Roberto Fabián "El Ratón" Ayala is an Argentinian football player, who currently plays for the Spanish team Real Zaragoza. Regarded as one of the best central defenders in the world, he has been captain of the Argentine national team for more matches than anyone else and has played in three World Cups. Ayala is the most capped player ever for Argentina with 115 international appearances.

José Néstor Pekerman is an ex-Argentine football coach and current coach of Club Toluca of Mexico. He is arguably the all-time most successful football coach of young teams, having won the FIFA World Youth Championship three times (1995, 1997 and 2001), and the South American Youth Championship (U20) twice (1997 and 1999). He coached the Argentina national football team in the 2006 World Cup.

Justo José de Urquiza y García was an Argentine general and politician. He was president of the Argentine Confederation from 1854 to 1860. As the "caudillo" of Entre Ríos, Urquiza helped sustain the power of Juan Manuel de Rosas. In 1851, resentful of the economic and political dominance of Buenos Aires, he revolted against his chief. Supported by Brazil and the Uruguayan liberals, he forced Manuel Oribe to capitulate, …

General Agustín Pedro Justo Rolón was President of Argentina from February 20 1932 to February 20 1938. He was a military man, diplomat, and politician, and was president during the Infamous Decade. He was elected president on November 8, 1931, supported by the political sectors that would form shortly after la Concordancia, an alliance created between the National Democratic Party ("Partido Demócrata Nacional"), …

Jorge Luis Burruchaga is a former Argentine professional football player, and currently a football coach. He played both as an attacking midfielder and striker. "Burru" was part of the team that won the 1986 FIFA World Cup, scoring the goal that gave Argentina the 3:2 victory against Germany in the final match.

Gabriel Iván Heinze is an Argentine footballer who currently plays for the English Premier League team Manchester United as a left-back, having transferred from Paris Saint-Germain in the summer of 2004. Heinze is a descendant of Volga German immigrants that settled in Argentina. His ever solid displays for Manchester United in his first season saw him win fans' Player of the Year award.

Joseph Kessel (born on February 10, 1898 in Clara, Entre Ríos, Argentina, died on July 23 1979 in Avernes, Val-d'Oise, France) was a French journalist and novelist. He was born in 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. He studied in Nice and Paris, and took part in the First World War as an aviator.

Jorge Pedro Busti is an Argentine politician, current Justicialist Party governor of Entre Ríos Province. Busti was born in Concordia, Entre Ríos and graduated as a lawyer at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Busti served as Mayor of Concordia 1983-87 and was first elected governor in 1987. In 1991 he retired as governor and was once again elected Mayor of Concordia. From 1995 to 1999 Busti returned for a second term as governor, …

Emilio Eduardo Massera is a former Argentine military officer, and part of the 1976 coup d'état. In 1981, he was found to be a member of P2 (also known as "Propaganda Due", a freemasonry lodge involved in Italy's strategy of tension). Massera entered Argentina's Naval Military School in 1942, obtaining his commission as a midshipman in 1946. During his career he occupied different positions within the Navy, …

General Pedro Pablo Ramírez Machuca was President of Argentina from June 7 1943 to February 24 1944.

Leopoldo Melo was an Argentine lawyer, diplomat and politician. He was a member of the Radical Civic Union political party, and served as senator and Minister of Internal Affairs.

Juan Álvarez was a judge and historian born in Gualeguaychú,. Álvarez was born at a time of massive immigration in Argentina. His father, Serafín Álvarez, was an exiled Republican Spaniard; within the family, discussions about society, politics and religion were common. He studied at the Faculty of Law in Buenos Aires, where the ruling class of the time was raised. His doctoral thesis was evaluated by Bartolomé Mitre. Since 1902 he worked at the Tribunals of Rosario, …

Martin Castrogiovanni is an Italo-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 player of the season. A native of Paraná, Argentina, Castrogiovanni made his international debut for the Italian national team on June 8, 2002, during the tour against the All Blacks, …

Liliana Herrero is an Argentine musician born in 1948 in Villaguay, province of Entre Ríos. In 1966 she moved to Rosario, Santa Fe, in order to study Philosophy, and has since become an adoptive citizen. In her youth she took part in the vocal groups "Contracanto" and "Canto Libre". She was arrested by the military government for her involvement in Peronist movements. In Rosario she met the local singer and composer Fito Páez, …

Claudio Hugo Lepratti (27 February 1966 - 19 December 2001), known as "Pocho" Lepratti, was a volunteer who worked in a poor neighbourhood in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and who was shot and killed by the Santa Fe Provincial Police during the December 2001 riots, while he tried to stop police agents from firing at a school.

Juan 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.

Alfredo Bravo was an Argentine Socialist politician, teacher, leader of the teachers' union CTERA, human rights fighter, and legislator. Bravo was born in Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Ríos Province. He studied in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires Province, and became a teacher at 18. He settled in a rural town in the north of Santa Fe Province, which he left when he was drafted. He moved to Buenos Aires afterwards, where he joined the union movement.

Alférez de Navío José María Sobral (Navy Sub-Lieutenant - born in on April 14, 1880 in Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos, died on April 14, 1961 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine military scientist and Antartic explorer. Sobral joined the Swedish Antarctic Expedition in Buenos Aires at the end of 1901, when the group headed by Otto Nordenskjöld asked the Argentine Government for supplies, to perform a series of meteorological, biological geological and geodesical studies.

Francisco Antonio Barroetaveña was an Argentine lawyer and politician, founder of the Civic Youth Union, the Civic Union, and co-founder of the Radical Civic Union.

Evangelina Carrozzo (born 1981) 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.

Jorge Alberto Obeid is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, current governor of Santa Fe Province. Obeid was born in Diamante, Entre Ríos but moved to Santa Fe to train as a chemical engineer. He was a young Peronist activist but was forced to leave the country during the military government. He became a member of the legislative council of Santa Fe and, as the President of the Council, became the mayor when the incumbent resigned.

Ramón Ismael Medina Bello, nicknamed "El Mencho", was born April 29 1966 in Gualeguay, Entre Rios, Argentina. He began his professional soccer career in 1986 in Racing Club de Avellaneda. In 1989 he was transferred to River Plate, where he played until 1993. By that time he was part of the Argentinian national team, he won the Copa America 1991 in Chile. He was also part of the national team in the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

Pablo Facundo Bonvín is an Argentine football striker. He was born on April 15 1981, in the city of Concepción del Uruguay in the Entre Ríos Province of Argentina. He currently plays for Argentinos Juniors of the Primera Division Argentina. Bonvín started his career at Boca Juniors, where he came through the youth system to play in the first team in 2000, later that year he was sold to Newcastle in England, …

Osmar Ferreyra is an Argentine football (soccer) midfielder. Currently plays for Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro, on loan from PFC CSKA Moscow. "El Malevo" Ferreyra also played for Club Atlético River Plate and PSV Eindhoven. He was capped for the Argentina national side at Under-20 level during the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship.

Facundo Adrian Erpen is an Argentine football (soccer) defender, who currently plays for Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. Erpen was part of the Boca Juniors youth system and played for Talleres de Córdoba before signing with DC United in the summer of 2005. He was traded to the Colorado Rapids for Greg Vanney in June of 2007. On August 8, 2006, Erpen was named as a replacement for injured Eddie Pope on the 2006 MLS All Star Team, …

Jorge Zentner is an Argentine comic writer, creator of Dieter Lumpen character.

Cristian Sebastián Cejas is an Argentinean goalkeeper, who currently plays for the Chilean club Colo-Colo. He is also known as "Terremoto Cejas" ("Earthquake Cejas"). He began his career in 1994 in his native country Argentina, where he appeared in 170 games and scored six goals for Newell's Old Boys. From there he was transferred to Roma in 2001. While with Newell's Old Boys, Cejas was a regular with the first team.

José Antonio Chamot is an Argentine former footballer. His former clubs include Club Gimnasia y Esgrima (Concepci%C3%B3n del Uruguay), Rosario Central and Italian Pisa, Foggia, Lazio and A.C. Milan, and Spanish Atlético Madrid. He represented Argentina at the 1994 and 1998 World Cups.

Wilfredo Daniel Caballero is an Argentinian soccer player who currently plays for Elche CF of Spain's Segunda División as a goalkeeper. He participated in the matches leading up to the gold medal triumph of his native Argentine squad during the 2004 Summer Olympics, consisting of matches versus Costa Rica in the quarter-final, Italy in the semi-final, and the final against Paraguay.

Samuel 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.

Indio Solari (born Carlos Solari, c. 1949) is an Argentine singer and musician. He was leader of Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota between 1976 and 2002. He got separated from "Redondos" and then started his first single work in 2004 ("El Tesoro de los Inocentes (Bingo Fuel)"), together with band Los Fundamentalistas del Aire Acondicionado.

Fernando Ayala (2 July 1920, Gualeguay, Entre Rios - 11 September 1997 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine film producer, film director, screenwriter and film producer of the classic era. He is widely considered one of the most important Argentine film directors and producers in the history of the Cinema of Argentina. Demicheli initially began as a trainee assistant director in 1942 in El Viaje and within two years he had become an assistant director.

Augusto Alasino is a senior Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He is facing allegations of taking bribes whilst a Senator in a high-profile case. Alasino was born in Maciá, Entre Ríos Province. He graduated as a lawyer and doctor of law from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in Santa Fe. He joined the Peronists in 1983 and held party positions in his province.

Fermín Chávez, "La Opinión", "Mayoría", and "Clarín". He also collaborated with magazines, dictionaries and encyclopedias; in 1949 founded the poetry maganize "Nombre", and in 1967, "Ahijuna". He was the press chief of the state oil company YPF from 1970 to 1973, and worked in the official press of the city of Buenos Aires during the administration of General José Embrioni, since 1973.

Alexis Weisheim is an Argentinian footballer currently plying his trade at Hapoel Haifa.

Remigio Daniel Molina Ferreyra is a former featherweight boxer from Argentina, who represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There he was defeated in the quarterfinals by eventual bronze medalist Mohammed Achik of Morocco on points. As a professional he competed in a total number of 47 fights, winning 38 (15 ko's) of them, with one draw and eight defeats.

Bruno Marioni is an Argentine striker for the Argentine football team Boca Juniors of the first division. Marioni started playing for Newell's Old Boys in 1995 before moving to Sporting Lisbon in 1997. After 2 seasons in Portugal, Marioni returned to Argentina joining Estudiantes de La Plata (Clausura 1999) and the Club Atlético Independiente. In 2000 he again played in Europe, with Villarreal CF for one season, and after the Clausura 2001 again with Independiente, …