• Source: List of Chileans

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




Economists


Ricardo J. Caballero – MIT professor, Department of Economics
Sebastián Edwards – UCLA professor, former World Bank officer (1993–1996), prolific author and media personality
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 kakarackoj
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



Manuel Baquedano – general of the Chilean forces during 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
Ignacio Carrera Pinto – captain in charge of the Chilean patrol who died in Battle of La Concepción
Carlos Condell – captain of the Covadonga ship at the Iquique Naval Combat
Manuel Contreras – head of Augusto Pinochet's National Intelligence Directorate (DINA)
Manuel Hipólito Orella – sailor who was one of the first midshipman of the Chilean Navy
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
Arturo Prat – captain of the Esmeralda ship at the Iquique Naval Combat; regarded as a national hero
Luis Pardo – also known as Piloto Pardo, Chilean Navy captain who rescued the survivors of the Shackleton expedition
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
Juan de Quiroga y Apablaza – military figure
Manuel Rodríguez – Independence leader and guerrilla leader during the Reconquista
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




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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
Dora Puelma – artist
Carlos Sotomayor – cubist painter
Miguel Venegas – painter, called "El Maestro" (the Master)




Politicians



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
Gabriel Boric – first youth leader politician of Chile
Michelle Bachelet – first woman president of Chile
Juan Chandía – governor of Department of Tomé for 1946–1952
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
Antonia Illanes – lawyer and politician
José Miguel Insulza – former Interior minister; current Secretary General of the Organization of American States
José Antonio Kast — president of the Republican Party, former deputy and councilman, presidential candidate in 2017 and in 2021.
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
Raúl Morales Beltramí – politician and physician
Herman Chadwick Piñera – Chilean lawyer, businessman, trade union leader and politician
Sebastián Piñera – Chilean billionaire, businessman and politician; former 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, dictator from 1973 until 1990 and President from 1981 onwards.
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
Jennifer Rojas – social worker and politician
Camila Vallejo – Member of Parliament, led 2011 student protests in Chile
Adolfo Zaldívar – PRI senator, former leader of the PDC
Andrés Zaldívar – former PDC senator
Herminia Colihueque, Mapuche first woman to run in an election for a political office




Religious figures



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
Francisco Javier Quintanilla – theologian
Juan Subercaseaux Errázuriz – Chilean Roman Catholic Archbishop
José María Vélaz – Chilean priest
Blessed Laura Vicuña




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Scientists and engineers



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
Cesar A. Hidalgo – physicist
Cecilia Hidalgo Tapia – biochemist
Adriana Hoffmann – botanist, Environment Minister (2000–2001)
Paula Jofré – astronomer and astrophysicist
Humberto Maturana – biologist, co-author of the theory of autopoiesis
Juan Ignacio Molina – 18th and 19th-century natural scientist
Hermann Niemeyer – paediatrician and biochemist
Ernestina Pérez Barahona, physician
María Teresa Ruiz – astronomer
Elisa Torres Durney - outstanding quantum student
Gunther Uhlmann - mathematician
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




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Writers



Lorenzo Aillapán – poet
Fernando Alegría – writer
Isabel Allende – novelist (The House of Spirits)
Roberto Ampuero – novelist (Cayetano Brulé series)
Roberto Bolaño – 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 – 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)
Olga Grau - philosopher
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
Nicolasa Montt – poet
Tomás Moulian – political scientist and sociologist
Pablo Neruda – winner of the Nobel prize for literature
Raquel Olea – writer, professor
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
Amelia Solar de Claro – poet, playwright, and essayist
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


Raúl Aldunate Phillips – writer, politician, and soldier
Cecilia Magni Camino – guerilla leader and sociologist
Vanessa Ceruti – Miss Universe Chile 2011
Nataly Chilet – Miss World Chile 2008
Claudio Grossman – chairman of the Human Rights Interamerican Court
Hil Hernández – Miss Earth 2006
Immanuel Holger – soldier and politician
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
Sergio Saavedra (1927–2022) – engineer and politician
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 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
Sergio Catalán – first to discover crash survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, and integral to rescuing all 16 remaining survivors




See also


Chilean American
Chilean Australian
Chilean British
List of people by nationality




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Sosialisme demokratis
• List of Chileans
• List of cities in Chile
• List of presidents of Chile
• List of Chileans by net worth
• Chilean
• German Chileans
• List of highways in Chile
• Chilean Americans
• List of newspapers in Chile
• Chileans