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Buenos Aires (arg)

Argentina

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Buenos Aires ranks 17th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Madrid, Philadelphia, and Stockholm. Memorable people born in Buenos Aires include Pope Francis, Jorge Luis Borges, and Alfredo Di Stéfano. Memorable people who died in Buenos Aires include Astor Piazzolla, Juan Manuel Fangio, and László Bíró. Buenos Aires has been the birth place of many soccer players, and politicians and the death place of many soccer players, and politicians. Buenos Aires is located in Argentina.

Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− global city, according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) 2024 ranking. The city proper has a population of 3.1 million and its urban area 16.7 million, making it the twentieth largest metropolitan area in the world. Read more on Wikipedia

People

Between 0 and 2005, Buenos Aires was the birth place of 390 globally memorable people, including Pope Francis, Jorge Luis Borges, and Alfredo Di Stéfano. Additionaly, 221 globally memorable people have passed away in Buenos Aires including Astor Piazzolla, Juan Manuel Fangio, and László Bíró.

People Born in Buenos Aires

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Occupations

Most individuals born in present day Buenos Aires were soccer players (132), politicians (43), actors (43), athletes (37), and writers (22),  while most who died were soccer players (65), politicians (51), writers (18), racing drivers (14), and actors (12).

Over the past 100 years, soccer players have been the top profession of globally memorable people born in Buenos Aires, including Alfredo Di Stéfano, Javier Zanetti, and Carlos Bilardo. Whereas, throughout history, soccer players have been the profession with the most memorable people born in present day Buenos Aires, including Alfredo Di Stéfano, Guillermo Stábile, and Helenio Herrera.

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Overlapping Lives

Below is a visual represetation of the lifespans of the top 25 globally memorable people born in Buenos Aires since 1700.