Gustavo Rangel Briceño

General in Chief Gustavo Rangel Briceño (* Maracaibo, 1956 - ) is a Venezuelan Military Officer. He was Minister of Defense from January 2008 to March 2009.

He was born in the city of Maracaibo on 16 August 1956. He graduated from the Venezuelan Academy of Military Sciences in 1978, and has a degree on Mechanical Engineering in which he achieve the "cum laude" distinction.