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	{{see also\|List of Chilean women artists}}		{{see also\|List of Chilean women artists}}
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	==Religious figures==		==Religious figures==
	[[File:~~Padre_Hurtado_junto_a_jóvenes_católicos_~~(cropped).jpg\|thumb\|upright\| Saint [[Alberto Hurtado]]]]		[[File:Padre Hurtado junto a jóvenes católicos (cropped).jpg\|thumb\|upright\| Saint [[Alberto Hurtado]]]]
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	* [[Rodolfo Acevedo]] – Mormon bishop		* [[Rodolfo Acevedo]] – Mormon bishop

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	* [[José Piñera]] – implemented the privatization of the [[Chile pension system\|Chilean pension system]] under Pinochet		* [[José Piñera]] – implemented the privatization of the [[Chile pension system\|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		* [[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==		==Military==
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	* [[Germán Casas]] – 1960s singer		* [[Germán Casas]] – 1960s singer
	* [[Beto Cuevas]] – lead singer from [[rock band\|rock]] group [[La Ley (band)\|La Ley]]		* [[Beto Cuevas]] – lead singer from [[rock band\|rock]] group [[La Ley (band)\|La Ley]]
			* [[Alvaro Estrella]] – pop singer
	* [[Lucho Gatica\|Luis 'Lucho' Gatica]] – [[bolero]] singer		* [[Lucho Gatica\|Luis 'Lucho' Gatica]] – [[bolero]] singer
	* [[Eduardo Gatti]] – a leading composer of [[Music of Chile\|modern Chilean music]]		* [[Eduardo Gatti]] – a leading composer of [[Music of Chile\|modern Chilean music]]
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	* [[Marcelo Salas]] – football player; holds the record for most goals playing for the national team; won titles with every team he played with		* [[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]]		* [[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~~]]		* [[Alexis Sánchez]] – football player, [[Sevilla FC\|Sevilla]]
	* [[Leonel Sánchez]] – football player, [[1962 World Cup]] top scorer		* [[Leonel Sánchez]] – football player, [[1962 World Cup]] top scorer
	* [[José A. Santos]] – jockey, winner of US [[Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing\|Triple Crown]]		* [[José A. Santos]] – jockey, winner of US [[Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing\|Triple Crown]]
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	* [[Dion Valle]] – football player, [[Marconi Stallions FC]]		* [[Dion Valle]] – football player, [[Marconi Stallions FC]]
	* [[Rodrigo Vargas (soccer, born 1978)\|Rodrigo Vargas]] – football player, [[Melbourne Victory FC]]		* [[Rodrigo Vargas (soccer, born 1978)\|Rodrigo Vargas]] – football player, [[Melbourne Victory FC]]
	* [[Arturo Vidal]] – football player, [[~~FC Barcelona~~]]		* [[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		* [[Gert Weil]] – shot putter
	* [[Iván Zamorano]] – football player		* [[Iván Zamorano]] – football player
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	File:Leonel Sanchez.JPG\|[[Leonel Sánchez]]		File:Leonel Sanchez.JPG\|[[Leonel Sánchez]]
	File:Alexis Sánchez 2011.jpg\|[[Alexis Sánchez]]		File:Alexis Sánchez 2011.jpg\|[[Alexis Sánchez]]
			File:Stephanie Vaquer 42025 (cropped).jpg\|[[Stephanie Vaquer]]
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	* [[Claudio Grossman]] – chairman of the Human Rights Interamerican Court		* [[Claudio Grossman]] – chairman of the Human Rights Interamerican Court
	* [[Hil Hernández]] – [[Miss Earth]] 2006		* [[Hil Hernández]] – [[Miss Earth]] 2006
	* [[Immanuel Holger]] – soldier and politician		* [[Immanuel Holger]] – soldier and politician
			* [[Carolina Huidobro]] – teacher and suffragist
	* [[Carlos Kaiser (activist)\|Carlos Kaiser]] – former National Director of the National Fund for Disabilities		* [[Carlos Kaiser (activist)\|Carlos Kaiser]] – former National Director of the National Fund for Disabilities
	* [[Themo Lobos]] – comic artist		* [[Themo Lobos]] – comic artist

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This is a '''list of [[Chile]]ans''' who are famous or notable.
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[[File:Ohiggins.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Bernardo O'Higgins]], founder of modern Chile]]

==Economists==

* [[Ricardo J. Caballero]] – [[MIT]] professor, Department of Economics
* [[Sebastian Edwards|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 [[Southern University of Chile|Universidad Austral]]
* [[José Piñera]] – implemented the privatization of the [[Chile pension system|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==
[[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 (naval)|captain]] in charge of the Chilean patrol who died in [[Battle of La Concepción]]
* [[Carlos Condell]] – [[Captain (naval)|captain]] of the ''Covadonga'' ship at the [[Iquique Naval Combat]]
* [[Manuel Contreras]] – head of Augusto Pinochet's National Intelligence Directorate ([[Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional|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 [[Bernardo O'Higgins|O'Higgins]]'s Army
* [[Bernardo O'Higgins]] – founder of modern Chile
* [[Arturo Prat]] – [[Captain (naval)|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 [[Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition|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 Erdoiza|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==

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* [[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]] – [[European classical music|classical]] [[piano]] player
* [[FloyyMenor]] – reggaeton singer
* [[Cris MJ]] – reggaeton singer
* [[Paloma Mami]] – reggaeton singer
* [[Germán Casas]] – 1960s singer
* [[Beto Cuevas]] – lead singer from [[rock band|rock]] group [[La Ley (band)|La Ley]]
* [[Lucho Gatica|Luis 'Lucho' Gatica]] – [[bolero]] singer
* [[Eduardo Gatti]] – a leading composer of [[Music of Chile|modern Chilean music]]
* [[Jorge González (musician)|Jorge González]] – controversial lead singer and songwriter of historic Chilean rock band [[Los Prisioneros]]
* [[Luis "Checho" González]] – folklore composer, born in [[Iquique]]
* [[Rod Gonzalez|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]] – [[Music of Chile|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 (band)|Eleven]]
* [[Oscar Lopez (guitarist)| 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 (singer-songwriter)|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]] – [[Music of Chile|Chilean folk]] singer
* [[Antonio Prieto (Chilean actor)|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 (musician)|Alejandro Silva]] – [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] guitar player
* [[Saiko (band)|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 ([[Music of Chile|Chilean folk]]), born in [[Valparaíso]]
* [[Francisca Valenzuela]] – singer-songwriter
* [[Ricardo Villalobos]] – [[minimal techno]] artist
* [[Verónica Villarroel]] – [[soprano]]
* [[Ramón Vinay]] – tenor
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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]]
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==Artists==
[[File:CSR2.png|thumb|upright=0.7|[[Carlos Sotomayor]]]]
{{main|List of Chilean artists}}
{{see also|List of Chilean women artists}}

* [[Claudio Bravo (painter)|Claudio Bravo]] (1936–2011) – [[hyper-realism|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]] – [[Cubism|cubist]] painter
* [[Miguel Venegas]] – painter, called "El Maestro" (the Master)

==Politicians==
[[File:Portales.JPG|thumb|upright|[[Diego Portales]]]]
[[File:Anibal Pinto G..jpg|thumb|upright|[[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 {{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|Secretary General]] of the [[Organization of American States]]
* [[José Antonio Kast]] — president of the [[Republican Party (Chile)|Republican Party]], former deputy and councilman, presidential candidate in [[2017 Chilean general election|2017]] and in [[2021 Chilean general election|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]] – [[Communism|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 [[2009–10 Chilean presidential election|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 (1973)|Government Junta of Chile]], dictator from 1973 until 1990 and [[President of Chile|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]] – [[Partido Regionalista de los Independientes|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
* [[Juana Fernández del Solar|Saint Teresa de los Andes]] – first Chilean saint
* [[Carlos Camus]] – Chilean bishop
* [[Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa|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 (cardinal)|Jorge Medina]] – fifth Chilean cardinal; conservative figure
* [[Juan Ignacio Molina|Fr. Juan Ignacio Molina]] – Chilean priest, naturalist, historian, botanist, ornithologist, geographer
* [[José María Caro Rodríguez]] – first Chilean cardinal
* [[Francisco Javier Quintanilla]] – theologian
* [[Juan Subercaseaux|Juan Subercaseaux Errázuriz]] – Chilean Roman Catholic Archbishop
* [[José María Vélaz]] – Chilean priest
* Blessed [[Laura Vicuña]]
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==Sports==

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* [[Omar Aguilar]] – long-distance runner
* [[Marlene Ahrens]] – [[javelin throw]]er; Olympic silver medalist
* [[Fernando Alvarez (jockey)|Fernando Alvarez]] – jockey
* [[David Arellano]] – [[football (soccer)|football]] player; namesake of [[Colo-Colo]]'s stadium
* [[Luis Ayala (tennis)|Luis Ayala]] – [[tennis]] player; twice [[French Open]] finalist
* [[Gonzalo Barrios (eSports player)|Gonzalo Barrios]] – eSports player
* [[Claudio Bravo]] – [[football (soccer)|football]] player, [[FC Barcelona]]
* [[Ben Brereton Díaz|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)|Tomás González]] – gymnast, Olympic finalist
* [[Juan Halty]] – former professional footballer
* [[Kai Horwitz]] (born 1998) – Olympic alpine skier
* [[Luis Jiménez (footballer, born 1987)|Luis Jiménez]] (born 1987) – footballer
* [[Benjamín Kuscevic]] – football player
* [[Alberto Larraguibel]] – horse rider, record for [[puissance]] (high jump) on horseback
* [[Sergio Livingstone|Sergio ''Sapo'' Livingstone]] – Chilean football [[Goalkeeper (association football)|goalkeeper]]
* [[Anita Lizana]] – tennis player; 1937 [[US Open (tennis)|US Open]] champion; first Latin American, and first [[Hispanic]] person, to be ranked [[World number one women tennis players|World Number 1 in tennis]]
* [[Nicolás Massú]] (born 1979) – tennis player; highest world ranking #9, Olympic 2-time champion (singles and doubles)
* [[Carlos Moreno (athlete)|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 (sport)|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 (runner)|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
* [[Ted Robledo|Eduardo Robledo]] – football player, [[Newcastle United F.C.]]
* [[George Robledo|Jorge Robledo]] – player, Newcastle United F.C.
* [[Jose Romero (Australian rules footballer)|Jose Romero]] – [[Australian rules football|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, [[Inter Milan]]
* [[Leonel Sánchez]] – football player, [[1962 World Cup]] top scorer
* [[José A. Santos]] – jockey, winner of US [[Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing|Triple Crown]]
* [[Alejandro Silva (athlete)|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 (soccer, born 1978)|Rodrigo Vargas]] – football player, [[Melbourne Victory FC]]
* [[Arturo Vidal]] – football player, [[FC Barcelona]]
* [[Gert Weil]] – shot putter
* [[Iván Zamorano]] – football player
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<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]]
</gallery>

==Scientists and engineers==
[[File:FJ DUARTE (2006).jpg|thumb|upright=.6|[[F. J. Duarte]]]]

* [[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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==Film and television personalities==
{{See also|List of Chilean actors}}

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* [[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
* [[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)|Ariel Levy]] - actor
* [[Carolina Mestrovic]] - TV presenter and actress
* [[Claudio Miranda]] - cinematographer
* [[Cristina Montt]] - actress
* [[Cote de Pablo]] - actress
* [[Pedro Pascal]] - actor
* [[Carlos Pinto (journalist)|Carlos Pinto]] - TV presenter and journalist
* [[Nicole Polizzi]] – reality TV Personality
* [[Antonio Prieto (Chilean actor)|Antonio Prieto]] - actor and singer
* [[Chapu (entertainer)|Francisco Puelles]] - actor and TV personality
* [[Francisco Reyes Morandé]] - actor
* [[Raúl Ruiz (director)|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 Solís (journalist)|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
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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]]
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==Writers==
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{{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 (play)|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 (novel)|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|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 Architecture Prize|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
* [[Carlos Kaiser (activist)|Carlos Kaiser]] – former National Director of the National Fund for Disabilities
* [[Themo Lobos]] – comic artist
* [[Andrónico Luksic Craig|Andrónico Luksic]] – chairman of Quiñenco Holdings, which owns Banco de Chile, Antofagasta Minerals, one of the largest Chilean financial groups
* [[Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer|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]]
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