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This is a list of Argentines who are famous or notable.
[edit] Writers
Charly Garcia and Nito Mestre
Leopoldo Torre Nilsson and Alfredo Alcón
The Argentine Nat'l. Football Team, 1978
Princess Máxima of the Netherlands
Cristina and Néstor Kirchner
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- Juan Argerich
- Roberto Arlt
- Hilario Ascasubi
- Héctor Bianciotti
- Adolfo Bioy Casares
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Susana Calandrelli
- Martín Caparrós
- Evaristo Carriego
- Leonardo Castellani
- Abelardo Castillo
- Julio Cortázar
- Esteban Echeverría
- Fogwill
- Roberto Fontanarrosa, also cartoonist
- Fray Mocho
- Rodrigo Fresán
- Griselda Gambaro
- Juan Gelman
- Oliverio Girondo
- Angélica Gorodischer
- Juana Manuela Gorriti
- Paul Groussac
- Ricardo Güiraldes
- José Hernández
- Eduardo Holmberg
- Guillermo Enrique Hudson
- Roberto Juarroz
- Joseph Kessel
- Osvaldo Lamborghini
- Leopoldo Lugones
- Eduardo Mallea
- Leopoldo Marechal
- Guillermo Martínez
- Tomás Eloy Martínez
- Ezequiel Martínez Estrada
- Carlos Mastronardi
- Bartolomé Mitre, historian and former president.
- Manuel Mujica Láinez
- Eduardo Montes-Bradley
- Silvina Ocampo
- Victoria Ocampo
- Héctor Germán Oesterheld
- Olga Orozco
- Juan L. Ortiz
- Calixto Oyuela
- Alicia Partnoy
- Roberto Payro
- Ricardo Piglia
- Felipe Pigna, historian
- Alejandra Pizarnik
- Antonio Porchia
- Juan Carlos Portantiero
- Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman
- Andrés Rivera
- Arturo Andrés Roig
- Ricardo Rojas
- Ernesto Sabato
- Juan José Saer
- Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, writer, educator and president (1868-1874)
- Silo (pen name of Mario Rodríguez Cobos), writer and spiritual leader
- Osvaldo Soriano, author and film maker
- María Elena Walsh, author and songwriter
- Rodolfo Walsh, journalist, writer, translator and revolutionary combatant.
- Juan Rodolfo Wilcock
[edit] Composers
- Daniel Barenboim, pianist and symphony conductor
- Adolfo Bellocq, lithographer
- Antonio Berni, painter
- Erminio Blotta, sculptor
- Julio Bocca, dancer
- Gino Boccasile, advertiser
- Fabiana Bravo, soprano
- Alberto Breccia, cartoonist
- Jorge Calandrelli, composer
- Eleonora Cassano, dancer
- Juan Carlos Castagnino, painter
- Ciruelo, cartoonist
- Copi (Raúl Damonte Botana), cartoonist
- José Cura, tenor
- Jorge de la Vega, painter
- Jorge Donn, dancer
- Julio Ducuron, painter
- Leonor Fini, painter
- Lucio Fontana, sculptor
- Paloma Herrera, dancer
- Julio Le Parc, sculptor
- Cándido López, painter
- Eduardo Mac Entyre, painter
- Tomás Maldonado, painter
- Lucien-Achille Mauzan, advertiser, sculptor
- Lola Mora (Dolores Mora de la Vega), sculptor
- Guillermo Mordillo, cartoonist
- Luis Felipe Noé, painter
- Marianela Núñez, dancer
- Raquel Partnoy, painter
- Pérez Celis, painter and muralist
- Emilio Pettoruti, painter
- Prilidiano Pueyrredon, painter
- Benito Quinquela Martín, painter
- Eduardo Schiaffino, painter
- Xul Solar, watercolorist, sculptor, inventor of languages
- Raúl Soldi, painter
- Lino Enea Spilimbergo, painter
- Quino (Joaquín Salvador Lavado), cartoonist
[edit] Fashion
[edit] Entertainment
- Miguel Abuelo, musician
- Ernesto Acher, musician, jazz composer
- Alejandro Agresti, film director
- Pablo Alarcón, actor
- Oscár Aleman, guitarrist
- Alfredo Alcón, actor
- Norma Aleandro, actress
- Pola Alonso, actress
- Héctor Alterio, actor
- Luis César Amadori, film director
- Blanquita Amaro, actress
- Elvia Andreoli, actress
- Ana Arneodo, actress
- Pampita (Carolina Ardohain), model and actress
- Norma Argentina, actress
- Martha Argerich, pianist
- Ana Arneodo, actress
- María Arrieta, actress
- Brenda Asnicar, actress
- Emilia Attias, dancer and model
- Gato Barbieri, saxophonist
- Sara Barrié, actress
- Lorena Bernal, model and actress
- Amelia Bence, actress
- Lola Berthet, actress
- Alexis Bledel, actress (half Argentine)
- Julio Bocca, ballet dancer
- Camila Bordonaba, actress
- Graciela Borges, actress
- Sofía Bozán, actress
- Luis Brandoni, actor and politician
- Fabiana Bravo, soprano
- Alicia Bruzzo, actress
- Rodrigo Bueno (El Potro Rodrigo), cuarteto singer
- Chris de Burgh, singer
- Daniel Burman, film director
- Facundo Cabral, singer
- Marciano Cantero, singer
- Andrés Calamaro, songwriter and rock keyboard player
- Francisco Canaro, tango composer
- Norma Gladys Cappagli, Miss World 1960
- Ana Casares, actress
- Alfredo Casero, TV entertainer
- Gustavo Cerati, guitarist of Soda Stereo
- Segundo Cernadas,, actor
- María Concepción César, vedette
- Chenoa, singer
- Graciana Chironi, actress
- Agustina Cherri, model
- Jesica Cirio, dancer and model
- Grecia Colmenares, Venezuelan born actress, Argentine citizen
- María Teresa Constantini, actress
- Irma Córdoba, actress
- Ada Cornaro, actress
- Antonella Costa, actress
- Linda Cristal, actress
- Quirino Cristiani, cartoonist and film director
- José Cura, singer tenor
- Patricia Dal, actress
- Elsa Daniel, actress
- Juan D'Arienzo, tango composer and bandleader
- Ricardo Darín, actor
- Pamela David, actress
- Andrea Del Boca, actress
- Hugo del Carril, tango vocalist
- Florencia De La V, transsexual actress
- Iván de Pineda, model and talk show host
- Julieta Díaz, actress
- Yamila Díaz Rahí, model
- Raúl Di Blasio, pianist
- Juanjo Domínguez, folk guitarist
- Dorismar, model, show host
- Ulises Dumont, actor
- Nancy Dupláa, actress
- Paulette Duval, actress
- Pablo Echarri, actor
- Emanuel, magician
- Leonardo Favio, film director
- Ada Falcón, actress
- Soledad Fandiño, actress
- Luján Fernández, model
- Gachi Ferrari, actress and model
- Golde Flami, actress
- Gabriela Flores, actress
- Vera Fogwill, actress
- Hugo Fregonese, film director
- Catherine Fulop, actress, Venezuelan by birth, Argentine citizen
- Verónica Gamba, model
- Delia Garcés, actress
- Charly García, musician
- Carlos Gardel, singer
- Ante Garmaz, model, fashion designer, TV host and actor
- León Gieco, singer and musician
- Susana Giménez, actress, show host
- Araceli González, model and actress
- Julie Gonzalo, actress
- Roberto Goyeneche, tango vocalist
- Eliana Guercio, model
- Rocío Guirao Díaz, model
- Antonia Herrero, actress
- Olivia Hussey (Olivia Osuna), actress
- Narciso Ibañez Menta, actor and film maker
- Imperio Argentina, actress and singer
- Carlos La Mona Jiménez, pop singer
- Kevin Johansen, singer and musician
- Martín Karadagian, professional wrestler
- La Argentina, flamenco dancer
- La Argentinita, flamenco dancer
- Fernando Lamas, actor
- Justo Lamas, singer
- Lorenzo Lamas, actor
- Lang, cartoonist
- Victor Laplace, actor
- Nélida Lobato, vedette
- María Cristina Laurenz, actress
- René Lavand, magician
- Mirtha Legrand (María Rosa Martínez), actress and show host
- Silvia Legrand, actress
- Libertad Lamarque, singer
- Libertad Leblanc, actress
- Paz Lenchantin, bassist-violinist
- Alejandro Lerner, songwriter and pianist
- Saúl Lisazo, actor
- Marga López, actress
- Carlos López Puccio musician
- Darío Lopilato, actor
- Luisana Lopilato, actress
- Silvina Luna, model and actress
- Virginia Luque, actress
- Federico Luppi, actor
- Mía Maestro, actress
- Maitena (Maitena Burundarena), cartoonist
- Arturo Maly, actor
- Mona Maris, actress
- Jorge Maronna, musician
- Lucrecia Martel, theater and film director
- Cristian Martínez, actor, comedian
- Roxana Martínez, model
- Gerardo Masana, musician
- Mirta Teresita Massa, Miss International 1967
- Valeria Mazza, model
- Claribel Medina, actress, Puerto Rican by birth, Argentine citizen
- Tita Merello, singer and actress
- Cecilia Méndez, model
- Nito Mestre, singer and rock musician
- Juan Minujín, actor
- Osvaldo Miranda, actor
- Marianela Mirra, model and actress
- Juana Molina, musician
- Inés Molina, actress
- Ricardo Montaner, singer, Argentine-born, Venezuelan citizen
- Nuri Montsé, actress
- Mercedes Morán, actress
- Marcela Morelo, singer
- Zully Moreno, actress
- Bertha Moss, actress
- Marcos Mundstock, musician
- Berta Muñiz, actress
- Napo, cartoonist
- Norma Beatriz Nolan, Miss Universe 1962
- Carlos Núñez Cortés, musician
- Alberto Olmedo, comedian
- Natalia Oreiro, actress and singer, Uruguayan by birth, Argentine citizen
- Palito Ortega, singer
- Mecha Ortiz, actress
- Oski (Oscar Conti), cartoonist
- Fito Páez, songwriter and rock keyboard player
- Inés Palombo, model and actress
- Pappo, (Norberto Napolitano), rock musician
- Malvina Pastorino, actress
- Soledad Pastorutti, folk & pop singer
- Gastón Pauls, actor
- Luciana Pedraza, actress and directress
- Carolina Peleritti, actress
- Mario Pergolini, variety show host
- Diego Peretti, actor
- Melina Petriella, actress
- Roberto Pettinato, TV entertainer
- Ástor Piazzolla, tango composer
- Ana María Picchio, actress
- Estefanía Pigazzi, model
- Jorge Porcel, comedian
- Luca Prodan, Italian born rock composser and singer, leader of Argentine band Sumo
- Luis Puenzo, Academy Award-winning film director
- Osvaldo Pugliese, tango composer
- Lorenzo Quinteros, actor
- Rodolfo Ranni, actor
- Daniel Rabinovich, musician
- Sergio Renán, director of film and theatre
- Alejandro Rey, actor
- Susana Rinaldi, singer
- Edmundo Rivero, tango singer
- Inés Rivero, model
- Alita Román, actress
- Nélida Roca, vedette
- Elena Roger, actress
- Ingrid Rubio, actress
- Sebastián Rulli, Argentine-born, Mexican citizen, actor
- Sandro, singer
- Sabrina Sabrok, model and TV-entertainer
- Dino Saluzzi, jazz bandoneónist
- Miguel Sánchez, comedian, actor, show host
- Gustavo Santaolalla, composer and musician, Academy Award winner in 2006 and 2007
- Isabel Sarli, actress
- María Martha Serra Lima, singer
- Milagros Schmoll, model
- Mercedes Sosa, folk singer
- Chango Spasiuk, folk musician and singer
- Luis Alberto Spinetta, rock musician and guitarist
- Mario Soffici, actor
- Liz Solari, model
- Juan Soler, actor
- Julia Solomonoff, actress
- Coti Sorokin, songwriter, musician, compositor
- Betina Suárez Lynch, top model
- Silvana Suárez, Miss World 1978
- Eliséo Subiela, film maker
- Marcelo Tinelli, TV-entertainer
- Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, film director
- Diego Torres, singer
- Yésica Toscanini, model
- Carlos Olguin-Trelawny, film director, screenwriter
- Aníbal Troilo, tango bandoneonist and songwriter
- Paulina Trotz Fernández, model
- Daniela Urzi, model
- Natalia Verbeke, actress
- Sebastián Vilas, singer
- Soledad Villamil, actress
- Chunchuna Villafañe, actress
- Lito Vitale, musician
- Atahualpa Yupanqui, (Héctor Roberto Chavero) folk songwriter and musician
- Sofía Zámolo, model
- Pablo Ziegler, Grammy award-winning bandoneónist
- China Zorrilla, actress
- Olga Zubarry, actress
[edit] Journalism
- José Sixto Álvarez, journalist and writer
- Roberto Arlt, writer and journalist
- Andrés Bellatti, journalist
- Nelson Castro, journalist and writer
- Enrique Gratas, television news reporter
- Mariano Grondona, television anchorman
- Jorge Lanata, journalist and writer
- José Marmol, journalist and writer
- Tomás Eloy Martínez, journalist, writer and founder of several newspapers
- Eduardo Montes-Bradley, journalist, writer, filmmaker
- Andrés Oppenheimer, television anchorman
- Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, journalist, writer, educator, president.
- Pedro Sevcec, television anchorman
- Jacobo Timerman, journalist and writer
- Rodolfo Walsh, journalist and writer
[edit] Other categories
- Ladislao Biró, inventor of the Ball point pen.
- Eduardo Bradley, aerostat pilot.
- Alejandro Bustillo, architect.
- Fanne Foxe, scandalous stripper.
- Roberto Grau, chess player
- Paul Groussac, encyclopedist and librarian.
- Daniel Hadad, businessman.
- Miguel Najdorf, chess player
- Eduardo Newbery, aerostat pilot.
- Jorge Newbery, Argentine aviation pioneer.
- Horacio Pagani, auto designer.
- Mario Palanti, architect
- Oscar Panno, chess player
- César Pelli, architect.
- Gregorio Pérez Companc, businessman.
- Clorindo Testa, architect.
- Carlos Thays, famous landscape architect.
- Martín Varsavsky, businessman.
[edit] Sports teams
See also: Category:National sports teams of Argentina
[edit] Sports
(See Category:Argentine sportspeople for a complete list)
- Magdalena Aicega, field hockey player
- Agustín Pichot, captain of Los Pumas the national rugby team who won the third place in France RWC 2007
- José Acasuso tennis player
- Pablo Aimar, football player
- Serena Amato, sailor
- Osvaldo Ardiles, football (soccer) player
- Luciana Aymar, hockey player
- Carlos Baldomir, world champion boxer
- Georgina Bardach, swimmer bronze medal in 2004 Summer Olympics
- Gabriel Batistuta, football player
- Ringo Bonavena, boxer
- Delfo Cabrera, sprinter
- Ángel Cabrera ("El Pato Criollo"), golf player
- Adolfo Cambiaso, polo player
- Esteban Cambiasso, football player
- Mauro Camoranessi, football player
- Jorge Castro, world champion boxer
- Ignacio Corleto rugby player
- Juan Martín Hernández rugby player
- Fernando Cavenaghi, football (soccer) player
- German Chiaraviglio, pole vaulter
- José Luis Clerc, tennis player
- José Cóceres, golfer
- Juan Martín Coggi, world champion boxer
- Felipe Contepomi, rugby player
- Guillermo Coria, tennis player
- Hernán Crespo, football player
- Juan Esteban Curuchet, cyclist
- Juan Martín del Potro, tennis player
- Roberto DeVicenzo, golfer
- Agustín Calleri, tennis player
- Alfredo Di Stéfano, football player
- Gisela Dulko, tennis player
- Vito Dumas, yachting
- Carlos "Camau" Espínola, sailor
- Juan Manuel Fangio, Formula 1 five-time world champion race car driver
- Clarisa Fernández, tennis player
- Susana Ferrari Billinghurst aviator
- Germán Frers, yachting
- Luis Firpo, boxer
- Juan Antonio Flecha, cyclist
- Andres Franzoia, football player
- Víctor Galíndez, world champion boxer
- Alejandra García, high jumper
- Gastón Gaudio, tennis player.
- Manu Ginóbili, basketball player
- Inés Gorrochategui, tennis player
- Martín Gramática, American football player
- Gabriel Heinze, football player
- Juan Martín Hernández, rugbyer
- María de la Paz Hernández, known as "Maripí", hockey player
- Mario Kempes, football player
- Daniela Krukower, judoka
- Santiago Lange, sailor
- Santos Laciar, world champion boxer
- Mario Ledesma, rugbyer
- German Lux, football player
- Diego Armando Maradona, football player
- Cesar Luis Menotti, former football player and coach
- José Meolans, swimmer
- Lionel Messi, football player
- Marcos Milinkovic), volleyball player
- Carlos Monzón, world champion boxer
- Claudio Morresi
- David Nalbandián, tennis player
- Andrés Nocioni, basketball player
- José María Núñez Piossek, rugby player
- Fabricio Oberto, basketball player
- Martín Palermo, football player
- Paula Pareto, judoka
- Mercedes María Paz, tennis player
- Pascual Pérez, first Argentine world boxing champion
- Ramiro Pez, rugbier
- Walter Pérez, cyclist
- Agustín Pichot, rugby player
- Hugo Porta, rugby player
- Carlos Reutemann, Formula 1 race car driver
- Juan Román Riquelme, football player
- Cecilia Rognoni, grass hockey player
- Juan Martillo Roldán, boxer
- Andrés Romero, golfer
- Gabriela Sabatini, tennis player
- Pitu Salerni (María Emilia Salerni), tennis player
- Javier Saviola, football player
- Lionel Scaloni, football (soccer) player
- Hugo Sconochini, basketball player
- Noemí Simonetto de Portela, athlete, silver medal at 1948 Summer Olympics
- Alejandro Spajic, volleyball player
- Paola Suárez, tennis player
- Osvaldo Suárez, olympic marathonist
- Patricia Tarabini, tennis player
- Diana Taurasi, WNBA basketball player; parents are Argentine
- Carlos Tévez, football player
- Fabiana Vallejo, women's soccer player
- Julio Velasco, former volleyball coach
- Juan Sebastián Verón, football player
- Guillermo Vilas, tennis player
- Solange Witteveen, high jumper
- Juan Carlos Zabala, sprinter
[edit] Religion
[edit] Royalty
[edit] Politics
- Juan Bautista Alberdi, legal scholar
- Oscar Alende, reformist governor
- Raúl Alfonsín, president 1983-1989
- Alvaro Alsogaray, conservative economist
- Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, president
- Ricardo Balbín, prominent leader of the "Unión Cívica Radical" party
- Manuel Belgrano, Argentine politician, creator of the Argentine flag in 1812
- Teodoro Bronzini, former Socialist mayor of Mar del Plata, the first to head a major Argentine city
- José Ber Gelbard, Peronist economic adviser
- Hermes Binner, Socialist governor of Santa Fé Province, the first so elected
- Hebe de Bonafini, head of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
- Leopoldo Bravo, politician and diplomat
- Elisa Carrió, politician
- Domingo Cavallo, economist
- Julio Cobos, Vice President of Argentina
- Fernando de la Rúa, president 1999-2001
- Luis Drago, diplomat
- Eduardo Duhalde, president 2002-2003
- Rogelio Frigerio, economist
- Arturo Frondizi, president 1958-1962
- Leopoldo Galtieri, dictator
- Ernesto Che Guevara, revolutionary
- Arturo Illía, president
- Juan B. Justo, founder of the Argentine Socialist Party
- Alicia Moreau de Justo, wife of Juan B. Justo and prominent socialist leader
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, president
- Néstor Kirchner, president (2003-2007)
- Roberto Lavagna, economist
- José Lopez Rega, fascist adviser to Pres. Perón
- José Alfredo Martinez de Hoz, conservative economist
- Carlos Menem, president 1989-1999
- Bartolomé Mitre, president
- Mariano Moreno, independence-era leader and reformer
- Alfredo Palacios, socialist leader
- Raúl Prebisch, economist
- Juan Domingo Perón, president, 1946-1955 and 1973-1974
- Eva Duarte de Perón, influential first lady
- Isabel Martínez de Perón, first lady and president, 1974-1976
- Juan Pistarini, minister and vicepresident of Argentina
- Bernardino Rivadavia, president
- Julio Roca, president
- Juan Manuel de Rosas, dictator 1829-1833, 1835-1852
- Amadeo Sabattini, reformist governor
- José de San Martín, general, liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru from Spain.
- Daniel Scioli, fomer speedboater, later vice president and governor
- Jorge Enea Spilimbergo, poet, Marxist theorist and politician
- Jorge Videla, dictator 1976-1981
- Hipólito Yrigoyen, president
[edit] Sciences
- Alberto Calderón, mathematician
- Luis Agote, M.D.
- Cosme Argerich, M.D.
- Mario Bunge, physicist
- Pablo de León, space scientist
- René Favaloro, surgeon, inventor of the coronary bypass surgery
- Mario Garavaglia, physicist
- Ramón Enrique Gaviola, physicist
- Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg, geologist and zoologist
- Bernardo Houssay, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology
- Luis Federico Leloir, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
- Domingo Liotta M.D. cardiologist and inventor of the first purely artificial heart
- Juan Martín Maldacena, physicist
- César Milstein, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Pharmacology
- Francisco Moreno, explorer
- Jorge Sabato, physicist
- Juan Vucetich, inventor of the modern technique of fingerprinting.
- Roberto Zaldivar, M.D.
[edit] See also
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