Álex Figueroa

Álex Adolfo Figueroa Muñoz (20 September 1961 – 25 December 2018) was a Chilean politician and physician who served as Minister of Health (1996–2000).

Biography He spent his childhood in the Santiago neighborhoods of Estación Central and Tocornal, where his maternal grandparents lived. His father, Juan Figueroa, was a factory worker, and his mother, Gabriela Muñoz, was a homemaker.

He attended the Liceo José Victorino Lastarria, Santiago and later earned his medical degree from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He subsequently obtained a master's degree in ergonomics from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain, as well as a postgraduate diploma in internal medicine from the University of Chile Faculty of Medicine.

Political career While studying at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, he served as president of the Medical Students' Association. During the same period, he was also a student representative to the Federation of Students of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (FEUC), serving as its president in 1987.

He died on 25 December 2018 from liver cancer.