- Che Guevara
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che or just Che was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, political figure, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. As a young man studying medicine, Guevara traveled rough throughout South America, bringing him into direct contact with the impoverished conditions in which many people lived.
- 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...
- La Argentina
Antonia Mercé y Luque, known by her stage name as "La Argentina", was a flamenco dancer. She was born on September 4, 1890 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and died on July 18, 1936 in Bayonne, France. She originated and helped to establish the neoclassical style of Spanish dance as a theatrical art. A talented young dancer, her career was greatly influenced by her parents Manuel Mercé (Andalusian), and Josefina Luque (Castilian), who were professional Spanish dancers.
- Diego Maradona
Diego Armando Maradona (born October 30, 1960) is an Argentine former football superstar. He played in four World Cups and received a FIFA award: "FIFA Internet Player of the Century", after being voted in an international fan poll organized by FIFA in 2000 to choose the best football player of all time. Maradona won various trophies with Boca Juniors, FC Barcelona and SSC Napoli over the course of his career.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine writer. Best-known in the English speaking world for his short stories and fictive essays, Borges was also a poet, critic, translator and man of wisdom. He was influenced by authors such as Dante Alighieri, Miguel de Cervantes, Franz Kafka, H.G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Schopenhauer and G. K. Chesterton.
- David Nalbandian
David Nalbandian is a professional tennis player from Argentina. As of July 2007 he is the World's No. 24 male tennis player. <sup></sup> Nalbandian is of Armenian descent; his last name means "one who makes horse shoes" in Persian.
- Carlos Menem
Carlos Saúl Menem was President of Argentina from July 8, 1989 to December 10, 1999 for the Justicialist Party (Peronist).
- Carlos Gardel
Carlos Gardel (11 December 1887/1890<sup><small>1</small></sup> - 24 June 1935 Medellín, Colombia) was one of the most prominent figures in the history of tango music. Even though his origin is largely disputed, he was raised in Argentina and spent a majority of his life there and acquired the citizenship in 1923. His death, in an airplane crash at the height of his career, created an image of a tragic hero on both shores of the Río de la Plata, in Uruguay and Argentina.
- 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.
- 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).
- Pablo Aimar
Pablo César Aimar is an Argentine football player, who currently plays attacking midfielder for Real Zaragoza of the Spanish La Liga.
- Angel Cabrera
Ángel Cabrera (born September 12, 1969) is an Argentine professional golfer who plays mainly on the European Tour. Known affectionately as "El Pato" Cabrera ("The duck"), he is the 2007 U.S. Open champion.
- Guillermo Coria
Guillermo Sebastián Coria, is a professional tennis player from Argentina. He was named after tennis champion and countryman Guillermo Vilas.
- Juan Ignacio Chela
Juan Ignacio Chela (born August 30, 1979, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a professional male tennis player from Argentina, and his strongest surface is slow hardcourt, but like all Argentine players he is comfortable on the clay. Chela was suspended by the ATP in 2001 for 3 months and US$ 8,000 for the use of Methyltestosterone during the Cincinnati Masters. On August 9, 2004 he reached his career-high singles ranking of World No. 15. On January 19, 2006, …
- Eduardo Duhalde
Eduardo Alberto Duhalde Maldonado (born October 5, 1941) is a former president of Argentina. Duhalde was born in Lomas de Zamora, in the Greater Buenos Aires. He graduated as a lawyer in 1970. In 1987 he became a member of the Argentine National Congress and became vice-president under Carlos Menem from 1989 to his resignation in 1991. In 1991 he won the first of two terms as governor of Buenos Aires.
- 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 Perón
Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine general and politician, elected three times as President of Argentina and serving from 1946 to 1955 and from 1973 to 1974. Perón and his second wife Eva were immensely popular among a portion of the Argentine people and still considered iconic figures by followers of the Peronist Party. Perón followers lauded his efforts to eliminate poverty and to dignify labor, while his detractors considered him a demagogue and a dictator.
- Gabriel Heinze
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.
- Roberto Lavagna
Roberto Lavagna is an Argentine economist, and was the former Minister of Economy and Production of Argentina until 28 November 2005, when he was replaced with Felisa Miceli, president of Banco de la Nación Argentina. Lavagna took office during the interim rule of President Eduardo Duhalde, in 2002, and had to manage the Argentine economic crisis. He was confirmed in his post by President Néstor Kirchner upon his taking charge on 25 May 2003.
- Javier Saviola
Javier Pedro Saviola (born 11 December 1981 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentinian professional football player, who plays for Real Madrid. His usual position is as striker. He is known for his speed and ability to score from almost any position. He has scored 10 goals in 34 games for the Argentina national team, and represented his country at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In 2005, he was the youngest named on the FIFA 100 list of the 125 greatest living footballers.
- Julio Cortázar
Julio Cortázar was a Belgian-born Argentine intellectual and author of several experimental novels and many short stories.
- Domingo Cavallo
Domingo Felipe "Mingo" Cavallo (born July 21, 1946) is an Argentine economist and politician. He has a long history of public service and is known for implementing the "Convertibilidad" plan, which fixed the dollar-peso exchange rate at 1:1 between 1991 and 2001, and the "corralito", which restrained savers from withdrawing their own money from bank accounts and was followed by the December 2001 riots and the fall of President De la Rúa.
- Gisela Dulko
Gisela Dulko is an Argentine female tennis player. On November 21 2005 Dulko reached her career-high singles ranking: World No. 26. She has won 6 titles in doubles, including the 2000 US Open Juniors with María Emilia Salerni, the 2002 Australian Open Juniors with Angelique Widjaja, the 2001 Wimbledon Championships with Ashley Harkleroad, and the 2006 Cincinnati Women's Open with Italian Maria Elena Camerin. In singles, she was a runner-up in Hobart in 2005, …
- Eva Perón
Maria Eva Duarte de Perón was the second wife of Argentine President Juan Domingo Perón (1895–1974) and the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is often referred to as simply Eva Perón, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita, which literally translates into English as "Little Eva". Born out of wedlock in rural Argentina in 1919, …
- Juana Molina
Juana Molina (born in 1962 in Buenos Aires Argentina) is a singer/songwriter and an actress. Following the military coup in Argentina of 1976, Molina's family fled the country and lived in exile in Paris for six years. She grew up in a musical environment and her tango-singing father taught her guitar from the age of five. Juana Molina started her career in 1988 as a comedic television actress in Argentina on the show "La Noticia Rebelde".
- Julio Cobos
Julio César Cleto Cobos is an Argentine Radical Civic Union (UCR) politician, current governor of Mendoza Province. Cobos has an academic background in civil engineering, graduating from the Universidad Tecnológica Nacional and teaching at this and other universities. He joined the UCR in 1991 and took public office as an official in the municipality of Mendoza then as minister of Environment and Public Works in the government of Mendoza Province 1999-2000.
- 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.
- Osvaldo Pugliese
Osvaldo Pedro Pugliese (December 2, 1905 - July 25, 1995) was an Argentine tango musician. He developed dramatic arrangements that retained strong elements of the walking beat of saloon tango but also heralded the development of concert-style tango music. Some of his music is used for theatrical dance performances. like this Argentine Tangodance on Osvaldo Pugliese. In Buenos Aires, Pugliese is often played later in the evening when the dancers want to dance more slowly, …
- Eduardo Romero
Eduardo Romero is an Argentine professional golfer. Romero was born in Córdoba. He turned professional in 1982 at a relatively advanced age. He has played extensively in Latin America on the Tour de las Americas and its predecessor the "South American Tour", but his international profile is mainly based on his success on the more prestigious European Tour and in senior golf in the United States and Europe. He has featured in the top 20 of the Official World Golf Rankings.
- Javier Zanetti
Javier Adelmar Zanetti (born August 10, 1973) is an Argentine football player. He has been a member of Serie A club Internazionale since 1995 being the team captain since 1999. He has also played in two World Cups for Argentina. Zanetti is the second most capped player ever for Argentina behind Roberto Ayala on 115 caps. Known as "Pupi" in Argentina, he was nicknamed "Il Trattore" (The Tractor) after moving to Italy because of his strength, resilience, …
- Luis Moreno-Ocampo
Luis Moreno-Ocampo (born 4 June 1952, Buenos Aires) is the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC). He is thus responsible for investigating and prosecuting war crimes [[crimes against humanity and genocide]. Born in Buenos Aires and a citizen of Argentina, he gained a reputation prosecuting abuses by senior military officials and for his work to combat corruption
- 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.
- Diego Simeone
Diego Pablo Simeone (born April 28, 1970 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine football manager and former footballer. A midfielder, he is the third most capped player ever for Argentina. When Simeone was 14, his youth coach Victorio Spinetto nicknamed him "Cholo" as his energetic play reminded him of after former Boca Juniors player and Argentine international Carmelo Simeone (no relation). In his club career that started in 1987, Simeone played for Vélez Sarsfield, …
- Esteban Cambiasso
Esteban Matías Cambiasso is a professional Argentine football midfielder. He currently plays for Inter Milan and the Argentina national team.
- Sergio Roitman
Sergio Roitman (born May 16 1979) is a tennis player from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He turned professional in 1996. Roitman's career high ranking is No. 69, a ranking he achieved on March 5 2007. His current ranking as of April 9 is No. 83. He has won two ATP doubles titles in his career at Amsterdam in 2000 and Umag in 2001. He has no singles titles to date, however he has won several challenger titles in his career.
- Lucrecia Martel
Lucrecia Martel is a film director, screenplay writer, and producer. According to film critic Joel Poblete, who writes for "Mabuse," a cinema magazine, Lucrecia Martel is one of the members of the so-called "New Argentina Cinema" which began c. 1998.
- Atahualpa Yupanqui
Atahualpa Yupanqui was an Argentine singer, songwriter, guitarist, and writer. He is considered the most important Argentine folk musician of the 20th century. Yupanqui was born as Héctor Roberto Chavero Haram in Pergamino (Buenos Aires Province), in the Argentine pampas, about 200 kilometers away from Buenos Aires. His family moved to Tucumán when he was ten. In a bow to two legendary Incan kings, he adopted the stage name Atahualpa Yupanqui, …
- Homero Manzi
Homero Nicolás Manzioni Prestera, better known as Homero Manzi was an Argentine Tango lyricist, author of various famous tangos.
- 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.