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 and are notable.
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
Fabiola Beracasa Beckman, Venezuelan born film and television producer, philanthropist and co-owner of The Hole Gallery, an art gallery in New York City
Adriana Cisneros – Venezuelan journalist, CEO and Chairman of Cisneros Group
Thor Halvorssen Hellum – Venezuelan-Norwegian businessman who served as President of
CANTV and later as Special Commissioner for International Narcotic Affairs
Carolina Herrera – fashion designer. Also Founder and CEO of New York-based CH Carolina Herrera
Vanessa Neumann – Venezuelan graduated in
Columbia University.lp Founder, President & CEO of Asymmetrica, a New York-headquartered global consultancy on brand integrity and counter-illicit trafficking. The relationship with
Mick Jagger (2000-2002) made her famous among world press
Jimy Szymanski – former professional tennist was Davis cup captain and Fed cup captain for Venezuela. President of STA TENNIS LLC, a company that manages tennis facilities in South Florida.
Bill Watkins – Venezuelan-born former CEO of Seagate Technology, the world's largest manufacturer of hard drives.
Artists and designers
Julio Aguilera – Venezuelan-American painter and sculptor born in Caracas
Devendra Banhart – Venezuelan American singer-songwriter and visual artist
Génesis Rodríguez – lived in
Miami,
Florida. She finished school from Miami Country Day High School in 2015 and moved to Los Angeles, California actress, American-born
Enrique Sapene – Venezuelan-born actor and producer based in Los Angeles
Carmen María Montiel – Venezuelan pageant titleholder and journalist. Miss Venezuela 1984, Miss Universe 1984 2nd runner up. She lives in USA since 1989.
Jennifer Rovero – Playboy's Playmate of the Month for July 1999 and has appeared in numerous Playboy videos
Rita Verreos – Venezuelan-born beauty pageant contestant, image consultant, model, actress, and reality television contestant
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
Ozzie Guillén – former major league professional baseball player and manager of Chicago White Sox and Miami Marlins
Ramon Dominguez – jockey, recipient of three
Eclipse Award in the row (2010, 2011 and 2012). In 2016 was inductee into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.
Marcy Hinzmann – American pairs figure skater; her mother was born in Venezuela
Eleonora Bruzual – writer and journalist of El Nacional and El Nuevo Herald. Conduct a daily radio segment called "Trinchera" on
Radio Mambí of Miami (Florida).
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
Raúl González – TV host and actor. In Venezuela, he hosted a kids' TV show Supercrópolis. He became one of the hosts on 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
Fausto Malave - Journalist, news anchor of Noticias Telemundo
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. She currently serves as the director of Hispanic media for the Joe Biden administration
Rafael Poleo – Venezuelan journalist and politician
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 in the 1850s
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.
Peter Camejo (1939–2008) – American left-wing activist and
Green Party politician. He was of Venezuelan descent.[6]
Cipriano Castro – President of Venezuela. Expatriated by
Juan Vicente Gomez regime in 1908, spent the rest of his life in exile, mostly in Puerto Rico, where he died in 1928
Diogenes Escalante – former ambassador of Venezuela in Washington. Spent his last twenty years in USA.
Philip Giordano – former Republican mayor of
Waterbury, Connecticut, and a convicted sex offender. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela, to Italian parents and his family moved to the United States when he was two years old
Daniel de Leon – Venezuelan American union labor dirigent in New York.
P. Michael McKinley – American diplomat and the United States Ambassador to Afghanistan
Irene Sáez – Venezuelan politician and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 1981
Leopoldo Martínez Nucete - Born in Caracas. Author, former Congressman in Venezuela (2000-2005), first Venezuelan American to become DNC Member (2017-2021) and President Biden Nominee for U.S. Executive Director of the Inter American Development Bank.
Mayly Sánchez – Venezuelan-born particle physicist who researches at Iowa State University
Santiago Schnell – Venezuelan-born biophysical chemist and computational physiologist who holds an Associate Professorship in Molecular & Integrative Physiology at the
University of Michigan