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List of Venezuelan Americans

This is a list of notable Venezuelan Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.

To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Venezuelan Americans or must have references showing they are Venezuelan Americans.

List

Architects and builders

  • Anita Berrizbeitia – Venezuelan landscape theorist, teacher, and author. Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
  • Carlos Brillembourg – Venezuelan architect based in New York, founder of Carlos Brillembourg Architects
  • Monica Ponce de Leon – architect with offices in Ann Arbor, New York and Boston. Dean of the School of Architecture at Princeton University. First Hispanic architect to receive the National Design Award in Architecture
  • Carolina Izsak – After the pageant as Miss Venezuela 1991 she completed architecture studies and currently resides in Boston, Massachusetts, US
  • Carlos Zapata– Venezuelan architect with his office headquartered in New York City

Entrepreneurs and business people

Artists and designers

  • Julio Aguilera – Venezuelan-American painter and sculptor born in Caracas
  • Devendra Banhart – Venezuelan American singer-songwriter and visual artist
  • Juan Fernando Bastos – Venezuelan born painter
  • Jorge Blanco – Venezuelan artist who created the comic strip The Castaway/El Náufrago, which became an overnight success
  • Nicolas Felizola – fashion designer
  • Rodner Figueroa – TV host, fashion designer and philanthropist
  • Nina Fuentes, a.k.a. Nina Dotti – Venezuelan art collector, curator, philanthropist, business woman and art dealer
  • Marisol Escobar – Venezuelan-American sculptor born in Paris
  • Carolina Herrera – fashion designer. Also Founder and CEO of New York-based CH Carolina Herrera
  • Martha Luna – fashion designer
  • Tina Ramirez – dancer and choreographer, best known as the Founder and Artistic Director of Ballet Hispanico
  • Angel Sanchez – fashion designer
  • Jeanmarie Simpson - Theatre Artist and Peace Activist
  • Nick Verreos – American fashion designer, fashion commentator and former Project Runway contestant
  • Jhonen Vasquez – American comic book writer, cartoonist, and music video director
  • Patricia van Dalen – Venezuelan visual artist based in Miami (Florida)
  • – photographer
  • Victor Hugo (artist and window dresser) – Venezuelan visual artist, window dresser, and Andy Warhol's collaborator, partner of fashion designer Halston.

Comedians

  • Julio Gassete – Venezuelan-born TV former comedian of Bienvenidos TV show. He lives currently in Miami, Florida
  • Joanna Hausmann – comedian, writer and actress
  • Erika de la Vega – Venezuelan stand-up comedy actress and fashion model
  • Monica Pasqualotto – actress, model and TV host in Americateve

Films and TV

Models

Musicians

  • Alfredo Rugeles – American born-Venezuelan composer and conductor
  • Gregory Abbott – American born singer, his father was born in Venezuela
  • Aldo Abreu – Venezuelan baroque flutist
  • Daniela Avanzini – Venezuelan and Cuban descent, singer, dancer, and member of Katseye
  • María Conchita Alonso – three time Grammy Award–nominated singer/songwriter and actress. Cuban-born, Venezuelan-raised, she is an American citizen
  • Devendra Banhart – Singer and songwriter
  • Josefina Benedetti – Venezuelan-American composer, musicologist and choral director.
  • Augusto Brandt – violinist and composer
  • Andréa Burns – singer
  • Ed Calle – saxophonist and composer from Miami, Florida, born in Venezuela. He has four nominations for Grammy Awards
  • Mariah Carey – singer; her father Alfred Roy Carey was born in Venezuela
  • Teresa Carreño – Venezuelan-born pianist and composer
  • Sylvia Constantinidis – Venezuelan-born pianist, conductor, composer, writer and music educator. President of the Southeast Chapter of NACUSA (National Association of Composers of The United States of America)
  • Tulio Cremisini – Venezuelan percussionist, guitarist, composer and orchestra conductor
  • Majandra Delfino – ALMA Award-nominated Venezuelan-born American actress and singer
  • Yasmin Deliz – American singer-songwriter, model and actress. She is daughter of Dominican father and a Colombian-Venezuelan mother
  • Paul Desenne – Venezuelan cellist and resident composer at Alabama Symphony Orchestra
  • Gustavo Dudamel – orchestra conductor and violinist. He is the music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Los Angeles, California
  • Pedro Eustache – flautist, "World Music" woodwinds-reeds-wind synthesizers and composer
  • Lorenzo Herrera – former Venezuelan singer
  • Hernan Hermida – vocalist of rock band Suicide Silence
  • Enrique Hidalgo – Venezuelan composer
  • – pianist
  • – associate professor of conducting and director of Oberlin College orchestras
  • Rudy La Scala – singer and composer
  • Andres Levin-musician, record producer, bandleader
  • Pablo Manavello – Italian-born Venezuelan composer, guitarist, singer and songwriter
  • Manu Manzo – Venezuelan-born singer and songwriter
  • Eduardo Marturet – composer, music director and principal conductor of The Miami Symphony Orchestra
  • Gustavo Matamoros – composer-sound artist
  • – Venezuelan composer
  • Silvano Monasterios – jazz pianist and composer
  • Ricardo Montaner – Venezuelan singer and composer
  • Gabriela Montero – pianist and composer
  • Chris Moy – singer and former member of the Menudo teen group
  • Luis Perdomo – jazz pianist and composer
  • Allan Phillips – music producer, composer, arranger, and musician now residing in Southern California.
  • Alejandro Enrique Planchart – Venezuelan-American musicologist, conductor, and composer
  • Edward Pulgar – Venezuelan violinist and conductor
  • Rudy Regalado – Venezuelan Latin music leader, percussionist and composer
  • Jose Luis Rodríguez "El Puma" – singer and actor
  • Otmaro Ruíz – pianist and composer
  • Juan Carlos Salazar – singer, Cuatro-player and songwriter/composer in addition to being an engineer with an MBA, and university instructor
  • Marger Sealey – singer, composer and actress
  • – Venezuelan-born singer-songwriter and composer
  • – Venezuelan-born guitarist, singer-songwriter and composer. His father was born in USA
  • Carmen Helena Téllez – Venezuelan-American music conductor
  • Zamora – Venezuelan pianist and composer nominated on Grammy Award 2010 in the "New Age" music category
  • Kid 606 - Venezuelan-American electronic musician

Sports

Journalists, TV hosts and anchors

  • Carlos Acosta– TV host of EVTV Miami
  • Eduardo Aleman – radio host in Charlando en caliente at La Nueva Poderosa 670 am of Miami, Fl
  • Carla Angola – TV host of EVTV Miami
  • Mariana Atencio – journalist and news personality for MSNBC and NBC News. The Huffington Post called her "Our Latina Christiane Amanpour"
  • José Aristimuño – journalist, press sub secretary of Democratic Party
  • Eleonora Bruzual – writer and journalist of El Nacional and El Nuevo Herald. Conduct a daily radio segment called "Trinchera" on Radio Mambi of Miami (Florida).
  • – Venezuelan TV host and model
  • – Venezuelan-journalist TV host at CNN Sports
  • Carlos López Bustamante – journalist spent part of his life in the US, where he died in Chicago
  • – Venezuelan-born TV host and writer
  • Lindsay Casinelli – Venezuelan TV host of Univision network
  • Chiquinquirá Delgado – Venezuelan TV host, model, and actress of Univision network in the United States
  • George Duran – Venezuelan-born restaurateur, TV personality, TV producer, and published author
  • Lorena Garcia – Venezuelan-born restaurateur, philanthropist, TV personality, TV producer, and published author
  • Humberto Garcia – host in La Nueva Poderosa 670 am of Miami, Fl
  • Raúl González – TV host and actor; in Venezuela, he hosted a kids' TV show Supercrópolis; became one of the hosts of TV show Despierta América of Univisión television network
  • Eva Golinger – attorney, RT Network TV host and editor of the Correo del Orinoco International
  • Alejandra Oraa – Venezuelan television anchor currently working for CNN en Español
  • Reinaldo Herrera – former director of Vanity Fair magazine
  • Alfredo Peña – Venezuelan journalist and politician. He died exiled in Miami in 2016
  • Elizabeth Pérez – Cuban-Venezuelan Emmy – winning television journalist and presenter working for CNN en Español
  • Luisana Pérez Fernández – Venezuelan-American communications expert and political advisor; currently serves as the director of Hispanic media for the Joe Biden administration
  • Rafael Poleo – Venezuelan journalist and politician
  • Carolina Sandoval – journalist, broadcaster, writer, TV presenter, and actress
  • Daniel Sarcos – Venezuelan TV host, model, and actor of Telemundo network in the United States
  • Alberto Sardiñas – Venezuelan born syndicated radio personality
  • – Venezuelan radio host in Miami,Fl
  • James Tahhan – Venezuelan-born restaurateur known as "Chef James", TV personality, TV producer, and published author
  • Patricia Zavala – Venezuelan TV host and model; hosts E! Entertainment Television's Coffee Break

Military

  • - Venezuelan militar. He lived exiliated the last years in New York until his dead in 1931.
  • Renato Beluche – Louisiana merchant and privateer at service of Simon Bolivar army who died in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela
  • José Manuel Hernández – popular Venezuelan caudillo, army general, congressman, presidential candidate and cabinet member who was also involved in numerous insurrections. Lived in exile in US from 1911 to his death in 1921
  • Narciso López – Venezuelan soldier and adventurer, known for four filibuster expeditions aimed at liberating Cuba from Spain rule in the 1850s. Following his final failed attempt he was captured and garroted for treason in Havana.
  • José Antonio Páez – Venezuelan leader who fought the War of Independence. President of Venezuela once it was independent of the Gran Colombia (1830–1835; 1839–1843; 1861–1863). He lived exiliated the last years in New York, where he became a philanthropist until 1863.
  • Patricia Spanic – captain in the US Army. She is sister of soap opera actress Gabriela Spanic.

Politics

Science

Economists

Writers

Activists

  • Mery Godigna Collet – Venezuelan artist, writer, philanthropist and environmental living in Austin, Texas
  • Thor Halvorssen Mendoza – Venezuelan human rights advocate and film producer
  • Daniel di Martino – Venezuelan activist fonnder od Dissident Project
  • Nancy Navarro – social activist. In 2010, President Obama appointed her to the Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics
  • Victor Pineda (activist) – social development scholar and disability rights advocate
  • Nathalie Rayes – Venezuelan born, human rights advocate. She is president and CEO of Latino Victory and vice-chair of the Hispanic Federation
  • Jeanmarie Simpson – American peace activist and theatre artist. His father is Venezuelan.
  • Sylvia Rivera – American bisexual transgender activist and trans woman

Others

See also

References