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Roberto Sanchez “Sandro”(1945 – 2010)

He was a singer and actor. He is considered one of the first rock artists in Argentina and Latin America. Some of his most successful songs are: Rosa, Rosa, Dame Fuego . He was the first Latin American to play at Madyson’s Square Garden in 1970. He was a cigarette smoking addict, which was the main cause of his disease.

Maria Duarte de Peron “Evita” (1919-1952)

She was born in Los Toldos and she was President Juan Peron’s wife. She met the colonel in a charity event at the Luna Park Stadium in 1944. Shorty after their marriage she died from cancer at the age of 33

Rene Favaloro (1923-2000)

He was a cardiac surgeon, best known for his pioneer work on coronary artery bypass surgery. He worked in the United States and he returned in 1971. Then he founded the Foundation Favaloro in 1975 and he trained over 450 residents from Argentina and America.By the year 2000, the foundation had a debt of US $75 million, so he decided to commit suicide by shooting himself in his head because he was tired of begging for money to support the foundation.

Diego Armando Maradona (1960 -)

He was born in Villa Fiorito from a poor family. He is a retired football player and current manager of Al Wasl FC in Oulai. He is considered the greatest football player of all times. He played for Argentinos Juniors, Boca Juniors, Barcelona, Napoli, Sevilla and Newell’s Old Boys.He played in four FIFA Word Cup Tournaments, including the 1986 Tournament, where he captained Argentina and led them to victory.In 1982 he was transferred to Barcelona and it 1986, to Napoli.After failing a drug test for cocaine, he left Napoli in 1992 and it 1995 he returned to Boca Juniors. In 2008, he was coach of the national team.

Antonio Berni (1908 - 1981)

He was a painter, sculptor, and printmaker. In 1925 he was granted a scholarship to study in Europe. Then, he returned to Argentina and took an exhibition to Buenos Aires, attended by President Marcelo T. de Alvear.In 1932 he exposed his surrealistic paintings. It was the first display of this art movement in Latin America and the public was not accustomed to it, so the critics condemned it.In 1945 Berni painted one of 12 frescos on the Cupola of Galenos Pacifico in Florida Street, in Buenos Aires.

Carlos Alberto Garcia Moreno “Charly Garcia” (1951-)

He is a song writer, pianist and keyboardist from Argentina, with a long career in rock music, forming successful groups, such as Sui Generis and Seru Giran. In 1972 Sui Generis released its first LP Vida. Then their second LP Confesiones de Invierno, in 1973, which was very successful. In 1982 Charly became a soloist. He usually performs throughout Argentina and South America.

Roberto Fontanarrosa (1944-2007)

He was a cartoonist and writer. He was known by the nickname el negro . His most popular characters were Inodoro Pereyra and Boggie el aceitoso, a fictional serial killer. He lived and worked in Argentina until his death.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899 -1986)

He was a short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator. His most famous books are Ficciones (1944) and The Aleph (1949).He and his family travelled widely through Europe, especially England.He returned to Argentina in 1921 and published his poems and essays.At the age of nine, he translated The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde into Spanish. He worked as a librarian and public lecturer and he became professor of Literature at the University of Buenos Aires.Borges never awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, because ‘he had accepted an honour from dictator Augusto Pinochet’, some observers said.

Carlos Gardel (1890 - 1935)

He was a singer, song writer and actor and the most prominent figure of the history of tango. Together with Alfredo Lepera, he wrote several classic tangos. He was born to an unmarried woman in France. Gardel began his singing career in bars and at Private parties. He travelled throughout America and also to Paris, New York, Barcelona and Madrid.Gardel died in 1935 in an airplane crash in Medellin, Colombia. His body was laid to rest in La Chacarita Cemetery.Carlos Gardel museum was opened in 2003 in the neighbourhood of Abasto.

Ernesto “Che” Guevara(1928-1967)

He was an Argentinian Marxist Revolutionary, Physician and a Intelectual guerrilla leader. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution.As a young medical student, Guevara travelled throughout Latin America and he was transformed by the endemic poverty, due to capitalism, monopolism, neocolonialism and imperialism and he was convinced that the only remedy was revolution. He met Fidel Castro in Cuba. He also wrote about his motorcycle journey across South America. Guevara left Cuba in 1965 to foment revolution abroad, but he was captured by CIA and executed in Bolivia.

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