List of Argentine Jews
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Jewish immigration to Latin America began with seven sailors arriving in Christopher Columbus's crew. Since then, the Jewish population of Latin America has risen to more than 500,000 — more than half of whom live in Argentina, with large communities also present in Brazil and Mexico. Here is a list of some prominent Argentine Jews.
- Jacobo Winograd (better known as Chizito), comedian
- Tomás Abraham, philosopher
- Gabriela Acher, comedian
- Ernesto Acher, musician-humorist, former member of group Les Luthiers
- Marcos Aguinis, journalist / writer
- José Alperovich, governor of the Tucumán Province
- Marcelo Araujo (Lázaro Silberman), sports journalist
- Jaime Averboch, boxer, Argentine Welterweight champion
- 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
- Jacobo Bolbochan, chess player
- Julio Bolbochan, chess player
- Mauricio Borensztein (better known as Tato Bores), comedian
- Daniel Burman, film director
- Adrian Caetano, director
- Jimena Cyrulnik, model / TV host
- Mario Davidovsky, composer
- Jorge Halperín Donghi, historian
- Natali Doresky, hockey player
- Ariel Dorfman, playwright
- José "Pepe" Eliaschev, journalist
- Norman Erlich, comedian
- Giora Feidman, klezmer musician
- Movsas Feigins, chess player
- José Pablo Feinmann philosopher [1]
- Pablo Feldman, journalist
- Daniel Filmus Argentinian Education Minister
- Paulino Frydman, chess player
- Pablo Galli, actor
- Samuel "Chiche" Gelblung radio & TV journalist
- Juan Gelman, poet,
- Alberto Gerchunoff, writer
- Osvaldo Golijov, classical composer
- Angélica Gorodischer writer
- Jorge Guinzburg, actor and comedian
- Luis Gurevich, musician
- Martín Jaite, former tennis player
- Mauricio Kagel, classical composer
- Daniel Katz, mayor of Mar del Plata
- David Kavlin, TV Host
- Aida Kemelmajer, jurist
- Bernardo Kliksberg, coordinator of the Inter-American Development Bank Initiative on Social Capital, Ethics, and Development (born in Argentina)
- Gregorio Klimovsky, mathematician and philosopher
- León Klimovsky, film director
- Diego Korol, comedian / TV host
- Daniela Krukower, judo world champion
- Carlos Rodriguez Laconi (Carlos Laconivich), film director
- David Lebón, singer
- Román Lejtman, journalist
- Alejandro Lerner, singer/composer
- Miriam Lewin, journalist
- Fanny Mandelbaum, journalist and TV host
- Rubén Manusovich, soccer player
- Luis Mattini, ERP guerrilla leader
- Emilia Mazer, actress
- César Milstein, immunologist, Nobel prize
- Ben Molar Songwriter, producer
- Marcos Mundstock, musician-humorist of group Les Luthiers
- Miguel Najdorf, chess player
- Gastón Needleman, chess player
- Chico Novarro, composer and singer
- Carlos Núñez Cortés, musician-humorist of group Les Luthiers
- Marta Oyhanarte, politician / writer
- Alicia Partnoy, writer
- José Pekerman, former soccer player, national team coach
- Gustavo Perednik, writer and philosopher
- Alejandra Pizarnik, poet
- Julio Popper, engineer and colonizer of Tierra del Fuego, from Romania.
- Daniel Rabinovich, musician-humorist of group Les Luthiers
- Abraham Rosenvasser, egyptologist
- Cecilia Roth, actress
- Jaime José Rotman, soccer player
- Walter Samuel, soccer player
- Lalo Schifrin, composer
- Samuel Schweber, chess player
- Ana María Shua, writer
- Virginia Simón, actress
- Gerardo Sofovich, actor / producer
- Hugo Sofovich, director / producer
- Juan Pablo Sorín, soccer player
- Coti Sorokin, songwriter / musician / compositor
- Alicia Steimberg, writer
- Ana Maria Stekelman, Tango choreographer
- Gabriel Alejandro Stiglitz, jurist
- Rubén Saul Stiglitz, jurist
- Adrián Suar, actor / tv producer
- Jorge Telerman, mayor of Buenos Aires
- Ernesto Tenembaum, journalist
- Jacobo Timmerman, journalist
- Juan Pablo Varsky, journalist
- Bernardo Verbitsky, novelist
- Horacio Verbitsky, journalist
- Mauro Viale, TV host
- Margarita Wais, journalist
- Julián Weich, actor and TV host
- Roxana Zarecki, model
- Agustín Zbar, attorney of Buenos Aires
- Julia Zenko, singer
- Marcos Zucker, actor
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