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Notable Alumni

Humanists

• Francisco de Miranda (1750-1816) General, political thinker; fought in the main three revolutionary wars of the 18th century, American, French and South American.
• Andrés Bello (1781-1865) Poet, lawmaker, philosopher, educator and philologist.
• Andrés Eloy Blanco (1896-1955) Poet.

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Scientists

• Lisando Alvarado (1858-1929) ethnologist, linguist.
• José Gregorio Hernández (1864-1919) physician.
• Eduardo Röhl (1891-1959) naturalist, founder of the brewery "El Águila" in 1927.
• Alfredo Jahn (1867-1940) engineer, anthropologist.
• Jacinto Convit (b. 1913) nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1988 for his research on the cure of Leprosy.

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Politicians

• Teodoro Petkoff (b. 1932) congressman and co-founder of the political party MAS.
• Ali Rodriguez (b. 1937) secretary-general of OPEC (2000)and chairman of Petroleos de Venezuela PDVSA.

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Presidents of Venezuela

• José María Vargas, scientist (1835-36)
• Pedro Gual, lawyer (1859, 1861)
• Antonio Guzmán Blanco lawyer (1879-1884)
• Rómulo Betancourt (not finished) (1945-1948)
• Rómulo Gallegos (not finished) writer (1948)
• Germán Suárez Flamerich (also Faculty) lawyer (1950-52)
• Edgar Sanabria (also Faculty) lawyer (1959)
• Raúl Leoni (not finished) (1964-1969)
• Rafael Caldera political Scientist (1969-1974), (1994-1999)
• Carlos Andrés Pérez (not finished) (1974-1979), (1989-1993).
• Luis Herrera Campins, lawyer (1979-1984)
• Jaime Lusinchi, physician (1984-1989)
• Ramón José Velásquez, historian (1993-94).

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Notable faculty

19th Century

• Cecilio Acosta (1818-1881) (also Alumni) Writer, journalist.
• Adolf Ernst (1832-1899) Prussian born scientist, started the teaching of Natural History based on Charles Darwin and Lamarck.
• Luis Razetti (1862-1932) (also Alumni) Physician, began the teaching of modern cirgury in Venezuela and wrote an influential code ethics for the practice of medicine.

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20th Century

• Mario Briceño Iragorry (1897-1958) writer.
• Rafael Cadenas (b. 1930) poet.
• Humberto Fernández Morán (1924-1999) contributed to the development of the electron microscope and was the first researcher to introduce the concept of cryoultramicrotomy.
• Juan David García Bacca (1901-1992) Spanish born philosopher; translator of the complete works of Plato.
• Fuad Lechín, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine because of the new treatment of bronchial asthma and myasthenia gravis discovered by his research group.
• Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla (b. 1925) (also Alumni) Philosopher, founder of the Universidad Simón Bolívar.
• Juan Nuño (1927-1995) Spanish born philosopher.
• Manuel García Pelayo (1909-1991) Spanish born political Scientist, elected president of the The Constitutional Tribunal of Spain in 1980.
• Manuel Pérez Vila (1922-1991) Spanish born historian.
• Angel Rosenblat (1902-1984) Polish born philologist.
• Augusto Pi Sunyer (1879-1965) Spanish born physician, started the studies of microbilogy in Venezuela.
• Mariano Picón Salas (1901-1965) writer, cultural critic.
• José Antonio Ramos Sucre (1890-1930) (also Alumni) poet, writer.
• Arturo Uslar Pietri (1906-2001) (also Alumni) writer and historian, winner of the Prince of Asturias Award (1990) and Rómulo Gallegos Prize for Best Novel (1991).
• Marco Aurelio Vila (1908-2001) Spanish born geographer.
• Carlos Raúl Villanueva (1900-197) architect, one of the great Modernists.

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External links

• Official site
• Consejo Nacional de Universidades de Venezuela (Spanish)