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BUENOS AIRES

Most Famous People Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Notable people

8,102

Peak decade

1970s

Median birth year

1947

Most distinctive

Actor 3.3×

South America's capital of stage and pitch. Buenos Aires's notables are split almost evenly between footballers and actors, with a long secondary tail of writers, journalists, tango composers, and militares — a profile that looks more European than Latin American, with the film and lawyer benches thick enough to fill their own shelves. The modern names dominate, but the literary tradition of Borges and Bioy Casares still anchors the older half.