José Santos Arraño Acevedo (14 October 1921 – 23 November 2009) was a Chilean journalist and historian, who worked in several regional newspapers, including El Rancagüino from Rancagua, La Discusión from Chillán, amid others.

Arraño Acevedo was born on 14 October 1921 in Quebrada del Nuevo Reino, near Pichilemu, then part of Colchagua, Chile.

He was one of twelve sons of José Luis Arraño Ortiz and María Soledad Acevedo Caro.

Although Hombres y Cosas de Pichilemu was first announced in 1988 in El Rancagüino,[2] it was first published in September 2003.

[4] During his last years, he hosted a radio programme called La Hora de José Arraño Acevedo, which was broadcast for almost a decade.