Italian-Venezuelans are the Venezuelan citizens of Italian descent. The word may refer to someone born in Venezuela of Italian descent or to someone who has emigrated to Venezuela from Italy. Among European Venezuelans, Italians are one of the largest groups of immigrants to settle in the country.

Before the discovery of huge deposits of oil in Venezuela, during the first half of the 20th century, the emigration of Italians to Venezuela was very limited. Only a few hundreds (like Agostino Codazzi) moved to Venezuela from Italy during the colonial times and the Simón Bolívar era.

But in the 1940s and 1950s the Venezuelan President Marcos Pérez Jiménez promoted the European immigration to his depopulated country, and so more than 300,000 Italians moved in (even if many returned later to Italy).

The Italians in the 1961 Venezuelan census were the biggest European community in Venezuela (ahead of the Spanish). In 1976 the "Dirección de Estadísticas" of Venezuela registered 210,350 Italians residents and 25,858 Italians "naturalised" (who got Venezuelan citizenship).