List of Famous people born in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Eugenio Juan Zappietro

First Name Eugenio
Born on November 28, 1936 (age 89)
Born in Argentina

Eugenio Juan Zappietro,, better known by his pseudonym Ray Collins, is a former Argentine comic writer. Among his best-known works are Precinto 56 and Yor the Hunter.

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Ernestina Herrera de Noble

First Name Ernestina
Born on June 7, 1925
Died on June 14, 2017 (aged 92)
Born in Argentina

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.

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Susana Rinaldi

First Name Susana
Born on December 25, 1935 (age 90)
Born in Argentina

Susana Natividad Rinaldi is an Argentine tango singer.

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Eduardo Makaroff

First Name Eduardo
Last Name Makaroff
Born on April 4, 1954 (age 72)
Born in Argentina

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.

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Jorge E. Hirsch

First Name Jorge
Last Name Hirsch
Born on January 1, 1953 (age 73)
Born in Argentina

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.

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Carlos Pellegrini

First Name Carlos
Last Name Pellegrini
Died on July 17, 1906
Born in Argentina

Carlos Enrique José Pellegrini was Vice President of Argentina and became President of Argentina from 6 August 1890 to 12 October 1892, upon Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman's resignation.

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María Botto

María Florencia Botto
First Name María
Last Name Botto
Born on February 10, 1974 (age 52)
Born in Argentina

María Florencia Botto Rota is an Argentine-Spanish actress. In 1978, she moved to Spain with her mother Cristina Rota and her brother Juan Diego Botto, also actors.

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Sandro de América

Roberto Sánchez
First Name Sandro
Last Name América
Born on August 19, 1945
Died on January 4, 2010 (aged 64)
Born in Argentina

Roberto Sánchez-Ocampo, better known by his stage names Sandro or Sandro de América, was an Argentine singer and actor. He is considered the father of Argentine rock for being one of the first rock artists to sing in Spanish in Latin America. He edited 52 official records and sold eight million copies although other sources state that he sold over 22 million. Some of his most successful songs are "Dame fuego", "Rosa, Rosa", "Quiero llenarme de ti", "Penumbras", "Porque yo te amo", "Así", "Mi amigo el Puma", "Tengo", "Trigal", and "Una muchacha y una guitarra". The single "Rosa, Rosa" sold two million copies, being his most recognizable and famous song. Another of his hits, "Tengo" was given 15th place among the 100 best Argentine rock songs by both MTV and Rolling Stone magazine.

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Bernardo Houssay

First Name Bernardo
Last Name Houssay
Born on April 10, 1887
Died on September 21, 1971 (aged 84)
Born in Argentina

Bernardo Alberto Houssay was an Argentine physiologist who, in 1947, was a co-recipient of a Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the role played by pituitary hormones in regulating the amount of blood sugar (glucose) in animals. He was the first Argentine Nobel laureate in the sciences. He shared the prize with Carl Ferdinand Cori and Gerty Cori, who won for their discoveries regarding the role of glucose in carbohydrate metabolism).

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Cecilia Roth

Cecilia Edith Rotenberg Gutkin
First Name Cecilia
Last Name Roth
Born on August 8, 1956 (age 69)
Born in Argentina

Cecilia Edith Rotenberg Gutkin better known as Cecilia Roth is an Argentine actress. She is the winner of two Goya Awards and a European Film Award. She is known for being an "Almodóvar girl" and the "muse" of Fito Páez during the 1990s.

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