Famous people who grew up or lived in Argentina
9 notable people grew up or lived in Argentina. Each listing explores the home and neighbourhood, and how the place shaped the person they became.
Alfredo Di Stéfano1926–1944
📍 Barracas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
I was born in July 1926 in Barracas, a working-class barrio of factories and tenements on the south side of Buenos Aires, near the Riachuelo. My grandfather, Miguel, had come from Capri, in…
Che Guevara1932–1943
📍 Avellaneda 501, Alta Gracia, Córdoba, Argentina
I was born in Rosario, and when I was small a severe asthma took hold of me, so my parents followed a doctor's advice and moved us to Alta Gracia, a resort town in the Córdoba hills, for…
Diego Maradona1960–1970
📍 Villa Fiorito, Buenos Aires, Argentina
I grew up in Villa Fiorito, a shantytown on the southern outskirts of Buenos Aires, in conditions that were genuinely poor — a tin-roofed house, a dirt floor, a neighbourhood without paved…
Eva Perón1930–1935
📍 Junín, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
I was born in 1919 in Los Toldos, a poor village on the pampas, the youngest of five children of Juana Ibarguren and Juan Duarte, a landowner who already had a wife and family in another…
Juan Manuel Fangio1911–1938
📍 Balcarce, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
I was born in Balcarce, a small town in the rolling farmland of Buenos Aires Province, in June 1911, the fourth of six children of Italian immigrants. My grandfather, Giuseppe, had come…
Juan Perón1895–1974
📍 Buenos Aires, Argentina
I was born Juan Domingo Perón on the 8th of October 1895 in Lobos, Buenos Aires province, the son of a sheep farmer. I rose through the Argentine military, participated in the 1943 coup…
Lionel Messi1987–2000
📍 Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
Lionel Andrés Messi was born in Rosario, Argentina, in June 1987, and grew up in the Las Heras neighbourhood in the south of the city, the third of four children of Jorge Messi, a steel…
Marianela Núñez1982–1997
📍 San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Marianela Núñez was born in March 1982 in San Martín, a busy working-class city on the north-western edge of Buenos Aires, and grew up there with her family. When she was three, her mother…
Pope Francis1936–1958
📍 Membrillar 531, Flores, Buenos Aires, Argentina
I was Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the eldest of five children of Italian immigrants, Mario and Regina, and I grew up at 531 Membrillar Street in Flores, a working-class barrio of Buenos Aires…