Iván Zamorano
b. 1967
HPI 67.0948 languages
Chilean footballer
The Most Famous
Soccer Players from Chile
228 notable people
Trending Soccer Players from Chile This Week
The top 10 Soccer Players from Chile trending on Wikipedia in the past 7 days, with a quick note on what drove the spike.
- #1
Erick Pulgar
b. 1994
Trending in Portuguese (#154) Wikipedia (491 views, on Jul 17).
This page contains a list of the greatest Chileans Soccer Players. The pantheon dataset contains 24,321 Soccer Players, 228 of which were born in Chile. This makes Chile the birth place of the 24th most number of Soccer Players behind Poland and Romania.
Top 10 Chilean Soccer Players
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the top 10 most legendary Chilean Soccer Players of all time. This list of famous Chilean Soccer Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity. Visit the rankings page to view the entire list of Chilean Soccer Players.
#1 #2 
Elías Figueroa
b. 1946
HPI 66.4937 languagesChilean footballer
#3 
Leonel Sánchez
1936 - 2022
HPI 65.7538 languagesChilean footballer
#4 
Arturo Vidal
b. 1987
HPI 62.2369 languagesChilean footballer
#5 
Marcelo Salas
b. 1974
HPI 61.5644 languagesChilean footballer
#6 
Alexis Sánchez
b. 1988
HPI 61.3670 languagesChilean footballer
#7 
Claudio Bravo
b. 1983
HPI 59.9961 languagesChilean association football player
#8 
Carlos Vidal
1902 - 1982
HPI 59.8626 languagesChilean footballer
#9 
Guillermo Subiabre
1903 - 1964
HPI 59.7927 languagesChilean footballer (1903-1964)
#10 
Braulio Musso
1930 - 2025
HPI 59.3716 languagesChilean footballer (1930–2025)
People by Birth Decade
Browse notable Chileans Soccer Players grouped by birth decade. Each decade shows the top 10 by HPI; expand to see everyone.
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1920s(11)
1910s(1)
1900s(17)
1890s(2)
Overlapping Lives
Which Soccer Players were alive at the same time? This visualization shows the lifespans of the 25 most globally memorable Soccer Players since 1700.
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