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

Economists[edit]

Military[edit]

Musicians[edit]

  • Los Abandoned – alternative rock band
  • Américo – cumbia chilena singer
  • Tom Araya – singer/bassist for thrash metal band Slayer
  • Claudio Arrau – classical piano player
  • Germán Casas – 1960s singer
  • Beto Cuevas – lead singer from rock group La Ley
  • Luis ‘Lucho’ Gatica – bolero singer
  • Eduardo Gatti – a leading composer of modern Chilean music
  • Jorge González – controversial lead singer and songwriter of historic Chilean rock band Los Prisioneros
  • Rodrigo González – bassist and singer of the German band die Ärzte
  • Alberto Guerrero – Chilean–Canadian composer, pianist, and teacher
  • Myriam Hernández – popular music singer
  • Alicia Ika – native Rapa Nui actress, musician, songwriter, surf instructor and tourist agent. Star in 180 Degrees South: Conquerors of the Useless (2010).
  • Pascuala Ilabaca – singer-songwriter
  • Inti-Illimani – pioneers of the nueva canción chilena movement; known communists and “pro-democracy” activists in exile during Pinochet dictatorship
  • Víctor Jara – Chilean folk singer and theatrical director; political activist; communist
  • Alain Johannes – Chilean born musician, songwriter, sound engineer; best known as founding member of Alternative Rock American band Eleven
  • Rafael Manríquez – nueva canción musician
  • Camila Gallardo
  • Paloma Mami
  • DJ Méndez – urban music producer
  • La Noche – cumbia chilena band
  • Chañaral Ortega-Miranda – contemporary composer
  • Ángel Parra – folk musician (nueva canción); son of Violeta Parra
  • Isabel Parra – folk musician; daughter of Violeta Parra
  • Javiera Parra – lead singer from group Javiera y los Imposibles
  • Violeta Parra – Chilean folk singer
  • Antonio Prieto – singer and actor known in English for “The Bride” or “The Wedding” song
  • Quilapayún – nueva canción ensemble, supporters of Popular Unity (UP) coalition during presidency of Salvador Allende
  • Leo Rey – cumbia chilena singer
  • Alejandro Silva – heavy metal guitar player
  • Saiko – pop rock band
  • Clara Solovera (1909–1992) – songwriter, born in Santiago
  • Esther Soré (1915–1996) – 1940s singer, born in Santiago
  • Fernando Ubiergo – folk singer-songwriter (Chilean folk), born in Valparaíso
  • Francisca Valenzuela – singer-songwriter
  • Ricardo Villalobos – minimal techno artist
  • Verónica Villarroel – soprano
  • Ramón Vinay – tenor
  • Javiera Mena – Indie electropop musician
  • Mon Laferte – singer-songwriter
  • Luis “Checho” González – folklore composer, born in Iquique
  • Oscar Lopez – senior latin guitarists musician, born in Santiago
  • El Monteaguilino – Cueca composer, born in Monte Águila

Artists[edit]

Politicians[edit]

  • 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 [es] for 1946–1952
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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[edit]

  • Omar Aguilar – long-distance runner
  • Marlene Ahrens – javelin thrower; Olympic silver medalist
  • Fernando Alvarez – jockey
  • Francisco Andra – former football player
  • 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
  • Ben Brereton – football player
  • Nick Carle – football player, Sydney FC
  • Patricio Castañeda – football player
  • 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
  • Juan Halty – former professional footballer
  • Kai Horwitz (born 1998) – Olympic alpine skier
  • Luis Jiménez (born 1987) – footballer
  • Benjamín Kuscevic – football player
  • 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
  • Andrés Parada – footballer
  • 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[edit]

Film and television personalities[edit]

Writers[edit]

  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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[edit]

  • Raúl Aldunate Phillips – writer, politician, and soldier[5]
  • 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 [6] 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[edit]

References[edit]

  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. ^ Aldunate Phillips, Raúl (1970). La revolución de los tenientes: tres años de la historia de Chile. Desde el ruido de sables en el Senado (septiembre de 1924) durante la presidencia de don Arturo Alessandri Palma, hasta el 2 de julio de 1927 en que asume el mando supremo el coronel Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (in Spanish). Escuela Lito-tipográfica La Gratitud Nacional. Retrieved 2021-03-21. Una mañana, llegó a la Comandancia de “Cazadores”, mi compadre el doctor Emilio Aldunate Bascuñán con su hijo Raúl como premio por haberse recibido tempranamente de Bachiller en Humanidades. Cumpliendo sus deseos, me lo traía a hacer la Guardia en mi Regimiento (…)
  6. ^ “American Dreamers: Maria Jose Ubiergo”. The New York Times. 12 June 2017.


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