List of Famous people born in Chile
Nicolás Orellana
Nicolás Iván Orellana Acuña is a Chilean footballer who currently plays for Audax Italiano as a striker.
Osvaldo Andrade
Osvaldo Andrade Lara is a Chilean Socialist politician. After studying law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Andrade joined the Socialist Party in 1968. He served as director of the Young Socialists. Following the Chilean coup of 1973, he was detained at the Estadio Nacional and at Villa Grimaldi. He was Minister of Labor and Social Security in the government of Chilean President Michelle Bachelet from 2006 to 2008. On 22 March 2016 he became President of the Chamber of Deputies. He succeeded Marco Antonio Núñez. He was succeeded as president on 22 March 2017 by Fidel Espinoza.
Catalina Palacios
Catalina Isabel Palacios Galindo, nickname Cata Palacios is a Chilean actress, singer and television presenter. She is known mostly for being in the cast of the youth program Mekano, for her role in the 2005 television series Magi-K, and for being the host of the youth program Yingo. She has participated in the 2008 Chilean telethon, Chile ayuda a Chile, and Dancing with the Stars.
Germán Casas
German Casas is a Chilean singer.
Matías Novoa
Matías Novoa, is a Chilean-Mexican actor and model. He is best known for working with TV Azteca doing telenovela.
Esteban Carvajal
Esteban Andrés Carvajal Tapia is a Chilean footballer that currently plays for Palestino as a defensive midfielder.
Andrés Velasco
Andrés Velasco Brañes is an economist and professor. He served as the finance minister of Chile from March 2006 to March 2010, the whole of the first presidential period of Michelle Bachelet. He is currently the Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics.
Kevin Harbottle
Kevin Andrew Harbottle Carrasco is a Chilean-English footballer who currently plays for C.D. Arturo Fernández Vial.
Alejandra Herrera
María Alejandra Herrera Andreucci is a Chilean actress known mainly for starring in the telenovelas Amor a domicilio, Adrenalina y Marparaíso on Canal 13 and in La Nany on Mega.
Alain Johannes
Alain Johannes Mociulski is a Chilean-American multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, whose primary instruments are guitar and bass. He is a founding member of several bands, including the alternative rock group Eleven, and has been involved with acts such as hard rock band Queens of the Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures, PJ Harvey, Chris Cornell, Arctic Monkeys, Mark Lanegan and The Desert Sessions, both as a musician and as a producer.