Argentina
- Ernesto Acher, musician-humorist, former member of the group Les Luthiers
- Marcos Aguinis, journalist / writer
- José Alperovich, governor of the Tucumán Province
- Héctor Babenco, film director (Argentinian-born)
- Daniel Barenboim, conductor and pianist
- Tania Bíder revolutionary fighter
- Marcelo Birmajer, writer
- Laszlo Biro, inventor of the ballpoint pen
- Jácobo Bolbochán, chess player
- Julio Bolbochán, chess player
- Mauricio Borensztein (better known as Tato Bores), comedian
- Daniel Burman (1973 – ) filmmaker
- Israel Adrián Caetano, film director
- Andres Cantor, Sports Commentator
- Sergio Chejfec, writer
- Mario Davidovsky, composer
- Alicia Dujovne Ortiz, writer
- Giora Feidman, klezmer musician
- Movsas Feigins, chess player
- Rubén Felgaer, chess player
- Daniel Filmus Ex-Argentine Education Minister
- Paulino Frydman, chess player
- Juan Gelman, poet
- Alberto Gerchunoff, writer
- Max Glücksmann, pioneer of Argentine music and film industries
- Osvaldo Golijov, classical composer
- Guillermo Israilevich, soccer player of Israeli National Team (Jewish Father)
- Martín Jaite, former tennis player
- Guido Kaczka, actor, show host
- Mauricio Kagel, classical composer
- Daniel Katz, mayor of Mar del Plata
- León Klimovsky, film director
- Alejandro Lerner, singer/composer
- Miguel Lifschitz, mayor of Rosario (Jewish Father)
- César Milstein, immunologist, Nobel prize
- Marcos Mundstock, musician-humorist of the group Les Luthiers
- Miguel Najdorf, chess player
- Gastón Needleman, chess player
- Carlos Núñez Cortés, musician-humorist of the group Les Luthiers
- Alicia Partnoy, writer
- Raquel Partnoy, painter
- Jorge Pelikán, chess player
- Melina Petriella, actress
- Alejandra Pizarnik, poet
- Isaias Pleci, chess player
- Julio Popper, engineer and colonizer of Tierra del Fuego, from Romania.
- Daniel Rabinovich, musician-humorist of the group Les Luthiers
- Ariel Rot, musician
- Cecilia Roth, actress
- Jaime José Rotman, soccer player
- Lalo Schifrin, composer
- Aaron Schwartzman, chess player
- Samuel Schweber, chess player
- Ana María Shua, writer
- Gerardo Sofovich, actor / producer
- Hugo Sofovich, director / producer
- Ariel Sorin, chess player
- Juan Pablo Sorín, soccer player
- Coti Sorokin, songwriter / musician / composer
- Ana Maria Stekelman, Tango choreographer
- Adrián Suar, actor / TV producer,
- Jorge Telerman, Ex mayor of Buenos Aires
- Jacobo Timmerman, journalist
- Bernardo Verbitsky, novelist
- Horacio Verbitsky, journalist
- Bernardo Wexler, chess player
- Bernardo Kliksberg, coordinator of the Inter-American Development Bank Initiative on Social Capital, Ethics, and Development; decorated by Guatemala for "eminent services to the country and to the continent"
- Oscar Strasnoy, classical composer
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