Chilean American - Notable Chilean Americans

Notable Chilean Americans

• Fernando Alegria - Stanford professor.
• Isabel Allende, Chilean writer.
• Fernando Alvarez, famed jockey.
• Marjorie Agosín - poet, essayist, fiction writer, activist, and professor.
• Tom Araya of the popular thrash metal band Slayer was born in Chile.
• Claudio Arrau, pianist.
• Felipe Bazar, US Navy hero.
• Nico Bodonczy - retired Chilean-born American association football player
• Santiago Cabrera - actor (Heroes).
• Elizabeth Schall - female American singer, songwriter and guitarist
• Gordon Matta-Clark - (1943 – 1978) artist
• Marsia Alexander-Clarke - American video installation artist
• Beto Cuevas - Singer
• Cote de Pablo - Actress.
• Patricia Demick - Boxer.
• Ruperto Donoso - Famed jockey.
• Ariel Dorfman - Educator, activist, and author.
• Frank J. Duarte, laser physicist and author.
• Matias Duarte, inventor.
• Sebastian Edwards - Academic and Economist.
• Julio M. Fernandez, biologist.
• Pablo Francisco - Comedian.
• Gabriella Fox - American pornographic actress
• Alberto Fuguet, writer and film director.
• Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness - mistress of King Edward VIII
• Jorge Garcia - actor (Lost) .
• Lisa Guerrero - Sportscaster and actress.
• Alfredo Jaar - Chilean-born artist, architect, and filmmaker
• Julian, pornographic actor.
• Fareed Haque - fusion guitar virtuoso
• Paulina Kernberg - (1935 – 2006) child psychiatrist, an authority on personality disorders, and a professor at Cornell University.
• Mario Kreutzberger AKA, Don Francisco, of US Latino TV fame.
• Gonzalo Lira, cinematographer.
• Olivia O'Lovely - former American pornographic actress
• Los Abandoned, Chilean American rock band from Van Nuys, California (Los Angeles).
• Claudio Miranda, novelist and filmmaker.
• Gabriela Mistral, Nobel laureate, was a resident in New York state.
• Felicia Montealegre - (1922 – 1978) stage and television actress
• Frank Pando - actor
• Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, Chilean American reality television personality.
• Jose Quiroga- cardiologist
• Horatio Sanz - Comedian of the comedy program Saturday Night Live.
• Steve Thurston - journalist, entrepreneur, and co-founder, CEO and president of Integrity Ministries.
• Mercedes Valdivieso, Chilean writer and Rice University professor.
• Arturo Valenzuela - Academic.
• Francisca Valenzuela, Chilean poet, singer, songwriter, and pianist.
• Leonor Varela - Actress.
• Academic Andres Velasco.
• Alexander Witt - Director.
• Hector Salgado (Human Rights Activist, Filmmaker, and Musician).
• Jackass actor Jason "Wee-Man" Acuña.
• Singer Benny Mardones whose father came to the US from Chile.