List of Famous people born in Salta Province
Martín Miguel de Güemes
Martín Miguel de Güemes was a military leader and popular caudillo who defended northwestern Argentina from the Spanish during the Argentine War of Independence.
Juan Manuel Urtubey
Juan Manuel Urtubey is an Argentine politician, lawyer, university professor and former governor of Salta Province. Formerly a senior figure in the ruling Front for Victory faction of the Justicialist Party (PJ) in the Argentine Chamber of Deputies and chairman of both the Constitutional Affairs Committee and the Peronist Caucus, Urtubey became governor in the 2007 elections, being only 38 years old. He was reelected in 2011 with almost 60% of the vote, and in 2015 with 51% of the vote.
Gustavo Sáenz
Gustavo Adolfo Ruberto Sáenz Stiro is an Argentine politician who is currently governor of Salta Province, since 10 December 2019. Previously, from 2015 to 2019, he was intendente (mayor) of the City of Salta, and served from 2009 to 2013 as a member of the Provincial Senate representing the Capital Department.
Carlos Loiseau
Carlos Loiseau was a prolific Argentine cartoonist and humorist. He was popularly known in Argentina by his byline, Caloi.
César Isella
César Isella was an Argentinian singer and songwriter of folk music. He joined Los Fronterizos from 1956 to 1966, was one of the main figures of the "Movement of the New Songbook", and in the 1990s he discovered and sponsored the singer Soledad Pastorutti. He has written the music for "Canción con todos", regarded as the Latin American anthem.
Matías Vargas
Martín Matías Ezequiel Vargas, nicknamed Monito is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Spanish club RCD Espanyol.
Macacha Guemes
Macacha Güemes (1787-1866) was an Argentine heroine. A sister of Martín Miguel de Güemes, she, alongside her sister Francisca Güemes, is counted as a heroine of the Argentine War of Independence for her participation in the Gaucha War during the war of independence.
Lucrecia Martel
Lucrecia Martel is an Argentine film director, screenwriter and producer whose feature films have frequented Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto, and many other international film festivals. Film scholar Paul Julian Smith wrote in 2015 that she is "arguably the most critically acclaimed auteur in Spanish-language art cinema outside Latin America" and that her "transnational auteurism and demanding features have earned her a hard-won reputation in the world art cinema festival circuit". Similarly, film scholar Haden Guest has called her "one of the most prodigiously talented filmmakers in contemporary world cinema", and film scholar David Oubiña has called her body of work a "rare perfection". In April 2018, Vogue called her "one of the greatest directors in the world right now".
Bruno Vides
Bruno Leonel Vides is an Argentine footballer currently playing for Universidad Católica in the First Division of Ecuador
Kevin Benavides
Kevin Benavides is an Argentine rally raid biker, first place at the 2021 Dakar Rally, second place at the 2018 Dakar Rally (bikes). He is a driver of the Monster Energy Honda Racing.