33.4499° S, 70.6663° W

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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0001 WRITER

Roberto Bolaño

1953 - 2003

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0037 WRITER

Pedro Lemebel

1952 - 2015

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0049 POET

Raúl Zurita

Born 1950

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0052 ACTOR

Alfredo Castro (actor)

Born 1955

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0054 ARTIST

Alfredo Jaar

Born 1956

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0073 WRITER

Marcela Serrano

Born 1951

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0076 FOOTBALL

Eduardo Bonvallet

1955 - 2015

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0083 FOOTBALL

Manuel Pellegrini

Born 1953

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0097 POLITICIAN

Evelyn Matthei

Born 1953

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0104 FILM

Marco Bechis

Born 1955

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0106 POLITICIAN

Joaquín Lavín

Born 1953

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0120 FILM

Alexander Witt

Born 1952

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0122 POLITICIAN

Mauricio Rojas

Born 1950

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0164 WRITER

Carla Guelfenbein

Born 1959

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0167 ACTOR

Coca Guazzini

Born 1953

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0183 FOOTBALL

Roberto Rojas

Born 1957

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0189 FOOTBALL

Carlos Caszely

Born 1950

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0192 POLITICIAN

Tomás Hirsch

Born 1956

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0195 JOURNALIST

Isabel San Sebastián

Born 1959

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0225 POLITICIAN

Ignacio Walker

Born 1956

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0231 FOOTBALL

Mario Soto (footballer)

Born 1950

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0234 PHYSICIST

F. J. Duarte

Born 1954

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0247 POLITICIAN

Soledad Alvear

Born 1950

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0258 POET

Arturo Fontaine Talavera

Born 1952

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0281 FOOTBALL

Jorge Orlando Aravena Plaza

Born 1958

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0288 DRIVER

Eliseo Salazar

Born 1954

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0296 POLITICIAN

Camilo Escalona

Born 1955

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0298 FILM

Ricardo Larraín

1957 - 2016

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0321 PRESENTER

Raquel Argandoña

Born 1957

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0336 WRITER

Marco Antonio de la Parra

Born 1952

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0337 FOOTBALL

Oscar Wirth

Born 1955

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0344 ACTOR

Francisco Reyes Morandé

Born 1954

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0360 PLAYER

Ricardo Acuña

Born 1958

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0364 PLAYER

Belus Prajoux

Born 1955

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0368 ACTOR

Malucha Pinto

Born 1956

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0373 COMPOSER

Sebastian Santa Maria

1959 - 1996

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0393 ACTOR

Alejandro Trejo

Born 1954

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0403 FOOTBALL

Lizardo Garrido

Born 1957

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0415 ACTOR

Andrés Palacios

Born 1957

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0421 ECONOMIST

Sebastián Edwards

Born 1953

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0425 WRITER

Jaime Collyer

Born 1955

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0429 FOOTBALL

Juan Machuca

Born 1951

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0430 ACTOR

Michael Tregor

Born 1950

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0432 POLITICIAN

Pepe Auth

Born 1957

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0433 FOOTBALL

Marco Cornez

Born 1957

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0444 ECONOMIST

Marcel Claude

Born 1957

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0448 POLITICIAN

Carlos Ominami

Born 1950

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0460 POLITICIAN

Andrés Allamand

Born 1956

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0463 FOOTBALL

Jorge Socías

Born 1951

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0467 PHILOSOPHER

Carlos Pérez Soto

Born 1954

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0474 PLAYER

Álvaro Fillol

Born 1952

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0483 ECONOMIST

José de Gregorio

Born 1959

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0494 FOOTBALL

Manuel Rojas (footballer)

Born 1954

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0504 MATHEMATICIAN

Carlos Conca

Born 1954

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0532 SINGER

Miguel Piñera

Born 1954

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0548 FOOTBALL

Vladimir Bigorra

Born 1954

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0555 WRITER

Ramón Griffero

Born 1954

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0560 ACADEMIC

Miguel Altieri

Born 1950

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0593 HISTORIAN

Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt

Born 1955

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0616 PRIEST

Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib

Born 1957

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0623 POLITICIAN

Francisco Vidal Salinas

Born 1953

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0636 MATHEMATICIAN

Leo Corry

Born 1956

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0645 PAINTER

Samy Benmayor

Born 1956

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0651 CHESS

Roberto Cifuentes

Born 1957

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0672 ANTHROPOLOGIST

Claudio Lomnitz

Born 1957

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0693 POLITICIAN

Laura Rodríguez

1957 - 1992

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0694 NOVELIST

Roberto Brodsky

Born 1957

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0697 PAINTER

Carlos Maturana

Born 1953

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0705 MUSIC

Oscar Lopez (guitarist)

Born 1954

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0714 SINGER

Patricia Maldonado Aravena

Born 1950

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0719 FILM

Ignacio Agüero

Born 1952

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0735 HISTORIAN

Leonardo León

Born 1952

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0742 WRITER

Jorge Marchant Lazcano

Born 1950

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0745 ECONOMIST

René Cortázar Sanz

Born 1952

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0750 WRITER

Gonzalo Contreras

Born 1958

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0793 PRIEST

Juan Ignacio González Errázuriz

Born 1956

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0809 POLITICIAN

Cecilia Morel

Born 1954

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0818 FILM

Rodrigo Sepúlveda

Born 1959

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0820 BUSINESS

Andrónico Luksic Craig

Born 1954

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0826 FILM

Gonzalo Justiniano

Born 1955

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0837 PRIEST

Horacio Valenzuela

Born 1954

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0840 PRIEST

Juan Barros Madrid

Born 1956

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0868 ACTOR

Maricarmen Arrigorriaga

Born 1957

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0880 JOURNALIST

Bambi Sheleg

1958 - 2016

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0883 SPORT

Alfonso de Iruarrizaga

Born 1957

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0892 PRIEST

Andrés Arteaga Manieu

Born 1959

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0914 POLITICIAN

Magdalena Matte

Born 1950

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0930 RESEARCH

Antonio Saldías

Born 1951

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0932 POET

Erick Pohlhammer

Born 1955

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0946 POET

Diego Maquieira

Born 1951

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0958 FOOTBALL

Juan Carlos Orellana

Born 1955

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0972 SINGER

Óscar Andrade

Born 1957

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0980 ECONOMIST

Vivianne Blanlot

Born 1956

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0988 POLITICIAN

Alfredo Moreno Charme

Born 1956

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0995 ACTOR

Óscar Olavarría

1950 - 2000

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0996 PRIEST

Tomislav Koljatić

Born 1955

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1008 SPORT

Juan Giha

Born 1955

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1024 ACTOR

Adriana Vacarezza

Born 1959

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1052 COMPOSER

Hugo Moraga

Born 1952

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1082 PRODUCER

Vicente Sabatini

Born 1953

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1084 PHYSICIAN

Jaime Mañalich

Born 1956

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1087 ARCHITECT

Juan Grimm

Born 1952

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1091 ARTIST

Alicia Villarreal (artist)

Born 1957

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1094 FOOTBALL

Edgardo Fuentes

Born 1958

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1101 PRIEST

Felipe Berríos

Born 1956

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1132 POLITICIAN

Jorge Burgos

Born 1956

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1143 ARTIST

Francisca Sutil

Born 1952

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1148 SCREENWRITER

Cristián Sánchez (director)

Born 1951

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1160 ECONOMIST

Mario Marcel

Born 1959

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1167 REVOLUTIONARY

Raúl Pellegrin

1958 - 1988

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1202 FOOTBALL

Luis Hormazábal

Born 1959

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1214 HISTORIAN

Sol Serrano

Born 1954

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1228 FOOTBALL

Héctor Hoffens

Born 1957

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1241 PRIEST

Pedro Ossandón Buljevic

Born 1957

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1247 COMPOSER

Paco Saval

Born 1950

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1260 ACTOR

Elsa Poblete

Born 1952

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1267 ACTIVIST

Viviana Díaz

Born 1950

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1281 ACTOR

Veronica Miriel

Born 1955

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1289 CHESS

Javier Campos Moreno

Born 1959

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1290 ACTOR

Adela Calderón

Born 1959

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1291 ECONOMIST

Sergio Melnick

Born 1951

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1297 HISTORIAN

Sergio Grez

Born 1953

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1303 JOURNALIST

Carlos Iturra

Born 1956

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1313 POLITICIAN

Alejandro Navarro

Born 1958

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1339 ECONOMIST

Nicolás Eyzaguirre

Born 1953

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1345 JOURNALIST

Cecilia Serrano

Born 1959

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1347 POLITICIAN

Andrés Chadwick

Born 1956

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1357 POLITICIAN

José Antonio Gómez Urrutia

Born 1953

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1368 ACTOR

Jacobo Winograd

Born 1955

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1377 DIPLOMAT

Cristian Barros

Born 1952

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1393 ACTOR

Alex Zisis

Born 1950

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1395 BIOCHEMIST

Rosa Devés

Born 1950

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1407 ACTOR

Cecilia Cucurella

Born 1955

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1411 POLITICIAN

Antonio Horvath

1950 - 2018

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1413 JOURNALIST

Fernando Paulsen

Born 1956

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1414 POLITICIAN

Osvaldo Andrade

Born 1953

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1433 CYCLIST

Fernando Vera

Born 1954

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1434 WRITER

Jorge Montealegre

Born 1954

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1438 PRIEST

Ignacio Francisco Ducasse Medina

Born 1956

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1442 JOURNALIST

Ascanio Cavallo

Born 1957

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1445 SINGER

Memo Aguirre

Born 1951

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1475 WRITER

Benjamín Galemiri

Born 1957

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1508 POLITICAL SCIENTIST

Max Welch Guerra

Born 1956

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1509 ECONOMIST

Felipe Morandé

Born 1955

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1518 SOCIOLOGIST

Claudia Serrano

Born 1957

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1525 BUSINESS

Rodrigo Jordan

Born 1959

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1546 COMPUTER SCIENTIST

Ralf Steinmetz

Born 1956

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1550 JOURNALIST

Diana Arón

1950 - 1974

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1555 SINGER

Miguelo

Born 1956

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1565 FOOTBALL

César Vaccia

Born 1952

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1566 OFFICER

Jorge Rojas Ávila

Born 1953

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1567 FOOTBALL

Juan Soto Quintana

Born 1956

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1574 FOOTBALL

Raúl Toro Fuenzalida

Born 1954

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1588 POLITICIAN

René Saffirio

Born 1955

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1590 PRIEST

Bernardo Bastres Florence

Born 1955

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1596 ECONOMIST

Juan Andrés Fontaine Talavera

Born 1954

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1616 MUSIC

Tita Parra

Born 1956

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1625 ACTOR

Rebeca Ghigliotto

1955 - 2003

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1630 WRITER

Patricia Politzer

Born 1952

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1640 FOOTBALL

Francisco Ugarte

Born 1959

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1642 FOOTBALL

Víctor Pizarro

Born 1950

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1655 FOTÓGRAFA

Leonora Vicuña

Born 1952

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1657 BUSINESS

Bernardo Matte

Born 1955

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1660 PRIEST

Luis Fernando Ramos Pérez

Born 1959

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1667 PERCUSSIONIST

Mario Argandoña

Born 1950

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1675 POLITICIAN

Gonzalo Navarrete

Born 1956

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1677 FOOTBALL

Víctor Estay

Born 1951

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1688 ECONOMIST

José Pablo Arellano

Born 1952

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1706 ACTOR

Carmen Bueno

Born 1950

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1718 ACTOR

Mabel Farías

Born 1955

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1722 POLITICIAN

Osvaldo Puccio

Born 1952

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1736 ACTOR

Felipe Armas

Born 1957

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1739 BUSINESS

Guillermo Luksic Craig

1956 - 2013

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1740 SOCIOLOGIST

José Weinstein

Born 1959

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1745 POLITICIAN

Magaly Acevedo

Born 1953

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1760 JOURNALIST

Emilio Sutherland

Born 1959

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1761 POLITICIAN

Sara Larraín

Born 1952

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1762 TRANSLATOR

Adan Kovacsics

Born 1953

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1765 FILM

Emilio Pacull

Born 1950

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1768 PHYSICIST

Daniel E. Friedmann

Born 1956

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1769 POLITICIAN

Alejandro García-Huidobro

Born 1952

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1776 LAWYER

Carlos Bombal

Born 1950

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1779 ACTOR

Gonzalo Robles

Born 1952

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1783 WRITER

Lilian Elphick

Born 1959

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1802 FILM

Vivienne Barry

Born 1952

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1805 ACTOR

Jacqueline Boudon

Born 1951

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1817 FOOTBALL

Eduardo Menichetti

1950 - 2007

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1819 ACTOR

Carmen Disa Gutiérrez

Born 1959

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1829 POLITICIAN

Melania Hotu

Born 1959

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1834 SINGER

Tato Gomez

Born 1953

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1848 POLITICIAN

Sonia Tschorne

Born 1954

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1854 POLITICIAN

Alejandro Lavquén

Born 1959

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1869 ACTOR

Santiago Bejarano

Born 1957

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1885 SINGER

Guillermo Basterrechea

Born 1950

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1891 ECONOMIST

Luis Larraín Arroyo

Born 1956

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1896 JOURNALIST

Susana Roccatagliata

Born 1956

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1902 WRITER

Omar Pérez Santiago

Born 1953

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1904 FOOTBALL

Leonardo Montenegro

Born 1955

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1908 MUSIC

Pablo Lecaros

Born 1957

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1918 TELEVISION

Ricardo Vicuña

Born 1955

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1927 PAINTER

Beatriz Aurora

Born 1956

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1937 PRIEST

Carlos Eduardo Pellegrín Barrera

Born 1958

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1949 BUSINESS

Jorge Bunster

Born 1953

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1955 LAWYER

Pilar Armanet

Born 1950

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1961 ACTOR

Sebastian Mancilla Olivares

1956 - 2009

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1977 JOURNALIST

Patricia Espejo

Born 1952

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1986 POLITICIAN

Víctor Olea Alegría

1950 - 1974

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2006 POET

Verónica Zondek

Born 1953

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2007 TRADE UNION

María Rozas

1955 - 2011

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2013 LAWYER

Nivia Palma

Born 1959

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2018 ECONOMIST

Ricardo Paredes Molina

Born 1956

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2026 FOOTBALL

Jorge Espinoza

Born 1953

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2028 ACTOR

Silvia Novak

Born 1955

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2046 ARCHITECT

Juan Sabbagh

Born 1951

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2050 POLITICIAN

Iván Moreira

Born 1956

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2051 SOCIOLOGIST

José Manuel Parada Maluenda

1950 - 1985

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2056 FOOTBALL

Rodrigo Santander

Born 1959

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2057 ACTOR

Ramón Farías

Born 1955

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2059 ARTIST

Eva Lefever

Born 1955

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2066 EGYPTOLOGIST

Frédéric Servajean

Born 1957

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2070 ARTIST

Guillo

Born 1950

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2077 PAINTER

Carmen Valbuena

Born 1955

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2086 LAWYER

Raúl Donckaster

Born 1953

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2091 SINGER

Patricio Wang

Born 1952

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2101 LAWYER

Jaime Orpis

Born 1956

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2103 LAWYER

Juan Antonio Coloma

Born 1956

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2107 JOURNALIST

Gemma Contreras

Born 1956

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2108 MAYOR

Álvaro Corbalán

Born 1951

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2111 SCULPTOR

Osvaldo Peña

Born 1950

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2138 LAWYER

Alberto Espina

Born 1956

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2142 ECONOMIST

Pablo Piñera

Born 1950

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2148 WRITER

Eliane Zimmermann

Born 1959

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2150 NATURALIST

José Yáñez Valenzuela

Born 1951

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2168 PASTOR

Christian Casanova Del Solar

Born 1953

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2174 CONDUCTOR

Bruno Leuschner (Musiker)

Born 1957

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2178 POLITICIAN

Patricio Melero

Born 1956

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2191 ECONOMIST

Máximo Pacheco Matte

Born 1953

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2193 LAWYER

Christian Suárez Crothers

Born 1958

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2204 POLITICIAN

Gabriel Ruiz-Tagle

Born 1953

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2211 ACTOR

Cuca Navarro

1959 - 1998

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2214 POLITICIAN

Josefa Errázuriz

Born 1952

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2218 LAWYER

Gutenberg Martínez

Born 1950

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2223 POLITICIAN

Ignacio Urrutia

Born 1957

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2232 SCULPTOR

Fernando Casasempere

Born 1958

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2235 POLITICIAN

Francisco de la Maza Chadwick

Born 1957

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2245 COMEDIAN

Ricardo Meruane

Born 1956

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2247 POLITICIAN

Sergio Aguiló

Born 1953

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2250 POLITICIAN

Jorge Tarud

Born 1953

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2251 MILITAR

Juan Miguel Fuente-Alba

Born 1953

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2254 DESSINATEUR

Ricardo (dessinateur)

Born 1956

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2258 LAWYER

Víctor Pérez Varela

Born 1954

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2265 MILITANTE

Alfonso Chanfreau

1950 - 1974

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2269 HISTORIAN

Gonzalo Rojas Sánchez

Born 1953

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2284 POLITICIAN

Julio Dittborn

Born 1951

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2288 PRESENTER

Kike Morandé

Born 1954

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2290 LAWYER

Luis Mayol

Born 1952

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2295 LAWYER

Jorge Schaulsohn

Born 1952

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2302 PRESENTER

Checho Hirane

Born 1955

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2307 BUSINESS

Rafael Guilisasti

Born 1953

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2311 ACTOR

Ernesto Belloni

Born 1956

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2313 LAWYER

Patricio Santamaría

Born 1955

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2316 MANAGER

Carmen Romero Quero

Born 1958

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2318 MUSIC

Luis Alberto Latorre

Born 1959

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2322 COMUNISTA

Eduardo Miño

1951 - 2001

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2327 POLITICIAN

Patricio Tombolini

Born 1953

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2336 BALLET

Juan Antonio Labra

Born 1959

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2339 BUSINESS

Juan Pablo Aboitiz

Born 1959

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2340 PHYSICIAN

Vicky Barahona

Born 1959

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2343 POLITICIAN

Sadi Melo

Born 1954

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2344 ECONOMIST

Ricardo Solari

Born 1954

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2350 COMANDANTE

Juan Gutiérrez Fischmann

Born 1957

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2354 BUSINESS

Fernando Echeverría

Born 1953

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2360 LAWYER

Gustavo González Jure

Born 1955

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2363 MILITAR

Humberto Oviedo

Born 1959

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2366 POLITICIAN

Luis Plaza

Born 1951

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2372 ECONOMIST

Jorge Desormeaux

Born 1950

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2382 LAWYER

Pía Guzmán Mena

Born 1957

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2386 PRESENTER

Raúl Alcaíno

Born 1953

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2387 COMANDANTE

José Joaquín Valenzuela Levi

1958 - 1987

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2391 POLITICIAN

Antonio Garrido Mardones

Born 1953

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2401 ECONOMIST

Gonzalo Martner Fanta

Born 1957

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2422 ECONOMIST

Álvaro García Hurtado

Born 1954

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2428 ECONOMIST

Andrés Palma

Born 1955

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2430 POLITICIAN

Roberto León

Born 1950

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2433 POLITICIAN

José Ramón Barros

Born 1958

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2436 WORKER

Paulina Saball

Born 1952

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2441 POLITICIAN

Gloria Hutt

Born 1955

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2469 POLITICIAN

Claudio Arriagada

Born 1955

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2471 ACTOR

Cristián García-Huidobro

Born 1952

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2475 TELEVISION

Cristián Mason

Born 1957

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2483 SOCIOLOGIST

Antonio Leal Labrín

Born 1950

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2487 POLITICIAN

Johnny Carrasco

Born 1952

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2489 LAWYER

Zarko Luksic

Born 1956

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2490 ENGINEER

Marcelo Trivelli

Born 1954

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2491 OFFICER

Eduardo Gordon

Born 1952

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2504 ACTOR

Alberto Vega Salvadó

Born 1951

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2516 PRESENTER

Eli de Caso

Born 1953

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2528 ENGINEER

Carlos Cruz Lorenzen

Born 1951

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2532 LAWYER

Eduardo Saffirio

Born 1958

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2534 ARTE

Andrea Goic

Born 1959

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