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This is a list of famous or notable Chileans:
Economists
- Hernán Büchi - Columbia University trained economist. Minister of Economy during
Pinochet government. The father of the country's economic miracle.
- 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
- Sebastián Edwards
- UCLA professor, former World Bank
officer (1993-1996), prolific author and media
personality
- Eduardo Aninat - finance
minister during Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle presidential
period. Former Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (1999-2003).
Filmmakers
- Alejandro Amenábar - Chilean/Spanish director (Snuff, Open Your Eyes, The Others)
- Silvio Caiozzi -
(Julio Begins in
July, The Moon in the Mirror, Coronation)
- Patricio Guzmán -
Documentarian (The
Battle of Chile)
- Ricardo Larraín -
(The Frontier, Enthusiasm)
- Miguel Littin -
(Jackal of
Nahueltoro, Sandino, Tierra del Fuego)
- Alejandro Jodorowsky - Director (The Holy Mountain,
El Topo, Santa Sangre), actor, and
writer
- Raúl (Raoul) Ruiz - (White Dove, Genealogies of a
Crime, Time
Regained) Resides in France
- Andrés Wood - (Machuca)
Heads of State
- See also: List of Presidents of
Chile.
Military
Musicians
Performers
Plastic Artists
- Roberto Matta - Painter,
sculptor
- Claudio Bravo -
Hyper-realism painter
Poets
Politicians
- Joaquín Lavín - Current mayor of Santiago, former presidential
candidate and likely 2005 right-wing presidential candidate
- Orlando Letelier - Foreign minister during Salvador Allende's government murdered by the Pinochet regime in New
York.
Religious figures
- Father Alberto
Hurtado
- Saint
Teresa of the Andes
- Laura Vicuña
Sports
Scientists
Television Personalities
Writers
- Isabel Allende - Novelist (The House of
Spirits)
- Roberto Ampuero -
Novelist (Cayetano
Brulé series)
- Roberto Bolaño - Novelist (The Wild
Detectives)
- Francisco Coloane -
(Tierra del fuego)
- José Donoso -
(Coronation)
- Ariel Dorfman - Novelist, playwright (Death and the Maiden), essayist, journalist and human rights
activist
- Jorge Edwards - 1999 Cervantes Prize winner
- Antonio Skármeta -
Author of Ardiente
Paciencia which inspired the movie Il Postino (The
Postman) about poet Pablo Neruda
Other
See also
| History of
Chile |
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| Colonial Age |
| Discovery and Conquest of Chile |
| The 5 Greatest Governors |
| 19th Century |
| Chilean Independence |
| The Consolidation of the State |
| The Conservative Republic |
| The Liberal Republic |
| War of the Pacific |
| Chilean
Civil War |
| 1891-1952 |
| The Parliamentay Republic |
| The
Crisis of 1925 |
| The Radical Governments |
| 1952-1989 |
| The Governments of Ibáñez del Campo and Alessandri |
| The Governments of Frei and Allende |
| 1973 Coup |
| The Junta Government |
| Crisis with Argentina |
| Pinochet's Presidential Government |
| Others |
| History of Chilean borders |
| List of Chileans |
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