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ROSARIO

Most Famous People Born in Rosario, Argentina

Notable people

1,044

Peak decade

1980s

Median birth year

1961

Most distinctive

Rower 5.5×

For a city of barely a million people, Rosario produced two of the most globally recognized Argentines of the last hundred years — Che Guevara and Lionel Messi grew up a few kilometres apart on the same stretch of Paraná riverfront, along with the club-forged coach Marcelo Bielsa. The 5.5× rower over-index is the Paraná itself, the widest navigable river in South America.