List of Famous people born in Córdoba Province
Mauricio Caranta
Maurico Ariel Caranta is an Argentine footballer goalkeeper who plays for Talleres.
Matías Oyola
Matías Oyola is an Argentine-born Ecuadorian football central midfielder currently playing for Barcelona.
Mariano Puerta
Mariano Rubén Puerta is an Argentine former professional tennis player. He reached a career-high ATP world No. 9 singles ranking in August 2005. His career highlight of reaching the final of the French Open in 2005 was marred by testing positive for the banned substance etilefrine in a drugs test directly after the French Open final, for which he received an eight-year doping ban.
Pablo Prigioni
Pablo Prigioni is an Argentine-Italian professional basketball coach and a former player. He played at the point guard position. He was a two-time All-EuroLeague selection and was also a member of the senior Argentina national basketball team that won the bronze medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He is the oldest rookie in NBA history, making his debut with the New York Knicks in 2012, at age 35. He played 4 seasons in the NBA for the New York Knicks, Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Clippers before starting his coaching career in 2017. He is currently an assistant coach with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
Osvaldo Ardiles
Osvaldo César Ardiles, often referred to in Britain as Ossie Ardiles, is a football manager, pundit and former midfielder who won the 1978 FIFA World Cup as part of the Argentine national team. He now runs his own football school in the UK called the Ossie Ardiles Soccer School.
Enrique Angelelli
Enrique Ángel Angelelli Carletti was a bishop of the Catholic Church in Argentina who was assassinated during the Dirty War for his involvement with social issues.
Franco Costanzo
Franco Costanzo Geymonat is an Argentine football goalkeeper who last played for Chilean club Universidad Católica of the Primera División.
José María López
José María "Pechito" López is an Argentine race car driver who is currently competing in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Toyota Gazoo Racing and 2014–2016 World Touring Car Champion. He raced in the 2006 GP2 Series for the Super Nova team, and previously for the DAMS team, and the CMS team in Formula 3000. He was also at Renault F1 as a test driver. He was supposed to make his Formula One debut in 2010 for US F1 Team but the team shut down before contesting a single race. On 16 December 2013 he joined the Citroën Total WTCC team for the 2014 World Touring Car Championship season. He won 10 races that year and clinched his first World Touring Car Championship. In 2015 he repeated the feat, again winning 10 races and the championship. In 2016, he again retained the title with eight wins.
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Claudio Riaño is an Argentine footballer who plays as a Centre forward for Rosario Central in the Argentine Primera División.
Marcos Aguinis
Marcos Aguinis is an Argentine writer. Trained in medical studies, music and psychoanalysis, his work and his thoughts are focused on the notions of independence, democracy and rejection of authoritarianism. He is a proponent of political liberalism, and participates in seminars and conferences from the Freedom Foundation organized by Mario Vargas Llosa.