Italian Venezuelans are Venezuelan citizens of
Italian descent. The word may refer to someone born in
Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...
of Italian descent or to someone who has emigrated to Venezuela from Italy. Italians were among the largest groups of European immigrants to settle in the country. Approximately 5 million Venezuelans have some degree of Italian ancestry.
Italians began arriving in Venezuela in massive numbers in the last half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries. Yet Italians began to transmit a sound cultural heritage, giving and receiving demonstrations of social empathy, which contributed to their integration and to the huge flows into Venezuela in 1947 and in 1948.
The massive presence of travelers, explorers, missionaries, and other peninsular and insular Italian immigrants over the course of almost 500 years made Venezuela acquire a Latin vocation instead of a Hispanic one. Italians also influenced Venezuelan accent, given its slight sing-songy intonation.
History
Before the discovery of huge deposits of
oil in Venezuela, during the first half of the 20th century, the emigration of Italians to Venezuela was limited. A number of Italians moved to Venezuela from Italy during the colonial times as Filippo Salvatore Gilii, José Cristóbal Roscio, Francisco Isnardi. In the Republican era of the 19th century there was a small number of Italians and their descendants who attained high status in Venezuelan society, such as Agostino Codazzi, Constante Ferrari, Carlos Luis Castelli and the surgeon
Luis Razetti
Luis Razetti (Caracas, Venezuela, September 10, 1862 - May 14, 1932) was a surgeon, who supported and managed a number of advances in the progress of Venezuelan medicine. He gained his Doctorate in Medicine from the Central University of Venezuela ...
.
In the 1940s and 1950s the Dictatorship of the general
Marcos Pérez Jiménez
Marcos Evangelista Pérez Jiménez (25 April 1914 – 20 September 2001) was a Venezuelan military and general officer of the Army of Venezuela and the dictator of Venezuela from 1950 to 1958, ruling as member of the military junta from 195 ...
promoted european immigration to his depopulated country, and more than 300,000 Italians emigrated to Venezuela where flourished under his administration because he had started many urban infrastructure projects thanks to the revenues of oil exportation. There were ample opportunities to work in construction developments, and as a result the economic stance increased within its cities, especially Caracas, Valencia, Barquisimeto and Maracaibo. The Electoral Law of 1957, which allotted to foreigners voting rights for the very first time, became a detrimental event for the Italian communities in Venezuela. The law was put into place by General Pérez Jiménez, to aid him in his reelection campaign . The loss of Perez Jimenez in the presidential referendum meant that his social programs would end, and a huge gap in leadership would follow.
The Italian immigrants had notably supported President Perez Jimenez’s referendum of December 2 of 1957, as well as expressing public adherence to the dictatorship by about 75,000 Italians liderated by the entreprenour
Filippo Gagliardi
Filippo Gagliardi (born c. 1606, died 1659) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. He collaborated with Filippo Lauri, Andrea Sacchi and Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. He also helped in the renovation of San Marti ...
. And so, when the General Perez Jimenez fell from power in January 23 of 1958 the hostile attitude of the provisional military government towards the removed president was also reflected on the groups who were supportive of him. For this reason, many migrants and their families chose to return to Italy through the following year, subsiding towards the end of February, when the Minister of Foreign Affairs recognized the potential damage of this shift and proceeded to guarantee security to the remaining Italians in Venezuela. This is a relevant factor, since acts of disdain towards the Italian populace undoubtedly affected the decisions of that ethnic group in regards to choosing to leave or enter the country.
The Italians in the 1961 Venezuelan census were the biggest European community in Venezuela (ahead of the
Spanish).
In 1966, according to the Italian Embassy in Caracas, of the 170,000 Italians present in the country, 90% lived in the main cities: about 96,000 in Caracas, 14,000 in Maracaibo, 8,000 in Maracay, 6,000 in Valencia and 5,000 in La Guayra. Most of these Italians were born in Sicily, Campania and Puglia; only 15% were born in northern Italy (mainly in Emilia-Romagna). They initially worked in construction, in the service sector, in commercial agencies and in different businesses (like hotels, banks, restaurants, etc.), in manufacturing activities (the shoe industry in Caracas, for example, was fully in Italian hands) and a few also in the oil industry.
In 1976 the "Dirección de Estadísticas" of Venezuela registered 210,350 Italians residents and 25,858 Italians "naturalised" (who had obtained Venezuelan citizenship). In 2001, 126,553 Italians were living in Venezuela.
Marisa Vannini calculated that in the 1980s Italian-Venezuelans made up almost 400,000 of Venezuela's population, including second-generation descendants of immigrants. The
Italian language in Venezuela
The Italian language in Venezuela has been present since colonial times in the areas around Caracas, Maracay, Valencia, Maracaibo and the Andes mountains. The language is found in many idiomatic sentences and words of Venezuelan Spanish. There are ...
is influencing
Venezuelan Spanish
Venezuelan Spanish ( or ) refers to the Spanish spoken in Venezuela.
Spanish was introduced in Venezuela by colonists. Most of them were from Galicia, Basque Country, Andalusia, or the Canary Islands. The last has been the most fundamental ...
with some modisms and loanwords and is experiencing a notable revival between the Italian-Venezuelans of second and third generation.
Santander Laya-Garrido estimated that the Venezuelans with at least one grandparent from Italy can be nearly one million at the beginning of the 21st century (like the former president of Venezuela,
Raul Leoni
Raul, Raúl and Raül are the Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Galician, Asturian, Basque, Aragonese, and Catalan forms of the Anglo-Germanic given name Ralph or Rudolph. They are cognates of the French Raoul.
Raul, Raúl or Raül may re ...
, whose grandfather was an Italian
mason
Mason may refer to:
Occupations
* Mason, brick mason, or bricklayer, a craftsman who lays bricks to construct brickwork, or who lays any combination of stones, bricks, cinder blocks, or similar pieces
* Stone mason, a craftsman in the stone-cut ...
refugee of the 19th century).
Currently, Italian citizens resident in Venezuela are reduced to less than 50,000 due mainly to demographic mortality and to their return to Italy (because of a Venezuelan political and economic crisis in the 2000s). The Ambassador of Italy in Venezuela, estimated that 5–6% (1.44 to 1.73 million) of the current Venezuelan population is of Italian origin.
Professions
Initially, agriculture was one of the main activities of the Italian community in Venezuela. In the 1950s, entire Italian families were moved from Italy to special agricultural areas, like the "Colonia Turén" of the
Portuguesa region.
However, most Italians concentrated in commercial, building and services activities during the second half of the 20th century. In those sectors, Italians reached top positions in the Venezuelan economy.
The community's main Italian newspapers are ''Il Corriere di Caracas'' and ''La Voce d'Italia'
both published in the Capital, and the main Italian school is the ''Agustin Codazzi'' of Caracas (with courses from elementary to high school). Since 2002, the Italian government has become the promoter for a provision which makes it mandatory to teach the
Italian language
Italian (''italiano'' or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Together with Sardinian, Italian is the least divergent language from Latin. Spoken by about 85 m ...
as a second language in a consistent number of public and private schools within Venezuela.
Most of the Italian community in Caracas but even in the rest of Venezuela followed
Deportivo Italia
Petare Fútbol Club (until summer 2010 called Deportivo Italia Fútbol Club and known as Deportivo Petare Fútbol Club until summer 2015) is a Venezuelan football club based in Caracas. Formed in 1948 as "Deportivo Italia F.C.", the club after ...
football club, as its own representative team.
Indeed, the Italian-Venezuelans have obtained significant results in the contemporary society of Venezuela. The Italian Embassy calculates that 1/4 of the Venezuelan industries, not related to the oil sector, are directly or indirectly owned and/or managed by Italian-Venezuelans.
In the Italian community, actually one of the most important in Venezuela, there are Presidents of Venezuela (like
Jaime Lusinchi and
Raúl Leoni), entrepreneurs (like ing. Delfino, who with his "Constructora Delpre" made in Caracas the tallest skyscrapers of South America:
Parque Central Complex), managers (like
Pompeo D'Ambrosio
Pompeo D'Ambrosio (1 January 1917, in San Marco Evangelista (near Salerno), Italy – 15 April 1998, in Caracas, Venezuela).
He was very renowned in the Italian community in Caracas and was very active - with his financial activity in one of ...
), sportsmen (like
Johnny Cecotto
Johnny Alberto Cecotto Persello (born 25 January 1956), better known as Johnny Cecotto, is a Venezuelan former professional Grand Prix motorcycle racer and auto racer. He rose to prominence as a teenage prodigy in 1975 when he became the youn ...
), artists (like
Franco De Vita), beauty pageants (like
Daniela di Giacomo
Daniela Anette di Giacomo di Giovanni (born May 15, 1985) is a Venezuelan TV host, journalist, radio host, model and beauty queen. She was crowned Miss Venezuela International 2005 and then Miss International 2006 in China. Retrieved on 11 Apr 2 ...
and
Viviana Gibelli
Viviana Águeda Gibelli Gómez (born 22 December 1965) is a Venezuelan TV show host, actress, and ex-beauty queen. She was a participant in the beauty pageant miss Venezuela in 1987 obtaining the position of second finalist, she represented Ven ...
), and many others personalities.
One winner of the title
Miss Venezuela was born in Italy:
María Antonieta Cámpoli
María Antonieta Cámpoli Prisco (born October 9, 1955 in Italy) is an Italian-Venezuelan pageant titleholder, who was ''Miss Venezuela'' in 1972.
Biography
Maria Antonietta Cámpoli was born in Isola del Liri (an ancient city of Latium, located ...
in 1972 (later she represented Venezuela in the
Miss Universe
Miss Universe is an annual international beauty pageant that is run by a United States and Thailand based Miss Universe Organization.Natalie Tadena (July 2, 2015"Donald Trump's Miss USA Pageant Lands on Reelz Cable Channel". ''The Wall Stre ...
, where she was the runner-up).
Main Italo-Venezuelan Institutions and Associations
![Deportivoitalia1968](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Deportivoitalia1968.png)
* ''Asociación Civil "Agustin Codazzi"'' in Caracas
* ''Casa de Italia'' in Caracas, Maracay, Valencia, Ciudad Bolívar
* ''Centro Italo-Venezolano'' in Caracas, Barcelona, Maracaibo, Valencia
* ''Club Social Italiano'' in Puerto La Cruz, Acarigua, Calabozo
* ''
Deportivo Italia
Petare Fútbol Club (until summer 2010 called Deportivo Italia Fútbol Club and known as Deportivo Petare Fútbol Club until summer 2015) is a Venezuelan football club based in Caracas. Formed in 1948 as "Deportivo Italia F.C.", the club after ...
'' Football Club
* ''Instituto Italiano de Cultura'' in Caracas
* ''Camera di Commercio, Industria ed Agricoltura Venezuelana-Italiana'' in Caracas
* ''Regional Associations'' of Italians in Venezuela
* ''Genealogía Italiana en Venezuela''
Education
The
Colegio Agustín Codazzi
Colegio Agustín Codazzi is an Italian international school in La Florida, Caracas, Venezuela.
Data
The "Colegio Codazzi" has ''Scuola infanzia “O. Molinari”'' (preschool), ''Scuola elementare “O.Molinari”'' (primary school) and ''Scuo ...
in
Caracas
Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...
is an overseas Italian school recognized by the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation ( it, Ministero degli affari esteri e della cooperazione internazionale or ''MAECI'') is the foreign ministry of the government of the Italian Republic. It is also known as the Farnesin ...
.
There are also multiple Italo-Venezuelan schools in the country:
[Informazioni utili nel Paese]
. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Italy
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation ( it, Ministero degli affari esteri e della cooperazione internazionale or ''MAECI'') is the foreign ministry of the government of the Italian Republic. It is also known as the Farnesin ...
(Farnesina). Retrieved on November 21, 2015.
Caracas:
*
Colegio Agustín Codazzi
Colegio Agustín Codazzi is an Italian international school in La Florida, Caracas, Venezuela.
Data
The "Colegio Codazzi" has ''Scuola infanzia “O. Molinari”'' (preschool), ''Scuola elementare “O.Molinari”'' (primary school) and ''Scuo ...
* Colegio
San Francisco d'Assisi
* Colegio Nuestra Señora de Pompei
* Colegio
Amerigo Vespucci
* Collegio San Marco Evangelista
* Collegio Patria
* Colegio
Bolivar y Garibaldi
Eastern Venezuela:
* Collegio
Maria Montessori in
Ciudad Bolivar
Ciudad () is the Spanish word for City
Ciudad may also refer to:
*La Ciudad (archaeological site), Hohokam ruins in Phoenix, Arizona
*La Ciudad, district of Durango City, Mexico
*''La ciudad'', novel by Mario Levrero 1970
*La Ciudad ''The City'' ...
*
Collegio Angelo de Marta in
Puerto La Cruz
Western Venezuela:
* Collegio R. C. Agazzi in
Barquisimeto
* Collegio San Pedro in Barquisimeto
* Collegio Juan XXIII in
Maracay
* Collegio Antonio Rosmini in Maracaibo
*
Unidad Educativa Juan XXIII
Unidad Educativa Juan XXIII (U.E.P Italo – Venezolano "Juan XXIII") is a private, Italo-Venezuelan school, of preschool, primary and secondary education, located in Cabimas
Cabimas is a city on the shore of Maracaibo Lake in Zulia State i ...
in
Cabimas
Cabimas is a city on the shore of Maracaibo Lake in Zulia State in northwestern Venezuela. In 2005, its population was around 200,859.
Before 1900, Venezuela was known to possess commercial quantities of petroleum. One major find was the 'Zumaqu ...
Geographical distribution and origin
![ItaliansinVenezuela](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/ItaliansinVenezuela.jpg)
The Italians who migrated to Venezuela came mainly from the regions of South Italy, like
Abruzzo
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,
Campania
Campania (, also , , , ) is an administrative Regions of Italy, region of Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the i ...
,
Sicily
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Apulia
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, but there were also migrants from the north, such as from
Emilia-Romagna
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and
Veneto
Veneto (, ; vec, Vèneto ) or Venetia is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about five million, ranking fourth in Italy. The region's capital is Venice while the biggest city is Verona.
Veneto was part of the Roman Empire unt ...
.
The Italian Consulate in Caracas stated that in 1977, of 210,350 Italians residents in Venezuela, 39,855 were from
Sicily
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, 35,802 from
Campania
Campania (, also , , , ) is an administrative Regions of Italy, region of Italy; most of it is in the south-western portion of the Italian peninsula (with the Tyrrhenian Sea to its west), but it also includes the small Phlegraean Islands and the i ...
, 20,808 from
Abruzzi
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, 18,520 from
Apulia
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, 8,953 from
Veneto
Veneto (, ; vec, Vèneto ) or Venetia is one of the 20 regions of Italy. Its population is about five million, ranking fourth in Italy. The region's capital is Venice while the biggest city is Verona.
Veneto was part of the Roman Empire unt ...
, 7,650 from
Emilia-Romagna
egl, Emigliàn (man) egl, Emiglièna (woman) rgn, Rumagnòl (man) rgn, Rumagnòla (woman) it, Emiliano (man) it, Emiliana (woman) or it, Romagnolo (man) it, Romagnola (woman)
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and 6,184 from
Friuli – Venezia Giulia
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The Italians are concentrated mainly in the north-central region of Venezuela around Caracas. The Consulate stated that in the same 1977 there were 98,106 Italians in the
Distrito Federal of Caracas, 39,508 in
Miranda State, 14,203 in
Maracaibo
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, motto = "''Muy noble y leal''"(English: "Very noble and loyal")
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, 12.801 in
Aragua State and 8,104 in
Carabobo
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State, as well as 66 in the
Amazonas equatorial region.
In the 2000s, it was determined that nearly 90% of the Italo-Venezuelans were concentrated in the northern coastal section of Venezuela facing the
Caribbean sea
The Caribbean Sea ( es, Mar Caribe; french: Mer des Caraïbes; ht, Lanmè Karayib; jam, Kiaribiyan Sii; nl, Caraïbische Zee; pap, Laman Karibe) is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere. It is bounded by Mexico ...
. Approximately 2/3 of them are residents of the metropolitan areas of the three main Venezuelan cities:
Caracas
Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...
,
Maracaibo
)
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and
Valencia
Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, Valencia and the Municipalities of Spain, third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is ...
.
There is also a considerable number of Italian residents that live in the city of
San Cristóbal and in the Andes region.
Demographics
Population
States with the highest proportions of Italian-born population tend to be those of the North-central coastal area (
Capital
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* Capital city, a municipality of primary status
** List of national capital cities
* Capital letter, an upper-case letter Economics and social sciences
* Capital (economics), the durable produced goods used f ...
and
Central
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Central may also refer to:
Directions and generalised locations
* Central Africa, a region in the centre of Africa continent, also known as ...
Region), the
Andean Region (
Mérida) and the
Insular Region.
![Porcentaje Italianos en Venezuela (2011)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/Porcentaje_Italianos_en_Venezuela_%282011%29.png)
At the 2011 census, this was the breakdown of Italian-born population by state, showing that the capital area was the one with the biggest concentration of native Italians.
Italian Influences
Language
Italian was introduced to Venezuela by Italian immigrants, and it now has over 200,000 speakers, making it the country's second most spoken language after Spanish. Italian was widely spoken across the country, specially in the capital "Caracas," "Maracay," and other cities; it is also commonly spoken (mostly by the older generation) by residents of the town of La Carlota, a town in Venezuela which was one of the main settlements for Italians immigrants, regional languages of Italy were also brought to the country such as
Neapolitan
Neapolitan means of or pertaining to Naples, a city in Italy; or to:
Geography and history
* Province of Naples, a province in the Campania region of southern Italy that includes the city
* Duchy of Naples, in existence during the Early and Hig ...
and
Sicilian, Italian is the second language of many Venezuelans of Italian descent after Spanish, also the Italian government has become the promoter of a provision requiring the teaching of Italian as a second language in a constant number of public and private schools within Venezuela.
Cuisine
Italian cuisine is one of the most influential in the country's every day in fact, Venezuela is the second country in the world with the most consumption of pasta only after Italy itself.
Pasta
Pasta (, ; ) is a type of food typically made from an unleavened dough of wheat flour mixed with water or eggs, and formed into sheets or other shapes, then cooked by boiling or baking. Rice flour, or legumes such as beans or lentils, are som ...
is the third most consumed product in Venezuela, whose per capita consumption is 12.6 kg.
Pasticho
Pastitsio ( el, παστίτσιο, ''pastítsio'') is a Greek baked pasta dish with ground meat and béchamel sauce, with variations of the dish found in other countries of the Mediterranean Sea.
Name and origin
Pastitsio takes its name from t ...
(lasagna in Italian) is extremely common dish in Venezuelan Cuisine, Pasticho basically Lasagne is one of the traditional Venezuelan dishes being popular as hallaca, it is consumed in the original form, but also received adaptations, the variants are innumerable, for example, in some, layers of ham are added or the pasta is replaced by banana or by cachapas leafs, a version which is known as ''chalupa,'' in others it has been completely modified which involve sauce of chicken or fish, and ''Pasticho de berenjena'' which resembles greek
Moussaka.
Pizza
Pizza (, ) is a dish of Italian origin consisting of a usually round, flat base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomatoes, cheese, and often various other ingredients (such as various types of sausage, anchovies, mushrooms, onions ...
is one of the most popular dishes in Venezuelan cuisine, pizza has had completely different contrast and variations. L'Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana has approved Portarossa, a Venezuelan business, for "La margarita," which comprises mozzarella cheese, and "La Marinada," which contains tomato sauce and garlic, as the eighth Latin American pizza certified as Pizza Napolitana by this establesiment, is an example of the various variants of pizzas in the country; it serves numerous types of pizzas, including "La Pizza Parrilla," which is made with chicken, pork, chorizo, and french fries, as well as Focaccia de Lomito carpaccio.
Polenta
Polenta (, ) is a dish of boiled cornmeal that was historically made from other grains. The dish comes from Italy. It may be served as a hot porridge, or it may be allowed to cool and solidify into a loaf that can be baked, fried, or grilled. ...
originated in Italy originally made from boiled cornmeal. Funche as it is better known in Venezuela, has been incorporated into stews. The typical dish is made with chicken. In the East and West of the country they additionally prepare it with sardines. The typical Polenta of Venezuela is a baked cake made from a mix of precooked corn (
Harina P.A.N.
The Harina P.A.N. (abbreviation for Producto Alimenticio Nacional. English: ''National Food Product''), is the first brand of boiled maize flour in Venezuela. The brand itself became a synecdoche, as even with other large competitors in the mar ...
), water and salt, stuffed with some meat, chicken, fish or pig stew.
Cannoli is a pastry tube filled with ricotta cheese and honey or chocolate.
Notable Italian-Venezuelans
Architecture
*
Jorge Rigamonti – Designed multiple national and international award-winning buildings
*
Graziano Gasparini
Graziano Gasparini (31 July 1924 – 30 November 2019) was a Venezuelan architect, photographer, painter and historian, sometimes referred to as Graciano Gasparini (ie using a Spanish version of his first name).
Gasparini was born in Gorizia, on ...
– Architect, architectural historian and painter
Musicians
*
Benito Canónico
Benito Canónico (January 3, 1894 – October 13, 1971) was a Venezuelan composer, musician, orchestrator and teacher.
Born in Guarenas, Miranda, Canónico spent much of his life teaching and writing music in a wide variety of genres and styles ...
– Composer
*
Rodolfo Saglimbeni
Rodolfo Saglimbeni (born 8 December 1962, in Barquisimeto, Venezuela) is a conductor. He studied music in Venezuela and then at the Royal Academy of Music of London with Colin Metters, John Carewe and George Hurst (conductor), George Hurst, obtai ...
– Conductor
*
Nacho (singer)
Miguel Ignacio Mendoza Donatti (born 22 August 1983), better known as Nacho, is a Venezuelan singer and political activist. Born in Lechería, Anzoátegui, Venezuela. Currently lives in Miami, Florida, United States. He is a member of the duo Chin ...
– Singer
*
Antonio Lauro
Antonio Lauro (August 3, 1917 – April 18, 1986) was a Venezuelan musician, considered to be one of the foremost South American composers for the guitar in the 20th century.
Biography
Antonio Lauro was born in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. Hi ...
– Musician
*
Franco De Vita – Artist, singer, composer and pianist
*
Rosario Marciano
Rosario Marciano, born July 5, 1944, in Caracas, Venezuela, died there September 4, 1998, was a classical pianist, musicologist and teacher.
Life and career
Rosario Marciano was a musician who combined performance, scholarship and teaching. She ga ...
– Pianist and writer
*
Pablo Manavello
Pablo Manavello (May 21, 1950 – January 18, 2016) was an Italian-born Venezuelan composer, guitarist, singer and songwriter.
Manavello started his career in the early 1970s in Caracas and participated in more than 50 albums (including his own). ...
– Composer, guitarist, singer and songwriter
*
Iván Pérez Rossi – Singer and musician
*
Alejandra Ghersi
Alejandra Ghersi Rodríguez (born 14 October 1989), known professionally as Arca, is a Venezuelan musician and record producer based in Barcelona, Spain. She initially began releasing music under the name of Nuuro. After attending the Clive Dav ...
– Musician commonly known as
Arca (musician)
Alejandra Ghersi Rodríguez (born 14 October 1989), known professionally as Arca, is a Venezuelan musician and record producer based in Barcelona, Spain. She initially began releasing music under the name of Nuuro. After attending the Clive Dav ...
*
Yordano – Composer and singer
*
Humberto Bruni Lamanna
Humberto Bruni Lamanna, (born March 26, 1957, Caracas Venezuela) descended from an Italian family, is a Classical Guitar concert artist.
Musical studies
The musical studies of Humberto Bruni began at age fourteen, when he took the first music le ...
– Classical guitarist
*
Roberto Luti
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– Singer and record producer
*
Corrado Galzio – Piano player and founder of cultural radio
*
Primo Casale
Primo Casale (1904–1981) was an Italian-born Venezuelan conductor, composer, and violinist.
Casale was born in Lombardy, Italy. He was first a violinist at La Scala and participated in recitals for Radio Audizioni Italiane. He came to Vene ...
– Composer, conductor and violinist
*
Lele Pons – Singer and internet personality
*
Jorge Spiteri – Rock musician pioneer
*
Rudy la Scala – Singer and record producer
*
Evio Di Marzo Migani – Songwriter and composer
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Daniel Calveti
Daniel Calveti (born November 29, 1977) is a Venezuelan Christian music singer. He was born in Caracas and eventually moved his family to Caguas, Puerto Rico. Calveti has seven productions of Christian music and two books. On three occasions it h ...
– Singer
*
Gabriel Coronel – Singer
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Italo Pizzolante
Italo may refer to:
*Italo-, a prefix indicating a relation to Italy or Italians
Film
* ''Italo'' (film), a 2014 comedy film
* Italo crime, a genre of crime film
Music genres
*Italo disco
*Italo dance
*Italo house
People
*Italo Allodi (1928– ...
– Composer and musician
Actors and entertainers
*
Gioia Arismendi
Gioia Denise Arismendi Lombardini , better known as Gioia Arismendi (born January 5, 1984 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan actress and model.
Biography
Arismendi grew up in a family of artists. Her mother Gioia Lombardini is an actress is familiar ...
– Actress
*
Paula Bellini – TV entertainer
*
Briggitte Bozzo
Briggitte Bozzo (born August 19, 2001) is a Venezuelan actress.
Filmography
Awards and nominations
References
Actresses from Caracas
2001 births
Living people
Venezuelan child actresses
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– Actress
*
Umberto Buonocuore - Actor
*
Verónica Ortiz – Actress
*
Desideria D'Caro
Desideria may refer to:
People
*Queen Desideria of Sweden and Norway, formerly Désirée Clary (1777-1860)
* Desideria Quintanar de Yáñez (1814–1893), the first woman baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico
* De ...
– Actress
*
Viviana Gibelli
Viviana Águeda Gibelli Gómez (born 22 December 1965) is a Venezuelan TV show host, actress, and ex-beauty queen. She was a participant in the beauty pageant miss Venezuela in 1987 obtaining the position of second finalist, she represented Ven ...
– Actress and producer
*
Alejandro Nones
Alejandro Nones (born December 9, 1982) is a Venezuelan actor. He began his acting career with the film ''Así del precipicio'', and later was hired by Televisa to act in the telenovela ''Lola, érase una vez''.
Filmography
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- Actor
*
Jullye Giliberti – Actress
*
Enrique Sapene - Actor
*
Fedra López
Fedra López (; born June 5, 1962) is an Argentine actress and model.
Fedra was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina but raised up in Venezuela. She began her career at the age of 17 with ''Juan Carlos y su rumba flamenca''. During a tour of Venezue ...
– Actress
*
Carla Baratta
Carla Baratta Sarcinelli (born 9 July 1990) is a Venezuelan actress, model, and artist. She is most well known for being the star of the digital series ''Bleep'', broadcast by the mobile phone company Digitel GSM. Since she was young, she has s ...
– Actress
*
Anastasia Mazzone
Anastasia (from el, Ἀναστασία, translit=Anastasía) is a feminine given name of Greek origin, derived from the Greek word (), meaning "resurrection". It is a popular name in Eastern Europe, particularly in Russia, where it was the most ...
– Actress
*
Dora Mazzone
Dora Mazzone (born 2 June 1967) is a Venezuelan actress.
Biography
Dora began her career in theater by performing stage readings. In 1984 she entered the School of Arts at the Central University of Venezuela. During the course of her studies, sh ...
– Actress
*
Fanny Otatti – TV entertainer
*
Sheyene Gerardi
Sheyene Gerardi (Born April 13) is an Italo-Venezuelan former actress, producer, media proprietor, and mining executive. She is the Lead of Robotics Outreach at NASA (CLASS), where she co-founded the NASA´s Planetary Landing Team in 2018. Gerard ...
– Actress and producer
*
Concetta Lo Dolce – Actress
*
Viviana Gibelli
Viviana Águeda Gibelli Gómez (born 22 December 1965) is a Venezuelan TV show host, actress, and ex-beauty queen. She was a participant in the beauty pageant miss Venezuela in 1987 obtaining the position of second finalist, she represented Ven ...
– TV show host and actress
*
Renny Ottolina
Renaldo José Ottolina Pinto (December 11, 1928 – March 16, 1978) was a Venezuelan producer and entertainer. Born in Valencia, Carabobo, he performed professionally under the name Renny Ottolina.
Early life
His mother Ana Mercedes Pinto died wh ...
– Producer and TV entertainer
*
Alba Roversi
Alba Roversi (born August 14, 1961) is a Venezuelan telenovela and theater actress who rose to fame in the 1980s and 1990s for her role in telenovelas.
Filmography
References
External links
*
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1961 births
Living people
People from ...
– Actress
*
Dante Carle
Dante Alighieri (; – 14 September 1321), probably baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante (, ), was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called (modern Italian: '' ...
– Actor
*
Irma Palmieri
Irma Palmieri (30 December 1932 – 19 March 2015) was a Venezuelan actress and comedian, known primarily for her work as Hortensia on the " Flora & Hortensia" radio sketches.
Career
Her career began on radio, where she garnered fame with her co ...
– Actress
*
Patricia Zavala
Patricia Reyina Zavala Nicoloso (Punto Fijo, Falcón State, January 6
, 1985) is a Venezuelan model and television host. She hosts E! Entertainment Television's ''Coffee Break'' on its Latin-American channel.
Biography
Zavala was born in the ci ...
– TV presenter
*
Roberto Messuti
Roberto Jesús García Messuti is a Venezuelan telenovela actor. He was born in Caracas on 10 January 1972.
Biography
Roberto developed an interest in acting since a young age. In 1989, he graduated from Colegio La Salle La Colina with a Bachelo ...
– Actor
*
Marisela Berti
Marisela Maritza Berti Diaz (born September 9, 1950-some sources say 1955-in Maracaibo, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan actress, singer, television show host and former beauty queen. Her work in telenovelas and television talk shows has made her wel ...
– Actress
*
Humberto Tancredi Humberto is a Portuguese and Spanish masculine given name of Germanic origin. It may refer to:
*Humberto Aguilar Coronado
*Humberto Ak'ab'al
*Humberto Albiñana
*Humberto Albornoz
*Humberto Alonso Morelli
*Humberto Alonso Razo
*Humberto Andrade Que ...
– Actor
*
Ángel David Revilla
Ángel David Revilla Lenoci (born 16 July 1982), better known as DrossRotzank or simply Dross, is a Venezuelan YouTuber and writer who resides in Buenos Aires, Argentina, since 2007.
Early life
Ángel David Revilla Lenoci was born on 16 Jul ...
– Personality and writer
*
Andrés Mistage – Actor
*
Luciano D'Alessandro
Luciano D'Alessandro González (born January 24, 1977 in Anzoátegui,Venezuela) is a Venezuelan actor and model known for his work in various telenovelas.
Biography
Luciano D'Alessandro was born on January 24, 1977 in the Venezuelan State of A ...
– Actor
*
Fernando Carrillo
Fernando Enrique Carrillo Roselli (born January 6, 1970, in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelans, Venezuelan actor, model and singer.
Biography
Fernando Enrique Carrillo Roselli was born on January 6, 1970, in Caracas, Venezuela. He was most ...
– Actor and singer
*
Marisa Román
María Román (born January 30, 1982 in Caracas, Venezuela as María Isabel Román Bianchetti) is a Venezuelan actress known for her role in various Venevisión telenovelas written by renowned writer Leonardo Padrón and various theater and fil ...
– Actress
*
Wanda D'Isidoro
Wanda Catherine D’Isidoro Arcolín (born October 20, 1977 in Boston, Massachusetts) is a Venezuelan actress. D'Isidoro was born to an American mother and a Sicilian father, who met when her mother was an actress. They married and moved to Vene ...
– Actress
*
Rosanna Zanetti
Rosanna Zanetti (born on June 15, 1988 in Caracas, Venezuela), is a Venezuelan actress. She is best known for her roles in telenovelas '' ¡Qué clase de amor!'' where she landed her first starring role, ''Fanatikda'' where she was the protagonis ...
– Actress
*
Caterinna Valentino – TV hostess
*
Maria Grazia Bianchi – Actress
*
Julie Restifo
Julie Restifo, (born July 31, 1958) is an American-born Venezuelan actress. She is best known for his characters in the telenovelas ''La loba herida'', '' La llaman Mariamor'', '' Hay amores que matan'', ''Viva la Pepa'', and '' La mujer de Juda ...
– Actress
*
Dora Mazzone
Dora Mazzone (born 2 June 1967) is a Venezuelan actress.
Biography
Dora began her career in theater by performing stage readings. In 1984 she entered the School of Arts at the Central University of Venezuela. During the course of her studies, sh ...
– Actress
*
Marjorie Magri
Marjorie Magri, (born on May 2, 1986 in Caracas, Venezuela), is a Venezuelan actress and model
A model is an informative representation of an object, person or system. The term originally denoted the plans of a building in late 16th-century E ...
– Actress
*
Claudia La Gatta
Claudia La Gatta, (born October 9, 1979) is a Venezuelan actress and model. Best known for participating in telenovelas from Venezuela.
Personal life
She is married to the actor Luis Gerónimo Abreu
Luis Gerónimo Abreu Ascanio (born 7 Sep ...
– Actress
*
Giancarlo Pasqualotto
Giancarlo is an Italian given name meaning "John Charles". It is one of the most common masculine given names in Italy and is often short for "Giovanni Carlo". Notable people with the name include:
List
A
* Giancarlo Agazzi (1933–1995), Italia ...
– Actor
*
Laura Termini
Laura Termini (born August 3, 1974) is a Venezuelan actress, producer, writer, and a Board Certified Health/Beauty Counselor AADP. She is also a contributor to Huffington Post's in the health and beauty columns. Termini has starred on networks ...
– Actress
*
Gigi Zanchetta
Gigliola (Gigi) Zanchetta Pirella (born April 3, 1966) is a Venezuelan actress.
Life and career
Zanchetta has made her television debut in the telenovela '' Cristal''; she later specialized in the genre, appearing in over 20 telenovelas, among t ...
– Actress
*
Gioia Lombardini – Actress
*
Mónica Pasqualotto
Mónica Pasqualotto, or La Pasqualotto, is a TV host, Radio host, actress, and model. She was born in Caracas, Venezuela on October 15, 1974. She has been the image of several products on television and for the Venezuelan press. She is part of ...
– Actress
*
Camila Canabal Sapelli
Camila Canabal Sapelli (born November 8, 1976 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Venezuelan TV hostess currently living in Miami.
Personal life
Camila and her family moved to Venezuela when she was a few months old. She grew up in Barquisimeto. She ...
– TV hostess
*
Paula Bevilacqua
Paula or PAULA may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Fictional characters
* Paula, in video game ''EarthBound''
* Paula, in ''The Larry Sanders Show''
* Paula Campbell (''EastEnders''), in 2003
Film and television
* ''Paula'' (1915 film), a si ...
– Actress
*
Ainett Stephens
Ainett Stephens (born 28 January 1982) is a Venezuelan model (person), model, and television personality.
Biography
In 2000, she was among the ten semi-finalists of the Miss Venezuela beauty contest and subsequently posed for a calendar and the ...
– Television personality
*
Annarella Bono – Actress and TV hostess
*
Julie Restifo
Julie Restifo, (born July 31, 1958) is an American-born Venezuelan actress. She is best known for his characters in the telenovelas ''La loba herida'', '' La llaman Mariamor'', '' Hay amores que matan'', ''Viva la Pepa'', and '' La mujer de Juda ...
– Actress
*
Doris Wells
Doris Wells (born Doris María Buonafina; 28 October 1943 – 20 September 1988) was a Venezuelan actress, writer and producer.
Her best-known television appearances were in ''Campeones'', ''La trepadora'', ''La Hora'', ''Historia de tres herman ...
– Actress
*
Carlos Guillermo Haydon
Carlos Guillermo Haydon Otamendi (born March 25, 1976) is a Venezuelan actor and model known for his role in telenovelas. He is the nephew of Marcel Granier, CEO and Chairman of RCTV.
Biography
Before venturing into acting, Carlos studied Adve ...
– Actor
*
Luciano D'Alessandro
Luciano D'Alessandro González (born January 24, 1977 in Anzoátegui,Venezuela) is a Venezuelan actor and model known for his work in various telenovelas.
Biography
Luciano D'Alessandro was born on January 24, 1977 in the Venezuelan State of A ...
– Actor
*
Antonio Delli
Antonio Delli Rocioli Ferreira better known as Antonio Delli is a Venezuelan actor of television, theater, films, announcer and dubbing. Born in Caracas, Venezuela. Delli ventured into television in 2006 in the Venezuelan telenovela ''Ciudad Ben ...
– Actor
*
Gabriel Coronel – Actor
*
Sandro Finoglio – Actor
*
Roberto Lamarca
Roberto Lamarca Gabriele (October 4, 1959 February 22, 2017) was an Italo-Venezuelan television actor. He is most recognised for his portrayal of Arístides Valerio, the recurring character on the Radio Caracas Televisión drama series '' Por es ...
– Actor
*
Dino D’Avanzo Dino may refer to:
Prefix
* dino-, a common prefix in taxonomy, meaning "terrible", "formidable"
**Dinosaur
People
* Dino (given name), a masculine given name and a nickname
* Dino (surname), a surname found in Albania and Turkey
* Diño, a surn ...
– Chef host TV
*
Dayana Colmenares
Dayana Carolina Colmenares Bocchieri (born December 28, 1984, in Maracay) is a Venezuelan beauty pageant titleholder, who won Miss Venezuela International 2007, and television personality. She competed in Miss International 2008 on November 8 in ...
– Television personality
Scientists
*
Leon Croizat – Biologist
*
– Physician
*
Francisco De Venanzi – Physician
*
Santos Dominici
Santos may refer to:
People
*Santos (surname)
*Santos (DJ) (born 1971), Italian DJ
*Santos Benavides (1823–1891), Confederate general in the American Civil War
* Santos Balmori Picazo (1899–1992), Spanish-Mexican painter
* Santos (footballer, ...
– Physician
*
Francisco Mago Leccia
Francisco Mago Leccia (“Mago”) was born in Tumeremo, Bolívar State, Venezuela on May 21, 1931 and died in Puerto La Cruz, Anzoátegui State, Venezuela on February 27, 2004.Schaefer, Provenzano, Pinna & Baskin (2005) - ''New and Noteworthy V ...
– Ichthyologist
*
Alejandra Melfo
Alejandra Melfo (born 26 February 1965) is a Uruguayan-born Venezuelan physicist. She is known for her efforts studying and conserving glaciers, especially the Humboldt Corona, the last glacier in Venezuela.
Early life
Melfo was born in Monte ...
– Physicist
*
Carlos Alberto Moros Ghersi – Internist
*
Domingo Luciani
Domingo may refer to:
People
* Domingo (name), a Spanish name and list of people with that name
* Domingo (producer) (born 1970), American hip-hop producer
* Saint Dominic (1170–1221), Castilian Catholic priest, founder of the Friars popularly ...
– Physician
*
Olga Gasparini – Sociologist
*
Luis Razetti
Luis Razetti (Caracas, Venezuela, September 10, 1862 - May 14, 1932) was a surgeon, who supported and managed a number of advances in the progress of Venezuelan medicine. He gained his Doctorate in Medicine from the Central University of Venezuela ...
– Physician
*
Milena Sardi de Selle – Psychiatrist
*
Nora Bustamante Luciani
Nora Bustamante Luciani (24 April 1924 – 9 November 2012) was a Venezuelan physician, historian, writer and intellectual, who served as the president of the Venezuelan Association of the History of Medicine, the first woman to hold the post. F ...
– Physician
*
Otto Huber
Otto Huber (March 12, 1914 – April 9, 1989) was a Major League Baseball player. He played one season with the Boston Bees
The Atlanta Braves, a current Major League Baseball franchise, originated in Boston, Massachusetts. This article de ...
– Biologist
Journalists
*
Rafael Agostini – Journalist
*
Gaetano Bafile – Journalist
*
Enza Carbone– Journalist, TV presenter
*
Jose Gerbasi– Journalist
*
Roberto Giusti
Roberto Giusti is a Venezuelan journalist. He worked at numerous newspapers including El Nacional and El Universal. He has written a lot of books including Yo Lo Viví, Memorias Inconclusas, and Pasión Guerrilla. He worked for Globovisión TV an ...
– Journalist
*
Nelson Bocaranda Nelson Bocaranda Sardi (18 April, 1945, Boconó, Trujillo), is a Venezuelan television commentator and investigative journalist.
Bocaranda Sardi began studying journalism in 1962 at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas and started ...
– Journalist
*
Eduardo Rodriguez Giolitti – Journalist
*
Sergio Novelli – Journalist
*
Pedro Penzini Fleury – Journalist
*
Anna Vaccarella
Anna Vaccarella (born August 31, 1968 in Cagua, Aragua) is a Venezuelan journalist. She currently works in radio show on Unión Radio.
Career
At 17 years of age, Vaccarella moved to Caracas to study journalism at the Andrés Bello Catholic Un ...
– Journalist
*
Marianela Balbi Marianela may refer to:
People
* Carmen Barros (born 1925), Chilean actress and singer nicknamed Marianela
* Marianela De La Hoz (born 1956), Mexican painter
* Marianela González (born 1978), Venezuelan actress
* Marianela Huen (born 1960), Venezu ...
– Journalist
*
Silvia Bernardini – Journalist
*
José Nucete Sardi
José Nucete Sardi (August 4, 1897 – November 12, 1972)Mireya SOSA DE LEÓN: «Nucete Sardi, José». En''Diccionario de Historia de Venezuela'' Venezuela: Fundación Empresas Polar, 1997. 980-6397-37-I. was a Venezuelan historian, journalist ...
– Journalist
*
Miyó Vestrini
Marie-José Fauvelle Ripert, best known as Miyó Vestrini (Nîmes, France 1938 – Caracas, Venezuela 1991) was a Venezuelan poet, journalist and scriptwriter.
Biography
When Vestrini was a young girl, she emigrated to Venezuela with her mothe ...
– Journalist
*
Pascual Venegas Filardo – Journalist
*
Ana Vacarella – Journalist
*
Carlos Henríquez Consalvi
Carlos Henríquez Consalvi, alias ''Santiago'' is a Venezuelan author, journalist, radio producer and museum director.
Life
Youth and study
Consalvi was born in Mérida in 1947. His parents were opponents of the Venezuelan dictatorship, wh ...
– Journalist
*
Lindsay Casinelli – Journalist
*
Margarita D'Amico
Margarita D'Amico (1938 – 12 October 2017) was a Venezuelan journalist, researcher, and professor who made a substantial impact on art criticism and cultural journalism in Venezuela.
Career
D'Amico graduated with a Bachelor in Journalism and ...
– Journalist
*
José Visconti– Journalist
Economy
*
Alberto Adriani
Alberto is the Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic ''Albert''. It is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The diminutive forms are ''Albertito'' in Spain or ''Albertico'' in some parts of Latin America, Albertin ...
– Economist
*
Pompeo D'Ambrosio
Pompeo D'Ambrosio (1 January 1917, in San Marco Evangelista (near Salerno), Italy – 15 April 1998, in Caracas, Venezuela).
He was very renowned in the Italian community in Caracas and was very active - with his financial activity in one of ...
– Financial manager and vice-president of bank
*
Calogero Paparoni - Coffee trader
*
Filippo Gagliardi
Filippo Gagliardi (born c. 1606, died 1659) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome. He collaborated with Filippo Lauri, Andrea Sacchi and Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. He also helped in the renovation of San Marti ...
- Entreprenour
*
Armando Scannone- Engineer
*
Filippo Sindoni- Industrialist
Painters
*
Juan Vicente Fabbiani – Painter
*
Francisco Massiani
Francisco Massiani (2 April 1944 – 1 April 2019) was a Venezuelan writer and painter. His first novel, ''Piedra de mar'' has been a bestseller since its publication. It's a Bildungsroman of a middle class teenager in Caracas. Massiani, won the ...
– Writer and painter
*
Emilio Boggio
Emilio Boggio (21 May 18577 June 1920) was an Italian-Venezuelan pioneering impressionist painter. In 1864 he traveled to France and studied at the Lycée Michelet in Paris until 1870. In 1873, he returned to Caracas and dedicated himself to the ...
– Painter
*
Emilio Jacinto Mauri
Emilio Jacinto Mauri Ivern (9 March 1855, La Guaira - 18 February 1908, Caracas) was a Venezuelan painter who specialized in portraits; mostly of an historical nature.
Biography
His father was Spanish and his mother was French. After 1861, his ...
– Painter
Religious
*
Filippo Salvatore Gilii
Filippo Salvatore Gilii (Spanish: Felipe Salvador Gilij) (1721–1789) was an Italian Jesuit priest who lived in the Province of Venezuela (in present day central Venezuela) on the Orinoco River. Gilii is a highly celebrated figure in early Sou ...
– Italian Jesuit priest and linguist who lived in the
Province of Venezuela before the
War of Independence
This is a list of wars of independence (also called liberation wars). These wars may or may not have been successful in achieving a goal of independence.
List
See also
* Lists of active separatist movements
* List of civil wars
* List of o ...
*
Enzo Ceccarelli –
Politicians
*
Jaime Lusinchi – President of Venezuela (1984–1989)
*
Raul Leoni
Raul, Raúl and Raül are the Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Galician, Asturian, Basque, Aragonese, and Catalan forms of the Anglo-Germanic given name Ralph or Rudolph. They are cognates of the French Raoul.
Raul, Raúl or Raül may re ...
– President of Venezuela (1964–1969)
*
Agostino Codazzi – Geographer, cartographer, military officer and governor
*
Carlo Castelli Carlo is a given name. It is an Italian form of Charles. It can refer to:
*Carlo (name)
*Monte Carlo
*Carlingford, New South Wales, a suburb in north-west Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
*A satirical song written by Dafydd Iwan about Prince Char ...
– Italian military that fought with
Simon Bolivar
Simon may refer to:
People
* Simon (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Simon
* Simon (surname), including a list of people with the surname Simon
* Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...
in the
Venezuelan War of Independence
The Venezuelan War of Independence ( es, Guerra de Independencia de Venezuela, links=no, 1810–1823) was one of the Spanish American wars of independence of the early nineteenth century, when independence movements in Latin America fought agai ...
*
Juan German Roscio – Lawyer, chief architect of the
Venezuelan Constitution of 1811
*
Rafael Lacava
Rafael may refer to:
* Rafael (given name) or Raphael, a name of Hebrew origin
* Rafael, California
* Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israeli manufacturer of weapons and military technology
* Hurricane Rafael, a 2012 hurricane
Fiction
* ''R ...
– Governor of Carabobo
*
Vicencio Scarano Spisso
Vicencio (Enzo) Scarano Spisso (born 1963) is a Venezuelan politician and entrepreneur.
He was elected as mayor of the San Diego Municipality in 2004 with 33.09% of the votes. In 2008 he was re-elected with 71.08% of the votes. He was re-electe ...
– Politician
*
Aníbal Dominici – Politician
*
Otto Hernández Pieretti
Otto is a masculine German given name and a surname. It originates as an Old High German short form (variants ''Audo'', ''Odo'', ''Udo'') of Germanic names beginning in ''aud-'', an element meaning "wealth, prosperity".
The name is recorded fro ...
– Politician
*
Alberto Carnevali – Politician
*
Carlos Alberto D'Ascoli – Politician
*
Mario Masciulli
Mario Elbano Masciulli Manelli, Baron Miglianico (Livorno, Italy September 15, 1909 – Caracas, Venezuela October 16, 1991) was a prominent military engineer of the Italian Regia Marina, Major of Genio Navale and belonging to the recognized Deci ...
– Military engineer
*
Francisco Isnardi – Politician
*
Alberto Franceschi
Alberto Franceschi González (born 20 May 1947) is a Venezuelan politician and businessman. Since December 2013, Franceschi has been living in exile in the United States after the Nicolás Maduro government threatened to arrest him. Initially ...
– Politician
*
José Antonio Velutini – Politician
*
Diego Alfredo Molero Bellavia
Diego Alfredo Molero Bellavia is a Venezuelan public official who served as Venezuela's Minister of Defense.Simón Alberto Consalvi
Simón Alberto Consalvi (7 July 1927 – 11 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician, journalist, diplomat and historian. He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela on two occasions (1977-1979/1985-1988), Minister of Internal Affairs of Vene ...
– Politician
Sports
*
Amleto Monacelli – Bowler
*
Ettore Chimeri
Ettore Muro Chimeri (4 June 1921 – 27 February 1960) was a racing driver from Venezuela. He was born in Lodi, near Milan, Italy, but his family later settled in Venezuela. He was the first Venezuelan ever to compete in a Formula One Grand Prix. ...
– F1 driver
*
Miguel Mea Vitali
Miguel Ángel Mea Vitali (born February 19, 1981 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan former football midfielder.
Club career
Mea Vitali started his career with Caracas FC in his home town. He has played professional football in several countries in Europ ...
– Footballer
*
Fernando Aristeguieta
Fernando Luis Aristeguieta de Luca (born 9 April 1992) is a Venezuelan professional footballer who plays for Venezuelan Primera División club Caracas and the Venezuela national team as a striker.
Aristeguieta began his professional career w ...
- Footballer
*
Rafael Mea Vitali – Footballer
*
Jaime Moreno Ciorciari – Footballer
*
Andrés Rouga – Footballer
*
Jefferson Savarino
Jefferson David Savarino Quintero (born 11 November 1996) is a Venezuelan professional footballer who plays as a winger for Major League Soccer club Real Salt Lake and the Venezuela national team.
Club career Real Salt Lake
On 9 May 2017, Sa ...
- Footballer
*
Sandro Notaroberto
Sandro Notaroberto Peci (born 10 March 1998) is a Venezuelan–Italian footballer who plays as a defender for Venezuelan Primera División side Academia Puerto Cabello.
Club career
Notaroberto started his career at Deportivo La Guaira, making h ...
- Footballer
*
Francisco La Mantía
Francisco Andrés La Mantia Pipaón is a Venezuelan professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for A Lyga club Riteriai.
Club career
On February 2023 he signed with Lithuanian club Riteriai. On 3 March 2023 he made debut in A Lyga aga ...
- Footballer
*
Francisco Cervelli
Francisco Cervelli (born March 6, 1986) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball catcher and former catching coach for the San Diego Padres. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Pittsburgh Pirates, Atlanta Brave ...
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Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), ...
player
*
Massimo Margiotta
Massimo Margiotta (born 27 July 1977) is an Italian-Venezuelan former professional footballer who played as a forward, currently working as youth system chief of Hellas Verona.
Club career
Udinese
Vicenza
Margiotta was signed by Vicenza in c ...
– Footballer
*
Andres Galarraga
Andres or Andrés may refer to:
*Andres, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Will County, Illinois, US
*Andres, Pas-de-Calais, a commune in Pas-de-Calais, France
*Andres (name)
*Hurricane Andres
* "Andres" (song), a 1994 song by L7
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Marco Scutaro – MLB baseball player
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Gianfranco Di Julio – Soccer player
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Giovanni Carrara
Giovanni Carrara Jiménez ar-rah'-ra(born March 4, 1968) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball pitcher. Listed at 6' 2", 225 lb.,
Carrara batted and threw right-handed. He established himself as a valuable middle relief man in MLB, as w ...
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Gabriel Cichero – Football defender
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José Luis Dolgetta – Footballer
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Nahuel Ferraresi – Footballer
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Francisco Carabalí
Francisco Carabalí (born 24 February 1991) is a Venezuelan footballer who plays for Mineros de Guayana as a right back
In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the ...
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Giancarlo Schiavone
Giancarlo is an Italian language, Italian given name meaning "John Charles". It is one of the most common masculine given names in Italy and is often short for "Giovanni Carlo". Notable people with the name include:
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*Giancarlo Agazzi (193 ...
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Matías Lacava
Matías Rafael Lacava González (born 24 October 2002) is a Venezuelan professional footballer who plays as a winger for Portuguese club Vizela, on loan from Academia Puerto Cabello.
Club career Early career
Born in Chacao, Caracas, Lacava j ...
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Ángel Agnello – Footballer
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Ricardo Andreutti – Footballer
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Carlos Angelini
Carlos may refer to:
Places
;Canada
* Carlos, Alberta, a locality
;United States
* Carlos, Indiana, an unincorporated community
* Carlos, Maryland, a place in Allegany County
* Carlos, Minnesota, a small city
* Carlos, West Virginia
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Gilberto Angelucci
Gilberto Angelucci Guión (born 7 August 1967) is a retired Venezuelan football goalkeeper.
Club career
Angelucci spent most of his career playing in Venezuela for a number of different teams. Between 1994 and 1998 he played in Argentina with Sa ...
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Luis Annese
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...
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Diego Araguainamo – Footballer
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Samuel Barbieri – Footballer
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Héctor Bidoglio
Héctor Pablo Bidoglio (born 5 February 1968) is a football (soccer), football Manager (association football), manager and former player who played as a midfielder for Venezuela national football team. Currently, he is the technical director of a ...
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Mauro Cichero – Footballer
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Gabriel Cichero – Footballer
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Vicente Suanno – Footballer
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Yaquino Celli – Footballer
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Franco Signorelli
Franco Signorelli (born 1 January 1991) is a Venezuelan footballer who plays as a midfielder. He was awarded the award for the best goal in the Serie B 2011–12 season.
Club career
On 30 August 2019, he was released from his contract with Saler ...
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Humberto Scovino – Footballer
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John Cernicciaro
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second E ...
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Diego García Veneri
Diego is a Spanish masculine given name. The Portuguese equivalent is Diogo. The name also has several patronymic derivations, listed below. The etymology of Diego is disputed, with two major origin hypotheses: ''Tiago'' and ''Didacus''.
Et ...
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Ricardo Mammarella – Footballer
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Jorge Casanova – Footballer
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Alexander Bottini – Footballer
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José Rafael Bottini – Footballer
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Daniel Saggiomo – Footballer
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Enzo Potolicchio – Racing driver
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María Elena Giusti
María Elena Giusti Lugo (born November 13, 1968) is a retired synchronized swimmer from Venezuela.
She represented her country in the women's solo competition at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics but failed to reach the medal podium; and at th ...
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Andrés Galarraga – Baseball player
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Enrico Forcella
Enrico Forcella Pelliccioni (October 18, 1907 – October 25, 1989) was a Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern c ...
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Guillermo Vento
Guillermo Aquilino Vento (born July 5, 1921) is a Venezuelan former professional baseball player. Listed at 5' 8" (1.75 m), 165 lb (75 kg), Vento batted and threw right handed. He was born in Maracaibo, Zulia.
Basically a line-drive h ...
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Jimy Szymanski – Tennis player
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Daniel Canónico
Daniel Canónico (February 3, 1916 – August 20, 1975) was a Venezuelan baseball right handed pitcher. His friends and fans affectionately called him ''Chino'', a moniker that he proudly used throughout his life. (Spanish). Venezuela Tuya website ...
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Giovanni Savarese
Giovanni Savarese (born July 14, 1971) is a Venezuelan football manager and former player, who is the head coach for the Portland Timbers.
Club career Professional Breakthrough
Savarese made his professional debut at 15, with Venezuelan club ...
– Former soccer player
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José Antonio Casanova
José Antonio Casanova (February 18, 1918 – July 8, 1999) was a shortstop and manager in Venezuelan baseball. He batted and threw right handed. (Spanish)
Born in Maracaibo, Zulia, Casanova is regarded as the most successful manager in Venezuela ...
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María Vento
Maria may refer to:
People
* Mary, mother of Jesus
* Maria (given name), a popular given name in many languages
Place names Extraterrestrial
*170 Maria, a Main belt S-type asteroid discovered in 1877
*Lunar maria (plural of ''mare''), large, da ...
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Rubén Limardo – Fencer
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Johnny Cecotto
Johnny Alberto Cecotto Persello (born 25 January 1956), better known as Johnny Cecotto, is a Venezuelan former professional Grand Prix motorcycle racer and auto racer. He rose to prominence as a teenage prodigy in 1975 when he became the youn ...
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Iván Palazzese
Iván Palazzese (2 January 1962 – 28 May 1989) was an Italians, Italian born Venezuelans, Venezuelan professional motorcycle racer. He competed in the Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Grand Prix road racing world championships from 1977 to 198 ...
– Sportman (moto)
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Juan Carlos Bianchi
Juan Carlos Bianchi (born 22 January 1970) is a former tennis player from Venezuela, who represented his native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia and played collegiate tennis at the University of Alabama for the Alabama Crim ...
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Francisco Limardo – épée fencer
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Johnny Cecotto
Johnny Alberto Cecotto Persello (born 25 January 1956), better known as Johnny Cecotto, is a Venezuelan former professional Grand Prix motorcycle racer and auto racer. He rose to prominence as a teenage prodigy in 1975 when he became the youn ...
– Moto driver
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Daniela Di Giacomo
Daniela Anette di Giacomo di Giovanni (born May 15, 1985) is a Venezuelan TV host, journalist, radio host, model and beauty queen. She was crowned Miss Venezuela International 2005 and then Miss International 2006 in China. Retrieved on 11 Apr 2 ...
– Miss International
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Michelle Bertolini
Michelle may refer to:
People
* Michelle (name), a given name and surname, the feminine form of Michael
* Michelle Courtens, Dutch singer, performing as "Michelle"
* Michelle (German singer)
* Michelle (Scottish singer) (born 1980), Scottis ...
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Marzia Piazza
Marzia Rita Gisela Piazza Suprani (born May, 27 1951) won the 1969 Miss Venezuela contest, representing Vargas, after María José Yéllici, of Aragua had resigned three months after her victory. Piazza was the official representative of Venezue ...
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Miss Venezuela 1969
Miss Venezuela 1969 was the 16th edition of Miss Venezuela pageant held at Teatro Paris (now called Teatro La Campiña) in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 1, 1969. The winner of the pageant was María José Yéllici, Miss Aragua.
The pageant was br ...
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Diana Croce
Diana Macarena Croce García (born April 17, 1997) is a Venezuelan model and beauty pageant titleholder who was 1st Runner-Up at Miss Venezuela 2016 and represented Venezuela at Miss World 2016. She represented Venezuela at the Miss Internationa ...
– Miss World Venezuela 2016
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Debora Menicucci
Debora Sacha Menicucci Anzola (born May 2, 1991 in Caracas) is a Venezuelan actress, model, fashion designer and beauty pageant titleholder who won the Miss Venezuela World 2014 title. She represented Venezuela in Miss World 2014, in London (Engl ...
– Miss World Venezuela
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Donatella Bottone Donatella is an Italian feminine given name meaning "gift" or "gift of God".
People
* Donatella Agostinelli (born 1974), Italian politician
* Donatella Arpaia (born 1971), American restaurateur and television chef
* Donatella Finocchiaro (born 197 ...
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Gabriella Ferrari
Gabriella Ferrari Peirano (born March 14, 1991) is a Venezuelan model and beauty pageant titleholder. At the Miss Venezuela 2011 pageant she placed 2nd to Irene Esser earning the title Miss Venezuela Mundo.
Ferrari also represented Venezuel ...
– Miss World Venezuela
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Jeannette Donzella –
Miss Venezuela 1971
Miss Venezuela 1971 was 18th edition of Miss Venezuela pageant held at Teatro Nacional in Caracas, Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country ...
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Monica Lei – Miss World Venezuela
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Faviola Spitale
Faviola Spitale is a Venezuelan model and beauty pageant titleholder. She is the Miss Venezuela International titleholder for 1993, and was the official representative of Venezuela to the Miss International 1993 pageant held in Tokyo, Japan, on O ...
– Miss International
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Graciela Guarneri – Miss International
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Fabiola Candosin – Miss World Venezuela
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Carolina Cerruti
Carolina del Valle Cerruti Duijm (born 1962 in Caracas, Venezuela) is Miss Venezuela 1983, Miss World Venezuela 1983 and the daughter of former Miss World 1955, Susana Duijm.
Miss World Venezuela
Cerruti competed in 1983 as Apure, Miss Apure in ...
– Miss World Venezuela
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Patricia Tóffoli – Miss World Venezuela
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Olga Antonetti –
Miss Venezuela 1962
Miss Venezuela 1962 was the ninth edition of Miss Venezuela pageant held at Teatro Paris (now called Teatro La Campiña) in Caracas, Venezuela, on June 27, 1962. The winner of the pageant was Olga Antonetti, Miss Anzoátegui.
This was the first ...
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María Antonieta Cámpoli
María Antonieta Cámpoli Prisco (born October 9, 1955 in Italy) is an Italian-Venezuelan pageant titleholder, who was ''Miss Venezuela'' in 1972.
Biography
Maria Antonietta Cámpoli was born in Isola del Liri (an ancient city of Latium, located ...
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Miss Venezuela 1972
Miss Venezuela 1972 was the 19th edition of Miss Venezuela pageant held at Teatro Paris (now called Teatro La Campiña) in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 12, 1972.
Venevision aired the pageant for first time. Gilberto Correa and Liliana Cortijo co ...
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Paola Ruggeri Paola Laura Ruggeri Ghigo (born July 14, 1961 in Caracas, Venezuela) is Miss Venezuela 1983. She placed 7th in Miss Universe 1983 as the only Latin American among the Top 12 semifinalists.
Miss Venezuela
Ruggeri competed in 1983 as Miss Portugues ...
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Miss Venezuela 1983
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Adriana Vasini
Adriana Cristina Vasini Sánchez, (born July 30, 1987, in Maracaibo, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan model and beauty queen who won the titles of Miss World Venezuela 2009 and Reina Hispanoamericana 2009. She represented Venezuela in the Miss World ...
– Miss world Venezuela
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Mariam Habach
Mariam Habach Santucci (born 26 January 1996) is a Venezuelan model and beauty pageant titleholder who won Miss Venezuela 2015. She also won Señorita Centro Occidental 2016, she also represented Venezuela at Miss Universe 2016.
Personal life
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Miss Venezuela 2015
Miss Venezuela 2015 was the 62nd edition of the Miss Venezuela pageant held on October 8, 2015 at the Estudio 1 de Venevision in Caracas, Venezuela, after weeks of events. Outgoing titleholder Mariana Jiménez of Guárico crowned Mariam Habac ...
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Mariángela Bonanni - Miss World Venezuela 2010
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Valeria Vespoli
Valeria Alejandra Vespoli Figuera (born November 25, 1994) is a Venezuelan model, social communicator and beauty pageant titleholder who was titled Miss Supranational Venezuela 2016. Vespoli also represented the Monagas state in Miss Venezuela 2 ...
- Miss Supranational Venezuela
Writers
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Job Pim
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Tulio Chiossone
Tulio Chiossone Villamizar (16 September 1905 – 26 December 2001) was a Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast o ...
– Writer
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Odoardo Crema – Writer
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Victoria De Stefano
Victoria de Stefano (21 June 1940 – 6 January 2023) was an Italo-Venezuelan novelist, essayist, philosopher and educator.
Early life and education
Victoria de Stefano was born in Rimini, Italy in 1940, and moved to Venezuela with her family ...
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Vicente Gerbasi
Vicente Gerbasi (June 2, 1913 in Canaobo, Carabobo – December 28, 1992 in Caracas) was a representative poet of Venezuelan 20th century.
Biography
Vicente Gerbasi was born in Canoabo, a small city in Carabobo in Northern Venezuela as child ...
– Writer
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Italian diaspora
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Italian language in Venezuela
The Italian language in Venezuela has been present since colonial times in the areas around Caracas, Maracay, Valencia, Maracaibo and the Andes mountains. The language is found in many idiomatic sentences and words of Venezuelan Spanish. There are ...
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Italy–Venezuela relations
Italy–Venezuela relations refers to the diplomatic relations between Italy and Venezuela. Both nations enjoy friendly relations, the importance of which centers on the history of Italian migration to Venezuela. There are approximately over 140, ...
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Corsican immigration to Venezuela
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Deportivo Italia (1948-2010)
Deportivo Miranda Fútbol Club (previously named Deportivo Italia Fútbol Club, Deportivo Italchacao, Deportivo Petare Fútbol Club and Petare Fútbol Club) is a Venezuelan football club based in Caracas. Formed in 1948 as "Deportivo Italia F ...
References
External links
Statistical Data on the Italians in the worldItalian emigrationItaliani nel Venezuela (in Italian)
Bibliography
* Cassani Pironti, Fabio. ''Gli italiani in Venezuela dall’Indipendenza al Secondo Dopoguerra''. Roma, 2004
* Favero L. e Sacchetti G. ''Un secolo di emigrazione italiana: 1876–1976''. Centro Studi Emigrazioni. Roma, 1978
* Mille, Nicola. ''Veinte Años de "MUSIUES"''. Editorial Sucre. Caracas, 1965
* Santander Laya-Garrido, Alfonso. ''Los Italianos forjadores de la nacionalidad y del desarrollo economico en Venezuela''. Editorial Vadell. Valencia, 1978.
* Vannini, Marisa. ''Italia y los Italianos en la Historia y en la Cultura de Venezuela''. Oficina Central de Información. Caracas, 1966
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Venezuela
Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...