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:
- Carlos Mesa (Bolivia)
Law
- Cecilia Medina - Gruber Prize recipient, judge
- Arturo Prat Chacón - national hero, lawyer
Business
- Pablo Echeverría - industrial engineer; co-founder of Moneda Asset Management
- 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
- Felipe Balmaceda M. - economist
- José De Gregorio - engineer and economist, President of the Central Bank of Chile
- Eduardo Engel - engineer and economist
- Nicolás Eyzaguirre G. - economist, Director of the IMF’s Western Hemisphere Department
- Ronald Fischer - engineer and economist
- Cristóbal Huneeus - industrial engineer
- Manuel Marfán L. - economist, counselor of the Central Bank of Chile
- Manfred Max Neef - Right Livelihood Award winner, economist
- Luis Javier Quezada - economist and basketball player
- Paulo Renato Souza - economist and politician
Arts
Literature
- José Donoso - National Literature Prize 1990
- 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
- Antonio Skármeta
- Volodia Teitelboim - National Literature Prize 2002
Music
Visual arts
Historians
- Alfredo Jocelyn-Holt
- Gabriel Salazar - National Prize of History 2006
- Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna
Exact sciences
- Ricardo Baeza-Yates
- Claudio Bunster
- Claudio Donoso
- Eric Goles
- Humberto Maturana - National Prize of Natural Sciences 1994
- Hugo K. Sievers
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