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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.

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.

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= Architects and builders =

= Entrepreneurs and business people =

= Artists and designers =

= Comedians =

= Films and TV =

= Models =

= Musicians =

  • Gregory Abbott – American born singer, his father was born in Venezuela
  • Aldo Abreu – Venezuelan baroque flutist
  • María Conchita Alonso – three time Grammy Award–nominated singer/songwriter and actress. Cuban-born, Venezuelan-raised, she is an American citizenPress office. [https://www.johnmccain.com/informing/news/PressReleases/c4fb41db-7c72-4807-8200-8d1ef6532c3c.htm Maria Conchita Alonso Endorses John McCain] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201134601/http://www.johnmccain.com//Informing/News/PressReleases/c4fb41db-7c72-4807-8200-8d1ef6532c3c.htm |date=2008-12-01 }} JohnMcCain.com, October 31, 2008.
  • 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
  • Judith Jaimes – pianist
  • Raphael Jiménez – 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
  • Fernando Michelena – Venezuelan tenor working in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Michelena toured with the Emma Abbott Grand Opera Company. He was the father of Beatriz, Vera and Teresa Luisa Michelena, all born in the US.{{cite web |url=http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/macauley&CISOPTR=1107&CISOBOX=1&REC=2 |publisher=University of Louisville |work=Libraries: Digital Collections |title=Fernando Michelena, photograph by Theodore C. Marceau |access-date=April 13, 2010 |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716163008/http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2Fmacauley&CISOPTR=1107&CISOBOX=1&REC=2 |url-status=dead }}
  • Alfredo del Monaco – 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
  • William Sanchez – Venezuelan born Cuban guitarist of Los Van Van and orchestra conductor.
  • Marger Sealey – singer, composer and actress
  • Alberto Šlezinger – Venezuelan-born singer-songwriter and composer
  • Jorge Spiteri– 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 =

= Military =

= Politics =

  • Luigi Boria – Venezuelan-born mayor of Doral, Florida
  • Peter Camejo (1939–2008) – American left-wing activist and Green Party politician. He was of Venezuelan descent.{{cite web|url=http://www.wargs.com/political/camejo.html|title=Ancestry of Peter Camejo|publisher=Wargs.com|access-date=2011-01-01}}
  • 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.
  • Natali Fani-Gonzalez – Venezuelan-born Councilmember and Chair of Economic Development in Montgomery County, Maryland
  • 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
  • Marcela Mulholland – Political director of Data for Progress{{Cite web|date=2020-03-05|title=Latinx Young People Want Climate Action. Why Aren't We Reaching Out to Them?|url=https://thenext100.org/latinx-young-people-want-climate-action-why-arent-we-reaching-out-to-them/|access-date=2021-12-31|website=Next100|language=en-US}}
  • Patricia Rucker – member of the West Virginia House of Representatives
  • 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.

= 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
  • 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.{{cite web|url=http://asinglewomanmovie.com/jeanmarie-simpson-crew.html |title=Jeanmarie Simpson |publisher=A Single Woman the Movie |date=1959-11-20 |access-date=2017-03-18}}{{cite web |url=http://korepress.org/CIHAbout.htm |title=CIHAbout |website=korepress.org |access-date=17 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726234843/http://korepress.org/CIHAbout.htm |archive-date=26 July 2011 |url-status=dead}}
  • Sylvia Rivera – American bisexual transgender activist and trans woman

= Others =

See also

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