Gonzalo Lira López, (February 29, 1968) is a Chilean-American novelist, film director and Youtuber.^[1][2]

Son of Gonzalo Lira Valdés and María Isabel López Hess, he grew up in the San Fernando Valley, New York, Miami and also in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He completed his studies at Saint George's College in Santiago, Chile.

In 1997 he published the book Tomáh Errázurih.

After settling in Manhattan in 1998, Lira wrote, produced and directed a short comic film, So Kinky. In 2002 he wrote the book Acrobat which was made into a movie by Miramax. That same year Lira returned to Chile and began producing and writing in Spanish. In 2006, he co-wrote, produced and directed Catalina's Kidnapping, called "Secuestro" in Chile.

Between 2010 and 2012, he published economic analyses on his blog, making a prognosis about the hyperinflation that threatened the US dollar.

Since 2017 he has been active in social networks, especially YouTube.^[2]