List of Famous people born in Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Darío Benedetto
Darío Ismael "Pipa" Benedetto is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a striker for French club Marseille and the Argentina national team.
Sergio Parisse
Sergio Matteo Parisse is an Italian rugby union player. He currently plays for French club Toulon and captains the italian national team. Parisse is Italy's most-capped player, and currently third most-capped player worldwide. He was the first Italian rugby union player to be nominated for the IRB International Player of the Year, first in 2008 and again in 2013. Parisse is widely considered as one of the greatest number eights to play the game in the modern era, and the greatest Italian rugby player of all time. He also holds the joint record of playing in five Rugby World Cups.
Manuel Lanzini
Manuel Lanzini is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League club West Ham United and the Argentina national team. He has previously played for River Plate and Fluminense. He is described as possessing phenomenal dribbling ability, as well as fantastic acceleration and vision and the ability to ghost past defenders. He is nicknamed "La Joya".
Osvaldo Golijov
Osvaldo Noé Golijov is an Argentine composer of classical music and music professor, known for his vocal and orchestral work.
Ricardo Boechat
Ricardo Eugênio Boechat was an Argentine-born Brazilian news anchor. He worked for newspapers such as O Globo, O Dia, O Estado de São Paulo and Jornal do Brasil. Before his death, he was active as a news director and radio anchor at BandNews FM and held a position as television anchor at Jornal da Band. Boechat won three Esso Journalism Awards. He entertained a weekly column at news magazine IstoÉ, and in 2002 authored the book Copacabana Palace.
Juan Domingo Perón
Juan Domingo Perón was an Argentine Army general and politician. After serving in several government positions, including Minister of Labour and Vice President, he was elected President of Argentina three times, serving from June 1946 to September 1955, when he was overthrown in a coup d'état, and then from October 1973 until his death in July 1974.
Juan Román Riquelme
Juan Román Riquelme is a retired Argentine professional footballer and current 2nd vice-president of Argentine Club Atlético Boca Juniors, where he is also responsible of the football department, including youth academy and women's sections.
Fernando Gago
Fernando Rubén Gago is an Argentine professional football manager and former player, who is the current manager of argentine club Aldosivi. During his club career that spanned 16 years, Gago played as a defensive midfielder and deep-lying playmaker for Boca Juniors, Real Madrid, Roma, Valencia and Vélez Sarsfield.
Juan Sebastián Verón
Juan Sebastián Verón is an Argentine former professional footballer and current chairman of Estudiantes de La Plata, where he had served as Director of Sports. A former midfielder, Verón's career started in Estudiantes, continued in Argentina's Boca Juniors, and included stints in several clubs in the Italian Serie A, and England's Manchester United and Chelsea. In 2006, Verón returned to Estudiantes, where he remained until his retirement in 2014, aside from a brief spell with Brandsen. He announced his short return to first team football would occur in the 2017 Copa Libertadores.
Nicolás Gaitán
Osvaldo Nicolás Fabián "Nico" Gaitán is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Portuguese club Braga and the Argentina national team, mainly as an attacking midfielder.