Attas, actress and politician Huáscar Barradas, flutist, composer Baruj Benacerraf, immunologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine,1980 Margot Benacerraf, film director Sara Bendahan, Venezuelan physician who was the first Venezuelan woman to complete her medical degree in Venezuela Amador Bendayán, actor, comedian Alegría Bendayán de Bendelac, writer, professor and poet Jose Beracasa Anram, entreprenour, sportman Manuel Blum, computer scientist, Jacques Braunstein, economist, publicist, disc jockey Carlos Brandt, writer, philosopher Pynchas Brener, Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Caracas Jacobo Brender, writer Vytas Brenner, composer, musician Gerardo Budowski, chess master Miguel Ángel Capriles Ayala, journalist Ilan Chester, composer, pop singer Isaac Chocron, writer Salomon Cohen Levy, engineer Leo Corry, mathematician Elias David Curiel, poet Susana Duijm, Miss World 1955, model, actress Daniel Elbittar, actor, model and entertainer Sammy Eppel, internationalist Paulina Gamus, politician Gego, sculptor Alicia Freilich, writer, novelist, journalist Reynaldo Hahn, composer (Jewish father) Joanna Hausmann, comediant YouTuber Michel Hausmann, theater director and producer Ricardo Hausmann, politician, professor, academic Lya Imber (Odessa, Russia, 1914-Caracas, 1981), the first woman in Venezuela to obtain the degree of Doctor of Medicine (Paediatrics & Child Care Specialist) and the first female member of the board of the Medical School of the Federal District. Sofía Ímber, journalist Jonathan Jakubowicz, film director, writer, and producer Karina, pop singer Moisés Kaufman, screenwriter, director Betty Kaplan, film director Geula Kohen Moradov, painter Ruth de Krivoy, former president of the Central Bank of Venezuela Andres Levin, musician Ivan Lansberg, lawyer Julio Lobo, sugar trader and financier Yucef Merhi, artist, poet Moisés Naím, journalist, economist Elias Mocatta, banker, financer Isaac J Pardo, writer, poet Jacobo Penzo, film director Teodoro Petkoff, guerrilla fighter and politician, journalist, economist L. Rafael Reif, engineer, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Flor Roffé de Estévez, composer and writer Ángel Rosenblat, philologist Maurice Ruah, tennis player Eduardo Schlageter, painter Veronica Schneider, actress David Smolansky, politician, Voluntad Popular, mayor of El Hatillo, Miranda State. Henrique Salas Römer, politician, former Carabobo State governor Leon Schorr, master chess player Ariel Segal, writer and scholar, correspondent of BBC in Israel Isaac Senior, trader founder of Casa Senior of Coro Rosalinda Serfaty, actress Shirley Varnagy, journalist, Globovisión TV host Abdul Vas, contemporary artist Ernesto Villegas Poljak, journalist, politician Vladimir Villegas Poljak, journalist, politician Geula Zylberman, abstract painter See also History of the Jews in Mexico History of the Jews in Latin America Jewish immigration to Puerto Rico List of Jews References Lists of Jews Jews