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VALPARAISO
Most Famous People Born in Valparaiso, Chile
- Notable people
- 477
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- Median birth year
- 1928
- Most distinctive
- Lawyer 5.8×
One face per decade — the most globally famous figure born in Valparaiso during each.
Notable Births by Decade
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What Valparaiso Is Known For
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Politician is Valparaiso's biggest profession — 13% of all notables (61).
Valparaiso over-indexes on lawyer — 5.8× the global rate.
Profession Mix Over Time
Each band shows a profession family's share of Valparaiso's notable births by decade. Hover the chart for the breakdown at any decade.
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Salvador Allende
1908 - 1973
Augusto Pinochet
1915 - 2006
Gerardo Martino
Born 1962
Evelyn Ankers
1918 - 1985
Chris Watson
1867 - 1941
David Pizarro
Born 1979
Ángel Parra
1943 - 2017
Claudio Naranjo
1932 - 2019
Roberto Ampuero
Born 1953
Manfred Max-Neef
1932 - 2019
Rodrigo Andrés González Espíndola
Born 1968
Elías Figueroa
Born 1946
Luis Emilio Recabarren
1876 - 1924
Catalina Saavedra
Born 1968
Eduardo Barrios
1884 - 1963
Luis Marín Barahona
Born 1983
Gaston Salvatore
1941 - 2015
Sergio Badilla Castillo
Born 1947
Valeria Sarmiento
Born 1948
Carlos Muñoz (Chilean footballer)
Born 1989
DJ Méndez
Born 1975
Juan Luis Martínez
1942 - 1993
Aurélia de Souza
1866 - 1922
Jaime Vadell
Born 1935
Francisco García Calderón Rey
1883 - 1953
Joaquín Edwards Bello
1887 - 1968
Juan Carlos Letelier
Born 1959
Alfredo Valenzuela Puelma
1856 - 1909
Franz Schultz
Born 1991
Alejandro Hisis
Born 1962
Gaston Orellana
Born 1933
Leonardo Véliz
Born 1945
Camilo Mori
1896 - 1973
Felipe Larraín Bascuñán
Born 1958
Claudio Núñez
Born 1975
Rodrigo Rojas DeNegri
1967 - 1986
Henrique Bernardelli
1858 - 1936
Jorge Baradit
Born 1969
Percy John Daniell
1889 - 1946
Gabriel Castellón
Born 1993
Raúl Sánchez (Chilean footballer)
1933 - 2016
Fernando Ubiergo
Born 1953
Ricardo Krebs
1918 - 2011
Amy Woodforde-Finden
1860 - 1919
Arturo Moya Grau
1920 - 1994
Virginia Reginato
Born 1939
Guillermo Díaz (Chilean footballer)
1930 - 1997
Frederick Ogilvie
1893 - 1949
Álvaro Bisama
Born 1975
Roberto Rey
1905 - 1972
Eduardo Cruz-Coke
1899 - 1974
José Bengoa
Born 1945
Adolfo Rivadeneyra
1841 - 1882
Álvaro Guevara
1894 - 1951
Laura Allende
1911 - 1981
Carlos Camus
1927 - 2014
Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente
1931 - 2008
Jaime Grondona
Born 1987
Héctor Croxatto
1908 - 2010
Felipe Herrera
1922 - 1996
Alfredo Helsby
1862 - 1933
Carlos F. Borcosque
1894 - 1965
José Muñoz-Cortes
1948 - 1997
Alberto Edwards
1874 - 1932
Adolfo Couve
1940 - 1998
Osvaldo Rodríguez (poet)
1943 - 1996
Aldo Valentini
1938 - 2009
Renato Zanelli
1892 - 1935
Mauricio Flores Ríos
Born 1990
Eric Godoy
Born 1987
Ramón Allende Padín
1845 - 1884
Gonzalo Duarte García de Cortázar
Born 1942
Jacqueline Balcells
Born 1944
Joel Soto
Born 1982
Ramón Subercaseaux Vicuña
1854 - 1937
Federico Santa María
1845 - 1925
Óscar Cristi
1916 - 1965
Concha Zardoya
1915 - 2004
Hernán Ramírez Necochea
1917 - 1979
Álvaro Peña-Rojas
Born 1943
Óscar Guillermo Garretón
Born 1943
Adrián Cuadra
Born 1997
Omar Saavedra Santis
Born 1944
Cristián Flores
Born 1972
Curt Echtermeyer
1896 - 1971
Pascuala Ilabaca
Born 1985
Ernesto Ottone
Born 1972
Agustín Edwards Ross
1852 - 1897
Alberto Rojas Jiménez
1900 - 1934
Raquel Garrido
Born 1974
Eduardo Paxeco
Born 1982
Sebastián Alarcón
1949 - 2019
Jefferson Castillo
Born 1990
Eliana Navarro
1920 - 2006
Alfredo del Diestro
1877 - 1951
Arnold Diestel
1857 - 1924
Sergio Marchant
1961 - 2020
Gustavo Ross
1879 - 1961
Marta Vergara
1898 - 1995
Recaredo Santos Tornero
1842 - 1902
Carlos de Rokha
1920 - 1962
Aldo Francia
1923 - 1996
Alberto Orrego Luco
1854 - 1931
Augusto Orrego Luco
1849 - 1933
Juan Bernal Ponce
1938 - 2006
Matías Novoa
Born 1980
Camila Silva (tennis)
Born 1992
Paula Larrain
Born 1970
Giakumis Kodogiannis
Born 1992
Adriana Olguín
1911 - 2015
Carolina Vera
Born 1973
Diego González Fuentes
Born 1995
Edgardo Garrido
1888 - 1976
Michael Silva
Born 1988
Pedro Olmos Muñoz
1911 - 1991
Roberto Luco
Born 1985
Jorge Vidal
1943 - 2006
Sara Guasch
1918 - 2005
Víctor de la Serna
1896 - 1958
Alfredo Rojas (Chilean footballer)
Born 1987
Julio Bañados Espinosa
1858 - 1899
Karla Constant
Born 1972
Liborio Brieba
1841 - 1897
Miguel Luís Rocuant
1877 - 1948
Donald Campbell (rugby player)
1919 - 1944
Gianella Marengo
Born 1976
Marcela Osorio
Born 1964
Leo Caprile
Born 1959
Juan Núñez (tennis)
Born 1956
Giancarlo Monsalve
Born 1982
Cosme San Martín
1850 - 1906
Carlos Cáceres Contreras
Born 1940
William Heneage Ogilvie
1887 - 1971
Hernán Raffo
1929 - 2012
Marianne Peronard
1932 - 2016
Enrique Cood
1826 - 1888
Ian C. Johnston
Born 1938
Arnaldo Berríos
1928 - 2016
Matías Fernández Cordero
Born 1995
Fernando Rosas Pfingsthorn
1931 - 2007
Ian Campbell (rugby player)
Born 1928
Henrietta Müller
1846 - 1906
Valentina Carvajal
Born 1989
Pablo Garrido (Komponist)
1905 - 1982
Arno Görke
1923 - 1992
Eduardo Alquinta
1945 - 2003
Ernst Samhaber
1901 - 1974
Gabriel Vigliensoni
Born 1971
Fernando Lamberg
1928 - 2011
Rafael Frontaura
1896 - 1966
Juan Cameron
Born 1947
Thomas Keller
Born 1957
Gonzalo Ibáñez
Born 1945
Eugenio Méndez
Born 1941
Celia Castro
1860 - 1930
Rodolfo Hammersley
Born 1889
Eduardo Cavieres
Born 1945
Luis Bossay
1912 - 1986
Ricardo Larraín Bravo
1879 - 1945
Carlos Condell
1843 - 1887
Arturo López Willshaw
1900 - 1962
Emilio Filippi
1928 - 2014
Pablo Ramírez Rodríguez
1886 - 1949
Manuel Camilo Vial
1804 - 1882
Luis Dimas
Born 1943
Fernando Gallardo
1942 - 2004
Alejandra Valle
Born 1975
Cristian Bofill
Born 1959
Ernesto Fontaine
1934 - 2014
Frank Pando
Born 1971
Luis Mizón
Born 1942
Betty Kretschmer
Born 1928
Alicia Galaz Vivar
1936 - 2003
Claudio Salinas
Born 1976
Manuel Harder
Born 1971
Francisco Samper Polo
Born 1932
José Maza Sancho
Born 1948
Rodolfo Carter
Born 1971
Moisés Mussa
1900 - 1982
José González (basketball)
Born 1914
Jorge Rodríguez
Born 1947
Ernestina Pérez Barahona
1865 - 1951
Salvador Allende Castro
1871 - 1932
Jorge Castro Muñoz
Born 1956
Alicia Herrera Rivera
1928 - 2013
Gabriel Parra
1947 - 1988
Emilio Lamarca
1844 - 1922
Payo Grondona
1945 - 2014
Kurt Ludewig
Born 1942
Máximo Carvajal
1935 - 2006
Julio Fossa Calderón
1874 - 1946
Víctor Rivero
Born 1980
Claudio Grossman
Born 1947
Luis Ibaseta
Born 1913
Eusebio Hernández
Born 1911
Hernán Trizano
1860 - 1926
Edmundo González
Born 1956
Pablo Quintanilla
Born 1986
Julio Videla
1944 - 2020
Emilio Rodríguez Mendoza
1873 - 1960
Mauricio Hernández
Born 1958
Eduardo Embry
Born 1938
Erasmo Escala
1826 - 1884
George Howe (actor)
1970 - 1986
Diego Dublé Almeida
1841 - 1922
Clarence Finlayson
1913 - 1954
Nelson Oyarzún
1943 - 1978
Eduardo Vio Grossi
Born 1944
John Biehl
Born 1939
Héctor Núñez (footballer, born 1992)
Born 1992
Ricardo Astorga
Born 1954
Pedro Gamboni
1825 - 1895
Fernando Emmerich
Born 1932
Arturo Prat Carvajal
1878 - 1942
Carlos Tromben
Born 1966
Paula Quintana Meléndez
Born 1965
Guillermo Solá
1929 - 2020
Marisol Turres
Born 1964
María Dalmazzo
Born 1983
Jorge Boonen
1858 - 1921
Patricio Frez
1955 - 2020
Francisco Nef
1863 - 1931
Elvira Santa Cruz Ossa
1886 - 1960
Emiliana Concha de Ossa
1862 - 1905
Gustavo Lorca
1921 - 2013
Alberto Cruz Montt
1879 - 1955
José Antonio Soto Délano
Born 1986
Esteban Orlando Harrington
1873 - 1936
Edgard Telles Ribeiro
Born 1944
Helen Loring Grenfell
1862 - 1935
Chito Faró
1915 - 1986
Zinnia Ramírez
Born 1955
Vittorio Montiglio
1903 - 1929
Bernardita Vattier
Born 1944
Alfredo Sepúlveda
Born 1993
Claudia Barattini
Born 1960
Sergio Sauvalle
Born 1931
Stewart Iglehart
1910 - 1993
Sofía Eastman
1873 - 1944
Frederick Niven
1878 - 1944
Piero Gárate
Born 1992
Jorge Bermúdez Soto
Born 1969
Juan Santiago Garrido
1902 - 1994
Kenneth Pugh
Born 1959
Pedro Jesús Rodríguez
1907 - 1982
Friedrich Matthaei (Gynäkologe)
1865 - 1930
Joaquín Godoy Ibáñez
Born 1977
Alan Reale
Born 1974
Hernán Oliva
1913 - 1988
Eric Schlubach
1878 - 1962
Myriam von Schrebler
1930 - 2006
Amalia Pérez Díaz
1923 - 2003
Juan Arredondo
1918 - 2015
Nino García
1957 - 1998
Juan Bascuñán
1892 - 1969
Ramón Cabieses
1814 - 1893
Eduardo Maturana
1920 - 2003
Alfonso Vargas
Born 1951
Zuliana Araya
Born 1964
Jorge Matute Matute
1951 - 2011
Laura Soto
Born 1931
Jorge Aedo
Born 1962
Carlos Künsemüller
Born 1946
Cornelio Saavedra Montt
1884 - 1946
Homero Castillo
1918 - 1980
Carmen Gaete
Born 1938
Álvaro Madrid
Born 1995
Pedro Pierry
Born 1941
José Anacleto Montt Goyenechea
1802 - 1867
Hugo Stuven
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Enrique Barbosa Baeza
1882 - 1976
Brian Schoonveld
Born 1974
Carmen Marín
Born 1838
Federico Schwager
1823 - 1892
Luis Oddó Osorio
1865 - 1899
Fernando Cordero Rusque
1939 - 2020
Víctor Contreras
1945 - 2018
Naum Kramarenco
1923 - 2013
Manuel Eduardo Hübner
1905 - 1988
Cristián Henríquez
Born 1978
Kevin Flores
Born 1995
Manuel Thomson
1839 - 1880
Carlos Maldonado Curti
Born 1963
Rodolfo Codina
Born 1949
Miguel Woodward Iribarri
1930 - 1973
Arturo Benavides Santos
1864 - 1937
Edmundo Eluchans Urenda
Born 1950
Martín Arenas Jara
Born 1997
Luis Guastavino
Born 1931
Paolo Botto
1896 - 1974
Alice Ducasse
1841 - 1923
Julio Montt Salamanca
1861 - 1882
Kevin Vásquez Valdivia
Born 1997
Gustavo León Morales
Born 1988
Javier Frelijj
Born 1991
Carlos Hermosilla Álvarez
1905 - 1991
Graciela Lira
1909 - 1986
Pablo Badenier
Born 1973
Pablo Leiva Wenger
Born 1983
Sebastián Ayala
Born 1982