page_title: San Miguel de Tucumán
section_title: Notable residents
hierarchical_section_title: San Miguel de Tucumán / Notable residents
caption_attribution_description: Fotografía de la cantante argentina Mercedes Sosa perteneciente al disco "Mercedes Sosa", serie "Grandes Artístas" editado en Argentina en 1973.
context_page_description: San Miguel de Tucumán is the capital of the Tucumán Province, located in northern Argentina 1,311 kilometres from Buenos Aires. It is the fifth-largest city of Argentina after Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Rosario and Mendoza and the most important of the northern region. The Spanish Conquistador Diego de Villarroel founded the city in 1565 in the course of an expedition from present-day Peru. Tucumán moved to its present site in 1685.
context_section_description: Juan Bautista Alberdi, lawyer, writer, political theorist and diplomat.
  Carlos Alvarado-Larroucau, writer.
  Francisco Amado Diaz, actor, first director of the state theatre "San Martin"
  Gregorio Aráoz de Lamadrid
  Nicolás Avellaneda former President of Argentina.
  Franco Fagioli opera singer
  Victor García, theatre director.
  Omar Hasan, rugby player.
  Daniel Hourcade, former international rugby player, Pumas head coach.
  Francisco Maldonado da Silva, Jewish martyr
  Tomás Eloy Martínez, journalist and writer, author of Santa Evita.
  Richard Maury, American engineer, honorary professor of the National University
  Lola Mora, sculptor.
  The Hon. Pablo Rodriguez , current Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism and Member of Parliament for Honoré-Mercier (Government of Canada)
  Mercedes María Paz, tennis player.
  César Pelli, architect.
  José María Núñez Piossek, former international/professional rugby player.
  Julio A. Roca, former President of Argentina.
  Alejandro Romay, television and theatre producer.
  Federico Nicolás Sánchez, rugby player.
  Juan Soler, actor.
  Mercedes Sosa, folk music singer.
  Leda Valladares (1919-2012), folk singer and ethnographer of Argentine folk music.
caption: Mercedes Sosa.
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