List of Famous people born in Argentina
Miguel Ángel Russo
Miguel Ángel Russo is an Argentine former football player and manager of Boca Juniors, who played as a midfielder.
Federico Coria
Federico Coria is an Argentine tennis player. He is a younger brother of Guillermo Coria.
Norberto Doroteo Méndez
Norberto Doroteo Méndez, nicknamed Tucho, was an Argentine footballer who played as a midfielder. Internationally, he played 33 games for the Argentina national team and won 3 Copa América titles. He is most famous for being the all-time top scorer in the history of the tournament with 17 goals.
Jorge E. Hirsch
Jorge Eduardo Hirsch is an Argentine American professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is known for inventing the h-index in 2005, an index for quantifying a scientist's publication productivity and the basis of several scholar indices.
Jorge Bobone
Jorge E. Bobone was an Argentinian astronomer.
Bárbara María Berruezo
Bárbara María Berruezo is an Argentine badminton player. She competed at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada, and 2018 South American Games in Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Mateo Delmastro
Mateo Benjamín Delmastro is an Argentine badminton player. He won his first senior international title at the 2016 Argentina International in the mixed doubles event partnered with Micaela Suárez at the age of 16. He represented his country at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Martín Rodríguez
Martín Rodríguez was an Argentine politician and soldier.
Manuel Puig
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne, commonly called Manuel Puig, was an Argentine author. Among his best-known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth, Boquitas pintadas, and El beso de la mujer araña which was adapted into the film released in 1985, directed by the Argentine-Brazilian director Héctor Babenco; and a Broadway musical in 1993.
Ignacio Piatti
Ignacio Alberto Piatti is an Argentine professional footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for San Lorenzo in Argentina. He has played for top division clubs in South America, Europe and North America.