The Most Famous People from Chile
Top 39 of 39 ranked · August 2026 · See today's live standing →
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Pedro Pascal leads a Chilean list where every measured name is alive
iFAMOUS Editorial Desk · 1 min read
The Chile origin table for August 2026 is an actor, a footballer, three presidents, a novelist and a 97-year-old filmmaker, with no dead names at all.
Pedro Pascal, the Chilean-American actor who has become one of the most watched faces in television and film, is the most famous person from Chile in the world for August 2026, scoring 16.7. Alexis Sánchez, the winger now at Sevilla, is second at 12.6, and José Antonio Kast, president of Chile since 11 March 2026, is third at 10.6. Screen, pitch and palace, in that order.
Thirty-nine names were measured in this scope and all 39 are living. The world's attention to Chileans, as the engine measures it, is entirely paid to people who can still respond to it.
Politics occupies three of the top seven. Kast is third, Michelle Bachelet, the surgeon and epidemiologist who became the first woman to lead the country, is sixth at 9.9, and Gabriel Boric, president from 2022 to 2026, is seventh at 9.8. Three presidents from three different political directions, ranked within a point of each other.
Football takes five seats. Manuel Pellegrini, managing Real Betis in Spain, is fourth at 10.3, Arturo Vidal eighth, Iván Zamorano twelfth, and Marcelo Salas and Gary Medel tied at 5.9. The arts hold the rest. Isabel Allende, the Chilean-American novelist, is fifth at 10.1. Alejandro Jodorowsky, the avant-garde filmmaker born in Tocopilla in 1929, is ninth. Mon Laferte, the Chilean-Mexican singer-songwriter, is tenth, and Cote de Pablo, the Chilean-American actress, eleventh. Stephanie Vaquer, the wrestler signed to WWE's Raw brand, is thirteenth at 6.7. Like Pascal, Allende, de Pablo and Laferte, she made her name abroad.
About this list
This list ranks people from Chile by their overall worldwide fame rather than local attention, as assessed for August 2026: the top 39 of 39 names, frozen as the permanent record of that edition. This is the standard reading: everyone, living or dead, on one scale. 39 of the 39 listed are living; the Alive reading restricts the same ranking to living people.
Pedro Pascal is No. 1 on this list for August 2026. Behind Pedro Pascal come Alexis Sánchez and José Antonio Kast.
What famous means here
Fame, in iFAMOUS, is how widely the world knows a name: how recognisable a person's name, face or work is, and how well people know who they are. It is assessed from extensive historical and current public data, some of it reaching back more than twenty years, and it is not merit, talent, importance or popularity on iFANN. The rankings model real-world global fame, not internet fame; the data is the instrument, not the subject. Activity on iFANN itself is excluded.
The month in the title is the date of this edition, not the period measured. The list is a snapshot of overall fame as it stood when the issue was frozen: a name does not lose its place because one month was quiet, and a trending moment alone does not put a name here. Trending attention is published separately on ifann.net.
How the list was ranked
The iFANN Global Fame Rankings combine worldwide Wikipedia readership across languages, worldwide news coverage and search interest anchored against stable reference names, with search history reaching back to 2004. A twelve-month baseline sits behind the current reading and short-lived surges are capped, so the list reflects durable recognition rather than one week of headlines. Rankings are computed daily on ifann.net and frozen on the second day of the following month as that month's issue; a published issue never changes.
About Chile
Chile is one of the countries and regions the journal ranks every month. Country lists use the same rankings and the same scale as The 100, so a name can be compared with its neighbours and against the world.
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"Pedro Pascal, No. 1 on The Most Famous People from Chile", iFAMOUS No. 1 (August 2026), ifamous.org