page_title: Chilean Americans
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Chilean Americans / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Miércoles 6 de Mayo. Mirador de Alto Las Condes
context_page_description: Chilean Americans are Americans who have full or partial origin from Chile.
  The Chilean population from the U.S. census was 126,810. In the United States, Chileans are the fourth smallest Hispanic group from South America and the fifth smallest overall amongst all Hispanic groups. Chilean Americans live mainly in the New York Metropolitan Area, South Florida, Los Angeles County, San Francisco Bay Area and the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area, with high population concentrations found in Queens in New York City; Northern New Jersey; Miami, Florida; and Nassau County, New York. Most Chileans migrating to the United States settle in metropolitan areas. After the 1960s, Chileans began to immigrate more for economic or academic rather than political reasons and that continues into the modern day.
context_section_description: Alexa Guarachi – Tennis player
  Los Abandoned – Chilean American rock band
  Marjorie Agosín – Poet, essayist, fiction writer, activist, and professor.
  Fernando Alegria – Stanford professor
  Marsia Alexander-Clarke – American video installation artist
  Isabel Allende – Chilean writer
  Fernando Alvarez – Jockey
  Cayetano Apablasa (1847–1889) – Land owner and politician in Los Angeles, California. He was son of a Chilean.
  Tom Araya – Musician
  Claudio Arrau – Pianist
  Felipe Bazar – U.S. Navy hero
  Natascha Bessez – Singer and beauty pageant
  Nico Bodonczy – Football (soccer) player
  Daniel Borzutzky – Poet and translator
  Diaz Brothers – Musician
  Santiago Cabrera – Actor
  Charissa Chamorro – Actress
  Charmaine – Musician
  Beto Cuevas – Singer
  es:Angélica Castro – Former model, actress and TV presenter (see Wikipedia en español)
  Cristian de la Fuente – Soap opera actor
  Tanya Del Solar – Beauty pageant
  Patricia Demick – Boxer
  Ruperto Donoso – Jockey
  Ariel Dorfman – Educator, activist, and author
  Juan Downey – Artist
  Frank J. Duarte – Laser physicist and author
  Matias Duarte – Inventor
  Sebastian Edwards – Academic and economist
  Paloma Elsesser – Plus size fashion model
  Julio M. Fernandez – Biologist
  Pablo Francisco – Comedian
  Alberto Fuguet – Writer and film director
  Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness – mistress of King Edward VIII
  Jorge Garcia – Actor
  John Gavin – Actor
  Alexa Guarachi – Tennis player
  Lisa Guerrero – Sportscaster and actress
  Tommy Guerrero – Skateboarder, company owner, and musician
  Claudio Guzmán – Television director, producer, art director, and production designer.
  Fareed Haque – Fusion guitarist
  Alfredo Jaar – Artist, architect, and filmmaker
  Nicolas Jaar – Composer and recording artist
  Alain Johannes – Musician
  Paulina Kernberg – Child psychiatrist and professor
  Mario Kreutzberger – AKA Don Francisco, of US Latino TV host
  Jason Liebrecht – Voice actor
  Vicente Luque – MMA fighter
  Antonio Macia – Screenwriter and actor
  Paloma Mami – Singer
  Benny Mardones – Singer
  Roberto Matta – Surreal painter
  Gordon Matta-Clark – Artist
  Claudio Miranda – Novelist and filmmaker
  Gabriela Mistral – Nobel laureate
  Daniella Monet – Actress
  Harry Hays Morgan Jr. – Diplomat, society figure, and actor
  Ricardo A. Olea – Engineer and scientist
  America Olivo – Actress, singer, and model
  Cote de Pablo – Actress, singer and musical theater actress
  Frank Pando – Actor
  Marko Zaror – Actor
  Pedro Pascal – Actor
  Nicole Polizzi – Reality television personality
  Promis – Singer-songwriter and composer
  Jose Quiroga – Cardiologist
  Horatio Sanz – Comedian, Saturday Night Live
  Elizabeth Schall – Singer, songwriter and guitarist
  Sebastian Soto – Soccer player
  Elizabeth Subercaseaux – Writer
  Steve Thurston – Journalist, entrepreneur, and co-founder, CEO and president of Integrity Ministries
  Mercedes Valdivieso – Chilean writer and Rice University professor
  Arturo Valenzuela – Professor
  Francisca Valenzuela – Chilean poet, singer, songwriter, and pianist
  Leonor Varela – Actress
  Andres Velasco – Economist and professor
  Eugene Warburg – Sculptor
  Alexander Witt – Director
caption: Singer and songwriter Francisca Valenzuela
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