List of Famous people born in Chile
Gonzalo Fierro
Gonzalo Antonio Fierro Caniullán is a Chilean footballer who currently plays for Deportes Colina as a defender.
Tomás Jocelyn-Holt
José Tomás Jocelyn-Holt Letelier is a Chilean politician, former member of the Christian Democrat Party of Chile, and former member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile between 1994 and 2002. Jocelyn-Holt Letelier was an independent candidate for the 2013 presidential election, but lost the election with the lowest voting percentage in the history of his country.
Mario Mutis
Mario Mutis is the bass player in the Chilean progressive rock-folk band Los Jaivas.
Felipe Larraín Bascuñán
Felipe Larraín Bascuñán is a Chilean economist, scholar and former Minister of Finance under President Sebastián Piñera from 2010 until 2014 and again from 2018 until 2019.
Ivette Vergara
Ivette Marilú Vergara Ulloa is a Chilean journalist and television presenter. She began her television career as a model in 1991, and later worked as a presenter, starting at TVN on programs such as Hugo. She currently works for the channel Mega, where she participates in the morning program Mucho gusto.
Francisca Lara
Francisca Alejandra Lara Lara, known as Pancha Lara, is a Chilean footballer who plays as a midfielder for French Division 1 Féminine club Le Havre AC and the Chile women's national team.
José María Maza Sancho
José María Maza Sancho is a Chilean astronomer and astrophysicist. His work has focused on the study of supernovas, the execution of a search for objects with emission lines, dark energy, and quasars with an objective prism, which led him to be awarded the National Prize for Exact Sciences in 1999.
Denisse van Lamoen
Denisse Astrid van Lamoen is a Chilean archer. In 2000, she became the first Chilean archer to compete at the Summer Olympics, but after failing a drug test in 2002 she left archery to study law. She later returned to the sport. In 2011, she was voted "Chile's Athlete of the Year" after winning at the 2011 World Archery Championships. She was selected to be Chile's flag-bearer at the 2012 Summer Olympics. She is of Dutch descent.
Patricia Maldonado
Érika Patricia Maldonado Aravena is a Chilean singer and television presenter. In the 1970s to the late 1990s, she was active as a singer and political activist. Maldonado is widely known in the Chilean media for her strong personality and political controversy.
María Isabel Allende
María Isabel Allende Bussi is a Chilean politician.