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The following is a list of notable alumni of the University of Chile.
Government, law, and public policy
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
Arts
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
Humanities and Social Sciences
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