List of French Argentines
French Argentines are Argentines of French descent. Most of French immigrants came to Argentina in the second half of the 1880s, though considerable immigration continued until the late 1940s. Half of these immigrants came from Southwestern France, especially from the Basque Country, Béarn (Basses-Pyrénées accounted for more than 20% of immigrants), Bigorre and Rouergue but also from Savoy and the Paris region. Today around 6 million Argentines have some degree of French descent (up to 17% of the total population).
Academia
- Amédée Jacques, French-born Argentine pedagogue and philosopher
- Ernesto Laclau, political theorist
Business
- Marcela Calvet, founder of luxury fashion label Marcela Calvet
- Alfredo Fortabat, entrepreneur
- Federico Lacroze, entrepreneur who created the first railway system in Argentina, born to French father
- María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, entrepreneur
- Juan Carlos Lectoure, businessman
Entertainment
- Manuel Antín, director
- Pablo Bardauil, actor and director
- Sandra Baylac, rock singer
- Lola Berthet, actress
- Héctor Bidonde, actor
- Antonio Birabent, actor and musician
- Mauricio "Moris" Birabent, rocker
- Beatriz Bonnet, actress
- Guillermo Bordarampé, musician
- Esteban Courtalon, cinematographer
- Ulises Dumont, theatre and movie actor
- Carlos Gardel, French-born Argentine tango singer
- Pablo Guyot, musician
- Víctor (Cournou) Heredia, singer
- Emmanuel Horvilleur, singer
- Mónica Jouvet, actress, French father
- Maurice Jouvet, French-born Argentine actor
- Juan Laborde, actor
- Claudia Lapacó, actress and singer, French mother
- Lydia Lamaison, actress
- Libertad Lamarque, actress
- Víctor Laplace, actor
- Victoria Maurette, actress
- Jean Pierre Noher, French-born Argentine actor
- Malena Pichot, comedian and actress
- Eugène Py, cameraman, cinematographer and film director, considered the founding pioneer of Argentine cinema
- Mercedes Sosa, singer
- Walter Soubrié, actor
- Ricardo Soulé, musician
- Daniel Tinayre, film director, screenwriter and producer
- Manuel Vignau, actor
Laws and politics
- Amado Boudou, Economy Minister, vice-president (2011-2015)
- Federico de Brandsen, colonel, fought in the wars for independence
- Carlos Lacoste, de facto President of Argentina from 11 to 21 December 1981
- Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, former president (de facto)
- Martín Lousteau, Economy Minister (2007-2008)
- Carlos Pellegrini, Argentine president, French father
- Eva Perón, First Lady of Argentina from 1946 to 1952, with French ancestry through her paternal grandparents, François (d')Uhart (later hispanicized in Duarte) from Béhasque-Lapiste and Marie Manechenea Etchegoyen from Souraïde, both in French Basque Country
- Juan Perón, President of Argentina from 1946 to 1955, and from 1973 to 1974, with French ancestry through his paternal grandmother, Dominga Dutey; born in Uruguay to French parents from Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry and Banca in Lower Navarre
- Alejo Peyret, French-born Argentine writer, agronomist, administrator and historian
- Juan Martín de Pueyrredón, general and politician of the early 19th century
- Alfredo Oscar Saint Jean, former interim president (de facto)
- Hipólito Yrigoyen, Argentine president, French father
Literature
- Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau, writer
- Augusto Belin, writer, French father
- Adolfo Bioy Casares, writer
- Eugenio Cambaceres, writer, French father
- Andrés Chabrillón, poet, French parents
- Julio Cortázar, Argentine writer, French Argentine mother
- Emilio Daireaux, French-Argentine writer and journalist
- Paul Groussac, writer, literary critic, historian and librarian
- José Hernández, writer, French Argentine mother
- Arturo Jauretche, writer of French Basque ancestry
- Federico Jeanmaire, writer
- Gregorio de Laferrère, playwright
- Ana Emilia Lahitte, writer
- Leopoldo Marechal, Argentine writer, French Uruguayan father
- Julio Meinvielle, priest and writer
- Ulyses Petit de Murat, poet and screenwriter
- Manuel Peyrou, writer
Science
- Enrique Hermitte, Argentine engineer
- Bernardo Houssay, Argentine physiologist, to French parents, Nobel Prize winner
- Luis Federico Leloir, Argentine doctor and biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
- Alicia Moreau de Justo, Argentine physician, French parents
Sports
- Carlos Berlocq, professional tennis player
- Fernando Bonjour, football player
- Martín Bonjour, football player
- Luis Alberto Bonnet, football player
- Jorge Bontemps, football player
- Juan Manuel Bordeu, racing driver
- Héctor de Bourgoing, football player
- Mario Boyé, football player
- Federico Broin, football player
- Manuel Brunet, field hockey player
- Carmelo Camet, fencer
- Eduardo Camet, fencer
- Jeannette Campbell, French-born Argentine swimmer
- Héctor Candau, football player
- José Chamot, football player
- Nereo Champagne, football player
- José Luis Clerc, professional tennis player
- Nestor Combin, football player
- Eduardo Coudet, football player
- Walter Coyette, football player
- Gabriel Curuchet, road bicycle racer and track cyclist
- Juan Curuchet, road bicycle racer and track cyclist
- Juan Carlos Dasque, sport shooter
- Sebastián Decoud, tennis player
- Ceferino Denis, football player
- Germán Denis, football player
- Héctor Desvaux, football player
- Matías Donnet, football player
- Sebastián Dubarbier, football player
- Ubaldo Fillol, football player
- Santiago Fusilier, football player
- Pablo Garnier, football player
- Marcos Gelabert, football player
- Juan Cruz Guillemaín, rugby player
- Carlos Guimard, chess player
- Gonzalo Higuaín, French-born Argentine football player
- Jonathan Jacquet, football player
- Cristian Jeandet, football player
- César-Auguste Laraignée, football player
- Eduardo Lausse, boxer
- Félix Loustau, football player
- Juan Carlos Loustau, football referee
- Oscar Malbernat, football player
- Mercedes Margalot, field hockey player
- Juan Ignacio Mercier, football player
- Pablo Mouche, football player
- Ricardo Noir, football player
- Lucien Petit-Breton, French-born Argentine racing cyclist
- Agustín Pichot, rugby player
- Jonathan Phillippe, football player
- Angel Rambert, football player
- Sebastián Rambert, football player
- Juan Carlos Trebucq, football player
- David Trezeguet, football player
- Jorge Trezeguet, football player
- Carlos Trullet, football player
- Alberto Vernet Basualdo, rugby player
- Roberto Viau, basketball player
Other
- Numa Ayrinhac, French-born Argentine painter
- Adolfo Bellocq, printmaker
- Pedro Benoit, architect
- Norma Bessouet, painter
- Louis Cazeneuve, cartoonist
- Gustavo Cochet, Argentine painter, French father
- Julio Ducuron, painter
- Gato Dumas, chef
- Charles Lesca, Franco-Argentine Nazi collaborator, journalist
- Liniers, cartoonist
- Patricio Pouchulu, architect
- Prilidiano Pueyrredón, painter, architect, and engineer
- Guillermo Roux, painter
- Carlos Thays, landscape architect
See also
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