Notable Venezuelan Americans
- Baruj Benacerraf
- Arthur Albert - Venezuelan born, American cinematographer and television director.
- María Conchita Alonso - three time Grammy Award–nominated singer/songwriter and actress. Venezuelan born, she is American citizen
- José de Armas - professional tennis player
- Fred Armisen, actor, comedian, musician. He attended the School of Visual Arts (NYC)
- Elizabeth Avellán - American film producer, born in Venezuela.
- Devendra Banhart, singer-songwriter
- Manuel Blum - born in Caracas, Venezuela, is a computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1995 "In recognition of his contributions to the foundations of computational complexity theory and its application to cryptography and program checking".
- Horacio Bocaranda, film director
- Ed Calle - musician from Miami, Florida, born in Venezuela.
- Peter Camejo - (1939–2008) was an American author, activist and politician. He is of Venezuelan descent.
- Mariah Carey, singer; father Alfred Roy Carey was born in Venezuela.
- Jesse Corti - Venezuelan-born, American voice actor.
- Majandra Delfino - Alma Award-nominated Venezuelan born, American actress and singer
- Marieh Delfino - American actress.
- Yasmin Deliz - American singer-songwriter, model and actress of Dominican and Colombian and Venezuelan heritage. She is daughter to a Dominican father and a Colombian and Venezuelan mother.
- Gustavo Dudamel - Orchestra conductor and violinist. He is the principal conductor of the Gothenburg Symphony in Gothenburg, Sweden, and music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Los Angeles, California
- George Duran - American chef and entertainer who is currently a spokesman in commercials for Hunt's tomatoes.
- Juan Pablo Galavis - professional football.
- Philip Giordano - former Republican mayor of Waterbury, Connecticut, and a convicted sex offender. He was born in Caracas, Venezuela, to Italian parents and his family moved to the United States when he was two years old.
- Ozzie Guillén - former professional baseball player and current manager of the Miami Marlins.
- Brooke Haven - American pornographic actress.
- Carolina Herrera, fashion designer
- Marcy Hinzmann - American pairs figure skater
- Perla Haney-Jardine - Brazilian-born American actress. She is best known for her role in Kill Bill Vol. 2 as B.B., the four-year-old daughter of Beatrix "The Bride" Kiddo and Bill. His father is Venezuelan.
- Moisés Kaufman - playwright, director and founder of Tectonic Theater Project.
- Monica Ponce de Leon - Architect with offices in Ann Arbor, New York and Boston. Dean at the University of Michigan. First Hispanic architect to receive the National Design Award in Architecture
- Thor Halvorssen Mendoza - Venezuelan human rights advocate and film producer
- T. J. MacGregor - Venezuelan born writer
- P. Michael McKinley - American diplomat.
- Beatriz Michelena - (1890–1942) was an American actress during the silent film era. She was of Venezuelan descent.
- Adriana Monsalve - Sports journalist and one of the leading commentators on Sportcenter, program aired on ESPN
- Chris Moy - singer and a former member of the teen group Menudo.
- Carlos Pena, Jr. - American actor (Big Time Rush), singer, and dancer. His father is of Spanish and Venezuelan descent.
- Clara Perez - film and television actress.
- Elizabeth Pérez - Cuban-Venezuelan Emmy-winning television journalist and presenter working for CNN en Español in Atlanta, Georgia
- William H. Phelps, Jr.- (1902–1988) was a notable Venezuelan ornithologist and businessman.
- Antonio Piedra (producer) - producer, director, photographer and philanthropist
- Tina Ramirez - American dancer and choreographer, best known as the Founder and Artistic Director (1970–2009) of Ballet Hispanico, the leading Hispanic dance company in the United States. She is a Venezuelan born, American raised.
- L. Rafael Reif - President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Génesis Rodríguez, actress
- Luis José Santander, actor
- Al Santos (mayor) - Mayor of Kearny, New Jersey, and a Democrat, born in Venezuela.
- Jeanmarie Simpson - American peace activist and theatre artist. His parents are Venezuelans.
- Sonya Smith, actress
- Tammy Trull - American actress of Venezuelan and Cuban descent.
- Wilmer Valderrama, actor
- Rita Verreos - Venezuelan born beauty pageant contestant, image consultant, model, actress, and reality television contestant.
- Luigi Boria - Doral, Florida Mayor, born in Venezuela.
- Andrea Burns - singer
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