List of Famous people born in Venezuela

Jacobo Salvador Kouffati Agostini is a Venezuelan association football player who plays as a midfielder. He currently plays for Deportivo Táchira.

Luis Antonio Herrera Campins was President of Venezuela from 1979 to 1984. He was elected to one five-year term in 1978. He was a member of COPEI, a Christian Democratic party.

Británico Antonio Salas Díaz, better known as Tito Salas, was a Venezuelan painter, considered a significant contributor in the development of Venezuelan modern art.

Osmariel Maholi Villalobos Atencio is a Venezuelan TV show host, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Earth Venezuela in 2011. She represented Venezuela in Miss Earth 2012 in the Philippines and won the "Miss Earth-Water" title and Miss Photogenic Awards gathered 28,000 votes combined in social media and Miss Earth website.

Vladimir Padrino López is a Venezuelan four-star general the current Minister of Defense for the National Armed Forces of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.

Guillermo Dávila is a Venezuelan actor and singer who has acted in many telenovelas.

Diosa Canales is a Venezuelan singer, actress, and model.

Lorent Enrique Gómez Saleh is a Venezuelan activist. Since 2011, Saleh has participated in several activities in defense of human rights and has been repeatedly detained by the Venezuelan authorities on terrorism charges. The Venezuelan government has accused Saleh of carrying out paramilitary training and planning attacks against Venezuela. In 2014, he was deported from Colombia and handed over to officials of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN). Until 2018, he was being held in La Tumba, in Plaza Venezuela, Caracas during which time his audience had been postponed 52 times. On 12 October 2018, he was released by the Venezuelan authorities and exiled to Spain, where he arrived the next day after landing at the Madrid–Barajas Airport.

Isaías Medina Angarita was a Venezuelan military and political leader, 33rd President of Venezuela from 1941 until 1945, during World War II. He followed the path of his predecessor Eleazar López Contreras, and ruled the country's democratic transition process.

Felipe Pirela (1941–1972) was a Venezuelan bolero singer. He was murdered in San Juan, Puerto Rico.