9 Notable alumni of
University of the Andes
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The University of the Andes is 2088th in the world, 92nd in Latin America, and 5th in Venezuela by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 9 notable alumni from the University of the Andes sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Manuel Rosales
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- teacherpolitician
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Manuel Antonio Rosales Guerrero is a Venezuelan educator and politician and former governor of Zulia. He was the most prominent Venezuelan opposition candidate in the 2006 presidential election, losing to incumbent Hugo Chávez. He served as a congressman, mayor, and governor, but in April 2009, stepped down as Mayor of Maracaibo when he was charged with corruption in Venezuela and fled to Peru. Rosales denies the charges, and was granted political asylum in Peru. He was briefly the presidential candidate for Un Nuevo Tiempo in the 2024 Venezuelan presidential election, but he ended up suspending his candidacy.
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Rafael Ramírez
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- mechanical engineerpolitician
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Rafael Darío Ramírez Carreño is a Venezuelan engineer, politician, and diplomat. He joined the board of Venezuelan state-owned petroleum company PDVSA in 2002 and served as company president from 2004 to 2014. He also served as Venezuela's Minister of Energy from 2002 to 2014. He was the longest-serving cabinet member under President Hugo Chávez. In 2014, he briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and then subsequently served as Venezuela's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York. Ramirez was fired as UN representative by Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro the evening of November 28, 2017. He confirmed he had "resigned" at the request of Maduro on December 4, 2017.
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Adán Chávez
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- deputydocentpolitician
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Adán Chávez Frías is a Venezuelan politician who was Governor of Barinas state from 2008 to 2016 and again since 2025. Previously, he was Ambassador to Cuba and then Minister of Education from 2007 to 2008.
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Mario Briceño Iragorry
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- politicianwriterlawyerhistorianObp56h
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Mario Briceño Iragorry, was a Venezuelan intellectual and cultural analyst. He was also a notable writer, politician, journalist, lawyer, historian, diplomat, and teacher.
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Gualberto Ibarreto
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- singermusician
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Gualberto José Ibarreto Barrios, is a folk singer who plays the mandolin, cuatro, and guitar. He has released 24 studio records.
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Sofía Ímber
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- cultural activistpoliticianjournalist
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Sofía Ímber was a Romanian-born Venezuelan journalist and supporter of the arts. She was the founder of the Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art.
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Marger Sealey
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- actorsingercomposer
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Marger Sealey, also known as MG, is a Venezuelan singer, songwriter, and actress. Her mother is Venezuelan and her father is Trinidadian.
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Edgar C. Otálvora
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- historianeconomistjournalistdiplomat
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Edgar C. Otálvora is a Venezuelan intellectual, journalist and politician. He has held government and diplomatic positions. He is an expert in international politics and economics, and has distinguished himself as an analyst of Latin American topics, with a focus on military, diplomatic, and political issues. He has been a columnist in Venezuelans and Americans newspapers, in addition to directing the newspaper El Nuevo Pais in Caracas from 2006 to 2010. He was a professor at the Central University of Venezuela. He was a close collaborator of former Venezuelan president Ramón J. Velásquez. He has cultivated the biographical genre, being the first to write biographies of the 19th century Venezuelan presidents Raimundo Andueza Palacio and Juan Pablo Rojas Paul, as well as the Colombian president Virgilio Barco Vargas. Columnist in Diario Las Américas of Miami.
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Wafi Salih
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- writer
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Wafi Salih is a Venezuelan-born writer of Lebanese descent. Writer of: poetry, short stories, essays, dramaturgy and film scripts. She is recognized as “the master of short poetry in Venezuela” for her extensive exploration of haiku poetry, a literary genre of Japanese origin. Her books has been translated into English, Arabic, French, Italian, Portuguese and Polish.
