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Argentines
Argentine people
Argentines are the citizens of Argentina, or their descendants abroad. Argentina is a multiethnic society, which means that it is home to people of many different ethnic backgrounds. According to the , Argentina had a population of 36,260,130 inhabitants, of which 1,527,320, or 4.2%, were born...
who are famous or notable include:
Writers
- César AiraCésar AiraCésar Aira is an Argentine writer and translator, and an exponent of Argentine contemporary literature. He has published over fifty books of stories, novels and essays...
- Almafuerte (Pedro Bonifacio Palacios)
- Juan ArgerichJuan ArgerichJuan Antonio Argerich was an Argentine statesman and internationally renowned writer who was elected 6 times as a member of the Argentine National Congress...
- Roberto ArltRoberto ArltRoberto Arlt was an Argentine writer.-Biography:He was born Roberto Godofredo Christophersen Arlt in Buenos Aires on April 2, 1900. His parents were both immigrants: his father Karl Arlt was a Prussian from Posen and his mother was Ekatherine Iobstraibitzer, a native of Trieste and Italian speaking...
- Hilario AscasubiHilario AscasubiHilario Ascasubi was an Argentine poet.Ascasubi was born in the back of a horse drawn cart, in Bell Ville city, while his mother was on her way to a wedding in Buenos Aires....
- Enrique BanchsEnrique BanchsEnrique Banchs was an Argentine poet. He published all his work in the space of four years at the beginning of the 20th century, then lay dormant until his death. In his four works, Las barcas , El libro de los elogios , El cascabel del halcón and La urna...
- Roni BandiniRoni BandiniRoni Bandini is an Argentine novelist and short story writer known for his satirical commentary and self-critical prose.His works include such novels as El Sueño Colbert and La Gran Monterrey ....
- Héctor BianciottiHector BianciottiHector Bianciotti is an Argentine-born French author and member of the Académie française.-Biography:Born Héctor Bianciotti in Calchin Oeste in Córdoba Province , Bianciotti's parents were immigrants from Piedmont, who communicated among themselves in the dialect of that region but who forbade...
- Adolfo Bioy CasaresAdolfo Bioy CasaresAdolfo Bioy Casares was an Argentine fiction writer, journalist, and translator. He was a friend and collaborator with his fellow countryman Jorge Luis Borges, and wrote what many consider one of the best pieces of fantastic fiction, the novella The Invention of Morel.-Biography:Adolfo Bioy...
- Isidoro BlaistenIsidoro BlaistenIsidoro Blaisten was an Argentine writer.Son of David Blaisten and Dora Gliclij, Blaisten was born in Concordia, Argentina. His family was among the many Argentine Jews who populated rural areas in Entre Ríos Province during the early 20th century...
- Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis BorgesJorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...
- Elsa BornemannElsa BornemannElsa Bornemann is a recognized Argentine doctor of the Arts, polyglot and composer. She is also widely known for her popular children's literature...
- Silvina BullrichSilvina BullrichSilvina Bullrich was a best-selling Argentine novelist, as well as an accomplished journalist, translator and screenwriter.-Life and work:...
- Susana CalandrelliSusana CalandrelliSusana Calandrelli was an Argentine writer and teacher.-Biography:Born in Buenos Aires, Calandrelli wrote everything from poetry, stories, novels to essays, plays, lectures and study books. She entered several different cultural institutions and directed the Escuela de Servicio Social del Insituto...
- Eugenio CambaceresEugenio CambaceresEugenio Cambaceres Argentine writer and politician. In the 1880s he wrote four books, with Sin rumbo being his masterpiece. His promising literary career was cut short when he died of tuberculosis....
- Miguel CanéMiguel CanéMiguel Cané was an Argentine writer, lawyer, academic, journalist, and politician....
- Martín CaparrósMartín CaparrósMartín Caparrós is a writer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 29, 1957. His father was Antonio Caparrós, a renowned psychiatrist. Caparrós begun professional writing at age sixteen, shortly after graduating from High School at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires. His first professional job in...
- Evaristo CarriegoEvaristo CarriegoEvaristo Carriego , was an Argentine poet, best known for the biography written about him by Jorge Luis Borges....
- Leonardo CastellaniLeonardo CastellaniLeonardo Castellani , was an Argentine essayist, novelist, poet and theologian.Born in Reconquista, Santa Fe, Castellani was ordained as a Jesuit priest in 1930, he studied Philosophy and Theology in Rome. Back in his country, he worked in the Catholic press and went into politics as a...
- Abelardo CastilloAbelardo CastilloAbelardo Castillo is an Argentine writer, born in the city of San Pedro, Buenos Aires. He practised amateur boxing in his youth...
- Julio CortázarJulio CortázarJulio Cortázar, born Jules Florencio Cortázar, was an Argentine writer. Cortázar, known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, influenced an entire generation of Spanish speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe.-Early life:Cortázar's parents, Julio José Cortázar and...
- Estanislao del CampoEstanislao del CampoEstanislao del Campo was an Argentine poet. Born in Buenos Aires to a unitarian family—the unitarians were a political party favoring a strong central government, rather than a federation—he fought in the battles of Cepeda and Pavón, defending Buenos Aires' rights.He is best remembered...
- Haroldo ContiHaroldo ContiHaroldo Conti|thumb|right|150pxHaroldo Conti was an Argentine writer, screenwriter, teacher and Latin professor. On May 5, 1976 he disappeared during the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional military dictatorship, on this day the "Día del Escritor Bonaerense" is held in his honour.- Biography...
- Gabino Coria Peñaloza
- Roberto CossaRoberto CossaRoberto Cossa is a prominent Argentine playwright and theatre director.-Life and work:Roberto Cossa was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and raised in the quiet residential borough of Villa del Parque. He first performed in theatre at the age of 17 and, in 1957, he and friends founded the San...
- Agustín CuzzaniAgustín CuzzaniAgustín Cuzzani was an Argentine dramatist, known for his satiric vision and criticism of the capitalist society. He is famous for having created farsátira as a theatrical genre. His most famous and transcendental work is El centroforward murió al amanecer...
- Marco DeneviMarco DeneviMarco Denevi was an Argentine award-winning author of novels and short stories, as well as a lawyer and journalist. His work is characterized by its originiality and depth, as well as a criticism of human incompetence. His first work, a mystery called Rosaura a las diez , was a Kraft award...
- Antonio di BenedettoAntonio di BenedettoAntonio di Benedetto , was an Argentine journalist and writer.-Publishing Career:...
- Osvaldo DragúnOsvaldo DragúnOsvaldo Dragún was a prominent Argentine playwright and theatre director.-Life and work:Osvaldo Dragún was born in Colonia Berro, a Jewish agricultural settlement in Entre Ríos Province, Argentina. After his father's linseed farm suffered from recurrent locust problems, the family left the...
- Esteban EcheverríaEsteban EcheverríaJosé Esteban Antonio Echeverría was an Argentine poet, fiction writer, cultural promoter, and political activist who played a significant role in the development of Argentine literature, not only through his own writings but also through his organizational efforts...
- Samuel EichelbaumSamuel EichelbaumSamuel Eichelbaum , born the son of Russian Jewish immigrants in Domínguez, Entre Ríos, Argentina, Eichelbaum became one of the leading playwrights in the first half of the 20th century in Argentina.-Works:...
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- Jorge FondebriderJorge FondebriderJorge Fondebrider is an Argentinian writer and poet born in Buenos Aires in 1956. His published poetry books are Elegías , Imperio de la Luna , Standards and Los últimos tres años...
- Luis FrancoLuis Franco (Argentine Writer)Luis Franco was an autodidact, a self-made intellectual, essayist, and poet. He was the son of Luis Antonio and Balbina Acosta and lived most of his life in his native province far from the limelights of Buenos Aires and the academic world which he sincerely despised in favor of a bucolic and...
- Rodrigo FresánRodrigo FresánRodrigo Fresán is a fiction writer and journalist.He has published Historia argentina, Vidas de santos, Trabajos manuales, Esperanto, La velocidad de las cosas, Mantra and Jardines de Kensington and El fondo del cielo. They have been translated into many languages.Mantra, a portrait of Mexico City...
- Silvio FrondiziSilvio FrondiziSilvio Frondizi was an Argentine intellectual and lawyer, brother of President Arturo Frondizi and of the philosopher Risieri Frondizi....
- Griselda GambaroGriselda GambaroGriselda Gambaro is an Argentine writer, whose novels, plays, short stories, story tales, essays and novels for teenagers often concern the political violence in her home country that would develop into the Dirty War. One recurring theme is the desaparecidos and the attempts to recover their...
- Juan GelmanJuan GelmanJuan Gelman is an Argentine poet. He has published more than twenty books of poetry since 1956. He won the Cervantes Prize in 2007, the most important in Spanish literature...
- Alberto GerchunoffAlberto GerchunoffAlberto Gerchunoff , was an Argentine writer born in the Russian Empire, in the city of Proskuriv, now Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine. His family emigrated in 1889 to the agricultural colony of Moises Ville. His father, Rab Gershon ben Abraham Gerchunoff was murdered by a gaucho on February 12, 1891...
- Oliverio GirondoOliverio GirondoOliverio Girondo was an Argentine poet. He was born in Buenos Aires to a relatively wealthy family, enabling him from a young age to travel to Europe, where he studied in both Paris and England...
- Angélica GorodischerAngélica GorodischerAngélica Gorodischer is an Argentine writer known for her collection of short stories, which belong to a wide variety of genres, including science-fiction, fantasy, crime and stories with a feminist perspective....
- Carlos GorostizaCarlos GorostizaCarlos Gorostiza is a prominent Argentine playwright, theatre director and novelist.-Life and work:Carlos Gorostiza was born to Basque Argentine parents in the upscale Buenos Aires borough of Palermo...
- Juana Manuela GorritiJuana Manuela GorritiJuana Manuela Gorriti was an Argentine writer with extensive political and literary links to Bolivia and Peru.-Biography:Juana Manuela Gorriti was born in Salta near the Bolivian border. She came from a wealthy upper class family, and attended a convent school when she was eight...
- Paul GroussacPaul GroussacPaul-François Groussac was a French-born Argentine writer, literary critic, historian, and librarian. He was born in Toulouse to Catherine Deval and Pierre Groussac, the scion of an old Languedocian family.-Biography:...
- Eduardo Gudiño KiefferEduardo Gudiño KiefferEduardo Gudiño Kieffer was an Argentine writer, born in Esperanza, Santa Fe. From his mother side, he is related to Argentinean painter Sebastian Spreng, also a native of Esperanza....
- Beatriz GuidoBeatriz GuidoBeatriz Guido was an Argentine novelist and screenwriter.Guido was born in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, the daughter of architect Ángel Guido and of Uruguayan actress Berta Eirin...
- Ricardo GüiraldesRicardo GüiraldesRicardo Güiraldes was an Argentine novelist and poet, one of the most significant Argentine writers of his era, particularly known for his 1926 novel Don Segundo Sombra, set amongst the gauchos.-Life:...
- Eduardo GutiérrezEduardo GutiérrezEduardo Gutiérrez was an Argentine writer. His works of gauchoesque nature acquired great popularity, specially Juan Moreira, a novel successfully adapted to the stage in 1884 that popularized the gaucho as a protagonist in Argentine theatre.-References:...
- Tulio Halperín DonghiTulio Halperín DonghiTulio Halperín Donghi is an Argentine historian.Halperín Donghi was born in Buenos Aires, in 1926. He received both a juris doctor and a Doctorate in History from the University of Buenos Aires, in 1955. Halperín Donghi has since become among Latin America's most renowned historians...
- José Hernández
- Guillermo Enrique Hudson
- Enrique Anderson ImbertEnrique Anderson ImbertEnrique Anderson-Imbert was an Argentine novelist, short-story writer and literary critic.Born in Córdoba, Argentina, Anderson-Imbert graduated from the University of Buenos Aires. From 1940 until 1947 he taught at the University of Tucumán. In 1947, he joined the faculty of the University of...
- José IngenierosJosé IngenierosJosé Ingenieros was an Argentine physician, pharmaceutic, positivist philosopher and essayist.He was born Giuseppe Ingegneri in Palermo , and graduated from the University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine in 1900...
- IsolIsolMarisol Misenta, known professionally under the mononym Isol, is an illustrator, author of children's books, and singer. She was born in 1972, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she lives to this day.- Background :...
(Marisol Misenta) - Roberto JuarrozRoberto JuarrozRoberto Juarroz was an Argentine poet famous for his "Poesía vertical" . He published fourteen volumes of poetry in all, numbered successively 1 to 14, under the general title "Poesía vertical", the first appearing in 1958 and the final one posthumously in 1997...
- Joseph KesselJoseph KesselJoseph Kessel was a French journalist and novelist.He was born in Villa Clara, Entre Ríos, Argentina, because of the constant journeys of his father, a Lithuanian doctor of Jewish origin. Joseph Kessel lived the first years of his childhood in Orenburg, Russia, before the family moved to France...
- Igor Sergei KlinkiIgor Sergei KlinkiIgor Sergei Klinki is a "virtual" poet created by the Argentine artist Rafael San Martín. As a fictitious character, he is endowed with a fictional biography and quasi fictional Bibliography.According to his fictional biography:...
- Alejandro KornAlejandro KornAlejandro Korn was an Argentine physician, psychiatrist, philosopher, reformist and politician. For eighteen years, he was the director of the psychiaty hospital in Melchor Romero , named as the city. He was the first university official in Latin America to be elected thanks to the student’s vote...
- Osvaldo LamborghiniOsvaldo LamborghiniOsvaldo Lamborghini was an Argentine writer of the 1960s and 70s avant-gardes. His work is not easily lumped into traditional generic categories, as it spans and combines elements of poetry, prose fiction, and theatre.-Life and work:...
- Alfredo Le PeraAlfredo Le PeraAlfredo Le Pera was an Argentinian journalist, dramatist, and lyricist, best known for his brief but fruitful collaboration with the tango singer Carlos Gardel...
- Vicente López y PlanesVicente López y PlanesAlejandro Vicente López y Planes was an Argentine writer and politician who acted as interim President of Argentina from July 7, 1827 to August 18, 1827...
- Leopoldo LugonesLeopoldo LugonesLeopoldo Lugones Argüello was an Argentine writer and journalist.-Early life:Born in Villa de María del Río Seco, a city in Córdoba Province, in Argentina's Catholic heartland, Lugones belonged to a family of landed gentry...
- Félix LunaFélix LunaFélix Luna was a prominent Argentine writer, lyricist and historian.-Life and times:Luna was born in Buenos Aires to a family originally from La Rioja Province, in 1925...
- Benito LynchBenito LynchBenito Lynch, Argentine novelist and short-story writer, was born in Buenos Aires on 25 July 1885, and died La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, 23 December 1951.-Origins and life:...
- Eduardo MalleaEduardo MalleaEduardo Mallea was an Argentine essayist, cultural critic, writer and diplomat. In 1931 he became editor of the literary magazine of La Nación.-Work:...
- Leopoldo MarechalLeopoldo MarechalLeopoldo Marechal was one of the most important Argentine writers of the twentieth century.- Biographical notes :...
- Guillermo MartínezGuillermo MartínezGuillermo Martínez is an Argentine novelist and short story writer.Martínez was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina. He gained a PhD in mathematical logic at the University of Buenos Aires....
- Tomás Eloy MartínezTomás Eloy MartínezTomás Eloy Martínez was an Argentine journalist and writer.-Life and work:Born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Martínez obtained a degree in Spanish and Latin American literature from the University of Tucumán, and an MA at the University of Paris...
- Ezequiel Martínez EstradaEzequiel Martínez EstradaEzequiel Martínez Estrada was an Argentine writer, poet, essayist, and literary critic. An admired biographer and critic, he was often political in his writings, and was a confirmed anti-Peronist...
- Carlos MastronardiCarlos MastronardiCarlos Mastronardi was an Argentine journalist, poet, and translator. His works included Luz de provincia, Tierra amanecida , Conocimiento de la noche , and Tratado de la pena. His non-fiction Valéry o la infinitud del método won the Buenos Aires Municipal Prize for Literature...
- José Nicolás MatienzoJosé Nicolás MatienzoJosé Nicolás Matienzo was a prominent Argentine lawyer, writer, academic and policy maker.-Life and times:José Nicolás Matienzo was born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, in 1860. He enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires Law School, where he was mentored by Professor José Manuel Estrada,...
- Leonardo MoledoLeonardo Moledo-Life and work:Leonardo Moledo was born in Buenos Aires, in 1947. He enrolled at the prestigious, public secondary school, the National College of Buenos Aires...
, science writer, novelist - Ricardo MolinariRicardo MolinariRicardo Eufemio Molinari was an Argentine poet. Molinari was born in Buenos Aires, and was orphaned when he was five, after which he then lived with his grandmother, Bartola Delgado de Molinari. He left his studies early to become a poet. Molinari's first work was El Imaginero...
- Eduardo Montes-BradleyEduardo Montes-Bradley- Filmography :# Waissman Producer, Director. The Heritage Film Project. 2010. Produced by Soledad Liendo. Biographical documentary on the life and works of Argentine artist Andrés Waissman. TV premier November 23, 2010 WPBT Channel 2...
- Manuel Mujica LáinezManuel Mujica LaínezManuel Mujica Láinez was an Argentine novelist, essayist and art critic.-Biography:...
- Rafael ObligadoRafael ObligadoRafael Obligado was an Argentine poet and playwright.Obligado was the son of María Jacinta Ortiz Urién and Luis Obligado y Saavedra. During the 1880s, he became known as el poeta del Paraná . He wrote poetry with gaucho themes, but using cultured and educated language...
- Silvina OcampoSilvina OcampoSilvina Ocampo Aguirre was an Argentine poet and short-fiction writer.Ocampo was born in Buenos Aires, the youngest of the six children of Manuel Ocampo and Ramona Aguirre. She was educated at home by tutors. One of her sisters was Victoria Ocampo, the publisher of the literarily important...
- Victoria OcampoVictoria OcampoVictoria Ocampo Aguirre was an Argentine writer and intellectual, described by Jorge Luis Borges as La mujer más argentina ....
- Pacho O'DonnellPacho O'DonnellMario O'Donnell , best known as Pacho O'Donnell, is an Argentine writer, politician and physician who specializes in psychoanalysis....
- Héctor Germán OesterheldHéctor Germán OesterheldHéctor Germán Oesterheld , also known as his common abbreviation HGO, was an Argentine journalist and writer of graphic novels and comics who has come to be celebrated as a master in his field....
- Olga OrozcoOlga Orozcothumb|Olga Orozco, 1960Olga Orozco was an Argentine poet born in Toay, La Pampa. She spent her childhood in Bahía Blanca until she was 16 years old and she moved to Buenos Aires with her parents where she initiated her career as a writer.Orozco directed some literary publications using some...
- Juan L. OrtizJuan L. OrtizJuan Laurentino Ortiz was an Argentine poet, born in the town of Puerto Ruiz, Entre Ríos Province. He died in Paraná, capital of the same province, at the age of 82....
- Calixto OyuelaCalixto OyuelaCalixto Oyuela , was an Argentine poet and essayist....
- Alicia PartnoyAlicia PartnoyAlicia Mabel Partnoy is a human rights activist, poet, and translator.After Argentinian President Juan Perón died, the students from the left of the Peronist political party organized with fervor within the country's universities and with workers, were persecuted and imprisoned...
- Ivo PelayIvo PelayIvo Pelay was one of Argentina's most prolific playwrights of the early 20th century.Born Guillermo Juan Robustiano Pichot in Buenos Aires, Pelay wrote over 200 plays in his lifetime, beginning with La Mala Vida in 1911. Perhaps his most famous work is his 1925 nationalist dramedy La canción de...
- Ricardo PigliaRicardo PigliaRicardo Piglia is one of the foremost contemporary Argentine writers, known for his fiction, including several collections of short stories; the novels Artificial Respiration , The Absent City , Burnt Money ; and criticism including Criticism and Fiction , Brief Forms and...
- Felipe PignaFelipe PignaFelipe Pigna, born in Mercedes, Buenos Aires, in 1959, is an Argentine historian and writer. He's currently among the best selling book authors from Argentina.- Biography :...
, historian - Alejandra PizarnikAlejandra PizarnikAlejandra Pizarnik was an Argentine poet.-Life and work:She was born on April 29, 1936 to Russian Jewish immigrant parents in Avellaneda, a suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina. A year after entering the department of Philosophy and Letters at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pizarnik published her...
- Antonio PorchiaAntonio PorchiaAntonio Porchia was an Argentinian poet. He was born in Conflenti but, after the death of his father in 1900, moved to Argentina. He wrote a Spanish book entitled Voces , a book of aphorisms. It has since been translated into Italian and into English , French, and German...
- Juan Carlos PortantieroJuan Carlos PortantieroJuan Carlos Portantiero was an Argentine sociologist, specialized in the study of the works of Antonio Gramsci....
- Manuel PuigManuel PuigManuel Puig was an Argentine author...
, Kiss of the Spider WomanKiss of the Spider WomanKiss of the Spider Woman is a 1985 Brazilian-American drama film. It was directed by Argentine-born Brazilian director Héctor Babenco, and adapted by Leonard Schrader from the Manuel Puig novel of the same name... - Andrés RiveraAndrés RiveraAndreas Rivera , a pseudonym of Marcos Ribak, is an Argentine writer. Born in Buenos Aires to immigrant parents, he was at various points a textile worker, a journalist, and a writer. From 1953–1957, Rivera worked on the staff of the magazine Plática...
- Arturo Andrés RoigArturo Andrés RoigArturo Andrés Roig is an Argentine philosopher.Born in Mendoza, he entered the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, and graduated in 1949 with a degree in Education Sciences...
- Ricardo RojasRicardo Rojas (writer)Ricardo Rojas was an Argentine journalist and writer. He came from one of the most influential families of the Santiago del Estero Province; his father was Absalón Rojas, who was governor of the province...
- Ernesto SabatoErnesto SabatoErnesto Sabato , was an Argentine writer, painter and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world throughout Latin America"...
- Juan José SaerJuan José SaerJuan José Saer was one of the most important Argentine novelists of the last fifty years.Born to Syrian immigrants in Serodino, a small town in the Santa Fe Province, he studied law and philosophy at the National University of the Littoral, where he taught History of Cinematography. Thanks to a...
- Beatriz SarloBeatriz SarloBeatriz Sarlo is an Argentine literary and cultural critic. She was also founding editor of the cultural journal Punto de Vista ....
- Osvaldo SorianoOsvaldo SorianoOsvaldo Soriano, Journalist and writer. Born January 6, 1943 in Mar del Plata, Argentina – died on January 29, 1997 in Buenos Aires.-Biography:...
, author and film maker - Rafael SquirruRafael SquirruRafael Squirru , is an Argentine poet, lecturer, art critic and essayist.- Biographical notes :Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Squirru was educated at Saint Andrew's Scot School and at the Jesuit El Salvador Secondary School...
- Alfonsina StorniAlfonsina StorniAlfonsina Storni was one of the most important Latin-American poets of the modernist period.-Life:Storni was born in Sala Capriasca, Switzerland to an Argentine beer industrialist living in Switzerland for a few years. There, Storni learned to speak Italian...
- Mario TrejoMario TrejoMario Trejo is an Argentine poet, playwright, screenwriter, and journalist.-Biography:Mario César Trejo was born on January 13, 1926, though there is disagreement on his birth city, some sources indicate the city of Buenos Aires, while others La Plata; yet, Jorge Ariel Madrazo states in his...
- Alberto VaccarezzaAlberto VaccarezzaBartolomé Ángel Venancio Alberto Vaccarezza was an Argentine poet and playwright.Vaccarezza was born in Buenos Aires on April 1, 1886. He is usually credited as the foremost exponent of the sainete genre, having written its most popular play, El Conventillo de La Paloma...
- Luisa ValenzuelaLuisa ValenzuelaLuisa Valenzuela is a post-'Boom' novelist and short story writer. Her writing is characterized by an experimental, avant-garde style which questions hierarchical social structures from a feminist perspective. She is best known for her work written in response to the dictatorship of the 1970s in...
- Florencio VarelaFlorencio Varela (writer)Florencio Varela was an Argentine writer, poet, journalist and educator.Florencio was born in Buenos Aires on February 23 1808, he was the sixth child of Don Jacobo Adrián Varela and María de la Encarnación Sanjinés, he had a keen interest in the literary arts from a young age...
- David ViñasDavid ViñasDavid Viñas was an Argentine dramatist, critic, and novelist.-Life and career:Viñas grew up in Buenos Aires, and enrolled in the University of Buenos Aires, becoming head of the student organization Federación Universitaria de Buenos Aires...
- María Elena WalshMaría Elena WalshMaría Elena Walsh was an Argentine poet, novelist, musician, dramaturge, writer and composer, mainly known for her songs and books for children.-Biography:...
, author and songwriter - Rodolfo WalshRodolfo WalshRodolfo Jorge Walsh was an Argentine writer, considered the founder of investigative journalism. He is most famous for his Open Letter from a Writer to the Military Junta which he wrote the day before his murder, protesting that their economic policies were having an even greater effect on...
, journalist, writer, and revolutionary - Juan Rodolfo WilcockJuan Rodolfo WilcockJuan Rodolfo Wilcock was an Argentinian author, poet, critic and translator. He was the son of Charles Leonard Wilcock and Ida Romegialli.- Early life :Wilcock was born at Buenos Aires....
Composers
- Ernesto AcherErnesto AcherErnesto Acher, born on October 9, 1939, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and orchestral conductor. He was a member of Les Luthiers between 1971 and 1986, where he worked as songwriter, actor, instrument designer, choir master, singer and played over thirty different...
- Eduardo ArolasEduardo ArolasEduardo Arolas 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 was El Tigre del bandoneón .Arolas composed his first tango in 1909 before he could even read or...
- Amancio Jacinto AlcortaAmancio Jacinto AlcortaAmancio Jacinto Alcorta was an Argentine composer, policy maker and politician.-Musician and representative:Amancio Jacinto Alcorta was born in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, in 1805. His father, a prosperous merchant from Vizcaya, Spain, was the colonial city's Postmaster, at the time...
- Eduardo Alonso-CrespoEduardo Alonso-CrespoEduardo Alonso-Crespo is an Argentine composer of classical music.- Biography :Argentine composer and conductor Eduardo Alonso-Crespo was born in San Miguel de Tucumán in 1956, and grew up in the neighboring city of Salta, in Northwestern Argentina...
- Agustín BardiAgustín BardiAgustin Bardi was an Argentine Tango musician. He was a pianist, violinist and composer.Bardi was born in Las Flores district of Buenos Aires and was couched in music from a young age....
- Esteban BenzecryEsteban BenzecryEsteban Benzecry is an Argentine classical composer.-Early years:Argentinean composer born in Lisbon in 1970 , after growing up in Argentina he has lived in France since 1997, and obtained French nationality in 2011....
- Enrique CadícamoEnrique CadícamoEnrique Domingo Cadícamo was a prolific Argentine tango lyricist, poet and novelist. From an initial Symbolist bent, he developed a distinctive, lunfardo-rich style from an early age, and by 1925 he had his first piece, Pompas de jabón, sung by Carlos Gardel...
- Francisco CanaroFrancisco CanaroFrancisco Canaro was an Uruguayan-Argentine violinist and tango orchestra leader.His parents, Italians emigrated to Uruguay, and later - when Francisco Canaro was less than 10 years old, they emigrated to Buenos Aires in the late nineteenth century. Canaro was born in San José de Mayo, Uruguay,...
- Juan José CastroJuan José CastroJuan José Castro was an Argentine composer and conductor.Born in Avellaneda, Castro studied piano and violin under Manuel Posadas and composition under Eduarno Fornarini, in Buenos Aires. In the 1920s he was awarded the Europa Prize, and then went on to study in Paris at the Schola Cantorum under...
- Mario DavidovskyMario DavidovskyMario Davidovsky is an Argentine-American composer. Born in Argentina, he emigrated in 1960 to the US, where he lives today...
- Julio de CaroJulio de CaroJulio de Caro was an Argentine composer, musician and conductor prominent in the Tango genre.-Life and work:...
- Carlos di SarliCarlos di SarliCarlos Di Sarli was an Argentine tango musician, orchestra leader, composer and pianist.- Early years :Carlos di Sarli was born at 511 Buenos Aires street in the town of Bahia Blanca, located in Southern Argentina...
- Homero ExpósitoHomero ExpósitoHomero Aldo Expósito was an Argentine poet and tango songwriter. He was author, among other things, of the famous tangos like Percal, Naranjo en flor, Margó, Flor de lino, Qué me van a hablar de amor, Ese muchacho Troilo, and Te llaman Malevo...
- Gabino EzeizaGabino EzeizaGabino Ezeiza, nicknamed "Black Ezeiza" , was an Argentine musician.Ezeiza was invincible, the most famous in the art of payar, both in land and in Uruguay...
- Eduardo FalúEduardo FalúEduardo Falú is a well-known 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, Argentina in 1923. His parents, Juan and Fada Falú, were Syrian immigrants...
- Juan de Dios FilibertoJuan de Dios FilibertoJuan de Dios Filiberto was an Argentine violinist, conductor, poet and composer who became prominent in the Argentine tango genre.-Life and work:...
- Roberto FirpoRoberto FirpoRoberto Firpo was an Argentine tango pianist, composer and leader.Firpo was born in the Flores district of Buenos Aires, where his father owned a grocery store...
- Gilardo GilardiGilardo GilardiGilardo Gilardi was an Argentine composer, pianist, and conductor who was the eponym of the Gilardo Gilardi Conservatory of Music in La Plata, Buenos Aires....
- Alberto GinasteraAlberto GinasteraAlberto Evaristo Ginastera was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers.- Biography :...
- Osvaldo GolijovOsvaldo GolijovOsvaldo Noé Golijov is a Grammy award–winning composer of classical music.-Biography:Osvaldo Golijov was born in and grew up in La Plata, Argentina, in a Jewish family that had emigrated to Argentina in the 1920s from Romania and Russia.Golijov has developed a rich musical language, the result of...
- Carlos GuastavinoCarlos GuastavinoCarlos Guastavino was an Argentine composer.Carlos Guastavino was born in Santa Fe Province, Argentina. He studied music in Santa Fe with Esperanza Lothringer and Dominga Iaffei, and in Buenos Aires with Athos Palma...
- Martín IrigoyenMartin IrigoyenMartín Daniel Irigoyen is an Argentine musician best known as a composer and guitarist of Vernian Process...
- Rubén JuárezRubén JuárezRubén Juárez was an Argentine bandoneonist and singer-songwriter of tango. Juárez studied the bandoneón from the age of six. In 1956 he entered in the Youth Orchestra of Club Atlético Independiente....
- Mauricio KagelMauricio KagelMauricio Kagel was a German-Argentine composer. He was notable for his interest in developing the theatrical side of musical performance .-Biography:...
- Emilio KaudererEmilio KaudererEmilio Kauderer is an Argentine musician, and score composer who has worked extensively in the Cinema of Argentina Latin Music.-Early life:Kauderer was born in Argentina...
- Carlos López BuchardoCarlos López BuchardoCarlos Félix López Buchardo was an Argentine composer whose work was inspired by native music....
- Enrique MacielEnrique MacielEnrique Maciel was a versatile and sensitive composer, lyricist, and harmonium, piano, bandoneon and guitar performer...
- Homero ManziHomero ManziHomero Nicolás Manzioni Prestera, better known as Homero Manzi was an Argentine Tango lyricist, author of various famous tangos....
- Rodolfo MederosRodolfo MederosRodolfo Mederos is an Argentine bandoneonist, composer and arranger. He lived in Cuba and France; in Argentina, he founded the cult group Generación Cero.- Beginnings :...
- Juana MolinaJuana MolinaJuana Molina is a singer-songwriter and an actress.-Biography:Following the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, her mother fled the country and lived in exile in Paris for five years...
- Mariano MoresMariano MoresMariano Martínez, better known as Mariano Mores , is a famous Argentine tango composer, pianist and conductor.-Biography:...
- Sixto PalavecinoSixto PalavecinoSixto Doroteo Palavecino was a poet, musician and singer of Argentine folk music, who has played the violin since he was 10 years-old.Palavecino has been influential as a player, a compiler of folk traditions, and in sustaining the Santiago Quechua...
- Polo PiattiPolo PiattiPolo Piatti is a British-Argentine composer and concert pianist, known for his extensive work in the field of classical piano improvisation. Beyond his solo concerts, his work encompasses orchestral, choral and camera compositions as well as songs and film soundtracks.Piatti's compositional work...
- Ástor PiazzollaÁstor PiazzollaÁstor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...
- Ariel RamírezAriel RamirezAriel Ramírez 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....
- Waldo de los RíosWaldo de los RiosWaldo de los Ríos was an Argentine composer, conductor and arranger.De los Rios was born as Osvaldo Nicholas Ferrara in Buenos Aires into a musical family; his father was a musician and his mother a well known folk singer; he studied composition and arranging at the National Conservatory of Music...
- Gustavo SantaolallaGustavo SantaolallaGustavo Alfredo Santaolalla is an Argentine musician, film composer and producer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score in two consecutive years, for Brokeback Mountain in 2005 and Babel in 2006.-Life and career:...
- Vicente ScaramuzzaVincenzo ScaramuzzaVincenzo Scaramuzza -in spanish: Vicente Scaramuzza- was an Italian Argentine pianist and music teacher.Scaramuzza was born in Crotone, Italy, on June 19, 1885. Introduced to the piano by his father, Francesco, he was a concert performer by age seven, and enrolled in the prestigious San Pietro a...
- Lalo SchifrinLalo SchifrinLalo Schifrin is an Argentine composer, pianist and conductor. He is best known for his film and TV scores, such as the "Theme from Mission: Impossible". He has received four Grammy Awards and six Oscar nominations...
- Alicia TerzianAlicia TerzianAlicia Terzian is an Argentine conductor, musicologist and composer of Armenian descent.-Biography:Alicia Terzian was born in Córdoba. She studied at the National Conservatory of Buenos Aires under Alberto Ginastera, Gilardo Gilardi, Roberto García Morillo and Floro Ugarte...
- Alejandro ViñaoAlejandro ViñaoAlejandro Viñao is an Argentinian composer currently living in the United Kingdom.Viñao studied musical composition in Buenos Aires with the composer Jacobo Fischer . In 1976 he was awarded a British Council scholarship to study in London at the Royal College of Music and later on at the City...
- Ezequiel ViñaoEzequiel ViñaoEzequiel Viñao is an Argentine-American composer. He emigrated to the United States in 1980 and studied at the Juilliard School...
- Alberto WilliamsAlberto WilliamsAlberto Williams was an Argentine symphonic composer and conductor.-Life and work:Alberto Williams was born to in Buenos Aires, in 1862. A maternal grandfather, Amancio Jacinto Alcorta, had been a respected government and banking policy-maker, as well as a well-known composer of sacred music...
Arts
- Roberto AizenbergRoberto AizenbergRoberto Aizenberg was a painter and sculptor...
, painter and sculptor - Oscar AlemánOscar AlemanOscar Marcelo Alemán was an Argentine jazz guitarist.He was a singer, dancer, entertainer, and guitarist...
, jazz guitarist - Antonio AliceAntonio AliceAntonio Alice was an Argentine portrait painter. He was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1904.-Early years:Alice, of Italian descent, was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His father, an Italian immigrant, was barely literate...
, portrait painter - Martha ArgerichMartha ArgerichMartha Argerich is an Argentine pianist.-Early life:Argerich was born in Buenos Aires and started playing the piano at age three...
, concert pianist - Marcelo ÁlvarezMarcelo ÁlvarezMarcelo Raúl Álvarez, , is an Argentine lyric tenor who achieved international success starting in the mid-1990s....
, tenor - Daniel BarenboimDaniel BarenboimDaniel Barenboim, KBE is an Argentinian-Israeli pianist and conductor. He has served as music director of several major symphonic and operatic orchestras and made numerous recordings....
, pianist and symphony conductor - Ricardo BastaRicardo BastaRicardo Basta is a jewelry designer in Southern California.- Biography :Ricardo Basta was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. At the age of 19, Basta moved to the United States. He arrived in Los Angeles, California and began working for his uncle who owned and operated a jewelry store...
, jewelry designer - Adolfo BellocqAdolfo BellocqAdolfo Bellocq 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 Aires' renowned Ernesto de la Cárcova Fine Arts School, in 1928...
, lithographer - Antonio BerniAntonio BerniDelesio Antonio Berni was a figurative artist, born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. He worked as a painter, an illustrator and an engraver. His father, Napoleón Berni, was an immigrant tailor from Italy...
, painter - Norma BessouetNorma BessouetNorma Bessouet is an American Visual artist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1947.After completing her art education in Argentina she traveled to London, the British Council granted her a fellowship to study at the Slade School of Fine Arts...
, painter - Erminio BlottaErminio BlottaErminio Blotta was an Argentine self-taught sculptor of Italian origin.-Biography:He was born in Morano Calabro...
, sculptor - Julio BoccaJulio BoccaJulio Bocca is one of the most important ballet dancers of the later part of the 20th century and arguably the most important Argentine dancer of all time....
, ballet dancer - Gino BoccasileGino BoccasileGino Boccasile was an Italian illustrator.Born in Bari, Boccasile was the son of a perfumer. Early in his youth he lost his left eye, when a drop of quicklime fell into it while he drank from a fountain...
, advertiser - Fabiana BravoFabiana BravoFabiana Bravo , is an acclaimed Argentine operatic soprano, who has achieved international success both through her interpretation of concert literature and in her powerful portrayals of operatic heroines.-Life and work:...
, soprano - Alberto BrecciaAlberto BrecciaAlberto Breccia was an Uruguay-born Argentine comics artist and writer.-Biography:Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Breccia moved with his parents to Buenos Aires, Argentina when he was three years old...
, cartoonist - Jorge CalandrelliJorge CalandrelliJorge Calandrelli is an Argentine composer, arranger and orchestrator.His truly ingenious arranging and composing techniques, especially his beautiful string writing, makes him very well recognized on many records of today's pop - jazz/ Jazz commercial record publications.Big record stars hired him...
, composer - Emilio CaraffaEmilio Caraffa-Life and work:Emilio Caraffa was born in Catamarca, Argentina, in 1862. His family relocated to Rosario, where he attended the local National College , and learned to draw and sketch...
, painter - Ricardo CarpaniRicardo CarpaniRicardo Carpani 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 studies...
, muralist - CarybéCarybéHéctor Julio Páride Bernabó or Carybé was a painter, engraver, draughtsman, illustrator, potter, sculptor, mural painter, researcher, historian and journalist. He settled in Brazil and naturalized as a Brazilian.While living in Rio de Janeiro, he was a scout...
, Argentine-Brazilian painter - Eleonora CassanoEleonora CassanoEleonora Cassano is an Argentine ballet dancer. She's known for being the dancing partner of Julio Bocca since 1989....
, dancer - Juan Carlos CastagninoJuan Carlos CastagninoJuan Carlos Castagnino was an Argentine painter, architect, muralist and sketch artist.Born in the city of Mar del Plata, he studied in the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Buenos Aires, and became a disciple of Lino Enea Spilimbergo and Ramón Gómez Cornet.By the end of the 1920s, he became a member of...
, painter - Eduardo CatalanoEduardo CatalanoEduardo Fernando Catalano was an Argentine architect.-Biography:Born in Buenos Aires, Catalano came to the United States on a scholarship to the Universities of Pennsylvania and Harvard...
, architect and sculptor - Alejandro ChristophersenAlejandro ChristophersenAlejandro Christophersen 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:...
, painter and architect - CirueloCiruelo CabralGustavo Cabral , better known as 'Ciruelo' , is an Argentine fantasy artist whose work focuses especially on dragons.-Biography:...
, cartoonist - Gustavo CochetGustavo CochetGustavo Cochet 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 French, a teacher in a rural elementary school located between Esperanza and San Jerónimo...
, painter - Pío CollivadinoPío CollivadinoPío Collivadino was an Argentine painter of the post-impressionist school.-Life and work:Pío Collivadino was born in Buenos Aires, in 1869...
, painter - CopiCopiRaúl Damonte Botana , better known by the nom de plume Copi , was an Argentine writer, cartoonist, and playwright who spent most of his career in Paris.-Biography:Damonte spent most of his youth in Montevideo...
(Raúl Damonte Botana), cartoonist - José CuraJosé CuraJosé Cura is a prominent operatic tenor known for his intense and original interpretations of his characters, notably Verdi’s Otello and Saint-Saëns’ Samson, as well as for his unconventional and innovative concert performances. He is also able to perform high baritone roles with the extended...
, tenor - Pablo Curatella ManesPablo Curatella ManesPablo Curatella Manes 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 an interest in sculpture during his frequent childhood visits to the newly-inaugurated La...
, sculptor - Ernesto de la CárcovaErnesto de la CárcovaErnesto de la Cárcova 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, he studied at the local Society for the Stimulus of Fine Arts under painter Francisco Romero...
, painter - Jorge de la VegaJorge de la VegaJorge de la Vega was an Argentine abstract painter. His wife was Pauleta de la Vega....
, painter - Cesáreo Bernaldo de QuirósCesáreo Bernaldo de QuirósCesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós 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 afterwards, created a facial composite sketch that resulted in a fugitive criminal's...
, painter - Ángel María de RosaÁngel María de RosaÁngel María de Rosa was an Argentine sculptor and philanthropist.-Life and work:Ángel María de Rosa was born in Junín, a pampas city in northern Buenos Aires Province, in 1888...
, sculptor - Helmut DitschHelmut DitschHelmut Ditsch is an Argentine painter. Ditsch's work focuses on extreme natural phenomena such as mountains, desert, ice, and water. Due to knowledge gained during his time as an extreme mountain sportsman, he is able to portray a vast amount of passion and firsthand experience in his epic...
, painter - Jorge DonnJorge DonnJorge Donn, born in El Palomar, Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 25 February 1947, was an internationally-known ballet dancer, he was best known for his work with the Maurice Béjart's Ballet company, and his participation as lead dancer in Claude Lelouch's film Les Uns et les Autres. He died of AIDS on...
, dancer - Julio DucuronJulio DucuronJulio Ducuron is an Impressionist landscape painter. He is noted for his depictions of Latin American Life, many of which are in permanent collections around the globe.- Early life :...
, painter - Fernando FaderFernando FaderFernando Fader 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 family to Argentina in 1884, settling in the western city of Mendoza before returning to France a...
, painter - León FerrariLeón FerrariLeón Ferrari , is a contemporary conceptual artist.Born in Buenos Aires, Ferrari employs methods such as collage, photocopying and sculpture in wood, plaster or ceramics. He often uses text, particularly newspaper clippings or poetry, in his pieces...
, constructivist sculptor - Bernarda FinkBernarda FinkBernarda Fink Inzko is an Argentinian mezzo-soprano. Born in Buenos Aires to Slovene parents, Bernarda Fink studied at the "Instituto Superior de Arte del Teatro Colón" in Buenos Aires. She won First Prize at the Nuevas Voces Líricas competition in 1985 and moved to Europe...
, mezzosoprano - Leonor FiniLeonor FiniLeonor Fini was an Argentine surrealist painter.-Life and work:Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she was raised in Trieste, Italy. She moved to Milan at the age of 17, and then to Paris, in either 1931 or 1932...
, painter - Ingrid FliterIngrid FliterIngrid Fliter 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 Colón at age 16....
, pianist - Lucio FontanaLucio FontanaLucio Fontana was an Italian painter, sculptor and theorist of Argentine birth. He was mostly known as the founder of Spatialism and his ties to Arte Povera.-Early life:...
, sculptor - Roberto FontanarrosaRoberto FontanarrosaRoberto Alfredo Fontanarrosa was an Argentine cartoonist and writer. He created the characters Inodoro Pereyra, a fictional gaucho, and Boogie, el aceitoso, a fictional serial killer.-Early life:...
, satirist and cartoonist - Norma FontenlaNorma FontenlaNorma Fontenla was an Argentine prima ballerina.-Life and work:Fontenla was born in 1930, and while still a child, began attending the National Conservatory of Music and Scenic Art, in Buenos Aires. She was later accepted into the dance school of the Colón Theatre, the nation's premier opera house...
, ballerina - Raquel FornerRaquel FornerRaquel Forner 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...
, painter - Sol GabettaSol GabettaSol Gabetta is an Argentine cellist of French and Russian descent, now settled in Switzerland.- Biography :...
, cellist - Manuel García FerréManuel García FerréManuel García Ferré is 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 agencies while studying Architecture. In 1952 his character Pi Pío was accepted and published by...
, cartoonist - Nicolás García UriburuNicolás García UriburuNicolás García Uriburu is an Argentine contemporary artist, landscape architect and ecologist.-Life and work:Born in Buenos Aires in 1937, García Uriburu began painting at an early age and, in 1954, secured his first exhibition at the local Müller Gallery...
, painter and ecologist - Guillermo GianninazziGuillermo Gianninazzi240px|thumb|Monumento a Leandro N. AlemGuillermo Gianninazzi was an Argentine architect and sculptor, born in Italy around 1880 and died in Rosario, Argentina in 1948...
, sculptor - Paloma HerreraPaloma HerreraPaloma Herrera , is a principal ballet dancer with the American Ballet Theatre.Ms. Herrera was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and began studying ballet there at the age of seven with teacher Olga Ferri...
, dancer - Martin IrigoyenMartin IrigoyenMartín Daniel Irigoyen is an Argentine musician best known as a composer and guitarist of Vernian Process...
, composer and musician - María Cristina KiehrMaria Cristina KiehrMaría Cristina Kiehr 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 Basiliensis, specializing in the Baroque repertoire. She performs and records for the...
, soprano - Gyula KosiceGyula KosiceGyula Kosice, born Fernando Fallik in Košice is a naturalized Argentine sculptor, plastic artist, theoretician and poet, one of the most important figures in kinetic and luminal art and luminance vanguard....
, sculptor - Sebastian Krys, music producer
- Horacio LavanderaHoracio LavanderaHoracio Lavandera is an Argentine pianist, born in Buenos Aires in December, 1984, who is currently residing in Madrid, Spain. As the youngest competitor, he won the International Piano Competition Umberto Micheli at the age of sixteen, held at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatoire and in Teatro della...
, concert pianist - Julio Le ParcJulio Le ParcJulio le Parc is a modern Latin American kinetic artist born in 1928 and active mainly in Argentina. He is also an Op artist.-External links:**...
, sculptor - Cándido LópezCándido LópezCándido López was an Argentine painter and soldier. Born in Buenos Aires, he is considered one of Argentina's most important artists. He is most famous for his detailed paintings and drawings of battles of the War of the Triple Alliance, in which he also fought, losing his right arm...
, painter - Alberto LysyAlberto LysyAlberto Lysy was a prestigious Argentine violinist and conductor.-Life and work:Alberto Lysy was born in Buenos Aires to Ukrainian immigrants in 1935. At age five, his father introduced him to the violin. Lysy left school at age 13 to devote more time to the instrument, and was subsequently...
, concert violinist - Romulo MaccióRomulo MaccióRomulo Macció is an Argentine painter associated with the local avant-garde art movement that took shape in the 1960s.-Life and work:...
, painter - Eduardo Mac EntyreEduardo Mac EntyreEduardo Mac Entyre is an Argentine painter well-known for his Pop art, particularly his geometric designs.Born in Buenos Aires to a Scottish father and Belgian mother, Mac Entyre began pursuing his talent for sketches at the age of twenty...
, painter - MaitenaMaitena BurundarenaMaitena Burundarena , better known as Maitena, is an Argentine cartoonist.-Early works:Maitena drew erotic strips for several European publications such as Makoki, in Barcelona...
(Maitena Burundarena), cartoonist - Tomás MaldonadoTomás MaldonadoTomás Maldonado . Argentine painter, designer and thinker, is considered one of the main theorists of the legendary ”Ulm Model”, a design philosophy developed during his tenure at the Ulm School of Design in Germany.-Biography:Born in the Argentine city of Buenos Aires, his artistic formation...
, painter - Martín MalharroMartín MalharroMartín Malharro was an Argentine painter of the Post-impressionist school.-Life and work: Martín Malharro was born in the central Buenos Aires Province city of Azul in 1865. His childhood interest in painting led to domestic violence at home, from which he left for Buenos Aires in 1879...
, painter - Marcel MartíMarcel MartíMarcel Martí is an Argentine-born sculptor of Catalan descent. 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 Spanish Civil War for activities related to his membership in Acció Catòlica. Martí...
, sculptor - Lucien-Achille MauzanAchille MauzanAchille Lucien Mauzan was born on the French Riviera, but moved to Italy in 1905, known as a decorative illustrator designing during the Art Deco movement, though he also painted and sculpted....
, advertiser, sculptor - Marta MinujínMarta MinujínMarta Minujín is an Argentine Conceptual artist.-Life and work:Marta Minujín was born in the San Telmo neighborhood of Buenos Aires. She met a young economist, Juan Carlos Gómez Sabaini, and married him in secret in 1959; the couple had two children...
, conceptual artist - Florencio Molina CamposFlorencio Molina CamposFlorencio Molina Campos was an Argentine illustrator and a painter known by his typical traditional scenes of the Pampa. His work represents gauchesco scenes with a bit of humor....
, illustrator - Lola MoraLola MoraLola Mora was a sculptor, born in a barn in the , though generally considered native to Trancas, province of Tucumán, where she was recorded and baptized. She is known today as a rebel and a pioneer of women in her artistic field...
(Dolores Mora de la Vega), sculptor - Guillermo MordilloGuillermo MordilloGuillermo Mordillo , known simply as Mordillo, is a creator of cartoons and animations and was one of the most widely published cartoonists of the 1970s...
, cartoonist - José NegliaJosé NegliaJosé Neglia was a notable Argentine ballerino, who perhaps more than any other figure, helped popularize the classical ballet in his country.-Life and work:...
, ballerino - Luis Felipe NoéLuis Felipe NoéLuis Felipe Noé is an artist, writer, intellectual and teacher from Buenos Aires, Argentina where he is known as Yuyo. In 1961 he formed Otra Figuración with three other Argentine artists. Their eponymous exhibition and subsequent work greatly influenced the Neofiguration movement...
, painter - Marianela NúñezMarianela NunezMarianela Núñez is an Argentine dancer. She is a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet, London.-Biography:Núñez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina...
, dancer - Oscar Conti (Oski)Oscar Conti (Oski)Oscar "Oski" Conti was a prominent Argentine cartoonist and humorist.-Life and work:Oscar Esteban Conti was born in Buenos Aires in 1914. Enrolling at the National Fine Arts School, he helped finance his studies by creating caricatures for local advertisers...
, cartoonist - QuinoQuinoJoaquín Salvador Lavado, better known by his pen name Quino is an Argentine cartoonist. His comic strip Mafalda is very popular in Latin America and many parts of Europe.-Early life and work:...
(Joaquín Salvador Lavado), cartoonist - Raquel PartnoyRaquel PartnoyRaquel Partnoy is a painter, poet, and essayist. She studied at an art school in that city but it was after she got married and moved to the southern port city of Bahía Blanca in1954, that she attended for several years the Buenos Aires’s workshop of the influential Argentine painter and teacher...
, painter - Pérez CelisPérez CelisCelis Pérez was an Argentine artist usually referred to as Pérez Celis. He earned international recognition for his paintings, sculptures, murals and engravings.-Life and work:...
, painter and muralist - Emilio PettorutiEmilio PettorutiEmilio Pettoruti 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...
, painter - Polo PiattiPolo PiattiPolo Piatti is a British-Argentine composer and concert pianist, known for his extensive work in the field of classical piano improvisation. Beyond his solo concerts, his work encompasses orchestral, choral and camera compositions as well as songs and film soundtracks.Piatti's compositional work...
, composer, concert pianist - Alberto PortugheisAlberto PortugheisAlberto Portugheis is a pianist, born on December 31, 1940 in La Plata, Argentina, to parents of Russian and Romanian descent. He is an international pianist and teacher, now living in London. After winning first prize at the Geneva Concours de Virtuosité, Portugheis embarked on an international...
, concert pianist - Anselmo PiccoliAnselmo PiccoliAnselmo Piccoli 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 the local Gaspary Academy, where he was trained as a painter...
, painter - Eolo PonsEolo PonsEolo Pons 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 figurative painters Leopoldo Presas and Luis Lusnich...
, painter - Prilidiano PueyrredónPrilidiano PueyrredónPrilidiano Pueyrredón was an Argentine painter, architect, and engineer. As one of the country's first prominent painters, he was known for his costumbrist sensibility and preference for everyday themes....
, painter - Antonio PujíaAntonio PujíaAntonio Pujía is a well-known Argentine sculptor.-Life and work:Antonio Pujía was born in Polia, a small town in the Calabria region of Italy, in 1929, and relocated to Buenos Aires with his mother in 1937...
, sculptor - Benito Quinquela MartínBenito Quinquela MartínBenito Quinquela Martín , 1890 – January 28, 1977) was an Argentine painter born in La Boca, Buenos Aires. Quinquela Martín is considered the port painter-par-excellence and one of the most popular Argentine painters...
, painter - Silvia RoedererSilvia RoedererSilvia Roederer DMA is a native of Argentina. Her focus on piano began after emigrating to the U.S. and includes study with John Perry at USC, David Burge at Eastman, and Menahem Pressler at festivals in Banff, Long Beach, and Ravinia....
, pianist - Guillermo RouxGuillermo RouxGuillermo Roux is an Argentine painter known for his watercolors, collages and frescoes.Roux was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and his father, Raúl Roux, was a well-known Uruguayan painter. He studied in the Buenos Aires School of Fine Arts until 1948, and in 1956 he travelled to Rome...
, painter - Hermenegildo SábatHermenegildo Sábat-Early career in journalism:Hermenegildo Sábat was born in the oceanfront Pocitos section of Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1933. Named after a grandparent who had been a noted local artist in his day, Hermenegildo was known as "Menchi," from early childhood...
, cartoonist - Eduardo SchiaffinoEduardo SchiaffinoEduardo Schiaffino 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 painting in his country.-Biography:Schiaffino was born in Buenos Aires in...
, painter - Antonio SeguíAntonio Seguí- Biography :Seguí is the oldest son of a middle-class and has three siblings. In the years from 1951 to 1954 he traveled through Europe and Africa, was visiting student at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid and at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris,...
, painter - María Isabel SiewersMaría Isabel SiewersMaría Isabel Siewers is an Argentine classical guitarist.A pupil of María Luisa Anido, her international performance career began after winning the 2nd Prize at the Concours International de Guitarre de Paris in 1974....
, classical guitarist - Ramón SilvaRamón SilvaRamón Silva was an Argentine painter of the Post-impressionist school.-Life and work:Ramón Silva was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1890...
, painter - Eduardo SívoriEduardo SívoriEduardo Sívori was an Argentine artist widely regarded as his country's first realist painter.-Life and work:...
, painter - Xul SolarXul SolarXul Solar was the adopted name of Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari , Argentine painter, sculptor, writer, and inventor of imaginary languages.-Biography:...
, watercolorist, sculptor, inventor of languages - Benjamin Solari ParraviciniBenjamin Solari ParraviciniBenjamín Solari Parravicini , born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on August 8, was an artist. He was professor at the Liceo de España, manager of the Department of Arts at the Banco Municipal of Buenos Aires and director of the Exhibition Gallery of the Municipality of Buenos Aires, Secretary of the...
, painter and psychic - Raúl SoldiRaúl SoldiRaúl Soldi was an Argentine painter whose work treated various subjects, including landscapes, portraits, the theater and the circus, and nature. His theatrical figures are renowned for their melancholy appearance...
, painter - Lino Enea SpilimbergoLino Enea SpilimbergoLino Enea Spilimbergo was an Argentine artist and engraver, and he is considered to be one of the country's most important painters....
, painter - Sebastian SprengSebastian SprengSebastian Spreng is an Argentine-American visual artist and music journalist.-Biography:Born in Esperanza, Santa Fe of German ancestry, is a self-taught artist and music journalist, related from his mother side to writer Eduardo Gudiño Kieffer , also a native of Esperanza, the first formally...
, painter and stage designer - Juan Carlos StekelmanJuan Carlos StekelmanJuan Carlos Stekelman is a leading Argentine painter and print maker.He started his artistic studies at the Buenos Aires University of Engineering, before transferring to the Manuel Belgrano School of Arts and graduating in 1962...
, painter - Ricardo SupisicheRicardo SupisicheRicardo Argentino Supisiche was an Argentine painter and engraver.Supisiche was born in Santa Fe, the capital of Santa Fe Province, in 1912. He studied drawing at the José María Reinares Academy in his home city, and under master Sergio Sergi at Santa Fe's Municipal Lyceum...
, painter - Carlos Trillo, cartoonist
- Luigi TrincheroLuigi TrincheroLuigi Trinchero 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 TucciTerig TucciTerig Tucci 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 Avenida Theatre, in 1917...
, violinist and composer - Rogelio YrurtiaRogelio YrurtiaRogelio Yrurtia 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 Promotion of Fine Arts in 1899. A talented student, he quickly earned a scholarship on which...
, sculptor - Margherita ZimmermannMargherita ZimmermannMargherita Zimmermann is an Argentine mezzo-soprano, particularly associated with the Italian and French repertories.-Life and career:...
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- Alan FaenaAlan FaenaAlan Faena is a prominent Argentine fashion designer and real estate developer.-Life and times:Faena was born to a Syrian Argentine family in Buenos Aires, in 1965...
, fashion designer and developer - Paco JamandreuPaco JamandreuPaco Jamandreu was a well known Argentine fashion designer and actor. He was a personal friend of Eva Perón and participated as a costume designer in multiple Argentine films.-Career:...
, haute couturier, confidant of First Lady Eva PerónEva PerónMaría Eva Duarte de Perón was the second wife of President Juan Perón and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is often referred to as simply Eva Perón, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita.She was born in the village of Los Toldos in...
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- Miguel AbueloMiguel AbueloMiguel Angel Peralta, known by his artistic name Miguel Abuelo, was an Argentine rock musician and singer.-Early days:...
, musician - Alejandro AgrestiAlejandro AgrestiAlejandro Agresti is an Argentine film director and producer. He has become increasingly influential in the United States and directed The Lake House with top Hollywood actors Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in 2006....
, filmmaker - Antonio AgriAntonio AgriAntonio Agri was an Argentine violinist, composer and conductor prominent in both the tango and classical music genres.-Life and work:...
, violinist - Pablo AlarcónPablo AlarcónRodolfo Francisco Marabotto , better known in the show business world as Pablo Alarcón, is an Argentine actor who has reached international fame.-Biography:Alarcón was born in Pellegrini, Buenos Aires province...
, actor - Charly AlbertiCharly AlbertiCarlos Alberto Ficicchia Gigliotti , known by his stage name Charly Alberti, is an Argentine rock musician, better recognized as the drummer of the influential argentine rock band Soda Stereo. Because of this, he is considered one of the most important musicians of latin and Spanish rock...
, drummer and activist - Tito AlbertiTito AlbertiTito Alberti was a noted 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 gregarious childhood, he formed a band at age 7 with two brothers, Virgilio and Homero Expósito...
, jazz drummer - Oscár AlemánOscar AlemanOscar Marcelo Alemán was an Argentine jazz guitarist.He was a singer, dancer, entertainer, and guitarist...
, guitarist - Alfredo Alcón, actor
- Norma AleandroNorma AleandroNorma Aleandro Robledo is an Argentine actress and screenwriter, born in Buenos Aires to Pedro Aleandro and María Luisa Robledo, both actors. Her sister, María Vaner, was a famous actress in Argentina.- Life and career :...
, actress - Pola AlonsoPola AlonsoPola Alonso was a classic Argentine actress of the 1940s and 1950s.She appeared in films such as the 1942 film Adolescencia and Adiós muchachos ....
, actress - Malena AlterioMalena AlterioMalena Grisel Alterio Bacaicoa is an Argentine-Spanish actress.Her father is the Argentine actor Héctor Alterio and her brother Ernesto is also an actor....
, actress - Héctor Alterio, actor
- Luis César AmadoriLuis César AmadoriLuis César Amadori was an Italian - Argentine film director and screenwriter and one of the most influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...
, film director - Blanquita AmaroBlanquita AmaroBlanquita Amaro was a Cuban film actress of the 1940s and early 1950s who starred in the "golden age" of Argentina cinema....
, actress - Brenda AsnicarBrenda AsnicarBrenda Daniela Asnicar Mendoza , is an Argentine actress and singer. She is perhaps best known for starring season 1 and 2 of Patito Feo.-Early Years & Career:...
, actress and singer - Mike AmigorenaMike AmigorenaMike Amigorena is an actor and Argentine television personality.-Life and work:He was born Ricardo Luis Amigorena in Maipú, Mendoza Province, to a Basque Argentine father and an Italian Argentine mother in 1972. Amigorena was especially restless as an adolescent and was expelled from a number of...
, actor and musician - Elvia AndreoliElvia AndreoliElvia Andreoli is a retired Argentine film actress of Sicilian, Jewish and Spanish descent. She appeared in over 30 films between 1965 and 1998...
, actress - Héctor AngladaHéctor AngladaHéctor Anglada was a film and television actor.He worked in the cinema of Argentina.-Filmography:* Cuesta abajo...
, actor - Ana ArneodoAna ArneodoAna Arneodo 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 alongside Pola Alonso and Al marido hay que seguirlo...
, actress - PampitaCarolina ArdohainAna Carolina Ardohain Dos Santos is an Argentine model and television personality. She is widely known by the nickname Pampita, a diminutive for La Pampa, the Argentine province when she was born. She was one of very few people baptised at the monastery of Nuestra Señora del Pilar in Recoleta,...
(Carolina Ardohain), model and actress - Imperio ArgentinaImperio ArgentinaMagdalena Nile del Río was a professional singer and movie actress who was better known as Imperio Argentina. Although born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she became a citizen of Spain....
, actress and flamenco dancer - Ana ArneodoAna ArneodoAna Arneodo 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 alongside Pola Alonso and Al marido hay que seguirlo...
, actress - Emilia AttiasEmilia AttiasEmilia Attias is an Argentine actress, dancer and model with Moroccan Jewish ancestors. She has appeared on the covers of many magazines including Maxim, Gente and Gabo...
, actress, dancer and model - Federico AubeleFederico AubeleFederico Aubele is an Argentine singer-songwriter whose music blends a variety of genres and styles: Jamaican dub and reggae, American ambient and hip-hop, Mexican bolero, and Argentine tango...
, musician - Fernando AyalaFernando AyalaFernando Ayala was an Argentine film producer, film director, screenwriter and film producer of the classic era...
, filmmaker - Pedro AznarPedro AznarPedro Aznar is an Argentine musician, with a lifetime of experience in jazz, Argentinian folk music, and rock and has had a successful career as a solo artist. He is very well known for giving rock songs a jazz-oriented style, by playing the fretless bass, with a big influence from Jaco Pastorius...
, jazz bass guitarist - Héctor BabencoHector BabencoHéctor Eduardo Babenco is an Argentine-born Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.He has worked in several countries including Argentina, Brazil and the United States....
, filmmaker - Christian BachChristian BachChristian Bach is an Argentine actress and producer of telenovelas. She is married to Mexican actor Humberto Zurita with whom she has two sons Sebastián and Emiliano.-Biography:...
, actress - Carlos BaláCarlos BaláCarlos Balá is an Argentine actor who specialized in children's entertainment.Descended from Lebanese immigrants, he was born in 1925 in the Chacarita neighborhood...
, children's television host - Amelita BaltarAmelita BaltarMaría Amelia Baltar, known as Amelita Baltar is an Argentine tango singer who became famous in the early 1970s as a vocalist for composers and bandoneónists Ástor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer...
, tango singer - Gato BarbieriGato BarbieriLeandro Barbieri , better known as Gato Barbieri , is an Argentinean jazz tenor saxophonist and composer who rose to fame during the free jazz movement in the 1960s and from his latin jazz recordings in the 1970s.-Biography:Born to a family of musicians, Barbieri began playing music...
, saxophonist - Dora BaretDora BaretDora Baret is a well-known Argentine film, theatre and television actress.-Life and work:She was born Dora Barrera in 1940 in Huerta Grande, a scenic Córdoba Province town near La Falda. Her parents, Spanish immigrants, relocated to the Floresta section of Buenos Aires when she was six, and she...
, actress - Daniel BaroneDaniel BaroneDaniel Barone is an Argentine film and television director.Although mainly based in work for TV he has directed films such as Cohen vs...
, filmmaker - Sara BarriéSara BarriéSara Barrié was a Chilean born Argentine film actress who appeared in the cinema of Argentina in the 1940s. She appeared in films such as Un Atardecer de amor in 1943 working with actors such as Floren Delbene and Ana Arneodo-Partial filmography:...
, actress - Marco BechisMarco BechisMarco Bechis is a Chilean-Italian film screenwriter and director. His film Garage Olimpo was screened at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.-Selected filmography:* Alambrado...
, filmmaker - María Luisa Bemberg, filmmaker
- Lorena BernalLorena BernalLorena Bernal Pascual is an actress and model with Argentine and Spanish nationality.-Early life:...
, model and actress - Florencia BertottiFlorencia BertottiMaría Florencia Bertotti Baleirón , better known as Florencia Bertotti, is an Argentine actress, singer and producer. She is probably best known for her roles in telenovelas Verano del '98, Son Amores and Floricienta...
, actress, producer and singer - Amelia BenceAmelia BenceAmelia Bence is an Argentine film actress.-Career:Born as María Amelia Botwinik, Amelia Bence is one of the divas of the Golden Age of the Argentinian cinema...
, actress - Lola BerthetLola BerthetLola Berthet 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 film, , in 2000...
, actress - Héctor BidondeHéctor BidondeHéctor Pastor Bidonde is a noted Argentine theatre, film and television actor.Bidonde was born in La Plata, in 1937. 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...
, actor and politician - Fabián BielinskyFabián BielinskyFabián Bielinsky was an Argentine film director born in Buenos Aires.He started to make films early in his life, while still a high school student in the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, after graduation he started studying psychology, a career he shortly followed and dropped out in favor to...
, filmmaker - Mauricio "Moris" BirabentMauricio "Moris" BirabentMauricio "Moris" Birabent is an Argentine rock musician.-Life and work:Mauricio Birabent was born in Buenos Aires in 1942. He took guitar lessons at age 12 and, in subsequent years, began frequenting local piano bars and jazz clubs. The son of an engineer, he enrolled at the Otto Krause Technical...
, rock composer and musician - Thelma BiralThelma BiralThelma Biral is an Argentine actress prominent in cinema, television and theatre.-Life and work:Thelma Biral was born in Buenos Aires to Otello and Sira Biral, recently-arrived Italian immigrants from the Veneto Region. The family relocated to Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1945, and Biral later enrolled...
, actress - Betiana BlumBetiana BlumBetiana Blum is an Argentine actress.-Filmography:*Esperando la carroza 2: se acabó la fiesta ...Nora*Tocar el cielo ...Gloria*Ciudad en celo ...Marta...
, actress - Camila BordonabaCamila BordonabaCamila Bordonaba Roldán . Her nickname is Cami or Cato. Is an Argentine actress, singer, producer, dancer, former occasionally model, musician and director of films and television...
, actress, singer and musician - Tato Bores, humorist
- Graciela BorgesGraciela BorgesGraciela Borges is an Argentine television and film actress.She has been working in the Argentine cinema and television since her first role in the film Zafra ....
, actress - Patricio BorghettiPatricio BorghettiJuan Patricio Borghetti Imérito is an Argentine actor and singer.At the age of fourteen, he formed his first rock band, which was called "Sur" . He later worked as a model and appeared in some episodes of Argentine telenovelas...
, actor - Aída BortnikAída BortnikAída Bortnik is an Argentine screenwriter, nominated for an Academy Award for her work in the film La historia oficial .- Career :...
, screenwriter - Juan Diego BottoJuan Diego BottoJuan Diego Botto-Rota is an Argentine-Spanish actor.Botto's father disappeared during the Argentine Dirty War when Juan Diego was only two years old...
, actor - Sofía BozánSofía BozánSofía Bozán was an Argentine film actress and tango performer of the 1930s and 1940s. She made almost 30 appearances in film between 1937 and 1959....
, actress - Luis BrandoniLuis BrandoniLuis Brandoni is an Argentine film and television actor. Politically active in the centrist Radical Civic Union , he was elected to the Argentine Chamber of Deputies in 1993, where he served until, 2001...
, actor and politician - Fabiana BravoFabiana BravoFabiana Bravo , is an acclaimed Argentine operatic soprano, who has achieved international success both through her interpretation of concert literature and in her powerful portrayals of operatic heroines.-Life and work:...
, soprano - Norman BriskiNorman BriskiNorman Briski is a well-known Argentine theatre actor, director and playwright, as well as a noted cinema and television actor.-Life and work:Naum Normando Briski was born in Santa Fe, Argentina, in 1938...
, actor and theatre director - Argentina BrunettiArgentina Brunetti-Biography:Brunetti was born Argentina Ferrau in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She began her show business career at the age of three with a walk on role in the opera, Cavalleria Rusticana and followed Mimi Aguglia, her famous mother's footsteps in the theater performing supporting roles on stages...
, actress and writer - Alicia BruzzoAlicia BruzzoAlicia Liliana Estela Bruzzo was an Argentine actress, born in Buenos Aires to a family of artists. Starting in 1972, she worked in 17 films...
, actress - Rodrigo BuenoRodrigo BuenoRodrigo Alejandro Bueno , mostly known as Rodrigo, was an Argentine singer of cuarteto music. His nickname among cuarteto fans was el potro ....
(El Potro Rodrigo), cuartetoCuartetoCuarteto , sometimes called cuartetazo, is a musical genre born in Córdoba, Argentina.The roots of the cuarteto ensemble are in Italian and Spanish dance ensambles...
singer - Chris de BurghChris de BurghChris de Burgh is a British/Irish singer-songwriter. He is most famous for his 1986 love song "The Lady in Red".-Early life:...
, singer - Daniel BurmanDaniel BurmanDaniel Burman is a 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 so-called "New Argentina Cinema" which began c...
, film director - Facundo CabralFacundo CabralFacundo Cabral was an Argentine singer and songwriter.He was best known as the composer of "No soy de aquí ni soy de allá" , which he improvised during one of his concerts...
, singer - Miguel CalóMiguel CalóMiguel Caló was a famous tango bandoneonist, composer, and the leader of the Orchestra Miguel Caló.-External links:**...
, bandoneonist - Marciano CanteroMarciano CanteroMarciano Cantero is an Argentine singer and musician. He is the lead singer and bassist of Los Enanitos Verdes, an Argentinean pop/rock band....
, singer - Israel Adrián CaetanoIsrael Adrián CaetanoIsrael Adrián Caetano is an Uruguayan-Argentine film director, producer and screenplay writer.-Biography:He's often credited as Adrián Caetano. He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina and at times obtains funding for his films in Europe. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.At age of sixteen his...
, Uruguayan-Argentine filmmaker - Andrés CalamaroAndrés CalamaroAndrés Calamaro , is an Argentine musician, composer and Latin Grammy winner. His former band Los Rodríguez was a major success in Spain in the 1990s. He became one of the main icons of the Argentine rock in the last two decades and has sold over 1.3 million copies.-Abuelos de la Nada:Calamaro was...
, songwriter and rock keyboard player - Juan José Campanella, filmmaker
- Norma Gladys CappagliNorma CappagliNorma Gladys Cappagli won the 1960 Miss World contest, representing Argentina. She was the first woman from Argentina to win the title. The pageant was held in London, United Kingdom. Her prize was £500 and a sports car...
, Miss WorldMiss WorldThe Miss World pageant is the oldest surviving major international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951...
1960 - Diego CapusottoDiego CapusottoDiego Esteban Capusotto is an Argentinian TV presenter, actor, and humorist who is noted for his participation in TV shows like Cha Cha Cha, Todo por dos pesos, and Peter Capusotto y sus videos.-Career:...
, comedian - Moria CasánMoria CasánMoria Casán is an Argentine actress, television host, producer, media personality and vedette. Her Net worth estimated in $300 million. She is one of the most important women in Argentine show. She has a long career in cinema, theatre and television.- Career :Casán was born in Buenos Aires...
, dancer and actress - Ana CasaresAna CasaresAna Casares was a Polish-Argentine film actress. She starred in 30 films between 1951 and 1980.Roman made her debut in 1951 in the Juan Carlos Thorry film El Complejo de Felipe and in 1962 appeared in Buscando a Mónica....
, actress - Alfredo CaseroAlfredo CaseroAlfredo Casero 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...
, TV entertainer - Gustavo CeratiGustavo CeratiGustavo Adrián Cerati Clark is an Argentine rock musician, singer-songwriter, composer and record producer. He was the frontman, lead vocalist, lead guitarist and lead songwriter of the Argentine rock band Soda Stereo, one of the most influential bands of latin rock music. In the early 90s, with...
, guitarist of Soda StereoSoda StereoSoda Stereo were an Argentine rock band who are recognized as one of the most influential and important Latin American and Ibero-American bands of all time... - Segundo CernadasSegundo CernadasPedro Cernadas , better known as Segundo Cernadas, is a telenovela actor who has gained international fame, both in South America and other parts of the world...
, actor - Felipe ColomboFelipe ColomboFelipe Colombo Eguía . His nickname is Feli, Felu or Pipe. Is a Mexican-Argentine actor , singer, songwriter and...
, actor, songwriter and musician Mexican-Argentine - María Concepción CésarMaria Concepcion CesarMaria Concepcion Cesar , Argentina. She is multi-faceted actress, singer and dancer....
, vedette - Julio ChávezJulio ChávezJulio Chávez is a well-known Argentine film and television actor.He was born Julio Hirsch in Buenos Aires, and received his first film role in 1973...
, actor - ChenoaChenoaMaría Laura Corradini Falomir, popularly known as Chenoa is a famous Argentine-Spanish female music artist who became successful after appearing on the TV contest Operación Triunfo. Her music style could be described in the United States as pop...
, singer - Graciana ChironiGraciana ChironiGraciana Abraciano de Chironi is a film actor.Chironi is the grandmother of well-known Argentine director Pablo Trapero.She works in the cinema of Argentina.-Filmography:* Negocios * Mundo grúa aka Crane World...
, actress - Agustina CherriAgustina CherriAgustina Cherri is an Argentine actress, dancer and model. She is perhaps best known for her participation as Milagros in Chiquititas , a popular children's telenovela that also has had other stars Grecia Colmenares, Andrea Del Boca, Paul Lisazo and Jorge Martínez participate, among...
, actress and dancer - Jesica CirioJesica CirioJessica Wanda Judith Cirio is an Argentine model and dancer of Italian descent. She has appeared on the Argentine reality show Cámara en Mano as well as in pictorial spreads in Revista Hombre....
, dancer and model - María Teresa Constantini, actress
- Pascual ContursiPascual ContursiPascual Contursi was an Argentine poet, singer, and guitarist. He composed lyrics for 33 tango compositions - many well-known.-Life and work:...
, lyricist - Juan Carlos CopesJuan Carlos CopesJuan Carlos Copes is an Argentine tango dancer, choreographer, and performer. He contributed to worldwide revival of tango as a dance form after 1970....
, tango dancer and choreographer - Irma CórdobaIrma CórdobaIrma Córdoba 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 la ley 1937 and Atorrante . She retired in 1997.-Filmography:*Mundo contra mí, El *Eva...
, actress - Ada CornaroAda CornaroAda Cornaro was a prominent Argentine film and theatre actress, tango dancer and singer of the 1930s and 1940s.Although she entered film in 1924 her claim to fame was in the 1930 tango film hit Adiós Argentina in which she starred alongside icon Libertad Lamarque.She appeared in tango films such...
, actress - Ignacio CorsiniIgnacio CorsiniIgnacio Corsini was a well-known Argentine folklore and tango vocalist.-Life and work:Andrés Ignacio Corsini was born in Troina, a village in the Enna Province of Sicily, in 1891. He was the illegitimate son of Socorro Salomone and a local man whose identity was never revealed publicly—save for...
, singer - Antonella CostaAntonella CostaAntonella Costa is a film and television actress.She works in different countries including the cinema of Argentina.-Filmography:* Garage Olimpo aka Garage Olimpo* Alma mía...
, actress - Edgardo CozarinskyEdgardo CozarinskyEdgardo Cozarinsky is a writer and filmmaker. He is best known for writing Vudú urbano.- Life :His family name goes back to his great grandparents, Jewish immigrants from Kiev and Odessa at the end of the 19th century, his first name tells of his mother's infatuation with Edgar Allan Poe.After an...
, filmmaker - Linda CristalLinda CristalLinda Cristal is an Argentine actress. She is currently retired....
, actress - Quirino CristianiQuirino CristianiQuirino Cristiani was an 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 the only copies of these two films were lost in a fire...
, cartoonist and film director - Lito CruzLito CruzLito Cruz is 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 local theatres at the age of 15. Graduating from a La Plata secondary school, he continued to...
, actor and theatre director - Antonio Cunill CabanellasAntonio Cunill CabanellasAntonio Cunill Cabanellas was an influential Catalan-Argentine playwright, theatre actor, director and instructor.-Life and work:...
, theatre director - Patricia DalPatricia DalPatricia Dal,born in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine actress and dancer. Patricia Dal started her career as a scantily clad model and soon she was in “Las Vegas” style shows as a dancer. After achieving fame as a vedette the Argentine cinema industry noticed of her vocation as a comedian actress...
, actress - Elsa DanielElsa DanielElsa Daniel born Elsa Nilda Gómez Scapatti is a retired Argentine film actress.She entered film in the 1954 classic El Abuelo and made some 30 appearances in film between then and 1987....
, actress - Juan D'ArienzoJuan D'ArienzoJuan d'Arienzo was an Argentine tango musician, also known as "El Rey del Compás" . Departing from other orchestras of the golden age, D'Arienzo returned to the 2x4 feel that characterized music of the old guard, but he used more modern arrangements and instrumentation...
, tango composer and bandleader - Ricardo DarínRicardo DarínRicardo Darín is an Argentine actor, screenwriter and film director.Darín is one of the biggest movie stars in Argentina. He played a number of parts in TV series for several years where he became popular as a young leading actor...
, actor - Pamela DavidPamela DavidPamela David is an Argentinian actress and model. She was born in Córdoba, Argentina, on October 6 1978. She found fame in the reality TV show El BarTV 2.David currently works as a hostess in a Canal 2 TV program called Fuera de Foco.-Personal life:...
, model - Andrea Del BocaAndrea Del BocaAndrea Del Boca is an Argentine telenovela actress.- Biography :Del Boca made her debut as a four-year-old in a television show hosted by Teresa Blasco...
, actress - Hugo del CarrilHugo del CarrilPierre Bruno Hugo Fontana otherwise known as Hugo del Carril was an Argentine film actor, film director and tango singer of the classic era.-Early life:...
, tango vocalist - Florencia De La VFlorencia De La VFlorencia De La V, previously known as "Florencia de la Vega", was born Roberto Carlos Trinidad on March 2, 1976 in Chaco Province). She is an Argentinian transgender actress and former magazine editor.De La V was the winner of Bailando por un Sueño in 2006 with her professional dance partner,...
, transsexual actress - Alberto de MendozaAlberto de MendozaAlberto de Mendoza is actor in Argentine cinema, who has appeared in some 114 films between 1930 and 2005 spanning eight decades....
, actor - Iván de PinedaIván de PinedaIván de Pineda is an Argentine international fashion model and film actor. He has modelled in New York City, London and Milan. Though identified as Argentine, de Pineda was in fact born a Spaniard, to a Spanish father and an Argentine mother...
, model and talk show host - Julieta DíazJulieta DíazJulieta Díaz is an Argentine film, television, and theatre actress. She began her career at age 13.Díaz works in the cinema of Argentina.-Filmography:* Lobos marinos * Déjala correr...
, actress - Yamila Díaz RahíYamila DiazYamila Díaz-Rahi is an Argentine model.-Background:Díaz was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is of Spanish and Lebanese descent. Her father was a doctor and her mother was a health care manager...
, model - Raúl Di BlasioRaul di BlasioRaúl di Blasio is an Argentine latin jazz and easy listening pianist.- Life :Born in Zapala, Argentina, Raúl Di Blasio showed a great interest in piano at the age of six. After his parents' recommendations that he should study music, he began to pursue piano as a career.Di Blasio practiced piano...
, pianist - Alejandro DolinaAlejandro DolinaAlejandro Ricardo Dolina is an Argentine broadcaster, who also achieved renown as a musician and a writer.-External links:* at AlejandroDolina.com.ar * : listen to La venganza será terrible online...
, writer, commentator and critic - Juanjo DomínguezJuanjo DomínguezJuanjo Domínguez is a classical guitarist and important interpreter of Argentine music, especially tango. In 2005 he was awarded the Konex Award for best instrumental single artist of popular music-External links:...
, folk guitarist - Martin DonovanMartin DonovanMartin Donovan is an American stage and film actor. He has had a long collaboration with the director Hal Hartley, appearing in many of his films, including Trust , Surviving Desire , Simple Men , Flirt , Amateur , and The Book of Life...
, filmmaker - Alejandro DoriaAlejandro DoriaAlejandro Doria 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, Show rambler....
, filmmaker - Dorismar, model, show host
- Ulises DumontUlises DumontUlises Dumont 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:...
, actor - Nancy DupláaNancy DupláaNancy Dupláa is an Argentine actress.She was born in Olivos, a northern suburb of Buenos Aires), and was raised in San Martín, a suburb to the west. She enrolled in the University of Buenos Aires to pursue a degree in graphic design, but discontinued her studies after two years...
, actress - Paulette DuvalPaulette DuvalPaulette Duval was a French dancer and actress of the silent film era and early sound motion pictures. She was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1900 and raised in France. She was considered one of the most beautiful women in Paris in the early twentieth century...
, actress - María Clara D'UbaldoMarie-Claire D'UbaldoMarie Claire D'Ubaldo is an Argentine singer / musician and a prolific songwriter; she has appeared as a guest vocalist on many albums. She had her biggest success with "Falling Into You" which was covered by Celine Dion, who also named her album after the single.-Biography:Marie-Claire D'Ubaldo...
, singer - Pablo EcharriPablo EcharriPablo Daniel Echarri is a leading Argentine actor.He was born in Villa Dominico, Buenos Aires Province, and began his career on Argentine television in 1993...
, actor - EmanuelEmanuel GandolfoEmanuel Gandolfo is a well-known Argentine illusionist and stage magician, performing as Emanuel.-Life and work:...
, magician - Roberto EscaladaRoberto EscaladaRoberto Escalada born Aldo Roberto Leggero was a major Argentine film actor and cinema icon of the classic era....
, actor - Laura Natalia EsquivelLaura Natalia EsquivelLaura Natalia Esquivel Gomez is an actress and singer, best known for her role as Patricia "Patito" Castro in the popular Argentine children's telenovela, Patito Feo.-Biography:...
, actress and singer - Juan FalúJuan FalúAlfredo Juan Falú is an Argentine classical guitarist and composer.He was born in Tucumán in 1948, and his uncle, Eduardo Falú, was by then an increasingly well-known folk guitarist...
, guitarist - Leonardo FavioLeonardo FavioLeonardo Favio is an Argentine singer, actor, film director and screenwriter...
, actor, singer and filmmaker - Ada FalcónAda FalconAda Falcón was an Argentine tango dancer, singer and film actress of the 1920s and 1930s. She starred in the film Idolos de la radio in 1934. She was famous for her tango work and made over 200 recordings in the 1920s and 1930s. She shared a long relationship with orchestra leader Francisco Canaro...
, actress - Soledad FandiñoSoledad FandiñoSoledad Fandiño is an Argentine actress and fashion model. She is perhaps the best known for her roles in television series No hay 2 sin 3 and Son de Fierro, the first earning her Clarín Award and Martín Fierro Award nominations...
, actress and model - Luján FernándezLuján FernándezLuján Fernández is a former Argentine model, who appeared on the covers of several fashion magazines.-Early life:Luján Fernández grew up with an affinity for acting and from early childhood was involved with several local television programs. She was a teenager TV star before becoming a model, and...
, model - Gachi FerrariGachi FerrariGachi Ferrari is an Argentine is a former model, actress and TV hostess, mostly for children-oriented audiences during the 1970s and 1980s.Her girl-next-door looks was very popular with advertisers in the 1970s...
, actress and model - José A. FerreyraJosé A. FerreyraJosé A Ferreyra , popularly known as "Negro Ferreyra" , was an early Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer...
, filmmaker - Candela FerroCandela FerroCandela Ferro is an Argentine journalist, model, and current host of Telemundo's Al Rojo Vivo: Fin de Semana con Candela Ferro and the E! Latin show "Mil Preguntas, Una Estrella con Candela Ferro " .-Early life:At an early age she realized she loved entertaining people, she would mimic Libertad...
, journalist and model - Golde FlamiGolde FlamiGolde Flami was an Argentine actress of film, television and stage.-Early life:Flami was born as Golda Flon to a Jewish family in Ukraine. Her family emigrated to Argentina when she was five years old...
, actress - Gabriela FloresGabriela FloresGabriela 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.-Footnotes:...
, actress - Vera FogwillVera FogwillVera Fogwill is an Argentine film and television actress, film director, and screenplay writer.She works in the cinema of Argentina.-Filmography:Acting...
, actress - Dolores FonziDolores FonziDolores Fonzi is an Argentine TV and film actress active since 1997.Several of her films have received critical acclaim such as Plata quemada , Esperando al mesías , El Fondo del mar and El Aura . Her brother, Tomás Fonzi is also an actor in the Cinema of Argentina...
, actress - Guillermo FrancellaGuillermo FrancellaGuillermo Francella is an Argentine actor and comedian. Apart from being a television performer, he also has had a long theatrical and film career.-Life and work:...
, actor and comic - Hugo FregoneseHugo FregoneseHugo Fregonese was an Argentine film director who worked both in Hollywood and in Argentina....
, film director - Catherine FulopCatherine FulopCatherine Amanda Fulop García is a Venezuelan actress, model and television presenter with both Venezuelan and Argentine citizenship. She participated in the Miss Venezuela 1986, finishing as the fourth runner–up...
, actress, Venezuelan by birth, Argentine citizen - Mario GalloMario GalloMario Gallo may refer to several people of Italian descent in the film industry:*Mario Gallo 1923-1984 - American TV actor*Mario Gallo 1878-1945 - Early Italian film director in the Cinema of Argentina...
, pioneering filmmaker - Verónica Gamba, model
- Carlos GandolfoCarlos GandolfoCarlos Gandolfo was an Argentine stage actor and director.-Life and work:Carlos Gandolfo was born in Buenos Aires, in 1931. He was a director in local, independent theatres Teatro de los Independientes and La Máscara during the 1950s and in 1958, received his first film role in Simón Feldman's El...
, stage actor and director - Delia GarcésDelia GarcésDelia Garcés was an Argentine film actress of the late 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. She made almost 30 appearances in film between 1937 and 1959.Garcés began her acting career in 1937...
, actress - Charly GarcíaCharly GarcíaCharly García is a singer-songwriter, pianist and keyboardist from Argentina with a long career in rock music, forming successful groups such as Sui Generis and Serú Girán, cult status groups like La Máquina de Hacer Pájaros, and as a solo musician.-Early years:Charly García was the eldest son in...
, musician - Antonio GasallaAntonio GasallaAntonio Gasalla is a well-known Argentine actor, comedian, and theatre director.-Life and work:Antonio Gasalla was born in Ramos Mejía, a western suburb of Buenos Aires, in 1941...
, comedian - León GiecoLeón GiecoRaúl Alberto Antonio Gieco, better known as León Gieco is a pop-folk music composer and interpreter. He is known for mixing popular folkloric genres with Argentine rock, and for lyrics with social and political connotations...
, singer and musician - Susana GiménezSusana GiménezSusana Giménez, née María Susana Giménez Aubert is an Argentine actress, ex-vedette and television host....
, actress, show host - Javier Gómez, actor
- Araceli GonzálezAraceli GonzálezAraceli González is an Argentinian fashion model, actress and TV host.She started her performing arts at a young age, after winning a dance tournament at the theater "el Globo Rojo" in the Buenos Aires area, eventually at only 9 years old she was invited by the Cohen Agency to participate in...
, model and actress - Julie GonzaloJulie GonzaloJulie Gonzalo is an Argentine-American actress. She is known for her roles as Parker Lee in Veronica Mars, Shelby in A Cinderella Story and Maggie Dekker in Eli Stone. She has been in two movies with Chad Michael Murray: Freaky Friday and A Cinderella Story...
, actress - Roberto GoyenecheRoberto GoyenecheRoberto Goyeneche was an Argentine tango singer of Basque descent, who epitomized the archetype of 1950s Buenos Aires' bohemian life, and became a living legend in the local music scene.He was known as El Polaco due to his blond hair, and thinness, like the Polish immigrants of the time...
, tango vocalist - Darío GrandinettiDarío GrandinettiDarío Grandinetti is an Argentine actor. Among many other films, he worked under the direction of Pedro Almodóvar in the Academy Award winner Talk to Her....
, actor - Eliana GuercioEliana GuercioEliana Guercio is an Argentine model, vedette and actress. She is currently working in shows hosted by Gerardo Sofovich in Buenos Aires's Corrientes Avenue. She came into attention when performed a full nudity in "Más que diferente" one of those shows...
, model - Jorge GuinzburgJorge GuinzburgJorge Ariel Guinzburg was an Argentine journalist, theatrical producer, humorist, and TV and radio host.-Background:...
, humorist and journalist - Rocío Guirao DíazRocio Guirao DiazRocío Guirao Díaz is an Argentine fashion model from Muse Management.- Career :As a model she worked for high fashion brands like Everlast, Prestige, Tabatha, Sigry, Naffta, Fes Jeans, VOV Jeans, Saverio Di Ricci, Kees Von Kees and others.In 2007 Rocío danced in the successful TV program Bailando...
, model - Antonia HerreroAntonia HerreroAntonia Herrero was an Argentine film actress.She began acting later in life and appeared in Argentine cinema between 1944 and 1973.-External links:...
, actress - Olivia HusseyOlivia HusseyOlivia Hussey is an Argentinian actress who became famous for her role as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's Academy Award-winning 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet. For this role she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actress as well as the David di Donatello for best actress...
(Olivia Osuna), actress - Narciso Ibañez MentaNarciso Ibáñez MentaNarciso Ibáñez Menta was a Spanish theatre, film, and television actor.Born in Langreo, Asturias, Spain, Menta made his first stage appearance in 1919 at the Teatro La Comedia of Buenos Aires. He worked in both theatre and film in Argentina until 1964, when he returned to Spain and developed a...
, actor and filmmaker - Imperio ArgentinaImperio ArgentinaMagdalena Nile del Río was a professional singer and movie actress who was better known as Imperio Argentina. Although born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, she became a citizen of Spain....
, actress and singer - Adrián IaiesAdrián IaiesAdrián Iaies 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....
, jazz pianist - Carlos InzilloCarlos InzilloCarlos Inzillo is a jazz musician, producer and historian from Argentina.-Life and work:Inzillo was born in Buenos Aires in 1944. He enrolled at the , earning a degree in journalism, and later, a doctorate in social psychology...
, jazz clarinetist and producer - Martin IrigoyenMartin IrigoyenMartín Daniel Irigoyen is an Argentine musician best known as a composer and guitarist of Vernian Process...
, composer, musician - Carlos La Mona JiménezLa Mona JiménezJuan Carlos Jiménez Rufino , known as La Mona Jiménez, is a cuarteto singer. He was born in Córdoba, Argentina....
, singer - Kevin JohansenKevin JohansenKevin Johansen is an Argentine-American rock musician. Born to an Argentine mother, Marta Calvet, and an American father, he lived most of his childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area, but moved with his family to Buenos Aires at the age of 12...
, singer and musician - Juan José JusidJuan José JusidJuan José Jusid is an Argentine film director and screenwriter.He started his professional career as an actor, Puppeteer and stage photographer in the 1960s then switched to film studies at the Association of Short Film Directors.He turned director and screenwriter in 1968 and has directed...
, filmmaker - Guido KaczkaGuido KaczkaGuido Kaczka , is an Argentine television show host, actor and producer. His wife was the actress Florencia Bertotti until their separation in 2010. They have been together since 1999. Their first child was born on July 10, 2008....
, actor, producer and television show host - Martín KaradagianMartín KaradagianMartín Karadagián 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...
, professional wrestler - Sergio KleinerSergio KleinerSergio Kleiner is an Argentine actor of soap operas and the cinema of Mexico.He started his acting career at the age of 21 at a play in Buenos Aires...
, actor - León KlimovskyLeón KlimovskyLeón Klimovsky was an Argentine film director.A trained dentist, born in Buenos Aires, his real passion was always the cinema. He pioneered Argentine cultural movement known as cineclub and financed the first movie theater to show art movies...
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- La ArgentinaLa ArgentinaAntonia Mercé y Luque , stage name La Argentina, was a dancer known for her creation of the neoclassical style of Spanish dance as a theatrical art...
, flamenco dancer - La ArgentinitaLa ArgentinitaLa Argentinita is the stage name of a famous dancer born Encarnación López Julvez in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Among her performances was as the Butterfly in the premiere of Federico García Lorca's El maleficio de la mariposa...
, flamenco dancer - Fernando LamasFernando LamasFernando Álvaro Lamas was an Argentine-born actor and director, and the father of actor Lorenzo Lamas.-Early life and career:...
, actor - Justo LamasJusto LamasJusto Lamas is an Argentine singer. He was born in Buenos Aires and tours the United States singing for middle school and high school Spanish students to inspire them to learn more about the language and culture...
, singer - Kurt LandKurt LandKurt Landesberger was an Austrian born Argentine film director of the 1950s and 1960s....
, screenwriter and director - LangLangLang may refer to:*Lang * "Langue" was Ferdinand de Saussure's term for what in contemporary linguistics is referred to as "competency " or "I-language" , referring to an idea of an internal cognitive "language" as distinct from surface forms —natural spoken language.-Places:Antarctica*Lang...
, cartoonist - Romina LanaroRomina LanaroRomina Lanaro is an Argentine fashion model.She was born in Rosario, Santa Fé and began to work as model at the age of 14 when she moved to Buenos Aires...
, model - Victor LaplaceVíctor LaplaceVíctor Laplace is an acclaimed Argentine film actor. He has appeared in over 80 films since 1970, such as Eva Perón and Un Amor en Moisés Ville in 2001, as well as extensive local and international theatre credits.-Filmography:#Detrás del sol, más cielo - Antón#Angelelli, la...
, actor - Raúl LaviéRaúl LaviéRaúl Lavié is an Argentine entertainer prominent in the Tango genre.-Life and work:Raúl Alberto Peralta was born in Rosario, Argentina in 1937. He first sang on a local radio station in 1955 and was subsequently invited to perform on Radio Belgrano and Radio El Mundo in Buenos Aires...
, tango vocalist - Ricardo LaviéRicardo LaviéRicardo Eloy Machado 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 their daughter is the actress Estela Molly.-Filmography:* La increíble historia de...
, actor - Inda LedesmaInda LedesmaInda Ledesma was an Argentine stage, television, and cinema actress who also gained prominence as a theatre director and instructor.-Life and work:...
, actress and theatre director - Nélida LobatoNelida LobatoNelida Lobato , was born Haydée Nélida Menta in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was a prominent dancer and actress, considered one of the best main acts in the world. She began her career when Buddy Day, owner of the theatre Bin-Bam-Bum of Santiago, Chile, gave her the opportunity to star in his...
, vedette - María Cristina LaurenzMaría Cristina LaurenzMaría Cristina Laurenz is a retired Argentine actress and singer active between 1960 and 1994. She is the daughter of Tango musician Pedro Laurenz.She starred in Adiós Roberto in 1985 retiring in 1994.-Filmography:...
, actress - René LavandRené LavandHéctor René Lavandera, usually known as René Lavand , is a magician from Argentina specialising in close-up performance...
, magician - Mirtha LegrandMirtha LegrandRosa María Juana Martínez, better known by the stage name Mirtha Legrand is an Argentine actress and television personality and twin sister of the actress Silvia Legrand.-Early life:...
(María Rosa Martínez), actress and show host - Silvia LegrandSilvia LegrandMaría Aurelia Paula Martínez Suárez better known as Silvia Legrand or Goldie , is a retired Argentine film actress....
, actress - Libertad LamarqueLibertad LamarqueLibertad Lamarque was an Argentine-Mexican actress and singer. Originally from Argentina, she reached fame throughout Latin America while living in Mexico and working in Mexican cinema.-Career:...
, singer and actress - Libertad LeblancLibertad LeblancLibertad María de los Ángeles Vichich Blanco is a retired Argentine film actress. She appeared in 30 films in the Cinema of Argentina between 1960 and 1989....
, actress - Paz LenchantinPaz LenchantinPaz Lenchantin is an American musician of French ancestry. She came to Los Angeles, California with her family at the age of four....
, bassist-violinist - Alejandro LernerAlejandro LernerAlejandro Federico Lerner is an Argentine musician and singer-songwriter. He has written and sang countless songs including several hits, and his fame and recognition spread all over South America....
, songwriter and pianist - Saúl LisazoSaul LisazoSaul Lisazo is an Argentine actor and ex-footballer.-About Saul:Saúl Gustavo Lisazo Oscoidi is one of 6 siblings: Maria, Fernanda, Araceli, Alejandro, Mauricio, and Vanina. One event in his childhood that marked him was the death of his father when he only was 12 years old...
, actor - Marga LópezMarga LópezMarga López , born Catalina Margarita López Ramos, was an Argentine-born Mexican actress. Born in Argentina, she later acquired Mexican nationality.-Biography:...
, actress - Carlos López PuccioCarlos López PuccioCarlos Alberto Daniel López Puccio is a multi-instrumentalist musician, orchestral and choral conductor, composer, arranger and one of the current members of Les Luthiers....
musician - Darío LopilatoDarío LopilatoDarío Lopilato de la Torre is an Argentine actor, brother of Luisana Lopilato, probably the best known for of portraying Coqui Argento in Casados con Hijos, Argentine version of Married... with Children.Lopilato started his career in 1995, playing in Cris Morena's show Chiquititas. His role ended...
, actor - Luisana LopilatoLuisana LopilatoLuisana Loreley Lopilato de la Torre is an Argentine actress, singer and model. Her nickname is Lu or Luli...
, actress and singer - Florencia LozanoFlorencia LozanoFlorencia Lozano is an American actress. She has starred as character Téa Delgado on the daytime series One Life to Live, often receiving praise for the portrayal, as the character emerged as one of the genre's most prominent....
, actress - Silvina LunaSilvina LunaSilvina Noelia Luna is an Argentine model and actress 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 secretary and a model...
, model and actress - Virginia LuqueVirginia LuqueVirginia Luque born Violeta Mabel Dominguez is a retired Argentine tango singer and film actress. She made nearly 20 appearances in tango films of Argentina between 1943 and 1976....
, actress - Federico Luppi, actor
- Tito LusiardoTito LusiardoTito Lusiardo 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....
, actor - Mía MaestroMía MaestroMía Maestro is an Argentine actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Nadia Santos in the television drama Alias, and as Christina Kahlo in Frida.-Life and acting career:...
, actress - Angel MagañaÁngel MagañaÁngel Magaña was an 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 MaggioJorge MaggioJorge Bernardo Teodoro Maggio, also known as Coco, is well-known Argentine actor, the best known in his roles in Chiquititas, Rebel's Way and El Refugio . He is also part of the group named Rolabogan....
, actor - Arturo MalyArturo MalyArturo Maly was a Silver Condor award winning Argentine actor....
, actor - Mona MarisMona MarisMona Maris was an Argentine film actress who was born in Buenos Aires.-Ancestry and education:Her given name was Mona Maria Emita Cap de Vielle. Her mother was a Spanish Basque and her father a French Basque...
, actress - Jorge MaronnaJorge MaronnaJorge Maronna is an Argentine multi-instrumentalist, composer, singer, author and a founding member of the comedy-musical group Les Luthiers. Born August 1, 1948, in Bahía Blanca, he joined I Musicisti while still a teenager, and helped Gerardo Masana and Carlos Iraldi build the first informal...
, musician - José MarroneJosé MarroneJosé Carlos Marrone was an Argentine actor and humorist.His beginnings were in vaudeville theaters and the radio; afterwards he hosted several children-oriented TV shows, such as "El Circo de Marrone" , playing the clown character Pepitito...
, children's television host - Jorge MarraleJorge MarraleJorge Marrale is a well-known Argentine actor.-Life and work:Marrale was born in Buenos Aires' industrial Barracas section to a Spanish mother and an Italian father , in 1947...
, actor - Niní MarshallNiní MarshallNiní Marshall was a popular Argentine comedienne and actress.-Life and work:She was born Marina Esther Traveso in Buenos Aires to Pedro and María Ángela Traveso, a well-to-do family in Rosario, in 1903...
, comedienne - Lucrecia MartelLucrecia MartelLucrecia Martel is a film director, screenplay writer, and producer.According to film critic Joel Poblete, who writes for Mabuse, a cinema magazine, Lucrecia Martel is one of the members of the so-called "New Argentina Cinema" which began c...
, theater and film director - Cristian MartínezCristian MartínezChristian Samir Martínez Centeno is an Honduran football striker, currently playing for Real C.D. España.-Football career:...
, actor, comedian - Duilio MarzioDuilio MarzioDuilio Marzio is a well-known Argentine cinema and theatre actor.-Life and work:He was born Duilio Perruccio in Buenos Aires to Sicilian immigrants, in 1923. He enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires Law School, obtaining a juris doctor...
, actor - Gerardo MasanaGerardo MasanaGerardo Masana, born February 1, 1937, in Banfield, Argentina, founded the 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, and as of 2011 they still perform live in tours through Latin...
, musician - Mirta Teresita MassaMirta Teresita MassaMirta Teresita Massa is the first delegate of Argentina to capture the Miss International crown in 1967. She is the second Latin American to win the beauty pageant after Maria Stella Márquez Zawadzky of Colombia did it in 1961....
, Miss InternationalMiss InternationalMiss International is an annual international beauty pageant held since 1960.The current Miss International is Fernanda Cornejo, from Ecuador...
1967 - Valeria MazzaValeria MazzaValeria Raquel Mazza Is an Argentine supermodel.She was born in Rosario, Santa Fe, and discovered when she was only 16 years old by hairstylist Roberto Giordano. She rose to fame in 1996 when she appeared on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover with Tyra Banks, Guess and presented the San...
, model - Claribel MedinaClaribel MedinaClaribel Medina is a Puerto Rican actress who has acted for soap operas and movies filmed both in her native Puerto Rico and in Argentina.-Training:Medina graduated from the Universidad de Puerto Rico in 1983...
, actress, Puerto RicanPuerto RicoPuerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...
by birth, Argentine citizen - Esteban MellinoEsteban MellinoEsteban Mellino was an Argentine actor best known for portraying the comical character Professor Diogenes Lambetain in the television series Badia y Cia, Fashion VIP and El humor de Cafe Fashion...
, comedian - Tita MerelloTita MerelloLaura Ana Merello best known as Tita Merello was a prominent Argentine film actress, tango dancer and singer...
, singer and actress - Cecilia MéndezCecilia MéndezCecilia Ines Méndez is an Argentine fashion model who has been in advertising campaigns for Marithe & François Girbaud, Charles David, and Bottega Veneta.-Career:...
, model - Juan Carlos MesaJuan Carlos MesaJuan Carlos Mesa is a well-known Argentine humorist, screenwriter and director.-Life and work:Juan Carlos Mesa was born in Córdoba, Argentina in 1930...
, humorist and screenwriter - Nito MestreNito MestreCarlos Alberto Mestre 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 Nito Mestre y los Desconocidos de Siempre and a recording solo artist...
, singer and rock musician - Eduardo MignognaEduardo MignognaEduardo Mignogna was an Argentinian film director and screenwriter.- Filmography :* 1975 - La Raulito en libertad * 1983 - El Desquite...
, filmmaker - Alberto MigréAlberto MigréAlberto Migré, pseudonime of "Felipe Alberto Milletari Miagro" was an Argentine TV screenwriter and producer, specialized on telenovelas.-Family Background:...
, writer and director - Amanda MiguelAmanda MiguelAmanda Miguel is an Argentine Singer. For the last quarter of a century, Amanda has had a successful career.-Early life:Born in Gaiman, in the Chubut Province in Argentina, June 1, 1956, to Angel Raúl Miguel and Ana Delia Samso. Daughter of a music teacher, Amanda Miguel developed her own interest...
, singer - Sandra MihanovichSandra MihanovichSandra Mihanovich Cahen is an Argentine singer, musician, and composer of Rock, Blues, and Tango rhythms.She was born in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the daughter of Iván Mihanovich Nazar, a polo player of Croatian descent -and heir to a shipping fortune- and Mónica Cahen...
, musician - Juan MinujínJuan Minujín- Movies :* Toda la gente sola * El cielo elegido * Zenitram * Cordero de Dios * Guacho Director* Ciudad en celo * Sofacama * Stephanie * Un año sin amor...
, actor - Osvaldo MirandaOsvaldo Miranda (actor)Osvaldo Isaías Mathon Miranda was an Argentinian film and television actor whose credits also included more than fifty stage productions....
, actor - Marianela MirraMarianela MirraMarianela Mirra is an Argentine reality TV participant and TV personality. She won Argentina's version of Big Brother, Gran Hermano...
, model and actress - Luis Moglia BarthLuis Moglia BarthLuis Moglia Barth was an 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, often screenwriting for his pictures.He directed films such as Los tres berretines and Amalia...
, filmmaker - Juana MolinaJuana MolinaJuana Molina is a singer-songwriter and an actress.-Biography:Following the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, her mother fled the country and lived in exile in Paris for five years...
, actress and musician - Inés MolinaInés MolinaInés Molina is a film and television actor. Sometimes she is credited as Inés Molina Villafañe.She works in the cinema of Argentina.-Filmography:* Sur aka The South* El Viaje aka The Journey...
, actress - Ricardo MontanerRicardo MontanerRicardo Montaner is an Argentine-Venezuelan singer and songwriter. Starting his career in the early 80s, he has already released more than 15 albums with numerous successful singles and has sold over 22 million record worldwide.-Early years:Montaner was born as Héctor Eduardo Reglero Montaner, in...
, singer, Argentine-born, VenezuelaVenezuelaVenezuela , officially called the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela , is a tropical country on the northern coast of South America. It borders Colombia to the west, Guyana to the east, and Brazil to the south...
n citizen - Nuri MontséNuri MontséNuri Montsé was a Spanish Argentine film actress of the 1930s and 1940s.She made over 20 appearance in Argentine cinema between 1936 and 1946.-External links:...
, actress - Mercedes MoránMercedes MoránMercedes Morán is a film and television actress.She works in the cinema of Argentina.-Filmography:* La Ciénaga aka The Swamp* Próxima salida * Whisky Romeo Zulu...
, actress - Marcela MoreloMarcela MoreloMarcela Morelo , also known as La Morelo, is an Argentine singer-songwriter. She has released seven critically acclaimed studio albums, which all earned either Gold of Platinum record...
, singer - Cris MorenaCris MorenaMaría Cristina De Giacomi is an Argentine awarded television producer, actress, television presenter, composer, musician, songwriter, writer, former fashion model and CEO of Cris Morena Group...
(María Cristina di Giacomi), actress, writer and producer of television - Zully MorenoZully MorenoZully Moreno born Zulema Esther González Borbón was a classic Argentine actress and sex symbol of the 1940s and 1950s.She was married to director Luis César Amadori.-Filmography:...
, actress - Viggo MortensenViggo MortensenViggo Peter Mortensen, Jr. is a Danish-American actor, poet, musician, photographer and painter. He made his film debut in Peter Weir's 1985 thriller Witness, and subsequently appeared in many notable films of the 1990s, including The Indian Runner , Carlito's Way , Crimson Tide , Daylight , The...
, actor - Bertha MossBertha MossBertha Moss , born Juana Bertha Moscovish Holm, was an actress of the stage, telenovelas and cinema of Mexico. She was born in Buenos Aires Argentina...
, actress - Marcos MundstockMarcos MundstockMarcos Mundstock, born May 25, 1942, in Santa Fe, Argentina, is a musician, writer, comedian and former broadcaster and copywriter, most famous for being a founding member of Les Luthiers, their emcee, and writing many of their libretti and lyrics...
, musician - Berta MuñizBerta MuñizSebastián "Berta" Muñiz is an Argentine film actor and film producer best known for his work in the horror film genre....
, actress - NapoNapoNapo or NAPO may refer to*Napo County, in Guangxi, China*Napo District, in Maynas, Peru*Napo River, Ecuador*Napo Province, Ecuador*National Association of Probation Officers*National Association of Professional Organizers...
, cartoonist - Norma Beatriz NolanNorma NolanNorma Nolan , is an Argentine who became, in 1962, the first woman from that country to obtain the Miss Universe title. She won the title in Miami Beach, Florida. Nolan is of Irish and Italian descent...
, Miss Universe 1962Miss Universe 1962Miss Universe 1962, the 11th Miss Universe pageant, was won by 24-year-old Norma Nolan of Argentina. It took place on 14 July 1962 at the Miami Beach Auditorium in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.-Placements:-Special awards:... - Carlos Núñez CortésCarlos Núñez CortésCarlos Núñez Cortés was born October 15, 1942, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has been a member of Les Luthiers since 1969.In the group, his functions include:* Creating new instruments ....
, musician - Carlos Olguin-TrelawnyCarlos Olguin-TrelawnyCarlos Olguin-Trelawny is an Argentine film director and screenwriter.He started studying filmmaking at the ProDeo University in Rome. He also studied with masters such as Jean-Luc Godard in Paris. His first professional work was as second-assistant director to Academy Winner Russian director...
, film director, screenwriter - Héctor OliveraHéctor OliveraHéctor Olivera is a film director, producer and screenwriter.He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina, but has contributed to numerous films in the United States.-Biography:...
, filmmaker - Alberto OlmedoAlberto OlmedoAlberto Olmedo was an Argentine comedian and actor.Olmedo was born in Barrio Pichincha, Rosario, Santa Fe Province. In his teens, he was a gifted gymnast and an aspiring actor, who tried his luck with several amateur theater companies and enjoyed some local success.Olmedo moved to Buenos Aires in...
, comedian - Palito OrtegaPalito OrtegaRamón Bautista Ortega Argentine singer and actor, better known as Palito Ortega. Ortega reached international fame, particularly in Latin America and Spain, during the 1960s, when Rock and Roll music was popularized among teenagers in the region.- Youth :Ortega was born to a very poor family in...
, singer - Mecha OrtizMecha OrtizMaria Mercedes Varela Nimo Dominguez Castro de Ortiz was a classic Argentine actress who appeared in film between 1937 and 1981. Beginning in 1954 film El Abuelo . Her last appearance on film was in 1981. She died in 1987 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, aged 87.-Family:Her husband, Julián Ortiz, was a...
, actress - Fito PáezFito PáezRodolfo "Fito" Páez Ávalos is an Argentine popular rock and roll pianist, lyricist, Spanish language singer and film director.-Early career:...
, songwriter and rock keyboard player - PappoPappo-, 1968:-, 1969:# # # # # # # # # -Rock de la mujer perdida, 1970:...
, (Norberto Napolitano), rock musician - Malvina PastorinoMalvina PastorinoMalvina Pastorino was an Argentine film actress.-Career:...
, actress - Soledad PastoruttiSoledad PastoruttiSoledad "La Sole" Pastorutti is an Argentine folk singer, who brought the genre to the younger generations at the end of the 20th century, and the beginning of the 21st....
, folk & pop singer - Gastón PaulsGastón PaulsGaston Pauls is an Argentina actor, TV host and producer. He started his career on television as a host of a videoclip show before starring in the teen soap opera Montaña Rusa, where he met Nancy Duplaa whom he dated for a few years...
, actor - Luciana PedrazaLuciana PedrazaLuciana Duvall is an Argentine actress and director. She is married to American fellow actor Robert Duvall, and is the granddaughter of Argentine aviation pioneer Susana Ferrari Billinghurst....
, actress and filmmaker - Carolina PelerittiCarolina PelerittiCarolina Peleritti is an Argentine actress and former fashion model. She took part in many TV series such as Boro Boro, La Marca del Deseo, Cybersix and 099 Central.-Filmography:Cinema...
, actress and model - Mario PergoliniMario PergoliniMario Daniel Pergolini is an Argentine journalist, media producer and businessman, best known as the former main host of the television programme Caiga Quien Caiga broadcast on Argentina's Telefe....
, variety show host - Diego PerettiDiego PerettiDiego Peretti 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 the 2004 romantic comedy, No sos vos, soy yo, and Los Simuladores a popular TV...
, actor - Carla PetersonCarla Peterson (actress)Carla Constanza Peterson is an Argentine actress. She was born in Cordoba. She began her career in stage plays. Among others she appeared in Quien es Janet? with Claudia Fontan and Mariana Prömmel. She first appeared on television in 1992 telenovella "Dance Party"...
, actress - Melina PetriellaMelina PetriellaMelina Petriella is an Argentine movie and television actress.-Filmography:* Besos en la frente * Esperando al Mesías aka Waiting for the Messiah* Nocturno * El Abrazo partido aka Lost Embrace...
, actress - Roberto PettinatoRoberto PettinatoRoberto Pettinato is an Argentine musician, journalist and television presenter.Pettinato's father, Roberto Sr., was a high-ranking corrections officer in the administration of Juan Perón. When a coup deposed Perón in 1955, he was accused of being involved in political repression and was driven...
, TV entertainer - Ana María PicchioAna María PicchioAna María Picchio is an 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.She starred in Adios Roberto in 1985.-External links:...
, actress - Cecilia PilladoCecilia PilladoCecilia Pillado is an Italian Argentine film television and stage actor, a classical pianist and a composer.-Biography:As a young adult she was a member of the Goethe Institute Mendoza Theatre Company, directed by Gladys Ravalle, while pursuing her studies in music at the National University of Cuyo...
, actress, classical pianist, Argentine by birth - Marcelo PiñeyroMarcelo PiñeyroMarcelo Piñeyro 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...
, filmmaker - Lucciano PizzichiniLucciano PizzichiniLucciano Pizzichini is a child prodigy guitarist and the youngest artist sponsored by Gibson Guitars. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 14, 2000.-External links:* *...
,is a child prodigy guitarist and the youngest artist sponsored by Gibson Guitars - Jorge PolacoJorge PolacoJorge Polaco is an Argentine filmmaker whose film, En el nombre del hijo, won best film at the Festróia - Tróia International Film Festival.- Career :...
, filmmaker - Lola PonceLola PoncePaola Fabiana Ponce , professionally known as Lola Ponce, is an Argentine singer–songwriter, composer, actress and occasional model....
, singer, actress and model - Jorge PorcelJorge PorcelJorge Raúl Porcel de Peralta was a comedy actor and television host from Argentina. He was nicknamed El Gordo de América...
, comedian - Luca ProdanLuca ProdanLuca Prodan was a Scottish musician.He was the son of an Italian father and a Scottish mother, born in Rome after the return of the Prodan family from China, where Luca's father had set up a prosperous business becoming an expert in ancient Chinese pottery, because of the Japanese invasion...
, Italian-born rock composer and leader of Argentine band SumoSumo (band)Sumo was a 1980s Argentine alternative rock band, merging post-punk with reggae and ska. Headed by Italian-born Luca Prodan, it remained underground for most of its short activity, but was extremely influential in shaping contemporary Argentine rock. Sumo introduced British post-punk to the... - Luis PuenzoLuis PuenzoLuis Adalberto Puenzo 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:...
, Academy Award-winning filmmaker - Osvaldo PuglieseOsvaldo PuglieseOsvaldo Pedro Pugliese was an Argentine tango musician. He developed dramatic arrangements that retained strong elements of the walking beat of salon tango but also heralded the development of concert-style tango music.Some of his music, mostly since the 50s, is used for theatrical dance...
, tango composer - Eugène PyEugène PyEugène Py was a major early French cameraman, cinematographer and film director and is widely considered the founding pioneer of the Cinema of Argentina....
, pioneering cinematographer - Lorenzo QuinterosLorenzo QuinterosLorenzo Quinteros is 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...
, actor - Rodolfo RanniRodolfo RanniRodolfo Ranni is an Italian Argentine film actor.He has made over 85 film and TV appearances since 1958. More recently he has appeared in Argentine television dramas.-External links: ....
, actor Italian-born - Daniel Rabinovich, musician
- Sergio RenánSergio RenánSergio Renán is an Argentine actor, film director and screenwriter.Born in Buenos Aires in 1933, Renán became an accomplished violinist in his teens and, following a minor film role in Mario Soffici's 1951 drama Pasó en mi barrio , he joined the theatre as an actor and continued to appear in...
, director of film and theatre - Alejandro ReyAlejandro ReyAlejandro Rey was an Argentine actor. He immigrated to the United States in 1960, later became a U.S. citizen and gained his widest acclaim there.-Career:...
, actor - Susana RinaldiSusana RinaldiSusana Natividad Rinaldi is an Argentine tango singer.Dubbed "La Tana", she was born Susana Natividad Rinaldi in Buenos Aires on December 25, 1935. The daughter of a wealthy father and a poor mother, she spent her childhood moving throughout different provinces of Argentina...
, singer - Edmundo RiveroEdmundo RiveroLeonel Edmundo Rivero was an Argentine tango singer, composer, and impresario.-Early days:Rivero was born in the southern Buenos Aires suburb of Valentín Alsina. Joining his father in some of his travels, he was exposed to the lifestyle and the music of the gauchos of Buenos Aires Province from...
, tango singer - Inés RiveroInes RiveroMaría Inés Rivero is an Argentine model.- Life and career :Rivero was born in Córdoba, Argentina. Her mother enrolled her into a modeling school, and she made her modeling debut at the age of 14, when she worked in a local fashion show...
, model - Nélida RocaNelida RocaNélida Roca , was one of the first showbusiness divas of Argentina.Born Nélida Mercedes Musso in Buenos Aires, her friends and colleagues fondly called her La Roca . From childhood, she sought to become a famous artist, but had to confront her parents' strong opposition to the idea...
, vedette - Elena RogerElena RogerElena Silvia Roger is an Argentine actress who won the 2009 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Édith Piaf in Piaf. She has also appeared in the West End in Evita, Boeing-Boeing, and Passion...
, actress - Benjamín RojasBenjamín RojasBenjamín Rojas Pessi . His nickname is Benja or Nano. Is an Argentine actor, singer, musician and model. He is perhaps the best known for his roles in Chiquititas, Rebelde Way, Floricienta, Alma Pirata, Casi Ángeles and Jake & Blake...
, actor, singer and musician - Alita RománAlita RománAlita Román , was an Argentine film actress She starred in nearly 50 films between 1934 and 1982.Roman made her debut in 1935 in the film La Barra Mendocina and in 1960 appeared in the Antonio Cunill Jr...
, actress - Manuel RomeroManuel RomeroManuel Romero was an Argentine film director, screenwriter , dramatist and score composer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era...
, filmmaker - Cecilia RothCecilia RothCecilia Roth is an Argentine actress.Her father, Abrasha Rotenberg , a Jewish immigrant from the Soviet Ukraine, is an editor and a journalist. He met Cecilia's mother, an Argentinian singer of Sephardic descent Dina Rot, in Argentina. Cecilia Roth has made appearances in numerous television series...
, actress - Ariel RotterAriel RotterAriel Rotter is a film director and screenplay writer.He works in the cinema of Argentina.-Filmography:* Sólo por hoy aka Just for Today* El Otro aka The Other-Awards:Wins...
, filmmaker - Ingrid RubioIngrid RubioIngrid Rubio is one of the top actresses in Spanish language cinema. She won the Special Mention Awad at the 1996 San Sebastián International Film Festival for her performance in the film Taxi....
, actress - Sebastián RulliSebastián Rulli-Biography:Before becoming the successful actor that he is today, Sebastián Rulli began his career modeling in many different countries in Europe, namely Spain, Italy and France as well as in Mexico and the United States...
, Argentine-born, Mexican citizen, actor - Mario SabatoMario SábatoMario Sábato is an 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.-External links:*...
, filmmaker - Sabrina SabrokSabrina SabrokLorena Fabiana Colotta better known as Sabrina Sabrok, is an Argentine television host, Cyberpunk rock singer, producer, and adult model.-Discography:* Antisocial EP ,* Jugando Con Sangre ,* Sabrina EP ,...
, model and TV-entertainer - Horacio SalgánHoracio SalgánHoracio Adolfo Salgán is an Afro-Argentine pianist, composer, orchestra leader, and arranger who specializes in tango music....
, pianist - Dino SaluzziDino SaluzziTimoteo "Dino" Saluzzi is an Argentine musician.The son of popular carpero composer and instrumentalist Cayetano Saluzzi, Dino played the bandoneón since his childhood...
, jazz bandoneónBandoneónThe bandoneón is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay. It plays an essential role in the orquesta típica, the tango orchestra...
ist - Miguel SánchezMiguel SánchezMiguel Sánchez was a Novohispanic priest, writer and theologian. He is most renowned as the author of the 1648 publication Imagen de la Virgen María, a description and theological interpretation of an apparition to Juan Diego of the Virgin Mary as Our Lady of Guadalupe which is the first published...
, comedian, actor, show host - Sandro de AméricaSandro de AméricaRoberto Julio Sánchez , better known by his artist names Sandro/Sandro de América , Gitano , and the Argentine Elvis, was an Argentine singer and actor.-Biography:...
, singer - Gustavo SantaolallaGustavo SantaolallaGustavo Alfredo Santaolalla is an Argentine musician, film composer and producer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score in two consecutive years, for Brokeback Mountain in 2005 and Babel in 2006.-Life and career:...
, composer and musician, Academy Award winner in 2006 and 2007 - Julio SaraceniJulio SaraceniJulio Saraceni was a prolific Argentine film director whose career in the Cinema of Argentina as a movie director spanned six decades....
, filmmaker - Isabel SarliIsabel SarliIsabel Sarli is a retired Argentine actress, and model. She was a national sex-symbol of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.Born Hilda Isabel Sarli Gorrindo Tito in Concordia, Entre Ríos Province, Sarli was nicknamed "Coca Sarli", which comes from either her Coke-bottle-shaped figure, or from her...
, actress - Lidia Elsa SatragnoLidia Elsa SatragnoLidia Elsa Satragno is an entertainer and politician in Argentina, where she's popularly known as "Pinky."-Life and times:...
, news anchor, talk show hostess and politician - Josefina ScaglioneJosefina ScaglioneJosefina Scaglione is an Argentinian musical theatre actress, 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 Best Leading Actress in a Musical....
, actress and singer - Milagros SchmollMilagros SchmollMilagros Schmoll is an Argentine fashion model. She began modeling in 2003, and has appeared on the October 2006 and February 2008 covers of Italian Marie Claire and the July 2007 and May 2008 covers of Argentine Elle....
, model - María Martha Serra LimaMaria Martha Serra Lima-Life and work:Born in Buenos Aires to a family of auto dealership proprietors, Serra Lima was first signed on to a record label in 1977, and became famous across Latin America and in Spain during the 1970s and 1980s...
, singer - Soledad SilveyraSoledad SilveyraSoledad Silveyra , 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 opera El Amor tiene cara de mujer in 1964 as a 12 year old...
, actress - Fernando SiroFernando SiroFernando Siro 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 his first Argentine cinema role in El otro yo de Marcela, directed by Alberto de Zavalía...
, actor and director - Mario SofficiMario SofficiMario Soffici was an Italian born Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter of the classic era.A native of Florence, Soffici moved the Argentina in the 1920s and began acting in 1931 and directing in 1935 on the film El Alma de Bandoneón, working with popular actors of the period such as...
, actor - Alejandro SokolAlejandro SokolAlejandro Sokol was an Argentine rock musician, who was part of Sumo and Las Pelotas.Sokol was the bassist, and then the drummer, of Sumo in its early days , and left the band because the rock and roll lifestyle went against his convictions, as he was a member of the LDS church.After the death of...
, bassist and drummer - Miguel Ángel SoláMiguel Ángel SoláMiguel Ángel Solá is a prolific Argentine actor who has made over 60 film appearances in film and TV in Argentina since 1973....
, actor - Fernando SolanasFernando SolanasFernando Ezequiel 'Pino' Solanas is an Argentine film director, screenwriter and politician....
, fimmaker and politician - Juan SolerJuan SolerJuan Soler Valls Quiroga is an Argentine actor and former rugby player and model. He is married to Argentine actress Magdalena "Maki" Moguilevsky with whom he has two daughters.-Personal life:...
, actor - Julia SolomonoffJulia SolomonoffJulia Solomonoff is an Argentine film actor, producer, film and television director, and screenplay writer.She works in the cinema of Argentina.-Filmography:Directing & Writer* Octavo 51...
, actress - Pepe SorianoPepe SorianoPepe Soriano is a prominent Argentine actor and playwright.-Life and work:Soriano was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina...
, actor - Carlos SorínCarlos SorínCarlos Sorín is a film director, screenplay writer, cinematographer, and film producer. He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina....
, filmmaker - Coti Sorokin, songwriter, musician, composer
- Mercedes SosaMercedes SosaHaydée Mercedes Sosa, known as La Negra, was an Argentine singer who was popular throughout South America and some countries outside the continent. With her roots in Argentine folk music, Sosa became one of the preeminent exponents of nueva canción. She gave voice to songs written by both...
, folk singer - Hugo SotoHugo Soto (actor)-Life and work:Hugo Soto was born in Corrientes, Argentina, in 1953. Developing an early interest in both painting and the stage, Soto relocated to Buenos Aires in the early 1970s, where he was mentored by expressionist painter Carlos Gorriarena....
, actor - Chango SpasiukChango SpasiukHoracio "Chango" Spasiuk is an Argentine chamamé musician and accordion player.Of Ukrainian grandparents, El Chango had a strong Polka music influence from his early days; Eastern European musical influences were also already present in the chamamé music of the region...
, folk musician and singer - Luis Alberto SpinettaLuis Alberto SpinettaLuis Alberto Spinetta , is an Argentine musician. He is one of the most influential rock musicians of South America, and together with Charly García is considered the father of Argentine rock. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in the residential neighbourhood of Belgrano...
, rock musician and composer - Bruno StagnaroBruno StagnaroBruno Stagnaro is a film and television director, producer and screenplay writer. He has acted a few times.He works mainly in the cinema of Argentina.-Filmography:* Guarisove, los olvidados...
, filmmaker - Lita StanticLita StanticÉlida Stantic , and more commonly known and credited as Lita Stantic, is an Argentine cinema producer, screenplay writer, and director....
, filmmaker - René StricklerRené StricklerRené Guillermo Strickler Zender is an Argentine actor.- Biography :He is of both German and English descent. He is currently married to Patricia Rangel. They have two sons, Andrick and Yanick . He migrated to Mexico City in 1986. He was a model, but then he gained his first protagonic role in soap...
, actor - Adrián SuarAdrián SuarAdrián Kirzner Schwartz, better known as Adrián Suar is an Argentine Jewish former actor, and a current media producer and businessman, better known as the programme director of Canal 13....
, actor and producer - Silvana SuárezSilvana SuárezSilvana Rosa Suárez won the 1978 Miss World contest, representing Argentina. She became the second woman from her country to win the title. The pageant was held in London, United Kingdom.-External links:*...
, Miss WorldMiss WorldThe Miss World pageant is the oldest surviving major international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951...
1978 - Eliséo SubielaEliseo SubielaEliseo Alberto Subiela is an Argentine film director and writer, whose works are considered to be in the 'magic realism' genre....
, filmmaker - Damián SzifrónDamián SzifrónDamián Szifron is an Argentine film and television director, and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the TV series Los Simuladores ....
, actor and television director - María del Luján TelpukMaría del Luján TelpukLorena Telpuk, formerly María del Luján Telpuk, or the Suitcase Girl is a former airport police officer at Aeroparque Jorge Newbery in Buenos Aires, Argentina, who noticed a suitcase with US$800,000 as it went through an X-ray machine in August 2007...
, model - Juan Carlos ThorryJuan Carlos ThorryBorn José Antonio Torrontegui and known as Juan Carlos Thorry was an Argentine film actor, tango musician and director....
, actor and tango musician - Marcelo TinelliMarcelo TinelliMarcelo Hugo Tinelli is an Argentine TV host, media producer and businessman, best known as the host of the TV show ShowMatch broadcast on Argentina's Canal 13...
, TV-entertainer - Leopoldo Torre NilssonLeopoldo Torre NilssonLeopoldo Torre Nilsson , also known as Leo Towers and as Babsy, was an Argentine film director, producer and screenwriter....
, filmmaker - Diego TorresDiego TorresDiego Antonio Caccia Torres , is an Argentine Grammy Award-nominated pop singer and composer.-Biography:Diego Torres was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of Argentine singer Lolita Torres...
, actor, singer and musician - Leopoldo Torres RíosLeopoldo Torres RíosLeopoldo Torres Ríos was an Argentine film director and screenwriter. His brother Carlos Torres Ríos was a notable cinematographer...
, filmmaker - Yésica ToscaniniYésica ToscaniniYésica Toscanini is a professional Argentinian fashion model.She appeared in the 2006 and 2007 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues. She was photographed for the cover of the Argentinian edition of Cosmopolitan and twice for magazine "Para Ti". She also appeared in the Abercrombie & Fitch catalog of...
, model - Pablo TraperoPablo TraperoPablo Trapero is an Argentine film producer, editor and director.His films are known for portraying the lives of ordinary people, and usually involving some form of social criticism to modern society, such as his movie Mundo Grúa , or the highly-acclaimed El...
, filmmaker - Aníbal TroiloAníbal TroiloAníbal Carmelo Troilo was an Argentine tango musician.Anibal Troilo was a bandoneon player, composer, and bandleader in Argentina. His orquesta típica was among the most popular with social dancers during the golden age of tango , but he changed to a concert sound by the late 1950s...
, tango bandoneonBandoneónThe bandoneón is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay. It plays an essential role in the orquesta típica, the tango orchestra...
ist and songwriter - Paulina Trotz FernándezPaulina TrotzPaulina Trotz is an advertising model from Argentina. She is the daughter of Ernesto Trotz and María Laura Fernández Roussee...
, model - Daniela UrziDaniela UrziDaniela Urzi is a fashion model from Argentina. She has appeared in fashion campaigns for Armani Jeans, the Giorgio Armani collection, Roberto Cavalli, Burberry, and John Richmond, and has done catalog work for Victoria's Secret. Her magazine covers include international editions of Vogue and...
, model - Héctor Varela, tango musician
- Micaela VázquezMicaela VázquezMicaela Belén Vázquez is an Argentine actress. She is the best known for her role of Pilar Dunoff in the series Rebelde Way, and also for series Chiquititas and Floricienta — all created and produced by Cris Morena...
, actress - Natalia VerbekeNatalia VerbekeNatalia Verbeke Leiva, is a Spanish actress, of Argentine and Flemish origin.- Biography :...
, actress - Diego VerdaguerDiego VerdaguerDiego Verdaguer is a singer-songwriter from Argentina who has resided in Mexico for almost 30 years. He plays the trumpet and the bandoneón. He is married to fellow Argentine singer Amanda Miguel. His most famous songs are "Corazón de Papel" and "La Ladrona"...
, actor - Soledad VillamilSoledad VillamilSoledad Villamil is an Argentine film and television actress and singer.-Filmography :* El secreto de sus ojos The Secret in Their Eyes* No sos vos, soy yo It's Not You, It's Me...
, actress - Chunchuna VillafañeChunchuna VillafañeElva 'Chunchuna' Villafañe is an Argentine film and television actress, 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 oficial ....
, actress - Lito VitaleLito VitaleHéctor Facundo Vitale, known as Lito Vitale, is an Argentine musician, born in Villa Adelina, Buenos Aires province on December 1, 1961.A talented piano player, he was coached by his mother, renowned music teacher Esther Soto, since childhood...
, musician - Alejandro WiebeAlejandro WiebeAlejandro Wiebe nicknamed Marley is an Argentine TV host.He is currently working for TV channel Telefe.-Telefe:*Odisea*El Show de la Tarde*Operación Triunfo *Por el Mundo...
, television host - Axel WitteveenAxel (singer)Axel Patricio Fernando Witteveen Pardo is an Argentine singer and song-writer.-Biography:Axel was born in 1977 in Rafael Calzada, Buenos Aires province. His last name is Flemish Belgian. He began his piano studies with his two brothers, encouraged by his parents, both of whom were great lovers of...
, musician - Atahualpa YupanquiAtahualpa YupanquiAtahualpa Yupanqui was an Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist, and writer. He is considered the most important Argentine folk musician of the 20th century....
, (Héctor Roberto Chavero) folk songwriter and musician - Sofía ZámoloSofía ZámoloSofía Zámolo is an Argentine TV Hostess and model working for the Multitalent Agency in Buenos Aires. She started her modeling career at the age of 16, while studying at the Colegio Marín school, located in San Isidro...
, model - Pablo ZieglerPablo ZieglerPablo Ziegler is an Argentine composer based in Buenos Aires and New York City. He is currently the leading exponent of nuevo tango, thanks to the skills and reputation he gathered while working extensively as Ástor Piazzolla's regular pianist from 1978 until the maestro's retirement for health...
, Grammy award-winning bandoneónBandoneónThe bandoneón is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay. It plays an essential role in the orquesta típica, the tango orchestra...
ist - Olga ZubarryOlga ZubarryOlga Adela Zubarriain is a retired Argentine film actress. Born in Parque de los Patricios, she is a fan of Huracan, a famous soccer team in Buenos Aires. She made almost 80 appearances in film between 1943 and 1997 spanning 6 decades of Argentine cinema.She began her career at Lumiton studios in...
, actress
Journalism
- Fray MochoFray mochoFray Mocho was the pen name for the Argentine writer and journalist José Ciriaco Alvarez . He was born in the remote village of Gualeguaychú in the Entre Ríos Province of Argentina on August 26, 1858. He came to Buenos Aires first in 1876 and then again in 1879 at the age of 21...
(José Sixto Álvarez), journalist and writer - Orlando BaroneOrlando BaroneOrlando Barone , is an Argentine journalist, writer and university lecturer. As a journalist he works for the newspaper Debate and as a columnist in the TV program 6, 7, 8.-Biography:...
, journalist and writer - Osvaldo BayerOsvaldo BayerOsvaldo Bayer is a journalist and scriptwriter. He lives in Buenos Aires, and in Linz Am Rhine, Germany, where he went into exile during the "National Reorganization Process" dictatorship ....
, journalist and filmmaker - Andrés BellattiAndy BellattiAndy Bellatti, MS, RD is a Seattle-based nutritionist who approaches nutrition from a whole-foods, plant-centric framework. He also takes a strong interest in food politics, nutrition policy, and deceptive food industry marketing tactics.Andy has contributed to a variety of blogs and websites,...
, journalist - José Luis CabezasJosé Luis CabezasJosé Luis Cabezas was an Argentine news photographer who worked for Noticias, a leading local newsmagazine.On 25 January 1997, Cabezas was murdered at Pinamar, Argentina's most exclusive beach resort on the Atlantic Ocean, visited by politicians, businessmen, actors, sports figures and other...
, photojournalist - Alicia Dujovne OrtizAlicia Dujovne OrtizAlicia Dujovne Ortiz is an Argentine journalist and author.Dujovne Ortiz was born in Buenos Aires. She earned a degree in Philosophy and Letters from the University of Buenos Aires and contributed to numerous Argentine periodicals. Forced into exile by the military dictatorship in 1978, she...
, journalist and biographer - Daniel FrescóDaniel FrescóDaniel Frescó is an Argentinian journalist and author.He practices journalism since the early age of 18. He started as a collaborator in the Clarín newspaper and in Radio Continental. In 1983 he was the first reporter of the newscast “Mitre informa primero”...
, radio and television anchor - Andrew Graham-YoollAndrew Graham-YoollAndrew Graham-Yooll was born in 1944 in Buenos Aires to a Scottish father and an English mother. He is the author of about twenty books, written in English and Spanish. A State of Fear has become a classic on the years of terror in Argentina. It was first published by Eland Books in...
, news editor and writer - Enrique GratasEnrique GratasEnrique Gratas is an award winning journalist and the former anchor of Univision's Última Hora , the second most popular Spanish newscast in the United States. Gratas was fired in March 2009 along with 300 other Univision employees...
, television news reporter - Mariano GrondonaMariano GrondonaMariano Grondona 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 several books...
, television anchorman - Hugo Guerrero MartinheitzHugo Guerrero MartinheitzHugo Guerrero Marthineitz was a Peruvian journalist, commentator and radio host, who spent most of his professional career in Argentina.-Life and work:...
, Peruvian-Argentine radio host and commentator - Leonardo HenrichsenLeonardo HenrichsenLeonardo Henrichsen was an Argentine and Swedish photojournalist.-Life and times:Leonardo Henrichsen was born to a Swedish Argentine father and an English Argentine mother in Buenos Aires...
, photojournalist - David KraiselburdDavid Kraiselburd-Life and times:David Kraiselburd was born into a working-class Ukrainian Jewish family in Berisso, a suburb north of La Plata, Argentina, in 1912. In his teens, a high-school writing contest earned him an internship in La Plata's main daily, El Día, after the end of which he was hired by the paper...
, newspaper publisher - Jorge LanataJorge LanataJorge Lanata is an Argentine journalist and writer, born in Mar del Plata in 1960. He co-founded the daily Argentine newspaper Crítica de la Argentina on March 2, 2008, and was its director until April 4, 2009....
, journalist and writer - José MarmolJosé MármolJosé Mármol was an Argentine journalist, politician, librarian, and writer of the Romantic school.Born in Buenos Aires, he initially studied law, but abandoned his studies in favor of politics. In 1839, no sooner had he begun to make a name for himself than he was arrested for his opposition to...
, journalist and writer - Karen MaronKaren MaronKaren Marón is an Argentine journalist and producer. As international correspondent specialized in armed conflicts and international politics she has covered conflicts in the Middle East, Latin America, Persian Gulf including the most dangerous places of the world as Iraq, Lebanon, Colombia,...
, war correspondent - Tomás Eloy MartínezTomás Eloy MartínezTomás Eloy Martínez was an Argentine journalist and writer.-Life and work:Born in San Miguel de Tucumán, Martínez obtained a degree in Spanish and Latin American literature from the University of Tucumán, and an MA at the University of Paris...
, journalist, writer and newspaper founder - Eduardo Montes-BradleyEduardo Montes-Bradley- Filmography :# Waissman Producer, Director. The Heritage Film Project. 2010. Produced by Soledad Liendo. Biographical documentary on the life and works of Argentine artist Andrés Waissman. TV premier November 23, 2010 WPBT Channel 2...
, journalist, writer, filmmaker - Joaquín Morales SoláJoaquín Morales SoláJoaquín Morales Solá is an Argentine political journalist.Morales Solá was born in Tucumán. He began his career in journalism at age 18, working for a prominent local newspaper, La Gaceta de Tucumán, and at 20 he became a correspondent at the Buenos Aires-based daily Clarín.He studied at the...
, journalist, commentator and anchor - Conrado Nalé RoxloConrado Nalé RoxloConrado Nalé Roxlo was an Argentine writer, journalist and humorist, born and died in Buenos Aires. He was author of poetry, plays, film scripts and pastiches in prose, and also the director of two humor magazines: Don Goyo and Esculapión.In 1945 he won the National Prize of Theatre for his play...
, journalist and writer - Roberto NobleRoberto NobleRoberto Noble was an Argentine politician, journalist and publisher, perhaps best known for having founded Clarín, long Argentina's leading newsdaily and the most or second-most circulated in the Spanish-speaking world....
, journalist, politician and publisher - Andrés OppenheimerAndrés OppenheimerAndrés Oppenheimer is an Argentine born-American journalist who resides in the United States. He is the Latin American editor and syndicated foreign affairs columnist with The Miami Herald. His column, "The Oppenheimer Report," appears twice a week in The Miami Herald and more than 60 U.S. and...
, television anchorman - Horacio PaganiHoracio Pagani (sportswriter)Horacio Pagani is a prominent Argentine sportswriter and sportscaster.-Life and work:Pagani was born in Buenos Aires, in 1948. He was first hired as a sports journalist by the leading Argentine newsdaily, Clarín, in 1968, and contributed to the popular local football magazine El Gráfico, between...
, sportswriter and announcer - José María Pasquini DuránJosé María Pasquini DuránJosé María Pasquini Durán was an Argentine journalist, writer, teaching, political analyst, communist militant and one of the main writers of the newspaper Pagina 12, that he helped to found.- Trajectory :...
, journalist and writer - Roberto PayróRoberto PayróRoberto Jorge Payró was an Argentine writer and journalist.Payró founded the newspaper La Tribuna in the city of Bahía Blanca, where he published his first newspaper articles. He then moved to the city of Buenos Aires where he worked as an editor at the newspaper La Nación...
, journalist and publisher - Pedro SevcecPedro SevcecPedro Ricardo Sevcec is a television reporter who works for America TV / Miami in the United States. He also has his own afternoon drive radio show on WSUA Miami- Radio Caracol 1260 AM called La Ventana con Pedro Sevcec. He was born in Uruguay.Sevcec in the United States has had much success as a...
, television anchorman - Rodolfo TerragnoRodolfo TerragnoRodolfo Terragno is an Argentine politician and lawyer, former Senator and journalist.-Life and times:Terragno was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1943 and obtained a Law Degree from the University of Buenos Aires in 1967, founding the law firm of Terragno & Associates. He married Sonia...
, journalist and politician - Jacobo TimermanJacobo TimermanJacobo Timerman was an Argentine publisher, journalist, and author who was persecuted and honored for confronting the atrocities of the Argentine military regime's Dirty War...
, journalist and writer - Bernardo VerbitskyBernardo VerbitskyBernardo Verbitsky was an Argentine writer and journalist, and father of Horacio Verbitsky.Verbitsky was a screenwriter, a journalist from Noticias Gráficas, and a member of Academia Porteña del Lunfardo...
, journalist and writer - Horacio VerbitskyHoracio VerbitskyHoracio Verbitsky is a prominent Argentine investigative journalist and author. He writes for the left-leaning Argentine newspaper Página/12 and heads up the Center for Legal and Social Studies , an Argentine human-rights organization.He is also a member of the Directive Board of Human Rights...
, journalist, activist and writer - Constancio C. VigilConstancio C. VigilConstancio Cecilio Vigil was a Uruguayan-Argentine writer and prominent publisher.-Life and times:Constancio Vigil was born in Rocha, Uruguay, in 1876. His father, a local politician, was forced to relocate to the nation's capital, Montevideo, following a political dispute...
, journalist, writer and publisher
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- Amancio AlcortaAmancio AlcortaAmancio Alcorta was an Argentine legal theorist, conservative politician and diplomat.-Life and times:Amancio Alcorta was born in Buenos Aires, in 1842, and enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires, where he received a juris doctor, in 1867...
, diplomat and scholar - Marcella Althaus-ReidMarcella Althaus-ReidMarcella Althaus-Reid was Professor of contextual theology at New College, University of Edinburgh. When appointed, she was the only woman professor of theology at a Scottish University, and the first woman professor of theology at New College in its 160 year history .She was born in Rosario, ,...
, theologian - Mario Roberto ÁlvarezMario Roberto ÁlvarezMario Roberto Álvarez was a prominent Argentine architect.-Early life:Álvarez was born in Buenos Aires in 1913. He enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires School of Arquitecture in 1932, and graduated with Gold Medal honors in 1936...
, architect - Jorge Antonio, industrialist
- José ArceJosé ArceJosé Arce 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 - between 16 April 1948 and 21 September 1948....
, diplomat - Otto BembergOtto BembergOtto Bemberg was a German Argentine businessman prominent in the development of early Argentine industry.-Life and times:...
, industrialist - Pedro BenoitPedro BenoitPedro Benoit was an Argentine architect, engineer and urbanist best known for designing the layout of the city of La Plata.-Life and times:...
, urbanist and architect - Ladislao BiróLászló BíróLászló József Bíró was the inventor of the modern ballpoint pen.Bíró was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1899. He presented the first production of the ball pen at the Budapest International Fair in 1931...
, inventor of the Ball point pen - Eduardo BradleyEduardo BradleyEduardo Bradley, born in the city of La Plata, Argentina, on April 9, 1887 embodied the Spirit of Aviation in Argentina where he was a major contributor in the funding of civil aviation. The son of Tomás Bradley Sutton, veteran of the Paraguayan War and of Mary Hayes O’Callaghan. Eduardo Bradley...
, aerostat pilot - Jorge BritoJorge Horacio Brito-Life and times:Jorge Brito was born in Salta in 1952 and was raised by his mother, who was widowed in 1962. He founded Anglia, a brokerage, in 1976 and, in 1985, purchased a competing brokerage, Financiera Macro. He was named Chairman of the Board of Directors in June 1988 and cultivated close...
, banker - Carlos BulgheroniCarlos BulgheroniCarlos Bulgheroni is a prominent Argentinian businessman.-Biography:Carlos Alberto Bulgheroni was born in Rufino, Santa Fe Province. He enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires, and earned a juris doctor in 1970...
, industrialist - Juan Antonio BuschiazzoJuan Antonio BuschiazzoJuan Antonio Buschiazzo was an Italian architect and engineer who contributed to the modernisation of Buenos Aires, Argentina in the 1880s and to the construction of the city of La Plata, the new capital of the Buenos Aires Province.Born in 1845 in Pontinvrea, Province of Savona, Liguria,...
, architect - Alejandro BustilloAlejandro BustilloAlejandro Bustillo was an Argentine painter and architect who left his mark in various tourist destinations in Argentina, especially in the Andean region of the Patagonia....
, architect - Dante CaputoDante CaputoDante Caputo is an Argentine academic, diplomat and politician, who served as the nation's foreign minister under President Raúl Alfonsín.-Academic activity:...
, diplomat - Evangelina CarrozzoEvangelina CarrozzoEvangelina Carrozzo is an Argentine model, beauty queen and dancer. She gained international attention for her actions during an international Presidential summit held on May 12, 2006.-Childhood:...
, model and activist - Eduardo ConstantiniEduardo ConstantiniEduardo Francisco Costantini is an Argentine real estate developer, businessman, philanthropist and head of the venture capital firm Consultatio, based in Buenos Aires.-Life and times:...
, businessman - Guido di TellaGuido di TellaGuido di Tella was an Argentine businessman, academic and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Relations between 1991 and 1999.-Early career:Guido José Mario Di Tella was born in Buenos Aires, 1931...
, diplomat - Torcuato di TellaTorcuato di TellaTorcuato di Tella was an Argentine industrialist and philanthropist.-Life and times:Torcuato di Tella was born in Capracotta, Italy, in 1892. He arrived in Argentina at age 13 and settled in Buenos Aires...
, industrialist - Julio DormalJulio DormalJulio Dormal was a Belgian architect who, after studying in Paris, arrived in Argentina in 1868 where he became one of first exponents of the Beaux-Arts style of architecture....
, architect - Luis María DragoLuis Maria DragoLuis 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...
, diplomat - Gato DumasGato DumasGato Dumas was a celebrated Argentine chef and restaurateur.-Life and work:Carlos Alberto Dumas was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1938...
, chef and restaurateur - Eduardo ElsztainEduardo ElsztainEduardo Elsztain is a prominent Argentine businessman.-Career:Eduardo Sergio Elsztain was born in Buenos Aires in 1960. His grandfather, Isaac Elsztain, had founded Inversiones y Representaciones S.A. in 1943 as an independent realty...
, businessman - Carlos EscudéCarlos EscudéCarlos Andrés Escudé Carvajal is an Argentine political scientist and author, who during the 1990s served as special advisor to one of Argentina's most distinguished Foreign Ministers - Guido di Tella...
, political scientist - Alfredo FortabatAlfredo FortabatAlfredo Fortabat was a prominent Argentine industrialist.-Life and times:Alfredo Fortabat was born in Azul, a small city in Buenos Aires Province, in 1894; his parents, Helen Pourtal and Lucien Fortabat, were recently-arrived French Argentines...
, industrialist - Inès de la FressangeInès de la FressangeInès Marie Lætitia Églantine Isabelle de Seignard de La Fressange , is a French model, aristocrat and designer of fashion and perfumes. She was named to the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame in 1998.- Biography :...
, designer and model half-Argentine - María Amalia Lacroze de FortabatMaría Amalia Lacroze de FortabatMaría Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat is a prominent Argentine executive and philanthropist.-Life and times:María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat was born in 1921 to a prominent Argentine family; a grandfather, Federico Lacroze, developed Buenos Aires' first tramway line, in the 1880s...
, executive - Fanne FoxeFanne FoxeFanne Foxe was a stripper best known for being involved in a 1974 sex scandal surrounding Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Mills, in what is reputed to be one of the most reported political sex scandals of the 1970s...
, woman of scandal - Marcos GalperinMarcos GalperinMarcos Galperin, born in 1971, is the CEO of MercadoLibre.comMarcos began the company while still in business school at Stanford University. Finance professor Jack McDonald had been helping Marcos to contact potential investors, and asked John Muse, an invited speaker and co-founder of the Hicks...
, internet entrepreneur - Francisco GianottiFrancisco GianottiFrancisco Gianotti was an architect who designed many important Art Nouveau buildings in Buenos Aires, Argentina....
, architect - Julio GodioJulio GodioJulio Godio was an Argentine sociologist.Born at La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, he was elected president of the students' union of the University of La Plata in 1958...
, historian - Carlos Bernardo González PecotcheCarlos Bernardo Gonzalez PecotcheCarlos Bernardo González Pecotche , also known as Raumsol, was an Argentine humanist and thinker. He created and developed Logosophy in 1930.-Biography:...
, pedagogian and philosopher - Roberto GrauRoberto GrauRoberto Gabriel Grau was an Argentine chess master.Grau played in many Argentine championships. In 1921/22, he tied for 3rd-4th . In 1922, he tied for 2nd-3rd . In 1923/24, he tied for 2nd-4th...
, chess player - Soto GrimshawSoto GrimshawSoto Grimshaw was an Argentine naturalist, explorer and gaucho.Grimshaw was born to British parents in La Pampa Province. Growing up on the family ranch, Grimshaw became well versed in the wrangling and cattle herding skills required of any gaucho. He then went to complete his studies at the...
, explorer and naturalist - Daniel GrinbankDaniel GrinbankDaniel Grinbank is an Argentine businessman and impresario. His business creations include four radio stations, a record label and a production company...
, producer - Ernesto Garzón ValdésErnesto Garzón ValdésErnesto Garzón Valdés is an Argentine philosopher.He has been professor of philosophy of law at the universities of Córdoba and La Plata in Argentina and, upon being exiled in Germany during the administration of Isabel Perón and the subsequent dictatorship in Argentina, at the universities of...
, philosopher - Paul GroussacPaul GroussacPaul-François Groussac was a French-born Argentine writer, literary critic, historian, and librarian. He was born in Toulouse to Catherine Deval and Pierre Groussac, the scion of an old Languedocian family.-Biography:...
, encyclopedist and librarian - Juan María GutiérrezJuan María GutiérrezJuan María Gutiérrez was an Argentine statesman, jurist, surveyor, historian, critic, and poet.He was a major figure in Argentine liberalism and one of the most prominent promoters of Argentine culture during the 19th century...
, educator - Daniel HadadDaniel HadadDaniel Hadad is an Argentine businessman involved in telecommunications and media.-Life and times:Daniel Hadad was born in Buenos Aires in 1961. He earned degrees as a lawyer and journalist from the Catholic University of Argentina, and completed post-graduate studies at the University of...
, businessman - Carlos HellerCarlos HellerCarlos Heller is an Argentine executive, cooperative banking leader, and politician.-The cooperative movement:Carlos Heller was born in rural Villa Dominguez , in 1940, to a Jewish family. The Hellers relocated to Buenos Aires in 1950, and Carlos completed his secondary schooling in a vocational...
, credit union leader - Otto KrauseOtto KrauseOtto Krause was an Argentine engineer and educator.-Life and times:Krause was born in the Pampas town of Chivilcoy to Leopoldina and Carl August Krause, both German Argentine immigrants arrived in 1851...
, educator - Juan Carlos LectoureJuan Carlos LectoureJuan Carlos Lectoure , nicknamed "Tito," was an Argentine businessman, mainly involved in boxing events and former owner of Buenos Aires' Luna Park stadium....
, boxing promoter - Patrick LynchPatrick Lynch (Argentina)Patrick Lynch, born 1715, was an Irish emigrant who became a significant landowner in Rio de la Plata, which is now part of Argentina. He was born in Galway and was the second son of Patrick Lynch of Lydican Castle and Agnes Blake...
, businessman and ancestor of Che GuevaraChe GuevaraErnesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist... - Francisco MacriFrancisco MacriFrancisco Macri is a prominent Argentine businessman and father of Mauricio Macri, current mayor of Buenos Aires.-Childhood in Italy:...
, industrialist - Mauricio MacriMauricio MacriMauricio Macri is an Argentine businessman turned politician, and Head of Government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. Son of Francisco Macri, a businessman of Italian origin prominent in the industrial and construction sectors, he represented the City of Buenos Aires in the Lower House of...
, businessman and Mayor of Buenos AiresBuenos AiresBuenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent... - Eduardo MaderoEduardo MaderoEduardo Madero was an Argentine merchant, banker and developer.-Life and times:Eduardo Madero was born in Buenos Aires, in 1823, to a family of farmers. A nephew of publisher Florencio Varela, his uncle's enmity with the Governor of Buenos Aires Province, Juan Manuel de Rosas, led Madero to...
, businessman - Roberto MaidanaRoberto MaidanaRoberto Maidana was an Argentine journalist.During his long career he interviewed a number of high-profile personalities, including John and Robert Kennedy, Pandit Nehru, Golda Meir, Yitzak Rabin, Fidel Castro, Anwar el-Sadat, Ernesto Guevara, Moshe Dayan, Henry Kissinger, Indira Gandhi, Menahem...
, interviewer - Carlos Miguens BembergCarlos Miguens BembergCarlos Miguens Bemberg, is a successful 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 Bemberg...
, businessman - Nicolás MihanovichNicolás MihanovichNicolás Mihanovich was a Croatian Argentine businessman closely linked to the development of the Argentine merchant marine.-The Beginnings:Nicolás Mihanovich was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in what is today Croatia, in 1844...
, businessman - Juan MoreiraJuan MoreiraJuan Moreira is a well-known figure in the history of Argentina, an outlaw, gaucho and folk-hero, was indeed one of the more renowned Argentinian rural bandits.-Early life:...
, righteous outlaw - José Luis MuratureJosé Luis MuratureJosé Luis Murature was an Argentine lawyer, journalist, professor and foreign minister of Argentina from 1914-1916.Born in Buenos Aires, the son of José P. Murature and Dolores Legarrete, he was educated at the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires and the University of Buenos Aires. Murature was...
, diplomat and newspaper editor - Miguel NajdorfMiguel NajdorfMiguel Najdorf was a Polish-born Argentine chess grandmaster of Jewish origin, famous for his Najdorf Variation....
, chess player - Francisco de NarváezFrancisco de NarváezFrancisco de Narváez , known as El Colorado or Pancho, is a Colombian-born naturalized Argentine businessman, politician who ran for governor of Buenos Aires Province on the PRO ballot in the 2007 elections in Argentina...
, businessman - Eduardo NewberyEduardo NewberyEduardo Federico Newbery was an Argentine odontologist and aerostat pilot of North American descent. His father Ralph Lamartine Newbery, emigrated from Long Island, New York, and settled in Argentina after the American Civil War...
, aerostat pilot - Jorge NewberyJorge NewberyJorge "George" Newbery, born Jorge Alejandro Newbery , was an Argentine pilot of North American descent. His father, Ralph Newbery , emigrated from Long Island, to Argentina after the American Civil War...
, Argentine aviation pioneer - Ernestina Herrera de NobleErnestina Herrera de NobleErnestina Herrera de Noble is a prominent Argentine publisher and executive. She is the largest shareholder of the Grupo Clarín media conglomerate and director of the flagship Clarín newspaper.-Life and times:...
, publisher - Alejandro OrfilaAlejandro OrfilaAlejandro Orfila was an Argentine career diplomat.-Early career:Born to Catalan immigrants who had become moderately successful Mendoza Province vintners, Alejandro Orfila received a Law Degree at the University of Buenos Aires in 1945...
, diplomat and winemaker - Horacio PaganiHoracio PaganiHoracio Pagani is the Argentinian founder of Pagani Automobili S.p.A., an Italian speciality auto-maker.Horacio Pagani comes from a line of Argentinian bakers. From a young age he enjoyed designing cars out of balsa wood, the designs of which can now be seen in the Pagani showroom...
, auto designer - Mario PalantiMario PalantiMario Palanti was an Italian architect who designed important buildings in the capital cities of both Argentina and Uruguay. Born in 1885 in Milan, Italy, he studied architecture in the Brera Academy and in the Politecnico di Milano university...
, architect - Oscar PannoOscar PannoOscar R. Panno is an Argentine chess Grandmaster.Panno won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1953, and also won the championship of Argentina the same year....
, chess player - José C. PazJosé C. PazJosé Clemente Paz was an Argentine statesman, diplomat and journalist, founder of the La Prensa newspaper....
, publisher - Patricio Peralta RamosPatricio Peralta RamosPatricio Peralta Ramos was an Argentine businessman and landowner prominent in the foundation of the seaside Mar del Plata.-Life and times:...
, developer - César PelliCésar PelliCésar Pelli is an Argentine architect known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. In 1991, the American Institute of Architects listed Pelli among the ten most influential living American architects...
, architect - Gregorio Pérez CompancGregorio Pérez CompancGregorio Perez Companc also known as "Don Gregorio" or "Goyo," is Argentina's wealthiest individual, with an estimated net worth of US$1.4 billion dollars in 2011.- Background :He was born Jorge Gregorio Bazán in Buenos Aires, in 1934...
, businessman - Patricio PouchuluPatricio PouchuluPatricio Pouchulu is a Futurist contemporary architect.Born in Buenos Aires, he graduated as an Architect at Universidad de Buenos Aires before moving to London to study with Peter Cook at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where he got a M.Arch...
, architect - Jorge PreloranJorge PreloranJorge Ricardo Preloran was a prolific Argentine filmmaker and a pioneer in ethnobiographic film making.- Life and career :...
, filmmaker - Agostino RoccaAgostino RoccaAgostino Rocca was an Italian 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 studies at the Collegio Militare di Roma...
, industrialist - Paolo RoccaPaolo RoccaPaolo Rocca is a prominent Italian Argentine businessman.-Life and times:Paolo Rocca was born in Milan. His father, Roberto Rocca, was a mechanical engineer and the son of Agostino Rocca, a prominent member of the Istituto per la Ricostruzione Industriale from 1933 to 1941, and the founder of...
, industrialist - Francisco SalamoneFrancisco SalamoneFrancisco Salamone was an Argentine architect of Italian descent who, between 1936 and 1940, during the Infamous Decade, built more than 60 municipal buildings with elements of Art Deco style in 25 rural communities on the Argentine Pampas within the Buenos Aires Province...
, architect - Raúl Scalabrini OrtizRaúl Scalabrini OrtizRaúl Scalabrini Ortiz was an Argentine writer, journalist, essayist and poet, friend of Arturo Jauretche and Homero Manzi, and loosely associated with the political group Fuerza de Orientación Radical de la Joven Argentina .Scalabrini Ortiz was born in Corrientes, the son of the naturalist Pedro...
, political and social theorist - José María SobralJosé María SobralAlférez de Navío José María Sobral was an Argentine military scientist and Antarctic explorer....
, Antarctic explorer - Gerardo SofovichGerardo SofovichGerardo Sofovich is an Argentine businessman, impresario, TV host actor, comedian, scriptwriter, and film director....
, producer - Vicente Solano LimaVicente Solano LimaVicente Solano Lima was a moderately conservative newspaper publisher and politician who served as Vice President of Argentina from May 25, 1973 to July 13, 1973.-Life and times:...
, publisher and politician - Santiago SoldatiSantiago SoldatiSantiago Soldati is a prominent Argentine businessman.-Career:Santiago Soldati was born to Francisco Soldati, a nephew of the founder of the Villa Lugano neighborhood of Buenos Aires, José Francisco Soldati, and the owner of the city's largest utility, the Italian-Argentine Electric Company...
, businessman - Viktor SulĉiĉViktor SulcicViktor Sulčič, also known as Víctor Sulcic, was a Slovenian born architect in Argentina. He was born in 1895 in Križ near Trieste, died in 1973 in Buenos Aires....
, architect - Enrique SusiniEnrique Telémaco SusiniEnrique Telémaco Susini was an Argentine entrepreneur and media pioneer.In 1920, Susini led the effort for the first radio broadcast in Argentina, and subsequently established one of the earliest regular radio stations in the world...
, businessman - Clorindo TestaClorindo TestaClorindo Manuel José Testa is an Italian-Argentine architect and artist. He graduated from the School of Architecture at the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1948....
, architect - Carlos ThaysCarlos ThaysCarlos Thays was a French-Argentine landscape architect, and a student of French landscape architect Édouard André.-Biography:...
, renowned landscape architectLandscape architectureLandscape architecture is the design of outdoor and public spaces to achieve environmental, socio-behavioral, or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and geological conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of interventions... - Ernesto TornquistErnesto TornquistErnesto Carlos Tornquist is considered to be one of the most important entrepreneurs in Argentina at the end of the 19th century. The diversified business empire he created played a key role in helping to link Argentina with the trading and financial systems of the first world...
, businessman - Martín VarsavskyMartín VarsavskyMartín Varsavsky is an Argentine entrepreneur based in Spain.Born to Carlos Varsavsky and Silvia Waisman-Diamond, Varsavsky attended primary school at the New Model School and the Colegio Nicolás Avellaneda high school....
, businessman - Azucena Villaflor de VicentiAzucena VillaflorAzucena Villaflor was an Argentine social activist, and one of the founders of the human rights association called Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, which looked for desaparecidos .Villaflor was the daughter of a lower class family, and her mother, Emma Nitz, was only 15...
, murdered activist - Fausto VitelloFausto VitelloFausto Vitello was an American businessman and magazine publisher. Vitello is the creator of Thrasher magazine and co-creator of Independent trucks.-Early life:...
, skateboarder and publisher - Amancio WilliamsAmancio WilliamsAmancio Williams was an Argentine architect and among his country's leading exponents of modern architecture.-Life and work:...
, architect - Jaime YankelevichJaime YankelevichJaime Yankelevich was an Argentine engineer and businessman who was a pioneer in the development of his country's radio and television media.-Life and times:...
, businessman and television pioneer
Sports teams
- Las LeonasLas LeonasArgentina national women's field hockey team represents Argentina in women's field hockey. They are also known by the nickname Las Leonas, meaning "The Lionesses"...
, hockey team - Los Pumas, rugby team
- Argentina national basketball teamArgentina national basketball teamThe Argentina national basketball team represents Argentina in basketball international competitions, and is controlled by the Argentine Basketball Federation....
- Argentina national football teamArgentina national football teamThe Argentina national football team represents Argentina in association football and is controlled by the Argentine Football Association , the governing body for football in Argentina. Argentina's home stadium is Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti and their head coach is Alejandro...
See also: :Category:National sports teams of Argentina
Sports
- Magdalena AicegaMagdalena AicegaMaría Magdalena Aicega Amicarelli is a field hockey defender from Argentina, who won the silver medal with the Women's National Team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Nicknamed Magui, she first represented her native country at the Junior World Cup in 1993 in Barcelona, Spain,...
, field hockey player - José AcasusoJosé AcasusoJosé Javier "Chucho" Acasuso is a professional male tennis player from Argentina. Like many of his fellow countrymen, he favours clay. He is known for his strong serve and his hard groundstrokes off both sides...
tennis player - Mariano AguerreMariano AguerreMariano Aguerre born May 25, 1969 in Pilar, Buenos Aires Province is an Argentine professional polo player. He is one of the few players to have achieved a 10-goal handicap, which he maintained for much of his career. He is presently rated at 9 goals in Argentina and the U.S.A.-Career:Like Adolfo...
, polo player - Pablo AimarPablo AimarPablo César Aimar Giordano is a Argentine professional footballer who plays for Sport Lisboa e Benfica in the Portuguese first division. An attacking midfielder with a vast array of skills, he also holds a Spanish passport....
, football player - Serena AmatoSerena AmatoSerena Bibiana Amato is a sailor from Argentina, who won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.-References:*...
, sailor - Osvaldo ArdilesOsvaldo ArdilesOsvaldo César Ardiles , often referred to in Britain as Ossie Ardiles, is a football coach, pundit and former midfielder who won the 1978 World Cup as part of the Argentine national team...
, football (soccer) player - Luciana Aymar, hockey player
- Carlos Baldomir, world champion boxer
- Georgina BardachGeorgina BardachGeorgina Bardach Martin is a swimmer from Argentina. At the 2002 FINA Short Course World Championships in Moscow, she finished third in the 400 m Individual Medley race...
, swimmerSwimming (sport)Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
bronze medal in 2004 Summer Olympics2004 Summer OlympicsThe 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team... - Alfio BasileAlfio BasileAlfio Basile , known as Coco, is an Argentine football coach and former player.-Playing career:Basile started his playing career at the Bella Vista club in his home city. From 1964 to 1970 he played for Racing Club, and then for Huracán, where he was a mainstay of the 1973 Metropolitano champions...
, football player and coach - Gabriel BatistutaGabriel BatistutaGabriel Omar Batistuta , nicknamed Batigol, is a former professional footballer. The prolific Argentine striker played most of his club football at Fiorentina in Italy, and he is the tenth top scorer of all-time in the Italian Serie A league, with 184 goals in 318 matches...
, footballFootball (soccer)Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
player - Carlos BianchiCarlos BianchiCarlos Arcecio Bianchi , popularly known as El Virrey , is a prolific Argentine football forward turned manager...
, football player and coach - Carlos BilardoCarlos BilardoCarlos Salvador Bilardo is an Argentine former football player and coach, who is currently the General Manager of the Argentina national football team....
, football player and coach - Ringo BonavenaOscar BonavenaOscar Natalio "Ringo" Bonavena was a heavyweight professional boxer with a career record of 58 wins, 9 losses and 1 draw. A rugged, wild-swinging puncher, he was nicknamed "Ringo" because of his Beatles haircut, and enjoyed professional success in both Argentina and the United States...
, boxer - Daniel Brailovski, football player, midfielder
- Delfo CabreraDelfo CabreraDelfo Cabrera Gómez was an Argentine athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1948 Summer Olympics in one of the most dramatic finishes in athletics history.-Biography:...
, sprinter - Ángel CabreraAngel CabreraÁngel Cabrera is an Argentine professional golfer who plays on both the European Tour and PGA Tour. He is known affectionately as "El Pato" in Spanish or in English as "The duck" for his waddling gait. He is a former U.S. Open champion and Masters champion. He is the first Argentine to win either...
("El Pato Criollo"), golfer - Agustín CalleriAgustín CalleriAgustín Calleri Shaal is a retired professional male tennis player from Argentina. His nickname is Gordo which means Fat in Spanish. He is known as a hard-hitter and he prefers playing on clay....
, tennis player - Adolfo CambiasoAdolfo CambiasoAdolfo Cambiaso born April 15, 1975 in Cañuelas, Buenos Aires Province is an Argentine polo player with a 10-goal handicap. Currently, he is ranked number 1. He is often referred to as Adolfito or Dolfi.-Early years:...
, polo player - Esteban CambiassoEsteban CambiassoEsteban Matías Cambiasso Deleau , nicknamed "Cuchu" , is an Argentine football midfielder who plays for Italian Serie A club Internazionale....
, football player - Mauro Camoranessi, football player
- Guillermo CañasGuillermo CañasGuillermo Ignacio Cañas , often referred to as Willy Cañas, is a retired Argentine professional tennis player. He was born in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires, and named after Argentine tennis star Guillermo Vilas. His highest singles ranking was 8th . After retirement Cañas took on coaching, he...
, tennis player - Claudio CaniggiaClaudio CaniggiaClaudio Paul Caniggia is a former Argentine football forward, who played 50 times for the Argentine national team. He appeared in three World Cups, and was a member of both rival clubs River Plate and Boca Juniors. Caniggia was known for his speed as a player and competed in Athletics before his...
, football player - Bartolomé CastagnolaBartolomé CastagnolaBartolomé Castagnola born June 16, 1970 in Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires Province is an Argentine polo player with a 10-goal polo handicap and ranked among the top twenty players. He is often referred to as Lolo.-Career:...
, polo player - Jorge CastroJorge Castro (boxer)Jorge Fernando "Locomotora" Castro , is an Argentine boxer and former middleweight champion of the world, who is best known for his second defense of the title against John David Jackson in 1994....
, world champion boxer - Martín CastrogiovanniMartin CastrogiovanniMartín Leandro Castrogiovanni is an Italian Argentine rugby union footballer. He played for Ghial Calvisano, with whom he won the Italian championship in 2005. He has since signed a new contract with Leicester Tigers, and after a successful 2006/07 season with them was named Guinness Premiership...
, rugby player - Fernando CavenaghiFernando CavenaghiFernando Ezequiel Cavenaghi is an Argentine football player who currently plays for River Plate in the second division.-Career:...
, football (soccer) player - Juan Ignacio ChelaJuan Ignacio ChelaJuan Ignacio Chela is a professional male tennis player from Argentina. Like most Argentine players he is comfortable on Clay courts and owns all six of his career titles on the surface...
, tennis player - Germán ChiaraviglioGermán ChiaraviglioGermán Chiaraviglio is an Argentine pole vaulter.His personal best of 5.71 metres was achieved at the World Championships in Beijing on August 19, 2006, when he beat the old championship record of István Bagyula from 1988, and the Argentine senior record...
, pole vaulter - José Luis ClercJosé Luis ClercJosé Luis Clerc is a former Argentine professional tennis player, and one of the most important Argentine players in history....
, tennis player - José CóceresJosé CóceresJosé Eusebio Cóceres is an Argentine golfer who spent many years on the European Tour and is now a member of the U.S.-based PGA Tour....
, golfer - Juan Martín CoggiJuan Martin CoggiJuan Martin Coggi is a former boxer from Argentina. A native of Santa Fe , which was also the birthplace of Carlos Monzón, Coggi was a three time world light welterweight champion. He had 75 wins, 5 losses and 2 draws, with 44 wins by knockout...
, world champion boxer - Felipe ContepomiFelipe ContepomiFelipe Contepomi is an Argentine rugby union footballer. A fly-half and centre, he currently plays for Stade Francais of the French Top 14; he made his debut for the club in November 2009 after recovering from a torn ACL suffered in a 2008–09 Heineken Cup match with his previous club, Magners...
, rugby player - Guillermo CoriaGuillermo CoriaGuillermo Sebastián Coria , nicknames include El Mago , is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina who was runner-up in the 2004 French Open...
, tennis player - Ignacio CorletoIgnacio CorletoIgnacio Corleto is an Argentine Rugby Union footballer who plays Fullback position. He began his rugby career in the local Club Universitario de Buenos Aires . After the 1999 Rugby World Cup he migrated into professional rugby and signed with French club Narbonne...
rugby player - Hernán CrespoHernán CrespoHernán Jorge Crespo is an Argentine footballer who plays for Parma in the Italian Serie A. Crespo has scored over 300 goals in a career spanning 18 years. His honors include an Olympic Games silver medal, a Copa Libertadores, an English Premier League title and three Scudettos. He was topscorer in...
, football player - Juan Esteban CuruchetJuan CuruchetJuan Esteban Curuchet is a road bicycle racer and track cyclist from Argentina.Curuchet represented Argentina at the Summer Olympics in 1984, 1988, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008....
, cyclist - Juan Martín del PotroJuan Martin Del PotroJuan Martín del Potro is an Argentine professional tennis player. Del Potro achieved a top-10 ranking by the Association of Tennis Professionals for the first time on October 6, 2008. In January 2010, he reached a career-high ranking of world no. 4...
, tennis player - Roberto DeVicenzoRoberto DeVicenzoRoberto De Vicenzo is a former professional golfer from Argentina. He won more than 230 tournaments worldwide in his career including eight on the PGA Tour and most famously the 1967 Open Championship.-Biography:...
, golfer - Alfredo Di StéfanoAlfredo Di StéfanoAlfredo Stéfano Di Stéfano Laulhé, born into a family of Italian immigrants from Capri, is a former Argentinian footballer and coach, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time...
, football player - Gisela DulkoGisela DulkoGisela Dulko is an Argentine female tennis player, who will, as of 4 July 2011, be ranked World No. 51 in singles and No. 4 in doubles. Although she enjoyed a modest success in singles, reaching No. 26 on November 21, 2005, and winning four WTA Tour titles, her speciality has been doubles, where...
, tennis player - Vito DumasVito DumasVito Dumas was an Argentine single-handed sailor.In 1942, while the world was in the depths of World War II, he set out on a single-handed circumnavigation of the Southern Ocean. He left Buenos Aires in June, sailing Lehg II, a 31-foot ketch named for the initials of his mistress...
, yachting - Jonathan ErlichJonathan ErlichJonathan Dario "Yoni" Erlich is a professional Israeli tennis player...
, tennis player - Carlos "Camau" EspínolaCarlos Espínola (sailor)Carlos Mauricio Espínola is an Argentine windsurfer.Nicknamed Camau, Espínola started training at the Club Náutico de La Totora in his home province, to obtain his first achievement of importance, a silver medal, during the Pan American Games held in 1991 in La Habana...
, sailor - Gastón EtlisGastón EtlisGastón Etlis is a former tennis player from Argentina. He is Jewish.In January 2005 Etlis was ranked No.17 in doubles....
, tennis player - Guillermo FalascaGuillermo FalascaGuillermo Falasca Fernández is a Spanish volleyball player. Falasca became topscorer and best server at the 2005 European League, in which Spain ended up in third place in the overall-rankings....
, boleyball player - Miguel Ángel FalascaMiguel Ángel FalascaMiguel Ángel Falasca Fernández is a Spanish volleyball player who was born in Argentina. He represented Spain at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. A resident of Málaga he was a member of the Men's National Team that won the 2007 European title in Moscow, Russia...
, boleyball player - Juan Manuel FangioJuan Manuel FangioJuan Manuel Fangio , nicknamed El Chueco or El Maestro , was a racing car driver from Argentina, who dominated the first decade of Formula One racing...
, Formula OneFormula OneFormula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
five-time world champion race car driver - Clarisa FernándezClarisa FernandezClarisa Fernández is a retired Argentine tennis player who is best known for her semi-final appearance at the 2002 French Open, the first Argentine since Sabatini in 1992 to reach that stage. Fernández was ranked 87th in the world at the time of her shocking result...
, tennis player - Susana Ferrari BillinghurstSusana Ferrari BillinghurstSusana Ferrari Billinghurst was an Argentine aviator. She was the first woman in South America to earn a commercial pilot's license, in 1937.-Career:...
aviator - Luis FirpoLuis FirpoLuis Ángel Firpo, , was an Argentine boxer. Born in Junín, Argentina, he was nicknamed "The Wild Bull of The Pampas."...
, boxer - Juan Antonio FlechaJuan Antonio FlechaJuan Antonio Flecha Giannoni is an Argentine-born Spanish professional road bicycle racer for the UCI ProTour team .-Career:...
, cyclist - Andres FranzoiaAndrés FranzoiaAndrés Franzoia is an Argentine football forward. He currently plays for Olimpo de Bahia Blanca of the Argentine Primera División.-Career:...
, football player - Germán FrersGerman FrersGermán Frers is a naval architect renowned for designing successful racing yachts. He designed his first yacht in 1958. There is a design team consisting of Germán Frers and his son, also named Germán Frers, supported by a team of engineers, architects and designers, some of whom have been with...
, yachting - Víctor GalíndezVíctor GalíndezVíctor Emilio Galíndez was an Argentine boxer who was the third Latin American to win the world Light Heavyweight championship, after Puerto Rico's José Torres and Venezuela's Vicente Rondon.Galíndez was born in Vedia in the Leandro N...
, world champion boxer - Oscar Gálvez, race car driver
- José Eulogio GárateJosé Eulogio GárateJosé Eulogio Gárate Ormaechea is a former Argentine-Spanish footballer who played as a forward for SD Eibar, SD Indautxu, Atlético Madrid and Spain.-Club career:...
, football player - Alejandra GarcíaAlejandra GarcíaAlejandra García Flood is an Argentine pole vaulter. Her personal best jump is 4.43 metres, which she achieved in April 2004 in Santa Fe. This is the current Argentine record, and was a South American record until 2005. She is a former high jumper, winning silver at the 1993 South American...
, high jumper - José María GaticaJosé María GaticaJosé María Gatica was an Argentine boxer, one of Argentina's most famous sports idols. However, his boxing career was surrounded in controversy due to his support of Argentine President Juan Peron...
, boxer - Gastón GaudioGastón GaudioGastón Norberto Gaudio is a former tennis player from Argentina. His career-high ATP ranking was World No. 5 in 2005...
, tennis player. - Manu GinóbiliManu GinobiliEmanuel David "Manu" Ginóbili is an Argentine professional basketball player. Coming from a family of professional basketball players, he is a member of the Argentine men's national basketball team and the San Antonio Spurs in the National Basketball Association .Ginóbili spent the early part of...
, basketballBasketballBasketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
player - Griselda GonzálezGriselda GonzálezGriselda María de los Ángeles González Santillo is a retired female long-distance runner from Argentina. She twice won the Buenos Aires Marathon in her native country...
, runner - Inés GorrochateguiInes GorrochateguiInés Gorrochategui is a former professional female tennis player from Argentina. She reached her career-high singles ranking World No...
, tennis player - Estanislao GoyaEstanislao GoyaCarlos Estanislao "Tano" Goya is an Argentine professional golfer.After turning professional in 2007, Goya won the Tour de las Americas qualifying school by nine shots, and followed that with victory in the first event of the 2008 season, the Challenge Tour co-sanctioned Center Open, and third...
, golf player - Martín GramáticaMartin GramaticaMartín Gramática is an Argentine-American former football placekicker.Gramática was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the third round of the 1999 NFL Draft after playing college football at Kansas State, and has also been a member of the Indianapolis Colts, New England Patriots, Dallas...
, American football player - Gabriel HeinzeGabriel HeinzeGabriel Iván Heinze is an Argentine footballer who plays for A.S. Roma in Italy. Mainly a left back, he can also operate as a central defender....
, football player - Martín JaiteMartín JaiteMartín Jaite is an Argentine right-handed former top-10 professional tour tennis player.Jaite's ATP highest tour ranking was World # 10, which he achieved in the summer of 1990, and he won a total of 12 titles and $1,873,881 in tour prize money during his career.Jaite's playing style leveraged his...
, tennis player, highest world ranking #10 - Juan Martín HernándezJuan Martín HernándezJuan Martín Hernández is an Argentine rugby union player. A mainstay of the Argentina national team, he currently plays for the Paris club Racing Métro in the French Top 14 competition. His 2010 move to Racing brought him back to the city where he had begun his professional career in 2003 with...
, rugbyer - María de la Paz HernándezMaría de la Paz HernándezMaría de la Paz Hernández is a field hockey player from Argentina, who won the silver medal with the national women's hockey team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and a bronze medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Her brother is current Argentina rugby star Juan Martín...
, known as "Maripí", hockey player - Giselle Kañevsky, field hockey Olympic bronze
- Mario KempesMario KempesMario Alberto Kempes Chiodi is a retired Argentine footballer. His father, Mario, also a footballer, inspired him to play from a young age. At the age of 7, he began playing with a junior team and at 14, he joined La Cuarta de Talleres...
, football player - Daniela KrukowerDaniela KrukowerDaniela Yael Krukower is a former judoka from Israel who represented Argentina since 1999.-Biography:...
, judoka, World Champion (under 63 kg) - Santiago LangeSantiago LangeSantiago R. Lange is an Argentine Olympic sailor.Lange has competed in five editions of the Olympic Games, in 1988, 1996, 2000, and 2004. He won bronze in the latter in the Tornado class, along with teammate Carlos Espinola. He also represented represent Argentina again at the 2008 Summer...
, sailor - Santos LaciarSantos LaciarSantos Benigno Laciar , known familiarly as Santos Laciar and nicknamed Falucho, was an Argentine world flyweight champion.-Biography:Laciar was born in Huinca Renancó, in the province of Córdoba, Argentina....
, world champion boxer - Mario LedesmaMario LedesmaMario Ledesma Arocena is an Argentine rugby union footballer. He currently plays for the French club ASM Clermont Auvergne in the Top 14 competition. He also previously played for another French club, Castres Olympique, Narbonne and Curupaytí club in Argentina...
, rugbyer - Lucas LegnaniLucas LegnaniLucas Legnani is an Argentine ten-pin bowler. He finished in 14th position of the combined rankings at the 2006 AMF World Cup. He was also a bronze medalist at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio, Brazil....
, ten-pin bowler - Lucas Licht, football player, left defender/left winger (Racing Club de AvellanedaRacing Club de AvellanedaRacing Club is an Argentine professional football club from Avellaneda, a suburb of Greater Buenos Aires. Founded in 1903, Racing has been historically considered one of the "big five" clubs of Argentine football...
) - Pechito LópezJosé María LópezJosé María "Pechito" López is a race car driver. He raced in the 2006 GP2 Series for the Super Nova team, and previously for the DAMS team, and the CMS team in Formula 3000. He was also at Renault F1 as a test driver...
, race car driver - Germán Lux, football player
- Enrique MansillaEnrique MansillaEnrique Mansilla is an Argentine former racing driver born in San Pablo. He was a fierce rival and teammate of Ayrton Senna in British Formula Ford 1600 in 1981. In 1982 he drove in British Formula Three for West Surrey Racing, nearly winning the championship despite much of his funding...
, racing driver - Diego Armando MaradonaDiego MaradonaDiego Armando Maradona is a retired Argentine football player and widely regarded as one of the greatest football players of all time. Over the course of his professional club career Maradona played for Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors, Barcelona, Napoli, Sevilla and Newell's Old Boys, setting...
, Soccer player - Karina MasottaKarina MasottaPaula Karina Masotta Biagetti is a field hockey player from Argentina, who won the silver medal with the national women's hockey team at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.-References:*...
, field hockey player - Leonardo MayerLeonardo MayerLeonardo Martin Mayer is an Argentine professional tennis player.Mayer achieved a singles career high of world no. 51 on June 7, 2010. His career high in doubles was world no. 94 on March 1, 2010.http://www.itftennis.com/mens/players/player.asp?player=100049039 He is coached by Emiliano Redondi...
, tennis player - César Luis MenottiCésar Luis MenottiCésar Luis Menotti, known as El Flaco is an Argentine football coach and former player, who as coach, won the 1978 FIFA World Cup for Argentina.-Playing career:...
, Soccer player and coach - José MeolansJosé MeolansJosé Martin Meolans is a freestyle swimmer from Argentina, who won the world title in the 50 metre freestyle at the 2002 FINA Short Course World Championships in Moscow, Russia....
, swimmer - Lionel MessiLionel MessiLionel Andrés "Leo" Messi is an Argentine footballer who plays for FC Barcelona and captains the Argentina national team, mainly as a striker. Messi received several Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year nominations by the age of 21, and won in 2009 and 2010...
, football player - Marcos MilinkovicMarcos MilinkovicMarcos Antonio Milinković is an Argentine volleyball player. Milinković is 203 cm and weighs 100 kg.Milinković started playing the sport at age 17, a relatively late age....
, volleyballVolleyballVolleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
player - Juan MónacoJuan MónacoJuan Mónaco , nicknamed "Pico", is a male tennis player from Argentina. He reached a career-high ranking of World No. 14 on February 4, 2008. He is sponsored by Adidas and Yonex.-Biography:...
, tennis player - Lucas MonteverdeLucas MonteverdeLucas Monteverde, born December 18, 1976, is an Argentine professional polo player with a handicap of 10. He grew up near the town of 25 de Mayo, Buenos Aires Province, at the estancia El Rincón. The ranch is run by his father Lucas and uncle Marcelo Monteverde, one of the world's most successful...
, polo player - Carlos MonzónCarlos MonzónCarlos Monzón was an Argentine professional boxer who held the undisputed world middleweight title for 7 years, during which he successfully defended the title 14 times....
, world champion boxer - Claudio MorresiClaudio MorresiClaudio Alberto Morresi is a former football player from Argentina. He is currently the Sports Secretary of Argentina and with Enzo Francescoli formed one of the best striking partnerships in soccer at the River Plate football club in the early 1980s.-Titles:-References:...
, football player - David NalbandiánDavid NalbandianDavid Pablo Nalbandian is an Argentine professional tennis player and former world no. 3. He was runner-up at the 2002 Wimbledon Championships and the winner of the Tennis Masters Cup in 2005.-Biography:...
, tennis player - Andrés NocioniAndrés NocioniAndrés Marcelo Nocioni is an Argentine professional basketball player. He is under contract with the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers, but is playing for Peñarol de Mar del Plata during the NBA lockout. A regular member of the Argentine national team, Nocioni was part of the team that won a gold medal at...
, basketball player - José María Núñez PiossekJosé María Núñez PiossekJosé María Núñez Piossek is an Argentine rugby union footballer, currently playing for Scottish club Glasgow Warriors in the Magners League. He has also represented the Argentina national team, including being a part of their 2003 Rugby World Cup squad...
, rugby player - Fabricio ObertoFabricio ObertoFabricio Raúl Jesús Oberto is an Argentine professional basketball player. At and , he plays as a center. With Liga Nacional de Básquet in his native Argentina, Oberto began playing professionally in 1993 and later played overseas with teams in Spain and Greece...
, basketball player - Andrea OrlandiAndrea OrlandiAndrea Orlandi Stabilin , known as Orlandi, is a Spanish footballer who plays for Swansea City in Wales, as a left winger.-Spain:...
, sportwooman half-Argentine - Luciano OrqueraLuciano OrqueraLuciano Orquera is an Argentine-Italian rugby union player. He plays as a fly-half for Aironi, an Italian club in the Celtic League.....
, rugby player - Martín PalermoMartín PalermoMartín Palermo is a retired Argentine footballer who formerly played for Boca Juniors of Argentina, and the Argentina national team...
, football player - Oscar PannoOscar PannoOscar R. Panno is an Argentine chess Grandmaster.Panno won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1953, and also won the championship of Argentina the same year....
, chess grandmaster - Paula ParetoPaula ParetoPaula Belén Pareto is a judoka from Argentina.-Bio:Paula or "La Peke" as they call her was born in Buenos Aires's district Florida but now she lives with her parents in Tigre close to the capital city. When she was 4 she began with swimming and a year later added gymnastics...
, judoka - Sergio ParisseSergio ParisseSergio Parisse is an Italian Argentine rugby union rugby player. He was the first Italian rugby union player to be nominated for the IRB International player of the year...
, rugby player - Mercedes María PazMercedes PazMercedes María Paz is a former professional tennis player from Argentina, who won three singles titles during her career on the WTA Tour. The right-hander reached her highest career ranking on April 29, 1991, when she became the number 28 of the world...
, tennis player - José PekermanJosé PekermanJosé Néstor Pékerman is an Argentine football coach and an ex-football player. He become famous as a youth level coach for Argentina, winning the FIFA World Youth Championship three times, and the U-20 South American Youth Championship twice...
, football player and coach - Pascual PérezPascual Pérez (boxing)Pascual Nicolás Pérez was an Argentine flyweight boxer. Pérez was born in Tupungato in the Mendoza Province of Argentina, he went on to make history by becoming Argentina's first world boxing champion....
, first Argentine world boxing champion - Ramiro PezRamiro PezRamiro Pez is an Italian Argentine rugby union footballer who normally plays at fly-half. In 2008-09, he joined the newly promoted French Top 14 club Toulon, having been signed from Venezia Mestre in the Italian Super 10 competition.He made his international debut with the Italian national team on...
, rugbier - Walter PérezWalter PérezWalter Fernando Pérez is an Olympic gold medal-winning racing cyclist from Argentina.Pérez, who joined the Argentine cycling team in 1992, won the Men's Madison gold medal at the 2008 Olympics with team-mate Juan Curuchet.-References:* Crítica Digital...
, cyclist - Agustín PichotAgustín PichotAgustín Pichot is a retired Argentine rugby union player, formerly captain of the Argentine team and the English club Bristol. In addition to Bristol, he played for French sides Stade Français and Racing Métro after leaving Argentine team CASI from San Isidro in 1997...
, captain of Los Pumas, the national rugby team - Facundo PieresFacundo PieresFacundo Pieres born May 19, 1986 in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province is a professional Argentine polo player with a 10-goal handicap. Currently, he is ranked number 2.- Biography :...
, polo player - Gonzalo PieresGonzalo PieresGonzalo Pieres, Jr. born December 17, 1982 in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires Province is a professional Argentine polo player with a 10 goal handicap. Currently, he is ranked number 2.- Biography :...
, Jr., polo player - Hugo PortaHugo PortaHugo Porta is a former Argentine Rugby Union footballer, an inductee of both the International Rugby Hall of Fame and IRB Hall of Fame, and one of the best fly-halves the sport has seen...
, rugby player - Mariano PuertaMariano PuertaMariano Ruben Puerta is a former Argentine professional male tennis player best known for making the final of the French Open in 2005, where he lost to Rafael Nadal in four sets.-Career:...
, tennis player - Carlos ReutemannCarlos ReutemannCarlos Alberto Reutemann , nicknamed "Lole", is an Argentine former racing driver , and later a politician in his native province of Santa Fe, for the Justicialist Party....
, Formula OneFormula OneFormula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
race car driver and politician - Juan Román RiquelmeJuan Román RiquelmeJuan Román Riquelme is an Argentine footballer who plays for Boca Juniors. A longtime Argentine international, Riquelme is best known for his spells with Boca Juniors and Villarreal...
, football player - Cristian RodríguezCristian Rodríguez (boxer)Manuel Cristian Rodríguez is a retired professional boxer from Argentina. As an amateur, Rodríguez represented his native country in the featherweight division , winning a bronze medal at the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, Argentina...
, boxer - Cecilia RognoniCecilia RognoniMaria Cecilia Rognoni Potocki is an Argentine field hockey defender, who won the gold medal at the 2002 World Cup at Perth, Australia where she was elected as the best woman hockey player in the world by the FIH...
, grass hockey player - Juan Martillo RoldánJuan RoldánJuan Domingo Roldán is an Argentine former boxer whose nickname was Martillo . Roldán was very famous across Latin America during the 1980s, many articles about him appearing on Ring En Español magazine....
, boxer - Andrés RomeroAndres RomeroFor the Chilean footballer with the same name see Andrés Romero Andrés Fabián Romero is an Argentine professional golfer who plays on both the PGA Tour and European Tour....
, golfer - Eduardo RomeroEduardo RomeroEduardo Alejandro Romero is an Argentine professional golfer.Romero was born in Córdoba. He turned professional in 1982 at a relatively advanced age...
, golfer - Gabriela SabatiniGabriela SabatiniGabriela Beatriz Sabatini is a former professional Argentine tennis player. She was one of the leading players on the women's circuit in the late-1980s and early-1990s...
, tennis player - Pitu SalerniMaría Emilia SalerniMaría Emilia Salerni , known as Pitu Salerni, was an Argentine professional tennis player from the city of Rafaela, province of Santa Fe....
(María Emilia SalerniMaría Emilia SalerniMaría Emilia Salerni , known as Pitu Salerni, was an Argentine professional tennis player from the city of Rafaela, province of Santa Fe....
), tennis player - Javier SaviolaJavier SaviolaJavier Pedro Saviola Fernández is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for S.L. Benfica in Portugal, as a striker....
, football player - Lionel ScaloniLionel ScaloniLionel Sebastián Scaloni is an Argentine footballer who plays for S.S. Lazio in the Italian first division. A player of wide range, he can appear as both a right defender or midfielder....
, football player - Hugo SconochiniHugo SconochiniHugo Ariel Sconochini is an Argentine professional basketball shooting guard and small forward....
, basketball player - Noemí Simonetto de Portela, athlete, silver medal at 1948 Summer Olympics1948 Summer OlympicsThe 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in London, England, United Kingdom. After a 12-year hiatus because of World War II, these were the first Summer Olympics since the 1936 Games in Berlin...
- Liu Song, snooker player
- Juan Pablo SorínJuan Pablo SorínJuan Pablo Sorín is a former Argentine footballer. He was born in Buenos Aires. He is a much-travelled player, having spent time in Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Italy, France and Germany. He was captain of the Argentine team in the 2006 FIFA World Cup.He is a versatile left wing-back who can play...
, football player, defender - Alejandro SpajicAlejandro SpajicAlejandro Spajić is an Argentine volleyball player. Spajić is clearly a volleyball player both for Argentina and his club...
, volleyballVolleyballVolleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
player - Osvaldo SuárezOsvaldo SuárezJuan Osvaldo Roberto Suárez is a long-distance runner from Argentina who won four gold medals at the Pan American Games. He represented his native country at two Summer Olympics: 1960 and 1964. After his active career, he became a professional athletics coach.-References:...
, olympic marathonist - Paola SuárezPaola SuárezPaola Suárez was a top 10 tennis player in the early 2000s. She gained prominence in 2004 by reaching the finals of nine straight WTA doubles tournaments, and by reaching the singles semifinals of the French Open tournament, held in Paris."La Negra" Suárez began playing professional tennis at the...
, tennis player - Patricia TarabiniPatricia TarabiniPatricia Tarabini was an Argentine tennis player. Tarabini represented her country and won the Bronze Olympic medal at the 2004 Athens games, with Paola Suárez, where they lost 7–9 in the third set to eventual gold medalists from China, Sun Tiantian and Li Ting. On May 9, 1988, Tarabini reached...
, tennis player - Nicolás TauberNicolás TauberNicolás Tauber , is an Argentinian-Israeli footballer currently playing for Chacarita Juniors.-Playing career:During the summer of 2003, former Maccabi Netanya manager, Gili Landau, spotted Nicolás during a scouting tour of Argentina...
, football player - Diana TaurasiDiana TaurasiDiana Lorena Taurasi is a professional basketball player who plays for the Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA and Galatasaray Medical Park from Turkey...
, WNBA basketball player; parents are Argentine - Carlos TévezCarlos TévezCarlos Alberto Tévez is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for English club Manchester City...
, football player - Esteban TueroEsteban TueroEsteban Tuero is an Argentine racing driver who raced for the Minardi Formula One team in 1998. At 19, he became the third-youngest F1 driver in history when he landed his seat alongside Shinji Nakano, but left the sport at the end of the season following a neck injury.- Early life :Esteban Tuero...
, racing driver - Fabiana VallejosFabiana VallejosFabiana Gisela Vallejos is a women's association football player from Argentina, currently playing for Boca Juniors Ladies....
, women's soccer player - Julio VelascoJulio VelascoJulio Velasco is a professional volleyball coach from Argentina, who guided the Italian national men's team to several successes in the 1990s. After the 1996 Summer Olympics, where the Italians won silver, he switched to the Italian women's team...
, former volleyball coach - Juan Sebastián VerónJuan Sebastián VerónJuan Sebastián Verón is an Argentinian professional football player who is the current captain and midfielder for Estudiantes de La Plata in the Argentine Primera División....
, football player - Guillermo VilasGuillermo VilasGuillermo Apolinario Vilas is a retired and former World No. 2 professional tennis player from Argentina. He was the second Latin-American to win a Grand Slam tournament.-Career:...
, tennis player - Solange WitteveenSolange WitteveenSolange Marilú Witteveen is an Argentine high jumper. Born in Buenos Aires, she competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 2000....
, high jumper - Juan Carlos ZabalaJuan Carlos ZabalaJuan Carlos Zabala -aka: "El Ñandú Criollo"- was an Argentine athlete, winner of the marathon race at the 1932 Summer Olympics....
, sprinter
Religion
- Ángel AbreaÁngel AbreaÁngel Abrea was the first resident of Latin America to become a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ....
, General Authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Enrique AngelelliEnrique AngelelliEnrique Ángel Angelelli was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Argentina, killed during the Dirty war for his involvement with social issues....
, assassinated Bishop of La Rioja - Jorge Bergoglio, Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires
- Mamerto EsquiúMamerto EsquiúMamerto de la Ascensión Esquiú, Venerable Servant of God was a historically significant Argentine friar.He was born in Piedra Blanca in Catamarca Province to Esquiú and María de las Nieves Medina...
, friar and activist - José Gabriel FunesJosé Gabriel FunesFr. José Gabriel Funes, S.J. , an Argentine Jesuit priest and astronomer, is the current director of the Vatican Observatory.-Biography:...
, Jesuit priest and current director of the Vatican ObservatoryVatican ObservatoryThe Vatican Observatory is an astronomical research and educational institution supported by the Holy See. Originally based in Rome, it now has headquarters and laboratory at the summer residence of the Pope in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, and an observatory at the Mount Graham International... - Antonio Gauchito GilGauchito GilThe Gauchito Gil is a legendary character of Argentina's popular culture). His full name was Antonio Mamerto Gil Núñez) and he was allegedly born in the area of Pay Ubre, nowadays Mercedes, Corrientes, possibly in the 1840s, and died on 8 January 1878).-The legend:Popular accounts vary, but in...
, 19th century healer - Claudio Lepratti, assassinated priest and anti-poverty activist
- Carlos MugicaCarlos MugicaCarlos Mugica was an Argentine Roman Catholic priest and activist.-Early life:Carlos Francisco Sergio Mugica was born in Buenos Aires, in 1930, into a privileged background...
, assassinated priest and anti-poverty activist - Ceferino NamuncuráCeferino NamuncuráBlessed Ceferino Namuncurá was a saintly religious student and the object of a Roman Catholic cultus of veneration in northern Patagonia and throughout Argentina.- Early life :...
, divinities student, recently beatified - Pedro OpekaPedro OpekaPedro Pablo Opeka , known also as Padre Pedro or Father Pedro, is a Catholic priest from Argentina of Slovene descent, working as a missionary in Madagascar. He exemplifies a new type of missionary: not someone committed to converting and preaching, but someone fully dedicated to the poor, helping...
, priest, missionary and humanitarian - Mario PantaleoMario PantaleoJosé Mario Pantaleo was an Italian priest who lived most of his life in Argentina. He is known as Padre Mario...
, priest, healer and humanitarian - Mario Rodríguez Cobos (Silo)Mario Rodríguez CobosSilo —pseudonym of Mario Luis Rodríguez Cobos — was an Argentine writer and founder of the Humanist Movement....
, spiritual leader, writer and activist
Royalty
- Princess Catharina-Amalia of the NetherlandsPrincess Catharina-Amalia of the NetherlandsThe official origins of her given names:*Catharina has been speculated to be after Henriette Catherine of Nassau *Amalia is after Amalia of Solms-Braunfels *Beatrix is after her paternal grandmother, the Queen of the Netherlands...
, half-Argentine - Princess Alexia of the NetherlandsPrincess Alexia of the NetherlandsPrincess Alexia of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau is the second daughter of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, heir apparent to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and Princess Máxima of the Netherlands, his spouse...
, half-Argentine - Princess Ariane of the NetherlandsPrincess Ariane of the NetherlandsPrincess Ariane of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau is the daughter of heir apparent to the throne of the Netherlands Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Máxima...
, half-Argentine - Princess Máxima of the NetherlandsPrincess Máxima of the NetherlandsPrincess Máxima of the Netherlands is the wife of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, heir apparent to the throne of the Netherlands.-Early life and education:...
(Máxima Zorreguieta), Argentine
Public service
Military
- Ignacio Álvarez ThomasIgnacio Álvarez ThomasJosé Ignacio Álvarez Thomas was a South American military commander and politician of the early 19th century....
, early military leader - Carlos María de AlvearCarlos María de AlvearCarlos María de Alvear was an Argentine soldier and statesman, Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata in 1815....
, early military leader - Pedro Aramburu, dictator, 1955–58
- Manuel BelgranoManuel BelgranoManuel José Joaquín del Corazón de Jesús Belgrano , usually referred to as Manuel Belgrano, was an Argentine economist, lawyer, politician, and military leader. He took part in the Argentine Wars of Independence and created the Flag of Argentina...
, Argentine politician, creator of the Argentine flag in 1812 - Federico de BrandsenFederico de BrandsenCarlos Luis Federico de Brandsen was a Coronel of French origin who fought in many of the South American wars of independence and for Argentina in the War with Brazil.-Napoleonic Wars:...
, early military leader - Guillermo Brown, distinguished admiral
- Hippolyte de BouchardHippolyte de BouchardHippolyte de Bouchard, or Hipólito de Bouchard , was a French and Argentine sailor and corsair who fought for Argentina, Chile, and Peru....
, privateer and early captain of Argentine Navy - Eustaquio Díaz VélezEustaquio Díaz VélezEustaquio Díaz Vélez was an Argentine soldier who fought in the Argentine War of Independence and in the civil wars of his country.-Beginnings:...
, early military leader - Leopoldo GaltieriLeopoldo GaltieriLeopoldo Fortunato Galtieri Castelli was an Argentine general and President of Argentina from December 22, 1981 to June 18, 1982, during the last military dictatorship . The death squad Intelligence Battalion 601 directly reported to him...
, dictator, 1981–82 - Antonio González de BalcarceAntonio González de BalcarceAntonio González de Balcarce was an Argentine military commander in the early 19th century.González de Balcarce was born in Buenos Aires. He joined the armed forces as a cadet in 1788. In the battle for Montevideo in 1807, he was captured by the British forces and taken to England...
, early military leader - Martín Miguel de GüemesMartín Miguel de GüemesMartín Miguel de Güemes was a military leader and popular caudillo who defended northwestern Argentina from the Spanish during the Argentine War of Independence.-Biography:...
, early military leader - Juan Gregorio de las HerasJuan Gregorio de las HerasGrand Marshal Juan Gregorio de Las Heras was an Argentine soldier who took part in the Spanish American wars of independence and was also a governor of the province of Buenos Aires.-Biography:...
, early military leader - Juan LavalleJuan LavalleJuan Galo de Lavalle was an Argentine military and political figure.-Biography:Lavalle was born in Buenos Aires to María Mercedes González Bordallo and Manuel José de La Vallée y Cortés, general accountant of rents and tobacco for the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.In 1799, the family moved to...
, early military leader - Juan Carlos OnganíaJuan Carlos OnganíaJuan Carlos Onganía Carballo was de facto president of Argentina from 29 June 1966 to 8 June 1970. He rose to power as military dictator after toppling, in a coup d’état self-named Revolución Argentina , the democratically elected president Arturo Illia .-Economic and social...
, dictator, 1966–70 - Enrique MosconiEnrique MosconiEnrique Carlos Alberto Mosconi was an Argentine military engineer, who is best known as the pioneer and organizer of petroleum surveyance and exploitation in Argentina....
, petroleum industry promoter - José María PazJosé María PazBrigadier General José María Paz y Haedo was an Argentine military figure, notable in the Argentine War of Independence and the Argentine Civil War.-Childhood:...
, early military leader - Juan Martín de PueyrredónJuan Martín de PueyrredónJuan Martín de Pueyrredón y O'Dogan 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 Declaration of Independence.-Early life:Pueyrredón was born in Buenos Aires, the fifth of...
, early military leader - Martín Rodríguez, early military leader
- José RondeauJosé RondeauJosé Casimiro Rondeau Pereyra was a general and politician in Argentina and Uruguay in the early 19th century.-Biography:...
, early military leader - José de San MartínJosé de San MartínJosé Francisco de San Martín, known simply as Don José de San Martín , was an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern part of South America's successful struggle for independence from Spain.Born in Yapeyú, Corrientes , he left his mother country at the...
, general, liberator of Argentina, ChileChileChile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
and PerúPeruPeru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....
from Spain - Manuel SavioManuel SavioManuel Nicolás Aristóbulo Savio was an Argentine engineer and military man, noted for his contribution to Argentine heavy industry in his roles as general manager of Fabricaciones Militares and SOMISA.-Biography:Savio enrolled in the Military Academy on 3 March 1909, and graduated as...
, steel industry promoter - Samuel SpiroSamuel SpiroMiguel Samuel Spiro was 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 that year....
, navy captain - Jorge Videla, dictator, 1976–81
Politics
- Juan Bautista AlberdiJuan Bautista AlberdiJuan Bautista Alberdi was an Argentine political theorist and diplomat. Although he lived most of his life in exile in Montevideo and Chile, he was one of the most influential Argentine liberals of his age.-Biography:...
, constitutional scholar - Leandro AlemLeandro AlemLeandro Nicéforo Alem was an Argentine politician, born in Buenos Aires, a founder and leader of the Radical Civic Union. Alem was the uncle and political teacher of Hipólito Yrigoyen. His father, was the chief of Rosas' political police, the Mazorca. He was executed after the battle of Caseros...
, founder of the centrist Radical Civic UnionRadical Civic UnionThe Radical Civic Union is a political party in Argentina. The party's positions on issues range from liberal to social democratic. The UCR is a member of the Socialist International. Founded in 1891 by radical liberals, it is the oldest political party active in Argentina... - Oscar AlendeOscar AlendeOscar Eduardo Alende 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 student union, and completed his medical studies at the University of Buenos Aires in 1933...
, reformist governor - Raúl AlfonsínRaúl AlfonsínRaúl Ricardo Alfonsín was an Argentine lawyer, politician and statesman, who served as the President of Argentina from December 10, 1983, to July 8, 1989. Alfonsín was the first democratically-elected president of Argentina following the military government known as the National Reorganization...
, president, 1983–89 - Ricardo AlfonsínRicardo AlfonsínRicardo Alfonsín 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.-Life and times:...
, politician - Alvaro AlsogarayÁlvaro AlsogarayÁlvaro Carlos Alsogaray was an Argentine politician and businessman. Minister of Economy during much of the 1959-62 period, he was one of the principal proponents of economic conservatism in modern Argentina.-Early career:...
, conservative economist - Marcelo Torcuato de AlvearMarcelo Torcuato de AlvearMáximo Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear Pacheco , better known as Marcelo T. de Alvear was an Argentine politician and President of Argentina from October 12, 1922 to October 12, 1928.-Biography:...
, president, 1922–28 - Ricardo BalbínRicardo BalbínRicardo Balbín was an Argentine lawyer and politician, and one of the most important figures of the centrist Radical Civic Union , for which he was the presidential nominee four times: in 1951, 1958, and twice in 1973....
, prominent leader of the "Unión Cívica Radical" party - José Ber GelbardJosé Ber GelbardJosé Ber Gelbard was an Argentine activist and politician.-Career:Gelbard was born in Radomsko, Poland, in 1917. In 1930 Gelbard emigrated to Argentina with his parents and siblings. They settled in Tucumán, north of Buenos Aires. Those were tough times and Gelbard had to make a living as a...
, Peronist economic adviser - Hermes BinnerHermes BinnerHermes Juan Binner is an Argentine medical doctor and a politician. He was elected Governor of Santa Fe in 2007. Binner is the first Socialist to become the governor of an Argentine province, and the first non-Justicialist to rule Santa Fe since 1983.Binner was previously a Deputy of the Civic and...
, Socialist governor of Santa Fé ProvinceSanta Fe ProvinceThe Invincible Province of Santa Fe, in Spanish Provincia Invencible de Santa Fe , is a province of Argentina, located in the center-east of the country. Neighboring provinces are from the north clockwise Chaco , Corrientes, Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, and Santiago del Estero...
, the first so elected - Hebe de BonafiniHebe de BonafiniHebe Pastor de Bonafini is an Argentine activist, one of the founders of the Association of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, an organization of Argentine mothers whose children were disappeared during the Dirty War, the persecution and suppression of opposition by the military dictatorship that...
, head of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo - Ángel BorlenghiÁngel BorlenghiÁngel Borlenghi was an Argentine labor leader and politician closely associated with the Peronist movement.-Early life and the labor movement:Ángel Gabriel Borlenghi was born in Buenos Aires to Italian immigrants, in 1904...
, labor leader - Leopoldo BravoLeopoldo BravoLeopoldo Bravo 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 .-Career:...
, politician and diplomat - Teodoro BronziniTeodoro BronziniTeodoro Bronzini was an Argentine politician, affiliated with the Socialist Party, and one of the more distinguished Mayors in the history of the city of Mar del Plata, where he developed a public and private activity for more than 60 years...
, former Socialist mayor of Mar del PlataMar del PlataMar del Plata is an Argentine city located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, south of Buenos Aires. Mar del Plata is the second largest city of Buenos Aires Province. The name "Mar del Plata" had apparently the sense of "sea of the Río de la Plata region" or "adjoining sea to the Río de la Plata"...
, the first to head a major Argentine city - Elisa CarrióElisa CarrióElisa María Avelina Carrió is an Argentine politician, founder of the party initially known as Alternative for a Republic of Equals , now Civic Coalition ARI ....
, politician - Domingo CavalloDomingo CavalloDomingo Felipe "Mingo" Cavallo is an Argentine economist and politician. He has a long history of public service and is known for implementing the Convertibilidad plan, which fixed the dollar-peso exchange rate at 1:1 between 1991 and 2001, which brought the Argentine inflation rate down from over...
, economist - Jorge CepernicJorge CepernicJorge Cepernic was an Argentine politician and Governor of Santa Cruz Province between 1973 and 1974.In 1974, during the Isabel Martínez de Perón office, he was removed from office and then five years inmate in the Magdalena jail. Afterwards he was prisoner with his family in his farm nearby El...
, governor - Julio CobosJulio CobosJulio César Cleto Cobos is an Argentine politician, currently serving as the Vice President of Argentina alongside President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. He started his political career as member of the Radical Civic Union , becoming Governor of Mendoza in 2003...
, Vice President of Argentina - Fernando de la RúaFernando de la RúaFernando de la Rúa is an Argentine politician. He was president of the country from December 10, 1999 to December 21, 2001 for the Alliance for Work, Justice and Education ....
, president, 1999–2001 - Francisco de NarváezFrancisco de NarváezFrancisco de Narváez , known as El Colorado or Pancho, is a Colombian-born naturalized Argentine businessman, politician who ran for governor of Buenos Aires Province on the PRO ballot in the 2007 elections in Argentina...
, politician - Luis Drago, diplomat
- Eduardo DuhaldeEduardo Duhalde-External links:...
, president, 2002–03 - Aldo FerrerAldo FerrerAldo Ferrer is a prominent Argentine economist and policy maker.-Early career:Aldo Ferrer was born in Buenos Aires in 1927, and enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires School of Economics, where he received a Doctorate in 1949...
, economist - Rogelio FrigerioRogelio FrigerioRogelio Frigerio was an Argentine economist, journalist and politician.-Background and early career:Rogelio Frigerio was born in Buenos Aires in 1914 to Gerónimo Frigerio and Carmen Guanzaroli...
, economist - Arturo FrondiziArturo FrondiziArturo Frondizi Ercoli was the President of Argentina between May 1, 1958, and March 29, 1962, for the Intransigent Radical Civic Union.-Early life:Frondizi was born in Paso de los Libres, Corrientes Province...
, president, 1958–62 - Rubén GiustinianiRubén GiustinianiRubén Héctor Giustiniani is an Argentine senator from Santa Fe province. An engineer by occupation, he is also president of the Socialist Party ....
, politician - Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Marxist revolutionary
- Arturo Illía, president, 1963–66
- Juan B. JustoJuan B. JustoJuan Bautista Justo was an Argentine physician, journalist, politician, and writer. After finishing medical school he joined the Unión Cívica Radical, later participating in the foundation of the Socialist Party in 1896, of which he was chief director until his death...
, founder of the Argentine Socialist Party - Alicia Moreau de JustoAlicia Moreau de JustoAlicia Moreau de Justo was an Argentine physician, politician, pacifist and human rights activist.Born to French parents in London, United Kingdom, the Moreau family moved to Argentina while Alicia was still a child....
, wife of Juan B. Justo and prominent socialist leader - Cristina Fernández de KirchnerCristina Fernández de KirchnerCristina Elisabet Fernández de Kirchner , commonly known as Cristina Fernández or Cristina Kirchner is the 55th and current President of Argentina and the widow of former President Néstor Kirchner. She is Argentina's first elected female president, and the second female president ever to serve...
, president since 2007 - Néstor KirchnerNéstor KirchnerNéstor Carlos Kirchner was an Argentine politician who served as the 54th President of Argentina from 25 May 2003 until 10 December 2007. Previously, he was Governor of Santa Cruz Province since 10 December 1991. He briefly served as Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations ...
, president, 2003–07 - Roberto LavagnaRoberto LavagnaRoberto Lavagna is an Argentine economist and politician, and was the former Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina from April 27, 2002, to November 28, 2005.-Career:...
, economist - Estanislao LópezEstanislao LópezEstanislao López was a governor and caudillo of the , between 1818 and 1838, a hero of provincial federalism and an ally of Juan Manuel de Rosas during the Argentine Civil War.-Biography:...
, early pro-autonomy leader - José López RegaJosé López RegaJosé López Rega was Argentina's Minister of Social Welfare during the Peronist government started in 1973 by Juan Perón and continued after Perón's death in 1974 by his third wife and vice-president, Isabel Martínez de Perón , until the coup d'etat of 1976 that initiated the so-called National...
, fascist adviser to Pres. Perón - José Alfredo Martínez de HozJosé Alfredo Martínez de HozJosé Alfredo Martínez de Hoz was an Argentine executive and policy maker. He served as Minister of the Economy under de facto President Jorge Rafael Videla between 1976 and 1981, and shaped economic policy during the self-styled National Reorganization Process military dictatorship.-Early...
, conservative economist - Francisco ManriqueFrancisco ManriqueFrancisco Manrique was an Argentine naval officer, journalist, policy maker and presidential candidate.-Life and times:...
, politician, creator of current national medical and housing funds - Carlos MenemCarlos MenemCarlos Saúl Menem is an Argentine politician who was President of Argentina from 1989 to 1999. He is currently an Argentine National Senator for La Rioja Province.-Early life:...
, president, 1989–99 - Lorenzo MiguelLorenzo MiguelLorenzo Miguel was a prominent Argentine labor leader closely associated with the steelworkers' union.-Early life and his rise in the UOM:...
, labor leader - Bartolomé MitreBartolomé MitreBartolomé Mitre Martínez was an Argentine statesman, military figure, and author. He was the President of Argentina from 1862 to 1868.-Life and times:...
, president, 1862–68 - Mariano MorenoMariano MorenoMariano Moreno 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....
, independence-era leader and reformer - Enrique MosconiEnrique MosconiEnrique Carlos Alberto Mosconi was an Argentine military engineer, who is best known as the pioneer and organizer of petroleum surveyance and exploitation in Argentina....
, promoter of national oil industry - Hugo MoyanoHugo MoyanoHugo Moyano is an Argentine labor leader and Secretary General of the CGT, the nation's largest trade union.-Early life and career:...
, labor leader - Raimundo OngaroRaimundo OngaroRaimundo Ongaro is a prominent Argentine labor leader.-Early career and rise to prominence:Raimundo José Ongaro was born to a middle-class family of Italian Argentines from the Lombardy region, in the Argentine seashore city of Mar del Plata in 1924...
, labor leader - Alfredo PalaciosAlfredo PalaciosAlfredo Lorenzo Palacios was an Argentine socialist politician.Palacios was born in Buenos Aires, and studied law at Universidad de Buenos Aires, after graduation he became a lawyer and taught at the university until becoming a dean.In 1902, he was elected to the Buenos Aires' legislature, and in...
, socialist leader - Raúl PrebischRaúl PrebischRaúl Prebisch was an Argentine economist known for his contribution to structuralist economics, in particular the Singer–Prebisch thesis that formed the basis of economic dependency theory. He is sometimes considered to be a neo-Marxist though this label is misleading...
, economist - Juan Domingo Perón, president, 1946–55, 1973–74
- Eva Duarte de Perón, influential first lady
- Isabel Martínez de PerónIsabel Martínez de PerónMaría Estela Martínez Cartas de Perón , better known as Isabel Martínez de Perón or Isabel Perón, is a former President of Argentina. She was also the third wife of another former President, Juan Perón...
, first lady and president, 1974–76 - Juan PistariniJuan PistariniJuan Pistarini was an Argentine general and politician.Pistarini was born in the town of Victorica, La Pampa Province. An Army major by 1921, he was a close associate of General Agustín Justo...
, public works minister and vicepresident - Facundo Quiroga, early pro-autonomy leader
- Bernardino RivadaviaBernardino RivadaviaBernardino de la Trinidad Gónzalez Rivadavia y Rivadavia was the first president of Argentina, from February 8, 1826 to July 7, 1827 . He was a politician of the United Provinces of Río de la Plata, Argentina today...
, president - Julio Roca, president, 1880–86, 1898–1904
- Dardo RochaDardo RochaDardo Rocha 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:...
, reformist governor and founder of La PlataLa PlataLa Plata is the capital city of the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and of La Plata partido. According to the , the city proper has a population of 574,369 and its metropolitan area has 694,253 inhabitants.... - Juan Manuel de RosasJuan Manuel de RosasJuan Manuel de Rosas , was an argentine militar and politician, who was elected governor of the province of Buenos Aires in 1829 to 1835, and then of the Argentine Confederation from 1835 until 1852...
, strongman, 1829–52 - José Ignacio RucciJosé Ignacio RucciJosé Ignacio Rucci was an Argentine politician and union leader, appointed general secretary of the CGT in 1970...
, labor leader - Carlos Saavedra LamasCarlos Saavedra LamasCarlos Saavedra Lamas was an Argentine academic and politician, and in 1936, the first Latin American Nobel Peace Prize recipient.-Biography:...
, diplomat - Amadeo SabattiniAmadeo SabattiniAmadeo Tomás Sabattini was an Argentine politician. He served as Governor of Córdoba from May 17, 1936, to May 17, 1940....
, reformist governor - Roque Sáenz PeñaRoque Sáenz PeñaRoque Sáenz Peña Lahitte was President of Argentina from 12 October 1910 to 9 August 1914, when he died in office...
, president and promulgator of the secret ballot in Argentina - Domingo Sarmiento, writer, educator and president (1868–74)
- Daniel ScioliDaniel ScioliDaniel Osvaldo Scioli was Vice President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007 and is the current Governor of Buenos Aires Province and the president of the Justicialist Party. He is a sportsman, an entrepreneur and a politician.- Family :...
, former speedboater, later vice president and governor - Jorge Enea SpilimbergoJorge Enea SpilimbergoJorge Enea Spilimbergo was an Argentine nationalist socialist politician, poet, journalist, and writer, one of the founders of the Izquierda Nacional party....
, poet, Marxist theorist and politician - Margarita StolbizerMargarita Stolbizer-Life and times:Margarita Stolbizer was born in the western Buenos Aires suburb of Morón, in 1955. She enrolled at the Universidad de Morón and graduated in 1978, after which she taught at her alma mater's law school for four years. An avid volleyball player, she created her city's first women's...
, politician - Saúl UbaldiniSaúl UbaldiniSaúl Edólver Ubaldini was an Argentine labor leader and parliamentarian for the Peronist Justicialist Party....
, labor leader - Justo José de UrquizaJusto José de UrquizaJusto José de Urquiza y García was an Argentine general and politician. He was president of the Argentine Confederation from 1854 to 1860.He was governor of Entre Ríos during the government of Juan Manuel de Rosas, governor of Buenos Aires with powers delegated from the other provinces...
, first president of the modern era - Dalmacio Vélez SarsfieldDalmacio Vélez SársfieldDalmacio Vélez Sársfield was an Argentine lawyer and politician who wrote the Argentine Civil Code of 1869, the vast majority of which remains in use to this day.-Life and times:...
, author of civil and commercial codes - Hipólito YrigoyenHipólito YrigoyenJuan Hipólito del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús Irigoyen Alem was twice President of Argentina . His activism became the prime impetus behind the obtainment of universal suffrage in Argentina in 1912...
, president 1916–22, 1928–30
Sciences
- Luis AgoteLuis AgoteLuis Agote was an Argentine physician and researcher. He was one of the first to perform a non-direct blood transfusion using sodium citrate as an anticoagulant...
, M.D. devised first safe blood transfusion - Juan Bautista AmbrosettiJuan Bautista AmbrosettiJuan Bautista Ambrosetti was an Argentine archaeologist, ethnographer and naturalist who helped pioneer anthropology in his country.-Life and work:...
, anthropologist and naturalist - Florentino AmeghinoFlorentino AmeghinoFlorentino Ameghino was an Argentine naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist.Born in Luján, son of Italian immigrants, Ameghino was a self-taught naturalist, and focused his study on the lands of the southern Pampas...
, naturalist - Cosme ArgerichCosme ArgerichCosme Mariano Argerich was a pioneer of military medical practices in Argentina.Born in Buenos Aires, he became the first officer to be appointed as the Surgeon General in the Argentine Army. He received his medical doctorate in 1783 from the Universidad de Cervera in Spain, and thereafter...
, M.D. - José Antonio BalseiroJosé Antonio BalseiroJosé Antonio Balseiro 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, obtaining a doctorate in physics at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. His doctoral dissertation was directed by Dr...
, nuclear physicist - Lino BarañaoLino BarañaoLino Barañao is an Argentine chemist and politician, currently Minister of Science, Technology and Innovative Production under President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.-Biography:...
, biochemist and current Minister of Science - Dan Jacobo BeninsonDan Jacobo BeninsonDan Jacobo Beninson was an Argentine radiation expert who worked for the Argentine Atomic Energy Commission since 1955 holding different posts....
, nuclear physicist - Jorge BoboneJorge BoboneJorge E. Bobone was an Argentinian astronomer.He performed his work at the Observatorio Nacional Argentino in Córdoba, established in the 1870s by Benjamin Apthorp Gould and now belonging to the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba....
, astronomer - José BonaparteJosé BonaparteJosé Fernando Bonaparte, Ph.D. , is an Argentine paleontologist who discovered a plethora of South American dinosaurs and mentored a new generation of Argentine paleontologists like Rodolfo Coria...
, paleontologist - Eduardo Braun-MenendezEduardo Braun-MenéndezEduardo Braun-Menéndez 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 BungeMario BungeMario Augusto Bunge is an Argentine philosopher and physicist mainly active in Canada.-Biography:Bunge began his studies at the National University of La Plata, graduating with a Ph.D. in physico-mathematical sciences in 1952. He was professor of theoretical physics and philosophy,...
, physicist - Hermann BurmeisterHermann BurmeisterKarl Hermann Konrad Burmeister was a German zoologist, entomologist, and herpetologist.Burmeister was born in Stralsund and became a professor of Zoology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg from 1837 to 1861...
, naturalist - Luis CaffarelliLuis CaffarelliLuis A. Caffarelli is an Argentinian mathematician and leader in the field of partial differential equations and their applications....
, mathematician - Alberto CalderónAlberto CalderónAlberto Pedro Calderón was an Argentine mathematician best known for his work on the theory of partial differential equations and singular integral operators, and widely considered as one of the 20th century's most important mathematicians...
, mathematician - Ramón CarrilloRamón CarrilloRamón Carrillo , was an Argentine neurosurgeon, neurobiologist, and public health physician born in Santiago del Estero.-Career in neurosurgery and neurobiology:...
, neurosurgeon and first Minister of Health - Carlos Ulrrico CescoCarlos Ulrrico CescoCarlos Ulrico Cesco was an Argentine astronomer. He lived most of his life in San Juan, Argentina.He discovered numerous asteroids.The Carlos Ulrico Cesco Observatory is named after him....
, astronomer - Rodolfo CoriaRodolfo CoriaDr. Rodolfo Coria is an Argentine paleontologist.He is best known for having directed the field study and co-naming of the Argentinosaurus in 1993, and the Giganotosaurus , in 1996 among other landmark South American dinosaurs...
, paleontologist - Miguel Rolando CovianMiguel Rolando CovianMiguel Rolando Covian , was an Argentine-Brazilian physiologist, medical educator and writer.Covian was born in Rufino, Santa Fé Province, Argentina, on September 7, 1913. He studied at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires, where, while a student, he worked also as a teaching...
, physiologist - Roberto DabbeneRoberto DabbeneRoberto Dabbene was an Italian-Argentine ornithologist.Born in Turin, he doctorated in 1884 at the University of Genoa and moved to Argentina in 1887. After teaching chemistry at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, he moved to Buenos Aires in 1890 to work in at the city zoo...
, ornithologist - Salvador DebenedettiSalvador DebenedettiSalvador Santiago Lorenzo Debenedetti 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 Province...
, archaeologist - Pablo de LeónPablo de LeónPablo Gabriel de León is an Argentine aerospace engineer, born in Cañuelas, Argentina.He was the team leader of the Ansari X Prize Team based in Buenos Aires and the payload manager of Project PADE, a group of seven Argentine experiments flown in the NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour in STS-108...
, space scientist - Vera de SpinadelVera de SpinadelVera Martha Winitzky de Spinadel – mathematician; full consultant professor of mathematics at the University of Buenos Aires; director of the research Center of Mathematics & Design , having received many I&D grants and personal grants to develop the activities of many research groups; director of...
, mathematician - René FavaloroRené FavaloroDr. René Gerónimo Favaloro was an Argentine cardiac surgeon who created the technique for coronary bypass surgery....
, surgeon, inventor of the coronary bypass surgery - Hilario Fernández LongHilario Fernández LongHilario Fernández Long 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 University of Buenos Aires in 1941 and his professional life was centered on structural engineering...
, structural engineer and educator - Enrique FinochiettoEnrique FinochiettoEnrique Finochietto was a distinguished Argentine academic, physician and inventor.-Life and work:...
, surgeon and inventor of numerous surgical tools - Richard GansRichard GansRichard Martin Gans , German of Jewish origin, born in Hamburg, was the physicist who founded the Physics Institute of the National University of La Plata, Argentina...
, physicist - Mario GaravagliaMario GaravagliaMario Garavaglia is an Argentine physicist. He was born in Junín in 1937. In 1999 the International Commission for Optics awarded him the Galileo Galilei Award by unanimous vote for his work on lasers and their applications in industry, medicine and biology and for promoting optics in Latin...
, physicist - Ramón Enrique Gaviola, astrophysicist
- Juan HartmannJuan HartmannJuan Hartmann was an Argentinian astronomer.He was the director of the Observatorio Astronómico de La Plata from November 1922 to May 1934. He oriented the work of the observatory towards astrophysics.He discovered three asteroids.-External links:...
, astronomer - Eduardo Ladislao HolmbergEduardo Ladislao HolmbergEduardo Ladislao Holmberg was an Argentine natural historian and novelist, one of the leading figures in Argentine biology. Together with Florentino Ameghino he undertook the inventory of Argentine flora and fauna, and explored all the ecoregions in the country...
, geologist and zoologist - Bernardo HoussayBernardo Houssay-External links:* * . WhoNamedIt.* . Nobel Foundation....
, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology - Luis HuergoLuis HuergoLuis Augusto Huergo was an Argentine engineer prominent in the development of his country's ports.-Early career:...
, engineer - Armando Theodoro HunzikerArmando Theodoro HunzikerArmando Theodoro Hunziker was an Argentine botanist. He had specialized in the study of systems biology of the Solanaceae family, having contributed with a large number of investigations and publications.- Biography :His family was of Swiss ancestry...
, botanist - Miguel ItzigsohnMiguel ItzigsohnMiguel Itzigsohn was an Argentine astronomer.He discovered a number of asteroids, and also studied comets.He was a department director at the Observatorio Astronómico de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, specializing in astrometry and celestial mechanics, from 1955 to 1972.-External links:*...
, astronomer - Jakob LaubJakob LaubJakob Johann Laub was a physicist from Austria-Hungary, who is most well known for his work with Albert Einstein in the early period of special relativity.-Life:...
, physicist - Luis Federico LeloirLuis Federico LeloirLuis Federico Leloir was an Argentine doctor and biochemist who received the 1970 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was the first Spanish-speaking scientist to ever receive the award...
, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry - Domingo LiottaDomingo LiottaDomingo Santo Liotta, MD is a pioneer of heart surgery, creator of multiple cardiac prostheses including the first total artificial heart used in a human being.-Early life:...
M.D. cardiologist and inventor of the first purely artificial heart - Juan Martín MaldacenaJuan Martín MaldacenaJuan Martín Maldacena is a theoretical physicist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Among his many discoveries, the most famous one is the most reliable realization of the holographic principle - namely the AdS/CFT correspondence, the conjecture about the equivalence of string theory on Anti de...
, physicist - José María MainettiJosé María MainettiJosé María Mainetti was an Argentine physician, surgeon and oncologist.Mainetti was born in Hinojo, Buenos Aires. He spent most of his childhood and youth in La Plata, were his family moved in 1911. He finished his medicine studies in 1932...
, oncologist - Julio Isidro MaizteguiJulio Isidro MaizteguiJulio Isidro Maiztegui was an Argentine physician and epidemiologist.-Life and work:Maiztegui was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, in 1931. He received a medical degree from the University of Buenos Aires, in 1957, and the following year, began his residency at the Boston University Hospital...
, epidemiologist - Salvador MazzaSalvador MazzaSalvador Mazza was a noted Argentine physician and epidemiologist, best known for his strides in helping control American trypanosomiasisan endemic disease among the rural, poor majority of early 20th century South America....
, epidemiologist - César MilsteinCésar MilsteinCésar Milstein FRS was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels K. Jerne and Georges Köhler.-Biography:...
, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Pharmacology - Francisco MorenoFrancisco MorenoFrancisco Pascacio Moreno was a prominent explorer and academic in Argentina, where he is usually referred to as Perito Moreno...
, explorer - Julio NavarroJulio Navarro (astrophysicist)Julio F. Navarro is a professor of Astronomy at the department of Physics and Astronomy in the University of Victoria. Dr...
, astrophysicist - Fernando NovasFernando NovasFernando Emilio Novas is an Argentine paleontologist working for the Comparative Anatomy Department of the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural History Argentine Museum in Buenos Aires...
, paleontologist - Miguel OndettiMiguel OndettiMiguel Angel Ondetti was an Argentinean-born American chemist that first synthesized captopril, the first ACE inhibitor that was used to treat heart disease...
, pharmaceutical scientist - Virpi NiemeläVirpi NiemeläVirpi Sinikka Niemelä was a leading Argentine astronomer. She was the second Argentine to be elected for Associate of the Royal Astronomical Society....
, astronomer - Raúl Pateras PescaraRaúl Pateras PescaraRaúl Pateras Pescara de Castelluccio , marquis of Pateras-Pescara, was an Argentine lawyer and inventor specializing in seaplanes and helicopters, as well as motors, compressors, and the Pescara free-piston engine.-Biography:At the beginning of the 20th century, his family returned from Buenos...
, helicopter pioneer - Livio Dante PortaLivio Dante PortaLivio Dante Porta was an Argentine steam locomotive engineer. He is particularly remembered for his innovative modifications to existing locomotive systems in order to obtain higher performance, energy efficiency and reduced pollution. He developed the Kylpor and Lempor exhaust systems...
, mechanical engineer - Verónica PregoVeronica PregoVeronica Prego v. City of New York et al. was a $175 million negligence law suit filed in 1988 by a medical doctor, Verónica Prego, against the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, Dr. Joyce F. Fogel and Dr. Sheldon H. Landesman. Prego contracted HIV in 1983 when she was working as an...
MDoctor - German PugnaliGerman PugnaliGerman Pugnali is a biologist and birder from Argentina. He lives in Buenos Aires, where he was born . He joined the in 1986. He acted there as a librarian and later became a board member...
, ornithologist - Jorge SabatoJorge SábatoJorge Alberto Sábato Argentine physics and technologist.In 1955 he created the Metallurgy department at CNEA, which was its director up to 1968 when he became Technology manager of the CNEA....
, physicist - Julio José Gustavo SardagnaJulio José Gustavo SardagnaJulio José Gustavo Sardagna was an Argentine neurologist and neurosurgeon.Sardagna was born in Ensenada, Argentina. He received a Doctorate of Medicine and Ph.D. from the National University of La Plata School of Medicine in 1958 and 1960, respectively...
, neurologist and neurosurgeon - Tito ScaianoTito ScaianoJuan Cesar Scaiano, OC, FRSC first came to Canada in 1975 as a visiting scientist with the National Research Council from Argentina. Returning to the NRC in 1979, he developed an innovative new program studying organic reaction intermediates using laser techniques...
, laser chemist - Carlos SegersCarlos SegersCarlos Segers was an Argentine astronomer.He was an observer of variable stars, and organized amateur astronomers in South America. He founded the 'Asociación Argentina Amigos de la Astronomía'.The crater Segers on the Moon is named after him....
, astronomer - Manuel SadoskyManuel SadoskyManuel Sadosky was an Argentine mathematician, born in Buenos Aires to Jewish Russian immigrants fleeing the pogroms. He is widely considered the father of computer science studies in Argentina....
, computer scientist - Luis SantalóLuis SantalóLuís Antoni Santaló Sors was a Spanish mathematician.He graduated from the University of Madrid and he studied at the University of Hamburg, where he received his Ph.D. in 1936. His advisor was Wilhelm Blaschke...
, mathematician - Friedrich SchickendantzFriedrich SchickendantzFriedrich Schickendantz was an Argentine-German scientist who worked in the fields of mineralogy, chemistry, botany, geology, and meteorology. He was born in Landau, now in the Rhineland-Palatinate state of Germany...
, naturalist - Carlos VarsavskyCarlos VarsavskyCarlos M. Varsavsky was an Argentine astrophysicist.-Early life:Varsavsky was born in Buenos Aires in 1933. After completing secondary studies in the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, he settled in the United States. In the US, Varsavsky graduated in Physical Engineering in which he also obtained...
, astrophysicist - Juan VucetichJuan VucetichJuan Vucetich was a Croatian-born Argentine anthropologist and police official who pioneered the use of fingerprinting.-Biography:...
, inventor of the modern technique of fingerprinting. - Abraham WillinkAbraham WillinkAbraham Willink was a Dutch-Argentine entomologist. His main contributions were made on the Hymenopteran families Vespidae, Sphecidae and Crabronidae....
, entomologist - Roberto ZaldivarRoberto ZaldivarRoberto Zaldívar, MD is an Argentine doctor who is one of the foremost ophthalmologists and refracting surgeons in the world. He is credited for several breakthroughs in the use of lasers to correct visual impairments. His latest breakthrough is a new technique called "bioptics", a term he introduced...
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