- Luca Prodan
Luca Prodan was an Italian-Argentine musician. Born in Rome, he was the son of an Italian father and a Scottish mother. Prodan attended Gordonstoun School, a private boarding school in Scotland, and for some time drifted in Manchester and London. In 1981, after two of his friends died (one of them being Ian Curtis), he moved to Argentina seeking peace to try kicking his heroin addiction. After some time in a farm in the Traslasierra valley in the province of Córdoba, …
- Leonor Fini
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Leonor Fini moved to Paris in 1937 and exhibited with the leaders of the Surrealist movement. Cocteau, Dali, Ernst and others wrote extensively about her works. Art historians have assigned to her a major position in the Surrealist movement, and she is regarded today as one of the world's most important artists.
- Mauro Camoranesi
Mauro Germán Serra Camoranesi, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI, (born October 4, 1976 in Tandil, Argentina) is an Italo-Argentinian World Cup-winning footballer, who currently plays for Juventus football club. Camoranesi is a member of the Italy national football team and was part of the winning squad at the 2006 World Cup. He is a midfielder, and usually plays on the right wing, where he is most comfortable and effective.
- Lionel Andres Messi
Lionel Messi (full name Lionel Andres Messi ) was born on June 24, 1987 in Rosario, Argentina. He is an Argentine international footballer who currently plays for FC Barcelona in the Primera Division, and for the Argentine national team. Biography and Career : He started playing football when he was just five years old at a club which was coached by his father. After three years he moved to...
- Claudio Caniggia
Claudio Paul Caniggia is a legendary Argentine football forward, who played for the Argentine national team in two World Cups, and was a member of both rival clubs River Plate and Boca Juniors.
- Arturo Frondizi
Arturo Frondizi Ercoli was the President of Argentina between 1 May 1958 and 29 March 1962 for the Intransigent Radical Civic Union. Frondizi was born in Paso de los Libres, Corrientes Province to immigrants from Umbria, Italy. They lived in Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Rios, and in Buenos Aires. Frondizi graduated from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) with an excellent law degree in 1930 and entered politics.
- Gabriel Batistuta
Gabriel Omar Batistuta (born 1 February, 1969), nicknamed "Batigol", is a former professional footballer. The prolific Argentine striker played most of his club football at ACF Fiorentina in Italy, and he is the eighth top scorer of all time in the Italian Serie A league, with 184 goals in 318 matches between 1991 and 2003. On the international level, he is the all-time highest scorer for Argentina's national team, with 56 goals in 78 national team matches, …
- Ernesto Sabato
Ernesto Sabato is an Argentine writer of Italian and Arbëreshë (Italian Albanian) descent. He began his studies at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, where he earned a Ph.D. in Physics. He then attended the Sorbonne in Paris and worked at the Curie Institute. After World War II, he lost faith in science and started writing. He published his first novel "El Túnel" (translated as "The Outsider" or "The Tunnel").
- 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), …
- Lucio Fontana
Lucio Fontana (19 February 1899 - 7 September 1968) was a painter and sculptor born in Rosario,, the son of an Italian father and an Argentine mother. Fontana spent the first years of his life in Italy and came back to Argentina in 1905, where he stayed until 1922, working as a sculptor along with his father and then on his own. In 1928 he returned to Italy, and there he presented his first exhibition in 1930, organized by the Milano art gallery "Il Milione".
- Javier Mascherano
Javier Alejandro Mascherano (pronounced as) (born June 8, 1984 in San Lorenzo, Santa Fe) is an Argentine football player. He plays as a defensive central midfielder and is currently with English club Liverpool. He is well known for his passing and hard tackling defence. Mascherano also holds an Italian passport due to his ancestry. Mascherano's two most used nicknames (in Argentina) are "Masche" and "Jefecito" (Little chief).
- Luis Monti
Luis Fernando Monti (May 15, 1901 - September 9, 1983) was an Italian-Argentine football player who has the unique distinction of playing in two World Cup final matches with two different national teams. The first was with his native Argentina in 1930, which he lost to Uruguay. The second was for Italy as one of their "Oriundi" in 1934. This time Monti was on the winning side in a 2-1 victory over Czechoslovakia.
- Diego Bucchieri
Diego Alejandro "The Butcher" Bucchieri was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 23, 1977. However, he currently resides in Barcelona, Spain. He received his first skateboard when he was 10, and began skateboarding in 1987, looking up to legendary skateboarding figures like Tony Hawk and Christian Hosoi. He first came to California when he was 20, and did not speak English. He has been a sponsored rider since 1998, and is currently a professional skateboarder.
- Gabriel Milito
Gabriel Alejandro Milito is an Argentine professional football defender, currently playing for Spanish La Liga club FC Barcelona. Previously, Milito played for Argentine first division Independiente from 1997 to 2003. During that time, he had to face his older brother Diego Milito, who played for Independiente's arch-rivals Racing Club, and who as of the end of the 2006-07 season is his teammate at Zaragoza. In 2003, he was to be transferred to Real Madrid, …
- Princess Máxima Of The Netherlands
Princess Máxima of the Netherlands is the wife of Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, heir to the Dutch throne and eldest son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.
- Alfio Basile
Alfio Rubén Basile, known as Coco, is an Argentine football (soccer) coach and former player. In September 2006, he became coach of the Argentina national football team, replacing José Pekerman.
- Diego Milito
Diego Alberto Milito is an Argentine professional football forward, currently playing at Real Zaragoza of the Spanish first division. Diego started playing at Argentine first division Racing Club in 1999, where he would win the 2001 Apertura tournament. At the beginning of 2005 he moved to Italian second division Genoa. After two very successful season, where he scored 33 goals in 59 matches in Italy, Diego Milito transferred to his current club Real Zaragoza.
- Juan Manuel Fangio
Juan Manuel Fangio was a race car driver from Argentina, who dominated the first decade of Formula One racing. He won five World Championship titles — a record which stood for 46 years — with four different teams (Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Maserati), a feat that has not been repeated since. For these achievements, and because of the time they were accomplished, he is considered by many as the "greatest driver of all time".
- Antonio Porchia
Antonio Porchia was an Italian poet. He was born in Conflenti (Italy) but, after the death of his father in 1900, moved to Argentina. He wrote a Spanish book entitled "Voces" ("Voices"), a book of aphorisms. It has since been translated into English (by W.S. Merwin), French, and German. A very influential, yet extremely succinct writer, he has been a cult author for a number of renowned figures of contemporary literature and thought like André Breton, …
- Roberto Ayala
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.
- Luis César Amadori
Luis 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. He directed over 60 films between 1936 and 1967 writing the scripts to over 50 pictures. He directed films such as "Apasionadamente" 1944, the critically acclaimed "Albéniz (film)" 1947) and "Alma fuerte" (1949).
- Julio Bocca
Julio Bocca is one of the most important ballet dancers of the latter part of the 20th century, and probably the most important Argentine dancer of all time. Born in the Munro neighbourhood of the Greater Buenos Aires, he started ballet lessons at the age of four, and at the age of seven entered the National School of Dance from where he progressed to the Teatro Colón's Advanced Arts Institute a year later.
- Carlos Delfino
Carlos Francisco Delfino is an Argentine professional basketball player for the NBA's Toronto Raptors. He plays at the shooting guard and small forward positions. He stands 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) tall and weighs 104 kg (230 lb). He began his professional career playing in the Argentine Basketball League for "Olímpia de Venado Tuerto" in the 1998-99 season, and then transferred to Unión de Santa Fe in 1999-2000.
- Julio Libonatti
Julio Libonatti (July 5, 1901 - October 9, 1981), was an Italian-Argentine football forward. Born in Rosario, Argentina, Libonatti started his professional career with Newell's Old Boys in 1917. He would play with Newell's Old Boys until 1925 when he transferred to Torino F.C.. He was the first recorded trans-atlantic transfer. He played both with the Argentina national football team and Italy national football team.
- Fernando Gago
Fernando Rubén Gago is an Argentine football midfielder, who plays for La Liga club Real Madrid.
- Valeria Mazza
Valeria Raquel Mazza (born February 17, 1972) is an Argentine fashion 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, and presented the San Remo Music Festival in Italy. Mazza has also appeared on the covers of "Glamour", "ELLE", and "Vogue".
- Roberto Pettinato
Roberto 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 out of the country together with his family. Roberto Jr. has maintained that leaving his childhood home in the dark is his earliest memory.
- Carlos Bianchi
Carlos Bianchi is a former football (soccer) player and coach. Bianchi was top goalscorer of the French league for five years, and scored 385 goals in 546 first division matches (in Argentina and France). As a coach, he obtained 7 Argentine league titles and 8 international titles. He is also Boca Juniors' most successful coach with 8 titles overall. Nevertheless, he has never been able to reproduce with an important European team the successes he had in Argentina.
- Leo Franco
Leonardo Noeren Franco, commonly known as Leo Franco is a professional Argentine football goalkeeper who currently plays in Spain for Atlético Madrid. Franco started his career at Independiente before moving to Spanish Mérida UD. In 1998 he transferred to Real Mallorca, where he would later become a regular starter for the club, and win the 2003 Copa del Rey. He was signed by Atlético Madrid in 2004.
- Gabriel Paletta
Gabriel Alejandro Paletta (born February 15 1986, Buenos Aires) is an Argentinean central defender, who currently plays for Liverpool, only the second Argentine to play for the Merseyside club, after Mauricio Pellegrino.
- Renato Civelli
Renato Civelli is an Argentine football defender. He was born on October 14 1983, in the city of Pehuajó in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. He currently plays for Marseille of Ligue 1 in France. Civelli started his career at Banfield in the Primera Division Argentina. After 2 years with the club he was signed by Marseille in January 2006, during the European winter transfer window.
- Guillermo Francella
Guillermo Francella (born February 14, 1955 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a famous actor and comedian. He is one of Telefe's most well known personalities. Apart from being a television figure, he also has had a long theatrical acting career. Francella has travelled around his native Argentina with some of his country's distinguished actors to participate in a long list of plays.
- Ezequiel Lavezzi
Ezequiel Iván Lavezzi born on May 3 1985, in Villa Gobernador Gálvez, Santa Fe Province, Argentina. is an Argentine footballer currently playing for Serie A club S.S.C. Napoli. Lavezzi shot to fame at the age of 19 in the Apertura 2004 tournament, he scored six goals in total, the most notable was a spectacular effort against River Plate at the El Monumental.
- Leopoldo Galtieri
Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri Castelli (July 15, 1926 - January 12, 2003) was an Argentinian general and the "de facto" President of Argentina from 22 December 1981 to 18 June 1982, during the last military dictatorship. The death squad Intelligence Battalion 601 directly reported to him
- Fernando Belluschi
Fernando Daniel Belluschi, is an Argentine football midfielder, currently captain of Argentine Club Atlético River Plate. Belluschi is a fans' favourite and his best position is as an attacking midfielder, or playing just behind the forwards as a link between midfield and attack. His intricate skill and natural ability has been compared to Dennis Bergkamp.
- Guillermo Barros Schelotto
Guillermo Barros Schelotto is a football player, who currently plays for the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer. Guillermo played for Boca Juniors of the Primera División Argentina from 1996 to 2007. He is the most decorated football player in Argentine football history, having played on teams that won 18 international and domestic titles recognized by FIFA. Barros Schelotto is one of Boca's top scorers in international matches with 25 goals, …
- Gabriela Sabatini
Gabriela Beatriz Sabatini (b. May 16 1970, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a former professional tennis player from Argentina. She was one of the leading players on the women's circuit in the late-1980s and early-1990s. She won the women's singles title at the US Open in 1990, the women's doubles title at Wimbledon in 1988, and a silver medal at the 1988 Olympic Games.
- Fernando Forestieri
Fernando Martín Forestieri is an Italo-Argentinian footballer who currently plays for Genoa C.F.C., in Serie A.
- Norma Nolan
Norma Nolan (born Norma Beatriz Nolan, approx. 1943), 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. She was born in Argentina. Not much is known about her after winning the Miss Universe title; Nolan kept a largely private life after her victory.
- Pablo Mastroeni
Pablo Mastroeni (born August 29, 1976 in Mendoza, Argentina) is an American soccer midfielder. He plays for the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer, of which he is its captain, and is a member of the United States national soccer team instead of the argentina national soccer team. Mastroeni moved to the United States from his native Argentina at the age of four.