Venezuelan people

Alejandro Planchart (born July 29, 1935) is a Venezuelan- American musicologist, conductor, and composer. He is considered to be one of the leading scholars on the music of Guillaume Dufay, and in general he is a specialist on music of the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alejandro Planchart"

Alirio Diaz is a classical guitarist. (Born November 12, 1923 - in Venezuela) ...more on Wikipedia about "Alirio Diaz"

Andrés Bello ( Caracas, Venezuela, November 11, 1781 - Santiago, Chile, October 15, 1865), South American humanist, poet, lawmaker, philosopher, educator and philologist, whose work constitutes an important part of Spanish American culture. Bello is featured in the 20,000 Chilean pesos note. ...more on Wikipedia about "Andrés Bello"

Arturo Michelena ( June 16, 1863 - July 29, 1898) was a Venezuelan painter born in Valencia, Carabobo State. He began to paint at a young age under his father's tutelage. Traveled to Paris where he studied in the famous Académie Julian. He was the first Venezuelan artist to succeed overseas and, with Cristóbal Rojas ( 1857- 1890) and Martín Tovar y Tovar ( 1827- 1902), one of the most important Venezuelan painters of the 19th century. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arturo Michelena"

Arturo Uslar-Pietri ( May 16, 1906 - February 26, 2001) was one of the most prominent writers and intellectuals of twentieth century Venezuela. As a writer, journalist, diplomat, politician, government official and educator, Uslar-Pietri was always a relevant figure in his country. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arturo Uslar-Pietri"

Barbra Palacios Teyde (born December 9, 1963), better known simply as Barbara Palacios , is the third contestant from Venezuela to win the Miss Universe pageant She did it in Panama on July 26, 1986. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bárbara Palacios Teyde"

Carlos Ortega Carvajal is a union and political leader in Venezuela. In 2001, Ortega was elected leader of the Confederación de Trabajadores de Venezuela (CTV), the largest union federation in Venezuela. The results were disputed and the Venezuelan Supreme Court refused to ratify them. However, Ortega assumed the presidency, and from that platform, carried out a campaign of opposition against Hugo Chávez, the President of Venezuela. In April of 2002, under Carlos Ortega's leadership the CTV declared a national civic strike to protest what he felt were the "increasingly dictatorial" policies of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. This strike culminated in a protest march to the Presidential Palace, Miraflores which saw pro and anti Chavez Venezuelans total close to a million. As a result of the violence that transpired that day, resulting in the death of 19 Venezuelans on both sides of the disagreement, President Chávez was briefly removed from power by high ranking military officers. During the failed April, 2002 coup attempt, Ortega warmly greeted the man undemocratically appointed President, Pedro Carmona, of the Venezuelan business federation Fedecámaras. In October of 2003 in a taped conversation with a Venezuelan ally Ortega stated that "We are going to need about 10, 12 or 15 years of dictatorship to rescue the country," Ortega went an further to say that he had "no problem with that." ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Carlos Ortega" www.shortopedia.com - now!

Carolina Herrera (Carolina Pacanins Niño de Herrera Guevara). Born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1939, she is a fashion designer and entrepreneur who founded her eponymous company in 1980 with great success. Based in New York since 1981, Herrera managed to qualify, throughout the 1970s and 1980s as one of the best dressed women in the world. Her empire grew so rapidly and steadily since its creation that she went on to dress Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for the last twelve years of her life. She is married to Venezuelan socialite Reinaldo Herrera Guevara, son of fashion icon María Teresa (Mimí) Guevara Pietrantoni de Herrera Uslar, by whom she had two daughters. She was previously married to Guillermo Behrens Tello, bearing him two daughters as well. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carolina Herrera"

Cipriano Castro Ruiz ( 1858- 1924) was a dictator who controlled Venezuela from 1899 to 1909. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cipriano Castro"

Danilo Anderson (died November 18, 2004) was a Venezuelan state prosecutor investigating more than 400 people allegedly implicated in crimes against the state and Venezuelan people in the failed 2002 coup d'état attempt. Anderson was assassinated in the Los Chaguaramos district of Caracas by a bomb placed on the frame under the driver's seat on his car. ...more on Wikipedia about "Danilo Anderson"

Eglantina Zingg Puppio born on April 22, 1981 in Caracas, Venezuela is a Model and Ex VJ for MTV Latin America. She is the daughter of Herman Zingg Reverón and Nieves Puppio González de Zingg. ...more on Wikipedia about "Eglantina Zingg"

Sebastián Francisco de Miranda Rodríguez ( March 28, 1750 – July 14, 1816) was a South American revolutionary whose own plan for the independence of the Spanish American colonies failed but who is regarded as a forerunner of Bolívar and other more effective American fighters for independence. ...more on Wikipedia about "Francisco de Miranda"

Fulgencio Obelmejias (born January 1, 1953 in San Jose de Rio Chico, Venezuela), sometimes known also as Fully Obel, is a former boxer who was world Super-Middleweight champion. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fulgencio Obelmejias"

Goizeder Victoria Azúa Barríos, from Valencia, Venezuela is the Miss International titleholder for the year 2003. ...more on Wikipedia about "Goizeder Victoria Azúa Barríos" You are visiting shortopedia

Gonzalo Parra Aranguren is a judge at the International Court of Justice of the United Nations in The Hague, Netherlands. He was born in Venezuela and is married to Mrs. María Trinidad Pulido Santana. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gonzalo Parra Aranguren"

Guaicaipuro, (circa 1530 – 1568) was a native (indigenous) Venezuelan chief of both the Teques and Caracas tribes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Guaicaipuro"

Irene Lailin Sáez Conde (born 13 December 1961) is a Venezuelan who won the Miss Universe title in 1981 in New York City, and later became an important figure in Venezuela's political arena. ...more on Wikipedia about "Irene Sáez"

Jonathan Montenegro (born May 11, 1978), is a well known Venezuelan actor and singer. Montenegro was a member of popular boy band Menudo. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jonathan Montenegro"

José Antonio Páez ( June 13, 1790 - May 6, 1873) was General in Chief of the army fighting Spain during Venezuelan War of Independence, in addition to becoming the first President of Venezuela ( 1830- 1835; 1839- 1843; 1861- 1863). He is considered a prime example of a 19th century South American caudillo. ...more on Wikipedia about "José Antonio Páez"

José Félix Ribas ( Caracas, 19 September, 1775 - Tucupido, 31 January, 1815), was a Venezuelan independentist leader and hero during the Venezuelan War of Independence. ...more on Wikipedia about "José Félix Ribas"

(José González-Lander) Jose Gonzalez-Lander ( November 13, 1933 - January 18, 2000) was a Caracas, Venezuela born engineer credited for leading the planning, design and construction of the Caracas Metro during an uninterrupted period of more than thirty years, from 1966 to 1997. ...more on Wikipedia about "José González-Lander"

José Gregorio Hernández [er-NAHN-deth] ( October 25, 1864 - June 29, 1919) was a Venezuelan physician. Born in Isnotú, Trujillo State, Venezuela, he went on to reach legendary status, more so after his death. ...more on Wikipedia about "José Gregorio Hernández"

Silvio Rafael Gamez (born August 8, 1963), better known as Leo Gamez is a former boxer from Venezuela. A former world Flyweight champion, Gamez became the first Flyweight boxer in history to win world titles in four different divisions. ...more on Wikipedia about "Leo Gamez"

Lorenzo Mendoza Giménez ( 1966-) oversees one of Venezuela's largest private companies, $2.3 billion (sales) Empresas Polar. He is the son of Lorenzo Alejandro Mendoza Quintero and Leonor Giménez Pocaterra. ...more on Wikipedia about "Lorenzo Mendoza"

Sealey, nicknamed Marge and Margaret by her fellow contestants, was put on the menaced chair on the weekend of January 2 to January 4 of 2003 and subsequently voted out of the show by viewers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Marger Sealey"

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