2007), known as ⁣⁣Alicia Bruzzo⁣⁣, was an Argentine actress, born in Buenos Aires to a family of artists. Starting in 1972, she worked in 17 films. She was renowned for her ...
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Rodrigo Rodrigo is a Spanish, Portuguese and Italian name derived from the Germanic name ''Roderick'' (Gothic ''*Hroþareiks'', via Latinized ''Rodericus'' or ''Rudericus''), given specifically in reference to either King Roderic (d. 712), the last Vis ...
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cuarteto Cuarteto ( es, quartet), sometimes called cuartetazo, is a musical genre born in Córdoba, Argentina. The roots of the cuarteto ensemble are in Italian and Spanish dance ensembles. The name was coined because the early dance-hall numbers were ...
singer * Chris de Burgh, singer *
Daniel Burman Daniel Burman (born 29 August 1973, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film director, screenplay writer, and producer. According to film critic Joel Poblete, who writes for ''Mabuse'', a cinema magazine, Daniel Burman is one of the members of the ...
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David Chocarro David Chocarro (born 5 April 1980) is an Argentine actor, model and former baseball player. Career Born in Buenos Aires, Chocarro entered the Mexican market for telenovelas through the front door as part of the cast of '' Los Exitosos Perez'' ...
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Facundo Cabral Facundo Cabral (birth name Rodolfo Enrique Cabral Camiñas) (May 22, 1937 – July 9, 2011) was an Argentine singer, songwriter and philosopher. He was best known as the composer of ''"No soy de aquí ni soy de allá"'' ("I'm not from here no ...
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Israel Adrián Caetano Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
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Andrés Calamaro Andrés Calamaro (Andrés Calamaro Massel, August 22, 1961) is an Argentine musician, composer and Latin Grammy winner. He is considered one of the greatest and most influential rock artists in Spanish. He is also one of the most complete artist ...
, songwriter and rock keyboard player * Liliana Caldini, actress, model, and television host *
Miguel Caló Miguel Caló (October 28, 1907 – May 24, 1972) was a famous tango bandoneonist, composer, and the leader of the ''Orchestra Miguel Caló''. He was born in Balvanera, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Early years Born in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of ...
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Juan José Campanella Juan José Campanella (born 19 July 1959) is an Argentine television and film director, writer and producer. He achieved worldwide attention with the release of ''The Secret in Their Eyes'' (2009), for which he was awarded the Academy Award for B ...
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Marciano Cantero Marciano Cantero (born Horacio Eduardo Cantero Hernández, 25 August 1960 – 8 September 2022) was an Argentine musician. He was the lead singer and bassist of Enanitos Verdes, an Argentine pop/rock band. Biography Cantero was nine when he f ...
, singer * Norma Gladys Cappagli, Miss World 1960 *
Diego Capusotto Diego Esteban Capusotto (born 21 September 1961) is an Argentine television presenter, actor, and comedian who is noted for his participation in television shows such as '' Cha Cha Cha'', '' Todo por dos pesos'' and '' Peter Capusotto y sus vide ...
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Moria Casán Ana María Casanova (born August 16, 1946), known by her stage name Moria Casán, is an Argentine actress and TV personality. Casán made her theatre debut in 1970, and quickly became one of the country's leading vedettes during Argentina's Gol ...
, dancer and actress * Ana Casares, actress *
Alfredo Casero Alfredo Casero (born 12 November 1962) is an Argentine musician, actor and comedian. Casero began studying acting with Norman Briski in 1987. Soon after he started working in the underground humour scene of Buenos Aires. In 1992 he created, a ...
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Gustavo Cerati Gustavo Adrián Cerati (11 August 1959 – 4 September 2014) was an Argentine singer-songwriter, composer and producer, considered one of the most important and influential figures of Ibero-American rock. Cerati along with his band Soda Stereo ...
, singer and guitarist of Soda Stereo * Segundo Cernadas, actor *
María Concepción César María Concepción César (born María Concepción Cesarano; 25 October 1926 – 26 July 2018) was an Argentine actress, singer and dancer. Her first film was ''Pampa Bárbara'' with her uncle, actor Francisco Petrone. She also achieved fame i ...
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Julio Chávez Julio Hirsch (born 14 July 1956), known professionally as Julio Chávez, is an Argentine film and television actor. He was born in Buenos Aires, and received his first film role in 1973. Since 1976, he has had leading roles in Argentine cinema ...
, actor * Paula Chaves, model and actress *
Chenoa María Laura Corradini Falomir (born June 25, 1975, in Mar del Plata, Argentina) popularly known as Chenoa, is an Argentine-Spanish music artist who rose to fame as a contestant on reality television singing competition ''Operación Triunfo''. H ...
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Agustina Cherri Agustina Cherri (born February 15, 1983, Argentina) is one of the leading actresses in Argentina with more than 30 years of career. Biography Agustina Cherri grew up as a fan of Flavia Palmiero, a famous children's show host during Cherri's chi ...
, actress and dancer * Graciana Chironi, actress *
Jesica Cirio Jessica (originally Iessica, also Jesica, Jesika, Jessicah, Jessika, or Jessikah) is a female given name. The oldest written record of the name with its current spelling is found as the name of the Shakespearean character Jessica, from the play ...
, dancer and model * Gustavo Collini-Sartor,
butoh is a form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement. Following World War II, butoh arose in 1959 through collaborations between its two key founders ...
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Felipe Colombo Felipe Colombo Eguía (born January 8, 1983, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican-Argentine actor, singer and songwriter. He was part of the pop-rock band Erreway together with Camila Bordonaba, Benjamín Rojas and Luisana Lopilato. Biograph ...
, actor, songwriter and musician Mexican-Argentine *
Pascual Contursi Pascual Contursi (November 18, 1888 – May 28, 1932) was an Argentine poet, singer, and guitarist. He composed lyrics for 33 tango compositions – many well-known. Life and work Pascual Contursi was born in Chivilcoy, a pampas town, in 1888. ...
, lyricist *
Juan Carlos Copes Juan Carlos Copes (31 May 1931 – 16 January 2021) was an Argentine tango dancer, choreographer, and performer. He started dancing with Maria Nieves when he was 17 and she 14, and the pair later married. Copes and Nieves played a leading role ...
, tango dancer and choreographer *
Irma Córdoba Irma Córdoba (July 20, 1913 – May 18, 2008) was an Argentine film actress of the classic era. She entered the film industry in 1932 and appeared in over 30 films, spanning 65 years of Argentine film. She appeared in films such as '' Fuera de ...
, actress * Ada Cornaro, actress *
Ignacio Corsini Ignacio Corsini (February 13, 1891 – July 26, 1967) was an Italian-born Argentine folklore and tango musician. Life and work Andrea Corsini, such his real name, was born in Troina, a village in the Enna Province of Sicily, in 1891. He was f ...
, singer *
Antonella Costa Antonella Costa (born 19 March 1980 in Rome, Italy) is an Argentine film and television actress. She moved to Argentina with her parents at the age of four. She has worked in different countries, but primarily in Argentine cinema. Filmography * ...
, actress *
María Teresa Costantini María Teresa Correa Ávila (born 9 October 1949), professionally known as María Teresa Costantini, is an Argentine film actress, screenwriter and film director who has appeared in films since 1989. Life She is the daughter of Lía Susana L ...
, actress *
Edgardo Cozarinsky Edgardo Cozarinsky (; born 1939 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a writer and filmmaker. He is best known for his Spanish-language novel ''Vudú urbano''. Life Cozarinsky was born to an Argentine family of Ukrainian-Jewish descent. His name reflects ...
, filmmaker *
Linda Cristal Marta Victoria Moya Peggo Burges (23 February 1931 – 27 June 2020), known professionally as Linda Cristal (), was an Argentinian actress. She appeared in a number of Western (genre), Western films during the 1950s, before winning a Golden Glo ...
, actress *
Quirino Cristiani Quirino Cristiani (July 2, 1896 – August 2, 1984) was an Italian-born Argentine animation director and cartoonist, responsible for the world's first two animated feature films as well as the first animated feature film with sound, even though th ...
, cartoonist and film director *
Lito Cruz Lito Cruz (May 14, 1941 – December 19, 2017) was a prominent Argentine stage director and motion picture actor. Life and work Lito was born Oscar Alberto Cruz in the working-class La Plata suburb of Berisso in 1941, and began performing in lo ...
, actor and theatre director *
Antonio Cunill Cabanellas Antonio Cunill Cabanellas (August 27, 1894 – February 18, 1969) was an influential Spanish-Argentine playwright, theatre actor, director and instructor. Life and work Cunill Cabanellas was born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1894. His father, Juan Cuni ...
, theatre director *
Ben Cura Ben Cura is an Argentine-born British actor, musician and director of film, television and theatre. Early life José Ben Cura was born in Buenos Aires, the son of Argentine tenor/conductor José Cura. When he was a year old, he moved to Santo ...
, actor and director of film, television and theatre. *
Patricia Dal Patricia Dal (born in Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western sho ...
, actress *
Elsa Daniel Elsa Daniel born Elsa Nilda Gómez Scapatti (13 November 1936 – 25 June 2017) was an Argentine film actress. She entered film in the 1954 classic '' The Grandfather'' and made some 30 appearances in film between then and 1987. Daniel, a blo ...
, actress * Juan d'Arienzo, tango composer and bandleader *
Ricardo Darín Ricardo Alberto Darín (born 16 January 1957) is an Argentine actor, film director and film producer, he is considered one of the best and most prolific actors of Argentine cinema. Considered one of the greatest and most acclaimed movie stars ...
, actor * Pamela David, model *
Sandro de América Roberto Sánchez-Ocampo (August 19, 1945 – January 4, 2010), better known by his stage names Sandro or Sandro de América, was an Argentine singer and actor. He is considered a pioneer of Argentine rock for being one of the first rock artist ...
, singer *
Eva De Dominici Eva Carolina Quattrocci (born April 21, 1995), better known as Eva De Dominici, is an Argentine model and actress. She was born in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Career She began her acting career in 2005, after being a model. She is k ...
, actress and model *
Florencia De La V Florencia Trinidad (born 2 March 1975), better known by her stage name Flor de la V, is an Argentine actress, television personality, comedian and vedette. As producer Gerardo Sofovich's protégée, who discovered her in a 1998 revue in Buenos ...
, transsexual actress *
Andrea del Boca Andrea del Boca (born 18 October 1965, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine actress and singer. She began her career as a child actress and subsequently became popular in the 1980s and 1990s for her roles in telenovelas, such as '' Estrellita mía'', ...
, actress *
Hugo del Carril Pierre Bruno Hugo Fontana, otherwise known as Hugo del Carril (30 November 1912 – 13 August 1989 in Buenos Aires), was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era. Early life Born in Buenos Aires, del Carril ...
, tango vocalist *
Alberto de Mendoza Alberto Manuel Rodríguez-Gallego González de Mendoza (21 January 1923 – 12 December 2011) was an Argentine film actor who appeared in some 114 films between 1930 and 2005, spanning eight decades. A lifelong figure in Argentine films, De Mendo ...
, actor *
Iván de Pineda Iván de Pineda (born 11 July 1977) is an Argentine-Spanish international fashion model, film actor and TV host. He has modelled in New York City, London and Milan. de Pineda was born in Madrid to a Spanish father and an Argentine mother. He and ...
, model and talk show host *
Julieta Díaz Julieta Solange Díaz Núñez (born September 9, 1977) is an Argentine model and actress.Julieta Díaz
at the
Yamila Diaz-Rahi Yamila Díaz-Rahi (born March 9, 1976), also Yamila Diaz, is an Argentine model. She has appeared in the ''Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue'' a total of 11 times, and made the cover of the magazine first in 2002 and again in 2006. She also featur ...
, model *
Raúl di Blasio Raul, Raúl and Raül are the Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Galician, Asturian, Basque, Aragonese, and Catalan forms of the Anglo-Germanic given name Ralph or Rudolph. They are cognates of the French Raoul. Raul, Raúl or Raül may re ...
, pianist *
Alejandro Dolina Alejandro Ricardo Dolina (born May 20, 1944) is an Argentine broadcaster, who also achieved fame as a musician, writer, radio host and television actor.Juanjo Domínguez Juanjo Domínguez (October 23, 1951 – February 10, 2019) was an Argentinian classical guitarist and important interpreter of Argentine music, especially tango. In 2005, he was awarded the Konex Award Konex Foundation Awards, or simply Konex A ...
, folk guitarist *
Martin Donovan Martin Donovan (born Martin Paul Smith; August 19, 1957) is an American actor. He has had a long collaboration with director Hal Hartley, appearing in many of his films, such as ''Trust'' (1990), '' Surviving Desire'' (1991), '' Simple Men'' (199 ...
, filmmaker *
Alejandro Doria Alejandro Doria (November 1, 1936 – June 17, 2009) was a noted Argentine cinema and television director. Life and work Born in Buenos Aires in 1936, he first worked for Argentine television in 1965 as a writer for a local variety show, ''S ...
, filmmaker *
Dorismar Dorismar (born Dora Noemí Kerchen on March 15, 1975) is an Argentine model, actress, television hostess, and singer. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Acting career Dorismar has worked as an actress in Argentina and in Miami. She appear ...
, model, show host * María Clara D'Ubaldo, singer *
Ulises Dumont Ulises Dumont (April 7, 1937 – November 29, 2008) was a prolific Argentine film actor, credited with over 80 appearances in film and countless others in theatre and television from 1964 until his death in 2008. Life and work Born in 1937 in ...
, actor *
Nancy Dupláa Nancy Verónica Dupláa (born 3 December 1969) is an Argentine actress. Biography Nancy Verónica Dupláa was born on December 3, 1969 in Olivos, Buenos Aires Province, and was raised in San Martín, a suburb to the west. She is the sister ...
, actress *
Paulette Duval Paulette Duval (1889 – 1951) was a French dancer and actress of the silent film era and early sound motion pictures. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1889 and raised in France. She was considered one of the most beautiful women ...
, actress *
Pablo Echarri Pablo Daniel Echarri (born September 21, 1969) is a leading Argentine actor. Biography He was born in Sarandí, Avellaneda, Buenos Aires Career Pablo Echarri began his career on Argentine television in 1993. He was given his first sig ...
, actor *
Roberto Escalada Roberto Escalada born Aldo Roberto Leggero (4 July 1914 – 5 December 1986 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine actor, an icon of the classic era of Argentine cinema. Roberto Escalada began his career working on the radio, and it was his voice ...
, actor *
Lali Espósito Mariana Espósito (born 10 October 1991), known professionally as Lali Espósito (or simply Lali), is an Argentine singer, actress, dancer and model. Espósito began her career as an actress and singer in 2003 when she joined the cast of the ch ...
, actress and singer *
Laura Natalia Esquivel Laura Natalia Esquivel (born May 18, 1994, in Buenos Aires, Argentina), known professionally as Laura Esquivel, is an Argentine and Italian actress and singer, who gained international popularity for her debut acting role as Patricia "Patito" Ca ...
, actress and singer *
Ada Falcón Ada Falcón (born Aída Elsa Ada Falcone; 17 August 1905 – 4 January 2002) was an Argentina, Argentine Tango (dance), tango dancer, singer and film actress of the 1920s and 1930s. She starred in the film ''Ídolos de la radio'' in 1934. She w ...
, actress *
Juan Falú Alfredo Juan Falú (born October 10, 1948) is an Argentine classical guitarist and composer. He was born in Tucumán in 1948, and his uncle, Eduardo Falú, was by then a well-known folk guitarist. A psychoanalyst by profession and adherent o ...
, guitarist *
Soledad Fandiño Soledad Fandiño (born 7 April 1982) is an Argentine stage, television and film actress. Fandiño debuted as an actress in the 2003 television series Rebelde Way. After the series, she was then cast as Felicitas in the popular family sitcom ''R ...
, actress and model *
Leonardo Favio Fuad Jorge Jury (28 May 1938 – 5 November 2012), better known by his stage name Leonardo Favio (), was an Argentine singer, actor and filmmaker. He is considered one of Argentina's best film directors and one of the country's most enduring cul ...
, actor, singer and filmmaker * José A. Ferreyra, filmmaker *
Golde Flami Golde Flami (10 February 1918 – 20 July 2007) was an Argentine actress of film, television and stage. Early life Flami was born as Golda Flon in 1918 to a Jewish family in the Russian Empire. Her family emigrated to Argentina when she was fi ...
, actress *
Gabriela Flores Gabriela Flores is an Argentine film actress. She has made some 20 film appearances since her debut in 1984 in the film ''Pasajeros de una pesadilla'' alongside Federico Luppi Federico Luppi (; February 23, 1936 – October 20, 2017) was ...
, actress *
Vera Fogwill Vera Fogwill (; born 28 November 1972 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film and television actress, film director, and screenplay writer A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who pra ...
, actress *
Dolores Fonzi Dolores María Fonzi (born 19 July 1978) is an Argentine TV, theatre and film actress. Several of her films have received critical acclaim such as '' Burnt Money'', '' Waiting for the Messiah'', '' Bottom of the Sea'' and '' The Aura''. Her brot ...
, actress *
Guillermo Francella Guillermo Héctor Francella (born February 14, 1955) is an Argentine actor and comedian. Besides a long history of working as a television leading man, he also has a varied theatrical and film career. Francella is widely regarded by experts and c ...
, actor and comic *
Hugo Fregonese Hugo Geronimo Fregonese (April 8, 1908 in Mendoza – January 11, 1987 in Tigre) was an Argentine film director and screenwriter who worked both in Hollywood and his home country.''Cine Nacional''Hugo Fregonese filmographyCinenacional.com ...
, film director *
Mariano Frogioni Mariano Frogioni is an Argentine clarinetist. Frogioni is the national chairperson of the International Clarinet Association for Argentina. He taught at the National Music Conservatory of Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Aut ...
, clarinettist *
Mario Gallo Mario Gallo (July 31, 1878 – October 2, 1945) was an Italian-born, Argentine film director of the 1900s and 1910s and one of the early directors in the cinema of Argentina. He directed what is nowadays considered the country's first fiction feat ...
, pioneering filmmaker *
Verónica Gamba The following women have appeared in the American or international edition of ''Playboy'' magazine as Playmate of the Month. Those who were also named Playmate of the Year are highlighted in green. A common misconception is that Marilyn Monroe wa ...
, model * Carlos Gandolfo, stage actor and director * Myrtha Garbarini (1926–2015), opera singer *
Delia Garcés Delia Amadora García Gerboles better known as Delia Garcés (; 13 October 1919 – 7 November 2001) was an Argentine film actress of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–1960). She made almost 30 appearances in film between 1937 and 1959 ...
, actress * Charly García, musician * Antonio Gasalla, comedian *
León Gieco Raúl Alberto Antonio Gieco, better known as León Gieco (born on November 20, 1951 in Cañada Rosquín, Argentina) is an Argentine folk rock performer, composer and interpreter. He is known for mixing popular folkloric genres with Argentinia ...
, singer and musician *
Susana Giménez María Susana Giménez Aubert (born 29 January 1944), known as Susana Giménez (), is an Argentine TV host, actress, model and businesswoman. In 2012, she was considered the biggest celebrity in Argentine television by the media firm that pub ...
, actress, show host *
Araceli González Araceli Edith González (; born June 19, 1967) is an Argentine actress, fashion model and TV host. Biography González was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She began performing arts at a young age after winning a dance tournament at the theater ...
, model and actress *
Julie Gonzalo Julieta Susana "Julie" Gonzalo (; born September 9, 1981) is an Argentine actress. On television, she has played Parker Lee on ''Veronica Mars'' (2006–2007; 2019), Maggie Dekker on ''Eli Stone'' (2008–2009), Pamela Rebecca Barnes on the soap ...
, actress *
Roberto Goyeneche Roberto Goyeneche (January 29, 1926 in Saavedra, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires – August 27, 1994 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine tango singer of Basque descent, who epitomized the archetype of 1950s Buenos Aires' bohemian life, and became ...
, tango vocalist * Roy Granata, jazz musician *
Darío Grandinetti Darío Alejandro Grandinetti (born March 5, 1959) is an Argentine actor. He is known for his numerous roles in television, theater and film, where he participated in films by renowned directors such as Alejandro Doria, Pedro Almodóvar and Dami ...
, actor *
Gustavo Guillén Gustavo Guillén (June 30, 1962 — May 28, 2020) was an Argentine actor and musician. His real name was Gabriel Gustavo Dasso. Gustavo Guillén became famous for his roles in Argentina's soap operas. He was the drummer of the rock band ''Fuera ...
, actor *
Jorge Guinzburg Jorge Ariel Guinzburg (3 February 1949 – 12 March 2008) was an Argentine journalist, theatrical producer, humorist, and TV and radio host. Background Guinzburg was born on 3 February 1949 to a Jewish family in Buenos Aires. He finished the hig ...
, humorist and journalist *
Rodrigo Guirao Díaz Antonio Rodrigo Guirao Díaz (; born 18 January 1980), known professionally as Rodrigo Guirao, is an Argentine actor. Early life Guirao was born in Vicente López, Buenos Aires. At age 11, he lost his father and from that moment his mother wa ...
, actor and musician *
Pablo Helman Pablo Helman (born July 5, 1959) is an Argentine visual effects supervisor. He was nominated for three Academy Awards for his work on the films '' Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones'' (2002), ''War of the Worlds'' (2005) and ''The Ir ...
, visual effects supervisor * Antonia Herrero, actress *
Olivia Hussey Olivia Hussey (born Olivia Osuna; 17 April 1951) is an English film, stage, and television actress. Her awards include a Golden Globe Award and a David di Donatello Award. The daughter of Argentine opera singer Andrés Osuna, Hussey was born in ...
, actress *
Adrián Iaies Adrián Iaies (born November 4, 1960) is an Argentine pianist and composer who has been nominated for the Latin Grammy awards three times. His main style is jazz but he combines that with soul, tango, and other styles. Iaies became involved in ja ...
, jazz pianist *
Narciso Ibáñez Menta Narciso Ibáñez Menta (; August 25, 1912 – May 15, 2004) was a Spanish theatre, film, and television actor. Biography Born in Langreo, Asturias, Spain, Ibáñez Menta made his first stage appearance at the age of seven at the Teatro La Come ...
, actor and filmmaker *
Rocío Igarzabal Rocío is a Spanish female name, literally meaning "dew". Notable people with the name include: *Rocío Banquells (1958), Mexican pop singer and actress *Rocío Carrasco, Rociíto (1977), Spanish TV presenter and business woman * Rocío Comba (1987 ...
, actress *
Imperio Argentina María Magdalena Nile del Río (26 December 1906 – 22 August 2003) was an Argentine professional singer and movie actress, better known as Imperio Argentina; she became a citizen of Spain in 1999. María Magdalena Nile del Río was born ...
, actress and singer * Carlos Inzillo, jazz clarinetist and producer * Martín Irigoyen, composer, musician *
Carlos Jiménez Carlos Jiménez Sánchez (born 10 February 1976) is a Spanish former professional basketball player and current sporting director of Unicaja. He is 2.05 m (6' 8 ") tall. His nickname is "suma y sigue Jiménez", which translated into English is, ...
, singer * Kevin Johansen, singer and musician *
Juan José Jusid Juan José Jusid (born September 28, 1941) is an Argentine film director and screenwriter. Career Jusid was born in Buenos Aires. He started his professional career as an actor, puppeteer and stage photographer in the 1960s then switched to fil ...
, filmmaker * Guido Kaczka, actor, producer and television show host *
David Kavlin David Jaime Kavlin (born December 26, 1971, in Salta, Argentina) is an Argentine radio personality, actor, singer and television host. Life and career 1971 – 2000: Early life David Kavlin was born on December 26, 1971, in the province of Salt ...
, actor, singer, radio and television host *
Martín Karadagian Martín Karadagián (April 30, 1922 — August 27, 1991) was an Argentine professional wrestler and actor. Biography Karadagián was born in the San Telmo ward of Buenos Aires to a Spanish mother and Armenian father. He learned Greco-Roman wr ...
, professional wrestler *
Sergio Kleiner Sergio Kleiner (born March 23, 1939 in Buenos Aires, Argentina), also credited as Sergio Klainer, is an Argentine-born Mexican film and television actor. He started his acting career at the age of 21 at a play in Buenos Aires. He then toured with ...
, actor *
León Klimovsky León Klimovsky (16 October 1906 – 8 April 1996) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer. Biography A trained dentist, born in Buenos Aires, his real passion was always the cinema. He pioneered Argentine cultural moveme ...
, filmmaker


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* La Argentina, flamenco dancer *
La Argentinita Encarnación López Júlvez, known as La Argentinita (Buenos Aires, March 3, 1898 – New York, September 24, 1945), was a Spanish-Argentine flamenco dancer (bailaora), choreographer and singer. La Argentinita was considered the highest expr ...
, flamenco dancer * Lydia Lamaison, actress *
Libertad Lamarque Libertad Lamarque Bouza (; 24 November 1908 – 12 December 2000) was a Mexican-Argentine actress and singer, one of the icons of the Golden Age of Argentine and Mexican cinema. She achieved fame throughout Latin America, and became known as " ...
, singer and actress *
Fernando Lamas Fernando Álvaro Lamas y de Santos (January 9, 1915 – October 8, 1982) was an Argentine-American actor and director, and the father of actor Lorenzo Lamas. Biography Argentina Fernando Álvaro Lamas y de Santos was born in Buenos Aires, Arg ...
, actor *
Justo Lamas Justo Lamas is an Argentine singer. He was born in Buenos Aires and tours the United States singing for middle- and high-school Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenou ...
, singer *
Mercedes Lambre Mercedes Rodríguez "Mechi" Lambre (; born 5 October 1992) is an Argentine actress, singer, dancer and model. She is known to international audiences for playing the debut role of Ludmilla in the Disney Channel original series '' Violetta''. ...
, actress and singer * Romina Lanaro, model *
Kurt Land Kurt Landesberger (19 February 1913, Vienna, Austria – 13 July 1997 New York City) was an Austrian born Argentine film director of the 1950s and 1960s. Born in Vienna, Land moved to Argentina in the 1930s and began as a film editor, editing f ...
, screenwriter and director *
Víctor Laplace Víctor Laplace (born 30 May 1943) is an Argentina, Argentine film actor. Laplace was born in Tandil, Buenos Aires. The son of a watchmaking jeweler and a housewife. When he was 14, he started working as a metallurgist in a factory, there he als ...
, actor * Noemi Lapzeon, ballet dancer, choreographer *
María Cristina Laurenz María Cristina Laurenz (born 1940) is a retired Argentine actress and singer active between 1960 and 1994. She is the daughter of Tango musician Pedro Laurenz Pedro Laurenz (born Pedro Blanco Acosta) was a bandoneon player, director and com ...
, actress *
René Lavand Héctor René Lavandera (24 September 1928 – 7 February 2015), known as René Lavand, was an Argentine magician, specialising in close-up magic. He was notable for performing card tricks with only one hand. Biography Lavand was born in Bueno ...
, magician *
Raúl Lavié Raúl Lavié (born August 22, 1937) nickname ''El Negro'', is an Argentine entertainer prominent in the Tango genre. Life and work Raúl Alberto Peralta was born in Álvarez, located in the Rosario Department of the Santa Fe Province, Argentina ...
, tango vocalist *
Ricardo Lavié Ricardo Eloy Machado (October 5, 1923 – April 6, 2010) was an Argentine actor. Born in Buenos Aires, he acted in radio, movies, theater and TV. He died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on April 6, 2010. He was married to actress Noemí Laserre and ...
, actor * Libertad Leblanc, actress *
Inda Ledesma Inda Ledesma (born Margarita Rodríguez; March 29, 1926January 26, 2010) was an Argentine stage, television, and cinema actress who also gained prominence as a theatre director and instructor. Life and work Inda Ledesma was born in the Argentine ...
, actress and theatre director *
Mirtha Legrand Rosa María Juana Martínez Suárez (born 23 February 1927), known by her stage name Mirtha Legrand (″Legrand″ being a portmanteau for the French , "the great") is an Argentine actress and television presenter. With an 80-year career, Legran ...
, actress and show host *
Silvia Legrand María Aurelia Paula Martínez Suárez (23 February 1927 – 1 May 2020), known professionally as Silvia Legrand, was an Argentine actress. She co-starred with her twin sister Mirtha Legrand Rosa María Juana Martínez Suárez (born 23 Feb ...
, actress * Ana Lenchantin, cellist *
Paz Lenchantin Paz Lenchantin (born December 12, 1973) is an Argentine-American musician. She has been the bass guitarist of the alternative rock band Pixies since 2014. She also played bass or strings with various bands, including Entrance, A Perfect Circle, ...
, bassist-violinist * Alejandro Lerner, songwriter and pianist *
Saúl Lisazo Saúl Gustavo Lisazo Oscoidi (; born June 1, 1956 in Los Toldos, province of Buenos Aires in Argentina) is an Argentine actor and ex-footballer. Biography Saúl Gustavo Lisazo Oscoidi is one of 6 siblings: Maria, Fernanda, Araceli, Alejandro, Ma ...
, actor *
Nélida Lobato Nélida Lobato, born Haydée Nélida Menta (; 19 June 1934 – 9 May 1982), was an Argentinian dancer, vedette, model and actress. She began her career at 18 years old in a programme of LR3 Radio Belgrano Televisión showing her talent for t ...
, vedette *
Marga López Catalina Margarita López Ramos (; June 21, 1924 – July 4, 2005), known professionally as Marga López, was an Argentine-born Mexican actress. Biography Born Catalina Margarita López Ramos in June 21st, 1924 in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argen ...
, actress *
Carlos López Puccio Carlos Alberto Daniel López Puccio (born 9 October 1946 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentinian multi-instrumentalist, orchestral and choral conducting, conductor, composer, arranger and one of the current members of Les Luth ...
, musician *
Darío Lopilato Darío Eduardo Lopilato de la Torre (born January 29, 1981) is an Argentine actor, brother of Luisana Lopilato. Biography Darío Lopilato was born to Eduardo Lopilato and Beatriz de la Torre. He has an older sister, actress and nutriotioner , ...
, actor *
Luisana Lopilato Luisana Loreley Lopilato de la Torre (born 18 May 1987) is an Argentine actress, model and former singer. She was a member of the pop-rock band Erreway from 2002 to 2004. Early life Lopilato was born to Eduardo Lopilato and Beatriz de la To ...
, actress and model *
Florencia Lozano Florencia Lozano (born December 16, 1969) is an American actress. She starred as Téa Delgado on the daytime series ''One Life to Live''. Lozano has guest-starred in several primetime television shows, as well as films. Early life Florencia Lo ...
, actress *
Silvina Luna Silvina Noelia Luna Stavrópulos (born June 21, 1980) is an Argentinian model, actress and vedette born in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, Argentina. Career After finishing school at the age of 17, she moved to Buenos Aires and worked as a secretar ...
, model and actress *
Federico Luppi Federico Luppi (; February 23, 1936 – October 20, 2017) was an Argentine-Spanish film, TV, radio and theatre actor. He won numerous awards throughout his acting career, including a Concha de Plata at the San Sebastian International Film Fest ...
, actor *
Virginia Luque Virginia Luque (born Violeta Mabel Domínguez; 4 October 1927 – 3 June 2014) was an Argentine tango singer and film actress. She made nearly 20 appearances in tango films of Argentina between 1943 and 1976. Born in Buenos Aires Buenos Air ...
, actress *
Tito Lusiardo Tito Lusiardo (September 13, 1896 – June 25, 1982 in Buenos Aires) was an iconic Argentine film actor and tango singer of the classic era. Lusiardo began acting for film in 1933 and made some 50 film appearances as an actor. He began ...
, actor *
Mía Maestro Mía Maestro (born 19 June 1978) is an Argentine actress and singer. She is known for her roles as Nora Martinez in '' The Strain'', Nadia Santos in the television drama '' Alias'', as Christina Kahlo in ''Frida'', as Carmen in '' The Twilight ...
, actress *
Ángel Magaña Ángel Magaña (August 24, 1915 – November 13, 1982) was an Argentina, Argentine film actor who appeared in some of Argentina's notable films of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. He was married to Nuri Montsé Filmography #Hotel de señoritas ( ...
, actor *
Jorge Maggio Jorge Bernardo Teodoro Maggio (born November 2, 1982) better known as Coco Maggio is an Argentine actor, television presenter and journalist. Biography Jorge Maggio played rugby as a child and during his teens but dropped out of the sport. J ...
, actor *
Arturo Maly Arturo Maly (September 6, 1939 – May 25, 2001) was a Silver Condor Award–winning Argentine actor. He made over 50 appearances in film and television in Argentina between 1970 and his death in 2001 making his debut in the TV series Esta n ...
, actor *
Mona Maris Mona Maris (born Mona Maria Emita Capdeville or Maria Rosa Amita Capdeville, November 7, 1903 – March 23, 1991) was an Argentine film actress. Early life Mona Maris was born Mona Maria Emita Capdeville. Some sources spell her last name as C ...
, actress *
Jorge Maronna Jorge Maronna is an Argentine multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer, author and a founding member of the comedy-musical group Les Luthiers Les Luthiers is an Argentine comedy-musical group, very popular also in several other Spanish-speaking ...
, musician *
Jorge Marrale Jorge Marrale (born June 30, 1947) is an Argentine actor. Life and work Marrale was born in Buenos Aires' industrial Barracas section to a Spanish mother and an Italian father (from the Calabria Region), in 1947. His paternal grandfather had be ...
, actor *
José Marrone José Carlos Marrone (25 October 1915 in Buenos Aires – 27 June 1990 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine actor and humorist. His beginning was in vaudeville theaters and the radio; afterwards he hosted several children-oriented TV shows, such ...
, children's television host *
Niní Marshall Marina Esther Traveso (June 1, 1903 – March 18, 1996), known by her stage name Niní Marshall, was an Argentine humorist, comic actress and screenwriter; nicknamed ''The Chaplin with a skirt'' and ''The Lady of Humour''. Life and work S ...
, comedian *
Lucrecia Martel Lucrecia Martel (born December 14, 1966) is an Argentine film director, screenwriter and producer whose feature films have frequented Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto, and many other international film festivals. Film scholar Paul Julian Smith w ...
, theater and film director *
Duilio Marzio Duilio Marzio (November 27, 1923 - July 25, 2013) was a well-known Argentine cinema and theatre actor. Life and work Marzio was born Duilio Bruno Perruccio La Stella in Buenos Aires to Sicilian immigrants, in 1923. He enrolled at the University ...
, actor *
Gerardo Masana Gerardo Masana (February 1, 1937 – November 11, 1973) Argentine founder of comedy-musical group Les Luthiers in 1965. Masana died of leukemia eight years later, on November 11, 1973. The other members of Les Luthiers remained together until Dan ...
, musician * Mirta Teresita Massa, Miss International 1967 *
Valeria Mazza Valeria Raquel Mazza (, ; born 17 February 1972) is an Argentine supermodel and businesswoman of Italian ancestry. Mazza rose to prominence in the 1990s and became a household name after appearing on the cover of the ''Sports Illustrated Swimsuit ...
, model and businesswoman *
Claribel Medina Claribel Medina (born December 16, 1961 in San Juan) is a Puerto Rican actress who has acted for soap operas and movies filmed both in her native Puerto Rico and in Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=n ...
, actress, Puerto Rican by birth, Argentine citizen * Esteban Mellino, comedian *
Cecilia Méndez Cecilia Inés Méndez (born April 21, 1986 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine fashion model who has been in advertising campaigns for Marithé et François Girbaud, Charles David, and Bottega Veneta. Career Méndez's modeling caree ...
, model *
Tita Merello Laura Ana "Tita" Merello (11 October 1904 – 24 December 2002) was an Argentine film actress, tango dancer and singer of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–1960). In her 6 decades in Argentine entertainment, at the time of her death, s ...
, singer and actress * Juan Carlos Mesa, humorist and screenwriter *
Nito Mestre Carlos Alberto Mestre (born August 3, 1952 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) mostly known by his stage name Nito Mestre, is an Argentine musician, founding member –along with Charly García– of Sui Generis, member of PorSuiGieco, bandleader of ...
, singer and rock musician *
Eduardo Mignogna Eduardo Mignogna (August 17, 1940 – October 6, 2006) was an Argentinian film director and screenwriter. Filmography * 1975 - ''La Raulito en libertad'' (writer) * 1983 - ''El Desquite'' (writer) * 1983 - ''Evita, quien quiera oír que oiga'' ...
, filmmaker *
Alberto Migré Alberto Migré, pseudonym of "Felipe Alberto Milletari Miagro" (12 September 1931, Buenos Aires – 10 March 2006) was an Argentine TV screenwriter and producer, specialized on telenovelas. Family background Alberto was born in the barrio of ...
, writer and director *
Amanda Miguel Amanda Miguel (born 1 June 1956) is an Argentine singer. Early life Miguel was born in Gaiman, in the Chubut Province Chubut ( es, Provincia del Chubut, ; cy, Talaith Chubut) is a province in southern Argentina, situated between the 42nd para ...
, singer *
Sandra Mihanovich Sandra Mihanovich (born April 24, 1957) is an Argentina, Argentine singer, musician, and composer of Rock (music), Rock, Blues, and Tango music, Tango rhythms. Biography She was born in the Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Recoleta neighbourhood of Buen ...
, musician *
Juan Minujín Juan Gervasio Minujín (born May 20, 1975) is an Argentine actor and film director. He is the nephew of plastic artist Marta Minujín. Career He trained as an actor with Cristina Banegas, Julio Chávez, Alberto Ure, Pompeyo Audivert and Guil ...
, actor * Osvaldo Miranda, actor * Marianela Mirra, model and actress *
Luis Moglia Barth Luis Moglia Barth (12 April 1903 - 18 June 1984) was an Argentina, Argentine film director and screenwriter, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era. He directed some 30 films between 1927 and 1959, ofte ...
, filmmaker *
Juana Molina Juana Rosario Molina (; born 1 October 1961) is an Argentine singer, songwriter and actress, based in Buenos Aires. She is known for her distinctive sound, considered an exponent of folktronica, although it has also been described as ambient, exp ...
, actress and musician * Inés Molina, actress *
Nuri Montsé Nury Montsé (December 25, 1917 – December 26, 1971) was a Spanish-Argentine film actress of the 1930s and 1940s. She made over 20 appearances in Argentine cinema from 1936 to 1946.Nury Montsé // Diccionario de actrices del cine argentino 1 ...
, actress *
Mercedes Morán Mercedes Beatriz Morán is an Argentine actress, known for her role in the television miniseries '' Culpables''. Career Morán has worked in several TV programs, such as ''Donde pueda quererte'', ''Rosa de lejos'', ''Por siempre amigos'', ''G ...
, actress *
Marcela Morelo Marcela Morelo (born Marcela Morello on 13 December 1969) is an Argentine singer-songwriter. She has released eight critically acclaimed studio albums, which all earned either Record certification, Gold or Record certification, Platinum record. M ...
, singer *
Cris Morena María Cristina De Giacomi (born 23 August 1956), professionally known as Cris Morena, is an Argentine Award-winning television producer, actress, television presenter, composer, musician, songwriter, writer, former fashion model and CEO of Cr ...
, actress, writer and producer of television *
Zully Moreno Zulema Esther González Borbón, better known as Zully Moreno (October 17, 1920 in Villa Ballester, Buenos Aires – December 25, 1999 in Buenos Aires), was an Argentine film actress of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–1960). She ...
, actress *
Bertha Moss Bertha Moss (August 7, 1919 – February 4, 2008), born Juana Bertha Moscovish Holm, was an Argentine actress of stage, television and film, famous for appearing in many Mexican telenovelas. Life She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She die ...
, actress *
Marcos Mundstock Marcos Mundstock (May 25, 1942 – April 22, 2020) was an Argentine musician, writer, comedian, actor, broadcaster and copywriter. He had dual nationality of Argentina and Spain, having obtained the latter in 2012. Born in Santa Fe, Argentina, ...
, musician *
Berta Muñiz Sebastián "Berta" Muñiz (July 21, 1978 – in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre ...
, actress * Andres Muschietti, filmmaker *
Barbara Muschietti Bárbara Muschietti (born December 22, 1971) is an Argentine film producer and screenwriter, best known for producing the 2013 horror film ''Mama'' and the 2017 and 2019 adaptations of Stephen King's '' It'', all of which were directed by her bro ...
, producer *
Leonardo Nam Leonardo Nam (born November 5, 1979) is an Australian actor. He made his breakthrough as Roy in ''The Perfect Score'' (2004), and gained further recognition for his roles as Morimoto in '' The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift'' (2006) and Brian ...
, actor * Norma Nolan, Miss Universe 1962 *
Barry Norton Barry Norton (born Alfredo Carlos Birabén; June 16, 1905 – August 24, 1956) was an Argentine-American actor. He appeared in over 90 films, starting in silent films from 1925 until his death in 1956. He is perhaps best known for his role a ...
, actor *
Carlos Núñez Cortés Carlos Núñez Cortés (born October 15, 1942 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an actor, composer, multi-instrumentist and singer. He has been a member of Les Luthiers since 1965 (during the "prehistory" of the group) until 2017, when he retired. ...
, musician * Carlos Olguin-Trelawny, film director, screenwriter * Héctor Olivera, filmmaker *
Alberto Olmedo Alberto Olmedo (24 August 1933 – 5 March 1988) was an Argentine comedian and actor, popularly regarded as one of the most important comedians in the history of his country, for his outstanding work in television, cinema and theater. Olmedo ...
, comedian *
Palito Ortega Ramón Bautista Ortega (; born February 28, 1941) is an Argentine singer and actor, better known as Palito Ortega (). Ortega is an icon of Argentine popular music, and is considered one of the main representatives of the musical style called N ...
, singer *
Mecha Ortiz Mecha Ortiz (née María Mercedes Varela Nimo Domínguez Castro; 1900–1987) was a classic Argentine actress who appeared in film between 1937 and 1981, during the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema. At the 1944 Argentine Film Critics Association A ...
, actress *
Fito Páez Rodolfo Páez Ávalos, popularly known as Fito Páez (; born 13 March 1963), is an Argentine popular rock and roll pianist, lyricist, singer-songwriter and film director. Biography Early career Paez was born in Rosario, Santa Fe Province; ...
, songwriter and rock keyboard player * Pappo (Norberto Napolitano), rock musician *
Florencio Parravicini Florencio Parravicini (24 August 1876 – 25 March 1941) was an Argentine actor who primarily worked during the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema, performing on both stage and in films. From an aristocratic family, he was a relative of the artist B ...
, actor *
Malvina Pastorino Malvina Pastorino (November 16, 1916 in Buenos Aires, Argentina – May 6, 1994 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) was an Argentine film actress. Career She appeared in more than 20 film and television productions between 1949 and 1988. She was m ...
, actress *
Soledad Pastorutti Soledad "La Sole" Pastorutti (born October 12, 1980, in Arequito, Santa Fe, Arequito, Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe) is an Argentine Folk music, folk singer, who brought the Music of Argentina#Folclore, genre to the younger generations at the end ...
, folk and pop singer *
Gastón Pauls Gastón Pauls (born January 17, 1972) is an Argentine actor, TV host and producer. Biography Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pauls comes from a family of artists. His mother was a painter, his father a film producer, and his paternal grandp ...
, actor * Luciana Pedraza, actress and filmmaker *
Carolina Peleritti Carolina Peleritti (born July 2, 1971) is an Argentine actress and former fashion model. She as born in Buenos Aires and took part in many TV series such as ''Boro Boro'', ''La Marca del Deseo'', ''Cybersix'' and ''099 Central''. Filmography Fil ...
, actress and model *
César Pelli César Pelli (October 12, 1926 – July 19, 2019) was an Argentine-American architect who designed some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. Two of his most notable buildings are the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur a ...
, architect *
Diego Peretti Diego Peretti (born 10 February 1963) is an Argentine actor, screenwriter and former psychiatrist. Peretti was born in Buenos Aires, and practiced as a psychiatrist for fourteen years. He took part in several movies and TV series, including ...
, actor *
Mario Pergolini Mario Daniel Pergolini (born July 3, 1964, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine journalist, media producer and businessman, best known as the former main host of the television show ''Caiga Quien Caiga'' (''CQC'') broadcast on Argentina's Telefe. H ...
, variety show host * Carla Peterson, actress *
Melina Petriella Melina Petriella (born March 2, 1976) is an Argentine movie and television actress. Filmography * ''Besos en la frente'' (1996) * '' Esperando al Mesías'' (2000) aka '' Waiting for the Messiah'' * ''Nocturno'' (2001) * '' El Abrazo partido'' ( ...
, actress *
Roberto Pettinato Roberto Pettinato (born December 15, 1955 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentina, Argentine musician, journalist, and television presenter. Early life Pettinato's father, Roberto Sr., was a high-ranking corrections officer in the administration of ...
, TV entertainer *
Ana María Picchio Ana María Picchio (born March 30, 1946 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentina, Argentine actress. She made her debut in 1969 in the film ''Breve cielo'' and has made over 50 appearances in film and TV to date. For her role in ''Breve cielo'' she won ...
, actress * Malena Pichot, comedian and actress * Cecilia Pillado, actress, classical pianist, Argentine by birth *
Marcelo Piñeyro Marcelo Piñeyro (born March 5, 1953) is an Argentine award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer. Biography Born in Buenos Aires, Piñeyro studied cinematography at the University of La Plata's School of Fine Arts. In 1980 ...
, filmmaker *
Jorge Polaco Jorge Polaco (20 November 1946 – 20 February 2014) was an Argentine film director and screenwriter. His 1987 film '' En el nombre del hijo'' won Best Film at the 1988 Festroia International Film Festival in Setúbal, Portugal. Career After ...
, filmmaker *
Lola Ponce Paola Fabiana Ponce (born 25 June 1979), known professionally as Lola Ponce (), is an Argentine singer and actress. Ponce made her breakthrough in Argentina and Latin America with her debut album ''Inalcanzable'', which was released in 2001. Sh ...
, singer, actress and model *
Jorge Porcel Jorge Raúl Porcel de Peralta (; 7 September 1936 – 16 May 2006), known as Jorge Porcel, was an Argentine comedy actor and television host. He was nicknamed ''El Gordo de América'' (''America's Fat Guy''). Porcel is considered, along with A ...
, comedian * Naomi Preizler, model and artist *
Jorge Preloran Jorge Ricardo Preloran (May 28, 1933 – March 28, 2009) was an Argentine filmmaker and a pioneer in ethnobiographic film making. Life and career Preloran was born in Buenos Aires to an Argentine father and an Irish American mother. He ma ...
, filmmaker and a pioneer in ethnobiographic film making *
Luca Prodan Luca Prodan (17 May 1953 – 22 December 1987) was an Italian-Argentinian musician and singer who rose to fame as the leading vocalist of Sumo, one of the most influential rock bands of Argentina,''Argentina Independent''Lo de Luca: Homage to a R ...
, Italian-born rock composer and leader of Argentine band
Sumo is a form of competitive full-contact wrestling where a ''rikishi'' (wrestler) attempts to force his opponent out of a circular ring (''dohyō'') or into touching the ground with any body part other than the soles of his feet (usually by thr ...
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Luis Puenzo Luis Adalberto Puenzo (born 19 February 1946) is an Argentine film director, producer and screenplay writer. He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina, but has also worked in the United States. Biography Puenzo was born in Buenos Aires in ...
, filmmaker *
Osvaldo Pugliese Osvaldo Pedro Pugliese (Buenos Aires, December 2, 1905 – July 25, 1995, Buenos Aires) was an Argentine tango musician. He developed dramatic arrangements that retained strong elements of the walking beat of salon tango but also heralded the d ...
, tango composer * Eugène Py, pioneering cinematographer *
Carla Quevedo Carla Quevedo (born 23 April 1988) is an Argentine actress. She is most known for her limited but crucial role in ''The Secret in Their Eyes'', in which she played Liliana Coloto. Career Her acting debut was in the year 2009 in Argentina film ...
, actress and designer *
Lorenzo Quinteros Lorenzo Quinteros (14 June 1945 – 23 April 2019) was an Argentine cinema and theatre actor. Born in Córdoba Province, Quinteros has appeared in many films since his debut in '' Alianza para el progreso'' in 1971. His reputation as a talented ...
, actor *
Rodolfo Ranni Rodolfo Ranni (born 31 October 1937 in Trieste, Italy) is an Italian Argentine film actor.Rodolfo Ranni
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Daniel Rabinovich Daniel Abraham Rabinovich Aratuz (November 18, 1943 – August 21, 2015) was an Argentine musician, writer, humorist, lawyer and singer. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he cofounded the group Les Luthiers Les Luthiers is an Argentine comedy-m ...
, musician *
Sergio Renán Sergio Renán (30 January 1933 – 13 June 2015) was an Argentine actor, film director, and screenwriter. Biography Born Samuel Kohan in Buenos Aires in 1933, his parents were Jewish immigrants who had lived in one of the numerous Jewish ...
, director of film and theatre *
Alejandro Rey Alejandro Rey (February 8, 1930 – May 21, 1987) was an Argentine-American actor and television director. Career Early work Rey was born in Buenos Aires and studied acting under Hedwig Schlichter and Milagros de la Vega. He became known a ...
, actor * Susana Rinaldi, singer * Calu Rivero, actress *
Edmundo Rivero Leonel Edmundo Rivero (June 8, 1911 – January 18, 1986) was an Argentine tango singer, composer, and impresario. Biography Early days Rivero was born in the southern Buenos Aires suburb of Valentín Alsina. Joining his father in some of his ...
, tango singer *
Inés Rivero María Inés Rivero (born 7 June 1975) is an Argentine model. She was discovered at 14 years old. She rose to prominence through her work as a Victoria’s Secret Angel and was shown on the covers of ''Elle'', ''Vogue'', ''Cosmopolitan'', ''Fashi ...
, model * Nélida Roca, vedette *
Belén Rodríguez María Belén Rodríguez Cozzani (, ; born 20 September 1984), better known as Belén Rodríguez or Belén, is an Argentine television personality, actress and model. Based in Milan since 2004, Rodríguez has hosted variety shows and appeared ...
, model and actress * Elena Roger, actress *
Benjamín Rojas Benjamín Rojas Pessi (born April 16, 1985) is an Argentine actor and singer. He was part of the pop-rock band '' Erreway'' together with Camila Bordonaba, Felipe Colombo and Luisana Lopilato. Acting career Breakthrough (1998–2003) Rojas wa ...
, actor, singer and musician *
Alita Román Alita Blanca Barchigia (24 August 1912 – 15 April 1989), better known as Alita Román, was an Argentine film actress of the Golden Age of Argentine Cinema (1940–1960). She appeared in nearly 50 films between 1934 and 1982 and was a sought-a ...
, actress * Manuel Romero, filmmaker *
Cecilia Roth Cecilia Edith Rotenberg Gutkin better known as Cecilia Roth (; born August 8, 1956) is an Argentine actress. She is the winner of two Goya Awards and a European Film Award. She is known for being an " Almodóvar girl" and the "muse" of Fito P ...
, actress *
Ariel Rotter Ariel Rotter (born 1973 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a film director and screenplay writer. He works in the cinema of Argentina. Filmography * '' Sólo por hoy'' (2001) ''Just for Today'' * ''The Other'' (2007) a.k.a. ''El Otro'' * ''Incide ...
, filmmaker *
Ingrid Rubio Ingrid Rubio Ruiz (born 2 August 1975 in Barcelona, Spain) is a Spanish actress. She won the Special Mention Award at the 1996 San Sebastián International Film Festival for her performance in the film ''Taxi''. Career She has appeared in ove ...
, actress *
Sebastián Rulli Sebastián Oscar Rulli ( or , born 6 July 1975) is an actor and model. Born in Argentina, he has spent most of his professional career in Mexico, becoming a dual Argentine and Mexican citizen. Biography Rulli was born in Buenos Aires, the ol ...
, actor *
Mario Sábato Mario Sábato (born February 15, 1945) is an Argentina, Argentine film director and screenwriter. He is the son of the famed writer Ernesto Sábato. He worked mainly in the Cinema of Argentina best known for his children's comedy films. Filmogr ...
, filmmaker * Sabrina Sabrok, model and TV entertainer *
Horacio Salgán Horacio Adolfo Salgán (June 15, 1916 – August 19, 2016) was an Argentine tango musician. He was born in Buenos Aires to an established Afro-Argentine family. Some of Salgán's most well-known compositions include ''Del 1 al 5 (Días de pago)'' ...
, pianist *
Dino Saluzzi Timoteo "Dino" Saluzzi (born 20 May 1935) is an Argentinian bandoneon player. He is the son of Cayetano Saluzzi and the father of guitarist José Maria Saluzzi. Early life, family and education Timoteo "Dino" Saluzzi was born in Campo Santo, ...
, jazz bandoneonist * Miguel Sánchez, comedian, actor, show host *
Gustavo Santaolalla Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla (born 19 August 1951) is an Argentine musician, composer, and record producer. He is known for composing his film scores with his collaborator and acclaimed director Alejandro González Iñárritu, which composed the ...
, composer and musician, Academy Award winner in 2006 and 2007 *
Julio Saraceni Julio Saraceni (October 10, 1912 – October 12, 1998) was a prolific Argentine film director whose career in the Cinema of Argentina as a movie director spanned six decades. He was an aviator as a young man, but later found a career in f ...
, filmmaker *
Isabel Sarli Hilda Isabel Gorrindo Sarli (; 9 July 193525 June 2019), nicknamed Coca, was an Argentine actress and glamour model who was known for starring in several sexploitation films by Armando Bó, especially in the 1960s and 1970s. She began her caree ...
, actress *
Lidia Elsa Satragno Lidia Elsa Satragno (11 November 1935 – 8 December 2022) was an Argentine actress and politician, where she was popularly known as Pinky. Early life and career Lidia Elsa Satragno was born in the western Buenos Aires suburb of San Justo in ...
, news anchor, talk show hostess and politician *
Josefina Scaglione Josefina Scaglione (born September 5, 1987) is an Argentinian musical theatre actress and singer, best known for her performance as Maria in the 2009 Broadway revival of ''West Side Story'', for which she received a Tony Award nomination for Bes ...
, actress and singer * María Martha Serra Lima, singer *
Soledad Silveyra Soledad Silveyra (; born February 13, 1952), is a prominent TV, theater and cinema Argentine actress. She has made over 65 TV and film appearances since 1964. Most of her appearances have been in film and TV where she made her debut in the soap ...
, actress *
Fernando Siro Fernando Siro (October 5, 1931 – September 4, 2006) was an Argentine film actor, film director and screenwriter. Life and work Born Francisco Ángel Luksich in Villa Ballester, he developed an early interest in acting and in 1950 was given ...
, actor and director *
Mario Soffici Mario Soffici (14 May 1900 – 10 May 1977) was an Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter of the classic era. Biography A native of Florence, Soffici moved to Argentina in the 1920s and began acting in 1931 and directing in 1935 on th ...
, actor * Alejandro Sokol, bassist and drummer * Miguel Ángel Solá, actor *
Fernando Solanas Fernando Ezequiel "Pino" Solanas (16 February 1936 – 6 November 2020) was an Argentine film director, screenwriter, and politician. His films include; '' La hora de los hornos (The Hour of the Furnaces)'' (1968), '' Tangos: el exilio de Gardel'' ...
, filmmaker and politician *
Juan Soler Juan Soler Valls Quiroga (born January 19, 1966) is an Argentine-Mexican actor and former model and rugby union footballer. He was married to Argentine actress Magdalena "Maki" Moguilevsky with whom he has two daughters. Biography Personal life ...
, actor * Julia Solomonoff, actress *
Pepe Soriano José Carlos "Pepe" Soriano (born September 25, 1929) is a prominent Argentine actor, director, and playwright. Early life Soriano was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Enrolling at the prestigious University of Buenos Aires Law School ...
, actor * Carlos Sorín, filmmaker *
Coti Sorokin Roberto Fidel Ernesto Sorokin Esparza (born June 14, 1973, in Rosario, Santa Fe), who performs under the stage name Coti, is an Argentina, Argentine singer-songwriter, best known for collaborations with other Spanish language, Spanish-language ar ...
, songwriter, musician, composer * Mercedes Sosa, folk singer *
Hugo Soto Hugo Emilio Soto Miranda (born September 28, 1983) is a Colombian footballer who plays for Zamora in the Venezuelan league. His usual position is central defender Honours Player La Equidad *Copa Colombia (2008) See also *Football in Colo ...
, actor *
Chango Spasiuk Horacio ''"Chango"'' Spasiuk (born September 23, 1968 in Apóstoles, Misiones) is an Argentine chamamé musician and accordion player. Of Ukrainian grandparents, ''El Chango'' had a strong Polka music influence from his early days; Eastern Eur ...
, folk musician and singer *
Luis Alberto Spinetta Luis Alberto Spinetta (23 January 1950 – 8 February 2012), nicknamed "El Flaco" (Spanish for "skinny"), was an Argentine singer, guitarist, composer and poet. One of the most influential Rock music, rock musicians of Argentina, he is regarded ...
, rock musician and composer *
Bruno Stagnaro Bruno Stagnaro (born June 15, 1973) is an Argentine film and television director, producer and screenwriter. He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina. He has also acted professionally a few times.Lita Stantic Élida Stantic (born April 7, 1942), and more commonly known and credited as Lita Stantic, is an Argentine cinema film producer, producer, screenplay writer, and film director, director. Stantic is one of the most important producers working in t ...
, filmmaker *
Martina Stoessel Martina Stoessel Muzlera (; born 21 March 1997), known professionally as Tini (stylised in all caps), is an Argentine singer, songwriter, actress, dancer and model. She began her career by appearing on the Argentine children's television series ...
, actress and singer *
René Strickler René Strickler (born April 27, 1962) is an Argentine actor. Telenovelas Show hosting * ''TVyNovelas Award The Premios TVyNovelas are presented annually by Televisa and the magazine TVyNovelas to honor the best Mexican television producti ...
, actor *
Adrián Suar Adrián Kirzner Schwartz (born March 25, 1968), better known as Adrián Suar, is an Argentine actor, media producer and businessman who is the program director of Canal 13. Early life Adrián Suar born in Queens, New York City, on March 25 ...
, actor and producer *
María Eugenia Suárez María Eugenia Suárez Riveiro (born 9 March 1992), better known as China Suárez, is an Argentine actress, singer and model. Biography María Eugenia Suárez Riveiro was born on March 9, 1992 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the daughter ...
, actress *
Silvana Suárez Silvana Rosa Suárez Clarence (; 29 September 1958 – 21 October 2022) was an Argentine model and beauty queen who won the Miss World 1978 contest, representing Argentina. The pageant was held in London, United Kingdom. Suárez became the sec ...
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Miss World Miss World is the oldest existing international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951. Since his death in 2000, Morley's widow, Julia Morley, has co-chaired the pageant. Along with Miss Universe, Miss Int ...
1978 * Eliséo Subiela, filmmaker *
Damián Szifrón Damián is a Czech, Slovak and Spanish male given name, which is a form of the name Damian. Damian is derived from the Greek name Δαμιανος (Damianos), from the Greek word δαμαζω (damazo), meaning "to tame" or "to master".''Behind the ...
, filmmaker * Anya Taylor-Joy, actress * María del Luján Telpuk, model *
Juan Carlos Thorry Juan Carlos Thorry (June 28, 1908, in Coronel Pringles – February 12, 2000 in San Antonio de Padua), born José Antonio Torrontegui, was an Argentine film actor, tango musician and director. Best known for his work in tango films in the Ci ...
, actor and tango musician *
Marcelo Tinelli Marcelo Hugo Tinelli (born 1 April 1960) is an Argentine television host, media producer and businessman, best known as the host of the TV show '' Showmatch'' broadcast on Argentina's El Trece. One of the most famous supporters of Club San Lor ...
, TV entertainer *
Carlos Thompson Juan Carlos Mundin-Schaffter, known as Carlos Thompson, (7 June 1923 – 10 October 1990) was an Argentine actor. Career Of German and Swiss descent, he played leading roles on stage and in films in Argentina. He went to Hollywood in the 1950s ...
, actor *
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (5 May 1924 – 8 September 1978), also known as Leo Towers and as Babsy, was an Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter. Born as Leopoldo Torres Nilsson (he later changed his paternal surname from Torres to ...
, filmmaker * Diego Torres, actor, singer and musician *
Leopoldo Torres Ríos Leopoldo Torres Ríos (27 December 1899 – 10 April 1960) was an Argentine film director and screenwriter. His brother Carlos Torres Ríos was a notable cinematographer. His son was the film director and screenwriter Leopoldo Torre Nilsson. ...
, filmmaker * Yésica Toscanini, model *
Pablo Trapero Pablo Trapero (born 4 October 1971) is an Argentine film producer, editor, and director.Pablo Trapero
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Aníbal Troilo Aníbal Carmelo Troilo (11 July 1914 – 18 May 1975), also known as Pichuco, was an Argentine tango musician. Troilo was a bandoneon player, composer, arranger, and bandleader in Argentina. His orquesta típica was among the most popular with ...
, tango bandoneonist and songwriter * Paulina Trotz, model *
Daniela Urzi Daniela Urzi (; born October 28, 1975, San Fernando, Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian model. She has appeared in fashion campaigns for Armani Jeans, the Giorgio Armani collection, Roberto Cavalli, Burberry, and John Richmond, and has done catal ...
, model * Héctor Varela, tango musician *
Micaela Vázquez Micaela Belén Vázquez (born November 24, 1986) is an Argentine actress and television presenter. She is the best known for her role of Pilar Dunoff in the series ''Rebelde Way'', and also for series '' Chiquititas'' and '' Floricienta''—al ...
, actress * Virginia Vera, singer and guitarist *
Natalia Verbeke Natalia may refer to: People * Natalia (given name), list of people with this name * Natalia (Belgian singer) (born 1980) * Natalia (Greek singer) (born 1983) * Natalia (Spanish singer) (born 1982) Music and film * ''Natalia'' (film), a 198 ...
, actress *
Diego Verdaguer Miguel Atilio Boccadoro Hernández (26 April 1951 – 27 January 2022), known professionally as Diego Verdaguer (, was an Argentine-born singer. Biography Verdaguer played the trumpet and the bandoneón. He was married to the singer Amanda Mig ...
, actor *
Candela Vetrano María Candela Vetrano Vega (born August 9, 1991 in Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires, Argentina) better known as Candela Vetrano is an Argentine actress, model and fashion designer. Biography María Candela Vetrano was born on August 9, 1991 i ...
, actress *
Chunchuna Villafañe Elva "Chunchuna" Villafañe (born April 9, 1940) is an Argentine model, actress and architect, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has appeared in film and television since the year 1971. Her most well-known role is as Ana in ''La historia ...
, actress *
Soledad Villamil Soledad Villamil (born June 19, 1969 in La Plata) is an Argentine film and television actress and singer. She has won two Carlos Gardel Awards, Argentine equivalent of American Grammy Awards and British BRIT Awards besides, Goya Award for Be ...
, actress *
Lito Vitale Héctor Facundo Vitale (born December 1, 1961, Villa Adelina, Buenos Aires province), known as Lito Vitale, is an Argentine musician, composer and arranger. Career A talented piano player, he was coached by his mother, renowned music teacher ...
, musician *
Alejandro Wiebe Alejandro Wiebe known by his stage name Marley (born 1 June 1970 in Carapachay, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina) is an Argentine TV host, comedian and producer. He is currently working for TV channel Telefe. Early life Wiebe and his old ...
, television host * Axel Witteveen, musician *
Atahualpa Yupanqui Atahualpa Yupanqui (; born Héctor Roberto Chavero Aramburu; 31 January 1908 – 23 May 1992) was an Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist, and writer. He is considered the most important Argentine folk musician of the 20th century. Biography ...
, folk songwriter and musician *
Sofía Zámolo Sofía Lisa Zámolo (born 21 March 1983) is an Argentine model, actress and television presenter. Biography Sofía Lisa Zámolo was born on March 21, 1983, in San Isidro, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is the daughter of Diether Zámolo, a lawy ...
, model *
Pablo Ziegler Pablo Ziegler (born September 2, 1944) is an Argentine composer, pianist, arranger based in New York City.Oteri, Frank J"Pablo Ziegler: Making the Music Dance" NewMusicBox, July 1, 2014; accessed July 9, 2014. He is currently the leading exponent ...
, Grammy award-winning pianist, composer and arranger *
Olga Zubarry Olga Zubarry (30 October 1929 – 15 December 2012) was a classic Argentine actress who appeared in film between 1943 and 1997. She made over 60 appearances in film, spanning 6 decades of Argentine cinema, but is best known for her work during t ...
, actress


Fashion

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Alan Faena Alan Diego Faena (born 20 November 1963, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine hotelier and real estate developer who has developed properties in his native Buenos Aires, as well as Miami Beach, Florida. Faena is the founder and President of Faena ...
, fashion designer and developer * Paco Jamandreu, haute couturier, confidant of First Lady
Eva Perón María Eva Duarte de Perón (; ; 7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952), better known as just Eva Perón or by the nickname Evita (), was an Argentine politician, activist, actress, and philanthropist who served as First Lady of Argentina from June 194 ...


Journalism

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Carlos Manuel Acuña Carlos Manuel Acuña was a journalist who wrote for ''La Nación'', starting in 1960. ''La Nación'' covered a wide range of information, specializing in political issues. Acuña covered stories involving various dissent and political disagreements ...
, journalist * Horacio Badaraco, journalist and anarchist *
Osvaldo Bayer Osvaldo Bayer (18 February 1927 – 24 December 2018) was an Argentine writer and journalist. He lived in Buenos Aires. In 1974, during the presidency of Isabel Perón, he went into exile, residing in Linz am Rhein, Germany, throughout the Natio ...
, journalist and filmmaker * Andrés Bellatti, journalist *
José Luis Cabezas José Luis Cabezas (Wilde, Buenos Aires, 28 November 1961 – General Madariaga, 25 January 1997) was an Argentine news photographer and reporter who worked for '' Noticias'', a leading local newsmagazine. Cabezas gained notoriety after he was ki ...
, photojournalist *
Andrés Cantor Andrés Cantor (born December 22, 1962) is an Argentine-American sportscaster and pundit who works in the United States providing Spanish-language commentary and analysis in sports. Cantor is well known among both Spanish- and English speakers f ...
(born 1962), Emmy-award-winning soccer sportscaster *
Alicia Dujovne Ortiz Alicia Dujovne Ortiz (born in 1940) is an Argentine journalist and author. Biography Dujovne Ortiz was born in Buenos Aires. She is Jewish. She earned a degree in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Buenos Aires and contributed to num ...
, journalist and biographer * Daniel Frescó, radio and television anchor *
Andrew Graham-Yooll Andrew Michael Graham-Yooll OBE (5 January 1944 – 5 July 2019) was an Argentine journalist, the son of a Scottish father and an English mother. He was the author of about thirty books, written in English and Spanish. ''A State of Fear'' ( ...
, news editor and writer *
Enrique Gratas Enrique O. Gratas (born Gratás; November 25, 1944 – October 8, 2015) was an Argentinian journalist and television personality known for being the original host of '' Ocurrio Asi'' on Telemundo, and the former anchor of Univision's ''Última Hor ...
, television news reporter *
Mariano Grondona Mariano Grondona (born 19 October 1932, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine lawyer, sociologist, political scientist, essayist and commentator. He has been a journalist for several decades, appearing in print media and on television, and has written ...
, television anchorman *
Hugo Guerrero Marthineitz Hugo Guerrero Marthineitz (11 August 1924, in Lima – 21 August 2010, in Buenos Aires) was a Peruvian journalist, commentator and radio host, who spent most of his professional career in Argentina. Life and work Hugo Guerrero Marthineitz was b ...
, Peruvian-Argentine radio host and commentator *
Leonardo Henrichsen Leonardo Henrichsen (May 29, 1940 – June 29, 1973) was an Argentine and Swedish photojournalist. Life and times Leonardo Henrichsen was born to Swedish civil engineer Kjell Henrichsen from Gothenburg and an English Argentine mother in Buenos ...
, photojournalist *
David Kraiselburd David Kraiselburd (1912–1974) was an Argentine journalist, newspaper publisher, and lawyer, best known for his commitment and actions against military regimes and political violence of both right- and left-wing extraction. He was assassinated sh ...
, newspaper publisher *
Jorge Lanata Jorge Lanata (born 12 September 1960) is an Argentine journalist and author. He founded the newspaper ''Página 12''. He hosts ''Lanata sin filtro'' on Radio Mitre and ''Periodismo para todos'' on El Trece. He writes a column in ''Clarín (Argent ...
, journalist and writer *
José Mármol José Mármol (1818 – 1871) was an Argentine journalist, politician, librarian, and writer of the Romantic school. Biography Born in Buenos Aires, he initially studied law, but abandoned his studies in favor of politics. In 1839, no soon ...
, journalist and writer *
Karen Maron Karen Marón is an Argentine journalist, war correspondent, producer, international analyst and writer, renowned as one of the top 100 most influential war correspondents in the world in covering armed conflicts, with coverage in more than 30 count ...
, war correspondent *
Tomás Eloy Martínez Tomás Eloy Martínez (July 16, 1934January 31, 2010) was an Argentine journalist and writer. Life and work He was born on July 16, 1934 in San Miguel de Tucumán and is generally considered an influential and innovative figure in Latin America ...
, journalist, writer and newspaper founder * Fray Mocho (José Sixto Álvarez), journalist and writer *
Eduardo Montes-Bradley Eduardo Montes-Bradley is a documentary filmmaker. His most recent works are ''Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor'' and ''Black Fiddlers''. Life Montes-Bradley first appeared mentioned in Margareta Vinterheden's ''Man maste ju leva', Swe ...
, journalist, writer, filmmaker *
Joaquín Morales Solá Joaquín Morales Solá (born 1950) is an Argentine political journalist. Since 2003 he started working for news television channel Todo Noticias and since 1993 he became a political columnist for the conservative newspaper ''La Nación''. Biograp ...
, journalist, commentator and anchor * Conrado Nalé Roxlo, journalist and writer *
Roberto Noble Roberto Noble (9 September 1902 – 12 January 1969) was an Argentine politician, journalist and publisher, perhaps best known for having founded '' Clarín'', long Argentina's leading news daily and the most or second-most circulated in the Span ...
, journalist, politician and publisher *
Andrés Oppenheimer Andrés Oppenheimer (born in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is the editor and syndicated foreign affairs columnist with ''The Miami Herald,'' anchor of "Oppenheimer Presenta" on CNN En Español, and author of seven books, several of which have been pu ...
, television anchorman * Horacio Pagani, sportswriter and announcer * José María Pasquini Durán, journalist and writer * Roberto Payró, journalist and publisher *
Pedro Sevcec Pedro Ricardo Sevcec (born July 14, 1954) is a Uruguayan television personality and journalist best known as the former anchor of ''Noticiero Telemundo'' in the United States, from 2000 to 2009. Sevcec previously served as reporter for '' Ocurrio ...
, television anchorman *
Rossana Cecilia Surballe Rossana Cecilia Surballe is an Argentine lawyer, journalist, and diplomat. She served as the ambassador of Argentina to Qatar from 2013 to 2018. Biography Rossana Cecilia Surballe was born in Mendoza, and spent her childhood in , a suburb of the ...
, lawyer, journalist, and diplomat *
Rodolfo Terragno Rodolfo Terragno (born 16 November 1943) is an Argentine politician and lawyer, former Senator and journalist. From 2016 to 2019, he was Argentina's ambassador to UNESCO. Life and times Terragno was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1943 and ob ...
, journalist and politician *
Jacobo Timerman Jacobo Timerman (6 January 1923 – 11 November 1999), was a Soviet-born Argentine publisher, journalist, and author, who is most noted for his confronting and reporting the atrocities of the Argentine military regime's Dirty War during a peri ...
, journalist and writer * Bernardo Verbitsky, journalist and writer *
Horacio Verbitsky Horacio Verbitsky (born February 11, 1942) is an Argentine investigative journalist and author with a history as a leftist guerrilla in the Montoneros. In the early 1990s, he reported on a series corruption scandals in the administration of Presi ...
, journalist, activist and writer * Constancio C. Vigil, journalist, writer and publisher * Fabian Waintal, journalist


Public service


Military

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Ignacio Álvarez Thomas José Ignacio Álvarez Thomas (15 February 1787 – 20 July 1857) was a South American military commander and politician of the early 19th century. Biography Álvarez Thomas was born in Arequipa, Peru, and his family lived for some time in Li ...
, early military leader *
Pedro Aramburu Pedro Eugenio Aramburu Silveti (May 21, 1903 – June 1, 1970) was an Argentine Army general. He was a major figure behind the '' Revolución Libertadora'', the military coup against Juan Perón in 1955. He became dictator of Argentina, servin ...
, dictator, 1955–58 *
Manuel Belgrano Manuel José Joaquín del Corazón de Jesús Belgrano y González (3 June 1770 – 20 June 1820), usually referred to as Manuel Belgrano (), was an Argentine public servant, economist, lawyer, politician, journalist, and military leader. He ...
, politician, creator of the
Argentine flag The national flag of the Argentine Republic is a triband, composed of three equally wide horizontal bands coloured light blue and white. There are multiple interpretations on the reasons for those colors. The flag was created by Manuel Belgran ...
in 1812 *
Guillermo Brown William Brown (also known in Spanish as Guillermo Brown or ''Almirante'' Brown) (22 June 1777 – 3 March 1857) was an Irish-born Argentine admiral. Brown's successes in the Argentine War of Independence, the Cisplatine War and the Anglo-Frenc ...
, distinguished admiral *
Carlos María de Alvear Carlos María de Alvear (October 25, 1789 in Santo Ángel, Rio Grande do Sul – November 3, 1852 in New York), was an Argentine soldier and statesman, Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata in 1815. Early life ...
, early military leader *
Hippolyte de Bouchard Hippolyte or Hipólito Bouchard (15 January 1780 – 4 January 1837) was a French-born Argentine sailor and corsair who fought for Argentina, Chile, and Peru. During his first campaign as an Argentine corsair he attacked the Spanish colonies of ...
, privateer and early captain of Argentine Navy *
Federico de Brandsen Carlos Luis Federico de Brandsen (Paris, November 28, 1785 – Battle of Ituzaingó, February 20, 1827) was a Colonel of France, French origin who fought in many of the South American wars of independence and for Argentina in the Cisplatine Wa ...
, early military leader *
Martín Miguel de Güemes Martín Miguel de Güemes (8 February 1785 – 17 June 1821) was a military leader and popular caudillo who defended northwestern Argentina from the Spain, Spanish royalist army during the Argentine War of Independence. Biography Güemes was bor ...
, early military leader * Juan Gregorio de las Heras, early military leader *
Juan Martín de Pueyrredón Juan Martín de Pueyrredón y O'Dogan (December 18, 1777 – March 13, 1850) was an Argentine general and politician of the early 19th century. He was appointed Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata after the Argentine ...
, early military leader *
José de San Martín José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras (25 February 177817 August 1850), known simply as José de San Martín () or '' the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru'', was an Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern and cent ...
, general, liberator of Argentina, Chile and Perú from Spain *
Eustaquio Díaz Vélez Eustaquio is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Eustaquio Escandón (1862–1933), Mexican polo player in the 1900 Summer Olympics * Eustaquio Ilundáin y Esteban (1862–1937), Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, Archbishop ...
, early military leader *
Leopoldo Galtieri Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri (; 15 July 1926 12 January 2003) was an Argentine general and politician of Italian descent who served as President of Argentina from December 1981 to June 1982. Galtieri ruled as a military dictator during the Natio ...
, dictator, 1981–82 * Antonio González de Balcarce, early military leader *
Juan Lavalle Juan Galo Lavalle (17 October 1797 – 9 October 1841) was an Argentine military and political figure. Biography Lavalle was born in Buenos Aires to María Mercedes González Bordallo and Manuel José Lavalle, general accountant of rents and t ...
, early military leader *
Juan Carlos Onganía Juan Carlos Onganía Carballo (; 17 March 1914 – 8 June 1995) was President of Argentina from 29 June 1966 to 8 June 1970. He rose to power as dictator after toppling the president Arturo Illia in a coup d'état self-named ''Revolución Argen ...
, dictator, 1966–70 * María Isabel Pansa (born 1961), first woman Army general *
José María Paz Brigadier General José María Paz y Haedo (September 9, 1791 – October 22, 1854) was an Argentine military figure, notable in the Argentine War of Independence and the Argentine Civil Wars. Childhood Born in Córdoba, Argentina, the so ...
, early military leader * Martín Rodríguez, early military leader *
José Rondeau José Casimiro Rondeau Pereyra (March 4, 1773 – November 18, 1844) was a general and politician in Argentina and Uruguay in the early 19th century. Life and Politics He was born in Buenos Aires but soon after his birth, the family moved t ...
, early military leader *
Manuel Savio Manuel Nicolás Aristóbulo Savio (Buenos Aires, 15 March 1893 – Buenos Aires, 31 July 1948) was an Argentine engineer and military man, noted for his contribution to Argentine heavy industry in his roles as general manager of Fabricaciones ...
, steel industry promoter *
Samuel Spiro Miguel Samuel Spiro was a naval commander of the Argentine Navy born in Hydra Island, Greece. He emigrated to Buenos Aires with his two brothers in 1810, and was an early supporter of the May Revolution. He had been a Navy Captain in Greece, a ...
, navy captain *
Jorge Videla Jorge Rafael Videla (; ; 2 August 1925 – 17 May 2013) was an Argentine military officer and dictator, Commander in Chief of the Army, member of the Military Junta, and ''de facto'' President of Argentina from 29 March 1976 to 29 March 1981. ...
, dictator, 1976–81


Politics

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Josep Borrell Fontelles Josep Borrell Fontelles (; born 24 April 1947) is a Spanish politician serving as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy since 1 December 2019. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), he serve ...
,
Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Can ...
politician serving as
High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR/VP) is the chief co-ordinator and representative of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) within the European Union (EU). The position is currently held ...
and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation in the
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. He acquired Argentine citizenship in 2019. * Pablo Rodriguez, politician *
Rafael Grossi Rafael Mariano Grossi (born 29 January 1961) is an Argentine diplomat. He has served as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since December 3, 2019. He was formerly the Argentine Ambassador to Austria, concurrent with ...
, politician *
Juan Bautista Alberdi Juan Bautista Alberdi (August 29, 1810 – June 19, 1884) was an Argentine political theorist and diplomat. Although he lived most of his life in exile in Montevideo, Uruguay and in Chile, he influenced the content of the Constitution of Arg ...
, constitutional scholar *
Leandro Alem Leandro Nicéforo Alem (born Leandro Alén; 11 March 1841 – 1 July 1896) was an Argentine politician, founder and leader of the Radical Civic Union. He was the uncle and political teacher of Hipólito Yrigoyen. He was also an active Freema ...
, founder of the centrist Radical Civic Union *
Oscar Alende Oscar Eduardo Alende (6 July 1909 – 22 December 1996) was an Argentine politician who founded the Intransigent Party. Alende was born in Maipú, Buenos Aires Province. He studied medicine at the University of La Plata, where he led the ...
, reformist governor *
Raúl Alfonsín Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín (12 March 1927 – 31 March 2009) was an Argentine lawyer and statesman who served as President of Argentina from 10 December 1983 to 8 July 1989. He was the first democratically elected president after more than ...
, president, 1983–89 *
Ricardo Alfonsín Ricardo Luis Alfonsín (born 2 November 1951) is an Argentine lawyer, academic and politician prominent in the Radical Civic Union. His father, Raúl Alfonsín, was the President of Argentina from 1983 to 1989. Since 2019, he has been Argentina' ...
, politician *
Álvaro Alsogaray Álvaro Carlos Alsogaray (22 June 1913 – 1 April 2005) was an Argentine politician and economist. He was Minister of Economy and was the principal proponent of classical liberalism in Argentina. He founded the Union of the Democratic Centr ...
, conservative economist *
José Arce José Arce (15 October 1881 – 27 July 1968) was an Argentine physician, politician and diplomat. He held the position of the President of the United Nations General Assembly during the Second special session of the United Nations General As ...
, diplomat *
Ricardo Balbín Ricardo Balbín (29 July 1904 – 9 September 1981) was an Argentine lawyer and politician, and one of the most important figures of the centrist Radical Civic Union (UCR), for which he was the presidential nominee four times: in 1951, 1958, an ...
, prominent leader of the "Unión Cívica Radical" party *
José Ber Gelbard José Ber Gelbard (14 April 1917 4 October 1977), was a Poles, Polish-born Argentina, Argentine activist and politician, and a member of the Communist Party of Argentina, Argentine Communist Party. He also helped organize the ''Confederación Gen ...
, Peronist economic adviser *
Hermes Binner Hermes Juan Binner (June 5, 1943 − June 26, 2020) was an Argentine physician and a politician. He was Governor of Santa Fe from 2007 to 2011.Ángel Borlenghi Ángel Borlenghi (February 1, 1904 – August 6, 1962) was an Argentine labour leader and politician closely associated with the Peronist movement. Life and times Early life and the labor movement Ángel Gabriel Borlenghi was born in Buenos Aire ...
, labor leader *
Leopoldo Bravo Leopoldo Bravo (March 15, 1919 – August 4, 2006) was an Argentine politician and diplomat. A Senator and Ambassador to the Soviet Union, he was a three-time governor of San Juan Province, where he came to be regarded as a ''caudillo'' (kingmaker ...
, politician and diplomat *
Teodoro Bronzini Teodoro Bronzini (October 10, 1888 – August 20, 1981) was an Argentine politician, affiliated with the Socialist Party, who served as Mayor of Mar del Plata for four periods, from the 1920s to the 1960s. He developed a public and private ...
, former Socialist mayor of Mar del Plata, the first to head a major Argentine city *
Dante Caputo Dante Caputo (25 November 1943 – 20 June 2018) was an Argentine academic, diplomat and politician, who served as the nation's foreign minister under President Raúl Alfonsín. Academic activity Dante Mario Antonio Caputo was born in Buenos ...
, diplomat *
Elisa Carrió Elisa María Avelina "Lilita" Carrió (born 26 December 1956) is an Argentine lawyer, professor, and politician. She is the leader of Civic Coalition ARI, one of the founders of Cambiemos, and was National Deputy for Chaco Province and Buenos Ai ...
, politician *
Domingo Cavallo Domingo Felipe Cavallo (born July 21, 1946) is an Argentine economist and politician. Between 1991 and 1996 he was Economic Ministry of Argentina during Carlos Menem presidency. He is known for implementing the ''Convertibility plan'', which es ...
, economist *
Jorge Cepernic Jorge Cepernic (23 February 1915 – 18 July 2010) was an Argentine politician and Governor of Santa Cruz Province between 1973 and 1974. In 1974, during Isabel Perón's term in office, he was removed from office. Afterwards, he was given ...
, governor *
Julio Cobos Julio César Cleto Cobos (; born 30 April 1955) is an Argentine politician who was the Vice President of Argentina in the administration of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner from 2007 to 2011. He started his political career as member of ...
, Vice President of Argentina *
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear Máximo Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear Pacheco (4 October 1868 – 23 March 1942), was an Argentine lawyer and politician, who served as president of Argentina between from 1922 to 1928. His period of government coincided precisely with the en ...
, president, 1922–28 *
Hebe de Bonafini Hebe María Pastor de Bonafini (4 December 1928 – 20 November 2022) was an Argentine activist who was one of the founders of the Association of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, an organization of Argentine mothers whose sons disappeared duri ...
, head of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo *
Alicia Moreau de Justo Alicia Moreau de Justo (October 11, 1885 – May 12, 1986) was an Argentine physician, politician, pacifist and human rights activist. She was a leading figure in feminism and socialism in Argentina. Since the beginning of the 20th century, she ...
, wife of Juan B. Justo and prominent socialist leader *
Fernando de la Rúa Fernando de la Rúa (15 September 19379 July 2019) was an Argentine politician and a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR) political party who served as President of Argentina from 10 December 1999 to 21 December 2001. De la Rúa was born in ...
, president, 1999–2001 *
Francisco de Narváez Francisco de Narváez Steuer (born 22 September 1953 in Bogotá), known as El Colorado or Pancho, is a Colombian-born naturalized Argentine businessman, politician who ran for governor of Buenos Aires Province on the Republican Proposal, Unión PR ...
, politician *
Juan Manuel de Rosas Juan Manuel José Domingo Ortiz de Rosas (30 March 1793 – 14 March 1877), nicknamed "Restorer of the Laws", was an Argentine politician and army officer who ruled Buenos Aires Province and briefly the Argentine Confederation. Althoug ...
, strongman, 1829–52 *
Justo José de Urquiza Justo José de Urquiza y García (; October 18, 1801 – April 11, 1870) was an Argentine general and politician who served as president of the Argentine Confederation from 1854 to 1860. Life Justo José de Urquiza y García was b ...
, first president of the modern era *
Guido di Tella Guido di Tella (June 12, 1931 – December 31, 2001) was an Argentine businessman, academic and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Life and times Guido José Mario Di Tella was born in Buenos Aires, 1931. His father, Torcuat ...
, diplomat *
Luis María Drago Luis María Drago ( - ) was an Argentine politician. Born into a distinguished Argentine family in Buenos Aires, Drago began his career as a newspaper editor. Later, he served as a minister of foreign affairs (1902). At that time, when the UK, ...
, diplomat *
Eduardo Duhalde Eduardo Alberto Duhalde (; born 5 October 1941) is an Argentine Peronist politician who served as the interim President of Argentina from January 2002 to May 2003. He also served as Vice President and Governor of Buenos Aires in the 1990s. Bor ...
, president, 2002–03 *
Aldo Ferrer Aldo Ferrer (April 15, 1927 – March 8, 2016) was an Argentine economist. He was one of the leading proponents of economic nationalism in Argentina. Early career Aldo Ferrer was born in Buenos Aires in 1927, and enrolled at the University of Bu ...
, economist *
Rogelio Frigerio Rogelio Frigerio (born January 7, 1970, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine economist and politician. He was Minister of Interior, Public Works and Housing during Mauricio Macri's administration. Since 2021 legislative election, Frigerio has been a ...
, economist *
Arturo Frondizi Arturo Frondizi Ércoli (October 28, 1908 – April 18, 1995) was an Argentines, Argentine lawyer, journalist, teacher and politician, who was elected President of Argentina and ruled between May 1, 1958 and March 29, 1962, when he was over ...
, president, 1958–62 *
Rubén Giustiniani Rubén Héctor Giustiniani (born November 3, 1955 in Rosario) is an Argentine politician from the Socialist Party (PS), who was National Senator representing Santa Fe Province from 2003 to 2015. An engineer by occupation, he also served as presid ...
, politician *
Ernesto "Che" Guevara Ernesto Che Guevara (; 14 June 1928The date of birth recorded on /upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/78/Ernesto_Guevara_Acta_de_Nacimiento.jpg his birth certificatewas 14 June 1928, although one tertiary source, (Julia Constenla, quoted ...
, Marxist revolutionary *
Daiana Hissa Daiana Hissa (born 1980) is an Argentine politician who became a provincial government minister at the age of 29. Life Hissa was born in San Luis on 2 May 1980. She was educated at the National University of Córdoba. She was Minister of Enviro ...
, Minister * Arturo Illía, president, 1963–66 * Juan B. Justo, founder of the Argentine Socialist Party *
Cristina Kirchner Cristina is a female given name, and it is also a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Cristina (daughter of Edward the Exile), 11th-century English princess *Cristina (singer), Cristina Monet-Palaci (1956–2020), American s ...
, president, 2007–15 *
Néstor Kirchner Néstor Carlos Kirchner (; 25 February 195027 October 2010) was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007, Governor of Santa Cruz Province from 1991 to 2003, Secretary General of UNASUR and ...
, president, 2003–07 *
Roberto Lavagna Roberto Lavagna (born 24 March 1942) is an Argentine economist and politician who was Minister of Economy and Production from April 27, 2002 until November 28, 2005. Despite the fact that he only garnered 6% of the votes in 2019 presidential e ...
, economist *
Estanislao López Estanislao López (26 November 1786 – 15 June 1838) was a ''caudillo'' and governor of the , between 1818 and 1838, one of the foremost proponents of provincial federalism, and an associate of Juan Manuel de Rosas during the Argentine Civ ...
, early pro-autonomy leader *
José López Rega José López Rega (17 November 1916 – 9 June 1989) was an Argentine politician who served as Minister of Social Welfare from 1973 to 1975, first under Juan Perón and continuing under Isabel Perón, Juan Perón's third wife and presidential ...
, fascist adviser to Pres. Perón *
José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz (13 August 1925 – 16 March 2013) was an Argentine lawyer, businessman and economist. He was Minister of Economy under Jorge Rafael Videla's administration between 1976 and 1981, and shaped economic policy at th ...
, conservative economist *
Francisco Manrique Francisco Manrique (February 10, 1919 – February 15, 1988) was an Argentine naval officer, journalist, policy maker and presidential candidate. Life and times A native of Mendoza, Argentina, Mendoza, in western Argentina, Francisco Manrique gr ...
, politician, creator of current national medical and housing funds *
Carlos Menem Carlos Saúl Menem (2 July 1930 – 14 February 2021) was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999. Ideologically, he identified as a Peronist and supported economically liberal policies. H ...
, president, 1989–99 *
Lorenzo Miguel Lorenzo Miguel (March 27, 1927 - December 29, 2002) was a prominent Argentine labor leader closely associated with the steelworkers' union. Life and times Early life and his rise in the UOM Lorenzo Marcelo Miguel was born and raised in the workin ...
, labor leader *
Bartolomé Mitre Bartolomé Mitre Martínez (26 June 1821 – 19 January 1906) was an Argentine statesman, soldier and author. He was President of Argentina from 1862 to 1868 and the first president of unified Argentina. Mitre is known as the most versatile ...
, president, 1862–68 *
Mariano Moreno Mariano Moreno (; September 23, 1778March 4, 1811) was an Argentine lawyer, journalist, and politician. He played a decisive role in the Primera Junta, the first national government of Argentina, created after the May Revolution. Moreno was b ...
, independence-era leader and reformer *
Enrique Mosconi Enrique Carlos Alberto Mosconi (21 February 1877 – 4 June 1940) was an Argentine military engineer, who is best known as the pioneer and organizer of petroleum exploration and extraction in Argentina. Early life Mosconi was born in Buenos ...
, promoter of national oil industry *
Hugo Moyano Hugo Moyano (born January 9, 1944) is an Argentine labour leader who was Secretary General of the CGT, the nation's largest trade union, from 2004 to 2012. A schism developed within the CGT during 2012, and Moyano was elected to head the CGT's dis ...
, labor leader *
Raimundo Ongaro Raimundo José Ongaro (13 February 1924̣ – 1 August 2016) was an Argentine union leader. He was secretary general of the General Confederation of Labour of the Argentines (CGTA) between 1968 and 1974. Early career and rise to prominence Ongaro ...
, labor leader *
Alfredo Palacios Alfredo Lorenzo Palacios (August 10, 1880 – April 20, 1965) was an Argentine socialist politician. Palacios was born in Buenos Aires, and studied law at University of Buenos Aires, after graduation he became a lawyer and taught at the univer ...
, socialist leader *
Eva Perón María Eva Duarte de Perón (; ; 7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952), better known as just Eva Perón or by the nickname Evita (), was an Argentine politician, activist, actress, and philanthropist who served as First Lady of Argentina from June 194 ...
, influential first lady *
Isabel Perón Isabel Martínez de Perón (, born María Estela Martínez Cartas, 4 February 1931), also known as Isabelita, is an Argentine politician who served as President of Argentina from 1974 to 1976. She was one of the first female republican heads ...
, first lady and president, 1974–76 *
Juan Perón Juan Domingo Perón (, , ; 8 October 1895 – 1 July 1974) was an Argentine Army general and politician. After serving in several government positions, including Minister of Labour and Vice President of a military dictatorship, he was elected P ...
, president, 1946–55, 1973–74 * Juan Pistarini, public works minister and vicepresident *
Raúl Prebisch Raúl Prebisch (April 17, 1901April 29, 1986) was an Argentine economist known for his contributions to structuralist economics such as the Prebisch–Singer hypothesis, which formed the basis of economic dependency theory. He became the executiv ...
, economist * Facundo Quiroga, early pro-autonomy leader *
Bernardino Rivadavia Bernardino de la Trinidad González Rivadavia (May 20, 1780 – September 2, 1845) was the first President of Argentina, then called the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, from February 8, 1826 to June 27, 1827. He was educated at th ...
, president *
Julio Roca Alejo Julio Argentino Roca Paz (July 17, 1843 – October 19, 1914) was an army general and statesman who served as President of Argentina from 1880 to 1886 and from 1898 to 1904. Roca is the most important representative of the Generation ...
, president, 1880–86, 1898–1904 *
Dardo Rocha Dardo Rocha (September 1, 1838 – September 6, 1921) was an Argentine naval officer, lawyer and politician best known as the founder of the city of La Plata and of the University of La Plata. Life and times Juan José Dardo Rocha was born t ...
, reformist governor and founder of La Plata *
José Ignacio Rucci José Ignacio Rucci (5 March 1924 – 25 September 1973) was an Argentine politician and union leader, appointed general secretary of the CGT (General Confederation of Labour) in 1970. Close to the Argentine president Juan Perón, and a chief r ...
, labor leader * Carlos Saavedra Lamas, diplomat *
Amadeo Sabattini Amadeo Tomás Sabattini (May 29, 1892 – February 29, 1960) was an Argentine politician. He served as Governor of Córdoba from May 17, 1936, to May 17, 1940. Sabattini was born in Buenos Aires to immigrant parents: His mother was Uruguayan, ...
, reformist governor *
Roque Sáenz Peña Roque José Antonio del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Sáenz Peña Lahitte (19 March 1851 – 9 August 1914) was an Argentine politician and lawyer who served as President of Argentina from 12 October 1910 to his death in office on 9 August 1914. ...
, president and promulgator of the secret ballot in Argentina *
Domingo Sarmiento Domingo Faustino Sarmiento (; born Domingo Faustino Fidel Valentín Sarmiento y Albarracín; 15 February 1811 – 11 September 1888) was an Argentine activist, intellectual, writer, statesman and the second President of Argentina. His writing sp ...
, writer, educator and president (1868–74) *
Daniel Scioli Daniel Osvaldo Scioli (, ; born 13 January 1957) is an Argentine politician, sportsman, and businessman. He was Vice President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007 and Governor of Buenos Aires Province from 2011 to 2015. From 2020 to 2022 he was Argen ...
, former speedboater, later vice president and governor *
Jorge Enea Spilimbergo Jorge Enea Spilimbergo (born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 25 September 1928; died in Buenos Aires on 4 September 2004) was an Argentina, Argentine nationalist socialist politician, poet, journalist, and writer. He was one of the founders of t ...
, poet, Marxist theorist and politician *
Margarita Stolbizer Margarita Stolbizer (born 17 March 1955) is an Argentine lawyer and politician. Originally a member of the Radical Civic Union (UCR), she founded her own party, Generation for a National Encounter (GEN) in 2007. She has been a member of the Arge ...
, politician *
Saúl Ubaldini Saúl Edólver Ubaldini (December 29, 1936 – November 19, 2006) was an Argentine labor leader and parliamentarian for the Peronist Justicialist Party. Ubaldini was born in the Buenos Aires ''barrio'' of Mataderos, the son of a meat worke ...
, labor leader * Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield, author of civil and commercial codes *
Hipólito Yrigoyen Juan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Yrigoyen (; 12 July 1852 – 3 July 1933) was an Argentine politician of the Radical Civic Union and two-time President of Argentina, who served his first term from 1916 to 1922 and his second ...
, president 1916–22, 1928–30


Religion

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Enrique Angelelli Enrique Ángel Angelelli Carletti (17 June 19234 August 1976) was a bishop of the Catholic Church in Argentina who was assassinated during the Dirty War for his involvement with social issues. Angelelli, whose commitment to the "Church of the ...
, assassinated Bishop of La Rioja * Sergio Bergman, rabbi, politician, pharmacist, writer and social activist *
Jose Gabriel del Rosario Brochero Jose Gabriel del Rosario Brochero (16 March 1840 – 26 January 1914) was a Catholic priest who suffered leprosy throughout his life. He is known for his extensive work with the poor and the sick. He became affectionately known as "the Gaucho pri ...
, Roman Catholic priest canonized as a Saint on 16 October 2016 *
Mamerto Esquiú Mamerto Esquiú Medina (11 May 1826 – 10 January 1883) - born Mamerto de la Ascensión Esquiú - was an Argentine Roman Catholic professed member from the Order of Friars Minor and the Bishop of Córdoba from 1880 until his death. Esquiú's c ...
, friar and activist *
Pope Francis Pope Francis ( la, Franciscus; it, Francesco; es, link=, Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, 17 December 1936) is the head of the Catholic Church. He has been the bishop of Rome and sovereign of the Vatican City State since 13 March 2013. ...
(Jorge Mario Bergoglio), current head of the
Catholic Church The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
* José Gabriel Funes, Jesuit priest and director of the
Vatican Observatory The Vatican Observatory () is an astronomical research and educational institution supported by the Holy See. Originally based in the Roman College of Rome, the Observatory is now headquartered in Castel Gandolfo, Italy and operates a telescope a ...
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Gauchito Gil The Gauchito Gil (literally "Little Gaucho Gil") is a Folk religion, folk religious figure of Argentina's popular culture. Allegedly born in the area of Pay Ubre, nowadays Mercedes, Corrientes, Mercedes, Corrientes Province, Corrientes, possibly ...
, 19th-century healer * Claudio Lepratti, assassinated priest and anti-poverty activist *
Carlos Mugica Carlos Mugica (October 7, 1930 – May 11, 1974) was an Argentine Roman Catholic priest and activist. Life and times Early life Carlos Francisco Sergio Mugica was born in Buenos Aires, in 1930, into a privileged background. His father, Adolfo Mugi ...
, assassinated priest and anti-poverty activist *
Ceferino Namuncurá Ceferino Namuncurá (August 26, 1886 – May 11, 1905) was a religious student, the object of a Roman Catholic ''cultus'' of veneration in northern Patagonia and throughout Argentina. Early life He was born at Chimpay, a small town in Valle M ...
, saintly religious student, beatified in 2007 *
Pedro Opeka Pedro Pablo Opeka (born June 29, 1948), known also as Father Opeka, is a Catholic priest from Argentina, working as a missionary in Madagascar. For his service to the poor, he was awarded the Legion of Honor. Early life Opeka was born in Argentin ...
, priest, missionary and humanitarian *
Luis Palau Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archai ...
, prominent Protestant-evangelical preacher * Mario Pantaleo, priest, healer and humanitarian *
Mario Rodríguez Cobos Mario Luis Rodríguez Cobos (6 January 1938 – 16 September 2010), also known by the mononym Silo, was an Argentine writer and founder of the Humanist Movement. An active speaker, he wrote books, short stories, articles and studies related to ...
, spiritual leader, writer and activist *
Abraham Skorka Abraham Skorka (born July 5, 1950, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine biophysicist, rabbi and book author. Abraham Skorka is rector emeritus of the Seminario Rabínico Latinoamericano in Buenos Aires, the rabbi of the Jewish community Benei Tikva ...
, rabbi and biophysicist


Royalty

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Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands Princess is a regal rank and the feminine equivalent of prince (from Latin ''princeps'', meaning principal citizen). Most often, the term has been used for the consort of a prince, or for the daughter of a king or prince. Princess as a subst ...
, half Argentine *
Princess Alexia of the Netherlands Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau (full name: Alexia Juliana Marcela Laurentien; born on 26 June 2005) is the second daughter of Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands and Queen Máxima of the Netherlands. Princess Alex ...
, half Argentine *
Princess Ariane of the Netherlands Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau (Ariane Wilhelmina Máxima Inés; born 10 April 2007) is the third and youngest daughter of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima. Princess Ariane is a member of the Dutch Royal H ...
, half Argentine *
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands Máxima (born Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti; 17 May 1971) is Queen of the Netherlands as the wife of King Willem-Alexander. Argentine by birth, she worked in marketing when she met Willem-Alexander, eldest son and heir apparent of Queen Beatrix ...
(Máxima Zorreguieta), Argentine


Sports


Sciences

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Luis Agote Luis Agote (September 22, 1868 – November 12, 1954) was an Argentine physician and researcher. He was the first to perform a non-direct blood transfusion using sodium citrate as an anticoagulant. The procedure took place in Rawson hospital in ...
, M.D., devised first safe blood transfusion *
Juan Bautista Ambrosetti Juan Bautista Ambrosetti (August 22, 1865May 28, 1917) was an Argentine archaeologist, ethnographer and naturalist who helped pioneer anthropology in his country. Life and work Ambrosetti was born in Gualeguay, Entre Ríos Province, in 1865. He ...
, anthropologist and naturalist *
Florentino Ameghino Florentino Ameghino (born Giovanni Battista Fiorino Giuseppe Ameghino September 19, 1853 – August 6, 1911) was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist, whose fossil discoveries on the Argentine Pampas, especially ...
, naturalist * Cosme Argerich, doctor *
José Antonio Balseiro José Antonio Balseiro (March 29, 1919 in Córdoba – March 26, 1962 in Bariloche) was an Argentine physicist. Balseiro studied at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in his home city, before moving to La Plata to study and research, obta ...
, nuclear physicist *
Lino Barañao Lino Barañao (born 28 December 1953) is an Argentine chemist and politician. He was Minister of Science, Technology and Innovative Production of Argentina under President Mauricio Macri. He also served the same position under former president Cri ...
, biochemist and current Minister of Science *
Dan Jacobo Beninson Dan Jacobo Beninson (1931 – 2003) was an Argentine radiation expert who worked for the Argentine Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) since 1955 holding different posts. He chaired the institution from 1998 to 1999 and was a member of its board of di ...
, nuclear physicist *
Cecilia Berdichevsky Cecilia Berdichevsky or Berdichevski (née Tuwjasz) (1925 – 2010) was a pioneering Argentinian computer scientist and began her work in 1961 using the first Ferranti Mercury computer in that country. Biography She was born Mirjam Tuwjasz
, computer scientist * Jorge Bobone, astronomer *
José Bonaparte José Fernando Bonaparte (14 June 1928 – 18 February 2020) was an Argentine paleontologist who discovered a plethora of South American dinosaurs and mentored a new generation of Argentine paleontologists . One of the best-known Argentine paleo ...
, paleontologist *
Eduardo Braun-Menéndez Eduardo Braun-Menéndez (January 16, 1903 – January 16, 1959) was a noted Argentine physiologist. Life and work Born in Punta Arenas, Chile, he was a naturalized Argentine citizen from a very early age, and was raised in Buenos Aires.
, physiologist *
Mario Bunge Mario Augusto Bunge (; ; September 21, 1919 – February 24, 2020) was an Argentine-Canadian philosopher and physicist. His philosophical writings combined scientific realism, systemism, materialism, emergentism, and other principles. He was ...
, physicist *
Hermann Burmeister Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister (also known as Carlos Germán Conrado Burmeister) (15 January 1807 – 2 May 1892) was a German Argentine zoologist, entomologist, herpetologist, botany, botanist, and coleopterologist. He served as a professor at ...
, naturalist *
Luis Caffarelli Luis Angel Caffarelli (born December 8, 1948) is an Argentine mathematician and luminary in the field of partial differential equations and their applications. Career Caffarelli was born and grew up in Buenos Aires. He obtained his Masters of S ...
, mathematician *
Alberto Calderón Alberto Pedro Calderón (September 14, 1920 – April 16, 1998) was an Argentinian mathematician. His name is associated with the University of Buenos Aires, but first and foremost with the University of Chicago, where Calderón and his mentor, t ...
, mathematician *
Ramón Carrillo Ramón Carrillo (7 March 1906 – 20 December 1956) was an Argentine neurosurgeon, neurobiologist, physician, academic, public health advocate, and from 1949 to 1954 the nation's first Minister of Public Health. Early life and education Car ...
, neurosurgeon and first Minister of Health * Carlos Ulrrico Cesco, astronomer *
Rodolfo Coria Rodolfo Aníbal Coria (born in Neuquén June 1, 1959), is an Argentine paleontologist. He is best known for having directed the field study and co-naming of ''Argentinosaurus'' (possibly the world's largest land animal ever) in 1993, and ''Gigano ...
, paleontologist *
Miguel Rolando Covian Miguel Rolando Covian (September 7, 1913 – February 5, 1992), was an Argentine-Brazilian physiologist, medical educator and writer. Biography Early life and education Covian was born in Rufino, Santa Fe Province, Argentina, on September 7, 1 ...
, physiologist * Roberto Dabbene, ornithologist *
Salvador Debenedetti Salvador Santiago Lorenzo Debenedetti (March 2, 1884September 30, 1930) was an Argentine archaeologist, anthropologist and educator. He was involved in the restoration of Pucará de Tilcara, an ancient fortification in what today is Jujuy Prov ...
, archaeologist *
René Favaloro René Gerónimo Favaloro (July 12, 1923 – July 29, 2000) was an Argentine cardiac surgeon and educator best known for his pioneering work on coronary artery bypass surgery using the great saphenous vein. Early life Favaloro was born in 1 ...
, surgeon, inventor of the coronary bypass surgery *
Hilario Fernández Long Hilario Fernández Long (12 September 1918 – 23 December 2002) was an Argentine structural engineer and educator. He was born in Bahía Blanca and was of Spanish and Volga German descent. He graduated as a Civil Engineer from the Univers ...
, structural engineer and educator *Enrique Finochietto, surgeon and inventor of numerous surgical tools *Richard Gans, physicist *Mario Garavaglia, physicist *Ramón Enrique Gaviola, astrophysicist *Ana María Gayoso, marine biologist *Mario Giovinetto, geographer *Juan Hartmann, astronomer *Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg, geologist and zoologist *Bernardo Houssay, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology *Luis Huergo, engineer *Eva Verbitsky Hunt, anthropologist *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 *José María Mainetti, oncologist *Julio Isidro Maiztegui, epidemiologist *Juan Martín Maldacena, physicist *Salvador Mazza, epidemiologist *César Milstein, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Pharmacology *Francisco Moreno, explorer *Julio Navarro (astrophysicist), Julio Navarro, astrophysicist *Virpi Niemelä, astronomer *Fernando Novas, paleontologist *Guillermo O'Donnell, politic scientist *Miguel Ondetti, pharmaceutical scientist *Yolanda Ortiz (chemist), chemist, environmentalist *Evelia Edith Oyhenart, biological anthropologist *Raúl Pateras Pescara, helicopter pioneer *Livio Dante Porta, mechanical engineer *Marta Graciela Rovira, solar physicist *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 *Dante Tessieri, physicist *Carlos Varsavsky, astrophysicist *Miguel Ángel Virasoro (physicist), Miguel Angel Virasoro, physicist *Juan Vucetich, inventor of the modern technique of fingerprinting. *Abraham Willink, entomologist *Roberto Zaldívar, ophthalmologist *Nadia Zyncenko, meteorologist


Writers

*César Aira *Juan Argerich *Roberto Arlt *Hilario Ascasubi *Enrique Banchs *Héctor Bianciotti *Adolfo Bioy Casares *Isidoro Blaisten *Jorge Luis Borges *Elsa Bornemann *
José Antonio Bottiroli José Antonio Bottiroli (January 1, 1920 – March 15, 1990) was an Argentine classical music composer and poet. Biography José Antonio Bottiroli was born in Rosario, Argentina on 1 January 1920 and died in Rosario on 15 March 1990. From the ...
*Silvina Bullrich *Susana Calandrelli *Eugenio Cambaceres *Miguel Cané *Martín Caparrós *Evaristo Carriego *Leonardo Castellani *Abelardo Castillo *Haroldo Conti *Gabino Coria Peñaloza *Julio Cortázar *Roberto Cossa *Agustín Cuzzani *Estanislao del Campo *Emma de Cartosio *Marco Denevi *Antonio di Benedetto *Osvaldo Dragún *Esteban Echeverría *Samuel Eichelbaum *Fogwill *Jorge Fondebrider *Luis Franco (Argentine writer), 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 (writer), José Hernández *Guillermo Enrique Hudson *Enrique Anderson Imbert *José Ingenieros *Isol *Roberto Juarroz *Joseph Kessel *Igor Sergei Klinki *Alejandro Korn *María Hortensia Lacau *Osvaldo Lamborghini *Alfredo Le Pera *Belén López Peiró *Vicente López y Planes *Leopoldo Lugones *Félix Luna *Benito Lynch *Eduardo Mallea *Leopoldo Marechal *Ezequiel Martínez Estrada *Guillermo Martínez (writer), Guillermo Martínez *
Tomás Eloy Martínez Tomás Eloy Martínez (July 16, 1934January 31, 2010) was an Argentine journalist and writer. Life and work He was born on July 16, 1934 in San Miguel de Tucumán and is generally considered an influential and innovative figure in Latin America ...
*Carlos Mastronardi *José Nicolás Matienzo *Leonardo Moledo *Ricardo Molinari *
Eduardo Montes-Bradley Eduardo Montes-Bradley is a documentary filmmaker. His most recent works are ''Daniel Chester French: American Sculptor'' and ''Black Fiddlers''. Life Montes-Bradley first appeared mentioned in Margareta Vinterheden's ''Man maste ju leva', Swe ...
*Manuel Mujica Láinez *Rafael Obligado *Silvina Ocampo *Victoria Ocampo *Pacho O'Donnell *Héctor Germán Oesterheld *Olga Orozco *Juan L. Ortiz *Calixto Oyuela *Pedro Bonifacio Palacios *Alicia Partnoy *Josefina Passadori *Ivo Pelay *Ricardo Piglia *Felipe Pigna *Alejandra Pizarnik *Antonio Porchia *Juan Carlos Portantiero *Manuel Puig *Andrés Rivera *Arturo Andrés Roig *Ricardo Rojas (writer), Ricardo Rojas *Ernesto Sabato *Juan José Saer *Beatriz Sarlo *Domingo Faustino Sarmiento *Osvaldo Soriano *Rafael Squirru *Alfonsina Storni *Mario Trejo *Alberto Vaccarezza *Luisa Valenzuela *Florencio Varela (writer), Florencio Varela *David Viñas *María Elena Walsh *Rodolfo Walsh *Juan Rodolfo Wilcock


Other

*Amancio Alcorta, diplomat and scholar *Marcella Althaus-Reid, theologian *Mario Roberto Álvarez, architect *Pedro Benoit, urbanist and architect *Mabel Bianco (born 1941), physician and women's rights activist *László Bíró, inventor of the ballpoint pen *Gloria Bonder, psychologist *Eliana Bórmida, architect *Eduardo Bradley, aerostat pilot *Juan Antonio Buschiazzo, architect *Alejandro Bustillo, architect *Susana Chiarotti, lawyer and women's rights activist *Julio Dormal, architect *Rosa Dubovsky, feminist, anarchist *Gato Dumas, chef and restaurateur *Carlos Escudé, political scientist *María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, executive *Iván Germán Velázquez, former police officer living in Uruguay *Francisco Gianotti, architect *Julio Godio, historian *Carlos Bernardo González Pecotche, pedagogian and philosopher *Clotilde González de Fernández (1880–1935), educator, writer *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 *Carlos Heller, credit union leader *Otto Krause, educator *Juan Carlos Lectoure, boxing promoter *Roberto Maidana, interviewer *Juan Moreira, righteous outlaw *José Luis Murature, diplomat and newspaper editor *Miguel Najdorf, chess player *Eduardo Newbery, aerostat pilot *Jorge Newbery, aviation pioneer *Ernestina Herrera de Noble, publisher *Alejandro Orfila, diplomat and winemaker *Horacio Pagani (auto executive), Horacio Pagani, auto designer *Mario Palanti, architect *Oscar Panno, chess player *José C. Paz, publisher *
César Pelli César Pelli (October 12, 1926 – July 19, 2019) was an Argentine-American architect who designed some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. Two of his most notable buildings are the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur a ...
, architect *Amanda Peralta (1939–2009), guerrilla fighter, later historian in Sweden's Gothenburg University *Adolfo Perez Esquivel, human rights activist and Nobel prize winner *Rogelio Pfirter, diplomat *Patricio Pouchulu, architect *Maria Verónica Reina, disability rights activist * Carlos Saavedra Lamas, academian, politician, the first Latin American Nobel Peace Prize winner *Francisco Salamone, architect *Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz, political and social theorist *Orlando Sconza, professor *José María Sobral, Antarctic explorer *Gerardo Sofovich, producer *Vicente Solano Lima, publisher and politician *Viktor Sulčič, architect *Clorindo Testa, architect *Carlos Thays, renowned landscape architecture *Margarita Trlin, architect *Azucena Villaflor, Azucena Villaflor de Vicenti, murdered activist *Fausto Vitello, skateboarder and publisher *Amancio Williams, architect


See also

* List of people by nationality * List of German Argentines * List of Argentine Americans * List of Argentine Jews * List of Argentine women artists * List of Italian Argentines * List of Asian Argentines * List of Hungarian Argentines


References

{{reflist Lists of Argentine people, *