List of Argentine Americans
Encyclopedia
The following is a list of notable Argentine American
s,including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship.
Argentine American
Argentine Americans are citizens and residents of the United States whose origins are in the South American nation of Argentina.The profile of the Argentine American population is generally similar to the overall U.S. population's. Among the key differences, however, is educational attainment...
s,including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship.
List
- Alejandro AgrestiAlejandro AgrestiAlejandro Agresti is an Argentine film director and producer. He has become increasingly influential in the United States and directed The Lake House with top Hollywood actors Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in 2006....
film director and producer - Carlos AlazraquiCarlos AlazraquiCarlos Jaime Alazraqui is an American actor, comedian, impressionist and voice actor. He is best known for his role as Deputy James Garcia on the Comedy Central series Reno 911!. His voice-over work includes the role of Bobbi Fabulous on Phineas and Ferb, the Taco Bell chihuahua, Denzel Q...
actor, comedian, impressionist and voice actor - Oscar BonavenaOscar BonavenaOscar Natalio "Ringo" Bonavena was a heavyweight professional boxer with a career record of 58 wins, 9 losses and 1 draw. A rugged, wild-swinging puncher, he was nicknamed "Ringo" because of his Beatles haircut, and enjoyed professional success in both Argentina and the United States...
professional boxer - Andrés Cantor sportscaster
- Linda CristalLinda CristalLinda Cristal is an Argentine actress. She is currently retired....
actress - Yamila Diaz-Rahi Argentine supermodel
- Dorismar (Dora Noemí Kerchen, model, actress, television host,cover of Playboy)
- Alan DuffKing AfricaAlan Duffy better known by his stage name King África is an Argentine recording artist of American descent. He is well known in Latin America and Spain for his dance music and unique, intense voice.-Biography:...
(A recording artist better known as King África) - India EisleyIndia EisleyIndia Joy Eisley is an American teen actress best known for playing Ashley Juergens in the ABC Family teen drama The Secret Life of the American Teenager.-Life and career:...
actress - Gigi ErnetaGigi ErnetaGigi Erneta is an American actress of Argentine descent.-Selected filmography:*Flag of My Father as Capt. Judith Rainier*Fire From Below as Toni Nelson*Risen as Jenny Mills...
actress - Luján FernándezLuján FernándezLuján Fernández is a former Argentine model, who appeared on the covers of several fashion magazines.-Early life:Luján Fernández grew up with an affinity for acting and from early childhood was involved with several local television programs. She was a teenager TV star before becoming a model, and...
Argentine supermodel - Veronica Gamba Argentine model and actress, Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month
- Julie GonzaloJulie GonzaloJulie Gonzalo is an Argentine-American actress. She is known for her roles as Parker Lee in Veronica Mars, Shelby in A Cinderella Story and Maggie Dekker in Eli Stone. She has been in two movies with Chad Michael Murray: Freaky Friday and A Cinderella Story...
actress - Uki GoñiUki GoñiUki Goñi is an Argentine author who is principally known for his work documenting the escape of Nazi war criminals from Europe.Goñi's research studies the role of the Vatican, Swiss authorities and the government of Argentina in organizing 'ratline', escape routes for fugitive criminals and...
journalist, author and historian - Martin GramaticaMartin GramaticaMartín Gramática is an Argentine-American former football placekicker.Gramática was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the third round of the 1999 NFL Draft after playing college football at Kansas State, and has also been a member of the Indianapolis Colts, New England Patriots, Dallas...
football placekicker - Enrique GratasEnrique GratasEnrique Gratas is an award winning journalist and the former anchor of Univision's Última Hora , the second most popular Spanish newscast in the United States. Gratas was fired in March 2009 along with 300 other Univision employees...
journalist - Albert Hammond, Jr. Guitarist for New York Rock band, The Strokes
- William Henry HudsonWilliam Henry HudsonWilliam Henry Hudson was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist.- Life and work :Hudson was born in the Quilmes, a borough of the greater Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, son of settlers of U.S. origin...
Argentine-British author, naturalist and ornithologist - Olivia HusseyOlivia HusseyOlivia Hussey is an Argentinian actress who became famous for her role as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's Academy Award-winning 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet. For this role she won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year - Actress as well as the David di Donatello for best actress...
Argentine-British actress - Kevin JohansenKevin JohansenKevin Johansen is an Argentine-American rock musician. Born to an Argentine mother, Marta Calvet, and an American father, he lived most of his childhood in the San Francisco Bay Area, but moved with his family to Buenos Aires at the age of 12...
(half Argentine, singer) - Pablo KleinmanPablo KleinmanPablo Kleinman is an Argentine-born American entrepreneur and journalist, pioneer of the development of online services in Latin America. He graduated from the University of Southern California School of International Relations and went on to study at the London Business School and at the HEC...
journalist and entrepreneur - Fernando LamasFernando LamasFernando Álvaro Lamas was an Argentine-born actor and director, and the father of actor Lorenzo Lamas.-Early life and career:...
actor and director - Paz LenchantinPaz LenchantinPaz Lenchantin is an American musician of French ancestry. She came to Los Angeles, California with her family at the age of four....
Argentine-American musician - Mia MaestroMía MaestroMía Maestro is an Argentine actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Nadia Santos in the television drama Alias, and as Christina Kahlo in Frida.-Life and acting career:...
actress and trained classical music vocalist - Pablo MastroeniPablo MastroeniPablo Mastroeni is an Argentine-born American soccer player who currently plays for Colorado Rapids in Major League Soccer, and for the United States national soccer team.-Youth:...
soccer player - Miguel MateosMiguel MateosMiguel Mateos is a rock singer/songwriter from Villa Pueyrredón, Argentina. Outside of Argentina, he is considered one of the most important exponents of Rock en Español, specially in the 1980s when he along with Charly Garcia, Soda Stereo, Enanitos Verdes, Virus, Sumo, Fabulosos Cadillacs, Rata...
Argentine singer - JD NatashaJD NatashaJD Natasha is a Latin Pop Musician.-Early life:JD Natasha was born to an Argentine father and a cuban American mother. She is the second of four children, sister of Jonathan Duenas , and grew up in Miami, Florida...
(b. 1988) Latin pop musician - Andrés NocioniAndrés NocioniAndrés Marcelo Nocioni is an Argentine professional basketball player. He is under contract with the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers, but is playing for Peñarol de Mar del Plata during the NBA lockout. A regular member of the Argentine national team, Nocioni was part of the team that won a gold medal at...
basketball player - Carlos Olguin-TrelawnyCarlos Olguin-TrelawnyCarlos Olguin-Trelawny is an Argentine film director and screenwriter.He started studying filmmaking at the ProDeo University in Rome. He also studied with masters such as Jean-Luc Godard in Paris. His first professional work was as second-assistant director to Academy Winner Russian director...
film director, screenwriter and digital artist - Andrés OppenheimerAndrés OppenheimerAndrés Oppenheimer is an Argentine born-American journalist who resides in the United States. He is the Latin American editor and syndicated foreign affairs columnist with The Miami Herald. His column, "The Oppenheimer Report," appears twice a week in The Miami Herald and more than 60 U.S. and...
journalist - Gerardo L. MunckGerardo L. MunckGerardo L. Munck is a professor of international relations for the School of International Relations of the University of Southern California ....
Professor, academic - Luis PalauLuis PalauLuis Palau, Jr. is an international Christian evangelist living in the Portland area in Oregon, United States. He was born in Argentina and moved to Portland in his mid-twenties to enroll in a graduate program in Biblical studies....
Christian evangelist reverend , "latin-american Billy Graham" - Alicia PartnoyAlicia PartnoyAlicia Mabel Partnoy is a human rights activist, poet, and translator.After Argentinian President Juan Perón died, the students from the left of the Peronist political party organized with fervor within the country's universities and with workers, were persecuted and imprisoned...
human rights activist, poet, and translator - César PelliCésar PelliCésar Pelli is an Argentine architect known for designing some of the world's tallest buildings and other major urban landmarks. In 1991, the American Institute of Architects listed Pelli among the ten most influential living American architects...
architect - Ástor PiazzollaÁstor PiazzollaÁstor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...
tango composer - Jorge PorcelJorge PorcelJorge Raúl Porcel de Peralta was a comedy actor and television host from Argentina. He was nicknamed El Gordo de América...
comedy actor - Veronica PregoVeronica PregoVeronica Prego v. City of New York et al. was a $175 million negligence law suit filed in 1988 by a medical doctor, Verónica Prego, against the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, Dr. Joyce F. Fogel and Dr. Sheldon H. Landesman. Prego contracted HIV in 1983 when she was working as an...
medical doctor - Richard ReveszRichard ReveszRichard L. "Ricky" Revesz is a law professor and the current dean of the New York University School of Law. He is one of the nation's leading experts on environmental and regulatory law and policy....
dean of the New York University School of Law - Alejandro ReyAlejandro ReyAlejandro Rey was an Argentine actor. He immigrated to the United States in 1960, later became a U.S. citizen and gained his widest acclaim there.-Career:...
actor - Claudio ReynaClaudio ReynaClaudio Reyna is a retired American soccer player and the current USSF US Youth Soccer Technical Director. He was the captain of the United States national team before retiring from international football following the USA's exit from the 2006 FIFA World Cup. He is widely considered one of the...
(half Argentine, soccer player) - Inés RiveroInes RiveroMaría Inés Rivero is an Argentine model.- Life and career :Rivero was born in Córdoba, Argentina. Her mother enrolled her into a modeling school, and she made her modeling debut at the age of 14, when she worked in a local fashion show...
Argentine supermodel - Lalo SchifrinLalo SchifrinLalo Schifrin is an Argentine composer, pianist and conductor. He is best known for his film and TV scores, such as the "Theme from Mission: Impossible". He has received four Grammy Awards and six Oscar nominations...
pianist and composer, theme from the Mission:Impossible television series - Ignacio SerricchioIgnacio SerricchioIgnacio Serricchio is an American actor.Serricchio is a graduate of Syracuse University's drama department. In October 2004, Serricchio joined the cast of the daytime serial General Hospital as troubled youth Diego Alcazar. He left the soap in November 2006...
(Ignacio Šerić, actor) - Sebastian SprengSebastian SprengSebastian Spreng is an Argentine-American visual artist and music journalist.-Biography:Born in Esperanza, Santa Fe of German ancestry, is a self-taught artist and music journalist, related from his mother side to writer Eduardo Gudiño Kieffer , also a native of Esperanza, the first formally...
visual artist - Carlos SueldoCarlos SueldoCarlos E. Sueldo is a physician and professor of obstetrics and gynaecology for the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Sueldo is also the founder and present Director of the in vitro fertilization IVF Fertility Center in Fresno, California. Dr...
Physician, medical professor - Diana TaurasiDiana TaurasiDiana Lorena Taurasi is a professional basketball player who plays for the Phoenix Mercury in the WNBA and Galatasaray Medical Park from Turkey...
basketball player - Jacobo TimermanJacobo TimermanJacobo Timerman was an Argentine publisher, journalist, and author who was persecuted and honored for confronting the atrocities of the Argentine military regime's Dirty War...
publisher, journalist, and author - Ezequiel ViñaoEzequiel ViñaoEzequiel Viñao is an Argentine-American composer. He emigrated to the United States in 1980 and studied at the Juilliard School...
composer