List of Famous people born in Venezuela
Rosanna Zanetti
Rosanna Zanetti, is a Venezuelan actress. She is best known for her roles in telenovelas ¡Qué clase de amor! where she landed her first starring role, Fanatikda where she was the protagonist, telenovela produced by TC Televisión, and Natalia del Mar where she was the youthful protagonist of the story.
Sheryl Rubio
Sheryl Dayana Rubio Rojas is a Venezuelan actress, singer, model, dancer, songwriter and fashion designer known for her role as Sheryl on the Boomerang Latin America series Somos tú y yo. Since 2018, Rubio has starred as Lucia Davila on the Netflix series The House of Flowers.
Luisa Ortega Díaz
Luisa Marvelia Ortega Díaz is a Venezuelan lawyer. Between December 2007 and August 2017, she served as the Prosecutor General of Venezuela. A proponent of the Chavismo ideology, Ortega Díaz was fired as Prosecutor General on 5 August 2017 by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice and the Constituent National Assembly (ANC) promoted by Nicolás Maduro, following a breaking with the Maduro government as a result of the 2017 Venezuelan constitutional crisis in the context of the crisis in Venezuela. This dismissal was rejected by the opposition-led National Assembly of Venezuela, arguing that only that institution had the power to carry out said removal according to the Constitution, and cataloging the Prosecutor as the only legitimate authority of the Public Ministry. As a result, she is called by the National Assembly, the Supreme Tribunal of Justice of Venezuela in exile and some media outlets as the Prosecutor General of Venezuela in exile.
Danny Ocean
Daniel Alejandro Morales Reyes, known by his stage name Danny Ocean, is a Venezuelan singer, songwriter and record producer born in Caracas, Venezuela. He began his professional music career in 2009 with the creation of his YouTube channel.
Jason Silva
Jason Luis Silva is a Venezuelan-American television personality, filmmaker, futurist, philosopher, and public speaker. He is known for hosting National Geographic documentaries: Brain Games and Origins. His goal is to use technology to excite people about philosophy and science. The Atlantic describes Silva as "A Timothy Leary of the Viral Video Age". Silva, a former presenter on Current TV, lectures internationally on such topics as creativity, spirituality, technology and humanity, writes and produces short films, and co-hosts National Geographic's Brain Games.
Stefanía Fernández
Stefanía Fernández Krupij is a Venezuelan TV host, model and beauty queen who won the Miss Venezuela 2008 and Miss Universe 2009 titles. She earned a Guinness World Records by being the first Miss Universe winner who was crowned by a compatriot.
Mariam Habach
Mariam Habach Santucci is a Venezuelan model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Venezuela 2015. She also won Señorita Centro Occidental 2016, she also represented Venezuela at Miss Universe 2016.
Antonio Ledezma
Antonio José Ledezma Díaz is a Venezuelan lawyer, politician and former political prisoner. After unsuccessfully challenging for the leadership of Democratic Action in 1999, he founded a new party, the Fearless People's Alliance.
Gerardo Parra
Gerardo Enrique Parra is a Venezuelan professional baseball outfielder in the Washington Nationals organization. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Arizona Diamondbacks, Milwaukee Brewers, Baltimore Orioles, Colorado Rockies, and the San Francisco Giants, as well for the Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB). Parra is a two-time Gold Glove Award winner. He won the 2019 World Series with the Nationals.
Eduardo Rodríguez
Eduardo José Rodríguez Hernández, nicknamed E-Rod, is a Venezuelan professional baseball pitcher for the Boston Red Sox of Major League Baseball (MLB). Listed at 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) and 220 pounds (100 kg), he both throws and bats left-handed.