According to the 2010 U.S. census, the population of Chilean ancestry was 126,810. Chilean Americans are the fourth smallest Latino group from South America, and the fifth smallest overall. Most Chileans migrating to the United States settle in metropolitan areas. Chilean Americans live mainly in the New York, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco and the Washington D.C. metropolitan areas. There are significant communities found in Queens in New York City; Northern New Jersey; Miami, Florida; and Nassau County, New York. After the 1960s, Chileans began to immigrate more for economic or academic rather than political reasons, and that continues into the modern day.
Identity[edit]
Chileans are mostly diverse, their ancestry can be fully West/South European as well as mixed with Indigenous and other European heritage. They commonly identify themselves as both Latino and white.[7] Some Chilean-owned stores and restaurants advertise as French and Italian.[7] Many often prefer living in white suburban neighborhoods in the U.S., and have a strong sense of family.[7]
– Tennis player
Alexa Guarachi
– Chilean American rock band
Los Abandoned
– Poet, essayist, fiction writer, activist, and professor.
Marjorie Agosín
– Stanford professor
Fernando Alegria
– American video installation artist
Marsia Alexander-Clarke
– Chilean writer
Isabel Allende
– Jockey
Fernando Alvarez
– Musician
Tom Araya
– Pianist
Claudio Arrau
– U.S. Navy hero
Felipe Bazar
– Singer and beauty pageant
Natascha Bessez
– Soccer player
Nico Bodonczy
– Poet and translator
Daniel Borzutzky
– Actress
Charissa Chamorro
– Musician
Charmaine
– Singer
Beto Cuevas
– Former model, actress and TV presenter (see Wikipedia en español)
Angélica Castro
– Boxer
Patricia Demick
– Jockey
Ruperto Donoso
– Educator, activist, and author
Ariel Dorfman
– Artist
Juan Downey
– Laser physicist and author
Frank J. Duarte
– Inventor
Matias Duarte
– Academic and economist
Sebastian Edwards
– Plus size fashion model
Paloma Elsesser
– Biologist
Julio M. Fernandez
– Comedian
Pablo Francisco
– Writer and film director
Alberto Fuguet
– Mistress of King Edward VIII
Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness
– Actor
Jorge Garcia
– Actor
John Gavin
– Sportscaster and actress
Lisa Guerrero
– Skateboarder, company owner, and musician
Tommy Guerrero
– Television director, producer, art director, and production designer.
Claudio Guzmán
– Architect and the first woman graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sophia Hayden
– Fusion guitarist
Fareed Haque
– Artist, architect, and filmmaker
Alfredo Jaar
– Composer and recording artist
Nicolas Jaar
– Musician
Alain Johannes
– Child psychiatrist and professor
Paulina Kernberg
– aka Don Francisco, U.S. Latino TV host
Mario Kreutzberger
– Voice actor
Jason Liebrecht
– MMA fighter
Vicente Luque
– Screenwriter and actor
Antonio Macia
– Singer
Paloma Mami
– Singer
Benny Mardones
– Surreal painter
Roberto Matta
– Artist
Gordon Matta-Clark
– Novelist and filmmaker
Claudio Miranda
– Nobel laureate
Gabriela Mistral
– Actress
Daniella Monet
– Diplomat, society figure, and actor
Harry Hays Morgan Jr.
– Engineer and scientist
Ricardo A. Olea
– Actress, singer, and model
America Olivo
– Actress, singer and musical theater actress
Cote de Pablo
– Actor
Frank Pando
– Actor
Marko Zaror
– Actor
Pedro Pascal
– Reality TV personality
Nicole Polizzi
– Singer-songwriter and composer
Promis
– Cardiologist
Jose Quiroga
– Singer-songwriter and guitarist
Elizabeth Schall
– Soccer player
Sebastian Soto
– Musician
Tom Araya
– Writer
Elizabeth Subercaseaux
– Soccer player and model
Ryann Torrero
– Journalist, entrepreneur, and co-founder, CEO and president of Integrity Ministries
Steve Thurston
– Chilean writer and Rice University professor
Mercedes Valdivieso
– Professor
Arturo Valenzuela
– Chilean poet, singer-songwriter, and pianist
Francisca Valenzuela
– Actress
Leonor Varela
– Economist and professor
Andres Velasco
– Director
Alexander Witt
Chileans abroad[edit]
Of the 857,781 Chilean expatriates around the globe, 13.3% (114,084) live in the United States, 50.1% reside in Argentina, 4.9% in Sweden, and around 2% each in Canada and Australia, with the remaining 18% being scattered in smaller numbers across the globe, particularly the countries of the European Union.[11][12][13]
Demographics of Chile
Latino conservatism in the United States
Chileans in the United Kingdom
Chilean Australian
List of Chileans
Chile–United States relations
US Census Chilean Factpage
Burson, Phyllis J. "Chilean Americans." Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, edited by Thomas Riggs, (3rd ed., vol. 1, Gale, 2014), pp. 479–490.
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Pike, F. B. Chile and the United States: 1880–1962 (University of Notre Dame Press, 1963).
Gomez, L.A. (2018). "Chilean Americans: A micro cultural Latinx group." In (Ed.), Latinx immigrants: Transcending acculturation and xenophobia (pp. 33–52). Springer.
Patricia Arredondo
History of Chileans and the California Gold Rush
Historical Text Archive
Rosales and the Chilean miners in California
Cámara Chileno Norteamericana de Comercio (AMCHAM)
Chilean Diplomacy
The Avalon Project (Yale Law School)
a major Chilean community and political activism center in Berkeley, California