# List of alumni of the University of Chile

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