List of Famous people born in Santa Fe Province, Argentina
Éver Banega
Éver Maximiliano David Banega Hernández is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Saudi Arabian club Al Shabab and the Argentina national team as a central midfielder.
Giovani Lo Celso
Giovani Lo Celso is an Argentinian professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for English club Tottenham Hotspur and the Argentina national team.
Gabriel Batistuta
Gabriel Omar Batistuta is an Argentine former professional footballer. During his playing career, Batistuta was nicknamed Batigol as well as El Ángel Gabriel. Regarded as one of the greatest strikers of all time, noted in particular for powerful strikes from volleys or from distance while on the run, in 1999, Batistuta placed third for the FIFA World Player of the Year award. In 2004 he was named by Pelé in the FIFA 100 list of the world's greatest living players.
Paulo Gazzaniga
Paulo Dino Gazzaniga is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for La Liga club Elche CF on loan from Tottenham Hotspur and the Argentina national team.
Franco Armani
Franco Armani is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Club Atlético River Plate and the Argentina national team.
Ezequiel Lavezzi
Ezequiel Iván Lavezzi is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a forward. During his career, his most important attributes were his pace, hardworking style of play, technique, creativity, and dribbling ability; although he was usually deployed as a winger, he was also used as a second striker or as an attacking midfielder on occasion.
Héctor Cúper
Héctor Raúl Cúper is an Argentine football manager and former player.
Lionel Scaloni
Lionel Sebastián Scaloni is an Argentine retired footballer, and the current manager of the Argentina national team. A player of wide range, he operated as a right back or right midfielder.
Tomás Carlovich
Tomás Felipe Carlovich, nicknamed El Trinche, was an Argentine professional football player and coach. His position on the field was central midfielder, playing in several clubs although he is mostly associated with Central Córdoba, where he became an idol and the most representative player of the club along with Gabino Sosa.
Marcos Maidana
Marcos René Maidana is an Argentine former professional boxer who competed from 2004 to 2014. He was a world champion in two weight classes, having held the WBA (Regular) super lightweight title from 2011 to 2012, and the WBA welterweight title from 2013 to 2014. A versatile brawler in the ring, Maidana was well known for his formidable punching power, and was never stopped in any of his five losses. He famously outbrawled and withstood punishing blows from Floyd Mayweather, Jr. during their first bout, but lost to Mayweather via a highly controversial majority decision.