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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