- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
Cristina Elisabeth Fernández is a politician from La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a former Senator for Buenos Aires Province, former First Lady and current Argentine president. She is Argentina's first elected woman president but not the first to run the country.
- Hebe de Bonafini
Hebe Pastor de Bonafini (born 1928) is an Argentine activist, one of the founders of the Association of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a protest organization of Argentine mothers who lost their children during the Dirty War, the persecution and suppression of dissident groups by the military regime (self-styled "National Reorganization Process") that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983. Bonafini was raised in La Plata, Buenos Aires Province, …
- Mercedes Sosa
Mercedes Sosa is an Argentine singer immensely popular throughout Latin America. With her roots in Argentinian folk music, she became one of the preeminent exponents of nueva canción. Sosa is greatly admired for the depth and beauty of her contralto voice. She is nicknamed "La Negra" by her fans for her long, jet-black hair. Sosa was born in San Miguel de Tucumán, in the northwestern province of Argentina, of mestizo descent from French and Amerindian (Quechuan) ancestry.
- Alejandro Korn
Alejandro Korn was an Argentine physician, philosopher and reformist Born in San Vicente, Buenos Aires on May 3, 1860, and died in La Plata on October 9 1936, Korn participated activelly first in the Unión Civica Radical political party and later at the Socialist Party, was vice-rector of the National University of La Plata while Dardo Rocha was its rector, was president of football (soccer) club Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, and wrote a number of publications, …
- Florentino Ameghino
Florentino Ameghino was an Argentinian naturalist, paleontologist, anthropologist and zoologist. Born in Luján of Italian immigrants (some sources state he himself was born in Italy), Ameghino was a self-taught naturalist, and focused his study on the lands of the southern Pampas. He formed one of the largest collections of fossils of the world at the time, which served him as base for numerous geological and paleontological studies.
- Raúl Reyes
Luis Edgar Devia Silva aka Raúl Reyes, (September 30, 1948 – March 1, 2008) was a Secretariat Member, spokesperson and Advisor to the Southern Bloc of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-EP. Reyes was born in the Colombian town of La Plata, Huila Department.[1] He was a Marxist by conviction who joined a trade union movement while working for a milk plant of Nestlé in the department of Caquetá.
- Julio Alak
Julio César Alak is an Argentine politician, the current mayor of provincial capital La Plata. A lawyer by training, Alak is married and has three children.
- Agustín Alayes
Agustín Alayes is an Argentine football defender. He was born on July 22 1978, in the city of La Plata in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. He currently plays for Estudiantes de La Plata of the Primera Division Argentina. Alayes started his career at Estudiantes in 1997 but in 2000 he left his home town club to play for Quilmes Atlético Club in 2000. Five years later he returned to Estudiantes.
- Rodrigo Braña
Rodrigo Braña is an Argentine football midfielder. He was born on March 7 1979, in the city of Berazategui in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. He currently plays for Estudiantes de La Plata of the Primera division in Argentina. Braña started his career at Quilmes Atlético Club in the Argentine 2nd division, he has had three different spells with the club, which alternated between the second and the top division.
- Ricardo Balbín
Ricardo Balbín was an Argentine lawyer and politician, and one of the most important figures of the Unión Cívica Radical party (UCR), for which he was presidential candidate four times: in 1951, 1958, 1972 and 1973. The National Route 1 was named after him in 2004. Ricardo Balbín was born to Cipriano Balbín and Encarnación Morales in the city of Buenos Aires, but the family moved first to Azul, and later to Ayacucho when he was still a child.
- Juan Vucetich
Juan Vucetich was a Croatian-born Argentine anthropologist and police official who pioneered the use of fingerprinting. Vucetich was born as Ivan Vučetić at Hvar in Dalmatia (then Habsburg Monarchy, now Croatia). In 1882 he emigrated to Argentina. In 1891 Vucetich began the first filing of fingerprints based on ideas of Francis Galton which he expanded significantly. He became the director of the Center for Dactyloscopy in Buenos Aires.
- Francisco Solano López
Francisco Solano López was president of Paraguay from 1862 until his death in 1870. He was the eldest son of president Carlos Antonio López, whom he succeeded. Considered ambitious, perhaps arrogant, and possibly insane, Solano López is widely regarded as being responsible for the War of the Triple Alliance, which led to his death. Solano López was born near Asunción. He was made commander-in-chief of the Paraguayan army by his father, in 1846, …
- Paul Thomas
Paul Anthony Thomas (born October 5, 1980) is the bassist of the band Good Charlotte. He started out on the guitar, but then a friend influenced him to play the bass. Paul attended La Plata High School in La Plata, Maryland with Benji and Joel Madden, but was expelled after threatening to punch the principal in the face. Paul has known Benji and Joel since they were young children, and fellow Good Charlotte member Billy Martin since he joined the band in 1998.
- Francisco Varallo
Francisco "Pancho" Varallo is a former football player for Argentina and is the only person still living who participated in the first World Cup Final, which took place in Montevideo, Uruguay on July 30, 1930. Early in his career, Varallo was given the name "Cañoncito" (Little Cannon). Although not technically gifted, Varallo had an exceptional shooting ability. At the age of eighteen, Varallo had a trial with Estudiantes of the city La Plata, but, …
- Cristian von Wernich
Cristian Federico Von Wernich (born in 1938 in Concordia, Entre Ríos Province) is an Argentine Roman Catholic priest and a former chaplain of the Buenos Aires Province Police while it was under the command of General Ramón Camps, during the dictatorial period known as the National Reorganization Process (1976–1983). Von Wernich was accused of participation in the Dirty War, collaborating with the torture of political prisoners.
- Gilardo Gilardi
Gilado Gilardi was an Argentinean composer, pianist, and conductor who was the eponym of the Gilardo Gilardi Conservatory of Music in La Plata, Buenos Aires. He was born in San Fernando, Argentina and first learnt music from his father before studying with the composer Arturo Berutti in Buenos Aires. He began composing as a teenager and he premiered his first opera, "Ilse", in the Colón theatre, aged 23. He co-founded the group Renovación (Renovation) in 1929, …
- Gustavo Barros Schelotto
Gustavo Barros Schelotto (born 4 May 1973 in La Plata) is an Argentine footballer who last played for the Puerto Rico Islanders in the United Soccer Leagues. He is the twin brother of Guillermo Barros Schelotto.
- Benito Lynch
Benito 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.
- Osvaldo Golijov
Osvaldo Golijov was born in 1960 in La Plata, Argentina, to a family of eastern European Jewish origin. He grew up surrounded by classical cham-ber music, Jewish liturgical music, the sounds of eastern European klezmorim, and the new tango of Astor Piazzolla. He studied piano at the local conservatory, and composition privately with Gerardo Gandini (b. 1936), a pupil of Argentinas most famous composer, Alberto Ginastera.
- Antonio Quarracino
"His Eminence" Antonio Quarracino was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church of Argentina and the Archbishop of Buenos Aires between 1990 and 1998. He was born in Pollica, Province of Salerno, Italy, but his family immigrated to Argentina when he was 4 years old. Quarracino was ordained priest on 1945-12-22, and became a professor at the Diocesan Seminar of Mercedes. He also taught theology at the Universidad Católica Argentina.
- Francisco López Merino
Francisco López Merino was an Argentine poet born in La Plata, Buenos Aires, who committed suicide at the age of 23. In 1920 he published "Horas de amor" ("Love Hours"), a group of nine poems that later fell victims of auto-censorship. In 1921 he wrote another collection of poems entitled "Fragmentos de un libro inconcluso" ("Fragments of an Unfinished Book"), divided in three sections: "El espejo de mi interior" ("Mi Inner Mirror"), …
- José Toribio Medina
José Toribio Medina was a Chilean bibliographer. He was born at Santiago, Chile, and was educated for the bar. His first publication, when a very young man, was a metrical translation of Longfellow's "Evangeline". When twenty-two he was appointed secretary to the legation at Lima, Peru. After his return he published a history of Chilean literature (1878), and a work upon the aboriginal tribes (1884).
- Lester Dent
Lester Dent (October 12, 1904 - March 11, 1959) was a prolific pulp fiction author of numerous stories, best known as the main author of the series of stories about the superhuman scientist and adventurer, Doc Savage. The stories were credited to the house name Kenneth Robeson.
- Carlos López Puccio
Carlos Alberto Daniel López Puccio is a multi-instrumentalist musician, orchestral and choral conductor, composer, arranger and one of the current members of Les Luthiers. He studied orchestral conduction in La Plata. He also started studying engineering, but quit soon after starting it. Later in 1971, he joined Les Luthiers as auxiliary violin player, being added to the group shortly afterwards.
- Sergio Parisse
Sergio Parisse (13 September 1983, in La Plata, Argentina) is an Italo-Argentine rugby union footballer. His father, Sergio senior, was a winger for L'Aquila Rugby before moving to La Plata in Argentina, where Sergio junior was born. The young Parisse was handed a baptism of fire when he made his Italy debut in a 64-10 thrashing by New Zealand in 2002 but the number eight quickly established himself as one of Italy's key players.
- Alfredo Rojas
Alfredo Hugo "El Tanque" Rojas is a former professional Argentine football player.
- Julio Godio
Julio Godio (born 1939) is an Argentine sociologist born at La Plata, Buenos Aires Province In 1958, he was elected president of the students' union of the University of La Plata. Very much related with the labor movement (in Argentina and Latin America), Julio Godio has been official of ILO-ACTRAV, and has worked actively with the Friedrich Ebert Seitung, ICFTU-ORIT, IMF, BWI, UNI, etc. He has written important books and publications about the labor movement, …
- Carlos Astrada
Carlos Astrada was an Argentine philosopher. He was born in Córdoba on February 26 1894 and died in Buenos Aires on December 23 1970. He did his secondary school studies at the Colegio Nacional del Montserrat in Córdoba and his university studies in law in the National University of Córdoba. In 1926, with the essay "The Epistemological Problem in Philosophy", Astrada won a scholarship to Germany. He studied at the universities of Cologne, Bonn, and Freiburg, …
- Carlos Nieto
Carlos Nieto (born 25 June 1976 in La Plata, Argentina) is an Italian-Argentine international rugby union player. Nieto made his Italy debut against England in the 2002 Six Nations but didn't manage to establish himself as an automatic choice in the front row. He was recalled by Berbizier to the national set-up for the 2005 Summer tour of Argentina and Australia.
- José María Mainetti
José 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. Since 1940 he started working also as a professor at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. In 1969 he created the "Fundación para el Progreso" ("Foundation for Progress") which later became "Fundación Dr.
- Carmelo Giaquinta
Carmelo Juan Giaquinta is an Argentine bishop, currently the Archbishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Resistencia (province of Chaco). Giaquinta was ordained priest in Buenos Aires on 1953-04-04, at the age of 22. He was appointed auxiliary bishop of Viedma (province of Río Negro) on 1980-03-11. Six years later he was transferred to the diocese of Posadas, Misiones, and on 1993-03-22 again to Resistencia, where he exercised his ministry as Archbishop until his resignation, …
- Pablo Ariel Lugüercio
Pablo Ariel Lugüercio is an Argentine football striker. He was born on March 10 1982, in the city of La Plata in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. He currently plays for Estudiantes de La Plata of the Primera Division Argentina. Lugüercio started his career with Estudiantes in the Primera Division in 2001, he had a short loan spell with Defensa y Justicia of the 2nd division in 2002 and a season with Peruvian club Universidad San Martín de Porres in 2005.
- Marcos Alberto Angeleri
Marcos Alberto Angeleri is an Argentine football defender. He was born on April 7 1983, in the city of La Plata in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. He currently plays for Estudiantes de La Plata of the Argentine premiership. Angeleri made his first appearance for Estudiantes in 2002. The undisputable highlight of his career to date was playing in the championship decider for the Apertura 2006 title.
- Federico Turienzo
Federico Ezequiel Turienzo (born February 6, 1983 in La Plata) is an Argentine football player. He is a 6'2" tall, 12 stone striker who currently is a free agent after being released from his contract at Brighton and Hove Albion in May 2006. Turienzo played for Argentine side Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata from 2002 to August 2005, when he moved to Brighton and Hove Albion. Having been recommended to the club by former Juventus star Zibi Boniek, he signed a two-year contract.
- Víctor Grippo
Víctor Grippo was an Argentine painter, engraver and sculptor, considered the father of conceptual art in Argentina. He was born in Junín, province of Buenos Aires, the elder of two sons of an Italian immigrant father and an Argentine mother of Albanese origin. Grippo was raised in his birthtown, and in his youth he moved to the capital of the province, La Plata, and then to the city of Buenos Aires. He studied Chemistry and Pharmacy in the University of La Plata, …
- Julio Dormal
Julio Dormal was a Belgian architect. After studying in Paris, he arrived in Argentina in 1868 where he became one of first exponents of the Beaux-Arts style of architecture. He built the Palermo Race Course and designed the layout of Parque Tres de febrero, a park in the neighbourhood of Palermo in Buenos Aires, completed in 1876. Construction of the Congress building, designed by the Italian architect Vittorio Meano, began in 1898.
- Juan Antonio Buschiazzo
Juan Antonio Buschiazzo (1846-1917) 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 on 29 October 1846 in Pontinvrea, Province of Savona, Liguria, Buschiazzo was the son of Margarita Bresciani and Carlos Buschiazzo. In 1850 the family arrived to Argentina and took up residence in Belgrano, …
- Omar Oreste Corbatta
Omar Oreste Corbatta (1936-1991) is a former Argentine football striker. He was born on March 11 1936, in the city of La Plata in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. He won four League titles with Racing Club and Boca Juniors and represented the Argentina national football team on 43 occasions.
- Alejandro Carrusca
Alejandro Carrusca (born 23 January 1981, La Plata, Argentina) is a defender for the Treviso F.B.C. soccer team. Carrusca began his professional soccer career with Estudiantes de La Plata in the Primera Division Argentina before moving to El Porvenir in the Argentine 2nd Division. In 2007 he moved to Italy to join Treviso F.B.C of Serie B. Alejandro Carrusca is often confused with Marcelo Adrian Carrusca who plays for Galatasaray.
- Guillermo José Garlatti
Guillermo José Garlatti (Style: His Very Reverend Excellency, Monsignor Guillermo José Garlatti, in Latin Guglielmo Archiepiscopus Sinus Albinensis), is the Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca. He was born in Forgaria nel Fiurle, Udine, North of Italy on July 121940. His parents and him moved to La Plata Argentina when he was a child where he completed his primary and secondary education. He is fluent in Spanish, Italian and Latin.