List of Famous people born in Argentina
Guillermo Coria
Guillermo Sebastián Coria, nicknamed El Mago, is a retired professional tennis player from Argentina. He reached a career-high ATP world No. 3 singles ranking in May 2004. Coria achieved his best results on clay, where he won eight of his nine ATP singles titles, and during his prime years in 2003 and 2004 he was considered the "world's best clay-court player." He reached the final of the 2004 French Open, where he was defeated by Gastón Gaudio despite serving for the match twice. In later years, injuries and a lack of confidence affected his game, and he retired in 2009 at the age of 27. Between 2001 and 2002, he served a seven-month suspension for taking the banned substance nandrolone.
Mona Maris
Mona Maris was an Argentine film actress.
David Páez
Juan Martín de Pueyrredón
Juan Martín de Pueyrredón y O'Dogan was an Argentine general and politician of the early 19th century. He was appointed Supreme Director of the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata after the Argentine Declaration of Independence.
Per Aage Brandt
Per Aage Brandt is a Danish writer, poet, linguist and musician. He is Master of Arts in Romance Philology from the University of Copenhagen (1971) & holds a Doctorate of Semiotics from the Sorbonne University (1987).
Eduardo Makaroff
Eduardo Makaroff is an Argentinean musician, songwriter and producer. He is most known as one of the founders of Gotan Project, which has brought together the broad universe of tango with electronic music.
Eduardo Sepúlveda
Eduardo Sepúlveda is an Argentine racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec. He rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships.
Susana Rinaldi
Susana Natividad Rinaldi is an Argentine tango singer.
Ernestina Herrera de Noble
Ernestina Laura Herrera de Noble was a prominent Argentine publisher and executive. She was the largest shareholder of the Grupo Clarín media conglomerate and director of the flagship Clarín newspaper. She was the first woman to become director of a mainstream newspaper in South America.
Ricardo Eichmann
Ricardo Eichmann is a German archaeologist and director of the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute. He was previously a professor of Near Eastern archaeology at the University of Tübingen.