List of Chileans

{{Short description|none}} This is a '''list of Chileans''' who are famous or notable. {{multiple image|align=right | image1 = Flag of Chile.svg | width1 = 120 | image2 = Coat of arms of Chile.svg |width2 = 110 | caption1 = Flag of Chile | caption2 = Coat of Arms }} [[File:Ohiggins.jpg|thumb|upright|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 * 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 * Karen Soto – Lab Technician, Department of Histology, Currently in Australia

==Military== [[File:Jose Miguel Carrera Color.JPG|thumb|upright|Jose Miguel Carrera]] * 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

==Musicians==  {{colbegin|colwidth=33em}} * Los Abandoned – alternative rock band * Altazores – rock band founded in 2004 by Mauricio Herrera * Américo – cumbia chilena singer * Tom Araya – singer/bassist for thrash metal band Slayer * Daniela Aleuy - singer and songwriter * Claudio Arrau – classical piano player * FloyyMenor – reggaeton singer * Cris MJ – reggaeton singer * Paloma Mami – reggaeton singer * Germán Casas – 1960s singer * Beto Cuevas – lead singer from rock group La Ley * Alvaro Estrella – pop singer * 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 * Luis "Checho" González – folklore composer, born in Iquique * 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 * Isleña Antumalen – Huilliche singer, rapper, and activist * 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 * Oscar Lopez – senior latin guitarists musician, born in Santiago * Rafael Manríquez – nueva canción musician * Javiera Mena – Indie electropop musician * DJ Méndez – urban music producer * Mon Laferte – singer-songwriter * El Monteaguilino – Cueca composer, born in Monte Águila * 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 {{colend}} <gallery mode="packed" heights="175"> File:Claudio Arrau 1 Allan Warren.jpg|Claudio Arrau File:Parra01f.PNG|Violeta Parra File:Concierto_de_Myriam_Hernández_en_Piñas.jpg|Myriam Hernández File:Francisca Valenzuela.jpg|Francisca Valenzuela File:Mon_Laferte_en_Querétaro_(28348181570).jpg|Mon Laferte </gallery>

==Artists==  {{main|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 * Dora Puelma – artist * Carlos Sotomayor – cubist painter * Miguel Venegas – painter, called "El Maestro" (the Master)

* 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 {{Interlanguage link|Department of Tomé|es|Departamento de 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== [[File:Padre Hurtado junto a jóvenes católicos (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright| 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 * Francisco Javier Quintanilla – theologian * Juan Subercaseaux Errázuriz – Chilean Roman Catholic Archbishop * José María Vélaz – Chilean priest * Blessed Laura Vicuña {{clear}}

==Sports==  {{colbegin|colwidth=33em}} * 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 * 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 * Bayron Saavedra (born 1997) – footballer * 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, Sevilla * 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 * Stephanie Vaquer - professional wrestler; first Chilean and South American woman to win WWE Women's Championship * Arturo Vidal – football player, Colo-Colo * Gert Weil – shot putter * Iván Zamorano – football player {{colend}} <gallery mode="packed" heights="175"> File:Anita Lizana.jpg|Anita Lizana File:Fernando Gonzalez 2007 Australian Open R2.jpg|Fernando González File:Nicolas Massu 2007 Australian Open R1.jpg|Nicolás Massú File:Leonel Sanchez.JPG|Leonel Sánchez File:Alexis Sánchez 2011.jpg|Alexis Sánchez File:Stephanie Vaquer, April 2024 2.jpg|Stephanie Vaquer </gallery>

==Scientists and engineers== [[File:FJ DUARTE (2006).jpg|thumb|upright=.6|F. J. Duarte]]  * Ricardo Baeza Rodríguez – mathematician * Ricardo Baeza-Yates – computer scientist * Isabel Behncke - primatologist * 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

==Film and television personalities== {{See also|List of Chilean actors}}  {{colbegin|colwidth=33em}} * Alejandro Amenábar - film director, screenwriter and composer * Cecilia Amenábar - actress, TV presenter and model * Cecilia Bolocco - TV presenter, journalist and former Miss Universe * Diana Bolocco - TV presenter and journalist * Gabriela Bussenius - journalist, writer and filmmaker * Santiago Cabrera - actor * Felipe Camiroaga - TV presenter * Charissa Chamorro - actress * Martín Cárcamo - TV presenter * Karen Doggenweiler - TV presenter * Julián Elfenbein - radio and TV presenter * Pablo Francisco - comedian, actor and writer * Cristián de la Fuente - actor and model * Alberto Fuguet - film director, author, journalist and film critic * Jorge Garcia - actor and comedian * Paulina García - actress * Luis Gatica - actor * Claudia di Girolamo - actress * Luis Gnecco - actor * Magdalena Grant - TV presenter and sports journalist * Lisa Guerrero - journalist, TV presenter, actress and model * Patricio Guzmán - film director * Alejandro Jodorowsky - filmmaker * Mario Kreutzberger (Don Francisco) – TV presenter * Pablo Larraín - film director * Sebastián Lelio - film director and screenwriter * Ariel Levy - actor * Carolina Mestrovic - TV presenter and actress * Claudio Miranda - cinematographer * Cristina Montt - actress * Cote de Pablo - actress * Pedro Pascal - actor * Carlos Pinto - TV presenter and journalist * Nicole Polizzi – reality TV Personality * Antonio Prieto - actor and singer * Francisco Puelles - actor and TV personality * Francisco Reyes Morandé - actor * Raúl Ruiz<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rosenbaum |first1=Jonathan |title=Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons |date=2004 |publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press |location=Baltimore and London |isbn=0-8018-7840-3 |pages=419–421}}</ref> - film director * Katherine Salosny - TV presenter and actress * Horatio Sanz - actor and comedian * Fernando Solis - radio and TV presenter * Tonka Tomicic - TV presenter and model * Catalina Vallejos - actress and model * Leonor Varela - actress and model * Daniela Vega - actress * Gabriela Velasco – actress and television presenter * Benjamín Vicuña - actor * Alexander Witt - filmmaker * Andrés Wood - film director and screenwriter {{colend}} <gallery mode="packed" heights="175"> File:Cecilia Bolocco (2)-2.jpg|Cecilia Bolocco File:Santiago Cabrera by Gage Skidmore 2.jpg|Santiago Cabrera File:Cote de Pablo retouch.jpg|Cote de Pablo File:Pedro Pascal by Gage Skidmore.jpg|Pedro Pascal File:Leonor Varela(2).jpg|Leonor Varela </gallery>

==Writers== {{multiple image | align = right | direction = vertical | width = 140 | image1 = | alt1 = | caption1 = Isabel Allende | image2 = Alberto Blest Gana.jpeg | alt2 = | caption2 = Alberto Blest Gana | image3 = Gabriela Mistral 1945.jpg | alt3 = | caption3 = Gabriela Mistral | image4 = JSR_039_(2).jpg | alt4 = | caption4 = Jorge Salgado-Reyes }} {{see also|List of Chilean women writers}}  * Lorenzo Aillapán – poet * Fernando Alegría – writer * Isabel Allende – novelist (''The House of Spirits'') * Roberto Ampuero – novelist (''Cayetano Brulé'' series) * Roberto Bolaño<ref>{{cite news |title=The 21st Century's 12 Greatest Novels |url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20150119-the-21st-centurys-12-best-novels |access-date=31 March 2021 |publisher=BBC |date=19 January 2015}}</ref> – 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 * Ariel Florencia Richards (1981—) – writer and researcher of the visual arts * 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<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bloom |first1=Harold |title=The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages |date=1994 |publisher=Harcourt Brace & Company |location=NY/San Diego/London |isbn=978-1-57322-514-4 |page=560}}</ref> – 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 in Literature * Nicolasa Montt – poet * Tomás Moulian – political scientist and sociologist * Pablo Neruda<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bloom |first1=Harold |title=The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages |date=1994 |publisher=Harcourt Brace & Company |location=NY/San Diego/London |isbn=978-1-57322-514-4 |pages=463–492 |chapter=Borges, Neruda, and Pessoa: Hispanic-Portuguese Whitman}}</ref> – winner of the Nobel Prize in 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<ref>{{cite book|access-date=2021-03-21|last=Aldunate Phillips|date=1970|first=Raúl|language=es|publisher=Escuela Lito-tipográfica La Gratitud Nacional|quote=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 (...)|title=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|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ywhJAQAAIAAJ&q=aldunate}}</ref> * Cecilia Magni Camino – guerilla leader and sociologist<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-02-28 |title=Recuerdan la vida de Cecilia Magni, la "Comandante Tamara" |trans-title=Remembering the life of Cecilia Magni, "Commander Tamara" |url=https://www.elciudadano.com/actualidad/recuerdan-la-vida-de-cecilia-magni-la-comandante-tamara/02/28/ |website=El Ciudano}}</ref> * Vanessa Ceruti – Miss Universe Chile 2011{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}} * Nataly Chilet – Miss World Chile 2008{{Citation needed|date=November 2020}} * Claudio Grossman – chairman of the Human Rights Interamerican Court * Hil Hernández – Miss Earth 2006 * Immanuel Holger – soldier and politician * Carolina Huidobro – teacher and suffragist * 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 <ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/storywall/american-dreamers/stories/maria-jose-ubiergo | title=American Dreamers: Maria Jose Ubiergo | newspaper=The New York Times | date=12 June 2017 }}</ref> 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<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://english.elpais.com/international/2024-01-31/sergio-catalan-the-chilean-muleteer-who-came-to-the-rescue-of-the-andes-tragedy-survivors.html | title=Sergio Catalán, the Chilean muleteer who came to the rescue of the Andes tragedy survivors | newspaper=El País | date=31 January 2024 }}</ref>

==See also== * Chilean American * Chilean Australian * Chilean British * List of people by nationality {{Subject bar|portal1=Chile|portal2=Biography|portal3=Latin America|portal4=Lists}}

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