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.

List

Architects and builders

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, writer and actress
  • 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
  • Grammy Award–nominated singer/songwriter and actress. Cuban-born, Venezuelan-raised, she is an American citizen[4]
  • 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 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
  • 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.[5]
  • Alfredo del Monaco – Venezuelan composer
  • Silvano Monasterios – jazz pianist and composer
  • Ricardo Montaner – Venezuelan singer and composer
  • Gabriela Montero – pianist and composer
  • 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

  • Simon Bolivar army who died in Puerto Cabello
    , Venezuela
  • 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 PáezVenezuelan 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.
  • US Army. She is sister of soap opera actress Gabriela Spanic
    .

Politics

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.[8][9]
  • Sylvia Rivera – American bisexual transgender activist and trans woman

Others

See also

  • Venezuelan American
  • Venezuelan Canadian
  • Venezuelan people
  • List of Venezuelans
  • List of Canadians
  • List of Americans

References

  1. Boston Globe
    , January 30, 2004 (fee required for full article)
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  5. ^ "Fernando Michelena, photograph by Theodore C. Marceau". Libraries: Digital Collections. University of Louisville. Archived from the original on July 16, 2011. Retrieved April 13, 2010.
  6. ^ "Ancestry of Peter Camejo". Wargs.com. Retrieved 2011-01-01.
  7. ^ "Latinx Young People Want Climate Action. Why Aren't We Reaching Out to Them?". Next100. 2020-03-05. Retrieved 2021-12-31.
  8. ^ "Jeanmarie Simpson". A Single Woman the Movie. 1959-11-20. Retrieved 2017-03-18.
  9. ^ "CIHAbout". korepress.org. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2022.