Cecilio Acosta, was a Venezuelan writer, journalist, lawyer, philosopher and humanist.

Francisco de Asís Alarcón Estaba is a Venezuelan writer and poet. Popularly known as Francisco Alarcón, poet and writer whose years of reading, the beginning in romantic literature, transform him into Rolando or Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, and take him to William Shakespeare, in his opinion, the great interpreter of nature human On that tour, he gives us Chronicles of Caracas, Tales of Gallero, poetry and essays. The intimate world in poems. The poet and writer assumes his commitment as a public intellectual, when faced with the need to understand, to see clearly, he catches the phenomena of the environment and his inner world, and then communicates what is seen and experienced. It is one of the prominent voices of the 80s generation in Venezuela and Latin America.

José Antonio de Armas Chitty was a Venezuelan historian, poet, chronicler, essayist, biographer and researcher.

Alberto José Barrera Tyszka is a Venezuelan writer. In 2006, he received the Herralde Prize for his novel La enfermedad.

Andrés de Jesús María y José Bello López was a Venezuelan humanist, diplomat, poet, legislator, philosopher, educator and philologist, whose political and literary works constitute an important part of Spanish American culture. Bello is featured on the old 2,000 Venezuelan bolívar and the 20,000 Chilean peso notes.

Juan Beroes was a Venezuelan poet.

Andrés Eloy Blanco Meaño was a noted Venezuelan poet and politician. He was a member of the Generación del 28, and one of the founders of Acción Democrática (AD). He was Minister of Foreign Affairs of Venezuela from 15 February 1948 until 24 November 1948.
Rafael Cadenas is a Venezuelan poet and essayist. He taught for many years at the Central University of Venezuela.. He received the National Prize for Literature (1985), Guadalajara's International Book Fair prize of literature and García Lorca Prize (2015).

Fernando Paz Castillo Aristeguieta, was a Venezuelan poet, literary critic, diplomat, and educator. He received the National Prize for Literature in 1967.

Luis Antonio García Morales was a Venezuelan poet and a cultural promoter born in Ciudad Bolívar. In 1984, his book of poems El río siempre won the prize of the Venezuela's National Council of Culture.

Vicente Gerbasi was a representative poet of Venezuelan 20th century.

Adriano González León was a Venezuelan writer who is known in his country for the novel País Portátil (1968), widely regarded as the premier Venezuelan novel of the latter half of the 20th century, and for his many years of hosting a television program dedicated to promoting literary appreciation among the general public.

Juan Liscano Velutini was a Venezuelan poet, folklorist, writer and critic. Director of Monte Ávila Editores, among his poetic work emphasizes: Nuevo mundo Orinoco (1959), Cármenes (1966) and Fundaciones (1981). Also wrote: Panorama de la literatura venezolana actual (1973) Espiritualidad y literatura: una relación tormentosa (1976), Los fuegos apagados (1990) and El origen sigue siendo (1991). In 1990 published a personal Anthology, a route for his poetic trajectory. He won the National Prize for Literature in 1951.

Eduardo López Bustamante was a Venezuelan journalist, lawyer and poet. He was a leading intellectual of the Zulia State, Venezuela, and a figure within Venezuelan jurisprudence.

Francisco Massiani was a Venezuelan writer and painter. His first novel, Piedra de mar has been a bestseller since its publication. It's a Bildungsroman of a middle class teenager in Caracas. Massiani, won the Municipal Prize of Prose in 1998, and in 2005, the V annual contest of the Fundación para la Cultura Urbana, for the storybook Florencio y los pajaritos de Angelina, su mujer. In 2006, he published his first book of poetry. In 2012 he won the National Prize for Literature, as a recognition to his entire body of work.

José Ramón Medina Elorga, was a Venezuelan lawyer, writer, poet and politician.

Yucef Merhi is a Venezuelan artist, poet and computer programmer based in New York.

Eugenio Montejo was a Venezuelan poet and essay writer, founder of the literary magazine Azar and co-founder of Revista Poesía, a poetry magazine published by the University of Carabobo.

Aquiles Nazoa was a Venezuelan writer, journalist, poet and humorist. His work expressed the values of popular Venezuelan culture.

Carlos Noguera was a Venezuelan writer and psychologist.

David Ramón Sánchez Palomares was a Venezuelan poet, born in Escuque. In 1975 received the National Prize for Literature; in 2006 the first Víctor Valera Mora International Prize for Poetry; and in 2010 the Ibero-America Award for Literature.

Juan Antonio Pérez Bonalde (1846-1892) was a Venezuelan translator and poet. He is best known for his Hispanic romanticism style of work and was seen a precursor of Modernism. He is buried in the National Pantheon of Venezuela.

Jesús Rosas Marcano, was a Venezuelan educator, journalist, poet and composer of folk songs popularized by the group Un Solo Pueblo, such as "Botaste la bola" and "Negro como yo".

Tarek William Saab Halabi is a Venezuelan politician, lawyer and poet. He is a leader of the Fifth Republic Movement (MVR) party founded by Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela, who publicly called him "The Revolution's Poet". He was the Governor of Anzoátegui from 2004 to 2012, and a member of the Committee for Justice and Truth since 2013. In December 2014, he was elected "People's Defender", or Ombudsman, by the National Assembly for 2014–2021 term. Saab was appointed as President of the Republican Moral Council of Venezuela by the People's Power in 2015. On 5 August 2017, he was appointed as Prosecutor General of Venezuela by the National Constituent Assembly in substitution of Luisa Ortega Diaz.

Cruz María Salmerón Acosta was a Venezuelan poet. His sonnets were influenced by the movement of modernismo.

Juan Sánchez Peláez was a Venezuelan poet and National Prize winner for Literature in 1975.

Alberto Arvelo Torrealba, was a Venezuelan lawyer, educator and folklorical poet. Author of Florentino y El Diablo.

Pascual Venegas Filardo was a Venezuelan poet, writer and journalist.

José Jesús Villa Pelayo is a Venezuelan poet, essayist, lawyer and political analyst. He has written the following books: Una hiedra negra para Sashne. 1990, Nueva York. 1992, Mariana de Coimbra.1999, Las arpías vuelan sobre Manhattan. 2006, Diario de Alejandría. 2007.