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