List of Venezuelan Nobel laureates
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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.
| Year | Image | Laureate | Born | Died | Field | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 |  |
Baruj Benacerraf | 29 October 1920 Caracas, Venezuela |
2 August 2011 Jamaica 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 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" |
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