Óscar Jiménez Pinochet

Óscar Jiménez Pinochet (12 April 1915 – 15 March 1994) was a Chilean physician and politician. He served as ministro de Estado during the governments of presidents Carlos Ibáñez del Campo and Salvador Allende (1970–1971).

Family and studies He was born in Santiago de Chile on 12 April 1915, the son of Army Colonel Luis Jiménez Barrientos and Blanca Pinochet Meza. He completed his primary and secondary education at the Instituto Nacional General José Miguel Carrera in Santiago. He pursued higher education in medicine at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and the University of Chile, graduating as a physician in 1940. During his tenure, between 24 April and 18 May 1971, he was temporarily replaced by Minister of Mining Orlando Cantuarias.

After leaving the cabinet, he was appointed ambassador of Chile to Hungary, then part of the socialist bloc led by the Soviet Union. Following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, he was removed from his post and remained in Europe, later moving to Argentina before returning to Chile in 1975.

He died in Santiago on 15 March 1994, aged 78.