Two Venezuelan citizens have been associated with aNobel Prize: the immunologist Baruj Benacerraf who was awarded the 1980Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine alongside French immunologistJean Dausset and American immunologistGeorge Davis Snell, and the politicianMaría Corina Machado, who received the 2025Nobel Peace Prize for promoting democratic rights in Venezuela and working toward a peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.
| Year | Image | Laureate | Born | Died | Field | Citation |
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| 1980 |  | Baruj Benacerraf | 29 October 1920 Caracas, Venezuela | 2 August 2011 Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, U.S. | Physiology or Medicine | "for their discoveries concerning genetically determinedstructures on the cell surface that regulateimmunological reactions" (awarded together with French immunologistJean Dausset and American immunologistGeorge Davis Snell) |
| 2025 | María Corina Machado | 7 October 1967 Caracas, Venezuela | Peace | "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" |
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,[1] including the Venezuelanhuman rights organizationForo Penal, which has been reportedly nominated for theNobel Peace Prize in 2015, 2016 and 2019.[2][3][4]
| Image | Nominee[5] | Born | Died | Years Nominated | Citation |
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.jpg) | Julio Calcaño [es] | 4 December 1840 Caracas, Venezuela | 18 August 1918 Caracas, Venezuela | 1908 | |
.jpg) | Rufino Blanco Fombona | 17 June 1874 Caracas, Venezuela | 16 October 1944 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 1928, 1929, 1930, 1933, 1935 | [6] |
.png){kind=icon} | Clotilde Crespo de Arvelo | 19 September 1887 Los Teques, Venezuela | 1959 Caracas, Venezuela | 1930 | [7] |
.jpg) | Rómulo Gallegos | 2 August 1884 Caracas, Venezuela | 5 April 1969 Caracas, Venezuela | 1951, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967 | [8] |
.png) | Wilhelm Lehmann | 4 May 1882 Puerto Cabello, Venezuela | 17 November 1968 Eckernförde, Germany | 1960 | [9] |
| Robert Ganzo | 22 August 1898 Caracas, Venezuela | 6 April 1995 Boulogne-Billancourt, France | 1970 | |
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| Carlos Medina Chirinos | Venezuela | Venezuela | 1926 | [10] |
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