German Argentine - Famous German-Argentines

Famous German-Argentines

This is not an exhaustive list.

• Roberto Arlt (short-story writer, novelist, and playwright)
• María Luisa Bemberg (Previous owner of Quilmes, film writer, director and actress)
• Elsa Bornemann (one of the most important Children's literature writers in Latin America)
• Tamara Bunke (famous communist revolutionary)
• Silvina Bullrich (writer)
• Mario Bunge (philosopher and physicist)
• Richard Walther Darré (served as part of Hitler's Cabinet)
• Sergio Denis (singer-songwriter); his real name is Héctor Omar Hoffmann.
• Erich Eliskases (competitive chess player)
• Juan Esnáider (soccer player)
• Rodolfo Fischer (soccer player)
• Rodolfo Freude (close advisor of Argentine President Juan Perón and served as his Director of the Information Division)
• Claudio Graf (soccer player)
• Gabriel Heinze (soccer player)
• Walter Herrmann (basketball player)
• Natty Hollmann (also known as Naty Petrosino, elected "International Woman of the Year"- 2006- by the Autonomous Region of Valle d'Aosta in Northern Italy, nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize 2009)
• René Houseman (soccer player)
• Néstor Kirchner (former President of Argentina)
• Héctor Germán Oesterheld (comic writer, considered the greatest South American to work in his field)
• Carlos Reutemann (former Formula One racing driver and a prominent politician)
• Milagros Schmoll (model)
• Gabriel Schürrer (soccer player)
• Friedrich Schickendantz (chemist and philosopher)
• Sebastian Spreng (visual artist, journalist)
• René Strickler (actor)
• Ernesto Tornquist (prominent manager, he founded the Tornquist Bank, the Tornquist city and Tornquist Partido in Buenos Aires Province among many other contributions)
• Christian von Wernich (notorious Roman Catholic chaplain of the Buenos Aires Province Police during the Dirty War)
• Juan José Imhoff (rugby player)