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
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“Who are we? And for what are we going to fight? Are we the titled slaves of George the Third? The military conscripts of Napoleon the Great? Or the frozen peasants of the Russian Czar? No—we are the free born sons of America; the citizens of the only republic now existing in the world; and the only people on earth who possess rights, liberties, and property which they dare call their own.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)
“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)