Other Notable Chileans of Jewish Descent
- Marjorie Agosín, human rights activist, professor, and writer
- Shai Agosin, TV producer and presenter
- Mordo Alvo, physician and member of the scientific academy Instituto de Chile
- José Berdichewsky, Pinochet's Ambassador in Israel
- Eduardo Bitrán, former Minister of Public Works
- Claudio Bunster, scientist (Jewish mother)
- Cristopher Carpentier, chef (converted to Judaism)
- Fernando Cassorla, physician and member of the scientific academy Instituto de Chile
- Jacques Chonchol, Minister of Agriculture in the Allende government
- Roberto Cadiz, economist; businessman
- Ariel Dorfman, author and scholar
- Roberto Dueñas, modeling agent
- Christián Apablaza, Photographer, Graphic artist
- Julián Elfenbein, journalist, television host
- Efrain Friedman, director of Chilean Atomic Research Committee
- Benjamín Galemiri, playwright
- Rodrigo Guendelman, journalist
- Clarisa Hardy, psychologist; former (2006-2007) Minister of Planning
- Rodrigo Hinzpeter, politician
- Tomás Hirsch, politician, businessman
- Jeremías Israel, motoracing driver (Jewish father)
- Mauricio Israel, television host
- Alejandro Jodorowsky, film director (Chilean-born)
- Alberto Van Klaveren, current (2006-) Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations
- José Klein, former owner of Minera Santa Barbara
- Marcelo Kormis, rabbi
- Mario Kreutzberger, better known as Don Francisco, TV host
- Vivi Kreutzberger, television host
- Marcos Libedinsky, former president of the Supreme Court of Justice
- Alejandro Lipschuetz, anthropologist and endocrinologist
- Pablo Lugt, rabbi
- Sergio Melnick, economist, Minister of ODEPLAN under Pinochet
- Lily Pérez, politician
- Daniel Platovsky, businessman, politician, and eldest son of Milan Platovsky (Jewish father)
- Milan Platovsky, businessman who wrote a best-selling autobiography
- Andy Pollack, jazz musician
- Karen Poniachik, journalist; former Minister of Mining and Energy
- Sarika Rodrik, fashion designer
- Efraim Rosenzweig, rabbi
- Daniel Schidlow, Chief of Pediatrics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. (Chilean born)
- Miguel Schweitzer Speisky, Pinochet's Minister of Justice
- Miguel Schweitzer Walters, Pinochet's Minister of External Affairs and ambassador to the UK
- Jorge Schaulsohn, politician
- Gabriel Silber, deputy
- Claudio Spiniak, businessman. In jail since 2004 for being a practitioner of pedophilia and coprophagia
- Jacob Stoulman Bortnik, businessman, kidnapped by DINA during the Operacion Condor plan in Argentina
- Shmuel Szteinhendler, rabbi (Regional Director Masorti Latin America)
- Víctor Tevah, fiddler
- Marcelo Tokman, Minister of Energy
- Julián Vainstein, rabbi
- José Weinstein, Minister of Culture under Ricardo Lagos
- Jaime Wisnaik, director of department of engineering at the Catholic University of Santiago
- Daniel Zang, rabbi
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