# The greatest Chileans in history

The result of TVN's Grandes chilenos de nuestra historia (2008), voted by the public. Salvador Allende won ahead of Arturo Prat and Father Alberto Hurtado.

- 749 votes · 10 items
- Nov 22, 2023 · temucobrujula
- https://even.best/en/l/688/the-greatest-chileans-in-history

## Top 10

1. **Salvador Allende** (137 · ▲143 ▼6) — 1908-1973. Doctor and socialist president, overthrown in 1973.
2. **Arturo Prat** (82 · ▲95 ▼13) — 1848-1879. Lawyer and naval officer, hero of the naval battle of Iquique.
3. **Saint Alberto Hurtado** (77 · ▲86 ▼9) — 1901-1952. Jesuit priest, founder of Hogar de Cristo.
4. **Manuel Rodríguez** (67 · ▲71 ▼4) — 1785-1818. Independence guerrilla leader.
5. **Víctor Jara** (50 · ▲57 ▼7) — 1932-1973. Singer-songwriter and theatre director, murdered after the 1973 coup.
6. **José Miguel Carrera** (45 · ▲54 ▼9) — 1785-1821. First commander-in-chief of the army during independence.
7. **Lautaro** (41 · ▲48 ▼7) — c. 1535-1557. Mapuche strategist in the Arauco War.
8. **Pablo Neruda** (31 · ▲40 ▼9) — 1904-1973. Poet, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.
9. **Gabriela Mistral** (29 · ▲37 ▼8) — 1889-1957. Poet, the first Latin American Nobel laureate in Literature (1945).
10. **Violeta Parra** (24 · ▲35 ▼11) — 1917-1967. Folk musician, author of Gracias a la vida.

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