Renato Beluche (15 December 1780 – 4 October 1860) was a Louisiana-born Venezuelan merchant, pirate and privateer active in the early nineteenth century Gulf Coast.

After returning, he helped the government suppress another rebellion, before retiring in 1850, spending the last decade of his life in relative peace and comfort in Puerto Cabello.

Beluche joined them, and flying the French flag, he captured Spanish and British merchantmen and sent them to Grande-Terre or Cartagena de Indias in New Granada, depending on the ship's nationality.

[4] In 1813, Beluche became associated with the Gran Colombian patriots who were rebelling against Spanish rule with the letter of marque of Venezuelan general Simón Bolívar.

Beluche spent the next decade in the service of the Gran Colombian revolutionaries, interrupted only by a brief period when he joined with Jean Lafitte and the Baratarian smugglers who had come to the aid of Andrew Jackson during the Battle of New Orleans.