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 and are notable.

List

Cristina Abuhazi- Venezuelan model, actress and TV host in Sony Youtube America Latina Network.
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.
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-psycologist, 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
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.
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.
Narciso Lopez - Venezuelan filibuster.
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
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.
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]
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.
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
Antonio Sano- thoroughbred racehorse trainer
Angel Sanchez- fashion designer
Leda Santodomingo- Venezuelan journalist and TV host
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
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.
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

References

^ Press office. Maria Conchita Alonso Endorses John McCain JohnMcCain.com, October 31, 2008.
^ Muther, Christopher. "'SNL' star Armisen drums up a career in comedy", Boston Globe, January 30, 2004 (fee required for full article)
^ Karni, Annie (2010-12-02). "Painting the Town Fred | New York Post". NYPOST.com. Retrieved 2012-05-30.
^ AP Photo (2012-01-05). "Photo from AP Photo - Fred Armisen, Hildegardt Gemer News, photos, topics, and quotes". 1click.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 2012-05-30.
^ "Fred Armisen: Biography," TV Guide, accessdate=2009-11-10.
^ "Ancestry of Peter Camejo". Wargs.com. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
^ "Fernando Michelena, photograph by Theodore C. Marceau". University of Louisville work=Libraries: Digital Collections. Retrieved April 13, 2010. {{cite web}}: Missing pipe in: |publisher= (help)
^ Dunning, Jennifer. "Ballet Hispanico Finds Its Essence." The New York Times, November 28, 1994.
^ http://asinglewomanmovie.com/jeanmarie-simpson-crew.html
^ http://korepress.org/CIHAbout.htm

[1] Press office. Maria Conchita Alonso Endorses John McCain JohnMcCain.com, October 31, 2008.

[2] Muther, Christopher. "'SNL' star Armisen drums up a career in comedy", Boston Globe, January 30, 2004 (fee required for full article)

[3] Karni, Annie (2010-12-02). "Painting the Town Fred | New York Post". NYPOST.com. Retrieved 2012-05-30.

[4] AP Photo (2012-01-05). "Photo from AP Photo - Fred Armisen, Hildegardt Gemer News, photos, topics, and quotes". 1click.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 2012-05-30.

[5] "Fred Armisen: Biography," TV Guide, accessdate=2009-11-10.

[6] "Ancestry of Peter Camejo". Wargs.com. Retrieved 2011-01-01.

[7] "Fernando Michelena, photograph by Theodore C. Marceau". University of Louisville work=Libraries: Digital Collections. Retrieved April 13, 2010. {{cite web}}: Missing pipe in: |publisher= (help)

[8] Dunning, Jennifer. "Ballet Hispanico Finds Its Essence." The New York Times, November 28, 1994.

[9] ttp://asinglewomanmovie.com/jeanmarie-simpson-crew.html

[10] ttp://korepress.org/CIHAbout.htm

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