List of alumni of the University of Chile

The following is a list of notable alumni of the University of Chile.

Heads of state

 * Pedro Aguirre Cerda (1938–1941) – lawyer and teacher
 * Arturo Alessandri (1920–1925; 1932–1938) – lawyer
 * Jorge Alessandri (1958–1964) – engineer
 * Salvador Allende (1971–1973) – physician
 * Patricio Aylwin (1990–1994) – lawyer
 * Michelle Bachelet (2006–2010) – physician
 * Ramón Barros Luco (1910–1915) – lawyer
 * Carlos Dávila (de facto leader) – lawyer
 * Federico Errázuriz Echaurren (1896–1901) – lawyer
 * Federico Errázuriz Zañartu (1871–1876) – lawyer
 * Emiliano Figueroa (1925–1927) – lawyer
 * Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (1994–2000) – civil engineer
 * Gabriel González Videla (1946–1952) – lawyer
 * Ricardo Lagos (2000–2006) – lawyer
 * Juan Esteban Montero (1931–1932) – lawyer
 * Pedro Montt (1906–1910) – lawyer
 * Aníbal Pinto (1876–1881) – lawyer
 * Germán Riesco (1901–1906) – lawyer
 * Juan Luis Sanfuentes (1915–1920) – lawyer
 * Domingo Santa María (1881–1886) – lawyer

Foreign heads of state

 * José López Portillo (México: 1976–1982) – lawyer
 * Carlos Mesa (Bolivia) – lawyer
 * Camilo Ponce Enríquez (politician) (Ecuador: 1956–1960) – lawyer

Non-Chilean politicians

 * Schafik Handal – general secretary of Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front of El Salvador; law studies
 * Marcelo Quiroga Santa Cruz – socialist political leader from Bolivia; brutally abducted and subsequently assassinated by military forces in 1980; law and drama studies
 * José Vicente Rangel – Vice President of Venezuela (2002–2007); law studies
 * José Serra – Governor of São Paulo state and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil; Masters in Economics.

Notable lawyers

 * Marcos Aburto – judge, former senator, and former president of the Supreme Court of Chile
 * Cecilia Medina – Gruber Prize recipient, judge
 * Arturo Prat Chacón – national hero, lawyer
 * José Zalaquett – lawyer and professor on Human Rights, National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences 2003

Civil Servants

 * Joaquín Marcó Figueroa –  superintendent of the Casa de Moneda de Chile, and author
 * Valentina Quiroga  –  Undersecretary of Education (2014–2018)

Business

 * Eliodoro Matte – industrial engineer; billionaire; president of Empresas CMPC
 * Julio Ponce Lerou – forestry engineer; businessman; controlling shareholder of Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile

Economists

 * Armando Di Filippo – Argentine economist
 * Eduardo Engel – engineer and economist
 * Manfred Max Neef – Right Livelihood Award winner, economist
 * Aníbal Pinto Santa Cruz – economist National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences 1995
 * Paulo Renato Souza – economist and politician

Literature

 * José Donoso – National Literature Prize 1990
 * Roque Dalton – Salvadoran poet and activist
 * Jorge Edwards – National Literature Prize 1994
 * Alberto Fuguet – writer, journalist, film director
 * Gabriela Mistral – Nobel Prize 1945, National Literature Prize 1951; teacher
 * Pablo Neruda – Nobel Prize 1971, National Literature Prize 1945
 * Raquel Olea (born 1944), writer, professor
 * Mariano Picón Salas – National Literature Prize of Venezuela 1954
 * Antonio Skármeta – writer
 * Volodia Teitelboim – National Literature Prize 2002

Music

 * Luis Advis
 * Mario Iriarte
 * Víctor Jara
 * Sergio Ortega
 * Sonia Paz Soto-Aguilar Orellana (Pachi)
 * Pablo Rosetti (Pablo)
 * Horacio Salinas
 * Santiago Vera-Rivera

Visual arts

 * Graciela Aranis
 * Matilde Pérez
 * Laura Rodig
 * Cecilia Vicuña
 * Catalina Bauer
 * Benjamín Vicuña
 * Ximena Cristi

Anthropology

 * María Ester Grebe – ethnomusicologist
 * Sonia Montecino – National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences 2013

History

 * José Toribio Medina – bibliographer, prolific writer and historian
 * Gabriel Salazar – National Prize of History 2006
 * Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna – prolific writer and historian

Philosophy

 * Carla Cordua Roberto Torretti – National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences 2011
 * Humberto Giannini – National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences 1999
 * Olga Grau, writer, professor, philosopher

Sociology

 * Manuel Antonio Garretón – National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences 2007
 * Emir Sader – Brazilian sociologist, one of the World Social Forum organizers
 * Clodomir Santos de Morais – Brazilian sociologist who originated the Organization Workshop (OW) and the associated Activity-based Large Group Capacitation Method (LGCM)

Exact sciences

 * Justicia Acuña
 * Ricardo Baeza-Yates
 * Claudio Bunster
 * Claudio Donoso
 * Cristina Dorador
 * Eric Goles
 * Humberto Maturana – National Prize of Natural Sciences 1994
 * Hugo K. Sievers