- Néstor Kirchner
"', full name Néstor Carlos Kirchner Ostoić"', is the President of Argentina, sworn in on May 25, 2003. A Justicialist with leftist leanings, Kirchner was previously governor of the province of Santa Cruz. A governor of a Patagonian province, Kirchner was little-known internationally and even domestically before his election, which he won by default with only 22 percent of the vote in the first round when former President Carlos Menem withdrew from the race.
- 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.
- Juan Bautista Alberdi
Juan 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. Alberdi studied law in Buenos Aires. He fled from Argentina in fear of his powerful opponent, the "caudillo" Juan Manuel de Rosas. This did not prevent him from writing many books opposing Rosas.
- Fabiana Ríos
María Fabiana Ríos is an Argentine politician of the party ARI ("Afirmación para una República de Iguales", "Support for an Egalitarian Republic"), residing in the province of Tierra del Fuego. She is a National Deputy representing Tierra del Fuego, and governor elect of the province since 24 June 2007. Ríos graduated as a pharmacist from the National University of Rosario.
- Antonio Berni
Delesio Antonio Berni was a neofigurative 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. His mother, Margarita Picco, was an Argentinian, daughter of Italians settled in Roldán, a nearby town. In 1914 he became an apprentice in the "Buxadera and Co." vitraux factory, receiving instruction from its founder, a Catalan craftsman.
- Mauricio Macri
Mauricio Macri (born 8 February 1959) is an Argentine politician. He currently serves as a deputy representing the city of Buenos Aires in the Lower House of Congress, and, since 24 June 2007, is the Head of Government elect of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. He is divorced and has three children. Macri was born in Tandil, in the province of Buenos Aires, and studied at the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA), …
- Chango Spasiuk
Horacio "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. He had his first accordion at age 12, which he played at parties, weddings and other events with his father and uncle.
- Hermes Binner
Hermes Juan Binner (b. 5 June 1943 in Rafaela, province of Santa Fe, Argentina) is an Argentine medical doctor and a politician.
- Tomás de Rocamora
Juan Tomás Julián Marcos de Rocamora y del Castillo was the governor of three provinces and the founder of several towns in Entre Ríos Province, Argentina. Born in Granada, Nicaragua, he moved to Spain at an early age. In 1750 he entered the Royal Guards. As an officer he came to the Río de la Plata to fight in Montevideo, Uruguay against the Portuguese.
- José Manuel de la Sota
José Manuel de la Sota is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He is the governor of the province of Córdoba. De la Sota studied law at the National University of Córdoba. He stood as Mayor of Córdoba in 1983 and became a national deputy for the province of Córdoba in 1985, serving until 1989. He stood to be governor without success in 1987 and 1991, and that year became Ambassador to Brazil. He served as a national Senator 1995-99.
- Rafael Bielsa
Rafael Antonio Bielsa is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician from Rosario, province of Santa Fe. Bielsa spent his childhood in Morteros in Córdoba, the birthplace of his mother. He studied at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Rosario and became a lawyer. He is also a poet, writer and essayist. In 1974 Bielsa started working at the Federal Tribunals of Rosario.
- Rodrigo Bueno
Rodrigo Alejandro Bueno (b. 24 May 1973 in Córdoba, d. 24 June 2000 in Hudson, Berazategui Partido, Buenos Aires), mostly known as Rodrigo, was an Argentine singer of cuarteto music. His nickname among cuarteto fans was "el potro" ("the Colt"). Rodrigo was born into the cuarteto scene, and met many famous figures (such as Carlos "Mona" Jiménez) through family connections. He left school in the 7th grade to join "Manto Negro", …
- Mario Das Neves
Mario Das Neves is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He is the governor of the Argentine province of Chubut. Das Neves was born in Avellaneda, Gran Buenos Aires and grew up in Santa Fe but moved to Chubut at the age of 20 to try out as a footballer for Huracán de Trelew, without success. He became active in the youth wing of the Peronists and by 1987 he had a key role in the administration of Trelew's municipality under Néstor Perl.
- Governor Of Santa Fe
The governor of the Argentine province of Santa Fe is the highest executive officeholder of the province. According to the provincial constitution (sanctioned in 1962), the governor is elected by the simple majority of the popular vote, along with a vice governor, for a four-year term, and cannot be reelected consecutively. He or she must be a native Argentine citizen or the child of a native citizen, …
- Ginés González García
Ginés González García is a medical doctor and, as of 2006, the Minister of Health and Environment of Argentina. González García was born in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, province of Buenos Aires, and graduated as a surgeon at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. He was the Minister of Health of the province of Buenos Aires from 1988 to 1991. He was appointed Argentina's Minister of Health in 2002, during the term of interim President Eduardo Duhalde, …
- Juan Manuel Silva
Juan Manuel Silva (born 1972-10-12), nicknamed "el Pato" ("the Duck") is an Argentine racing driver from Resistencia, province of Chaco. In 2005 he was the champion of the Turismo Carretera competition. His father used to build racing cars for him. Already as a teenager he won two annual karting competitions (1986 and 1987). His last three titles are separated by six years each. He crowned himself champion of three different racing series in 1993, 1999 and 2005.
- Lisandro de la Torre
Lisandro de la Torre (6 December 1868 - 5 January 1939) was an Argentine politician, born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe. De la Torre became a lawyer in 1890. His thesis about municipalities and communes, as well as other works of his, gave rise to the idea of municipal autonomy in Argentina, which was included in the Argentine Constitution in the 1994 reform. In 1898 he founded the newspaper "La República" ("The Republic") in Rosario.
- Carlos Sylvestre Begnis
Carlos Sylvestre Begnis was a medical doctor and politician, born in Alto Grande, a village near Bell Ville, Córdoba province in Argentina. He was a rural physician and worked as a surgeon in hospitals of the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe. He entered politics through the Radical Civic Union. In 1958 he was elected governor of Santa Fe, following a period of "de facto" military rule (after the Revolución Libertadora, …
- Felipe Solá
Felipe Solá is an Argentine politician of the Justicialist Party (Peronism) and the current governor of the province of Buenos Aires. Solá is an agricultural engineer. He studied at the University of Buenos Aires. He is married and has two children. He was also a university professor, a journalist, and a counselor and researcher in economics topics.
- Miguel Lifschitz
Roberto Miguel Lifschitz, is the current mayor of the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. He obtained his degree at the Engineering Faculty of the National University of Rosario in 1979 and acted in the private field until 1989, year in which he became Director-General of the Public Housing Service ("Director General del Servicio Público de la Vivienda") of the city of Rosario, with the socialist administration of Héctor Cavallero.
- Héctor Cavallero
Héctor Cavallero, nicknamed "El Tigre", "The Tiger", is an Argentine politician, who was mayor of Rosario and a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies for the province of Santa Fe. Cavallero was born in Las Parejas, Santa Fe, but went to high school in the General Paz Military Liceum in Córdoba, and studied Biochemistry at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Cavallero was first elected mayor of the large city of Rosario, in southern Santa Fe, in 1989, …
- Domingo Cullen
Domingo Cullen was the governor of province of Santa Fe, Argentina during 1838. Cullen was born in Tenerife, Canary Islands, but moved to Argentina in the 1820s after establishing commercial activities (linked with fluvial trade) in the area. He met Santa Fe's "caudillo" Estanislao López when serving as a deputy of the Cabildo of Montevideo.
- Pocho Lepratti
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.
- Honorio Pueyrredón
Honorio Pueyrredón (born June 9 1876 in San Pedro - died on september 23, 1945 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine lawyer, university professor, diplomatic and politician. Pueyrredón graduated at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 1896, were he would later also teach.
- 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, …
- Roberto Fontanarrosa
Roberto Alfredo Fontanarrosa (born November 26, 1944 in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina) is a cartoonist and writer. He began his career writing comic strips and later branched out into writing books with comic short stories, specially about football (soccer). His better known strips are "Inodoro Pereyra", featuring a gaucho and his talking dog "Mendieta", and "Boogie el Aceitoso".
- Agustín Rossi
Agustín Oscar Rossi, also known by his nickname "El Chivo Rossi", is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician from the province of Santa Fe. Since 2005 he is a National Deputy in the Argentine Congress. Rossi was born in Vera, a small city in the north of Santa Fe Province, where he spent his early youth. He moved to Rosario when he was 17 years old, and graduated as a civil engineer at the National University of Rosario.
- Julio Vanzo
Julio Vanzo (12 October 1901 - 10 December 1984) was an artist born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. He descended from a family of artists of the Austrian Tyrol. Vanzo presented his first exhibition in 1919, at the inauguration of the Witcomb Gallery in Rosario. In 1941 he was invited to a joint exhibition that featured Lucio Fontana, Domingo Candia and Emilio Petorutti at the Riverside Gallery of New York City, …
- Juan Gregorio de las Heras
Juan Gregorio de las Heras was an Argentine military who took part in the South American Wars of Independence and was also a governor of the province of Buenos Aires. He fought for the resistance against the British invasions of the Río de la Plata (1806–1807) and then entered the Army. In 1813 he took charge of a part of the Army of the Andes, replacing Antonio González Balcarce. After the Disaster of Rancagua in 1814, he returned to Mendoza, Argentina.
- Domingo Crespo
Domingo Crespo was an Argentine politician who was governor of the province of Santa Fe from 1851 to 1854. Crespo was a landowner born in Santa Fe City. In 1851 he supported the movement of the "Federales" led by the "caudillo" Justo José de Urquiza against the supremacy of Buenos Aires governor Juan Manuel de Rosas. He was appointed governor of Santa Fe by the Junta of Representatives of the province on 29 February 1852.
- Juan Manuel Cafferata
Juan Manuel Cafferata was an Argentine politician of the National Autonomist Party. He was the governor of province of Santa Fe between 1890 and 1893. Cafferata was born in Buenos Aires, the son of an immigrant businessman from Genoa, Italy, who had settled in Rosario (southern Santa Fe). He studied law at the Jesuit's College of the Immaculate Conception in the city of Santa Fe.
- Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield
Dalmacio 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. Vélez Sarsfield was born in Amboy, a small town in the Calamuchita Valley, province of Córdoba. He studied at the Jesuit college in the provincial capital Córdoba, where he later continued his study of law. He graduated when he was 22; and was particularly adept at mathematics and languages, …
- Patricio Cullen
Patricio Cullen was the governor of province of Santa Fe, Argentina between 1862 and 1865. He was the second son of Domingo Cullen and Joaquina Rodríguez del Fresno. Cullen was born in the provincial capital Santa Fe. His family was of Irish origin (descended from Thomas Cullen Maher, who emigrated from Kilkenny to the Canary Islands in 1793), and has given Santa Fe many influential characters in the field of politics (Domingo Cullen was governor of Santa Fe, …
- Hugo Ibarra
Hugo Benjamín Ibarra is an Argentine professional football player currently playing with Boca Juniors in Argentine first division. Born in the northern province of Formosa, Ibarra went to Santa Fe Province to start playing with Colón de Santa Fe. The team was in second division when Ibarra started playing professionally in 1993, but 2 years later the team was promoted to first division.
- Antonio Baseotto
Antonio Baseotto was a Roman Catholic bishop from Argentina. Until February 2005 he was Argentina's military bishop ("obispo castrense"), that is, the head of the military chaplains, with the status of Subsecretary of State. Baseotto was born on 4 April 1932 and ordained as a priest in 1957. In the 1980s, he served in the diocese of Añatuya, Santiago del Estero, …
- Mariano Cabal
Mariano Cabal was the governor of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina between 9 April 1886 and 7 April 1871. Major achievements of Cabal's administration were, among others, the opening of the first telegraph line between Rosario and Buenos Aires, and the railway link between Rosario and Córdoba (through the Ferrocarril Central Argentino), in 1870. Cabal pushed the colonized frontiers of Santa Fe Province southward, …
- José María Vernet
José María Vernet is an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. He was the first democratically elected governor of the province of Santa Fe after the end of the National Reorganization Process, from 11 December 1983 to 11 December 1987. He did not occupy other major political posts. He served as Minister of External Relations (Chancellor) for ad interim president Adolfo Rodríguez Saá during his very brief rule (the last week of 2001, …
- Liliana Herrero
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, …
- Servando Bayo
Servando Bayo was an Argentine politician who served as the National Autonomist Party governor of the province of Santa Fe from 1874 to 1878. A native of Rosario, Bayo attended a military training institution and took part in the Battle of Cepeda with the rank of captain. As a politician, he was Rosario's Political Chief (comparable to a non-elected mayor), a senator, and governor of the province (with Juan Manuel Zavalla as his vice-governor).
- Daniel Alberto Díaz
Daniel Alberto Díaz is an Argentine football defender. He is a strong defender known for his powerful shot. Nicknamed Cata because of his home province of Catamarca, he started playing at youth amateur local team "Juventud de Catamarca" before moving in 1997 to the youth team of Rosario Central. He played his first professional match in 2000 with Rosario Central Daniel Díaz moved to Cruz Azul in 2003. After only one season with the Mexican club, …