List of Chileans - Military

Military

• José Miguel Carrera – First Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Army and Independence leader of the Patria Vieja.
• Luis Carrera – Chilean Military Officer in the War of Independence
• Caupolicán – leader of the Mapuche who fiercely resisted the Spanish conquest of Chile
• Manuel Contreras – head of Augusto Pinochet's National Intelligence Directorate (DINA)
• Manuel Rodríguez – Independentist leader and guerrilla leader during the Reconquista.
• Lautaro – Mapuche indigenous military leader during the Spanish conquest of Chile.
• Bernardo O'Higgins – Founder of modern Chile
• Pedro de Valdivia – Royal Governor of Chile and Lieutenant under Francisco Pizarro
• Carlos Condell – captain of the Covadonga ship at the Iquique Naval Combat.
• Ignacio Carrera Pinto – Captain in charge of the Chilean patrol who died in Battle of La Concepción.
• Arturo Prat – captain of the Esmeralda ship at the Iquique Naval Combat; regarded as national hero.
• Luis Pardo - also known as Piloto Pardo, Chilean Navy Captain who rescued the survivors of the Shackleton expedition.
• Juan MacKenna – Irish born organizer of O'Higgins's Army.
• Patricio Lynch – Governor of Lima during the Chilean occupation of Lima, Perú, during the War of the Pacific.
• Manuel Baquedano – General of the Chilean Forces during the War of the Pacific.
• Eleuterio Ramírez – officer, hero of the War of the Pacific.
• José Ignacio Zenteno – Lieutenant Colonel of the Army of the Andes, Minister of War and Marine in the O'Higgins government
• Philip Bazaar – Navy Medal of Honour