List of Venezuelan Americans

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

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List

• Aldo Abreu-Venezuelan baroque flutist.
• Arthur Albert - Venezuelan born, American cinematographer and television director.
• María Conchita Alonso - three time Grammy Award–nominated singer/songwriter and actress. Cuban born-Venezuelan raised, she is American citizen^[1]
• Julio Aguilera - Venezuelan-American painter and sculptor born in Caracas
• Cristina Amon- Venezuelan born, dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering.
• José de Armas - professional tennis player
• Fred Armisen- actor, comedian, musician.^[2][3][4] He attended the School of Visual Arts (NYC)^[5]
• Antonio Arraiz- Venezuelan writer
• Elizabeth Avellán - American film producer, born in Venezuela.
• Manuel Azpurua Sosa- thoroughbred racehorse trainer
• Devendra Banhart- singer-songwriter
• Daniela Bascopé - Telenovela actress
• Josh Barfield - Venezuelan-born American major league Baseball player
• Baruj Benacerraf- Venezuelan-born American immunologist, 1980 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of the major histocompatibility complex genes
• Renato Beluche- Privateer at service of Simon Bolivar army.
• Jorge Blanco- Venezuelan artist who created the comic strip The Castaway/El Náufrago, which became an overnight success.
• Manuel Blum - born in Caracas, Venezuela, is a computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995
• Tobias Bluzmanis - Expert in locks and locksmithing
• Horacio Bocaranda- film director
• Luigi Boria- Venezuelan born, mayor of Doral, Florida
• Eli Bravo- journalist, TV host
• Andrea Burns - singer
• Carlos López Bustamante- journalist spent part of his life in USA where died in Chicago.
• Miguel Cabrera- Baseball player. In 2012 became the first player since Carl Yastrzemski in 1967 to win the Triple Crown in batting.
• Ed Calle - musician from Miami, Florida, born in Venezuela.
• Jose Leonardo Leon - Musician, Trombonist Charlotte Symphony (Florida), South Florida Recording artist, Live Performances
• Peter Camejo - (1939–2008) was an American author, activist and politician. He is of Venezuelan descent.^[6]
• Tatiana Capote - actress. Cuban born-Venezuelan raised.
• Mariah Carey- singer; her father Alfred Roy Carey was born in Venezuela.
• Teresa Carreño - Venezuelan born, pianist and composer
• Cipriano Castro- President of Venezuela (1899-1908). Expatriated by Juan Vicente Gomez regime in 1908, spent the rest of his life in exile, mostly in Puerto Rico where died in 1928.
• Javier Castellano - jockey, Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey 2014.
• Melchor Centeno Vallenilla- Electrical engineer
• Leoncio Cedeño- Painter
• Eibar Coa - jockey winner of the Breeder's Cup Sprint 2010.
• Grecia Colmenares- actress of telenovelas who gained fame across Latin America, specially during the 1980s.
• Gabriel Coronel- actor of telenovelas, model
• Jesse Corti - Venezuelan-born, American voice actor.
• Alejandro Chaban - Venezuelan-born, telenovela actor.
• Majandra Delfino - Alma Award-nominated Venezuelan born, American actress and singer
• Marieh Delfino - American actress.
• Chiquinquirá Delgado- Venezuelan TV host, model, and actress of Univision network in the United States
• Yasmin Deliz - American singer-songwriter, model and actress. She is daughter of Dominican father and a Colombian-Venezuelan mother.
• Daniel Dhers- BMX ryder
• Andrew Divoff- Venezuela born, actor
• Ramon Dominguez - jockey, recipient of three Eclipse Award in the row (2010, 2011 and 2012)
• Gustavo Dudamel - Orchestra conductor and violinist. He is the principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony in Gothenburg, Sweden, and music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Los Angeles, California
• George Duran - American chef and entertainer who is currently a spokesman in commercials for Hunt's tomatoes.
• José Esparza - Virologist
• Pedro Eustache- flautist - "World Music" woodwinds-reeds-wind synthesizers and composer
• Perla Farías Lombardini- Telemundo writer
• Nicolas Felizola- fashion designer
• Humberto Fernandez Moran- Venezuelan research NASA scientist winner of the John Scott Award, for his invention of the diamond knife
• Juan Pablo Galavis - professional footballer
• 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.
• Wladimir Gessen-psychologist, journalist, politician. Gessen is member of The National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ).
• 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
• Carolina Guillén - ESPNdeportes TV host
• Ozzie Guillén - former major league professional baseball player and manager of Chicago White Sox and Miami Marlins.
• Brooke Haven - American pornographic actress.
• José Manuel Hernández-A popular Venezuelan caudillo, army general, congressman, presidential candidate and cabinet member who was also involved in numerous insurrections. Live exiliated in USA from 1911 to his dead in 1921.
• Hernan Hermida, vocalist of rock band Suicide Silence
• Carlos Hernandez - former MLB player. Hernández owns and operates 'Caribbean Flavor', a Venezuelan restaurant in San Diego.
• Carolina Herrera- fashion designer
• Lorenzo Herrera-former Venezuelan singer
• Enrique Hidalgo- Venezuelan composer.
• Marcy Hinzmann - American pairs figure skater. Her mother was born in Venezuela.
• Perla Haney-Jardine - Brazilian-born American actress. She is best known for her role in Kill Bill Vol. 2 as B.B., the four-year-old daughter of Beatrix "The Bride" Kiddo and Bill. His father is Venezuelan.
• Moisés Kaufman - playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project.
• Monica Ponce de Leon - Architect with offices in Ann Arbor, New York and Boston. Dean at the University of Michigan. First Hispanic architect to receive the National Design Award in Architecture
• Thor Halvorssen Hellum- Venezuelan-Norwegian businessman who served as CEO and President telephone company, CANTV and later as Special Commissioner for International Narcotic Affairs.
• Thor Halvorssen Mendoza - Venezuelan human rights advocate and film producer
• Ricardo Hausmann- economist, writer.
• Raphael Jiménez- associate professor of conducting and director of Oberlin College orchestras
• Judith Jaimes-pianist
• Betty Kaplan- Venezuelan film director, currently live in Los Angeles
• Kamala Lopez - Actress, director, and political activist.
• T. J. MacGregor - Venezuelan born writer
• AnnMaria De Mars - American judoka
• Leopoldo Martínez Nucete- economist, director of Center for Democracy and Development in the Americas (Miami,Florida)
• Eduardo Marturet - composer, music director and principal conductor of The Miami Symphony Orchestra.
• Gustavo Matamoros- composer-sound artist
• Richard Méndez - ESPNdeportes TV host
• Beatriz Michelena - (1890–1942) was an American actress during the silent film era. She was of Venezuelan descent.^[7]
• Gabriela Montero- pianist and composer.
• Lilibeth Morillo- actress
• Chris Moy - singer and a former member of the Menudo teen group.
• Oswaldo Muñoz- Venezuelan born. Director of "El Venezolano" newspaper publicated in Miami.
• Moisés Naím- economist, Foreign Police chief editor, writer, TV-host.
• Alejandra Oraa- Venezuelan television anchor currently working for CNN en Español
• Carlos Pena, Jr. - American actor (Big Time Rush), singer, and dancer. His father is of Spanish and Venezuelan descent.
• Carlos PenaVega - American Film and TV actor and singer
• Julianna Peña American mixed martial artist
• Clara Perez - film and television actress.
• Elizabeth Pérez - Cuban-Venezuelan Emmy-winning television journalist and presenter working for CNN en Español.
• Mariela Pérez Branger - Miss Venezuela 1967.
• C.J. Perry - American professional wrestling valet, professional wrestler, model, actress, dancer, and singer
• William H. Phelps, Jr.- a notable Venezuelan ornithologist and businessman.
• William H. Phelps- Venezuelan American ornithologist and businessman.
• Allan Phillips- music producer, composer, arranger, and musician.
• Antonio Piedra - producer, director, photographer and philanthropist
• Victor Pineda (activist) - social development scholar and disability rights advocate
• Rafael Poleo- a Venezuelan journalist and politician.
• Abraham Pulido- a Venezuelan film director.
• Édgar Ramírez - a Venezuelan actor.
• Tina Ramirez - American dancer and choreographer, founder and artistic director (1970–2009) of Ballet Hispanico, the leading Hispanic dance company in the United States. She is a Venezuelan born, American raised.^[8]
• Rudy Regalado (musician).
• L. Rafael Reif - President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
• Sylvia Rivera - American bisexual transgender activist and trans woman.
• Génesis Rodríguez- actress.
• Jose Luis Rodríguez "El Puma"- singer and actor.
• Aldemaro Romero Jr.- biologist,dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
• Gustavo Adolfo Romero- biologist, curator of Herbarium of Harvard University.
• Devorah Rose - Editor-in-Chief of Social Life Magazine,[1] a New York City socialite, a television personality and entrepreneur
• Susana Rotker- writer, essaist
• Ronda Rousey - American mixed martial artist, judoka and actress.
• Jennifer Rovero - Playboy's Playmate of the Month for July 1999 and has appeared in numerous Playboy videos.
• Otmaro Ruiz, pianist and composer.
• Juan Carlos Salazar- Singer, Cuatro-player and songwriter/composer in addition to being an engineer with an MBA, and university instructor
• Luis José Santander- actor
• Angel Sanchez- fashion designer
• Al Santos (mayor) - Mayor of Kearny, New Jersey, and a Democrat, born in Venezuela.
• Daniel Sarcos- Venezuelan TV host, model, and actor of Telemundo network in the United States
• Giovanni Savarese- Venezuelan head coach of the newly formed New York Cosmos soccer club
• Santiago Schnell is a biophysical chemist and computational physiologist who holds an Associate Professorship in Molecular & Integrative Physiology at the University of Michigan.
• Marger Sealey is a singer, composer and actress
• Jeanmarie Simpson - American peace activist and theatre artist. His father is Venezuelan.^[9][10]
• Sonya Smith, actress
• Patricia Spanic- twin sister of soap opera actress Gabriela Spanic, she is a Captain in the US Army.
• Monica Spear- Miss Venezuela 2004- actress of Telemundo network
• Carlos J. Tirado Yepes- sculptor and painter
• Laura Termini - Venezuelan born American actress, producer, writer, and a Board Certified Health/Beauty Counselor AADP.
• Tammy Trull - American actress of Venezuelan and Cuban descent.
• Orlando Urdaneta- actor
• Ron van Dongen- photographer
• Edwin Valero- was an undefeated southpaw Venezuelan boxer and former two weight world champion who fought up to light welter weight.
• Wilmer Valderrama- actor
• Angelina Valentine - American pornographic actress
• Jhonen Vasquez - American comic book writer, cartoonist, and music video director
• Patricia Velásquez- is a Venezuelan actress and fashion model.
• Juan Vene- Journalist
• Nick Verreos - American fashion designer, fashion commentator and former Project Runway contestant.
• Rita Verreos - Venezuelan born beauty pageant contestant, image consultant, model, actress, and reality television contestant.
• Franklin Virgüez- actor
• Jules Waldman- Founder of The Daily Journal an English newspaper edited in Caracas.
• Broderick Zerpa- Venezuelan Journalist
• Zamora- is a Venezuelan pianist and composer nominated on Grammy Award 2010 in the "New Age" music category.
• Eglantina Zingg- actress, model and television host

See also

• Venezuelan American
• Venezuelan people
• List of Major League Baseball players from Venezuela

References