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

Architects and builders

  • Maria Cristina Anzola – Venezuelan architect. Currently serves as a Director of New York City Ballet, Inc.
  • 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

Entrepreneurs and business people

Artists and designers

Comedians

  • Julio Gassete – Venezuelan-born TV former comedian of Bienvenidos TV show. He lives currently in Miami, Florida
  • Joanna Hausmann – comedian youtuber
  • 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

  • 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 citizen[5]
  • Devendra Banhart – Singer and songwriter
  • Josefina Benedetti – Venezuelan-American composer, musicologist and choral director.
  • Augusto Brandt – violinist and composer
  • Andréa Burns – singer
  • Humberto Bruni Lamanna – descended from an Italian family, is a Classical Guitar concert artist.
  • 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, composer and orchestra conductor
  • Majandra DelfinoALMA 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

Sports

Journalists, TV hosts and anchors

  • Luis Alfredo Alvarez – TV host ESPN Latin America
  • Fernando Alvarez – TV host ESPN Latin America
  • Mariana Atencio – journalist and news personality working 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 Mambí of Miami (Florida).
  • Carlos López Bustamante – journalist spent part of his life in US, where he died in Chicago
  • Nelson Bustamante – Venezuelan-born TV host and writer
  • 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
  • Reinaldo Herrera – former director of Vanity Fair magazine
  • Elizabeth Pérez – Cuban-Venezuelan Emmy – winning television journalist and presenter working for CNN en Español
  • Rafael Poleo – Venezuelan journalist and politician
  • Beatrice Rangel – Venezuelan politician analyst
  • Carolina Sandoval – journalist, broadcaster, writer, TV presenter, and actress
  • Daniel Sarcos – Venezuelan TV host, model, and actor of Telemundo network in the United States
  • James Tahhan – Venezuelan-born restaurateur known as "Chef James", TV personality, TV producer, and published author
  • Patricia Zavala – Venezuelan TV host and model. She hosts E! Entertainment Television's Coffee Break

Military

Politics

  • Luigi Boria – Venezuelan-born mayor of Doral, Florida
  • Peter Camejo – (1939–2008) an American activist and politician. He was of Venezuelan descent.[7]
  • 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
  • Daniel de Leon – Venezuelan American union labor dirigent in New York.
  • 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
  • P. Michael McKinley – American diplomat and the United States Ambassador to Afghanistan
  • Patricia Rucker - member of the West Virginia House of Representatives
  • Irene Sáez – Venezuelan politician and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 1981
  • [[Moreno Valley, California - Mayor Yxstian Gutierrez] Yxstian Gutierrez of Moreno Valley, California

Science

Economists

  • Ricardo Hausmann – economist, writer, Harvard professor
  • Moisés Naím – economist, Foreign Police chief editor, writer, TV host
  • Roberto Rigobon – MIT professor
  • Ramón Espinasa – InterAmerican Development Bank
  • Francisco Monaldi – Rice University
  • Luisa Palacios – CITGO president
  • Francisco Rodriguez Caballero – Chief Economist, Bank of America
  • Hugo Faria – University of Miami

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
  • Luis Posada Carriles – Cuban-born Venezuelan naturalized former CIA agent. Anticastrist activist
  • Jeanmarie Simpson – American peace activist and theatre artist. His father is Venezuelan.[8][9]
  • Sylvia Rivera – American bisexual transgender activist and trans woman

Others

See also

References

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  2. Karni, Annie (2010-12-02). "Painting the Town Fred | New York Post". NYPOST.com. Archived from the original on 2013-07-18. Retrieved 2012-05-30.
  3. 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.
  4. "Fred Armisen: Biography," TV Guide, accessdate=2009-11-10.
  5. Press office. Maria Conchita Alonso Endorses John McCain Archived 2008-12-01 at the Wayback Machine JohnMcCain.com, October 31, 2008.
  6. "Fernando Michelena, photograph by Theodore C. Marceau". Libraries: Digital Collections. University of Louisville. Retrieved April 13, 2010.
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