People on Chile's street signs

Bernardo O'Higgins

165 Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme was a Chilean independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule in the Chilean War of Independence. He was a wealthy landowner of Basque-Spanish and Irish ancestry....

Arturo Prat

129 Agustín Arturo Prat Chacón was a Chilean Navy officer and lawyer. He was killed in the Battle of Iquique, during the War of the Pacific. During his career, Prat had taken part in several naval...

Manuel Rodríguez Erdoíza

71 Manuel Xavier Rodríguez Erdoíza was a Chilean lawyer and guerrilla leader, considered one of the founders of independent Chile. Rodríguez was of Basque descent.

José Manuel Balmaceda

70 José Manuel Emiliano Balmaceda Fernández served as the 11th President of Chile from September 18, 1886, to August 29, 1891.

José de San Martín

64 José Francisco de San Martín y Matorras, nicknamed "the Liberator of Argentina, Chile and Peru", was an Argentine general and the primary leader of the southern and central parts of South America's...

Caupolicán

55 Caupolicán was a toqui or war leader of the Mapuche people, who led the resistance of his people against the Spanish conquistadors who invaded the territory of today's Chile during the sixteenth...

Ramón Freire

53 Ramón Saturnino Andrés Freire y Serrano was a Chilean political figure. He was head of state on several occasions, and enjoyed a numerous following until the War of the Confederation. Ramón Freire...

Lautaro

53 Lautaro was a young Mapuche toqui known for leading the indigenous resistance against Spanish conquest in Chile and developing the tactics that would continue to be employed by the Mapuche during the...

Gabriela Mistral

52 Lucila Godoy Alcayaga, known by her pseudonym Gabriela Mistral, was a Chilean poet-diplomat, journalist and educator. She read widely in theosophy, became a member of the Secular Franciscan Order or...

Pedro Aguirre Cerda

51 Pedro Abelino Aguirre Cerda was a Chilean political figure, educator, and lawyer who served as the 23rd president of Chile from 1938 until his death in 1941. He was a center left moderate.

José Miguel Carrera

45 José Miguel Carrera Verdugo was a Chilean general, formerly Spanish military, member of the prominent Carrera family, and considered one of the founders of independent Chile. Carrera was the most...

Pedro de Valdivia

45 Pedro Gutiérrez de Valdivia or Valdiva was a Spanish conquistador and the first Governor of Colonial Chile. After having served with the Spanish army in Italy and Flanders, he was sent to South...

Ignacio Carrera Pinto

45 Ignacio Carrera Pinto (1848–1882) was a Chilean soldier and Captain of the 4th Company of the "Chacabuco" 6th Line Battalion who was killed in action at the Battle of La Concepción. A hero of the War...

Manuel Baquedano

42 Manuel Jesús Baquedano González was a Chilean soldier and politician, who served as Commander-in-chief of the Army during the War of the Pacific, and briefly as President of Chile during the civil...

Diego Portales

42 Diego José Pedro Víctor Portales y Palazuelos was a Chilean statesman and entrepreneur. As a minister of president José Joaquín Prieto's government, he played a pivotal role in shaping the state and...

Manuel Bulnes

41 Manuel Bulnes Prieto was a Chilean military and political figure who was President of Chile from 1841 to 1851.

Aníbal Pinto

38 Aníbal Pinto Garmendia was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1876 and 1881.

Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna

38 Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna was a Chilean writer, journalist, historian and politician. Vicuña Mackenna was of Irish and Basque descent.

Christopher Columbus

35 Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening...

Manuel Montt

35 Manuel Francisco Antonio Julián Montt Torres was a Chilean statesman and scholar who was twice elected President of Chile between 1851 and 1861. He was the first civilian to serve a full term as...

Juan de Dios Aldea

35 Juan de Dios Aldea (1853–1879) was a Chilean marine. His remains rest in the crypt of the Monument to the Heroes of the Battle of Iquique, in Valparaíso.

Pedro Montt

32 Pedro Elías Pablo Montt Montt was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile from 1906 to his death from a probable stroke in 1910. His government furthered railroad and...

Manuel Blanco Encalada

30 Manuel José Blanco y Calvo de Encalada was a vice-admiral in the Chilean Navy, a political figure, and Chile's first President (Provisional) (1826).

Juan José Latorre

28 Juan José Latorre Benavente Chilean Vice Admiral, one of the principal actors of the War of the Pacific, and hero of the Battle of Angamos.

Francis of Assisi

28 Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. Inspired to lead a Christian life of...

Eleuterio Ramírez

27 Eleuterio Ramírez Molina was a Chilean lieutenant colonel. He founded the Foro Militar military newspaper in 1871.

Alberto Hurtado

27 Alberto Hurtado, SJ, popularly known as Padre Hurtado, was a Chilean Jesuit priest, lawyer, social worker, and writer of Basque ancestry. He founded the Hogar de Cristo foundation in 1944.

Federico Errázuriz Zañartu

26 Federico Marcos del Rosario Errázuriz Zañartu was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1871 and 1876.

Galvarino

26 Galvarino was a famous Mapuche warrior during the majority of the early part of the Arauco War. He fought and was taken prisoner along with 150 other Mapuche, in the Battle of Lagunillas against...

Camilo Henríquez

25 Friar José Camilo Henríquez González was a priest, author, politician, and is considered an intellectual antecedent to and founding father of the Republic of Chile for his passionate leadership and...

Mary, mother of Jesus

25 Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under various titles such as virgin or queen, many...

Diego Barros Arana

25 Diego Jacinto Agustín Barros Arana was a Chilean professor, legislator, minister and diplomat. He is considered the most important Chilean historian of the 19th century. His main work General History...

Pablo Neruda

25 Pablo Neruda was a Chilean poet-diplomat and politician who won the 1971 Nobel Prize in Literature. Neruda became known as a poet when he was 13 years old and wrote in a variety of styles, including...

José María Caro Rodríguez

23 José María Caro Rodríguez was a Chilean Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Santiago from 1939 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1946 by Pope Pius...

Francisco Bilbao

22 Francisco Bilbao Barquín was a Chilean writer, philosopher and liberal politician. He was one of the leaders of the unsuccessful revolt against the Chilean government in 1851.

Manuel Antonio Matta

22 Manuel Antonio Matta Goyenechea was a Chilean politician, lawyer and writer and founder of the Radical Party of Chile along with Pedro Leon Gallo.

Patricio Lynch

22 Patricio Javier de los Dolores Lynch y Solo de Zaldívar was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy and a rear admiral in the Chilean Navy, and one of the principal figures of the later stages of the War of...

Saint Joseph

21 According to the canonical Gospels, Joseph was a 1st-century Jewish man of Nazareth who was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus.

Andrés Bello

19 Andrés de Jesús María y José Bello López was a Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist, whose political and literary works constitute an important part...

Carlos Condell

19 Carlos Arnaldo Condell de la Haza was a Chilean naval officer and hero of the Battle of Punta Gruesa during the start of the War of the Pacific.

Amerigo Vespucci

18 Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence after whom America is named.

Joaquín Prieto

18 Joaquín Prieto Vial was a Chilean military and political figure. He was President of Chile between 1831 and 1841. Joaquín Prieto was of Spanish and Basque descent.

Saint Peter

18 Saint Peter, also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church. He appears...

Ferdinand Magellan

18 Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer best known for planning and leading the 1519–22 Spanish expedition to the East Indies. During this expedition, he discovered the Strait of Magellan,...

Rafael Sotomayor

18 Rafael Sotomayor Baeza was a Chilean lawyer and politician. As Minister of War and Navy he was the main organiser of Chilean forces during the War of the Pacific. He died of a stroke while on...

Vicente Pérez Rosales

17 Vicente Pérez Rosales was a politician, traveller, merchant, miner and Chilean diplomat. He is best known for his writings including his memoir Memorias del Pasado and for contributing to organize...

Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald

17 Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, Marquess of Maranhão, styled Lord Cochrane between 1778 and 1831, was a British naval officer, politician and mercenary. Serving during the French...

Antonio Varas

16 Antonio Varas de la Barra was a Chilean political figure. He began his political career as a Conservative, but was later a member of the National Party, of which he was one of the founders in 1857....

Galvarino Riveros Cárdenas

16 José Galvarino Riveros Cárdenas was a Chilean naval officer, Commander of the Chilean Squadron during the War of the Pacific.

Luis Cruz Martínez

16 Luis Cruz Martinez was a lieutenant of the 6th. second company of Regiment "Chacabuco" and hero of the Battle of La Concepción, during the War of the Pacific in 1882, in Chilean occupied territory.

José Joaquín Pérez

16 José Joaquín Pérez Mascayano was a Chilean lawyer, diplomat, and politician who served as President of Chile from 1861 to 1871.

Ignacio Serrano

16 Ignacio Serrano, also known as José Ignacio Serrano was a Mexican painter and lithographer of the 19th century. He was the first lithography docent at San Carlos Academy, where he also served as...

Diego de Almagro

16 Diego de Almagro, also known as El Adelantado and El Viejo, was a Spanish conquistador known for his exploits in western South America. He participated with Francisco Pizarro in the Spanish conquest...

Jorge Alessandri

16 Jorge Eduardo Alessandri Rodríguez was the 27th President of Chile from 1958 to 1964, and was the candidate of the Chilean right in the crucial presidential election of 1970, which he lost to...

Eusebio Lillo

16 Eusebio Lillo Robles was a poet, journalist and politician. He is the writer of the lyrics of the Chilean National Anthem.

Paul the Apostle

15 Paul, commonly known as Paul the Apostle or Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century AD. For his contributions towards the New Testament, he is...

Saint Sebastian

15 Sebastian was an early Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians. He was initially tied to a post or tree and shot...

Rose of Lima

15 Rose of Lima, TOSD, was a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, Spanish Empire, who became known for both her life of severe penance and her care of the poverty stricken of the...

John the Baptist

15 John the Baptist was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early first century AD. He is also known as Saint John the Forerunner in Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy,...

Pedro Lagos

15 Pedro Lagos Marchant was a Chilean infantry commander. He is best remembered for commanding the assault and capture of the city of Arica during the War of the Pacific.

Anthony of Padua

14 Anthony of Padua, OFM, or Anthony of Lisbon; born Fernando Martins de Bulhões was a Portuguese Catholic priest and member of the Order of Friars Minor.

Simón Bolívar

14 Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco was a Venezuelan military officer and statesman who led what are currently the countries of Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador,...

Paula Jaraquemada

14 Paula Jaraquemada Alquizar (1768–1851) was one of Chile's most outstanding patriots in the struggle for independence from Spain.

Saint Dominic

13 Saint Dominic, also known as Dominic de Guzmán, was a Castilian Catholic priest and the founder of the Dominican Order. He is the patron saint of astronomers and natural scientists, and he and his...

Pope John Paul II

13 Pope John Paul II was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death in 2005. He was the first non-Italian pope since Adrian VI in the 16th century, as...

Carlos Ibáñez del Campo

13 Carlos Ibáñez del Campo was a Chilean Army officer and political figure. He served as president twice, first between 1927 and 1931, and then from 1952 to 1958, serving for 10 years in office.

Javiera Carrera

13 Francisca Xaviera Eudoxia Rudecinda Carmen de los Dolores de la Carrera y Verdugo, better known as Javiera Carrera, was a Chilean independence activist. Together with her brothers José Miguel, Juan...

Ramón Barros Luco

13 Ramón Barros Luco was President of Chile between 1910 and 1915.                                     

Salvador Allende

13 Salvador Guillermo Allende Gossens was a Chilean socialist politician who served as the 29th president of Chile from 1970 until his death in 1973. As a socialist committed to democracy, he has been...

John F. Kennedy

12 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963. He was the youngest person elected president, at 43 years,...

José Victorino Lastarria

12 José Victorino Lastarria was a Chilean writer, legislative deputy, senator, diplomat, and finance minister.

Isabel Riquelme

12 María Isabel Riquelme de la Barrera y Meza, was the mother of Chilean independence leader Bernardo O'Higgins and First Lady of Chile.

Domingo Santa María

12 Domingo Santa María González was a Chilean political figure. He served as the president of Chile between 1881 and 1886.

Louis of Toulouse

11 Saint Louis of Toulouse, also known as Louis of Anjou, was a Neapolitan prince of the Capetian House of Anjou and a Catholic bishop.

José Manuel Infante

11 José Manuel Infante Montt fue un abogado, juez y político chileno.                                 

Miguel Luis Amunátegui

11 Miguel Luis Amunátegui Aldunate was a Chilean historian, politician, and writer. He was the brother of fellow historian Gregorio Víctor Amunátegui Aldunate.

Ernesto Riquelme

10 Ernesto Riquelme Venegas fue un marino y bombero chileno.                                           

Alonso de Ercilla

10 Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga was a Spanish soldier and poet, born in Madrid. While in Chile (1556–63) he fought against the Araucanians (Mapuche), and there he began the epic poem La Araucana,...

Cornelio Saavedra

10 Cornelio Judas Tadeo de Saavedra y Rodríguez was an Argentine military officer and statesman. He was instrumental in the May Revolution, the first step of Argentina's independence from Spain, and...

Basilio Urrutia

10 Basilio José Urrutia Vásquez fue un militar y político chileno que tuvo el grado de General de División y fue el General más antiguo de Ejército y General en Jefe del Ejército de la Frontera desde el...

Raúl Silva Henríquez

10 Raúl Silva Henríquez SDB was a Chilean prelate of the Catholic Church, a cardinal from 1962. He served as Archbishop of Santiago de Chile from 1961 to 1983 and as Bishop of Valparaíso from 1959 to...

Vicente Huidobro

10 Vicente García-Huidobro Fernández, known by the pseudonym Vicente Huidobro, was a Chilean poet, writer, editor and literary critic. A proponent of the avant-garde, Huidobro was the founder of...

Gabriel González Videla

10 Gabriel Enrique González Videla was a Chilean politician and lawyer who served as the 25th president of Chile from 1946 to 1952. He had previously been a member of the Chamber of Deputies from 1930...

Violeta Parra

10 Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval was a Chilean composer, singer-songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist. She pioneered the Nueva Canción Chilena, a renewal and a reinvention of...

Manuel Hipólito Orella

9 Agustín Manuel Hipólito Orella Macaya, known simply as Manuel Hipólito Orella, was a Chilean naval officer who made a career in the Chilean Navy. He was one of the first Chilean midshipmen who...

Francisco de Aguirre (conquistador)

9 Francisco de Aguirre was a Spanish conquistador who participated in the conquest of Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.

Pedro León Gallo

9 Pedro León Díaz Gallo was an Argentine statesman and Catholic priest. He was a representative to the Congress of Tucumán which on 9 July 1816 declared the Independence of Argentina.

Carrera family

9 The Carrera family is a Chilean aristocratic and political family of Basque descent. Becoming politically influential during the colonial period, the Carrera family played a significant role in the...

Juan Martínez de Rozas

9 Juan Martínez de Rozas Correa was a Chilean lawyer and politician, he was also the first leader in the Chilean fight for independence.

Michael (archangel)

9 Michael, also called Archangel Michael or Michael the Taxiarch, is an archangel and the warrior of God in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam while additionally being a saint in Christianity. The...

Juan Antonio Ríos

9 Juan Antonio Ríos Morales was a Chilean political figure who served as president of Chile from 1942 to 1946, during the height of World War II. He died in office.

José Santos Ossa

8 José Santos Ossa Vega fue un minero, explorador y exitoso empresario y banquero de la industria del salitre chileno. Se le atribuye la fundación del poblado de Antofagasta.

Santiago Bueras

8 José Antonio Santiago María Estanislao Bueras y Avaría fue un militar chileno que se unió en 1810 al naciente ejército chileno y luego luchó en la guerra de la Independencia de Chile. Se le conoce...

Eduardo Frei Montalva

8 Eduardo Nicanor Frei Montalva was a Chilean political leader. In his long political career, he was Minister of Public Works, president of his Christian Democratic Party, senator, President of the...

Saint Anne

8 According to Christian tradition, Saint Anne was the mother of Mary, the wife of Joachim and the maternal grandmother of Jesus. Mary's mother is not named in the Bible's canonical gospels. In...

Michimalonco

8 Michima Lonco was a Mapuche chief who ruled as an independent sovereign over the territory of the Aconcagua, Mapocho and Maipo valleys. He freed the Picunche from Inca rule and he put up tenacious...

Lascar

8 A lascar was a sailor or militiaman from the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, the Arab world, British Somaliland or other lands east of the Cape of Good Hope, who was employed on European ships...

Rayén Quitral

8 María Georgina Quitral Espinoza, more commonly known as Rayén Quitral, was a Chilean soprano and stage actress of Mapuche and Picunche descent. Known for her performance of the character of the...

Domingo Faustino Sarmiento

7 Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was President of Argentina from 1868 to 1874. He was a member of a group of intellectuals, known as the Generation of 1837, who had a great influence on 19th-century...

Benjamín Muñoz Gamero

7 Benjamín Muñoz Gamero was a Chilean naval officer, senator and governor of Punta Arenas in the Straits of Magellan. He was killed during the Mutiny of Cambiazo in 1851.

Baldomero Lillo

7 Baldomero Lillo was a Chilean Naturalist author whose works focused on the grim realities of working-class life, particularly the exploitative conditions experienced by coal miners in Lota, Chile.

Saint Nicholas

7 Saint Nicholas of Myra, also known as Nicholas of Bari, was an early Christian bishop of Greek descent from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia during the time of the Roman Empire. Because of the...

Clare of Assisi

7 Chiara Offreduccio, known as Clare of Assisi, is an Italian saint who was one of the first followers of Francis of Assisi.

Saint Lucy

7 Lucia of Syracuse, also called Santa Lucia and better known as Saint Lucy, was a Roman Christian martyr who died during the Diocletianic Persecution. She is venerated as a saint in Catholic,...

Valentín Letelier

7 Valentín Letelier Madariaga fue un abogado, político, bombero e intelectual chileno. Se especializó en los temas de educación y derecho administrativo. Fue miembro del Partido Radical y diputado por...

Jerónimo de Alderete

7 Jerónimo de Alderete y Mercado was a Spanish conquistador who was later named governor of Chile, but died before he could assume his post.

Laura Vicuña

7 Laura del Carmen Vicuña Pino was a Chilean child who was noted for her religious devotion. She was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1988 as the patron of abuse victims, having herself experienced...

Arturo Pérez Canto

7 Arturo Pérez Canto fue un militar chileno. Subteniente de la 4.ª compañía del batallón «Chacabuco» y héroe de la batalla de La Concepción.

Augustine of Hippo

7 Augustine of Hippo was a Christian theologian and philosopher from Roman Africa. He was the bishop of Hippo Regius from Thagaste in Numidia Cirtensis,. His writings deeply influenced the development...

Marcela Paz

7 Marcela Paz was the pen name of Esther Huneeus Salas de Claro, a Chilean writer. She also used the pen names of Paula de la Sierra, Lukim Retse, P. Neka and Juanita Godoy. She was a recipient of the...

Pablo de Rokha

7 Carlos Ignacio Díaz Loyola, known by the pseudonym Pablo de Rokha, was a Chilean vanguard poet. Awarded the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1965, de Rokha is considered one of the four...

Raphael (archangel)

6 Raphael is an archangel first mentioned in the Book of Tobit and in 1 Enoch, both estimated to date from between the 3rd and 2nd century BC. In later Jewish tradition, he became identified as one of...

Manuel Bustos

6 Manuel Antonio Bustos Huerta fue un sindicalista y político chileno. Fue el primer presidente de la Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT), entre 1988 y 1996, y ejerció como diputado de la República...

Margaret of Cortona

6 Margaret of Cortona was an Italian penitent of the Third Order of Saint Francis. She was born in Laviano, near Perugia, and died in Cortona. She was canonised in 1728.

Mariano Egaña

6 Mariano Egaña Fabres was a Chilean lawyer, conservative politician and the main writer of the Chilean Constitution of 1833.

Thomas the Apostle

6 Thomas the Apostle also known as Didymus, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Thomas is commonly known as "doubting Thomas" because he initially doubted the...

Philomena

6 Philomena, also known as Saint Philomena or Philomena of Rome was a Greek virgin martyr whose remains were discovered on 24–25 May 1802, in the Catacomb of Priscilla. Three tiles enclosing the tomb...

Vincent of Saragossa

6 Vincent of Saragossa, the Protomartyr of Spain, was a deacon of the Church of Saragossa. He is the patron saint of Lisbon, Algarve, and Valencia. His feast day is 22 January in the Catholic Church,...

Carlos Valdovinos

6 Carlos Valdovinos Valdovinos was a Chilean politician and lawyer who served as bi-minister during Pedro Aguirre Cerda's government.

Germán Riesco

6 Germán Riesco Errázuriz was a Chilean political figure, and he served as President of Chile between 1901 and 1906.

Pedro Prado

6 Pedro Prado Calvo was a Chilean writer and architect. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1949.

Saint George

6 Saint George, also George of Lydda, was an early Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint in Christianity. According to holy tradition, he was a soldier in the Roman army. Of Cappadocian Greek...

Jorge Montt

6 Jorge Montt Álvarez was a vice admiral in the Chilean Navy and president of Chile from 1891 to 1896.

Luke the Evangelist

6 Luke the Evangelist was one of the Four Evangelists—the four traditionally ascribed authors of the canonical gospels. The Early Church Fathers ascribed to him authorship of both the Gospel of Luke...

Inés Suárez

6 Inés Suárez, was a Spanish conquistadora who participated in the Conquest of Chile with Pedro de Valdivia, successfully defending the newly conquered Santiago against an attack in 1541 by the...

Ferdinand II of Aragon

6 Ferdinand II was King of Aragon from 1479 until his death in 1516. As the husband and co-ruler of Queen Isabella I of Castile, he was also King of Castile from 1475 to 1504. He reigned jointly with...

Oscar Castro-Neves

6 Oscar Castro-Neves, was a Brazilian guitarist, arranger, and composer who is considered a founding figure in bossa nova.

Mariano Sánchez Fontecilla

5 Mariano Elías Sánchez Fontecilla fue un abogado, diplomático y político chileno, ministro de Estado en varios gobiernos.

Óscar Bonilla (militar)

5 Óscar Bonilla Bradanovic fue un militar y político chileno de ascendencia croata. Se desempeñó como ministro del Interior y de Defensa Nacional durante la dictadura militar, presidida por el general...

Diego Dublé Almeyda

5 Diego Dublé Almeyda was a Chilean Army officer. From 1874 to 1878 he was governor of governor of Punta Arenas in the Straits of Magellan. In 1876 he travelled on board of Chacabuco to Port Stanley in...

Didacus of Alcalá

5 Didacus of Alcalá, also known as Diego de San Nicolás, was a Spanish Franciscan lay brother who served among the first group of missionaries to the newly conquered Canary Islands. He died at Alcalá...

Catherine of Alexandria

5 Catherine of Alexandria, also spelled Katherine, was, according to tradition, a Christian saint and virgin, who was martyred in the early 4th century at the hands of the emperor Maxentius. According...

Saint Lawrence

5 Saint Lawrence or Laurence was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians that the Roman emperor Valerian ordered in 258.

Pedro Lira

5 Pedro Francisco Lira Rencoret was a Chilean painter and art critic, who organized exhibitions that led to the establishment of the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts. He is best known for his...

José Manso de Velasco, 1st Count of Superunda

5 José Antonio Manso de Velasco y Sánchez de Samaniego, KOS was a Spanish military officer and politician who served as the governor of Chile and viceroy of Peru.

Robinson Crusoe

5 Robinson Crusoe is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. It is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre, and has been...

Luis Pardo

5 Luis Alberto Pardo Villalón was a Chilean Navy officer who, in August 1916, commanded the steam tug Yelcho to rescue the 22 stranded crewmen of Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, Endurance, part of the...

Dario Salas Sommer

5 Darío Salas Sommer was a Chilean philosopher, scientist and humanist. He is known especially for his exploration of moral aspects of human life and personal development, described in his notable...

Alphonsus Liguori

5 Alphonsus Maria de Liguori was an Italian Catholic bishop and saint, as well as a spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosopher, and theologian. He founded the...

Luis Uribe

5 Luis Uribe may refer to:Luis Uribe Barra (1897–1980), Chilean physician and politician Luis Uribe (diver), Colombian competitive diver Luis Uribe Orrego (1847–1914), vice-admiral of the Chilean Navy

Rodrigo de Triana

5 Rodrigo de Triana was a Spanish sailor, believed to be the first European from the Age of Exploration to have seen the Americas. Born as Juan Rodríguez Bermejo, Triana was the son of hidalgo and...

Manuel Rojas (author)

5 Manuel Rojas Sepúlveda was a Chilean writer and journalist.                                       

Vicente Reyes (politician)

5 Pedro Vicente Reyes Palazuelos, was a Chilean lawyer, journalist, political figure, and candidate during the 1896 presidential election.

Miguel de Cervantes

5 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best known for his two-part novel...

Víctor Jara

5 Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez was a Chilean teacher, theater director, poet, singer-songwriter and Communist political activist. He developed Chilean theater by directing a broad array of works, ranging...

Sophia of Rome

5 Saint Sophia of Rome was an early Christian martyr venerated by many churches. She is identified in hagiographical tradition with the figure of Sophia of Milan, the mother of Saints Faith, Hope and...

Mark the Evangelist

5 Mark the Evangelist, also known as John Mark or Saint Mark, was a Libyan who is traditionally ascribed to be the author of the Gospel of Mark. Most modern scholars agree that the Gospel of Mark is...

Gabriel

5 In Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and other Abrahamic religions, Gabriel or even Cebrail (Djebraïl) in some cultures, is an archangel with the power to announce God's will to humankind as the...

Arturo Alessandri

5 Arturo Fortunato Alessandri Palma was a Chilean political figure and reformer who served thrice as president of Chile, first from 1920 to 1924, then from March to October 1925, and finally from 1932...

Juan Luis Sanfuentes

5 Juan Luis Sanfuentes Andonaegui was President of Chile between 1915 and 1920.                       

Saint Valentine

5 Saint Valentine was a 3rd-century Roman saint, commemorated in Western Christianity on February 14 and in Eastern Orthodoxy on July 6. From the High Middle Ages, his feast day has been associated...

Francisco de Villagra

5 Francisco de Villagra Velázquez was a Spanish conquistador, and three times governor of Chile.     

Francisco Coloane

5 Francisco Coloane Cárdenas was a Chilean novelist and short fiction writer whose works have been translated into many languages. Some of his books were adapted to theatre and film.

Rodrigo de Quiroga

5 Rodrigo de Quiroga López de Sober was a Spanish conquistador of Galician origin. He was twice the Royal Governor of Chile.

Luis Gómez Carreño

4 Luis Esteban Gómez Carreño was a Chilean naval officer. He first joined the navy aged 15 on board the Huáscar, later serving as squadron commander-in-chief. He became director of the Naval School and...

Saint Laura

4 Laura of Cordoba was a Spanish Christian who lived in Muslim Spain during the 9th century. She was born in Córdoba, and became a nun at Cuteclara after her husband died, eventually rising to become...

Louis Pasteur

4 Louis Pasteur was a French chemist, pharmacist, and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation, and pasteurization, the last of which was...

Francisco Antonio Encina

4 Francisco Antonio Encina Armanet was a Chilean politician, agricultural businessman, political essayist, historian and prominent white supremacist. He authored the History of Chile from Prehistory to...

Jaime Guzmán

4 Jaime Jorge Guzmán Errázuriz was a Chilean constitutional law professor, politician, and founding member of the conservative Independent Democratic Union party. In the 1960s, he strongly opposed the...

Juan de Dios

4 San Juan de Dios, es un santo español de la Iglesia católica. Fue enfermero y fundador de la Orden Hospitalaria de San Juan de Dios.Fue el iniciador del hospital moderno y es patrón de los enfermos,...

René Schneider

4 René Schneider Chereau was a Chilean military official who served as commander-in-chief of the Chilean Army at the time of the 1970 Chilean presidential election, when he was assassinated during a...

Ramón Carnicer

4 Ramón Carnicer i Batlle was a Spanish composer and opera conductor, today best known for composing the National Anthem of Chile.

Antonio José de Sucre

4 Antonio José de Sucre y Alcalá, known as the "Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho", was a Venezuelan general and politician who served as the president of Bolivia from 1825 to 1828. A close friend and...

Enrique Mac Iver

4 Enrique Mac Iver Rodríguez was a Chilean lawyer and politician. He participated in the 1891 Chilean Civil War on the side of the victorious Congressist faction doing himself the first draft for the...

Luis Acevedo Acevedo

4 Luis Alberto Acevedo Acevedo fue un aviador y ciclista chileno, considerado uno de los pioneros y primer mártir de la aeronáutica de su país.

Guido Beck de Ramberga

4 Monseñor Guido Benedikt Beck fue un sacerdote misionero de origen alemán, perteneciente a la Orden de los Hermanos Menores Capuchinos y prefecto apostólico de la Araucanía.

Felix of Nola

4 Felix of Nola was a Christian priest at Nola near Naples in Italy. He sold off his possessions to give to the poor, but was arrested and tortured for his Christian faith during the persecution of...

Roque González y de Santa Cruz

4 Roque González de Santa Cruz, SJ was a Guaraní-Spanish Jesuit priest who was the first missionary among the Guarani in Paraguay. He was murdered in 1628 and is venerated as a martyr and a saint by...

Alice Reyes

4 Alice Garcia Reyes is a Filipina dancer, choreographer, teacher, director and producer. The founder of Ballet Philippines, she received since June 20, 2014 from the Philippine President Benigno...

Dagoberto Godoy

4 Dagoberto Godoy Fuentealba was a Chilean military pilot and the first person to fly over the Andes. 

Eduardo Barrios

4 Eduardo Barrios, was a Chilean writer and poet.                                                     

Pope Gregory I

4 Pope Gregory I, commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 until his death on 12 March 604. He is known for instituting the first recorded large-scale...

Amanda Labarca

4 Amanda Labarca Hubertson, was a Chilean diplomat, educator, writer and feminist. Her work was directed mainly at improving the situation of Latin American women and women's suffrage in Chile.

Albertus Magnus

4 Albertus Magnus, also known as Saint Albert the Great, Albert of Swabia, Albert von Bollstadt, or Albert of Cologne, was a German Dominican friar, philosopher, scientist, and bishop. He is considered...

Pope John XXIII

4 Pope John XXIII was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 28 October 1958 until his death on 3 June 1963.

Arturo Gordon

4 Arturo Gordon Vargas fue un pintor chileno perteneciente a la generación de 1913, profesor de la Academia de Bellas Artes de Valparaíso y Viña del Mar.

Artemio Gutiérrez

4 Artemio Nicolás Gutiérrez Vidal fue un político chileno del Partido Demócrata. Se desempeñó como Ministro de Estado, Ministro de Industria, Obras Públicas y Ferrocarriles, diputado y senador. Hijo de...

Saint Patrick

4 Saint Patrick was a fifth-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. Known as the "Apostle of Ireland", he is the primary patron saint of Ireland, the other patron saints...

Candelaria Pérez

4 Candelaria Pérez was a Chilean soldier who served in the War of the Confederation (1836–39) against the Peru–Bolivian Confederation. She took up a rifle and fought alongside the troops she served...

Julio Montt Salamanca

4 Julio Montt Salamanca fue un militar chileno. Subteniente de la 4.ª compañía del Regimiento «Chacabuco», héroe de la batalla de La Concepción.

Carlos Casanueva

4 Monseñor Carlos Casanueva Opazo fue un sacerdote católico, rector de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile desde 1920 hasta 1953.

Elías Fernández Albano

4 Elías Fernández Albano was a Chilean politician, who was acting president of Chile from August 16, 1910 until his death.

Ferdinand III of Castile

4 Ferdinand III, called the Saint, was King of Castile from 1217 and King of León from 1230 as well as King of Galicia from 1231. He was the son of Alfonso IX of León and Berengaria of Castile. Through...

Mateo de Toro Zambrano

4 Mateo de Toro Zambrano y Ureta, 1st Count of La Conquista, was a prominent Spanish military and political figure of Criollo descent. He held the position of a knight in the Order of Santiago and was...

Francisco Pizarro

4 Francisco Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire.

Rubén Darío

4 Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as modernismo (modernism) that flourished at the end of the 19th...

Enrique Molina (actor)

4 Enrique Molina was a Cuban film and television actor.                                               

Claudio Arrau

4 Claudio Arrau León was a Chilean and American pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert,...

Gaspar Marín

4 José Gaspar Marín Esquivel fue un abogado y político chileno. Tuvo importante participación en la Primera Junta de Gobierno y en la naciente vida política del país; se desempeñó como diputado y...

Marta Brunet

4 Marta Brunet, was a Chilean writer. She was a recipient of the National Prize for Literature.       

Dante Alighieri

4 Dante Alighieri, widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer, and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is...

María Luisa Bombal

4 María Luisa Bombal Anthes was a Chilean novelist and poet. Her work incorporates erotic, surrealist, and feminist themes. She was a recipient of the Santiago Municipal Literature Award. In 1938 she...

Joachim

4 Joachim was, according to Christian Sacred tradition, the husband of Saint Anne, the father of Mary and grandfather of Jesus. The story of Joachim and Anne first appears in the Gospel of James, part...

Cecilia of Rome

4 Cecilia of Rome, also spelled Cecelia, was a Christian virgin martyr, who is venerated in Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, and some Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden. She became the...

Isidora Goyenechea

3 Isidora Goyenechea Gallo (1836-1897) was a Chilean industrialist.                                   

Isabella I of Castile

3 Isabella I was Queen of Castile and León from 1474 until her death in 1504. She was also Queen of Aragon from 1479 until her death as the wife of King Ferdinand II. Reigning together over a...

Eliodoro Yáñez

3 Eliodoro Yáñez Ponce de León was a Chilean journalist, lawyer, and politician, and was one of the founders of La Nación newspaper. He also served several times as minister and as President of the...

Ricardo Lyon

3 Ricardo Lyon Pérez fue un comerciante, agricultor y político conservador chileno.                 

Beatriz (mártir)

3 Beatriz de Roma, conocida como Santa Beatriz, fue una mártir cristiana. Su fiesta se celebra el 29 de julio.

Hernando de Aguirre

3 Hernando de Aguirre fue Corregidor de La Serena y teniente de gobernador del Tucumán.               

Alberto del Canto

3 Alberto del Canto, formally Alberto Vieira do Canto, was a Portuguese noble, military captain, and conquistador who explored northern Mexico, where he was the founder of several cities.

Enric d'Ossó i Cervelló

3 Enric d'Ossó i Cervelló was a Spanish Catholic priest and the founder of the Society of Saint Teresa of Jesus. He served the role of an educator and an able catechist and published several works on...

José Toribio Medina

3 José Toribio Medina Zavala was a Chilean bibliographer, prolific writer, and historian. He is renowned for his study of colonial literature in Chile, printing in Spanish America and large...

Leonardo da Vinci

3 Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame...

José Arrieta

3 José Casimiro Arrieta Perera fue un diplomático y empresario uruguayo avecindado en Chile.         

Abraham Lincoln

3 Abraham Lincoln was the 16th president of the United States, serving from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. He led the United States through the American Civil War, defeating the Confederate...

Juan Sebastián Elcano

3 Juan Sebastián Elcano was a Spanish navigator, ship-owner and explorer best known for having completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth in the ship Victoria on the Magellan expedition to the...

Max Jara

3 Maximiliano Jara Troncoso, better known as Max Jara, was a Chilean poet. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1956.

Albert Einstein

3 Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist best known for developing the theory of relativity. Einstein also made important contributions to quantum theory. His mass–energy equivalence...

Eliecer Parada

3 Eliecer Parada Pacheco fue un militar y político chileno.                                           

Gabriel García Moreno

3 Gabriel Gregorio Fernando José María García Moreno y Morán de Butrón, was an Ecuadorian politician and aristocrat who twice served as President of Ecuador and was assassinated during his second term...

Alice of Schaerbeek

3 Alice of Schaerbeek, was a Cistercian lay sister who is venerated as the patron saint of the blind and paralyzed. Her feast day is 15 June.

Antonio Machado

3 Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, known as Antonio Machado, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the...

Roberto Bravo

3 Roberto Bravo is a Mexican novelist and a short story writer. He is a native of Villa Azueta, Veracruz.

Humberto Fuenzalida

3 Humberto Fuenzalida Villegas (1904–1966) was a Chilean geologist, paleontologist and geographer. Fuenzalida headed in turn the geography and geology departments of the University of Chile, being also...

Anfión Muñoz

3 Anfión Muñoz Muñoz was a Chilean political figure, who was the country's minister of industry and public works in 1904.

Isidore the Laborer

3 Isidore the Laborer, born Isidro de Merlo y Quintana, also known as Isidore the Farmer, was a Mozarab farmworker who lived in medieval Madrid. Known for his piety toward the poor and animals, he is...

George Washington

3 George Washington was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, serving from 1789 to 1797. As commander of the Continental Army, Washington led Patriot forces to victory in the...

Huáscar

3 Huáscar also Guazcar was Sapa Inca of the Inca Empire from 1527 to 1532. He succeeded his father, Huayna Capac and his brother Ninan Cuyochi, both of whom died of smallpox during the same year while...

Ezequiel Fernández (Panamanian politician)

3 Ezequiel Fernández Jaén was one of Panama's presidential designates from 1936 to 1940 and in that capacity also served as acting President of Panama from 16 December 1939, to 18 December 1939. He...

Teresa of the Andes

3 Teresa of Jesus of Los Andes, OCD was a Chilean [[[Discalced Carmelites|Discalced Carmelite]].     

Rosita Renard

3 Rosita Renard was a Chilean classical pianist.                                                     

Gustavo Le Paige

3 Gustavo Le Paige de Walque fue un sacerdote jesuita y destacado investigador de la cultura atacameña, a cuyo estudio profundo dedicó 25 años de su vida.

Atahualpa

3 Atawallpa, also Atahualpa or Ataw Wallpa, whose regnal name was Caccha Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui Inca, was the last effective Inca emperor, reigning from April 1532 until his capture and execution in...

Alfred Nobel

3 Alfred Bernhard Nobel was a Swedish chemist, inventor, engineer, and businessman. He is known for inventing dynamite, as well as having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel Prizes. He also...

Ricardo Cumming

3 Ricardo Cumming Dunn fue un comerciante chileno, conocido por su activo rol como partidario del Congreso durante la Guerra Civil de 1891, participando en un fallido ataque a las fuerzas navales del...

Gerardo dei Tintori

3 Saint Gerardo dei Tintori or Tintore is a saint of the Catholic Church, joint patron saint of Monza in Italy, where he is particularly noted as the founder of a hospital.

Pedro de Villagra

3 Pedro de Villagra y Martínez was a Spanish soldier who participated in the conquest of Chile, being appointed its Royal Governor between 1563 and 1565.

Francisco Encina

3 José Francisco Encina Moriamez is a Chilean politician who served as President of the Chamber of Deputies and as a member of the Chamber of Deputies, representing District 8 of the Coquimbo Region.

Horacio Aránguiz Donoso

3 Horacio Aránguiz Donoso fue un historiador chileno, que llegó a ocupar diversos cargos bajo la dictadura de Augusto Pinochet.

Vicente de Paúl

3 San Vicente de Paúl fue un sacerdote francés.                                                       

Manuel de Salas

3 Manuel de Salas y Corbalán fue un destacado educador y político chileno, miembro del bando patriota por la causa de la independencia de Chile, y es considerado uno de los fundadores de la República...

Eugenius II of Toledo

3 Saint Eugenius II, sometimes called Eugenius the Younger as the successor of Eugenius I, was Archbishop of Toledo from 647 until his death.

Salvador Sanfuentes

3 Salvador Sanfuentes was a Chilean lawyer, politician and poet. He served as Minister of Justice and Public Worship twice, and was elected as MP for the Association of Vallenar.

José Antonio Bustamante Donoso

3 José Antonio Bustamante Donoso fue un general y diputado chileno.                                   

Carlos Pezoa Véliz

3 Carlos Pezoa Véliz was a poet, educator and journalist from Chile. His literary work remained largely unpublished until his death at the age of 28. He was posthumously recognized as a major figure in...

Rebeca Matte Bello

3 Rebeca Matte Bello was a Chilean sculptor. Her sculptures are in the collection of the Chilean National Museum of Fine Arts, including her sculpture Icarus and Daedalus, which resides outside the...

Wenceslao Vargas

3 Wenceslao Vargas Rojas fue un marino y militar chileno, reconocido como el último sobreviviente de la tripulación de la corbeta Esmeralda que tomó parte en el combate naval de Iquique el 21 de mayo...

Marcellin Champagnat

3 Marcellin Joseph Benedict Champagnat, FMS was a French Catholic priest who founded the Marist Brothers, a religious congregation of brothers devoted to Mary and dedicated to education. He was...

Jean Mermoz

3 Jean Mermoz was a French aviator, viewed as a hero by other pilots such as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and in his native France, where many schools bear his name. In Brazil, he also is recognized as a...

Arturo Godoy

3 Arturo Godoy was a Chilean professional boxer, also nicknamed "Arturito".                           

Armando Jaramillo

3 Armando José Domingo Jaramillo Lyon was a Chilean politician who served as a member of the Senate of Chile. Similarly, he served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies of Chile.

Alberto Blest Gana

3 Alberto Blest Gana was a Chilean novelist and diplomat, considered the father of Chilean novel. Blest Gana was of Irish and Basque descent.

Juan Esteban Montero

3 Juan Esteban Montero Rodríguez was a Chilean political figure. He served twice as president of Chile between 1931 and 1932. He was overthrown in the 1932 military coup.

Eloísa Díaz

3 Eloísa Díaz Inzunza was a Chilean medical doctor. She was the first female medical student to attend the University of Chile, and the first woman to become a doctor of medicine in South America.

Jesus

3 Jesus, also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and by various other names and titles, was a 1st-century Jewish preacher and religious leader in the Roman province of Judaea. He is the...

Saint Stephen

3 Stephen is traditionally venerated as the protomartyr or first martyr of Christianity. According to the Acts of the Apostles, he was a deacon in the early church at Jerusalem who angered members of...

Hernán Cortés

3 Hernán Cortés, 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish conquistador, military commander, explorer, captain general, and writer who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire...

Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez

3 Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez was an American character actor and comedian, best known for his appearances in a number of John Wayne films.

James the Great

3 James the Great was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. According to the New Testament, he was the second of the apostles to die, after Judas Iscariot, and the first to be martyred. Saint James is...

Carlos Dittborn

3 Carlos Dittborn Pinto (1921–1962) was a Chilean football administrator. In his lifetime, he served as president of Universidad Católica and of CONMEBOL and was the head of the organizing committee of...

Mariano Latorre

3 Mariano Lautaro Latorre Court was a Chilean writer of Basque descent. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1944.

Benjamín Subercaseaux

3 Benjamín Subercaseaux Zañartu (1902–1973) was a Chilean writer and researcher. He won the Chilean National Prize for Literature in 1963.

Nicanor Parra

3 Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval was a Chilean physicist and poet. He has been considered one of the most influential Spanish-language Chilean poets of the 20th century.

Alonso de Monroy

3 Alonso de Monroy fue un conquistador español, teniente general de Pedro de Valdivia, presidente del cabildo de Santiago de Nueva Extremadura, encomendero y emisario de Valdivia en el Virreinato del...

Thérèse of Lisieux

3 Thérèse of Lisieux, in religion Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, was a French Discalced Carmelite who is widely venerated in modern times. She is popularly known in English as the Little...

Gladys Marín

3 Gladys del Carmen Marín Millie was a Chilean activist and political figure. She was Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh) (1994–2002) and then president of the PCCh until her...

Alberto Cruz Montt

3 Alberto Cruz Montt, was a Chilean architect and professor who was an exponent of the Neoclassical style.

Josemaría Escrivá

3 Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás was a Spanish Catholic priest who founded Opus Dei, an organization of laypeople and priests dedicated to the principle of everyday holiness. He was canonized by...