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People from Caracas

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María Corina Machado

María Corina Machado Parisca is a Venezuelan politician, activist, and prominent leader of the opposition to the administrations of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro. She served as a member of the National Assembly of Venezuela from 2011 to 2014, and has run as a candidate in presidential elections. She was awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize; she presented the medal to U.S. president Donald Trump after the 2026 U.S. strikes in Venezuela and capture of Maduro.

Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist (1781-1865)

Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo

Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mérida

Carolina Herrera

Venezuelan-American fashion designer

Venezuelan actress and model

Carlos Delgado Chalbaud

President of Venezuela (1909-1950)

Arturo Sosa Abascal

Venezuelan cleric, Superior General of the Society of Jesus

Juan A. Baptista

Venezuelan actor and model

Venezuelan pornographic actor

Carmen Rendiles

Venezuelan Religious Sister, foundress and saint of the Catholic Church

Princess Tatiana Blatnik

ex-wife of Prince Nikolaos of Greece and Denmark

Venezuelan adventurer (1797-1851)

Jacqueline Saburido

Venezuelan burn victim

Josefa Celsa Señaris

Venezuelan herpetologist

Moisés Kaufman

American playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project

Antonio Leocadio Guzmán

Venezuelan politician, journalist, and military leader

Luis Fernando Castillo Mendez

Patriarch of the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church (1922–2009)

Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo

Minister of Development of Venezuela (1903-1979)

María Margarita Vargas Santaella

duchess of Anjou

José Félix Ribas

Venezuelan revolutionary (1775-1815)

Javier Chércoles Blázquez

Venezuelan business personality

Venezuelan diplomat and politician (1806-1865)

Miguel Ángel Tábet

Venezuelan theologian (1941-2020)

Geraldine Chacón

Venezuelan lawyer and human rights advocate

Flor María Chalbaud

Venezuelan politician

Juan de Arechederra

Catholic bishop

Anaida Poilievre

Canadian and Venezuelan political staffer

Manuel Antonio Carreño

Venezuelan musician and diplomat

Venezuelan entrepreneur and banker

José Luis Cordeiro

Venezuelan engineer and economist

Venezuelan politician

Marcelo Rodríguez

Venezuelan wrestling announcer

Venezuelan rabbi

Italian-Venezuelan singer-songwriter

Carlos Augusto León

Venezuelan poet, essayist, and politician (1914-1997)

Venezuelan Bayesian statistician

Venezuelan lawyer and professor

Carlos Sosa Rodríguez

Venezuelan diplomat (1912-1997)

Antonio Briceño

Venezuelan photographer

Fernando Albán Salazar

Venezuelan politician

swimmer, model and beauty queen from Venezuela

Luis Alberto Lamata

Venezuelan film director