Born on Chile

12 famous people found

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  Salvador Allende

  Chilean physician and socialist politician who served as the 28th president of Chile

  1908 - 1973
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  Augusto PINOCHET

  Chilean army general who was brought to power as president by a coup d'etat

  1915 - 2006
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  Nicanor PARRA

  Poet, physicist, Cervantes Prize 2011

  1914 - 2018
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  Leonor Varela

  Chilean actress and model

  1972
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  José Joaquín PRIETO

  Chilean military and political figure, twice President of Chile

  1786 - 1864
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  Guillermo Billinghurst

  Peruvian politician, 37th President of Peru

  1851 - 1915
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  Pedro Demetrio O'HIGGINS

  Chilean businessman and politician

  1818 - 1868
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  Conchita Cintrón

  Chile-born Peruvian torera (female bullfighter), perhaps the most famous in the history of bullfighting

  1922 - 2009
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  Sebastián PINERA

  President-elect of Chile

  1949
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  Gabriela MISTRAL

  Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist who was the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1945

  1889 - 1957
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  Bernardo O'HIGGINS

  Chilean independence leader

  1778 - 1842
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  Eduardo FREI MONTALVA

  Chilean-Swiss political figure and president of Chile from 1964 to 1970

  1911 - 1982