Scottish Argentine: Buenos Aires Celebrates Scotland.

A Scottish Argentine population has existed for 180 years. Frequently, Scottish Argentines are wrongly referred to as English 

There are an estimated 100,000 Argentines of Scottish ancestry, the most of any country outside the Anglosphere.

The first Argentine woman to earn a Doctor of Medicine degree was Cecilia Grierson, of Scottish ancestry.

There have been Scottish Gaelic classes in Buenos Aires for over ten years now, and they are taken by Guillermo Santana MacKinlay, who is himself a Scottish-Argentine. 

Introduction of football:

The so-called "father of Argentine football" was a Glaswegian schoolteacher, Alexander Watson Hutton, who first taught football at St Andrew's School in Buenos Aires in the early 1880s. On 4 February 1884 he founded the Buenos Aires English High School [sic] where he continued to instruct the pupils in the game.. In 1891 Hutton established the Association Argentine Football League, the first football league outside of the British Isles. Five clubs competed but only one season was ever played.

His son Arnold Watson Hutton (1886-1951) was an Argentine football striker for the Argentina national team. He also played cricket, tennis and waterpolo for Argentina.

Notable Scottish Argentines

• Eduardo Mac Entyre, artist.
• Luca Prodan, musician
• Alejandro Anderson, actor
• Andrew Graham-Yooll, author
• Roberto M. Levingston
• Walter Owen, translator
• Jorge Brown, footballer
• Jose Luis Brown, footballer
• Carlos MacAllister, footballer
• Juan Perón, 41st President of Argentina
• Duncan Stewart, president of Uruguay, born Buenos Aires.
• Fernanda Neil, actress
• Franco Niell, footballer

Coordinated by the General Directorate for Institutional Relations of the General Secretariat of Government of Buenos Aires, the Scottish community in the City of Buenos Aires had it´s festival.

At 11 pm. a Mass was held in St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church Av Belgrano 579, where the Scottish clans were blessed.

 After the religious ceremony, it was a procession of bagpipers, followed by the flags of the clans, who toured the Belgrano Av.

Since 16 hs were made recreations of medieval battles and typical Scottish music was played. Thus, Buenos Aires were able to see the culture of this European country and live and share their traditions.