List of Famous people born in Valparaíso Region, Chile

Rodrigo Andrés Rojas de Negri, known as Rodrigo Rojas, was a young photographer who was burned alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.

María Ignacia Benítez was the Chilean Minister of the Environment, between 2010 and 2014.

José Manuel Emiliano Balmaceda Fernández was the 10th President of Chile from September 18, 1886 to August 29, 1891. Balmaceda was part of the Castilian-Basque aristocracy in Chile. While he was president, his political disagreements with the Chilean congress led to the 1891 Chilean Civil War, following which he shot and killed himself.

Carlos Domingo Maldonado Curti is a Chilean politician and lawyer member of the Radical Party and the Freemasonry.

María Luisa Bombal Anthes was a Chilean author. Her work is now highly regarded, incorporating themes of eroticism, surrealism and feminism, and she ranks among a small number of Latin American female authors whose works received worldwide acclaim. She was a recipient of the Santiago Municipal Literature Award.

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.

María Teresa de las Mercedes Wilms Montt was a Chilean writer, poet, and anarcha-feminist. Described as "embodying sexual aberrance and social prophesy", she was a friend of the writers Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Enrique Gómez Carrillo, Joaquín Edwards Bello, Víctor Domingo Silva, and Ramón Valle-Inclán.

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.

Jorge Marcos Baradit Morales is a Chilean writer and the author of the bestselling trilogy Historia secreta de Chile.

Sebastián Ignacio González Valdés is a Chilean former footballer who played as striker.