Famous People with Name Matte

René Matte            Origin/Culture/Country: American

René Matte: was a Canadian politician and a Member of the House of Commons. Matte ran as a Ralliement Créditiste candidate in the federal district of Champlain in the 1968 election and won. His party rejoined the national Social Credit Party of Canada in 1971. He was re-elected in the 1972 and 1974 elections. He ran for the leadership of the Social Credit Party in 1976 advocating that Canada be divided into five sovereign regions in a loose confederation[2] He placed second to federalist André-Gilles Fortin after several Social Credit MPs threatened to leave the party if Matte won. Matte ran for the leadership again in 1978 but abruptly resigned from the party to sit as an independent when its national executive decided to hold the leadership convention in Winnipeg. Interim leader Charles-Arthur Gauthier stated that Matte was expelled after refusing to follow party discipline for 18 months. He ran as an independent candidate in the 1979 federal election and was defeated by Liberal candidate Michel Veillette. Matte ran again in 1980 as a New Democratic Party candidate, but finished second.

Jean-Paul Matte            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jean-Paul Matte: was a Canadian politician and a Member of the House of Commons. Matte ran as a Liberal candidate in the federal district of Champlain in 1962 and won. He was re-elected in 1963 and 1965.

Pablo Larraín Matte            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Pablo Larraín Matte: is a Chilean Film director and Screenwriter. He is the Son of the former Minister of Housing & Urban Development in the current government administration, Magdalena Matte, and senator & Independent Democrat Union president, Hernán Larraín. He has directed three feature films and co-directed on one TV series.