Central University of Venezuela

The Central University of Venezuela, known in Spanish as Universidad Central de Venezuela and abbreviated UCV, is a public university in Caracas, founded in 1721, the oldest university in Venezuela and one of the oldest in the Western Hemisphere.委内瑞拉中央大学（西班牙语：Universidad Central de Venezuela，简称 UCV）是位于加拉加斯的一所公立大学，1721 年创办，是委内瑞拉最古老的大学，也是西半球最古老的大学之一。

Its main campus, the Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas designed by the architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva, was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000 and is the only modern university campus created by a single architect to receive that distinction.其主校区加拉加斯大学城由建筑师卡洛斯·劳尔·维拉努埃瓦设计，2000 年被联合国教科文组织列为世界遗产，是唯一一座由单一建筑师设计而获此殊荣的现代大学校园。

The university is organised into eleven faculties and forty schools, is placed in the 801-850 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, and its Caracas site lies at latitude 10.48801 and longitude 66.87919 west.该校下设 11 所学院与 40 个学系，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列入第 801-850 位，其加拉加斯校区位于北纬 10.48801、西经 66.87919。

History

• The origins trace to Friar Antonio González de Acuña, a Spanish bishop born in present-day Peru who studied theology at the National University of San Marcos, the Universidad de San Marcos, and founded the Seminary of Saint Rose of Lima in Caracas in 1673.该校源起于安东尼奥·冈萨雷斯·德阿库尼亚修士，他是生于今秘鲁、曾在圣马科斯国立大学（National University of San Marcos）修习神学的西班牙主教，于 1673 年在加拉加斯创办圣玫瑰神学院。

• In 1696 Friar Diego de Baños y Sotomayor widened the seminary's scope by founding the School and Seminary of Saint Rose of Lima, though students seeking a university degree still had to travel to Santo Domingo, Bogotá or Mexico City.1696 年，迭戈·德巴尼奥斯·伊索托马约尔修士扩大其范围，创办圣玫瑰学校兼神学院，但希望取得大学学位的学生仍需远赴圣多明各、波哥大或墨西哥城。

• The rector of the seminary, Francisco Martínez de Porras, together with the citizens of Caracas, petitioned the royal court in Madrid, since Venezuela then formed part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada.神学院院长弗朗西斯科·马丁内斯·德波拉斯与加拉加斯民众一道向马德里的王室宫廷请愿，因为当时的委内瑞拉隶属新格拉纳达总督辖区。

• On 22 December 1721 Philip V of Spain signed a Royal Decree at Lerma that transformed the school-seminary into the Royal and Pontifical University of Caracas, and Pope Innocent XIII confirmed it with a papal bull in 1722.1721 年 12 月 22 日，西班牙国王费利佩五世在拉马斯签署皇家诏令，将学校兼神学院改制为加拉加斯皇家暨教宗大学，教宗英诺森十三世于 1722 年以教宗诏书予以确认。

• The colonial university offered degrees in philosophy, theology, canon law and medicine, and until the Seminary of Saint Bonaventura in Mérida became the Universidad de Los Andes in 1810 it was the only university in the country.殖民时期的大学授予哲学、神学、教会法与医学学位，直到 1810 年梅里达的圣博纳文图拉神学院改制为安第斯大学之前，它都是全国唯一的大学。

• Until the end of the eighteenth century papal and royal censorship of books was largely ignored in Venezuela, allowing the Guipuzcoana Company's ships to smuggle the works of Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot, Montesquieu, Locke, Helvetius and Grotius.直到十八世纪末，教宗与王室的书刊审查在委内瑞拉几乎形同虚设，吉普斯夸纳公司的商船得以走私卢梭、伏尔泰、狄德罗、孟德斯鸠、洛克、爱尔维修与格劳秀斯的著作。

• The royal constitution was displaced by the republican statutes proclaimed by Simón Bolívar on 24 June 1827, which gave the institution a secular character and transferred its main authority to the rector.王室宪制被西蒙·玻利瓦尔于 1827 年 6 月 24 日宣布的共和法规取代，新法规赋予该校世俗性质，并把主要权力移交校长。

• In December 1908 the dictator Juan Vicente Gómez seized power in a coup against Cipriano Castro and ruled until his death in 1935, closing the university from 1912 to 1922.1908 年 12 月，独裁者胡安·比森特·戈麦斯通过政变推翻西普里亚诺·卡斯特罗上台，执政至 1935 年去世，并在 1912 年至 1922 年间关闭大学。

• When the university reopened, the rector Felipe Guevara Rojas had reorganised the traditional handful of schools by separating them into departments, modernising the internal structure.复校时，校长费利佩·格瓦拉·罗哈斯已将传统上为数不多的学校拆分改组为学系，实现了内部建制的现代化。

• 1928 proved decisive when the group of students known as the Generation of 1928 organised the Students Week protests against the dictatorship, culminating in the failed attempt to overthrow Gómez on 7 April.1928 年成为关键之年，被称为「1928 一代」的学生团体组织「学生周」反独裁抗议，并在 4 月 7 日达到试图推翻戈麦斯的顶点。

• Among the members of that generation were Rómulo Betancourt, Miguel Otero Silva, Juan Oropeza, Isaac Pardo and Rodolfo Quintero, most of whom were jailed or forced into exile without finishing their studies.这一代的成员包括罗慕洛·贝坦科尔特、米格尔·奥特罗·席尔瓦、胡安·奥罗佩萨、伊萨克·帕尔多与罗多尔福·金特罗，其中多数人被捕或流亡，未能完成学业。

• In 1936, after President Eleazar López Contreras issued a decree suspending constitutional rights and censoring the press during an oil workers' strike, the rector Francisco Antonio Rísquez led a protest through the streets of Caracas.1936 年，总统埃莱亚萨·洛佩斯·孔特雷拉斯在石油工人罢工期间颁布法令中止宪法权利、查禁报刊，校长弗朗西斯科·安东尼奥·里斯克斯遂率众在加拉加斯街头示威。

• By 1942 enrolment had grown for decades without a matching expansion, so schools such as Medicine were dispersed into buildings around the city rather than housed in one coherent site.到 1942 年，学生人数数十年来持续增长，而校园却无相应扩建，医学院等学院被迫分散寄居城中各处楼宇，无法集中办学。

• The government of President Isaías Medina Angarita bought the Hacienda Ibarra estate and gave the chief design to the architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva after a visit to the University City of Bogotá convinced the Ministry of Public Works to use a single architect.总统伊希亚斯·梅迪·安加拉里塔政府购入伊瓦拉庄园用地，并在考察波哥大大学城之后，把主设计交给建筑师卡洛斯·劳尔·维拉努埃瓦，因为公共工程部由此确信应由单一建筑师统筹。

• The resulting Ciudad Universitaria became a vast urban complex of about 200 hectares containing some 40 buildings, planned by Villanueva as a coherent whole rather than a group of heterogeneous structures.由此建成的加拉加斯大学城是一处约 200 公顷、包含约 40 栋建筑的庞大城市综合体，由维拉努埃瓦作为有机整体规划，而非一堆风格驳杂的楼宇。

• Villanueva worked with 28 avant-garde artists from Venezuela and abroad to realise a Synthesis of Arts, including the 1953 Floating Clouds by Alexander Calder, murals by Victor Vasarely, Wifredo Lam and Fernand Léger, and sculptures by Jean Arp and Henri Laurens.维拉努埃瓦与来自委内瑞拉及世界各地的 28 位前卫艺术家合作，落实其「艺术综合」理念，作品包括亚历山大·考尔德 1953 年的《漂浮的云》、维克多·瓦萨雷利、希夫雷多·拉姆、费尔南·莱热的壁画，以及让·阿尔普、亨利·劳伦斯的雕塑。

• In 1958, after the fall of the dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, a government commission drafted a new university law that took effect on 5 December, guaranteeing that faculty and students could work in an environment of freedom and tolerance.1958 年独裁者马尔科斯·佩雷斯·希门尼斯下台后，政府委员会制定新的大学法，该法于 12 月 5 日生效，保障师生得以在自由与宽容的环境中治学。

• That legal foundation was strained during the 1960s, when guerrilla rebels supported by Fidel Castro took refuge inside the university campus to escape government prosecution, and the standoff ended in 1969 with students demanding reform seizing the university.这一法律根基在 1960 年代受到冲击，受菲德尔·卡斯特罗支持的游击队为逃避政府追诉藏身校园，对峙至 1969 年演变为要求改革的学生占领大学。

• On 3 October 1970 the administration of President Rafael Caldera ordered the university to be raided by the military, forcing Rector Jesús María Bianco to resign, and the institution reopened in 1971 with a new rector and a renovation plan.1970 年 10 月 3 日，拉斐尔·卡尔德拉总统政府下令军方突入校园，迫使校长赫苏斯·玛丽亚·比安科辞职，学校遂于 1971 年在新一任校长与改建计划下重新开放。

• In the second half of the twentieth century the faculty was enriched by European immigrants, many intellectuals settling in Venezuela after the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War and taking posts at the university.二十世纪后半叶，教员队伍因欧洲移民而大增，众多知识分子在西班牙内战与第二次世界大战后移居委内瑞拉并在该校任教。

• Those scientists and humanists helped build lines of research and teaching and educated much of the present generation of faculty, and in 2000 UNESCO inscribed the Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas as a World Heritage Site.这些科学家与人文学者帮助建立了研究与教学脉络，培养了当今一代的多数教员，2000 年联合国教科文组织将加拉加斯大学城列入世界遗产名录。

Academics

• The university is organised into eleven faculties, called Facultades, which are subdivided into forty schools or departments, called Escuelas, spanning the sciences, the professions and the humanities.全校按 11 所学院（Facultades）建制，学院之下再分 40 个学系（Escuelas），覆盖自然科学、专业学科与人文领域。

• Every faculty confers an undergraduate degree at the level of the five-year Licenciatura, together with graduate degrees at the level of a two-year master's and a three-to-four-year doctorate awarded through the Graduate School.各学院均授予为期五年的学士项目（Licenciatura），并经研究生院颁授为期两年的硕士与三至四年的博士学位。

• The Graduate School, founded in 1941, offers 222 specialisations, 109 master's degrees and 40 doctoral programmes, the widest graduate portfolio recorded for the institution.研究生院创办于 1941 年，开设 222 个专业方向、109 个硕士学位与 40 个博士项目，是该校有记录以来最庞大的研究生课程组合。

• Its eleven faculties cover Architecture and Urban Planning, Agronomy, Dentistry, Engineering, Humanities and Education, Law and Government, Medicine, Social Sciences and Economy, Pharmacy, Sciences and Veterinary Medicine.其 11 所学院涵盖建筑与城市规划、农学、口腔医学、工程、人文与教育、法律与治理、医学、社会科学与经济、药学、理学与兽医学。

• The Faculty of Medicine ranks among the oldest lines of study, since the colonial university already awarded medical degrees, and the eighteenth-century scientist Lorenzo Campins y Ballester is credited as the founder of those studies.医学院的历史可上溯至殖民时期即已授位的医学教育，十八世纪学者洛伦索·坎平斯·巴列斯特被誉为医学教育的奠基人。

• The friar Baltasar de los Reyes Marrero introduced the teaching of modern science and philosophy on the theories of Newton, Kepler, Copernicus, Stahl, Lavoisier, Locke, Condillac, Leibniz and Wolff, and was convicted by the Crown as an infidel in 1789.修士（Baltasar de los Reyes Marrero）引入以牛顿、开普勒、哥白尼、施塔尔、拉瓦锡、洛克、孔迪亚克、莱布尼茨与沃尔夫学说为基础的近代科学与哲学教学，1789 年被王室判为异端。

• Modern agronomic teaching began when the Italian engineer Domenico Milano founded the Escuela Normal de Agricultura, the Normal School of Agriculture and the forerunner of the Faculty of Agronomy, in 1843.近代农学教育始于意大利工程师多梅尼科·米兰诺于 1843 年创办的农业师范学校（Normal School of Agriculture），即农学院的前身。

• The Prussian-born scientist Adolf Ernst inaugurated the teaching of natural history on the ideas of Charles Darwin and Lamarck, while José Gregorio Hernández began the teaching of microbiology in Venezuela.生于普鲁士的科学家阿道夫·恩斯特以达尔文与拉马克的学说开创自然史教学，何塞·格雷戈里奥·埃尔南德斯则开启委内瑞拉的微生物学教学。

• Luis Razetti established modern surgery in Venezuela and wrote an influential code of medical ethics, and Arnoldo Gabaldón led the fight against tropical diseases such as malaria.路易斯·拉萨蒂奠定委内瑞拉现代外科医学并撰写有影响力的医学伦理守则，阿尔诺尔多·加瓦隆则领导对抗疟疾等热带疾病。

• Humberto Fernández Morán contributed to the development of the electron microscope and first introduced the concept of cryoultramicrotomy, while Jacinto Convit was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1988 for his research on a cure for leprosy.温贝托·费尔南德斯·莫兰推动电子显微镜的发展、首创低温超薄切片术的概念，哈辛托·孔维特因麻风病治愈研究获 1988 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖提名。

• Fuad Lechín was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2001 for new treatments of bronchial asthma and myasthenia, and Marcel Roche won the Kalinga Prize, served as governor of the International Atomic Energy Agency and helped found the Third World Academy of Sciences.医生富阿德·莱钦因对支气管哮喘与重症肌无力的新疗法获 2001 年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖提名，马塞尔·罗谢获卡林加奖、曾任国际原子能机构理事并参与创立第三世界科学院。

• Werner Jaffé, who studied under the Nobel laureate Paul Karrer, founded the National Institute of Nutrition, while Tobías Lasser founded the Botanical Garden of Caracas, the modern School of Sciences and the Department of Biology.曾师从诺贝尔奖得主保罗·卡雷尔的维尔纳·亚菲创立国家营养研究所，托比亚斯·拉塞尔则创建加拉加斯植物园、近代理学院与生物学系。

• Research teaching was broadened by figures such as the physiologist Augusto Pi i Sunyer, winner of the 1956 Kalinga Prize, and the ichthyologists Antonio Machado-Allison and Francisco Mago Leccia.奥古斯托·皮伊·孙耶（1956 年卡林加奖得主、生理学家）与鱼类学家安东尼奥·马查多·阿利松、弗朗西斯科·马戈·莱西亚等学者拓展了研究与教学。

• The institutional repository known as Saber UCV gives open access to the university's intellectual output and hosts several academic journals, anchoring the scholarly life of the graduate schools and institutes.机构知识库「Saber UCV」向公众开放本校学术成果并托管多份学术期刊，为研究生院与各研究所的学术生活提供支撑。

• Those journals are usually licensed under the Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND terms and run through Open Journal Systems, the open-source platform for scholarly publishing.上述期刊多以知识共享署名非商业禁止演绎许可授权，并经由开源学术出版平台（Open Journal Systems）运行。

• Undergraduate teaching is organised around the five-year Licenciatura, so the school system couples broad faculties with specialised departments, a structure the rector Felipe Guevara Rojas had already introduced by separating schools into departments after 1922.本科教学围绕五年制学士项目组织，故其建制以宽口径学院搭配专门学系，这种把学校拆分为学系的结构早在 1922 年后即由校长费利佩·格瓦拉·罗哈斯引入。

• Taken together, eleven faculties, forty departments, 222 specialisations, 109 master's degrees and 40 doctorates constitute the quantitative measure of the university's academic breadth, since no OpenAlex work count is available for this entry.综合而言，11 所学院、40 个学系、222 个专业方向、109 个硕士与 40 个博士共同构成衡量其学术广度的量化标尺，因本条目无法取用 OpenAlex 作品计数。

Campus

• The university's teaching is centred on the Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas, a modernist campus sited near latitude 10.48801 and longitude 66.87919 in the Venezuelan capital.全校教学以加拉加斯大学城为核心，这座现代主义校园地处委内瑞拉首都，约北纬 10.48801、西经 66.87919。

• The campus spread over roughly 200 hectares and comprises about 40 buildings, conceived by Carlos Raúl Villanueva after the government of Isaías Medina Angarita bought the Hacienda Ibarra estate for the site.校园占地约 200 公顷、含约 40 栋建筑，由卡洛斯·劳尔·维拉努埃瓦构思设计，选址来自伊希亚斯·梅迪·安加拉里塔政府购得的伊瓦拉庄园。

• Its guiding principle was a Synthesis of Arts in which art and architecture cohabit in harmony, making it one of the most successful applications of modern architecture in Latin America.其设计宗旨是建筑与艺术和谐共存的艺术综合理念，使之成为拉丁美洲现代建筑最成功的实践之一。

• The open-air sculpture collection includes Alexander Calder's 1953 Floating Clouds and works by Jean Arp and Henri Laurens, with murals by Victor Vasarely, Wifredo Lam and Fernand Léger across the buildings.校园的露天雕塑藏有亚历山大·考尔德 1953 年的《漂浮的云》以及让·阿尔普、亨利·劳伦斯的作品，楼宇间遍布维克多·瓦萨雷利、希夫雷多·拉姆、费尔南·莱热的壁画。

• Before the new university city existed, the schools had been scattered through Caracas, with faculties such as Medicine housed in assorted buildings around the city rather than in one planned ensemble.在新的大学城落成之前，各校分散于加拉加斯城中，医学院等学院寄居城内各处楼宇，而非集中的规划整体。

• The design was deliberately placed under a single architect after officials visited the University City of Bogotá and resolved to avoid constructing a group of heterogeneous buildings.因官员考察波哥大大学城的经验，当局决意避免建造风格驳杂的楼群，遂将设计交由单一建筑师统揽。

• UNESCO inscribed the Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas as a World Heritage Site in 2000, recording it as the only modern university campus designed by one architect to earn that honour.联合国教科文组织于 2000 年将加拉加斯大学城列为世界遗产，认定它是唯一由单一建筑师设计而获此殊荣的现代大学校园。

• The campus remains the physical heart of a university whose institutions extend across the city, while the repository Saber UCV and the faculty websites carry its academic presence online.校园至今仍是这所大学的实体核心，其机构遍布全城，而知识库「Saber UCV」与各学院网站则在网上延续其学术存在。

• Beyond the teaching buildings, the university's own record lists a UCV Central Administration and a UCV Foundation among the institutional bodies that stand beside the rectorate.除教学建筑之外，该校自有记录在校长机构旁还列有 UCV 中央行政与 UCV 基金会两个机构。

Reputation

• This entry is written because the QS World University Rankings 2027 place the Central University of Venezuela in the 801-850 band, the ranking position on which its inclusion in this batch rests.本条目据 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名收录该校，该榜将委内瑞拉中央大学列入第 801-850 位。

• The university did not enter the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, so no position in that table is attributed to it here.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名，故本条目不赋予其该榜任何名次。

• Nor does it appear in the 2026-2027 US News Best Global Universities table or in the 2026 Shanghai Ranking main list, the ARWU, so all three global rankings are recorded as absences.该校同样未进入 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名与 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜，故三大全球榜单均记为未收录。

• At subject level the Ibero-American research ranking of institutions once placed the Central University of Venezuela as the most productive research institution in the country and twentieth in Latin America.学科维度上，伊比利亚美洲机构科研排名曾把该校列为全国最具生产力的科研机构、拉丁美洲第二十位。

• That same ranking gave it further positions within the top twenty-five, including eighth in Law, tenth in Social Sciences, twelfth in Psychology and Education, and eighteenth in both Mathematics and Medicine.同一榜单还使其多项学科进入前 25 位，包括法学第八、社会科学第十、心理学与教育第十二、数学与医学并列第十八。

• More top-twenty-five results followed in other fields, among them fifteenth in Physiology and Pharmacology, sixteenth in Philology and Philosophy, and twenty-second in Architecture and Civil Engineering as well as Molecular Biology.另有数项进入前 25 位，包括生理学与药理学第十五、语文学与哲学第十六、建筑与土木工程及分子生物学第二十二。

• The 2010 University Ranking by Academic Performance ranked the UCV as the best university in Venezuela and the 805th in the world, while the 2016 QS Latin American ranking placed it eighteenth in the region.2010 年学术表现大学排名把该校列为委内瑞拉第一、世界第 805 位，2016 年 QS 拉丁美洲排名则列其为本地区第十八。

• Chinese-language records further note that the university stood fortieth in Latin America in the 2022 QS regional ranking, a more recent subject-and-region indicator than its global band.中文材料另记该校在 2022 年 QS 拉丁美洲地区排名第 40 位，是比全球档位更新的一项学科与区域指标。

• Because no OpenAlex work or citation count is available for the institution in this edition, its measurable standing rests on verifiable scale such as forty departments, 222 specialisations and 40 doctorates rather than a paper total.因本届 OpenAlex 未向该校赋予作品或被引计数，其可量化地位以 40 个学系、222 个专业方向与 40 个博士等可核验规模为准，而非论文总数。

• Its honour count is institutional and civic: the record lists nineteen Venezuelan presidents, two Princess of Asturias laureates and a winner of the national architecture prize, while Jacinto Convit in 1988 and Fuad Lechín in 2001 were nominated for a Nobel Prize but never won one.其荣誉集中于机构与公共层面：档案记载委内瑞拉总统十九人、阿斯图里亚斯亲王奖得主两位与国家建筑奖得主，而哈辛托·孔维特（1988 年）与富阿德·莱钦（2001 年）曾获诺贝尔奖提名却未最终获奖。

Student life

• Student political life is central to the institution's identity, beginning with the Generation of 1928, whose Students Week activism against Gómez made the campus a school of civic protest.学生政治生活是该校身份的核心，始于「1928 一代」，其在学生周发起的反戈麦斯行动使校园成为公民抗争的课堂。

• The tradition of protest was renewed in 1936 when the rector Francisco Antonio Rísquez led students into the streets of Caracas against the decree of López Contreras, binding the rectorate to the student body.这一抗议传统在 1936 年重现，校长弗朗西斯科·安东尼奥·里斯克斯率学生走上加拉加斯街头反对洛佩斯·孔特雷拉斯的法令，使校长职位与学生群体紧密相连。

• Co-governance became practice after the university law of 5 December 1958 guaranteed that faculty and students could work together in an environment of freedom and tolerance.1958 年 12 月 5 日的大学法保障师生得以在自由与宽容的环境中共治，使共同治理成为惯例。

• The 1960s guerrilla refuge and the 1969 student occupation, ended by the military raid of 3 October 1970, show how deeply the campus was woven into the nation's political struggles.1960 年代的游击队藏身与 1969 年的学生占领，终由 1970 年 10 月 3 日的军事突入告终，可见校园与国家政治斗争交织之深。

• Renovation under the new rector of 1971 restored an orderly academic calendar, rebuilding teaching after the occupation and the raid had interrupted university life.1971 年新任校长主导的复校整顿重建了有序学年历法，在占领与突入打断大学生活后恢复教学。

• Academic life extends online through the Saber UCV repository, whose open-access journals licensed under CC BY-NC-ND circulate student and faculty research, and the institutional material records no separate motto.学术生活经由知识库「Saber UCV」延伸至网络，其以 CC BY-NC-ND 授权开放获取的期刊流通师生研究，机构材料未见独立校训。

• The dispersed pre-1942 arrangement, with schools such as Medicine scattered around the city, shaped a student culture organised around the faculties before the unified Ciudad Universitaria gathered them together.1942 年前各校分散的格局，使医学院等学院寄居城中，塑造了以学院为中心的学生文化，直到统一的加拉加斯大学城将其聚拢。

Notable people

• The institutional record counts several Founding Fathers, nineteen presidents of Venezuela and members of the National Assembly among its alumni, a civic density rare for any university.其机构档案记载校友中包括多位开国元勋、十九位委内瑞拉总统与国民议会议员，此种公民密度在高校中实属罕见。

• Among the early humanists were Francisco de Miranda, the general and political thinker who fought in the American, French and South American revolutions, and Andrés Bello, poet, lawmaker, philosopher and philologist.早期人文人物中有将军兼政治思想家弗朗西斯科·德米兰达，他先后投身美国、法国与南美革命，还有诗人、立法者、哲学家兼语文学者安德雷斯·贝略。

• Juan Germán Roscio served as the main redactor of the Venezuelan Declaration of Independence, while Andrés Eloy Blanco and Miguel Otero Silva carried the university's literary tradition into the twentieth century.胡安·赫尔曼·罗斯西奥担任委内瑞拉独立宣言的主要起草人，安德烈斯·埃洛伊·布兰科与米格尔·奥特罗·席尔瓦则把该校文学传统延续至二十世纪。

• Among the nineteenth-century physicians were José Gregorio Hernández, who began microbiology teaching and is venerated as a saint of the Catholic Church, and Rafael Villavicencio and Luis Razetti, founders of modern clinical teaching.十九世纪的医生中，何塞·格雷戈里奥·埃尔南德斯开启微生物学教学并被尊为天主教的圣人，拉斐尔·比利亚维森西奥与路易斯·拉萨蒂则是现代临床教学的奠基者。

• Nineteen of its graduates became presidents, including Rómulo Betancourt, José María Vargas who also served as rector, Rafael Caldera who also taught there, and Raúl Leoni.十九位毕业生成为总统，包括罗慕洛·贝坦科尔特、曾任校长的何塞·玛丽亚·巴尔加斯、曾在此执教的拉斐尔·卡尔德拉与劳尔·莱奥尼。

• In business and media, Lorenzo Mendoza Fleury founded Empresas Polar, which endows a prize honouring scientific research, and Miguel Otero Silva co-founded the newspaper El Nacional.在工商与媒体界，洛伦索·门多萨·弗莱雷创办 Empresas Polar，该集团设奖褒扬科研，米格尔·奥特罗·席尔瓦则联合创办《国家报》（El Nacional）。

• Carlos Raúl Villanueva, the university's own architect and a defining Latin American Modernist, designed the Ciudad Universitaria, while Arturo Uslar Pietri, writer and historian, won the 1990 Prince of Asturias Award.校园建筑师卡洛斯·劳尔·维拉努埃瓦是定义拉美的现代主义者，设计了大学城，作家兼史学家阿图罗·乌斯拉尔彼德里则获 1990 年阿斯图里亚斯亲王奖。

• Its scientists include the Nobel-nominated researchers Jacinto Convit and Fuad Lechín, Humberto Fernández Morán of the electron microscope, and Marcel Roche of the Third World Academy of Sciences and the International Atomic Energy Agency.其科学家包括获诺贝尔奖提名的哈辛托·孔维特与富阿德·莱钦、电子显微镜领域的温贝托·费尔南德斯·莫兰，以及第三世界科学院与国际原子能机构的马塞尔·罗谢。

• More recent public figures range from Irene Sáez, mayor of Chacao and Miss Universe 1981, to Henrique Capriles, a presidential candidate, and to the human-rights activist Diannet Blanco.较近期的公众人物包括曾任查查沃市长并获 1981 年环球小姐的伊雷内·塞阿埃斯、总统候选人恩里克·卡普里莱斯，以及人权活动人士迪安妮特·布兰科。