Fernando Alegría (Santiago de Chile, 26 September 1918 – Walnut Creek, California, October 29, 2005) was a Chilean poet, writer, literary critic and scholar.

Poets from this barrio include Pablo Neruda, Violeta Parra and Volodia Teitelboim.

Alegría studied al Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera of Santiago and Universidad de Chile.

He sat on the Board of Trustees at the Western Institute for Social Research(WISR) for about twenty years beginning with its inception in 1975.

Alegría's "Viva Chile Mierda", the most recited poem of the Allende era, was written in the 1960s.