List of Famous people born in Chile
Cristina Calderón
Cristina Calderón is the last living full-blooded Yaghan person after the death of her 84 year-old sister Úrsula in 2005. By 2004, Calderón and her sister-in-law Emelinda Acuña were the only two remaining native speakers of the Yaghan language. With her granddaughter Cristina Zárraga and her sister Úrsula Calderón she published a book of Yaghan stories called Hai Kur Mamashu Shis in 2005. Zárraga, along with her husband Oliver Vogel, published Yagankuta, a dictionary and storybook of the Yaghan language, in 2010, based on interviews with Calderón.
Mario Rozas
Mario Alberto Rozas Córdova is a Chilean Carabineros officer, who was general director of that institution from December 22, 2018 to November 19, 2020.
Willy Semler
Guillermo Semler Aguirre better known as Willy Semler is a Chilean actor of films, theatre, television and theater director.
Rafael Gumucio
Rafael Gumucio Araya is a Chilean writer and comedian.
Heraldo Muñoz
Heraldo Muñoz Valenzuela is a Chilean politician and diplomat, the former Chilean Ambassador to the United Nations, to Brazil, and to the Organization of American States, former Assistant Secretary General, Assistant Administrator, and Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Programme, and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Chile under President Michelle Bachelet.
Francisco Undurraga Gazitúa
Juan Francisco Undurraga Gazitúa is a politician currently serving as First Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile and as a member of the Chamber of Deputies representing District 11 of Santiago.
Ivo Basay
Ivo Alexie Basay Hatibović is a retired football striker from Chile, who played professional football for seventeen years. Apart from being a regular choice for the Chile national football team in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he played club football for Magallanes, Curicó Unido, Everton, Colo Colo, Stade Reims, Necaxa and Boca Juniors.
Juan Carlos Gaete
Juan Carlos Darío Gaete Contreras, known as Juan Carlos Gaete, is a Chilean footballer who plays as a winger for Chilean club Colo-Colo.
Marcela Vacarezza
Marcela Paz Vacarezza Etcheverry is a Chilean television presenter and psychologist. She is the wife of TV presenter Rafael Araneda with whom she has three children, Martina, Florencia and Vicente.
Teresita Reyes
María Teresita de Jesús Reyes Aleuanlli, known as Teresita Reyes, is a Chilean actress. She is of Palestinian ancestry on her mother's side.