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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“Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“In early times every sort of advantage tends to become a military advantage; such is the best way, then, to keep it alive. But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious. For that we care for them; from that have issued endless consequences.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“In all sincerity, we offer to the loved ones of all innocent victims over the past 25 years, abject and true remorse. No words of ours will compensate for the intolerable suffering they have undergone during the conflict.”
—Combined Loyalist Military Command. New York Times, p. A12 (October 14, l994)