List of Famous people born in Venezuela

José María Vargas Ponce was the President of Venezuela from 1835–1836.

George Patrick Forsyth Sommer is a Peruvian politician and former international footballer who played as a goalkeeper. In 2018, he was elected as mayor of La Victoria District, Lima with the We Are Peru party. He resigned in October 2020 and announced his intention to run for President of Peru in the 2021 general elections. On 10 February 2021, Forsyth was disqualified from the presidential race following allegations of omitting information out of his campaign application.

Boris Rodolfo Aguirre Hobo is a Venezelan-Spanish screenwriter, journalist, writer, TV host and showman.

Jacqueline Saburido was a Venezuelan activist and burn survivor who campaigned against drunk driving. After a car crash in 1999 Saburido received burns on 60% of her body; she went on to appear in drunk-driving ads and was twice a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She also unsuccessfully tried to become Britain's first face transplant patient.

César Rengifo (1915–1980) was a Venezuelan painter, writer, poet and journalist.

José Pastor López Pineda, better known as "El Indio Pastor", was a Venezuelan singer-songwriter who worked primarily in the style of Cumbia.

Gleyber David Torres Castro is a Venezuelan professional baseball second baseman and shortstop for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut on April 22, 2018.

Carlos Andrés Pérez Rodríguez also known as CAP and often referred to as El Gocho, was a Venezuelan politician and President of Venezuela from 12 March 1974 to 12 March 1979 and again from 2 February 1989 to 21 May 1993. He was one of the founders of Acción Democrática, the dominant political party in Venezuela during the second half of the twentieth century. His first presidency was known as the Saudi Venezuela due to its economic and social prosperity thanks to enormous income from petroleum exportation. However, his second presidency saw a continuation of the economic crisis of the 1980s, a series of social crises, widespread riots known as Caracazo and two coup attempts in 1992. In May 1993 he became the first Venezuelan president to be forced out of office by the Supreme Court, for the embezzlement of 250 million bolívars belonging to a presidential discretionary fund.

Mónica Spear Mootz was a Venezuelan actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Venezuela 2004. She also represented Venezuela at Miss Universe 2005 in Bangkok, Thailand where she finished as 4th runner-up.

Omar José Prieto Fernández, is a Venezuelan economist and politician who is currently governor of Zulia since 2017. He was mayor of San Francisco, Zulia, for two consecutive periods.