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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 45 of 3,702 notable people

0169 DIPLOMAT

Gabriel Valdés

1919 - 2011

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Alejandro Álvarez

1868 - 1960

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Armando Uribe

1933 - 2020

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Heraldo Muñoz

Born 1948

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Eliodoro Yáñez

1860 - 1932

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Juan Gabriel Valdés

Born 1947

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Eduardo de la Barra

1839 - 1900

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Joseph W. Westphal

Born 1948

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Luis Pardo

1882 - 1935

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Alberto Cabero

1874 - 1955

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Alejandro Jara

Born 1949

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Enrique Bernstein Carabantes

1910 - 1990

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Adolfo Zaldívar

1943 - 2013

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1365 DIPLOMAT

Felipe Bulnes

Born 1969

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1375 DIPLOMAT

Jorge Heine

Born 1948

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Cristian Barros

Born 1952

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1481 DIPLOMAT

Ernesto Balmaceda Bello

1887 - 1906

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1531 DIPLOMAT

Carlos Aldunate Solar

1856 - 1931

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1649 DIPLOMAT

Tobías Barros Ortiz

1894 - 1995

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Genaro Arriagada

Born 1943

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1894 DIPLOMAT

Manuel Trucco Gaete

1914 - 1995

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1959 DIPLOMAT

José Miguel de la Barra

1799 - 1851

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2000 DIPLOMAT

Manuel Rivas Vicuña

1880 - 1937

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José Francisco Gana

1791 - 1864

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José Tadeo Mancheño

1784 - 1871

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Hernán Felipe Errázuriz

Born 1945

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2570 DIPLOMAT

Myles Frechette

1936 - 2017

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2672 DIPLOMAT

Juan Eguiguren

Born 1953

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Hugo Miranda

1921 - 2011

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2858 DIPLOMAT

Joaquín Fernández Fernández

1891 - 1979

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2882 DIPLOMAT

Silvestre Ochagavía Errázuriz

1820 - 1883

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2886 DIPLOMAT

Luis Melo Lecaros

1905 - 1998

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Octavio Errázuriz

Born 1942

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2937 DIPLOMAT

Juan Bautista Rossetti

1903 - 1976

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3072 DIPLOMAT

Marta Mauras

Born 1947

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3253 DIPLOMAT

Ricardo Riesco Jaramillo

Born 1949

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3259 DIPLOMAT

Héctor Valenzuela Valderrama

1923 - 1978

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3295 DIPLOMAT

Luis Malaquías Concha Stuardo

1883 - 1961

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3378 DIPLOMAT

Manuel Pereira Irarrázaval

Born 1907

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Francisco Bernales

Born 1956

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Eugenio Guzmán Montt

1875 - 1922

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Óscar Rafael Blanco Viel

1896 - 1964

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Fernando Urízar Garfias

1804 - 1876

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3526 DIPLOMAT

Javier Ovalle Errázuriz

1798 - 1857

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Justiniano Sotomayor Guzmán

1845 - 1909

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