Notable Natives
From Amana of Tamarindo, town of Maturín municipality
- José Tadeo Monagas, general of the Venezuelan independence and president
From Barrancas
- Alarico Gómez, poet, novelist and journalist
From Caicara
- Manuel Núñez Tovar, doctor and entomologist
- Rafael Naranjo Ostty, abogado criminólogo
- Wilfrida Corvo de López, educadora
From Caripe
- Félix Antonio Calderón, poet
From Caripito
- Doris Wells, actress
- Juvenal Ravelo, artist
- Cherry Navarro, singer
- Tibursio C. Aparicio Lozada, poet
From Chaguaramal, town of Piar municipality
- Juana Ramírez (a.k.a. Juana la Avanzadora) heroine of the Venezuelan independence
- Leonardo Infante, general of the Venezuelan independence
From Guanaguana, town of Piar municipality
- Antonio Ciliberto Pérez, poet and novelist
From Maturín
- Andrés Rojas, general of the Venezuelan independence
- Carlos Möhle, musician, composer and dentist
- José Gabriel Núñez Romberg, musician
- José Antonio Núñez Romberg, mathematician, teacher and historian
- Félix Armando Núñez, poet, teacher und dean of Chile's university
- Idelfonso Núñez Mares, poet and teacher
- Eloy Palacios, sculptor
- José María Núñez, historian
- Benito Raúl Lozada, poet and writer
From Musipán, town of Ezequiel Zamora municipality
- Benjamín Rausseo (a.k.a. Er Conde del Guácharo), television comedian
From San Antonio
- Julián Padrón, writer, journalist and lawyer
- William H. Phelps, Jr., ornithologist and founder of RCTV
- Carlos Salazar Liccioni, poet, novelist
- Julio Gómez Peñalver, dentist, teacher and poet
From Uracoa
- Mateo Manaure, painter, artist
- Jesús Rafael Zambrano, journalist, lawyer, writer
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