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.
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