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This is a list of
Chileans who are famous or notable.
Bernardo O'Higgins , founder of modern Chile
Jose Miguel Carrera
Los Abandoned –
alternative rock band
Américo –
cumbia chilena singer
Tom Araya – singer/bassist for
thrash metal band
Slayer
Daniela Aleuy - singer and songwriter
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
Carlos Sotomayor
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
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
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
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
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
Saint
Alberto Hurtado
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
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
F. J. Duarte
Film and television personalities
Lorenzo Aillapán – poet
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
Nicolasa Montt – poet
Tomás Moulian – political scientist and sociologist
Pablo Neruda
[4] – 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
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
Sergio Catalán – first to discover crash survivors of
Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 , and integral to rescuing all 16 remaining survivors
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^ 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 (...)
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"American Dreamers: Maria Jose Ubiergo" . The New York Times . 12 June 2017.
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"Sergio Catalán, the Chilean muleteer who came to the rescue of the Andes tragedy survivors" . El País . 31 January 2024.