List of Chilean Jews

Chilean Jews are Chileans residing in the Republic of Chile who are of either Jewish ancestry or observe the Jewish faith.

In the 2012 Chilean census, 16,294 Chilean residents listed their religion as Judaism, an increase of 8.8% since 2002. The actual Jewish community in Chile is estimated to be slightly larger. Chilean Jews are found across the country, although the majority live in the cities of Santiago and Valparaíso, and are predominantly found in higher-paying professions and all walks of public life. The Chilean Jewish population decreased in the political turmoil of the 1970s and 1980s, but their identity as Jews in Chile remains. Most Chilean Jews are Ashkenazim. Here is a list of some prominent Chilean Jews.

Actors

Shlomit Baytelman, actress
Alejandro Cohen, actor
Daniel Emilfork, actor
Anita Klesky, actress
Ariel Levy, actor
Nissim Sharim, actor
Paula Sharim, actress
Jael Unger, actress

Businesspeople

Sali Hochschild (1883–1965), mining magnate

Sportspeople

Rodrigo Goldberg (born 1971), football, forward (national team)
Kai Horwitz (born 1998), Olympic alpine skier
Nicolás Massú (born 1979), tennis player, highest world ranking # 9, 2x Olympic champion (singles & doubles)
Sebastian Rozental (born 1976), football, forward (national team)

Scientists

Mordo Alvo, physician and member of the scientific academy Instituto de Chile
Claudio Bunster, scientist (Jewish mother)
Fernando Cassorla, physician and member of the scientific academy Instituto de Chile
Alejandro Lipschuetz, anthropologist and endocrinologist

Mathematicians

Robert Frucht
Leo Corry

Other notable Chileans of Jewish descent

Andrés Weintraub, Professor Department of Industrial Engineering University of Chile
Chris Isaak Apablaza, zoologist
Leonardo Farkas, businessman and philanthropist
Mario Kreutzberger, better known as Don Francisco, TV host
Marjorie Agosín, human rights activist, professor, and writer
Shai Agosin, TV producer and presenter
José Berdichewsky, Pinochet's Ambassador in Israel
Eduardo Bitrán, former Minister of Public Works
David Stitchkin Branover, Rector of the University of Concepción from 1956 - 1962.
Roberto Brodsky, novelist and screenwriter
Cristopher Carpentier, chef (converted to Judaism)
Jacques Chonchol, Minister of Agriculture in the Allende government
Leopoldo Donnebaum, businessman and philanthropist
Ariel Dorfman, author and scholar
Roberto Dueñas, modeling agent
Christián Apablaza, Photographer, Graphic artist
Julián Elfenbein, journalist, television host
Efrain Friedman, director of Chilean Atomic Research Committee
Benjamín Galemiri, playwright
Rodrigo Guendelman, journalist
Clarisa Hardy, psychologist; former (2006-2007) Minister of Planning
Rodrigo Hinzpeter, politician
Tomás Hirsch, politician, businessman
Jeremías Israel, motoracing driver (Jewish father)
Mauricio Israel, television host
Claudio Jodorkovsky, rabbi
Alejandro Jodorowsky, film director (Chilean-born)
Alberto van Klaveren, (2006–2009) Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations
José Klein, former owner of Minera Santa Barbara
Marcelo Kormis, rabbi
Vivi Kreutzberger, television host
Marcos Libedinsky, former president of the Supreme Court of Justice
Sergio Melnick, economist, Minister of ODEPLAN under Pinochet
Lily Pérez, politician
Daniel Platovsky, businessman, politician, and eldest son of Milan Platovsky (Jewish father)
Milan Platovsky, Holocaust survivor and businessman who wrote a best-selling autobiography
Andres Pollak, jazz musician
Karen Poniachik, journalist; former Minister of Mining and Energy
Sarika Rodrik, fashion designer
Frank Sauerbaum, politician
Daniel Schidlow, Dean, Drexel University College of Medicine, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A. (Chilean born)
Leon Schidlowsky, music teacher and composer
Miguel Schweitzer Speisky, Pinochet's Minister of Justice
Miguel Schweitzer Walters, Pinochet's Minister of External Affairs and ambassador to the UK
Jorge Schaulsohn, politician
Gabriel Silber, deputy
Jacob Stoulman Bortnik, businessman, kidnapped by DINA during the Operacion Condor plan in Argentina
Víctor Tevah, fiddler
Marcelo Tokman, Minister of Energy
Julián Vainstein, rabbi
Ana Vásquez-Bronfman (née Ana Lucia Bronfman Weinstein), (1931-2009) writer, social scientist
José Weinstein, Minister of Culture under Ricardo Lagos
Luis Weinstein, photographer
Jaime Wisnaik, director of department of engineering at the Catholic University of Santiago
Mario Alvo, businessmen
Volodia Teitelboim Volosky, politician,lawyer and general secretary of the communist party of chile
Chaim Waissbluth, rabbi of Aish Chile