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SANTIAGO

Most Famous People Born in Santiago, Chile

Notable people
3,702
Peak decade
1970s
Median birth year
1952
Most distinctive
Lawyer 4.4×

A capital where the 20th century arrives under a long political shadow. Santiago's distinctive professions are lawyers and economists at the top — the legal-and-technocratic spine of the Chicago Boys era and the constitutional fights that came after — alongside journalists, diplomats, actors, and a very South American footballing base. The literary bench runs from Gabriela Mistral's generation through Bolaño and Pedro Pascal, and more than four in five notables here were born after 1930.

Through the Decades

One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Santiago during each.

Notable Births by Decade

Click a decade to filter the list below. Peak: 1970s with 468 notable births.

What Santiago Is Known For

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Football is Santiago's biggest profession — 17% of all notables (646).

Santiago over-indexes on lawyer4.4× the global rate.

  1. Football646
  2. Politician507
  3. Actor363
  4. Lawyer284
  5. Writer154
  6. Journalist137
  7. Singer84
  8. Painter83
  1. Lawyer2844.4×
  2. Economist573.7×
  3. Journalist1372.4×
  4. Diplomat452.1×
  5. Actor3631.9×
  6. Football6461.6×
  7. Sculptor371.5×

Profession Mix Over Time

Each band shows a profession family's share of Santiago's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.

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Showing 102 of 3,702 notable people

0036 RELIGIOUS

Teresa of the Andes

1900 - 1920

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0092 WRITER

Marcela Paz

1902 - 1985

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0158 PSYCHOLOGIST

Ignacio Matte Blanco

1908 - 1995

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0219 HISTORIAN

Jaime Eyzaguirre

1908 - 1968

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0302 PRIEST

Francisco Valdés Subercaseaux

1908 - 1982

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0316 WRITER

Benjamín Subercaseaux

1902 - 1973

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0318 WRITER

Hernán del Solar

1901 - 1985

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0325 POLITICIAN

Jorge González von Marées

1900 - 1962

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0391 COMPOSER

Herbert W. Spencer

1905 - 1992

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0482 WRITER

Humberto Díaz Casanueva

1906 - 1992

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0484 FOOTBALL

Víctor Morales (Chilean footballer)

1905 - 1938

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0490 FOOTBALL

Humberto Elgueta

1904 - 1976

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0495 FOOTBALL

Guillermo Arellano

1908 - 1999

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0512 PHILOSOPHER

Osvaldo Lira

1904 - 1996

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0568 FOOTBALL

Juan Aguilera (footballer)

1903 - 1979

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0605 WRITER

Arturo Aldunate Phillips

1902 - 1985

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0608 FOOTBALL

Casimiro Torres

Born 1906

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0640 JOURNALIST

Raúl Silva Castro

1903 - 1970

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0644 HISTORIAN

Eugenio Pereira Salas

1904 - 1979

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0647 POLITICIAN

Juan Gómez Millas

1900 - 1987

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0678 WRITER

Oreste Plath

1907 - 1996

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0748 FOOTBALL

David Arellano

1902 - 1927

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0749 ACTOR

Esteban Serrador

1903 - 1978

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0770 PHOTOGRAPHER

Antonio Quintana

1904 - 1972

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0821 PAINTER

Inés Puyó

1906 - 1996

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1004 PHYSICIAN

Hernan Alessandri

1900 - 1980

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1081 PAINTER

Graciela Aranis

1908 - 1996

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1245 BASKET

Eduardo Kapstein

Born 1904

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1274 POLITICIAN

Eugenio González Rojas

1903 - 1976

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1307 LAWYER

Rafael Agustín Gumucio

1909 - 1996

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1319 ARCHITECT

Sergio Larraín García-Moreno

1905 - 1999

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1325 WRITER

Henriette Morvan

Born 1900

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1340 COMPOSER

Francisco Flores del Campo

1907 - 1993

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1348 JOURNALIST

María Romero Cordero

1909 - 1989

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1403 ACTIVIST

Ana Figuero

1907 - 1970

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1495 JOURNALIST

Marcos Chamúdez

1907 - 1989

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1501 SINGER

Clara Solovera

1909 - 1992

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1608 BUSINESS

Eliodoro Matte Ossa

1905 - 2000

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1621 LAWYER

Pedro Lira Urquieta

1900 - 1981

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1654 PRIEST

Emilio Tagle Covarrubias

1907 - 1991

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1712 EDUCATOR

Irma Salas Silva

1903 - 1987

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1725 WRITER

Horacio Serrano

1904 - 1980

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1757 ACTOR

Jorge Guerra

1905 - 2009

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1932 FOTOGRAF

Alfredo Molina

1906 - 1971

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1938 MILITAR

Óscar Izurieta Molina

1909 - 1990

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1982 LAWYER

Germán Picó Cañas

1905 - 1988

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2042 LAWYER

Guillermo Izquierdo

1902 - 1988

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2115 LAWYER

Raúl Marín Balmaceda

1907 - 1957

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2130 PHYSICIAN

Francisco Rojas Villegas

1909 - 1993

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2158 POLITICIAN

Raúl Morales Beltramí

1906 - 1946

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2234 ARCHITECT

Héctor Mardones

1907 - 1974

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2298 SCULPTOR

Lorenzo Domínguez Villar

1901 - 1963

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2444 ATHLETIC

Juan Acosta

Born 1907

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2450 LAWYER

Raúl Irarrázaval Lecaros

1906 - 1982

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2477 ARTIST

Mireya Lafuente

1905 - 1976

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2546 POLITICIAN

Gregorio Amunátegui Jordán

1901 - 1981

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2646 LAWYER

Jorge Baraona

1902 - 1971

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2662 POLITICIAN

Albino Barra Villalobos

1906 - 1993

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2720 MATHEMATICIAN

Guacolda Antoine

1908 - 2015

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2767 POLITICIAN

Eduardo Yáñez Zavala

1903 - 1983

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2814 POLITICIAN

José Luis Infante

1907 - 1997

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2821 WRITER

Chela Reyes

1904 - 1988

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2886 DIPLOMAT

Luis Melo Lecaros

1905 - 1998

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2887 LAWYER

Ladislao Errázuriz Pereira

1909 - 1981

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2901 LAWYER

Juan Antonio Coloma Mellado

1906 - 1961

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2906 BUSINESS

Benjamín Matte

1902 - 1982

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2928 LAWYER

Israel Bórquez

1905 - 1989

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2930 LAWYER

Manuel Goycoolea Espoz

1903 - 1996

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2936 ECONOMIST

Roberto Vergara Herrera

1902 - 1987

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2937 DIPLOMAT

Juan Bautista Rossetti

1903 - 1976

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2949 POLITICIAN

Benjamín Claro Velasco

1902 - 1968

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2971 LAWYER

Luis Cousiño Mac Iver

1903 - 1995

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2982 LAWYER

Julio Chaná

1909 - 1995

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2997 SURGEON

Raúl Brañes

1903 - 1991

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3039 BIOLOGIST

Roberto Barahona Silva

1908 - 1982

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3092 POLITICIAN

Alfredo Cerda

1900 - 1984

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3095 POLITICIAN

Manuel Antonio Garretón Walker

1909 - 1958

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3098 LAWYER

Julio Pereira Larraín

1907 - 1978

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3144 WRITER

Jean Vaudal

1900 - 1945

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3149 POLITICIAN

Olga Maturana

1906 - 1973

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3163 POLITICIAN

Guillermo Pérez de Arce Plummer

1906 - 1994

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3167 POLITICIAN

José Domínguez Echenique

1900 - 1961

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3193 LAWYER

Manuel Montt Lehuedé

1904 - 1983

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3196 MINISTR

Manuel Casanueva Ramírez

1907 - 1984

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3223 POLITICIAN

Hernán Videla Lira

1903 - 1982

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3271 POLITICIAN

Graciela Lacoste

1902 - 1971

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3288 LAWYER

Pedro García de la Huerta Matte

1903 - 1994

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3371 POLITICIAN

Alberto del Pedregal Artigas

1907 - 1964

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3378 DIPLOMAT

Manuel Pereira Irarrázaval

Born 1907

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3390 POLITICIAN

Teodoro Agurto

1900 - 1948

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3393 POLITICIAN

Carlos Rozas Larraín

1901 - 1970

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3430 WRITER

Victoria Orjikh

1908 - 1983

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3431 POLITICIAN

Fernando Maira Castellón

1906 - 1967

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3454 POLITICIAN

Domingo Cuadra Gazmuri

1908 - 1999

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3461 POLITICIAN

Luis Palacios Rossini

Born 1900

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3493 WRITER

Héctor Pumarino Soto

1901 - 2001

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3508 POLITICIAN

Luis González Olivares

1908 - 1976

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3514 PLAYER

Domingo Torralva

Born 1900

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3536 LAWYER

Enrique Matta Figueroa

1900 - 1968

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3540 POLITICIAN

Carlos Germán Valdés Riesco

1904 - 1985

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3642 LAWYER

Lucio Aníbal Concha

1901 - 1952

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3645 POLITICIAN

Joaquín Mardones Bissig

1901 - 1993

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