Two Venezuelan citizens have been associated with a Nobel Prize: the immunologist Baruj Benacerraf who was awarded the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine alongside French immunologist Jean Dausset and American immunologist George Davis Snell, and the politician María Corina Machado, who received the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for promoting democratic rights in Venezuela and working toward a peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
Laureates YearImageLaureateBornDiedFieldCitation1980Baruj Benacerraf29 October 1920Caracas, Venezuela2 August 2011Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, U.S.Physiology or Medicine"for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions" (awarded together with French immunologist Jean Dausset and American immunologist George Davis Snell)2025 María Corina Machado7 October 1967Caracas, VenezuelaPeace"for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy"
Nominations Venezuelans started receiving nominations in 1908. There are also other purported nominees whose nominations are yet to be verified since the archives are revealed 50 years after,Nomination and selection of Nobel Peace Prize laureates nobelprize.org including the Venezuelan human rights organization Foro Penal, which has been reportedly nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015, 2016 and 2019. ImageNomineeThe (*) asterisks on the name denote the nominees were expatriates who resided or died in Brazil.BornDiedYears NominatedCitation Literature4 December 1840 Caracas, Venezuela18 August 1918 Caracas, Venezuela1908Rufino Blanco Fombona17 June 1874 Caracas, Venezuela16 October 1944 Buenos Aires, Argentina1928, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1935Clotilde Crespo de Arvelo19 September 1887 Los Teques, Venezuela1959 Caracas, Venezuela1930Rómulo Gallegos2 August 1884 Caracas, Venezuela5 April 1969 Caracas, Venezuela1951, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967Wilhelm Lehmann4 May 1882 Puerto Cabello, Venezuela17 November 1968 Eckernförde, Germany1960Robert Ganzo22 August 1898 Caracas, Venezuela6 April 1995 Boulogne-Billancourt, France1970 PeaceCarlos Medina ChirinosVenezuelaVenezuela1926
See also List of Nobel laureates by country
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