List of Chileans

This is a list of famous or notable Chileans:

Table of contents

1 Economists

2 Filmmakers

13 Television Personalities

14 Writers

15 Other

16 See also

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

Eduardo Frei Montalva - President from 1964 to 1970
Salvador Allende - President from 1970 until his death September 11, 1973
Patricio Aylwin - President from March 11, 1990 to March 11, 1994
Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle - President from March 11, 1994 to March 11, 2000 (son of Eduardo Frei Montalva)
Ricardo Lagos - President since March 11, 2000

See also: List of Presidents of Chile.

Military

Caupolicán - Leader of the Araucanian who fiercely resisted the Spanish conquest of Chile
Lautaro - Araucanian military leader during the Spanish conquest of Chile
Bernardo O'Higgins - Founder of modern Chile
José Miguel Carrera - Independentist leader of the Patria Vieja.
Manuel Rodríguez - Independentist leader and guerrilla leader during the Reconquista.
Augusto Pinochet - Military dictator from 1973 to 1990
Arturo Prat - Captain of the Esmeralda ship at the Iquique Naval Combat
Ignacio Carrera Pinto - Captain in charge of the Chilean patrol who died in La Concepción Battle.

Musicians

Tom Araya - Singer/Bassist for rock group Slayer
Claudio Arrau - Classical piano player
Roberto Bravo - Classical piano player
Beto Cuevas - Lead singer from rock group La Ley
Tito Fernández - Folklorist; known as El Temucano
Luis 'Lucho' Gatica - Bolero singer
Eduardo Gatti - One of the leading composers of modern Chilean music
Myriam Hernández - Popular music singer
Víctor Jara - Singer-songwriter, killed by the Pinochet regime in 1973
DJ Méndez - Rap singer (resides in Sweden)
Javiera Parra - Lead singer from group Javiera y los Imposibles
Violeta Parra - Chilean Folk singer
Palmenia Pizarro - Bolero singer (resides in Mexico)
Buddy Richards - Bolero singer
Verónica Villarroel - Soprano

Performers

Tamara Acosta - Actress
Leonor Varela - Actress (Blade II, The Man in the Iron Mask)
Gloria Münchmeyer - Actress (The Moon in the Mirror)

Plastic Artists

Roberto Matta - Painter, sculptor
Claudio Bravo - Hyper-realism painter

Poets

Vicente Huidobro
Enrique Lihn
Gabriela Mistral - Winner of the Nobel prize for literature
Pablo Neruda - Winner of the Nobel prize for literature
Nicanor Parra - So-called anti-poet
Gonzalo Rojas - 2004 Cervantes Prize winner
Pablo de Rokha

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

Luis Ayala - Tennis player; twice French Open finalist
Carlos Caszely - Association football player
Patricio Cornejo - Tennis player, 1976 Davis Cup Finalist
Carlo de Gavardo - KTM rally motocycler.
Elías Figueroa - Association football player
Jaime Fillol - Tennis player, 1976 Davis Cup finalist
Arturo Godoy - Boxer, fought Joe Louis twice for the World Heavyweight title
Fernando González - Tennis player
Anita Lizana - Tennis player; 1937 US Open champion
Nicolás Massú - Tennis player
Ivan Morovic - Chess International Grandmaster
Erica Olivera - Athlete
Marcelo Ríos - Former world number-one tennis player
Marcelo Salas - Association football player
José Santos - Jockey, winner of US Triple Crown
Martín Vargas - Boxer, arguably the most famous boxer in Chile's history
Iván Zamorano - Association football player

Scientists

Humberto Maturana - Biologist, co-author of the theory of Autopoiesis
Francisco Varela - Biologist, co-author of the theory of Autopoiesis.
Eric Goles - Mathematician
Claudio Teitelboim - Physicist
María Teresa Ruiz - Astronomer

Television Personalities

Cecilia Bolocco - Ex-Miss Universe, wife of ex-president of Argentina Carlos Menem
Gonzalo Cáceres - Anchor man for Spanish Deutsche Welle
Amaro Gómez-Pablos - CNN en Español correspondent
Mario Kreutzberger (Don Francisco) - Host of television show Sábado Gigante
Antonio Vodanovic - Viña del Mar International Festival host

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

Borja Huidobro - Architect
José Miguel Vivanco - Executive director, Human Rights Watch Americas Division (Latin America and the Caribbean)
Juan Somavia - Director-General of the International Labour Organization