List of Famous people born in Chile
Pablo Schwarz
Pablo Alfonso Schwarz Rabinovich is a Chilean actor, noted for his extensive television, theater and film career.
Jorge Garcés
Jorge Luis Garcés Rojas is a Chilean football manager. His last team was Ñublense in the Chilean First Division.
Andrés Zaldívar
José Andrés Rafael Zaldívar Larraín, popularly known as El Chico Zaldívar, is a prominent Chilean Christian Democrat politician. Andrés Zaldívar is of Basque descent.
Dante Poli
Dante Eugenio Poli García is a Chilean football pundit and former player. He played as a defender.
Julio Ponce Lerou
Julio Ponce Lerou is a Chilean billionaire who is the principal shareholder of Soquimich. He is a former son-in-law of Augusto Pinochet. Until 1982 he was president of Chilean state-owned forestry company Complejo Forestal y Maderero Panguipulli while he was simultaneously president of CELCO, a wood pulp company.
Solange Lackington
Solange Lackington Gangas is a Chilean actress, director and playwright of film, theater and television. She studied theater at the School of Theater of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. At just 20 years old, she made her debut on television, acting in telenovelas such as La torre 10 (1984) and Bellas y audaces (1988), alongside figures such as Sonia Viveros, Lucy Salgado and Luis Alarcón. During this period, she collaborated with the producer Sonia Fuchs in the Dramatic Area of Televisión Nacional de Chile. She achieved great popularity by playing Estrellita on the daily series Los Venegas. However, her consecration was due to her joining the Dramatic Area of Channel 13, acting in telenovelas such as Sabor a ti, Piel canela, Machos and Brujas. In this period, she achieved a season of great awards for her work, including Apes Awards and Altazor Awards. In 2017, she assumed the title role in Edward Franklin Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?. Her performance in this play earned her positive reviews. A year later, she played Gabriela Mistral in Andrés Kalawski's Mistral, Gabriela, 1945.
Yonathan Andía
Yonathan Wladimir Andía León, nicknamed Cachorro (Puppy), is a Chilean footballer who currently plays for Chilean club Unión La Calera as right back.
Jorge Baradit
Jorge Marcos Baradit Morales is a Chilean writer and the author of the bestselling trilogy Historia secreta de Chile.
Ena von Baer
Ena Anglein von Baer Jahn is a Chilean journalist, political scientist and senator.
Óscar Opazo
Óscar Mauricio Opazo Lara, nicknamed Torta (Cake), is a Chilean footballer who currently plays for club Colo-Colo in the Primera División de Chile as defender.