Editing Valparaíso (section)

==Notable residents==
Valparaíso is the birthplace of many historically significant figures, including:
*[[Abelardo Quinteros]], Chilean composer
*[[Augusto Pinochet]], general and dictator of Chile
*[[Camilo Mori]], Chilean painter
*[[Esteban Orlando Harrington]], Chilean architect
*[[Matias Novoa]], Chilean-Mexican actor
*[[Claudio Naranjo]], Chilean psychiatrist
*[[Chris Watson]], Australia's third Prime Minister, and the first Australian [[Australian Labor Party|Labour]] Prime Minister
*[[Curt Echtermeyer]], also known as Curt Bruckner (1896–1971), German painter
*[[Percy John Daniell]], English mathematician 
*[[Marsia Alexander-Clarke]], American artist<ref name="webpage">{{cite web |author=Marsia Alexander-Clarke |year=2003 |title=Marsia Alexander-Clarke, Video Artist |url=http://student1www.fullcoll.edu/00029861/Marsia |access-date=2011-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331045542/http://student1www.fullcoll.edu/00029861/Marsia/ |archive-date=2012-03-31 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Roberto Ampuero]], author of the internationally published novels about the private eye Cayetano Brulé and "Hijo Ilustre" of Valparaíso, Foreign Minister of Chile
*[[Giancarlo Monsalve]], Chilean international opera singer, ''Cultural Ambassador of Valparaíso and UNESCO medal''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mercuriovalpo.cl/prontus4_noticias/site/artic/20100804/pags/20100804173336.html |title=El Mercurio |publisher=Mercuriovalpo.cl |date=2010-08-04 |access-date=2012-01-07 |archive-date=2012-04-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423152209/http://www.mercuriovalpo.cl/prontus4_noticias/site/artic/20100804/pags/20100804173336.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.estrellavalpo.cl/prontus4_noticias/site/artic/20100804/pags/20100804001141.html |title=deslumbra a Europa |publisher=Estrellavalpo.cl |date=2010-08-04 |access-date=2012-01-07 |archive-date=2012-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120414231210/http://www.estrellavalpo.cl/prontus4_noticias/site/artic/20100804/pags/20100804001141.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.24horas.cl/videosRegiones.aspx?id=28954&idRegion=5 |title=24 Horas – Tenor Giancarlo Monsalve visita Valparaíso |publisher=24horas.cl |access-date=2012-01-07}}</ref>
*[[Sergio Badilla Castillo]], Chilean poet, founder of poetic transrealism in contemporary poetry
*[[Ernestina Pérez Barahona]], Chilean physician
*[[Elvira Santa Cruz Ossa]], Chilean dramatist and novelist
*[[Alicia Herrera Rivera]], feminist lawyer, minister of the Court of Appeals of Santiago
*[[Juana López (nurse)]], Chilean army nurse
*[[J. G. Robertson]], English singer and actor 
*[[José Maza Sancho]], Chilean astronomer
*[[Sergio Larraín]], Chilean photographer

It has also been the residence of many writers such as the Chilean poet [[Pablo Neruda]], the Nicaraguan poet [[Rubén Darío]] and the American poet [[Marion Manville Pope]].

Puerto Rican pro-independence leader [[Segundo Ruiz Belvis]] died in the city in November 1867.

* [[Jorge Dip]], lawyer and politician, governor of the [[province of Valparaíso]]