List of Chileans

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This is a list of Chileans who are famous or notable.

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Bernardo O'Higgins, founder of modern Chile

Economists[]

  • Ricardo J. Caballero – MIT professor, Department of Economics
  • Sebastián Edwards – UCLA professor, former World Bank officer (1993–1996), prolific author and media personality
  • Nicolás Eyzaguirre – former Finance Minister
  • Alejandro Foxley – Chile's first Finance Minister after the return of democracy in 1990 and an engineer of the country's economic miracle during democracy; former Foreign Affairs minister, and former Chilean Senator for East Santiago
  • Manfred Max Neef – Right Livelihood Award winner, presidential candidate, member of the Club of Rome, former president of the Universidad Austral
  • José Piñera – implemented the privatization of the Chilean pension system under Pinochet
  • Andrés Velasco – Sumitomo Professor of International Finance and Development in the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Finance Minister during Bachelet's administration

Military[]

Jose Miguel Carrera
  • Manuel Baquedano – General of the Chilean Forces during the War of the Pacific
  • Sofanor Parra – Officer of the cavalry branch of the Chilean Army who fought in almost all the military actions of the War of the Pacific
  • Philip Bazaar – recipient of the US Navy Medal of Honour
  • José Miguel Carrera – first Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army and Independence leader of the Patria Vieja
  • Luis Carrera – Chilean Military Officer in the War of Independence
  • Caupolicán – leader of the Mapuche who fiercely resisted the Spanish conquest of Chile
  • Carlos Condell – captain of the Covadonga ship at the Iquique Naval Combat
  • Manuel Contreras – head of Augusto Pinochet's National Intelligence Directorate (DINA)
  • Pedro de Valdivia – Royal Governor of Chile and Lieutenant under Francisco Pizarro
  • Manuel Rodríguez – Independence leader and guerrilla leader during the Reconquista
  • Lautaro – Mapuche indigenous military leader during the Spanish conquest of Chile
  • Patricio Lynch – Governor of Lima during the Chilean occupation of Lima, Perú, during the War of the Pacific
  • Juan MacKenna – Irish-born organizer of O'Higgins's Army
  • Bernardo O'Higgins – founder of modern Chile
  • Luis Pardo - also known as Piloto Pardo, Chilean Navy Captain who rescued the survivors of the Shackleton expedition
  • Ignacio Carrera Pinto – Captain in charge of the Chilean patrol who died in Battle of La Concepción
  • Arturo Prat – captain of the Esmeralda ship at the Iquique Naval Combat; regarded as a national hero
  • Eleuterio Ramírez – officer, hero of the War of the Pacific
  • José Ignacio Zenteno – Lieutenant Colonel of the Army of the Andes, Minister of War and Marine in the O'Higgins government

Musicians[]

Artists[]

Carlos Sotomayor
Main article: List of Chilean artists
See also: List of Chilean women artists
  • Claudio Bravo (1936–2011) – hyper-realist painter
  • Carlos Catasse – painter
  • Marta Colvin – sculptor
  • Alfredo Jaar – installation artist, filmmaker and architect
  • Olga Lehmann – painter
  • Roberto Matta – painter, sculptor
  • Camilo Mori – painter
  • Carlos Sotomayor – cubist painter
  • Miguel Venegas – painter, called "El Maestro" (the Master)

Politicians[]

Diego Portales
Aníbal Pinto
  • Juana Rosa Aguirre – former first lady, wife of Pedro Aguirre Cerda
  • Arturo Alessandri – served twice as president of Chile
  • Jorge Alessandri – 27th President of Chile; President of Council of State under Pinochet Regime
  • Salvador Allende – former senator and president of Chile; ousted in a military coup
  • Clodomiro Almeyda – socialist politician
  • Soledad Alvear – former Justice minister and Foreign minister; current PDC senator
  • Celinda Arregui – feminist politician, writer, teacher, suffrage activist
  • Michelle Bachelet – first woman president of Chile
  • Achta Saleh Damane (fl. 2010s), journalist and politician
  • Carlos Dávila – former Secretary General of the Organization of American States
  • Florencio Durán – former president of the senate
  • Héctor Faúndez – diplomat
  • Fernando Flores – businessman and former senator
  • Gabriel González Videla - 25th President of Chile (1946-1952)
  • Jaime Guzmán – right wing politician during the Pinochet regime; murdered by Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front on April 1, 1991; former UDI Senator
  • Tomás Hirsch – former president of the Humanist Party of Chile; 2005 candidate for president
  • José Miguel Insulza – former Interior minister; current Secretary General of the Organization of American States
  • Carlos Keller - former Leader of the National Socialist Movement of Chile, responsible for the organization of the Seguro Obrero Massacre
  • Joaquín Lavín – Independent Democratic Union candidate for presidency in 2005 election; former mayor of Las Condes and Santiago
  • Orlando Letelier – Foreign Minister during Salvador Allende's government murdered during the Pinochet regime in Washington, D.C.
  • Gladys Marín – communist leader, feminist activist, lived in exile, opposed conservatism and liberal economy, admirer of Lenin and Marx
  • Sebastián Piñera – Chilean billionaire, businessman and politician; current President of Chile
  • Aníbal Pinto - 9th President of Chile (1876-1881)
  • Augusto Pinochet – Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Chile, President of the Government Junta of Chile, and dictator from 1973 until 1990
  • Diego Portales – Minister, major designer of the Chilean State during the first half of the 19th century
  • Juan Antonio Ríos (1888–1946), Chilean lawyer, political figure and 24th President of Chile.
  • Laura Rodríguez – first Humanist Party deputy in the world
  • Camila Vallejo - Member of Parliament, led 2011 student protests in Chile
  • Chris Watson – third Prime Minister of Australia
  • Adolfo Zaldívar – PRI senator, former leader of the PDC
  • Andrés Zaldívar – former PDC senator

Religious figures[]

Saint Alberto Hurtado
  • Rodolfo Acevedo, Mormon bishop
  • Saint Teresa de los Andes – first Chilean saint
  • Carlos Camus – Chilean bishop
  • Francisco Javier Errázuriz – fourth Chilean cardinal
  • Juan Francisco Fresno – third Chilean cardinal
  • Raúl Silva Henríquez – second Chilean cardinal born in Talca; human rights advocate
  • Alberto Hurtado - saint
  • Jorge Medina – fifth Chilean cardinal; conservative figure
  • Fr. Juan Ignacio Molina – Chilean priest, naturalist, historian, botanist, ornithologist, geographer
  • José María Caro Rodríguez – first Chilean cardinal
  • Juan Subercaseaux Errázuriz – Chilean Roman Catholic Archbishop
  • José María Vélaz – Chilean priest
  • Blessed Laura Vicuña

Sports[]

  • Omar Aguilar – long-distance runner
  • Marlene Ahrens – javelin thrower; Olympic silver medalist
  • Fernando Alvarez – jockey
  • David Arellano – football player; namesake of Colo-Colo's stadium
  • Luis Ayala – tennis player; twice French Open finalist
  • Gonzalo Barrios - eSports player
  • Claudio Bravo - football player, FC Barcelona
  • Nick Carle – football player, Sydney FC
  • Carlos Caszely – football player
  • Patricio Cornejo – tennis player, 1976 Davis Cup finalist
  • Cristian Garín – tennis player, winner of 4 ATP titles
  • Carlo de Gavardo – KTM rally motorcyclist
  • Elías Figueroa – football player; three times elected as Best Football Player of America
  • Jaime Fillol – tennis player, 1976 Davis Cup finalist
  • Arturo Godoy – boxer, fought Joe Louis twice for the World Heavyweight title
  • Fernando González – tennis player; only Chilean to win gold, silver and bronze medals at the Summer Olympics
  • Tomás González – gymnast, Olympic finalist
  • Kai Horwitz (born 1998) - Olympic alpine skier
  • Alberto Larraguibel – horse rider, record for puissance (high jump) on horseback
  • Sergio Sapo Livingstone – Chilean football goalkeeper
  • Anita Lizana – tennis player; 1937 US Open champion; first Latin American, and first Hispanic person, to be ranked World Number 1 in tennis
  • Nicolás Massú (born 1979) – tennis player; highest world ranking #9, Olympic 2-time champion (singles and doubles)
  • Carlos Moreno – track and field sprinter
  • Iván Morovic – chess International Grandmaster
  • Isidora Niemeyer – rower
  • Érika Olivera – marathon runner; gold medal winner in women's marathon at the 1999 Pan American Games
  • Manuel Pellegrini - former footballer for Universidad de Chile, former manager of Real Madrid
  • Alejandra Ramos – middle-distance runner
  • Monica Regonesi – long-distance runner
  • Sammis Reyes - basketball and American football player; first Chilean to play in the NFL
  • Fernando Riera - Chile's most successful soccer coach; led the national team to a third-place finish in the 1962 World Cup
  • Marcelo Ríos – first Latin American man to become world number-one tennis player
  • Eduardo Robledo – football player, Newcastle United F.C.
  • Jorge Robledo – player, Newcastle United F.C.
  • Jose Romero – AFL player, Western Bulldogs
  • Sebastián Rozental (born 1976) - professional soccer player
  • Marcelo Salas – football player; holds the record for most goals playing for the national team; won titles with every team he played with
  • Eliseo Salazar – race car driver, competed in Formula One intermittently from 1980–1982, moved to Champ Car and the Indy Racing League
  • Alexis Sánchez – football player, Inter Milan
  • Leonel Sánchez – football player, 1962 World Cup top scorer
  • José A. Santos – jockey, winner of US Triple Crown
  • Alejandro Silva – long-distance runner
  • Pablo Squella – middle-distance runner
  • José Sulantay - Chile's second most successful soccer coach, led the under 20 national team to a third-place finish at the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada
  • Emilio Ulloa – long-distance runner
  • Dion Valle – football player, Marconi Stallions FC
  • Rodrigo Vargas – football player, Melbourne Victory FC
  • Arturo Vidal - football player, FC Barcelona
  • Gert Weil – shot putter
  • Iván Zamorano – football player

Scientists and engineers[]

F. J. Duarte
  • Ricardo Baeza Rodríguez - mathematician
  • Ricardo Baeza-Yates – computer scientist
  • Erik Bongcam-Rudloff – bioinformatician
  • Claudio Bunster – physicist
  • Marcela Contreras – immunologist
  • F. J. Duarte – laser physicist
  • Matias Duarte – software inventor
  • Julio M. Fernandez – biologist, academic
  • Eric Goles – mathematician
  • Mario Hamuy – cosmologist and astronomer
  • Cecilia Hidalgo Tapia – biochemist
  • Adriana Hoffmann – botanist, Environment Minister (2000–2001)
  • Humberto Maturana – biologist, co-author of the theory of autopoiesis
  • Juan Ignacio Molina – 18th and 19th-century natural scientist
  • Ernestina Pérez Barahona, physician
  • María Teresa Ruiz – astronomer
  • Pablo DT Valenzuela – biotechnologist, co-founder of Chiron Corporation and Fundacion Ciencias Para la Vida
  • Francisco Varela – biologist, co-author of the theory of autopoiesis
  • Cesar A. Hidalgo – physicist

Film and television personalities[]

See also: List of Chilean actors

  • Cecilia Bolocco

  • Santiago Cabrera

  • Cote de Pablo

  • Pedro Pascal

  • Leonor Varela

Writers[]

Alberto Blest Gana
Gabriela Mistral
Jorge Salgado-Reyes
See also: List of Chilean women writers
  • Fernando Alegría – writer
  • Isabel Allende – novelist (The House of Spirits)
  • Roberto Ampuero – novelist (Cayetano Brulé series)
  • Roberto Bolaño[2] – novelist (The Savage Detectives, 2666)
  • Liborio Brieba - writer
  • Francisco Coloane – (Tierra del fuego)
  • Angel Cruchaga Santa Maria (1893–1964) – writer, won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1948
  • Eugenio Cruz Vargas (1923–2014) – poet and painter, of Basque descent
  • Francisco Núñez de Pineda y Bascuñán – writer of Cautiverio feliz y razón individual de las guerras dilatadas del Reino de Chile in 1673
  • Pablo de Rokha – Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1965
  • José Donoso[3] – writer (Coronation, The Obscene Bird of Night)
  • Ariel Dorfman – novelist, playwright (Death and the Maiden), academic, essayist, journalist and human rights activist
  • Jorge Edwards – 1999 Cervantes Prize winner
  • Alberto Fuguet – novelist; short story writer, Mala Onda, Las películas de mi vida; filmmaker, Se Arrienda
  • Alberto Blest Gana – novelist (Martín Rivas)
  • Juan Guzman Cruchaga (1895–1979) – poet and diplomat, won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1962; of Basque descent
  • Óscar Hahn – writer and poet
  • Vicente Huidobro – father of the "Creationism" movement in Paris
  • Cristián Huneeus – writer
  • Enrique Lafourcade – novelist
  • Hernán Rivera Letelier – novelist (Santa María de las Flores Negras, La Reina Isabel Cantaba Rancheras), poet, writer of short stories
  • Enrique Lihn – poet, playwright, and novelist
  • Carmen Marai – novelist El Alba de la Mandrágora (The Dawn of the Mandrake), poet, writer of short stories
  • Sergio Missana - novelist
  • Gabriela Mistral – winner of the Nobel prize for literature
  • Tomás Moulian – political scientist and sociologist
  • Pablo Neruda[4] – winner of the Nobel prize for literature
  • Nicanor Parra – self-proclaimed "anti-poet"
  • Adolfo Quiros - (1853 – 1910), poet
  • Gonzalo Rojas – 2004 Cervantes Prize winner
  • Elvira Santa Cruz Ossa – dramatist and novelist
  • Luis Sepúlveda – novelist
  • Antonio Skármeta – author of Ardiente Paciencia (Burning Patience), which inspired the movie Il Postino (The Postman), about poet Pablo Neruda
  • Mercedes Valdivieso – writer
  • Sergio Vodanovic – playwright

Architects[]

  • Alejandro Aravena - 2015 Pritzker Prize winner
  • Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente
  • Mathias Klotz – 2001 Borromini Prize of Architecture winner for under-40 architects

Others[]

  • Vanessa Ceruti – Miss Universe Chile 2011[citation needed]
  • Nataly Chilet – Miss World Chile 2008[citation needed]
  • Claudio Grossman – chairman of the Human Rights Interamerican Court
  • Hil Hernández – Miss Earth 2006
  • Carlos Kaiser – former National Director of the National Fund for Disabilities
  • Themo Lobos – comic artist
  • Andrónico Luksic – chairman of Quiñenco Holdings, which owns Banco de Chile, Antofagasta Minerals, one of the largest Chilean financial groups
  • La Quintrala – Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer, aristocratic and sadistic landowner and witch during the Colonial Period
  • Rene Ríos Boettiger (Pepo) – comic artist (Condorito)
  • Juana Ross Edwards (1830-1913), philanthropist
  • Sola Sierra – human rights activist
  • Juan Somavia – Director-General of the International Labour Organization
  • Joaquín Toesca – designer of the presidential house "La Moneda", in Santiago
  • Maria Jose Ubiergo – Chilean DREAMer in the United States, Story Featured in the New York Times; Family member to notable Chilean Folk Singer Fernando Ubiergo [5] Her story has been featured in El Diario, ABC, and News 12 Connecticut, among other media outlets.
  • Arturo Valenzuela – former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs
  • Bernardita Zúñiga – Miss World Chile 2007

See also[]

  • Chilean American
  • Chilean Australian
  • Chilean British
  • List of people by nationality


References[]

  1. ^ Rosenbaum, Jonathan (2004). Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 419–421. ISBN 0-8018-7840-3.
  2. ^ "The 21st Century's 12 Greatest Novels". BBC. 19 January 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  3. ^ Bloom, Harold (1994). The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. NY/San Diego/London: Harcourt Brace & Company. p. 560. ISBN 978-1-57322-514-4.
  4. ^ Bloom, Harold (1994). "Borges, Neruda, and Pessoa: Hispanic-Portuguese Whitman". The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. NY/San Diego/London: Harcourt Brace & Company. pp. 463–492. ISBN 978-1-57322-514-4.
  5. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/storywall/american-dreamers/stories/maria-jose-ubiergo
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