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Adriana Ventura (born 1969), Brazilian politician •
Amy Austria-Ventura (born 1961), Filipino film and television actress •
André Ventura (born 1983), Portuguese politician •
Andrew da Silva Ventura (born 2001), Brazilian football goalkeeper •
Andrey da Silva Ventura (born 1993), Brazilian football goalkeeper •
Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura (1919–1987), Italian actor who starred mainly in French films •
Antoni Reig Ventura (born 1932), Spanish Escala i corda Valencian pilota variant player •
Battista de Ventura (died 1492), Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Avellino e Frigento •
Bella Clara Ventura, Colombian-Mexican novelist and poet •
Carlos Eduardo Ventura (born 1974), Brazilian retired football forward or right-winger •
Cassie Ventura, American recording artist, dancer, actress and model, known mononymously as Cassie •
Charlie Ventura (1916–1992), tenor saxophonist and bandleader from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania •
Denis Ventúra (born 1995), Slovak football midfielder •
Elsa Margarida Meira Ventura, Portuguese football midfielder •
Elys Saguil-Ventura (born 2001), New Zealand tennis player •
Felipe Ventura dos Santos (born 1984), Brazilian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Uberlândia Esporte Clube, known as Felipe •
Feliu Ventura (born 1976), Spanish singer-songwriter •
Francisco "Paco" C. Ventura, one of the pioneers in establishing motor racing in the Philippines in the 1960s •
František Ventura (1894-1969), Czech equestrian •
Gastone Ventura (1906-1981), Italian aristocrat •
Gian Piero Ventura (born 1948), Italian football manager and former player •
Gilberto Ventura Ceballos (born 1975), Dominican serial killer •
Gioacchino Ventura (dei Baroni) di Raulica (1792–1861), Italian Roman Catholic pulpit orator, patriot, philosopher and writer •
Giorgio Ventura (also Zorzi Ventura), Italian mannerist painter of the Venetian school • Giovanni de Ventura, municipal plague doctor for the town of Pavia •
Giovanni Ventura Borghesi (1640–1708), Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Rome •
Guglielmo Ventura (1249/50–c.1322), Italian merchant, public official and chronicler of Asti •
Hamilton Ventura da Conceicao (born 1983), Brazilian amateur boxer •
Héctor Ventura (born 1944), Mexican former field hockey player •
Héctor Hugo Olivares Ventura (born 1944), Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party •
Hugo Ventura Ferreira Moura Guedes (born 1988), Portuguese football goalkeeper •
Iñaki Astiz Ventura (born 1983), Spanish football central defender •
Isabel Ortega Ventura (born 1954), Bolivian Aymara-Quechua politician •
Jair Zaksauskas Ribeiro Ventura (born 1979), known as Jair Ventura, Brazilian retired football forward •
Jean-Baptiste Ventura (1794–1858), Italian soldier, mercenary in India and early archaeologist of the Punjab region of the Sikh Empire •
Jesse Ventura (born 1951), American media personality, former politician and retired professional wrestler •
João Pedro Ventura Medeiros (born 1994), Portuguese footballer •
Joaquín Alonso Ventura (born 1956), retired Salvadoran football player •
Joaquín Ferrándiz Ventura (born 1963), an incarcerated Spanish abductor, rapist and (later) serial killer •
Johnny Ventura (1940–2021), Dominican singer and band leader •
José María Ventura Casas (1817-1875), Spanish musician and composer who consolidated the long sardana and reformed the cobla •
José Ramón Machado Ventura, M.D. (born 1930), Cuban revolutionary and politician, the First Vice President of the Council of State •
Julián Ventura Valero (born 1966), Mexican diplomat, who currently serves as Deputy Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico •
Lino Ventura (1919–1987), Italian actor who starred mainly in French films •
Lucas de Souza Ventura (born 1998), simply known as Nonoca, Brazilian professional football midfielder •
Luigi Ventura (born 1944), Italian Roman Catholic apostolic nuncio to France since 2009 •
Manuel Mateus Ventura (1921-2018), Brazilian biophysicist, biochemist, and educator •
Maria Ventura (1888-1954), Romanian-French actress and theatre director •
Marlon Ventura Rodrigues (born 1986), or simply Marlon, Brazilian central defender •
Michael Ventura (born 1945), American novelist, film director, and cultural critic •
Miguel Ventura Terra (1866–1919), Portuguese architect •
Montserrat Carulla i Ventura (1930–2020), Catalan actress •
Moses Ventura (called also Ventura of Tivoli and Ventura of Jerusalem), rabbi of Silistria, Bulgaria, in the latter half of the 16th century •
Orlando Ventura (born 1948), Mexican former field hockey player •
Paolo Ventura (born 1968), Italian photographer, artist and set designer •
Ray Ventura (1908-1979), French jazz bandleader •
Reinaldo Miguel Silva Ventura (born 1978), Portuguese roller hockey player •
Robbie Ventura (born 1971), American former professional racing cyclist •
Robert Costa Ventura (born 1994), Spanish football central defender •
Roberto Ventura (born 1957), Uruguayan neuropsychologist, psychiatrist, activist, musician, author and professor •
Robin Ventura (born 1967), American former professional baseball third baseman and manager •
Rosmery Mamani Ventura (born 1985), Bolivian artist •
Santiago Ventura Bertomeu (born 1980), retired tennis player from Spain •
Santiago Ventura Morales (born 1968), Mexican social worker •
Simona Ventura (born 1965), Italian television presenter, actress and singer •
Susana Ventura (born 1950), American performance artist, actress, and playwright •
Vince Ventura (1917–2001), American professional baseball left fielder •
Yolanda Ventura (born 1968), Spanish actress and singer •
Yordano Ventura (1991–2017), Dominican professional baseball pitcher •
Zé Ventura (born 1996), Angolan football midfielder •
Zuenir Ventura (born 1931), Brazilian journalist and writer ; Given name •
Ventura Alonzo (1904–2000), Mexican-born American musician •
Ventura Alvarado Aispuro (born 1992), American soccer player •
Ventura Benassai (died 1511), Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Massa Marittima •
Ventura Blanco y Calvo de Encalada (c.1782–1856), Chilean political figure •
Ventura Bufalini (died 1504), Roman Catholic Bishop of Terni (1499–1504) and Bishop of Città di Castello •
Ventura Díaz (born 1937), former Spanish cyclist •
Ventura García Calderón, or Francisco García Calderón (1834-1905), lawyer and Provisional President of the Republic of Peru •
Ventura Gassol (1893-1980), Catalan poet, playwright and politician •
Ventura Mazza, or Mazzi or Marzi or Mazi or Magi (c.1560-1638), Italian painter of the late-Renaissance •
Ventura Miguel Marcó del Pont (1768-1836), Spanish merchant and treasurer for the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata •
Ventura Monge Domínguez (1914–1937), an infantry officer of the General Staff of the Spanish •
Ventura Pons Sala (born 1945), Spanish movie director •
Ventura Rodríguez (1717–1785), Spanish architect and artist •
Ventura Ruiz Aguilera (1820–1881), Spanish lyric poet, called "the Spanish Béranger.” •
Ventura Tenario (1911–1984), with ring name of Chief Little Wolf, American professional wrestler == Transportation ==