Americans in Argentina

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 5,000^[1] or 60,000^[2] Americans living in the country.

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.^[3]

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)

• Guy Williams (1924–1989), actor
• Adrián Suar (born 1968), actor, producer, and businessman
• Amán Rawson (1792–1847), physician and merchant, politician
• Andrea Collarini (born 1992), tennis player
• Benjamin Apthorp Gould (1824–1896), astronomer
• Bernhard Dawson (1890–1960), astronomer
• Tranquilo Cappozzo (1918–2003), rower and Olympic champion
• Charles Dillon Perrine (1867–1951), astronomer
• John M. Thome (1843–1908), astronomer
• Jonas Coe (1805–1864), naval commander
• Bryan Gerzicich (born 1984), football player
• Dan Newland (born 1949), journalist, translator, and writer
• 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
• Jorge Newberry, aviation pioneer

• Argentina–United States relations
• Argentine Americans