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Famous people who grew up or lived in and around Buenos Aires
5 notable people grew up or lived in and around Buenos Aires. 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…
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…
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…
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…