List of Famous people born in Chile
Catalina Edwards
Catalina Edwards is a Chilean journalist. She is currently a news anchor on Ahora Noticias and a panelist on Mucho Gusto, both television shows on the Mega channel.
Pablo Larraín
Pablo Larraín Matte is a Chilean filmmaker. He has directed seven feature films and co-directed one television series, including the Academy Award-nominated films No (2012) and Jackie (2016). In 2017, Larraín and his brother Juan de Dios were the producers of Sebastián Lelio's A Fantastic Woman, which was the first Chilean film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Alberto Mayol
Alberto Mayol Miranda is a Chilean sociologist, political analyst, and politician. An academic, researcher, and author of several works on social sciences, politics, and culture, he was a candidate in the Broad Front 2017 presidential primary.
Nicolás López
Nicolás Javier López Fernández is a Chilean film director, producer and screenwriter. He is known for comedies such as Promedio Rojo (2004), the Qué pena trilogy (2010-2012), and the Paz Bascuñán vehicles Sin filtro (2016) and No estoy loca (2018).
Bárbara Riveros
Bárbara Catalina Riveros Díaz is a Chilean professional triathlete, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Olympian.
Marko Zaror
Marko Zaror Aguad is a Chilean martial artist, actor, and stuntman of Italian and Palestinian descent according to interviews.
Tom Araya
Tomás Enrique Araya Díaz is a Chilean-American musician, best known as the vocalist and bassist of American thrash metal band Slayer. Araya is ranked fifty-eighth by Hit Parader on their list of the 100 Greatest Metal Vocalists of All Time.
Claudio Miranda
Claudio Miranda, ASC is a Chilean cinematographer best known as the Academy Award-winning director of photography on Ang Lee's film Life of Pi and as the director of photography on David Fincher's film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, the first entirely digitally filmed movie nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and an American Society of Cinematographers Award. He is also known for his collaborations with American director Joseph Kosinski. He is the second Chilean person to win an Academy Award.
Leonardo Valencia
Leonardo Felipe Valencia Rossel is a Chilean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Chilean club Colo-Colo.
Nicole
Denisse Lillian Laval Soza, better known by her stage name Nicole, is a Chilean singer-songwriter, based in Santiago and Miami.