100 Notable alumni of
University of Chile
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The University of Chile is 75th in the world, 2nd in Latin America, and 1st in Chile by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from the University of Chile sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Augusto Pinochet
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- Studied law
- Occupations
- politicianmilitary personnel
- Biography
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Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte was a Chilean military officer and politician who served as Chile's head of state under various titles from 1973 to 1990, first as the leader of the Military Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981, being declared President of the Republic by the junta in 1974 and thus becoming the de facto dictator of Chile, and from 1981 to 1990 as de jure president after a new constitution which confirmed him in the office was approved by a referendum in 1980. His rule remains the longest of any Chilean leader.
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Pablo Neruda
- Occupations
- writerpoetautobiographerdiplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles, including surrealist poems, historical epics, political manifestos, a prose autobiography, and passionate love poems such as the ones in his collection Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (1924).
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Salvador Allende
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- Studied medicine
- Occupations
- physiciansurgeonPresident of Chilepolitician
- Biography
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Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens was a socialist politician, who served as the 28th president of Chile from 1970 until his death in 1973. As a democratic socialist committed to democracy, he has been described as the first Marxist to be elected president in a liberal democracy in Latin America.
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Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- 1947-1950 studied psychology and philosophy
- Occupations
- film directortheatrical directorcomics creatorpuppeteerfilm editor
- Biography
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Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky is a Chilean-French avant-garde filmmaker. Best known for his 1970s films El Topo and The Holy Mountain, Jodorowsky has been "venerated by cult cinema enthusiasts" for his work which "is filled with violently surreal images and a hybrid blend of mysticism and religious provocation".
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Michelle Bachelet
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- 1970-1983 studied medicine
- Occupations
- surgeonpoliticianpediatricianinternational forum participantepidemiologist
- Biography
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Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria is a Chilean politician who served as United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights from 2018 to 2022. She previously served as President of Chile from 2006 to 2010 and from 2014 to 2018 for the Socialist Party of Chile. She is the first woman to hold the Chilean presidency. After leaving the presidency in 2010 and before becoming eligible for re-election, she was appointed as the first executive director of the newly established United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. In December 2013, Bachelet was re-elected with over 62% of the vote, surpassing the 54% she received in 2006. She was the first President of Chile to be re-elected since 1932. Bachelet, a physician who has studied military strategy at the university level, previously served as the Health Minister and Defense Minister under her predecessor, Ricardo Lagos. She is a separated mother of three and identifies as an agnostic. In addition to her native Spanish, she speaks English fluently and has some proficiency in German, French, and Portuguese.
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Víctor Jara
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- 1959-1961 studied acting
- Occupations
- musicianpoliticianactorscenographerlibrettist
- Biography
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Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theater director, poet, singer-songwriter and Communist political activist. He developed Chilean theater by directing a broad array of works, ranging from locally produced plays to world classics, as well as the experimental work of playwrights such as Ann Jellicoe. He also played a pivotal role among neo-folkloric musicians who established the Nueva canción chilena (New Chilean Song) movement. This led to an uprising of new sounds in popular music during the administration of President Salvador Allende.
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José López Portillo
- Occupations
- lawyerwriterpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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José Guillermo Abel López Portillo y Pacheco was a Mexican writer, lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 58th president of Mexico from 1976 to 1982. López Portillo was the only official candidate in the 1976 presidential election, being the only president in recent Mexican history to win an election unopposed.
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Luis Sepúlveda
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Luis Sepúlveda Calfucura was a Chilean writer and journalist. A communist militant and fervent opponent of Augusto Pinochet's regime, he was imprisoned and tortured by the military dictatorship during the 1970s. Sepúlveda was author of poetry books and short stories; in addition to Spanish, his mother tongue, he also spoke English, French and Italian. In the late 1980s, he conquered the literary scene with his first novel, The Old Man Who Read Love Novels.
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Benjamín Vicuña
- Occupations
- film actormodelbusinesspersontelevision actoractor
- Biography
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Benjamín Vicuña Luco is a Chilean actor and entrepreneur.
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Nicanor Parra
- Occupations
- physicistpoetacademicmathematician
- Biography
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Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval was a Chilean poet and physicist. He was considered one of the most influential Chilean poets of the Spanish language in the 20th century, often compared with Pablo Neruda. Parra described himself as an "anti-poet," due to his distaste for standard poetic pomp and function; after recitations he would exclaim "Me retracto de todo lo dicho" ("I take back everything I said").
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Patricio Aylwin
- Occupations
- lawyerjuristpoliticianuniversity teacher
- Biography
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Patricio Aylwin Azócar was a Chilean politician from the Christian Democratic Party, lawyer, author, professor and former senator. He was the 30th president of Chile and the first president to be elected after the absolute rule of dictator Augusto Pinochet, and his election marked the Chilean transition to democracy in 1990.
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Ricardo Lagos
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- 1954-1960 studied jurisprudence
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyerpoliticianeconomistprofessor
- Biography
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Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar is a Chilean lawyer, economist and social-democratic politician who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. During the 1980s he was a well-known opponent of the Chilean military dictatorship and astounded contemporaries in 1988 by openly denouncing dictator Augusto Pinochet on live television. He served as Minister of Education from 1990 to 1992 and Minister of Public Works from 1994 to 1998 under president Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle before narrowly winning the 1999–2000 presidential election in a runoff against Independent Democrat Union (UDI) candidate Joaquín Lavín. Lagos was the third president from the center-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy to have governed Chile since 1990. He was succeeded on 11 March 2006 by Socialist Michelle Bachelet, from the same coalition. From 2007 to 2010 he served as a Special Envoy on Climate Change for the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Lagos made an unsuccessful bid to run for president in the 2017 Chilean general election.
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Camila Vallejo
- Occupations
- politiciangeographerstudent leader
- Biography
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Camila Antonia Amaranta Vallejo Dowling is a Chilean communist politician and former student leader. A member of the Communist Party of Chile, she has been serving as the Minister General Secretariat of Government since 11 March 2022. Previously, Vallejo worked as a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile, representing District 26 of La Florida, Santiago.
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Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- Studied hydraulic engineering
- Occupations
- politiciancivil engineer
- Biography
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Eduardo Alfredo Juan Bernardo Frei Ruiz–Tagle is a Chilean politician and civil engineer who served as president of Chile from 1994 to 2000. He was also a Senator, fulfilling the role of President of the Senate from 2006 to 2008. He attempted a comeback as the candidate of the ruling Concertación coalition for the 2009 presidential election, but was narrowly defeated. His father was Eduardo Frei Montalva, president of Chile from 1964 to 1970.
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Arturo Prat
- Occupations
- military personnelsailor
- Biography
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Agustín Arturo Prat Chacón was a Chilean lawyer and navy officer. He was killed in the Battle of Iquique, during the War of the Pacific.
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Jorge Alessandri
- Occupations
- engineerpoliticiancivil engineerentrepreneur
- Biography
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Jorge Eduardo Alessandri Rodríguez was the 26th President of Chile from 1958 to 1964, and was the candidate of the Chilean right in the crucial presidential election of 1970, which he lost to Salvador Allende. He was the son of Arturo Alessandri, who was president from 1920 to 1925 and again from 1932 to 1938.
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Arturo Alessandri
- Occupations
- politicianlawyerlibrarian
- Biography
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Arturo Fortunato Alessandri Palma was a Chilean political figure and reformer who served thrice as president of Chile, first from 1920 to 1924, then from March to October 1925, and finally from 1932 to 1938.
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María Isabel Allende
- Occupations
- sociologistpolitician
- Biography
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María Isabel Allende Bussi is a Chilean politician and the youngest daughter of former Chilean president Salvador Allende Gossens.
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Orlando Letelier
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Marcos Orlando Letelier del Solar was a Chilean economist, politician and diplomat during the presidency of Salvador Allende. A refugee from the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet, Letelier accepted several academic positions in Washington, D.C. following his exile from Chile. In 1976, agents of Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA), the Pinochet regime's secret police, assassinated Letelier in Washington via the use of a car bomb. These agents had been working in collaboration with members of the Coordination of United Revolutionary Organizations, an anti-Castro militant group.
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Pedro Aguirre Cerda
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- Studied law
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Pedro Abelino Aguirre Cerda was a Chilean political figure, educator, and lawyer who served as the 22nd president of Chile from 1938 until his death in 1941. A member of the Radical Party since 1906, he was chosen by the left-wing Popular Front coalition as its candidate for the 1938 presidential election and won. He had previously served as deputy for San Felipe, Putaendo and Los Andes from 1915 to 1918, Minister of the Interior from January to September 1918 under president Juan Luis Sanfuentes, deputy for Santiago from 1918 to 1921, Minister of Justice and Public Instruction from 1920 to 1921 under president Arturo Alessandri, and senator for Concepción from 1921 to 1927. He died two years and eleven months into his presidency on November 25, 1941, at the age of 62, from tuberculosis.
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Roque Dalton Garcia
- Occupations
- journalistpoetwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Roque Antonio Dalton García was a Salvadoran poet, essayist, journalist, communist activist, and intellectual. He is considered one of Latin America's most compelling poets. He wrote emotionally strong, sometimes sarcastic, and image-loaded works dealing with life, death, love, and politics.
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Gabriel Gonzáles Videla
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Gabriel Enrique González Videla was a Chilean politician and lawyer who served as the 24th president of Chile from 1946 to 1952. He had previously been a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1930 to 1941 and senator for Tarapacá and Antofagasta from 1945 to 1946. A long-time member and leader in the Radical Party, he left the party in 1971 over its support for socialist president Salvador Allende. From 1973 until his death in 1980 he became an active collaborator and participant in the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, acting as vice president of the Council of State from 1976 onwards. As vice president of the council, he helped draft the current Chilean constitution of 1980.
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Francisco Varela
- Occupations
- philosopherbiologist
- Biography
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Francisco Javier Varela García was a Chilean biologist, philosopher, cybernetician, and neuroscientist who, together with his mentor Humberto Maturana, is best known for introducing the concept of autopoiesis to biology, and for co-founding the Mind and Life Institute to promote dialog between science and Buddhism.
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Daniel Jadue
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- Graduated with master's degree in urbanism
- Graduated with Licentiate in sociology
- Occupations
- sociologistpoliticianarchitect
- Biography
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Óscar Daniel Jadue Jadue is a Chilean architect, sociologist and Marxist politician. A member of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh), Jadue has served as Mayor of Recoleta since 2012.
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Claudio Naranjo
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- In 1959 graduated with doctorate in medicine
- Occupations
- conferencierpsychiatristwriterpsychotherapistphilosopher
- Biography
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Claudio Benjamín Naranjo Cohen was a Chilean psychiatrist who is considered a pioneer in integrating psychotherapy and the spiritual traditions. He was one of the three successors named by Fritz Perls (founder of Gestalt Therapy), a student of Oscar Ichazo who originally developed the Enneagram of Personality, and a founder of the Seekers After Truth Institute. He was also an elder statesman of the US and global human potential movement and the spiritual renaissance of the late 20th century. Naranjo authored several books.
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Francisco Melo
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- 1987-1990 graduated with Licentiate
- Occupations
- produceractor
- Biography
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Juan Francisco Melo Miquel is a Chilean actor, producer and also model. His first TV performance was in the TVN program Mea Culpa in 1993. From then on he has appeared in several soap operas, movies and TV shows.
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Marco Enríquez-Ominami
- Occupations
- politicianfilm directorphilosopher
- Biography
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Marco Antonio Enríquez-Ominami Gumucio is a Chilean-French, filmmaker, politician, and perennial candidate. From 2006 to 2010 he was a Socialist Party deputy in Chile's lower chamber. In 2009 he quit the party and ran for President of the Republic as independent, where he finished third with 20% of the vote. He is currently the leader of the Progressive Party, which he founded in 2010.
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Claudia di Girolamo
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- 1975-1978 studied acting
- Occupations
- actordramaturgetheatrical director
- Biography
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Claudia del Carmen Di Girolamo Quesney, is a Chilean actress and theater director of Italian descent, who has a prominent and distinguished artistic career in theater, film and television. Considered one of the best actresses of the performing arts in the history of Chilean television.
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José Donoso
- Occupations
- journalistwriterscreenwriter
- Biography
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José Manuel Donoso Yáñez, known as José Donoso, was a Chilean writer, journalist and professor. He lived most of his life in Chile, although he spent many years in self-imposed exile in Mexico, the United States and Spain. Although he had left his country in the sixties for personal reasons, after 1973 he said his exile was also a form of protest against the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He returned to Chile in 1981 and lived there until his death.
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Izkia Siches
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- Studied medicine
- Occupations
- physiciansurgeonpolitician
- Biography
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Izkia Jasvin Siches Pastén is a Chilean physician and politician, who served in 2022 as Minister of Interior and Public Security for President Gabriel Boric. She was the first woman to hold that position, the second most important in government after the President.
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Lucía Pinochet
- Occupations
- politicianteacher
- Biography
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Inés Lucía Pinochet Hiriart is the eldest daughter of former Chile's dictator Augusto Pinochet and Lucía Hiriart de Pinochet. She was a councilor for the municipality of Vitacura, from 2008 until 2012.
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Cesar Maia
- Occupations
- politicianengineereconomist
- Biography
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Cesar Epitácio Maia is a Brazilian politician, notable for having been elected three times for mayor of Rio de Janeiro.
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Franco Parisi
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- Studied commercial engineering
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Franco Aldo Parisi Fernández is a Chilean business engineer and economist. He received recognition for doing radio and television programs about economy along with his brother Antonino Parisi, and has been nicknamed "the economist of the people". In 2012 he launched his independent candidacy for president for the 2013 elections in Chile. Parisi ideologically identifies himself as a social liberal. In November 2021 he reached the third place of votes in the first round of the presidential elections, behind José Antonio Kast and Gabriel Boric.
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Irina Karamanos
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- Studied visual arts
- Occupations
- social scientist
- Biography
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Irina Sabine Alice Karamanos Adrian is a Chilean social science profesional. She was the domestic partner of Gabriel Boric, who was inaugurated as President of Chile on 11 March 2022. As a result, she assumed the roles of First Lady of Chile and Director of the Sociocultural Area of the Presidency. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology and Education Sciences from the University of Heidelberg.
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Antonio Skármeta
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- Studied philosophy
- Occupations
- film actorwriterscreenwriterdiplomatfilm director
- Biography
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Antonio Skármeta is a Chilean writer, scriptwriter and director descending from Croatian immigrants from the Adriatic island of Brač, Dalmatia. He was awarded Chile's National Literature Prize in 2014.
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Raúl Ruiz
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- Studied theology and law
- Occupations
- writerfilm directorscreenwriteractorfilm producer
- Biography
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Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino was an experimental Chilean filmmaker, writer and teacher whose work is best known in France. He directed more than 100 films.
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Luis Gnecco
- Occupations
- television actoractor
- Biography
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Luis Enrique Gnecco Dessy is a Chilean actor.
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Alfredo Castro
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- 1974-1977 studied acting
- Occupations
- film directorscreenwritertheatrical directoractor
- Biography
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Alfredo Arturo Castro Gómez, best known as Alfredo Castro, is a Chilean actor. With a well established trajectory in theater and television, he became one of the most well-known Latin American film actors of the 2010s.
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Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz
- Occupations
- journalistwriterpolitician
- Biography
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Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz was a noted writer, dramatist, journalist, social commentator, university professor, and socialist political leader from Bolivia. In 1964 Marcelo won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his novel Los Deshabitados.
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Jaime Mañalich
- Occupations
- physiciansurgeonpolitician
- Biography
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Jaime José Mañalich Muxi is a Chilean physician (nephrologist), and former Health Minister. He held the position during the first Piñera government (2010-2014) and assumed the role again in June 2019 until he was replaced in June 2020 amidst criticism over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile.
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Paola Volpato
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- 1987-1990 graduated with Licentiate
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Paola Volpato Martín is a Chilean actress.
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Elena Caffarena
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticianpresident of a non-profit organisationorganizational foundersuffragette
- Biography
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Elena Caffarena Morice was a Chilean lawyer, jurist and politician. Contemporary historians and humanists consider her to be one of the most important 20th-century public figures in Chile.
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Karla Rubilar
- Occupations
- physicianpolitician
- Biography
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Karla Elizabeth Rubilar Barahona is a Chilean physician and politician. During the second government of Sebastián Piñera (2018–2022), she has been a minister twice.
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Patricio Guzmán
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- Studied in 1961-1966
- Occupations
- directorcinematographeractorfilm editorsoundman
- Biography
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Patricio Guzmán Lozanes is a Chilean documentary film director. He is most known for his film trilogy The Battle of Chile (1975-1979) and more recently for another trilogy; Nostalgia for the Light (2010), The Pearl Button (2015) and The Cordillera of Dreams (2019).
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Hortensia Bussi
- Occupations
- human rights activistpolitician
- Biography
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Mercedes Hortensia Bussi Soto was the wife of Chilean President Salvador Allende. She was married to him from 1940 until he committed suicide during the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, serving as First Lady of Chile from 1970 to 1973. Her daughters are Beatriz, Isabel and Carmen Paz.
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Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna
- Occupations
- writerlawyerclimatologisthistorianjournalist
- Biography
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Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna was a Chilean writer, journalist, historian and politician. Vicuña Mackenna was of Irish and Basque descent.
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Joan Jara
- Occupations
- dancer
- Biography
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Joan Alison Turner Roberts, known as Joan Jara or Joan de Jara was a British-Chilean dancer, activist, and widow of Chilean icon, democratic socialist, actor, dramaturg, theatre director, poet, dancer and esteemed folk songwriter Víctor Jara. After his death, she dedicated herself to perpetuating the memory of him, his work, and his values. She wrote An Unfinished Song: The Life of Victor Jara in 1984, and founded the Víctor Jara Foundation.
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Beatriz Allende
- Occupations
- surgeonpoliticianrevolutionary
- Biography
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Beatriz Patricia Ximena Allende Bussi, also known as Tati Allende, was a Chilean Socialist politician, revolutionary and surgeon. She was the daughter of former president of Chile Salvador Allende and his wife, Hortensia Bussi.
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Andrés Allamand
- Occupations
- rugby union playerpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Andrés Allamand Zavala, a Chilean politician, is the founder and one of the past leaders of Renovación Nacional. He is of French, and Basque descent. On January 14, 2011 he was named Minister of Defense by president Sebastián Piñera. He was sworn in on January 16, 2011 and left office on November 5, 2012. He was named Minister of Foreign Affairs following a Cabinet reshuffle on 28 July, 2021, resigning the Senate seat he had held since 2014. Allamand is a member of the Inter-American Dialogue.
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Ariel Dorfman
- Occupations
- writerjournalistliterary criticplaywrightscreenwriter
- Biography
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Vladimiro Ariel Dorfman is an Argentine-Chilean-American novelist, playwright, essayist, academic, and human rights activist. A citizen of the United States since 2004, he has been a professor of literature and Latin American Studies at Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina, since 1985.
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Carolina Arredondo
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- Graduated with certification course
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Carolina Arredondo Marzán is a Chilean actress who serves as Chile's Minister of Public Works.
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Carolina Tohá
- Occupations
- political scientistpolitician
- Biography
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Carolina Montserrat Tohá Morales is a Chilean political scientist, educator, and politician. Since September 6, 2022, she has served as the Minister of Interior and Public Security of Chile, under the presidency of Gabriel Boric. Previously, she served as the Minister Secretary General of Government – being the first woman to hold this position – during the first government of President Michelle Bachelet (between March and December 2009).
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Marcelo Alonso
- Occupations
- theatrical directoractor
- Biography
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Marcelo Alejandro Alonso Claro is a Chilean actor and theater director.
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Delfina Guzmán
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- 1953-1956 graduated with Licentiate
- Occupations
- theatrical directoractor
- Biography
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Delfina Guzmán Correa is a Chilean actress. She has appeared in more than 30 films and television shows since 1968. She starred in the 1968 Raúl Ruiz film Three Sad Tigers. She is the daughter of Florencio Guzmán Larraín and María Luisa Correa Ugarte. Her son, Nicolás Eyzaguirre, is a Chilean economist.
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Juan Antonio Rios
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- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Juan Antonio Ríos Morales was a Chilean political figure who served as president of Chile from 1942 to 1946, during the height of World War II. He died in office.
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Ximena Rincón
- Occupations
- politicianlawyer
- Biography
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Ximena Cecilia Rincón González is a Chilean lawyer and politician. She is formerly Chile's Labor Minister and former Minister Secretary-General of the Presidency under President Michelle Bachelet.
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Luz Valdivieso
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Luz María Valdivieso Ovalle is a Chilean actress.
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Loreto Aravena
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Loreto del Pilar Aravena Soto is a Chilean actress who is known for her role as Claudia Herrera, in the series Los 80 on Channel 13.
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Manuel Montt
- Occupations
- lawyerpoliticianjudgediplomat
- Biography
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Manuel Francisco Antonio Julián Montt Torres was a Chilean statesman and scholar. He was twice elected President of Chile between 1851 and 1861.
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Hernán Büchi
- Occupations
- politicianbusinesspersoneconomist
- Biography
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Hernán Alberto Büchi Buc is a Chilean economist who served as minister of finance of the Pinochet government. In 1989 he ran unsuccessfully for president with support of Chilean right-wing parties.
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Eloísa Díaz
- Occupations
- physiciansurgeon
- Biography
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Eloísa Díaz Inzunza was a Chilean medical doctor. She was the first female medical student to attend the University of Chile, and the first woman to become a doctor of medicine in South America.
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Coca Guazzini
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- 1972-1973 graduated with acting
- Occupations
- actor
- Biography
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Silvia Beatriz Guazzini Monsalve, best known as Coca Guazzini, is a Chilean television, theatre and film actress. Guazzini studied theatre at Universidad de Chile. She appeared in some popular Chilean telenovelas like Sucupira, Aquelarre and Tic Tac. In 2002 Coca Guazzini won the Apes Award for "Best Actress".
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Coco Legrand
- Occupations
- comedianautobiographerhumorist
- Biography
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Alejandro Javier González Legrand, better known as Coco Legrand, is a Chilean comedian, actor and TV presenter. His repertoire consists mainly of monologues that show daily experiences that allow us to review the most typical psychological features of society, satirizing them and thus rediscovering the profile of the average Chilean citizen.
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Luciano Cruz-Coke
- Occupations
- actorpoliticiantelevision actor
- Biography
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Luciano Cruz-Coke Carvallo is a Chilean actor, and was the Minister of Arts and Culture under the 35th President Sebastián Piñera.
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Francisco Vidal
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Francisco Javier Vidal Salinas is a Chilean politician and scholar.
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Mario Marcel
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- 1977-1981 studied commercial engineering
- Occupations
- economistacademic
- Biography
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Mario Marcel Cullell is a Chilean economist who has been serving as Chile Minister of Finance since 11 March 2022. He previously served as Governor of the Central Bank of Chile. He was named Governor in December 2016 and member of the Bank's Board from October 2015. He has been a close collaborator to the governments of the centre-left Coalition of Parties for Democracy (1990–2010), and for six years held the position of Budget Director, where he played a key role in the design of the structural surplus rule.
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Aníbal Pinto
- Occupations
- diplomatpoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Aníbal Pinto Garmendia was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1876 and 1881.
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Alejandro Zambra
- Occupations
- writerliterary criticpoet
- Biography
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Alejandro Andrés Zambra Infantas is a Chilean poet, short story writer and novelist. He has been recognized for his talent as a young Latin American writer, chosen in 2007 as one of the "Bogotá39" (the best Latin American writers under the age of 39) and in 2010 by Granta as one of the best Spanish-language writers under the age of 35.
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Maya Fernández
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- Studied veterinary medicine and biology
- Occupations
- biologistpoliticianveterinarian
- Biography
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Maya Alejandra Fernández Allende is a Chilean biologist, veterinarian and politician, a member of the Socialist Party of Chile (PS) who has been serving as Minister of National Defense of Chile since 11 March 2022. Since March 2018, she has served as a deputy of the Republic, representing the 10th district, Metropolitan Region. In her first legislative year, she presided over the Chamber of Deputies between March 2018 and March 2019.
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Nicolás Eyzaguirre
- Occupations
- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Nicolás Eyzaguirre Guzmán is a Chilean economist, and the former Minister of Education of his country.
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Alfredo Jaar
- Occupations
- installation artistprintmakerarchitectfilm directorphotographer
- Biography
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Alfredo Jaar is a Chilean-born artist, architect, photographer and filmmaker who lives in New York City. He is mostly known as an installation artist, often incorporating photography and covering socio-political issues and war—the best known perhaps being the 6-year-long The Rwanda Project about the 1994 Rwandan genocide. He has also made numerous public intervention works, like The Skoghall Konsthall one-day paper museum in Sweden, an early electronic billboard intervention A Logo For America, and The Cloud, a performance project on both sides of the Mexico-USA border. He has been featured on Art:21. He won the Hasselblad Award for 2020.
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José Miguel Insulza
- Occupations
- diplomatlawyeruniversity teacherpoliticianinternational forum participant
- Biography
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José Miguel Insulza Salinas is a Chilean politician, lawyer, and academic serving as a senator for the Arica y Parinacota Region since 2018. He previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1994 to 1999 and Minister Secretary-General of the Presidency from 1999 to 2000 under president Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, as Minister of the Interior from 2000 to 2005 under president Ricardo Lagos, and as Secretary General of the Organization of American States from 2005 to 2015.
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Irací Hassler
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- politiciancommercial engineer
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Irací Luiza Hassler Jacob is a Chilean politician and economist who currently serves as the Mayor of the Commune of Santiago, which corresponds with Downtown Santiago, since 2021. Hassler is a member of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh), a left-wing political party. She has been described as "the new face of feminism and environmentalism" in Chile.
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Álvaro Escobar
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- lawyerradio personalityactortelevision presenterjournalist
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Álvaro Escobar Rufatt is a Chilean actor, television presenter, lawyer, musician, journalist, radio personality and politician. He was a deputy of the Republic of Chile for District No. 20, which included the communes of Cerrillos, Estación Central and Maipú during the 2006–2010 period. He is mainly known as an actor and television presenter, although he has been involved in many professional activities.
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Gabriela Hernández
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- 1959-1962 graduated with Licentiate
- Occupations
- actor
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María Gabriela Hernández Gómez, also known as Gaby Hernández, is a Chilean theater, film and television actress with a long active career.
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Emilia Schneider
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- Studied law
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- LGBTQI+ rights activistpolitician
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Emilia Schneider Videla is a Chilean feminist, activist, and politician. In the 2021 Chilean general election, she was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of Chile with the left-wing Commons party. She is the first openly transgender person to be elected to the Chamber of Deputies.
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Tomás Mosciatti
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- announcerlawyer
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Tomás Mosciatti is a Chilean radio host and political commentator of Radio Bío Bío.
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Carlos Altamirano
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- politicianlawyer
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Carlos Altamirano Orrego was a Chilean lawyer and socialist politician.
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Gonzalo Rojas
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- poetwriterpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Gonzalo Rojas Pizarro was a Chilean poet. His work is part of the continuing Latin American avant-garde literary tradition of the twentieth century. In 2003 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize.
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Gonzalo Winter
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- politicianlawyer
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Gonzalo Rodolfo Winter Etcheberry is a Chilean lawyer and politician and member of the Social Convergence party. Since March 2018, he has been a deputy of the Republic representing the 10th district of the Santiago Metropolitan Region.
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Agustín Edwards Eastman
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- journalistinternational forum participantpublisherbusinessperson
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Agustín Iván Edmundo Edwards Eastman was a Chilean newspaper publisher, and one of the richest people in Chile. He inherited his family's newspaper company El Mercurio SAP, which publishes Chile's leading national dailies El Mercurio and La Segunda among others, when his father died in 1956. He has been described as a media baron, and is known for his right-wing views. Throughout his time as publisher, he has used El Mercurio SAP's newspapers to influence public opinion in Chile, and he supported the 1973 coup d'état to oust socialist President Salvador Allende.
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Alberto Mayol
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- Graduated with licensed in sociology
- Graduated with master's degree in political science
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- politiciansociologist
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Alberto Mayol Miranda is a Chilean sociologist, political analyst, and politician. An independent researcher, and author of several works on social sciences, politics, and culture, he was a candidate in the Broad Front 2017 presidential primary.
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Pedro Montt
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- politicianlawyer
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Pedro Elías Pablo Montt Montt was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile from 1906 to his death from a probable stroke in 1910. His government furthered railroad and manufacturing activities but ignored pressing social and labour problems.
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Fernando Atria
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- lawyerjuristpoliticianuniversity teacher
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Fernando Atria Lemaitre is a Chilean intellectual, lawyer, university teacher and politician. Atria has been an avid participant of the intellectual debates about reforms in the Chilean education system and the Constitution of Chile.
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Jorge Edwards
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- Studied law
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- journalistliterary criticwriterdiplomat
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Jorge Edwards Valdés was a Chilean novelist, journalist and diplomat. He was the Chilean ambassador to France during the first Sebastián Piñera presidency.
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Domingo Santa María
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- diplomatlawyerhistorianjudgepolitician
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Domingo Santa María González was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1881 and 1886.
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Mariano Picón Salas
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- diplomathistorianwriterliterary criticjournalist
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Mariano Federico Picón Salas was a Venezuelan diplomatic, cultural critic and writer of the 20th century, born in Mérida on January 26, 1901, and died in Caracas on January 1, 1965.
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Ramón Barros Luco
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- politicianlawyer
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Ramón Barros Luco was President of Chile between 1910 and 1915.
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Daniel Muñoz
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- singeractortelevision actor
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Daniel Patricio Muñoz Bravo is a Chilean actor, comedian, and cueca singer.
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Gabriel Salazar
- Enrolled in the University of Chile
- 1959-1963 graduated with Licentiate in philosophy
- 1966-1969 graduated with sociology
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- historianuniversity teachersociologistphilosopher
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Gabriel Salazar Vergara is a Chilean historian. He is known in his country for his study of social history and interpretations of social movements, particularly the recent student protests of 2006 and 2011–12.
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Alejandro Goic
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- actorwriter
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Alejandro Eduardo Goic Jerez is a Chilean actor. He appeared in more than fifty films since 1988.
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José María Maza Sancho
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- astronomerresearcher
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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. Since 2017 he gained popular following with books aimed to the general public and podcasts.
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Daniel Alcaíno
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- comedianactortelevision actor
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Daniel Alcaíno Cuevas is a Chilean actor and comedian. He is popularly known for his comedy characters Peter Veneno (roughly based in Ivan Zamorano), and Yerko Puchento, an outspoken showbusiness journalist and political satirist. Although he has gain further recognition for dramatic roles as well such as Exequiel Pacheco in Los 80 and Mario Medina in 42 Days of Darkness.
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Andrés Zaldívar
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- politicianlawyer
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José Andrés Rafael Zaldívar Larraín, popularly known as El Chico Zaldívar ("Short Zaldívar"), is a prominent Chilean Christian Democrat politician. Andrés Zaldívar is of Basque descent.
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Carmen Hertz
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- politicianlawyerhuman rights activist
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Carmen Hertz Cádiz is a Chilean Communist Party politician and lawyer who participated in various institutions for the protection of human rights that arose as a result of the systematic violations committed during the dictatorship headed by Augusto Pinochet from 1973 to 1990. She worked with the Vicariate of Solidarity, the Social Aid Foundation of Christian Churches (FASIC), the National Corporation for Reparation and Reconciliation, and the Ministry of the Interior's Human Rights Program. She became the human rights director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after Chile's transition to democracy, and was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 2018.
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Germán Riesco
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- politicianlawyer
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Germán Riesco Errázuriz was a Chilean political figure, and he served as President of Chile between 1901 and 1906.
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Clotario Blest
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- human rights activisttrade unionist
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Clotario Leopoldo Blest Riffo was a Chilean social activist and labor union leader. Blest was one of the founders of Agrupación Nacional de Empleados Fiscales (ANEF), Central Única de Trabajadores (CUT), Revolutionary Left Movement (MIR), and Comité de Defensa de Derechos Humanos y Sindicales (CODEHS).
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Enrique Lihn Carrasco
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- literary criticpoet
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Enrique Lihn Carrasco was a Chilean writer, literary critic, and cartoonist, mostly known as a poet, but who also wrote essays, short stories, novels, plays, and comic books.
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Hermógenes Pérez de Arce Ibieta
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- journalistpoliticianlawyer
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Hermógenes Pérez de Arce Ibieta is a Chilean lawyer and politician who served as deputy during Salvador Allende's government. In his country, he is commonly known for being a fierce supporter of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. More precisely, he is known for being a leading denialist of the human rights violations in Pinochet's Chile.
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Germán Codina
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- politician
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Germán Codina Powers is a Chilean politician who serves as mayor of Puente Alto, commune in Santiago.
