List of Famous people born in Formosa Province
Marcela Acuña
Marcela Eliana Acuña is an Argentine professional boxer and part-time politician. She has held multiple super bantamweight world titles, including the IBF title since 2018; the WBA title from 2006 to 2008; the WBC title twice between 2008 and 2010; the WBO title from 2013 to 2014; the IBF title from 2016 to 2018; and the WBA interim featherweight title in 2016. As of September 2020, she is ranked as the world's best active female super bantamweight by The Ring and BoxRec, and the third best active female, pound for pound, by BoxRec and tenth by The Ring. She won the Konex Award Merit Diploma in 2010 as one of the five best Boxers of the last decade in Argentina.
Mariano Juan
Mariano Alcides Juan is a retired Argentine association football player who played in Argentina for River Plate, Racing and Huracán, in the Netherlands for Ajax, and in Spain for Getafe CF, CD Toledo and CD Leganés.
Lucas Passerini
Lucas Giuliano Passerini is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre-forward for Atlético San Luis, on loan from Cruz Azul.
Gildo Insfrán
Gildo Insfrán is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician, who has been governor of Formosa Province since 1995.
Gastón Giménez
Gastón Claudio Giménez is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Chicago Fire in MLS. Born in Argentina and of Paraguayan descent, Giménez represented Argentina in a friendly before switching to represent the Paraguay national football team
Ricardo Buryaile
Ricardo Buryaile is an Argentine politician. He served as a member of the Argentine Chamber of Deputies from 2013 to 2015, representing his native Formosa Province, and then went on to serve as Minister of Agroindustry from 2015 to 2017 in the cabinet of President Mauricio Macri.
Ricardo Galli
Dr. Ricardo Adolfo Galli Granada, also known as gallir, is a doctor of computer science at the University of the Balearic Islands, where he teaches operating system design. He is a speaker for the Free Software Foundation and a free software activist.
Gervasio Núñez
Gervasio Daniel Núñez is an Argentine footballerplays as a midfielder and is currently clubless.
Ezequiel Palacios
Ezequiel Palacios is an Argentine volleyball player. He was born in San Martín, Argentina. He is 1.98m heigh and he is part of the Argentina men's national volleyball team. At club level he plays for La Union de Formosa Club. AS a member of the Argentina men's national volleyball team, on August 7 2021 he received the bronze Olympic medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, when Agentina bit Brazil with 3-2 sets.
Emilce Sosa
Emilce "Mimi" Sosa is an Argentine volleyball player who represents Argentina in international competition.