List of alumni of the University of Chile
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The following is a list of notable alumni of the University of Chile.
Government, law, and public policy
Heads of state
- 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
- José López Portillo (México: 1976–1982) – lawyer
 - Carlos Mesa (Bolivia) – lawyer
 - Camilo Ponce Enríquez (politician) (Ecuador: 1956–1960) – lawyer
 
Non-Chilean politicians
- 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
- Marcos Aburto – judge, former senator, and former president of the Supreme Court of Chile
 - 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
- Joaquín Marcó Figueroa – superintendent of the Casa de Moneda de Chile, and author
 - Valentina Quiroga – Undersecretary of Education (2014–2018)
 
Business
- 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
- 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
Literature
- 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
- Luis Advis
 - Mario Iriarte
 - Víctor Jara
 - Sergio Ortega
 - Sonia Paz Soto-Aguilar Orellana (Pachi)
 - Pablo Rosetti (Pablo)
 - Horacio Salinas
 - Santiago Vera-Rivera
 
Visual arts
- Graciela Aranis
 - Matilde Pérez
 - Laura Rodig
 - Cecilia Vicuña
 - Catalina Bauer
 - Benjamín Vicuña
 - Ximena Cristi
 
Humanities and Social Sciences
Anthropology
- María Ester Grebe – ethnomusicologist
 - Sonia Montecino – National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences 2013
 
History
- José Toribio Medina – bibliographer, prolific writer and historian
 - Gabriel Salazar – National Prize of History 2006
 - Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna – prolific writer and historian
 
Philosophy
- 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
- 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
- Justicia Acuña
 - Ricardo Baeza-Yates
 - Claudio Bunster
 - Claudio Donoso
 - Cristina Dorador
 - Eric Goles
 - Humberto Maturana – National Prize of Natural Sciences 1994
 - Hugo K. Sievers