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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.