List of Argentines

Josep Borrell Fontelles, Spanish politician serving as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and former Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation in the Government of Spain. He acquired Argentine citizenship in 2019.
Pablo Rodriguez, politician
Rafael Grossi, politician
Juan Bautista Alberdi, constitutional scholar
Leandro Alem, founder of the centrist Radical Civic Union
Oscar Alende, reformist governor
Raúl Alfonsín, president, 1983–1989
Ricardo Alfonsín, politician
Álvaro Alsogaray, conservative economist
José Arce, diplomat
Ricardo Balbín, prominent leader of the "Unión Cívica Radical" party
José Ber Gelbard, Peronist economic adviser
Hermes Binner, Socialist governor of Santa Fe Province, the first so elected
Ángel Borlenghi, labor leader
Leopoldo Bravo, politician and diplomat
Teodoro Bronzini, former Socialist mayor of Mar del Plata, first to head a major Argentine city
Dante Caputo, diplomat
Elisa Carrió, politician
Domingo Cavallo, economist
Jorge Cepernic, governor
Julio Cobos, Vice President of Argentina
Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, president, 1922–1928
Hebe de Bonafini, head of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
Alicia Moreau de Justo, wife of Juan B. Justo and prominent socialist leader
Fernando de la Rúa, president, 1999–2001
Francisco de Narváez, politician
Juan Manuel de Rosas, strongman, 1829–1952
Justo José de Urquiza, first president of the modern era
Guido di Tella, diplomat
Luis María Drago, diplomat
Eduardo Duhalde, president, 2002–2003
Aldo Ferrer, economist
Rogelio Frigerio, economist
Arturo Frondizi, president, 1958–1962
Rubén Giustiniani, politician
Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Marxist revolutionary
Daiana Hissa, Minister
Arturo Illía, president, 1963–66
Juan B. Justo, founder of the Argentine Socialist Party
Cristina Kirchner, president, 2007–2015
Néstor Kirchner, president, 2003–2007
Roberto Lavagna, economist
Miguel Braun, economist
Estanislao López, early pro-autonomy leader
José López Rega, fascist adviser to President Perón
José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, conservative economist
Francisco Manrique, politician, creator of current national medical and housing funds
Carlos Menem, president, 1989–1999
Lorenzo Miguel, labor leader
Bartolomé Mitre, president, 1862–1868
Mariano Moreno, independence-era leader and reformer
Enrique Mosconi, promoter of national oil industry
Hugo Moyano, labor leader
Raimundo Ongaro, labor leader
Alfredo Palacios, socialist leader
Eva Perón, influential first lady
Isabel Perón, first lady and president, 1974–1976
Juan Perón, president, 1946–55, 1973–74
Juan Pistarini, public works minister and vicepresident
Raúl Prebisch, economist
Facundo Quiroga, early pro-autonomy leader
Bernardino Rivadavia, president
Julio Roca, president, 1880–1886, 1898–1904
Dardo Rocha, reformist governor and founder of La Plata
José Ignacio Rucci, labor leader
Carlos Saavedra Lamas, diplomat
Amadeo Sabattini, reformist governor
Roque Sáenz Peña, president and promulgator of the secret ballot in Argentina
Domingo Sarmiento, writer, educator and president (1868–1874)
Daniel Scioli, former speedboater, later vice president and governor
Oscar Soria, international political activist
Jorge Enea Spilimbergo, poet, Marxist theorist and politician
Margarita Stolbizer, politician
Saúl Ubaldini, labor leader
Dalmacio Vélez Sársfield, author of civil and commercial codes
Hipólito Yrigoyen, president 1916–1922, 1928–1930

Religion[edit]

Enrique Angelelli, assassinated Bishop of La Rioja
Sergio Bergman, rabbi, politician, pharmacist, writer and social activist
Jose Gabriel del Rosario Brochero, Roman Catholic priest canonized as a Saint on 16 October 2016
Mamerto Esquiú, friar and activist
Pope Francis (Jorge Mario Bergoglio), current head of the Catholic Church
José Gabriel Funes, Jesuit priest and director of the Vatican Observatory
Gauchito Gil, 19th-century healer
Claudio Lepratti, assassinated priest and anti-poverty activist
Carlos Mugica, assassinated priest and anti-poverty activist
Ceferino Namuncurá, saintly religious student, beatified in 2007
Pedro Opeka, priest, missionary and humanitarian
Luis Palau, prominent Protestant-evangelical preacher
Mario Pantaleo, priest, healer and humanitarian
Mario Rodríguez Cobos, spiritual leader, writer and activist
Abraham Skorka, rabbi and biophysicist

Royalty[edit]

Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands, half Argentine
Princess Alexia of the Netherlands, half Argentine
Princess Ariane of the Netherlands, half Argentine
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands (Máxima Zorreguieta), Argentine

Sports[edit]

Sciences[edit]

Luis Agote, M.D., devised first safe blood transfusion
Juan Bautista Ambrosetti, anthropologist and naturalist
Florentino Ameghino, naturalist
Cosme Argerich, doctor
José Antonio Balseiro, nuclear physicist
Lino Barañao, biochemist and current Minister of Science
Dan Jacobo Beninson, nuclear physicist
Cecilia Berdichevsky, computer scientist
Jorge Bobone, astronomer
José Bonaparte, paleontologist
Eduardo Braun-Menéndez, physiologist
Mario Bunge, physicist
Hermann Burmeister, naturalist
Luis Caffarelli, mathematician
Alberto Calderón, mathematician
Ramón Carrillo, neurosurgeon and first Minister of Health
Carlos Ulrrico Cesco, astronomer
Rodolfo Coria, paleontologist
Miguel Rolando Covian, physiologist
Roberto Dabbene, ornithologist
Salvador Debenedetti, archaeologist
René Favaloro, surgeon, inventor of the coronary bypass surgery
Hilario Fernández Long, structural engineer and educator
Enrique Finochietto, surgeon and inventor of numerous surgical tools
Richard Gans, physicist
Mario Garavaglia, physicist
Ramón Enrique Gaviola, astrophysicist
Ana María Gayoso, marine biologist
Mario Giovinetto, geographer
Juan Hartmann, astronomer
Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg, geologist and zoologist
Bernardo Houssay, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology
Luis Huergo, engineer
Eva Verbitsky Hunt, anthropologist
Armando Theodoro Hunziker, botanist
Miguel Itzigsohn, astronomer
Jakob Laub, physicist
Luis Federico Leloir, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
Domingo Liotta, M.D., cardiologist, and inventor of the first purely artificial heart
José María Mainetti, oncologist
Julio Isidro Maiztegui, epidemiologist
Juan Martín Maldacena, physicist
Salvador Mazza, epidemiologist
César Milstein, Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Pharmacology
Francisco Moreno, explorer
Julio Navarro, astrophysicist
Virpi Niemelä, astronomer
Fernando Novas, paleontologist
Guillermo O'Donnell, politic scientist
Miguel Ondetti, pharmaceutical scientist
Yolanda Ortiz (chemist), chemist, environmentalist
Evelia Edith Oyhenart, biological anthropologist
Raúl Pateras Pescara, helicopter pioneer
Livio Dante Porta, mechanical engineer
Marta Graciela Rovira, solar physicist
Jorge Sabato, physicist
Julio José Gustavo Sardagna, neurologist and neurosurgeon
Tito Scaiano, laser chemist
Carlos Segers, astronomer
Manuel Sadosky, computer scientist
Luis Santaló, mathematician
Friedrich Schickendantz, naturalist
Carlos Varsavsky, astrophysicist
Miguel Angel Virasoro, physicist
Juan Vucetich, inventor of the modern technique of fingerprinting.
Abraham Willink, entomologist
Roberto Zaldívar, ophthalmologist
Nadia Zyncenko, meteorologist

Writers[edit]

Other[edit]

Amancio Alcorta, diplomat and scholar
Marcella Althaus-Reid, theologian
Mario Roberto Álvarez, architect
María Angélica Barreda, first woman lawyer in Argentina
Pedro Benoit, urbanist and architect
Mabel Bianco (born 1941), physician and women's rights activist
László Bíró, inventor of the ballpoint pen
Gloria Bonder, psychologist
Eliana Bórmida, architect
Eduardo Bradley, aerostat pilot
Juan Antonio Buschiazzo, architect
Alejandro Bustillo, architect
Susana Chiarotti, lawyer and women's rights activist
Julio Dormal, architect
Rosa Dubovsky, feminist, anarchist
Gato Dumas, chef and restaurateur
Carlos Escudé, political scientist
María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, executive
Iván Germán Velázquez, former police officer living in Uruguay
Francisco Gianotti, architect
Julio Godio, historian
Carlos Bernardo González Pecotche, pedagogian and philosopher
Clotilde González de Fernández (1880–1935), educator, writer
Roberto Grau, chess player
Soto Grimshaw, explorer and naturalist
Daniel Grinbank, producer
Ernesto Garzón Valdés, philosopher
Paul Groussac, encyclopedist and librarian
Juan María Gutiérrez, educator
Carlos Heller, credit union leader
Otto Krause, educator
Juan Carlos Lectoure, boxing promoter
Roberto Maidana, interviewer
Anibal Mistorni, luthier
Juan Moreira, righteous outlaw
José Luis Murature, diplomat and newspaper editor
Miguel Najdorf, chess player
Eduardo Newbery, aerostat pilot
Jorge Newbery, aviation pioneer
Ernestina Herrera de Noble, publisher
Alejandro Orfila, diplomat and winemaker
Horacio Pagani, auto designer
Mario Palanti, architect
Oscar Panno, chess player
José C. Paz, publisher
César Pelli, architect
Amanda Peralta (1939–2009), guerrilla fighter, later historian in Sweden's Gothenburg University
Adolfo Perez Esquivel, human rights activist and Nobel prize winner
Rogelio Pfirter, diplomat
Patricio Pouchulu, architect
Maria Verónica Reina, disability rights activist
Carlos Saavedra Lamas, academian, politician, the first Latin American Nobel Peace Prize winner
Francisco Salamone, architect
Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz, political and social theorist
Orlando Sconza, professor
José María Sobral, Antarctic explorer
Gerardo Sofovich, producer
Vicente Solano Lima, publisher and politician
Viktor Sulčič, architect
Celia Tapias, first female lawyer in Buenos Aires
Clorindo Testa, architect
Carlos Thays, renowned landscape architecture
Margarita Trlin, architect
Azucena Villaflor de Vicenti, murdered activist
Fausto Vitello, skateboarder and publisher
Amancio Williams, architect
Carina González, researcher focused on artificial intelligence and e-learning.

References[edit]

^ "Artistas argentinos: Silvia Torras" [Argentine artists: Silvia Torras]. Centro Virtual de Arte Argentino (in Spanish). City of Buenos Aires. Retrieved December 9, 2020.
^ ^a ^b "The 21st Century's 100 greatest films". BBC. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan (2004). Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons. Baltimore/London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 420. ISBN 0-8018-7840-3.
^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan (2004). Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons. Baltimore/London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 415. ISBN 0-8018-7840-3.
^ Bloom, Harold (1994). "Borges, Neruda, and Pessoa: Hispanic-Portuguese Whitman". The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. NY/San Diego/London: Harcourt Brace & Company. pp. 463–492. ISBN 978-1-57322-514-4.
^ "The Top 100 Books of All Time". The Guardian. 8 May 2002. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
^ Bloom, Harold (1994). The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. NY/San Diego/London: Harcourt Brace & Company. p. 560. ISBN 978-1-57322-514-4.

[1] "Artistas argentinos: Silvia Torras" [Argentine artists: Silvia Torras]. Centro Virtual de Arte Argentino (in Spanish). City of Buenos Aires. Retrieved December 9, 2020.

[BBC-2] "The 21st Century's 100 greatest films". BBC. Retrieved 28 March 2021.

[3] Rosenbaum, Jonathan (2004). Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons. Baltimore/London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 420. ISBN 0-8018-7840-3.

[4] Rosenbaum, Jonathan (2004). Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons. Baltimore/London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 415. ISBN 0-8018-7840-3.

[5] Bloom, Harold (1994). "Borges, Neruda, and Pessoa: Hispanic-Portuguese Whitman". The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. NY/San Diego/London: Harcourt Brace & Company. pp. 463–492. ISBN 978-1-57322-514-4.

[6] "The Top 100 Books of All Time". The Guardian. 8 May 2002. Retrieved 28 March 2021.

[7] Bloom, Harold (1994). The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. NY/San Diego/London: Harcourt Brace & Company. p. 560. ISBN 978-1-57322-514-4.

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