List of Chileans - Politicians

Politicians

  • Juana Rosa Aguirre – former first lady, wife of Pedro Aguirre Cerda
  • Arturo Alessandri – Served twice as president of Chile
  • Salvador Allende – former senator and president of Chile; ousted in a military coup
  • Clodomiro Almeyda – socialist politician
  • Soledad Alvear – former Justice minister and Foreign minister; current PDC senator
  • Michelle Bachelet – first woman president of Chile
  • Carlos Dávila – former Secretary General of the Organization of American States
  • Florencio Durán – former president of the senate
  • Fernando Flores – businessman and former senator
  • Jorge Alessandri – 27th President of Chile. President of Council of State under Pinochet Regime.
  • Jaime Guzmán – right wing politician during the Pinochet regime, murdered by Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front on April 1, 1991; Former UDI Senator
  • Tomás Hirsch – former president of the Humanist Party of Chile and 2005 candidate for president
  • Carlos Keller - former Leader of the National Socialist Movement of Chile, responsible for the organization of the Seguro Obrero Massacre
  • José Miguel Insulza – former Interior minister; current Secretary General of the Organization of American States
  • Joaquín Lavín – Independent Democratic Union candidate for presidency in 2005 election; former mayor of Las Condes and Santiago
  • Orlando Letelier – Foreign Minister during Salvador Allende's government murdered during the Pinochet regime in Washington, D.C.
  • Gladys Marín – communist leader, feminist activist, lived in exile, opposed conservatism and liberal economy, admirer of Lenin and Marx
  • Diego Portales – Minister, major designer of the Chilean State during the first half of 19th century
  • Sebastián Piñera – Chilean billionaire, businessman and politician; current President of Chile
  • Augusto Pinochet – Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Chile, President of the Government Junta of Chile, and President of the Republic from 1974 until 1990.
  • Laura Rodríguez – first Humanist Party deputy in the world
  • Chris Watson – Third Prime Minister of Australia
  • Adolfo Zaldívar – PRI senator, former leader of the PDC
  • Andrés Zaldívar – former PDC senator

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