List of Famous people born in Araucanía Region, Chile

Claudio Andrés Bravo Muñoz is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Spanish club Real Betis and the Chile national team.

José Marcelo Salas Melinao, dubbed El Matador, El Fenómeno and Shileno, is a retired Chilean footballer who played as a striker. Salas is considered the best striker in the history of Chile and one of the best football players of all time in his country. He stood out during the 1990s and 2000s in clubs such as Universidad de Chile, River Plate, Lazio and Juventus. He was captain of the Chilean national team and the top scorer – netting 45 goals in total. 37 of those were for the full national side and 8 with the Olympic team.

Cristián Patricio Larroulet Vignau was the Minister General Secretariat of the Presidency of Chile under President Sebastián Piñera. He currently serves as the Head of Advisors to the Presidency of the Republic in the second administration of Sebastián Piñera.

Violeta Rosa Ester Vidaurre Heiremans, better known as Violeta Vidaurre, is a Chilean actress with a long television and theater career, with more than 120 characters played since her debut.

Francisca Linconao Huircapán, also known as Machi Linconao, is a machi and human rights activist in Chile. She became the first Indigenous rights defender in Chile to successfully invoke the 1989 Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention when she sued to stop a company from logging a forest adjacent to her community. In 2021, she was elected as a representative of the Mapuche people to the Chilean Constitutional Convention election.

Jean Philippe Cretton Vásquez is a Chilean television presenter and journalist. He was the co-hoster of Televisión Nacional de Chile's program Calle 7 until 31 August 2010, and main hoster beginning on 26 October of that year and until 2013.

Diego Alfredo Paulsen Kehr is a Chilean politician currently serving as President of the Chamber of Deputies and as a member of the Chamber of Deputies, representing District 22 of Araucanía.

Leonor Oyarzún Ivanovic is a former First Lady of Chile and the widow of former President Patricio Aylwin. She turned 100 in March 2019.

Elicura Chihuailaf Nahuelpán is a Mapuche Chilean poet and author whose works are written both in Mapudungun and in Spanish, and have been translated into many other languages as well. He has also translated the works of other poets, such as Pablo Neruda, into Mapudungun. He is the recipient of the 2020 National Prize for Literature, the first Mapuche writer to receive this award.

Ena Anglein von Baer Jahn is a Chilean journalist, political scientist and senator.