List of Famous people born in Chile
Andrónico Luksic Craig
Andrónico Luksic Craig is a businessman and chairman of Quiñenco, a holding of the Luksic Group, one of Chile's largest conglomerates.
Patricio Guzmán
Patricio Guzmán Lozanes is a Chilean documentary film director. He is internationally renowned for films such as The Battle of Chile and Salvador Allende.
Valentina Vargas
Valentina Vargas is a Chilean-born actress. She developed most of her career in France, where she was raised.
Alberto Hurtado
Saint Alberto Hurtado, S.J., popularly known in Chile as Padre Hurtado, was a Chilean Jesuit priest, lawyer, social worker, and writer, of Basque ancestry. He founded the Hogar de Cristo foundation in 1944. He was canonized on October 23, 2005, by Pope Benedict XVI, becoming his country's second saint.
María Luisa Godoy Ibañez
María Luisa Godoy Ibáñez is a Chilean journalist and television presenter. She is currently the host of the TVN program Muy buenos días.
Juan Zanelli
Juan Zanelli (1906–1944) was a Chilean racecar driver. He was born in Iquique, Chile in 1906. He raced in Grand Prix motor racing and hillclimbs from 1929 to 1936. In a Bugatti he won the 1929 and 1930 Bugatti GP at Le Mans, finished 8th in Alessandria in 1929 and 2nd in 1930, 2nd at the 1929 Marne GP and 3rd at the 1930 French GP at Pau. He won the 1933 Penya Rhin Grand Prix in Barcelona, Spain in an Alfa Romeo.
Javiera Mena
Javiera Alejandra Mena Carrasco is a Chilean indie electropop musician. She started her musical career in the Chilean indie music scene in 2001, and achieved wider success after the release of her first studio album in 2006. Her musical style tends to be synthesized electronic sound, although prior to her official debut she made acoustic-oriented songs accompanied solely by guitar.
Fernanda Urrejola
Fernanda Loreto Urrejola Arroyo is a Chilean television, theatre and film actress.
Claudio Orrego
Claudio Benjamín Orrego Larraín is a Chilean lawyer and Christian Democrat politician, former minister of President Ricardo Lagos Escobar, and former mayor of the commune of Peñalolén. He was a candidate for president of Chile in 2013, but lost the primary election against Michelle Bachelet, José Antonio Gómez, and Andrés Velasco.
Mario Desbordes
Mario Guillermo Desbordes Jiménez is a Chilean politician and former police officer of Carabineros de Chile. He became minister of Defense in July 2020.