Mar Del Plata - Notable People

Notable People

  • Alberto Bruzzone (1907–1994), painter, was born in San Juan but chose Mar del Plata as his home city.
  • Alfonsina Storni (died 1938), famous Argentinian Poet, who drowned herself in the waters at Mar del Plate: a statue still was erected near the beach.
  • Ástor Piazzolla (1921-1992), composer and musician.
  • Auro Tiribelli (1908–2006), architect, the main representative of the Mar del Plata style.
  • Erica Bibbó (1985), the first female commander of a naval unit in the Argentine navy.
  • Gabriel Amato, former international soccer player. Former forward of Boca Juniors, River Plate, Rangers FC and Grêmio.
  • Germán Burgos, former goalkeeper. He played two World Cups. Currently, he is oriented to music.
  • Guillermo Vilas, top tennis star in the 1970s.
  • Héctor Babenco, movie director, who made Hollywood films like Kiss of the Spider Woman and Ironweed.
  • Homero Cárpena (1910–2001), actor, playwright and filmmaker.
  • Inés Arrondo, hockey player, winner along with the national team of an Olympic Silver medal in Sydney 2000 and a Bronze medal in Athens 2004.
  • Juan Carlos Castagnino, painter.
  • Juan Curuchet, former road bicycle racer and track cyclist, winner of the Men's Madison gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics at the age of 43 along with Walter Pérez.
  • Juan Eduardo Esnáider, international soccer player. Former forward of Espanyol de Barcelona, Atlético de Madrid, Juventus and River Plate.
  • Jorge Lanata, journalist and writer.
  • Laura Echarte, agricultural engineer, researcher in crop physiology studies, winner of a 2007 L'Oréal-Unesco international fellowship for Women.
  • Maria Gabriela Palomo, marine biologist, also winner of the L'Oréal-Unesco junior award in 2003 for her works on port-areas environmental pollution.
  • Mario Benedetti (1945), electronics engineer, the main Argentine scientist involved in the Large Hadron Collider project. He is also the owner of Tío Curzio, one of the most fashionable restaurants in the city.
  • Martin Donovan (not to be confused with American actor Martin Donovan), Hollywood screenwriter and producer, co-author of the screenplay of movies like Death Becomes Her and Loving Couples.
  • Nacha Guevara, singer and actress.
  • Ricardo Piglia, writer born in Adrogué but raised in Mar del Plata.

The common linguistic and social background of the city is that of the so-called rioplatense culture.

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