Famous People with Name Veronica

Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Verónica Michelle Bachelet Jeria: is a center-left politician and the current President of Chile—the first woman to hold this position in the country's history. She won the 2006 presidential election in a runoff, beating center-right billionaire businessman and former senator Sebastián Piñera, with 53.5% of the vote.

Verónica Arbo            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Verónica Arbo: an Argentine sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, she was eliminated in the repechages of the K-2 500 m event.

Verónica Gamba            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Verónica Gamba: an Argentine model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its November 1983 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Arny Freytag.Verónica lived in Argentina until her father died; then later moved to the United States, to Florida and eventually settling in Los Angeles. She was already a successful fashion model prior to Playboy. Her mother encouraged her to pose for Playboy as a great opportunity, but also raised her with a strict Catholic Italian / Argentine upbringing as well as Catholic schooling. She has been married twice and has a child from each marriage a son (Christopher), born 1980 and a daughter (Melissa) born in 1987.

Verónica Cuadrado            Origin/Culture/Country: Spanish

Verónica Cuadrado: is a Spanish handball player, playing for the club Balonmano Sagunto and on the Spanish women's national team.

Verónica Orozco            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Verónica Orozco: is a Colombian actress and singer.Orozco was a part of the Colombian TV musical show Okidoki, which led her to release three albums under the group name Okidoki in the early 1990s. In 2006 Orozco started her solo career releasing the successful album Verónica Orozco. Her first single was "Las bragas", which had a lot of controversy around the lyrics suggesting lesbianism. Her second single was "Miénteme". It won an award for "Video del Año" (video of the year) in Los Premios Shock (Shock Awards). Her third single was "descarada". She performed the song in Los Premios TV y Novelas and at one of the Nuestra Tierra 2007 concerts.

Mayra Verónica            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Mayra Verónica: is a Cuban-American model and actress. She has appeared on Univision's Don Francisco Presenta. She has also appeared in numerous magazines, particularly men's magazines, including the U.S. edition of FHM and on the cover of Open Your Eyes.Veronica just released her first English single titled “If You Wanna Fly” from her Saint nor Sinner album and appears on the cover of Billboard Magazine on January 23 2010.