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Lele Pons is one of the many internet stars who started their journey on the now-defunct service, Vine. After becoming the first person to reach one billion loops on Vine, Pons started branching out and created comedy sketches for YouTube. She has since used her popularity to establish herself in the mainstream entertainment industry, appearing in films and TV series.
Majandra Delfino is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Maria DeLuca in a science fiction TV series titled Roswell. Also known for her skills as a singer, Delfino has released a couple of albums through Red Velvet Cake Records, her own record company.
Sebastian Gutierrez is a Venezuelan screenwriter and filmmaker known for writing the screenplays of popular movies like The Eye, Snakes on a Plane, and Gothika. He is also credited with creating, writing, and directing the crime drama television series, Jett. Sebastian Gutierrez also received critical acclaim for directing the 1998 crime thriller movie Judas Kiss, which marked his directorial debut.
Francisco de Miranda was a Venezuelan revolutionary and military leader. He is considered a predecessor of Simón Bolívar, who liberated much of South America during the Spanish American wars of independence. Miranda is best remembered for his role in three major political movements of his time: the French Revolution, the American Revolutionary War, and the Spanish American Wars of Independence.
Danny is a Portuguese retired football player who played as a midfielder for popular teams like Marítimo, Zenit St. Petersburg, and Dynamo Moscow. He helped Zenit win the UEFA Super Cup in 2008 and the Russian Football Premier League in 2010, 2012, and 2015. Danny also represented the Portugal national team from 2008 to 2016.
Dross Rotzank is a Venezuelan writer and YouTuber. He started his career as a journalist before establishing himself as a blogger and YouTuber. He achieved popularity when he started posting horror videos on his YouTube channel. At the 2018 and 2019 Martín Fierro Awards, Dross Rotzank was honored with the Digital Artist and Digital Vision Award respectively.
Venezuelan Latin Grammy singer-songwriter Franco De Vita gained-attention with the album Franco De Vita that included Spanish-language hits like Somos Tres and Un Buen Perdedor. Moving on, he released other notable albums like Extranjero, a song of which, No Basta garnered critical-acclaim and reached atop the Billboard Latin music charts in the US and bagged an MTV Video Music Award.
Teresa Carreno was a Venezuelan composer, conductor, and pianist. During the course of her illustrious career, which spanned more than 50 years, Carreno achieved international popularity as a virtuoso pianist and was nicknamed the Valkyrie of the Piano. Carreno is also credited with teaching pianists like Edward MacDowell, who went on to become a popular pianist in his own right.
Reynaldo Hahn was a Venezuelan-born French conductor, composer, singer, and music critic. A prolific composer, Hahn wrote a wide range of piano works and chamber music. His orchestral works include tone poems, concertos ballets, as well as incidental music for films and plays. Towards the end of his career, Reynaldo Hahn served as the director of the Paris Opéra.
Rómulo Gallegos was not just the first freely elected president of Venezuela but was also a Nobel Prize-nominated novelist. His written works include the iconic novels Doña Bárbara and Canaima. He was ousted from his office by the 1948 Venezuelan coup headed by several leading army officers.
Baruj Benacerraf was a Venezuelan-American immunologist whose discovery of the MHC genes earned him the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980; he shared the prize with George Davis Snell and Jean Dausset. Over the course of his illustrious career, Benacerraf received several other awards, such as the National Medal of Science in 1990.
Regarded as the intellectual father of South America, Venezuelan-Chilean poet Andrés Bello one taught revolutionary leader Simón Bolívar and also inspired the struggle for Venezuelan independence. He established the University of Chile and also penned masterpieces such as Las Silvas Americanas. As a legislator, he inspired the Chilean Civil Code.
