* 1908 – Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan president ( d. 1981 )

** Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan president ( d. 1981 )

** Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan president ( b. 1908 )

* Rómulo Betancourt

He expressed great contempt for Venezuela's president Rómulo Betancourt ; an established and outspoken opponent of Trujillo, Betancourt associated with Dominicans who had plotted against the dictator.

Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt and U. S. President John F. Kennedy at La Morita, Venezuela, during an official meeting for the Alliance for Progress in 1961

Signers of Punto Fijo Pact in 1958, from left to Right: Rafael Caldera, Jóvito Villalba and Rómulo Betancourt

After the overthrow of Pérez Jiménez and the consequent constitution of a provisional government headed by Wolfgang Larrazábal in 1958, Caldera was elected Solicitor General of Venezuela, but left this position, to participate in the 1958 Presidential Elections, which were won by Rómulo Betancourt of Acción Democrática.

Former Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt said in his book Venezuela: Oil and Politics that "(...) Gomez was something more than a local despot, he was the instrument of foreign control of the Venezuelan economy, the ally and servant of powerful outside interests.

Rómulo Ernesto Betancourt Bello ( 22 February 1908 – 28 September 1981 ), known as " The Father of Venezuelan Democracy ", was President of Venezuela from 1945 to 1948 and again from 1959 to 1964, as well as leader of Accion Democratica, Venezuela's dominant political party in the 20th century.

Rómulo Betancourt during his childhood

Members of the Revolutionary Government Junta, from left to right: Mario Ricardo Vargas, Raúl Leoni, Valmore Rodríguez, Rómulo Betancourt, Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, Edmundo Fernández and Gonzalo Barrios.

Rómulo Betancourt voting at the Venezuelan Constituent Assembly election, 1946

Betancourt transferred power to his old teacher, the novelist Rómulo Gallegos ( who was the first Venezuelan president elected by direct and universal suffrage ), being appointed by the latter to head the Venezuelan Delegation to the IX Inter American Conference to be held in Bogotá, in 1948.

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Rómulo Betancourt, Leonardo Ruiz Pineda and Carlos Andrés Pérez during a visit to Táchira state in 1946

When he moved to Caracas, in 1939, he started an ascendant political career as a youth leader and founder of the Democratic Action ( AD ) party, in which he would play an important role during the 20th century, first as a close ally to party founder Rómulo Betancourt and then as a political leader in his own right.

At the age of 23, Pérez was appointed Private Secretary to the Junta President, Rómulo Betancourt, and became Cabinet Secretary in 1946.

In Venezuela, enabling laws allowing the President to rule by decree in selected matters were granted to Rómulo Betancourt ( 1959 ), Carlos Andrés Pérez ( 1974 ), Jaime Lusinchi ( 1984 ), Ramón José Velásquez ( 1993 ) and Rafael Caldera ( 1994 ).

* May 4 – 5 – During the Carupanazo revolt against Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan Air Force aircraft attack rebel positions at Carúpano.

* June 2 – During the Porteñazo revolt of the Venezuelan Marine Corps against Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt, Venezuelan Air Force aircraft attack marine corps positions at Puerto Cabello.

* Parque Rómulo Betancourt: located on Universidad Avenue, next to the Universidad de Oriente.

* Carlos Peña Rómulo, ( 1899-1985 ), Filipino politician who was formerly a president of the UN General Assembly

J. Posadas ( 1912 – 1981 ) ( occasionally referred to as Juan Posadas ), was the pseudonym of Homero Rómulo Cristalli Frasnelli, an Argentine Trotskyist whose personal vision is usually described as Posadism.

* 2002: The Danube Seven ( Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger, Adelinde Theresia Roitinger, Gisela Forster, Iris Muller, Ida Raming, Pia Brunner and Angela White ), a group of seven women from Germany, Austria, and the United States, were ordained on a ship on the Danube on 29 June 2002 by Rómulo Antonio Braschi, an Independent Catholic bishop whose own episcopal ordination was considered ' valid but illicit ' by the Roman Catholic Church.

Maria Nieves was an Apurean Llanero that inspired a character in Rómulo Gallegos Doña Barbara.

However, in 1948, when the military staged a coup against the democratically elected government of Rómulo Gallegos, Pérez was forced to go into exile ( going to Cuba, Panama and Costa Rica ) for a decade.

In the Apurean environs, Rómulo Gallegos was inspired to write his novel Doña Bárbara, which describes the magnitude of this land.

Carlos Peña Rómulo ( 14 January 1899 – 15 December 1985 ) was a Filipino diplomat, politician, soldier, journalist and author.

In his career in the United Nations, Rómulo was a strong advocate of human rights, freedom and decolonization.

Rómulo was a dapper little man ( barely five feet four inches in shoes ).

When they waded in at Leyte beach in October 1944, and the word went out that General MacArthur was waist deep, one of Romy ’ s journalist friends cabled, “ If MacArthur was in water waist deep, Rómulo must have drowned !”

She was one of seven women ( Danube Seven ) ordained by Argentinian Independent Catholic Bishop Rómulo Antonio Braschi on a boat in the Danube River, making her the first female American Roman Catholic to call herself a priest.

Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire ( 2 August 1884 – 7 April 1969 ) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician.

Rómulo Gallegos was born in Caracas to Rómulo Gallegos Osío and Rita Freire Guruceaga, into a family of humble origin.

In 1945, was involved in the coup d ' état that brought Rómulo Betancourt and the " Revolutionary Government Junta " to power, in the period known as El Trienio Adeco.

The Rómulo Gallegos international novel prize was created in his honor in 1964, with the first award being made in 1967.

The Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize () was created on 6 August 1964 by a presidential decree enacted by Venezuelan president Raúl Leoni, in honor of the Venezuelan politician and President Rómulo Gallegos, the author of Doña Bárbara.

* Rómulo Méndez ( born 1938 ), Guatemalan football referee

Alberto Gatmaitan Rómulo ( born August 7, 1933 ) is a politician in the Philippines.

Rómulo was born in Camiling, Tarlac from Pangasinan parents.

José José ( born José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz on February 17, 1948 ) is a Mexican singer.

José Rómulo Sosa Ortiz was born on February 17, 1948 in Azcapotzalco, Mexico City.