There is a community of Americans living in Argentina consisting of immigrants and expatriates from the United States as well as their local born descendants. There are roughly about 60,000 Americans living in the country, and 26,000 of them live in the capital city, Buenos Aires.
From 2002 to 2003, many Americans migrated to Argentina when the country suddenly became comparatively inexpensive thus it became a cheap place to live in.
Immigration from the United States increased further during and after the financial crisis of 2007–2008 as many Americans fled the crisis-ridden United States to escape to Argentina. A few interviews and immigration data shows a 12% increase in the number of Americans (742) who applied for permanent residency in 2008.
American schools in Argentina include:
Asociación Escuelas Lincoln (Buenos Aires)
Adrián Suar (born 1968), actor, producer, and businessman
Amán Rawson [1792-1847, physician and merchant, politician
Andrea Collarini (born 1992), tennis player
Arturo Rawson (1885-1952), President of Argentina and military officer
Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824-1896), astronomer
Bernhard Dawson (1890-1960), astronomer
Tranquilo Capozzo (1918-2003), rower and Olympic champion
Charles Dillon Perrine (1867-1951), astronomer
Eduardo Newbery (1878-1908), odontologist and aerostat pilot
Franklin Rawson (1819-1871), painter
Guillermo Rawson (1821-1890), medical doctor, politician and minister
Guy Williams (1924-1989), actor
John M. Thome (1843-1908), astronomer
Jonas Coe (1805-1864), naval commander
Bryan Gerzicich (born 1984), football player
Jorge Newbery (1875-1914), aviator, civil servant, engineer, and scientist
Kevin Johansen (born 1964), rock musician
Maxine Swann (born 1969), fiction author
Melville Sewell Bagley (1838-1880), businessman and creator of Hesperidina, the unofficial Argentine national liqueur
Renato Corsi (born 1963), association football player
Richard Maury (1882-1950), railway engineer and designer of the iconic Tren a las Nubes train service
Richard Shindell (born 1960), folk songwriter
Roy Cortina (born 1964), politician and President of the Socialist Party in Buenos Aires
Viggo Mortensen (born 1958), actor
William Henry Hudson (1841-1922), author, naturalist and ornithologist
