List of alumni of the University of Chile

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

Government, law, and public policy

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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)