Miguel Ángel Burelli Rivas (8 July 1922 – 22 October 2003), was a Venezuelan lawyer, diplomat and politician, presidential candidate in 1968 and 1973.

Miguel Angel Burelli spoke fluently Italian, English, French, Portuguese and of course Spanish.

He was President of the Commission in charge of organizing the Third United Nations Conference on Maritime Law (1973–1974), Director of the Institute for Latin America Higher Studies of the Simón Bolívar University in Caracas) and also author of several famous books.

After his death were published: Biografía del Cardenal Quintero (2005) and En Primera Persona, his autobiography edited in 2009.

After retiring from politics, he died peacefully on 10/22/2003 in Washington, D.C., USA, after suffering from lung cancer and cerebral hemorrhage.