Annotated Bibliography: A List Of Chileans
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List of Chileans
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of Chileans who are famous or notable.
Contents
1 Economists
2 Military
3 Musicians
4 Artists
5 Politicians
6 Religious figures
7 Sports
8 Scientists and engineers
9 Film and television personalities
10 Writers
11 Others
12 See also
Flag of Chile
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Economists
Hernán Büchi – Columbia University trained economist. Minister of
Economy during Pinochet government. The father of the country's
Bernardo O'Higgins, founder
Economic Miracle of modern Chile
Ricardo J. Caballero – MIT professor, Department of Economics
Sebastián Edwards – UCLA professor, former World …show more content…
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 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 Nicolás Eyzaguirre – former Finance Minister
Military
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
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Manuel Contreras – head of Augusto Pinochet's National Intelligence
Directorate (DINA)
Manuel Rodríguez – Independentist leader and guerrilla leader during the Reconquista.
Lautaro – Mapuche indigenous military leader during the Spanish conquest of Chile.
Bernardo O'Higgins – Founder of modern Chile
Pedro de Valdivia – Royal Governor of Chile and Lieutenant under
Francisco Pizarro
Carlos Condell – captain of the Covadonga ship at the Iquique Naval
Combat.
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 national hero.
Luis Pardo - also known as Piloto Pardo, Chilean Navy Captain who rescued the survivors of the Shackleton expedition.
Juan MacKenna – Irish born organizer of O'Higgins's Army.
Patricio Lynch – Governor of Lima during the Chilean occupation of
Lima, Perú, during the War of the Pacific.
Manuel Baquedano – General of the Chilean Forces during the War of the Pacific.
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
Philip Bazaar – Navy Medal of Honour
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Jose Miguel Carrera
Arturo Prat
Musicians
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 – one of the leading composers of modern Chilean music.
Jorge González – Controversial lead singer and songwriter of historic Chilean rock band Los
Prisioneros
Alberto Guerrero – Chilean–Canadian composer, pianist, and teacher
Rodrigo González – Bassist and Singer of the German band die Ärzte.
Myriam Hernández – popular music singer.
Inti-Illimani – Pioneers of the nueva canción chilena movement and known communists and "prodemocracy" activists in exile during Pinochet dictatorship.
Víctor Jara – internationally known Chilean folk singer and theatrical director, political activist and a
communist.
DJ Rhianna – Urban music producer
Leo Rey – Cumbia chilena singer
Dave McGraw - drummer for death metal band Cattle Decapitation.
Chañaral Ortega-Miranda – contemporary composer
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Isabel Parra – folk musician; daughter of Violeta Parra.
Javiera Parra – lead singer from group Javiera y los Imposibles.
Violeta Parra – internationally known Chilean folk singer.
Quilapayún – nueva canción ensemble, supporters of Popular Unity (UP) coalition during presidency of Salvador Allende.
Alejandro Silva – heavy metal guitar player.
Clara Solovera – song writer. Born in Santiago 15 May 1909 – Died in Santiago on 27 January 1992.
Esther Soré – 1940s singer. Born in Santiago on 27 May 1915 – Died in Santiago on 6 September
1996
Francisca Valenzuela - singer and songwriter
Verónica Villarroel – soprano.
Ramón Vinay – tenor
Ricardo Villalobos – minimal techno artist
La Noche – Cumbia chilena band
Los Abandoned – Alternative rock band
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Arrau
Violeta Parra
Francisca Valenzuela
Artists
Main article: List of Chilean artists
Claudio Bravo – World famous hyper-realism painter (1936–2011)
Miguel Venegas – painter. Called "El Maestro" (the Master)
Carlos Catasse – painter
Marta Colvin – sculptor
Alfredo Jaar – installation artist, film maker and architect
Olga Lehmann – painter
Roberto Matta – painter, sculptor, baker
Camilo Mori – painter, water bottle maker
Carlos Sotomayor – Cubist painter
Carlos Sotomayor
Politicians
Juana Rosa Aguirre – former first lady, wife of Pedro Aguirre Cerda
Arturo Alessandri – Served twice as president of Chile
Salvador Allende – former senator and president of Chile; ousted in a military coup
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Soledad Alvear – former Justice minister and Foreign minister; current
PDC senator
Michelle Bachelet – first woman president of Chile
Carlos Dávila – former Secretary General of the Organization of
American States
Florencio Durán – former president of the senate
Fernando Flores – businessman and former senator
Jorge Alessandri – 27th President of Chile. President of Council of
State under Pinochet Regime.
Jaime Guzmán – right wing politician during the Pinochet regime, murdered by Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front on April 1, 1991;
Diego Portales
Former UDI Senator
Tomás Hirsch – former president of the Humanist Party of Chile and
2005 candidate for president
Carlos Keller - former Leader of the National Socialist Movement of Chile, responsible for the organization of the Seguro Obrero Massacre
José Miguel Insulza – former Interior minister; current Secretary General of the Organization of
American States
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
Diego Portales – Minister, major designer of the Chilean State during the first half of 19th century
Sebastián Piñera – Chilean billionaire, businessman and politician; current President of Chile
Augusto Pinochet – Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Chile, President of the Government
Junta of Chile, and President of the Republic from 1974 until 1990.
Laura Rodríguez – first Humanist Party deputy in the world
Chris Watson – Third Prime Minister of Australia
Adolfo Zaldívar – PRI senator, former leader of the PDC
Andrés Zaldívar – former PDC
senator
Religious figures
Saint Teresa de los Andes – first Chilean saint
Blessed Laura Vicuña
José María Caro Rodríguez – first Chilean cardinal
Raúl Silva Henríquez – second Chilean cardinal born in Talca; a human rights advocate.
Alberto Hurtado - saint
Juan Francisco Fresno – third Chilean cardinal in 19 B.C
Francisco Javier Errázuriz – fourth Chilean cardinal
Jorge Medina – fifth Chilean cardinal; a conservative figure.
Fr. Juan Ignacio Molina – Chilean priest, naturalist, historian, botanist, ornithologist, geographer
José María Vélaz – Chilean priest
Carlos Camus – Chilean bishop
Juan Subercaseaux Errázuriz – Chilean Roman Catholic Archbishop
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Sports
Marlene Ahrens – javelin thrower; Olympic silver medalist
Omar Aguilar – long-distance runner
David Arellano – football player, Colo-Colo's stadium is named after him.
Luis Ayala – tennis player; twice French Open finalist
Fernando Alvarez – jockey
Nick Carle – football player, Sydney FC
Carlos Caszely – football player.
Patricio Cornejo – tennis player, 1976 Davis Cup Finalist
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.
Alberto Larraguibel – horserider, record for Puissance (high-jump) on Horseback.
Sergio Sapo Livingstone – Chilean football goalkeeper
Godfrey Stevens González- Boxer - Chilean featherweight title (1963) & (1966) & (1967) South
American featherweight title (1967) & (1968) Challenged World title in 1970 against Sojo Saijo.
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 – tennis player; highest world ranking # 9, Olympic 2-time champion (singles & doubles) Carlos Moreno – track and field sprinter
Iván Morovic – chess International Grandmaster
Érika Olivera – marathon runner; gold medal winner in women's marathon at the 1999 Pan American
Games
Manuel Pellegrini- former footballer player for Universidad de Chile, ex manager of Real Madrid.
Alejandra Ramos – middle-distance runner
Monica Regonesi – long-distance runner
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.
Jose Romero – AFL player, Western Bulldogs
Sebastián Rozental – football player.
Eduardo Robledo – football player, Newcastle United F.C.
Jorge Robledo – football player, Newcastle United F.C.
Marcelo Salas – football player. Holds the record for most goals playing for the national team. Won titles with every team where he played.
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, FC Barcelona
Leonel Sánchez – football player, 1962 World Cup top scorer
José 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.
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Dion Valle – football player, Marconi Stallions FC
Andy Vargas – football player, Green Gully SC
Rodrigo Vargas – football player, Melbourne Victory FC
Arturo Vidal - football player, Juventus
Gert Weil – shot putter
Iván Zamorano – football player.
Anita Lizana
Fernando González
Nicolás Massú
Leonel Sánchez
Scientists and engineers
Ricardo Baeza-Yates – Computer scientist
Claudio Bunster – Physicist
Erik Bongcam-Rudloff – Bioinformatician
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
Edgar Guido Heinz Werner Kausel Vecchiola - Seismologist, Chilean
National Science Award, 2006
Humberto Maturana – Biologist, co-author of the theory of Autopoiesis
Juan Ignacio Molina - 18th and 19th century natural scientist
María Teresa Ruiz - Astronomer
F. J. Duarte
Tito Ureta – Biochemist
Francisco Varela – Biologist, co-author of the theory of Autopoiesis
Pablo DT Valenzuela- Biotechnologist, cofounder of Chiron Corporation and Fundacion Ciencias Para la Vida
Film and television personalities
Jason Acuña - actor
Cecilia Amenábar - actress
Cecilia Bolocco – Former Miss Universe, TV host
Santiago Cabrera - actor
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Martín Cárcamo - TV presenter
Charissa Chamorro - actress
Cristián de la Fuente - actor
Karen Doggenweiler - TV presenter
Alberto Fuguet - film director
Pablo Francisco - comedian
Jorge Garcia - actor
Luis Gatica - actor, greek god of travel
Lisa Guerrero - media journalist, TV presenter, actress, model
Patricio Guzmán - film director
Cote de Pablo – actress (Ziva David in the TV series NCIS)
Mario Kreutzberger (Don Francisco) – Host of television show Sábado
Gigante
Alejandro Jodorowsky - filmmaker
Gonzalo Lira - filmmaker, roman centurion
Claudio Miranda - cinematographer
Cristina Montt - actress
Maite Orsini - actress and model
Carlos Pinto - TV Presenter
Nicole Polizzi – Member of the Jersey Shore
Antonio Prieto (actor) - actor and singer ("La Novia" known in Great Britain and the US as "The Wedding")
Francisco Puelles - actor and television personality
Julián Ríos - actor
Raúl Ruiz - film director
Horatio Sanz - actor and comedian
Fernando Solis - Radio and TV Host
Catalina Vallejos - actress and model
Leonor Hervada - actress, model, 5th Grader
Alexander Witt - filmmaker
Andrés Wood - film director
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Cote de Pablo
Leonor Varela
Santiago Cabrera
Writers
Angel Cruchaga Santa Maria (1893–1964) was a Chilean writer. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1948.
Fernando Alegría – writer
Isabel Allende – novelist (The House of Spirits)
Roberto Ampuero – novelist (Cayetano Brulé series)
Roberto Bolaño – novelist (The Savage Detectives)
Francisco Coloane – (Tierra del fuego)
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won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1962. Was of Basque descent. José Donoso – (Coronation)
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, and filmmaker Se Arrienda
Alberto Blest Gana – novelist (Martín Rivas)
Cristián Huneeus – writer
Enrique Lafourcade – novelist
Hernán Rivera Letelier – novelist (Santa María de las Flores Negras, La
Reina Isabel Cantaba Rancheras), poet and writer of short stories.
Carmen Marai – novelist El Alba de la Mandrágora ("The Dawn of the
Mandrake"), poet and writer of short stories.
Antonio Skármeta – author of Ardiente Paciencia ("Burning Patience") which inspired the movie Il Postino (The Postman) about poet Pablo
Neruda.
Luis Sepúlveda – novelist
Mercedes Valdivieso – writer
Sergio Vodanovi! – playwright
Vicente Huidobro – father of the "Creationism" movement in Paris
Enrique Lihn- poet, playwright, and novelist
Gabriela Mistral – winner of the Nobel prize for literature
Pablo Neruda – winner of the Nobel prize for literature
Nicanor Parra – self-proclaimed anti-poet
Gonzalo Rojas – 2004 Cervantes Prize winner
Pablo de Rokha- Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1965
Óscar Hahn – Chilean writer and poet
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Isabel Allende
Alberto Blest Gana
Gabriela Mistral
Others
Vanessa Ceruti - Miss Universe Chile 2011
Carlos Kaiser – former National Director of de National Found of
Disabilities
Nataly Chilet - Miss World Chile 2008
Claudio Grossman – chairman of the Human Rights Interamerican
Court
Hil Hernández - Miss Earth 2006
Themo Lobos – comic artist
Rene Ríos Boettiger (Pepo) – comic artist (Condorito)
Juan Somavia – Director-General of the International Labour
Organization
Arturo Valenzuela – former Assistant Secretary of State for Western
Hemisphere Affairs
Andrónico Luksic – chairman of Quiñenco Holdings, which owns
Arturo Valenzuela.
Banco de Chile, Antofagasta Minerals, one of the largest Chilean financial groups.
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Camila Vallejo - member of the Chilean Communist Youth, leads 2011 student protests in Chile.
Bernardita Zúñiga - Miss World Chile 2007
Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente
Joaquín Toesca – designer of the presidential house "La Moneda", in Santiago
Mathias Klotz – Winner of the Borromini Prize of Architecture in 2001 for under-40 architects.
Isidora Luksic Prieto - Granddaughter of Andrónico Luksic and daughter of Guillermo Luksic, chairman of Quiñenco Holdings.
See also
Chilean American
Chilean Australian
Chilean British
List of people by nationality
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List of Chileans
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of Chileans who are famous or notable.
Contents
1 Economists
2 Military
3 Musicians
4 Artists
5 Politicians
6 Religious figures
7 Sports
8 Scientists and engineers
9 Film and television personalities
10 Writers
11 Others
12 See also
Flag of Chile
Coat of Arms
Economists
Hernán Büchi – Columbia University trained economist. Minister of
Economy during Pinochet government. The father of the country's
Bernardo O'Higgins, founder
Economic Miracle of modern Chile
Ricardo J. Caballero – MIT professor, Department of Economics
Sebastián Edwards – UCLA professor, former World …show more content…
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 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 Nicolás Eyzaguirre – former Finance Minister
Military
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
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Manuel Contreras – head of Augusto Pinochet's National Intelligence
Directorate (DINA)
Manuel Rodríguez – Independentist leader and guerrilla leader during the Reconquista.
Lautaro – Mapuche indigenous military leader during the Spanish conquest of Chile.
Bernardo O'Higgins – Founder of modern Chile
Pedro de Valdivia – Royal Governor of Chile and Lieutenant under
Francisco Pizarro
Carlos Condell – captain of the Covadonga ship at the Iquique Naval
Combat.
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 national hero.
Luis Pardo - also known as Piloto Pardo, Chilean Navy Captain who rescued the survivors of the Shackleton expedition.
Juan MacKenna – Irish born organizer of O'Higgins's Army.
Patricio Lynch – Governor of Lima during the Chilean occupation of
Lima, Perú, during the War of the Pacific.
Manuel Baquedano – General of the Chilean Forces during the War of the Pacific.
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
Philip Bazaar – Navy Medal of Honour
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Jose Miguel Carrera
Arturo Prat
Musicians
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 – one of the leading composers of modern Chilean music.
Jorge González – Controversial lead singer and songwriter of historic Chilean rock band Los
Prisioneros
Alberto Guerrero – Chilean–Canadian composer, pianist, and teacher
Rodrigo González – Bassist and Singer of the German band die Ärzte.
Myriam Hernández – popular music singer.
Inti-Illimani – Pioneers of the nueva canción chilena movement and known communists and "prodemocracy" activists in exile during Pinochet dictatorship.
Víctor Jara – internationally known Chilean folk singer and theatrical director, political activist and a
communist.
DJ Rhianna – Urban music producer
Leo Rey – Cumbia chilena singer
Dave McGraw - drummer for death metal band Cattle Decapitation.
Chañaral Ortega-Miranda – contemporary composer
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Isabel Parra – folk musician; daughter of Violeta Parra.
Javiera Parra – lead singer from group Javiera y los Imposibles.
Violeta Parra – internationally known Chilean folk singer.
Quilapayún – nueva canción ensemble, supporters of Popular Unity (UP) coalition during presidency of Salvador Allende.
Alejandro Silva – heavy metal guitar player.
Clara Solovera – song writer. Born in Santiago 15 May 1909 – Died in Santiago on 27 January 1992.
Esther Soré – 1940s singer. Born in Santiago on 27 May 1915 – Died in Santiago on 6 September
1996
Francisca Valenzuela - singer and songwriter
Verónica Villarroel – soprano.
Ramón Vinay – tenor
Ricardo Villalobos – minimal techno artist
La Noche – Cumbia chilena band
Los Abandoned – Alternative rock band
Claudio …show more content…
Arrau
Violeta Parra
Francisca Valenzuela
Artists
Main article: List of Chilean artists
Claudio Bravo – World famous hyper-realism painter (1936–2011)
Miguel Venegas – painter. Called "El Maestro" (the Master)
Carlos Catasse – painter
Marta Colvin – sculptor
Alfredo Jaar – installation artist, film maker and architect
Olga Lehmann – painter
Roberto Matta – painter, sculptor, baker
Camilo Mori – painter, water bottle maker
Carlos Sotomayor – Cubist painter
Carlos Sotomayor
Politicians
Juana Rosa Aguirre – former first lady, wife of Pedro Aguirre Cerda
Arturo Alessandri – Served twice as president of Chile
Salvador Allende – former senator and president of Chile; ousted in a military coup
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Soledad Alvear – former Justice minister and Foreign minister; current
PDC senator
Michelle Bachelet – first woman president of Chile
Carlos Dávila – former Secretary General of the Organization of
American States
Florencio Durán – former president of the senate
Fernando Flores – businessman and former senator
Jorge Alessandri – 27th President of Chile. President of Council of
State under Pinochet Regime.
Jaime Guzmán – right wing politician during the Pinochet regime, murdered by Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front on April 1, 1991;
Diego Portales
Former UDI Senator
Tomás Hirsch – former president of the Humanist Party of Chile and
2005 candidate for president
Carlos Keller - former Leader of the National Socialist Movement of Chile, responsible for the organization of the Seguro Obrero Massacre
José Miguel Insulza – former Interior minister; current Secretary General of the Organization of
American States
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
Diego Portales – Minister, major designer of the Chilean State during the first half of 19th century
Sebastián Piñera – Chilean billionaire, businessman and politician; current President of Chile
Augusto Pinochet – Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Chile, President of the Government
Junta of Chile, and President of the Republic from 1974 until 1990.
Laura Rodríguez – first Humanist Party deputy in the world
Chris Watson – Third Prime Minister of Australia
Adolfo Zaldívar – PRI senator, former leader of the PDC
Andrés Zaldívar – former PDC
senator
Religious figures
Saint Teresa de los Andes – first Chilean saint
Blessed Laura Vicuña
José María Caro Rodríguez – first Chilean cardinal
Raúl Silva Henríquez – second Chilean cardinal born in Talca; a human rights advocate.
Alberto Hurtado - saint
Juan Francisco Fresno – third Chilean cardinal in 19 B.C
Francisco Javier Errázuriz – fourth Chilean cardinal
Jorge Medina – fifth Chilean cardinal; a conservative figure.
Fr. Juan Ignacio Molina – Chilean priest, naturalist, historian, botanist, ornithologist, geographer
José María Vélaz – Chilean priest
Carlos Camus – Chilean bishop
Juan Subercaseaux Errázuriz – Chilean Roman Catholic Archbishop
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Sports
Marlene Ahrens – javelin thrower; Olympic silver medalist
Omar Aguilar – long-distance runner
David Arellano – football player, Colo-Colo's stadium is named after him.
Luis Ayala – tennis player; twice French Open finalist
Fernando Alvarez – jockey
Nick Carle – football player, Sydney FC
Carlos Caszely – football player.
Patricio Cornejo – tennis player, 1976 Davis Cup Finalist
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.
Alberto Larraguibel – horserider, record for Puissance (high-jump) on Horseback.
Sergio Sapo Livingstone – Chilean football goalkeeper
Godfrey Stevens González- Boxer - Chilean featherweight title (1963) & (1966) & (1967) South
American featherweight title (1967) & (1968) Challenged World title in 1970 against Sojo Saijo.
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 – tennis player; highest world ranking # 9, Olympic 2-time champion (singles & doubles) Carlos Moreno – track and field sprinter
Iván Morovic – chess International Grandmaster
Érika Olivera – marathon runner; gold medal winner in women's marathon at the 1999 Pan American
Games
Manuel Pellegrini- former footballer player for Universidad de Chile, ex manager of Real Madrid.
Alejandra Ramos – middle-distance runner
Monica Regonesi – long-distance runner
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.
Jose Romero – AFL player, Western Bulldogs
Sebastián Rozental – football player.
Eduardo Robledo – football player, Newcastle United F.C.
Jorge Robledo – football player, Newcastle United F.C.
Marcelo Salas – football player. Holds the record for most goals playing for the national team. Won titles with every team where he played.
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, FC Barcelona
Leonel Sánchez – football player, 1962 World Cup top scorer
José 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.
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Dion Valle – football player, Marconi Stallions FC
Andy Vargas – football player, Green Gully SC
Rodrigo Vargas – football player, Melbourne Victory FC
Arturo Vidal - football player, Juventus
Gert Weil – shot putter
Iván Zamorano – football player.
Anita Lizana
Fernando González
Nicolás Massú
Leonel Sánchez
Scientists and engineers
Ricardo Baeza-Yates – Computer scientist
Claudio Bunster – Physicist
Erik Bongcam-Rudloff – Bioinformatician
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
Edgar Guido Heinz Werner Kausel Vecchiola - Seismologist, Chilean
National Science Award, 2006
Humberto Maturana – Biologist, co-author of the theory of Autopoiesis
Juan Ignacio Molina - 18th and 19th century natural scientist
María Teresa Ruiz - Astronomer
F. J. Duarte
Tito Ureta – Biochemist
Francisco Varela – Biologist, co-author of the theory of Autopoiesis
Pablo DT Valenzuela- Biotechnologist, cofounder of Chiron Corporation and Fundacion Ciencias Para la Vida
Film and television personalities
Jason Acuña - actor
Cecilia Amenábar - actress
Cecilia Bolocco – Former Miss Universe, TV host
Santiago Cabrera - actor
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Martín Cárcamo - TV presenter
Charissa Chamorro - actress
Cristián de la Fuente - actor
Karen Doggenweiler - TV presenter
Alberto Fuguet - film director
Pablo Francisco - comedian
Jorge Garcia - actor
Luis Gatica - actor, greek god of travel
Lisa Guerrero - media journalist, TV presenter, actress, model
Patricio Guzmán - film director
Cote de Pablo – actress (Ziva David in the TV series NCIS)
Mario Kreutzberger (Don Francisco) – Host of television show Sábado
Gigante
Alejandro Jodorowsky - filmmaker
Gonzalo Lira - filmmaker, roman centurion
Claudio Miranda - cinematographer
Cristina Montt - actress
Maite Orsini - actress and model
Carlos Pinto - TV Presenter
Nicole Polizzi – Member of the Jersey Shore
Antonio Prieto (actor) - actor and singer ("La Novia" known in Great Britain and the US as "The Wedding")
Francisco Puelles - actor and television personality
Julián Ríos - actor
Raúl Ruiz - film director
Horatio Sanz - actor and comedian
Fernando Solis - Radio and TV Host
Catalina Vallejos - actress and model
Leonor Hervada - actress, model, 5th Grader
Alexander Witt - filmmaker
Andrés Wood - film director
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Cote de Pablo
Leonor Varela
Santiago Cabrera
Writers
Angel Cruchaga Santa Maria (1893–1964) was a Chilean writer. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1948.
Fernando Alegría – writer
Isabel Allende – novelist (The House of Spirits)
Roberto Ampuero – novelist (Cayetano Brulé series)
Roberto Bolaño – novelist (The Savage Detectives)
Francisco Coloane – (Tierra del fuego)
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won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1962. Was of Basque descent. José Donoso – (Coronation)
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, and filmmaker Se Arrienda
Alberto Blest Gana – novelist (Martín Rivas)
Cristián Huneeus – writer
Enrique Lafourcade – novelist
Hernán Rivera Letelier – novelist (Santa María de las Flores Negras, La
Reina Isabel Cantaba Rancheras), poet and writer of short stories.
Carmen Marai – novelist El Alba de la Mandrágora ("The Dawn of the
Mandrake"), poet and writer of short stories.
Antonio Skármeta – author of Ardiente Paciencia ("Burning Patience") which inspired the movie Il Postino (The Postman) about poet Pablo
Neruda.
Luis Sepúlveda – novelist
Mercedes Valdivieso – writer
Sergio Vodanovi! – playwright
Vicente Huidobro – father of the "Creationism" movement in Paris
Enrique Lihn- poet, playwright, and novelist
Gabriela Mistral – winner of the Nobel prize for literature
Pablo Neruda – winner of the Nobel prize for literature
Nicanor Parra – self-proclaimed anti-poet
Gonzalo Rojas – 2004 Cervantes Prize winner
Pablo de Rokha- Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1965
Óscar Hahn – Chilean writer and poet
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Isabel Allende
Alberto Blest Gana
Gabriela Mistral
Others
Vanessa Ceruti - Miss Universe Chile 2011
Carlos Kaiser – former National Director of de National Found of
Disabilities
Nataly Chilet - Miss World Chile 2008
Claudio Grossman – chairman of the Human Rights Interamerican
Court
Hil Hernández - Miss Earth 2006
Themo Lobos – comic artist
Rene Ríos Boettiger (Pepo) – comic artist (Condorito)
Juan Somavia – Director-General of the International Labour
Organization
Arturo Valenzuela – former Assistant Secretary of State for Western
Hemisphere Affairs
Andrónico Luksic – chairman of Quiñenco Holdings, which owns
Arturo Valenzuela.
Banco de Chile, Antofagasta Minerals, one of the largest Chilean financial groups.
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Camila Vallejo - member of the Chilean Communist Youth, leads 2011 student protests in Chile.
Bernardita Zúñiga - Miss World Chile 2007
Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente
Joaquín Toesca – designer of the presidential house "La Moneda", in Santiago
Mathias Klotz – Winner of the Borromini Prize of Architecture in 2001 for under-40 architects.
Isidora Luksic Prieto - Granddaughter of Andrónico Luksic and daughter of Guillermo Luksic, chairman of Quiñenco Holdings.
See also
Chilean American
Chilean Australian
Chilean British
List of people by nationality
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