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Oscar D'León (born 1943), musician and bassist best known for his work with salsa music. Ramon Domínguez (born 1976), champion jockey and Hall of Fame member in American thoroughbred horse racing. Kimberly Dos Ramos (born 1992), actress. Milka Duno (born 1972), race car driver. Rafael Duran (born 1938), wrestler.
Juan José Flores (1800–1864), founder of the Repubilic of Ecuador and its first President. Pedro Gual Escandón (1783–1862), President of Venezuela in 1858, 1859, and 1861. Santiago Mariño (1788–1854), hero in the Venezuelan War of Independence, and important leader of Venezuela's eastern.
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈuɣo rafaˈel ˈtʃaβes ˈfɾi.as] ⓘ; 28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician and military officer who served as the 52nd president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, except for a brief period of forty-seven hours in 2002.
Manuela Sáenz. Signature. Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco[ c ] (24 July 1783 – 17 December 1830) was a Venezuelan statesman and military officer who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire.
Diego de Losada by Antonio Herrera Toro. Before the city was founded in 1567, [10] the valley of Caracas was populated by indigenous peoples. Francisco Fajardo, the son of a Spanish captain and a Guaiqueri cacica, who came from Margarita, began establishing settlements in the area of La Guaira and the Caracas valley between 1555 and 1560.
Carolina Herrera (born María Carolina Josefina Pacanins y Niño; 8 January 1939 [2]) is a Venezuelan fashion designer [3] known for her personal style, [4] and for dressing various First Ladies of the United States, including Jacqueline Onassis, Laura Bush, Michelle Obama, and Melania Trump. [5][6]
Afro-Venezuelans (Spanish: Afrovenezolanos) are Venezuelans of African descent. Afro-Venezuelans are mostly descendants of enslaved Africans brought to the Western Hemisphere during the Atlantic slave trade. This term also sometimes refers to the combining of African and other cultural elements found in Venezuelan society such as the arts ...
Rómulo Ernesto Betancourt Bello (22 February 1908 – 28 September 1981; Spanish pronunciation: [ˈromulo βetaŋˈkuɾ]), known as "The Father of Venezuelan Democracy", was a Venezuelan politician who served as the president of Venezuela, from 1945 to 1948 and again from 1959 to 1964, as well as leader of the Democratic Action, Venezuela's dominant political party in the 20th century.