List of alumni of the University of Chile

Pablo Neruda Arturo Prat Pedro Aguirre Cerda Michelle Bachelet Ricardo Lagos

The following is a list of notable alumni of the University of Chile.

## Government, law, and public policy[edit]

### Heads of state[edit]

* Pedro Aguirre Cerda (1938–1941) - lawyer and teacher
* Arturo Alessandri (1920–1925; 1932–1938) - lawyer
* Jorge Alessandri (1958–1964) - engineer
* Salvador Allende (1971–1973) - physician
* Patricio Aylwin (1990–1994) - lawyer
* Michelle Bachelet (2006–2010) - physician
* Ramón Barros Luco (1910–1915) - lawyer
* Carlos Dávila (de facto leader) - lawyer
* Federico Errázuriz Echaurren (1896–1901) - lawyer
* Federico Errázuriz Zañartu (1871–1876) - lawyer
* Emiliano Figueroa (1925–1927) - lawyer
* Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (1994–2000) - civil engineer
* Gabriel González Videla (1946–1952) - lawyer
* Ricardo Lagos (2000–2006) - lawyer
* Juan Esteban Montero (1931–1932) - lawyer
* Pedro Montt (1906–1910) - lawyer
* Aníbal Pinto (1876–1881) - lawyer
* Germán Riesco (1901–1906) - lawyer
* Juan Luis Sanfuentes (1915–1920) - lawyer
* Domingo Santa María (1881–1886) - lawyer

#### Foreign heads of state[edit]

* José López Portillo (México: 1976–1982) - lawyer
* Carlos Mesa (Bolivia) - lawyer
* Camilo Ponce Enríquez (politician) (Ecuador: 1956–1960) - lawyer

#### Non-Chilean politicians[edit]

* Schafik Handal - general secretary of Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front of El Salvador; law studies
* Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz - socialist political leader from Bolivia; brutally abducted and subsequently assassinated by military forces in 1980; law and drama studies
* José Vicente Rangel - Vice President of Venezuela (2002–2007); law studies
* José Serra - Governor of São Paulo state and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil; Masters in Economics.

#### Notable lawyers[edit]

* Cecilia Medina - Gruber Prize recipient, judge
* Arturo Prat Chacón - national hero, lawyer
* José Zalaquett - lawyer and professor on Human Rights, National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences 2003

#### Civil Servants[edit]

* Joaquín Marcó Figueroa - superintendent of the Casa de Moneda de Chile, and author
* Valentina Quiroga - Undersecretary of Education (2014–2018)

## Business[edit]

* Eliodoro Matte - industrial engineer; billionaire; president of Empresas CMPC
* Julio Ponce Lerou - forestry engineer; businessman; controlling shareholder of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile

## Economists[edit]

* Armando Di Filippo - Argentine economist
* Eduardo Engel - engineer and economist
* Manfred Max Neef - Right Livelihood Award winner, economist
* Aníbal Pinto Santa Cruz - economist National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences 1995
* Paulo Renato Souza - economist and politician

## Arts[edit]

### Literature[edit]

* José Donoso - National Literature Prize 1990
* Roque Dalton - Salvadoran poet and activist
* Jorge Edwards - National Literature Prize 1994
* Alberto Fuguet - writer, journalist, film director
* Gabriela Mistral - Nobel Prize 1945, National Literature Prize 1951; teacher
* Pablo Neruda - Nobel Prize 1971, National Literature Prize 1945
* Raquel Olea (born 1944), writer, professor
* Mariano Picón Salas - National Literature Prize of Venezuela 1954
* Antonio Skármeta - writer
* Volodia Teitelboim - National Literature Prize 2002

### Music[edit]

* Luis Advis
* Mario Iriarte
* Víctor Jara
* Sergio Ortega
* Sonia Paz Soto-Aguilar Orellana (Pachi)
* Pablo Rosetti (Pablo)
* Horacio Salinas
* Santiago Vera-Rivera

### Visual arts[edit]

* Graciela Aranis
* Matilde Pérez
* Laura Rodig
* Cecilia Vicuña
* Catalina Bauer
* Benjamín Vicuña
* Ximena Cristi

## Humanities and Social Sciences[edit]

### Anthropology[edit]

* María Ester Grebe - ethnomusicologist
* Sonia Montecino - National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences 2013

### History[edit]

* José Toribio Medina - bibliographer, prolific writer and historian
* Gabriel Salazar - National Prize of History 2006
* Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna - prolific writer and historian

### Philosophy[edit]

* Carla Cordua Roberto Torretti - National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences 2011
* Humberto Giannini - National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences 1999
* Olga Grau, writer, professor, philosopher

### Sociology[edit]

* Manuel Antonio Garretón - National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences 2007
* Emir Sader - Brazilian sociologist, one of the World Social Forum organizers
* Clodomir Santos de Morais - Brazilian sociologist who originated the Organization Workshop (OW) and the associated Activity-based Large Group Capacitation Method (LGCM)

## Exact sciences[edit]

* Justicia Acuña
* Ricardo Baeza-Yates
* Claudio Bunster
* Claudio Donoso
* Cristina Dorador
* Eric Goles
* Humberto Maturana - National Prize of Natural Sciences 1994
* Hugo K. Sievers