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José Burgos José Apolonio Burgos was a Spanish-Filipino priest, part of the Gomburza trio who were falsely accused of mutiny by the Spanish colonial authorities in the Philippines in the 19th century. He was placed in a mock trial and summarily executed in Manila along with two other clergymen.
José Caballero José Caballero (1915 – 1991) - He was one of the most varying artists (in technique, style and thematic), his way of understanding painting during the periods previous and subsequent to the civil war; it is not strange some people find it difficult to appreciate such a varied production.
José Calderón José Manuel Calderón (born September 28 1981, in Villanueva de la Serena, Badajoz) is a Spanish professional basketball player with the NBA's Toronto Raptors. The 6'3", 210 lb guard spent the previous six seasons playing in Europe, where he led the Spanish team TAU Cerámica to an appearance in the 2005 Euroleague Final Four where they finished second.
José Calvo Sotelo José Calvo Sotelo (Tui, Pontevedra, May 6, 1893—Madrid, July 13 1936) was a Spanish political figure prior to and during the Second Spanish Republic. His murder by a commando unit of the Assault Guards, a special police corps created to deal with urban violence, just the day after a harsh confrontation in Parliament, aroused suspicions of a government involvement in the act and helped precipitate the Spanish Civil War.
José Canalejas José Canalejas y Méndez (July 31, 1854 – November 12, 1912) was a Spanish politician, born in Ferrol. He graduated in 1871 from the University of Madrid, took his Galicia doctor's degree in 1872 and became a lecturer on literature in 1873.
José Canseco José Canseco y Capas, Jr., nicknamed "Loot", (born July 2, 1964 in Havana, Cuba) is a former outfielder and designated hitter in Major League Baseball, and is the twin brother of former major league player Ozzie Canseco.
José Capellán José Francisco Capellán (born on January 13, 1981 in Cotui, Dominican Republic) is a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball who plays for the Milwaukee Brewers. Previously, Capellán played with the Atlanta Braves (2004).
José Cardó Guarderas José Cardó Guarderas is a Peruvian and was Reconstrucción Democrática's presidential candidate for the 2006 national election. He formally withdrew his candidacy two days before the election, publicly supporting Lourdes Flores' one instead, but the ballot was not changed and his votes were still counted officially.
José Cardenal José Rosario Domec Cardenal (born October 7, 1943 in Matanzas, Cuba) is a former outfielder in Major League Baseball who played for the San Francisco Giants (1963-64), California Angels (1965-67), Cleveland Indians (1968-69), St. Louis Cardinals (1970-1971), Milwaukee Brewers (1971), Chicago Cubs (1972-77), Philadelphia Phillies (1978-1979), New York Mets (1979-1980) and Kansas City Royals (1980).
José Cardinal Policarpo José da Cruz Cardinal Policarpo, Patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal, was born on 26 February 1936 in Alvorninha, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. He was ordained on 15 August 1961 in Lisbon by Manuel Cardinal Cerejeira and holds a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome.
José Carioca José Carioca is a Disney cartoon character drawn as an anthropomorphized parrot from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (thus "Carioca", a term which refers to a person born there). José was created in 1942 for the movie Saludos Amigos as a friend of Donald Duck.
José Carlos Mariátegui José Carlos Mariátegui La Chira (14 June 1894 – 16 April 1930) was a Peruvian journalist, political philosopher, and activist. A prolific writer before his early death at age 35, he is considered one of the most influential Latin American socialists of the 20th century.
José Carlos Rates José Carlos Rates was one of the first General Secretaries of the Portuguese Communist Party, a few years after the Party's foundation in 1921. Rates was chosen, perhaps in 1923, (this period of the Party's history is badly known) to lead the Party by the delegate of the Communist International in Portugal, Jules Humbert-Droz, after several problems inside the newly founded Party.
José Castro José Castro (born Monterey, 1808-February 1860) was acting governor of Alta California in 1835, and Commandante General of the Mexican army in Alta California at the time of the 1846 Bear Flag Revolt in and the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848. He was the son of Joaquin Ysidio Castro, a soldier in Spanish commander Juan Bautista de Anza's expedition of 1775-1776.
José Clemente Orozco José Clemente Orozco (born November 23, 1883, in Zapotlán el Grande (now Ciudad Guzmán), Jalisco; died September 7, 1949, in Mexico City) was a Mexican social realist painter who specialized in bold murals. Orozco was fond of the theme of the human versus the mechanical.
José Colombres José Eusebio Colombres (16 December 1778–11 February 1859) was an Argentine statesman and bishop. He was a deputy to the Congress of Tucumán of 9 July 1816 which declared the Independence of Argentina, and is credited with the foundation of the important sugar cane industry in Tucumán Province.
José Contreras José Ariel Contreras (born December 6, 1971 in San Juan y Martinez, Pinar del Río, Cuba) is a right-handed Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Chicago White Sox. He previously played for the New York Yankees (2003-2004) as well as the Cuban national team.
José Corazón de Jesús José Corazón de Jesús, also known by his pen name Huseng Batute, was a Filipino poet who used Tagalog poetry to express the Filipinos' desire for independence during the American occupation of the Philippines, a period that lasted from 1898 to 1946. He is best known for being the lyricist of the Filipino anthem Bayan Ko.
José Couceiro José Júlio de Carvalho Peyroteo Martins Couceiro, known simply as José Couceiro (born 4 October 1962 in Lisbon, Portugal) is a football manager, that despite his young age already served as president for the SJPF (Portuguese Football Players' Union) and manager in the Sporting Public company. He is a known fan of the Lisbon side, and related to club legend and member of The Five Violins Fernando Peyroteo.
José Cruz José Cruz (born August 8, 1947 in Arroyo, Puerto Rico) is a former outfielder and a coach in Major League Baseball. A member of one of Puerto Rico's most famous major league families, Cruz is the brother of Héctor and Cirilo Cruz, and the father of José Jr.
José Cura José Cura (born December 5, 1962 in Rosario, Argentina) is a world-famous opera tenor singer known for his intense and original interpretations of his characters, notably Verdi’s Otello and Saint-Saëns’ Samson, as well as for his unconventional and innovative concert performances. He is also able to perform high baritone roles with extended upper parts of his vocal range.
José de Anchieta José de Anchieta (1534–1597) was a Canarian Jesuit missionary to Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. A highly influential figure in Brazil's history in the first century after its discovery on April 22 1500 by a Portuguese fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral, Anchieta was one of the founders of São Paulo, in 1554, and Rio de Janeiro, in 1565.
José de Antequera y Castro José de Antequera y Castro (1689 or 1690—July 5, 1731) was a Spanish lawyer and judge in Peru (then including Panama, Bolivia and Paraguay), and the leader of an insurrection in Paraguay against the viceroy and the king.
José de Cañizares José de Cañizares y Suárez (July 4, 1676 – September 4, 1750) was a Spanish playwright. Cavalry officer, public official, and author of around one hundred works, he was one of the most important dramatists of the early eighteenth century.
José de Escandón José de Escandón y Helguera, conde de Sierra Gorda (May 19, 1700—1770) was a Spanish Indian-fighter in New Spain and the founder and first governor of the colony of Nuevo Santander, which extended from the Pánuco River in the modern-day Mexican state of Veracruz to the Guadalupe River in the U.S.
José de Iturrigaray José de Iturrigaray (in full, José Joaquín de Iturrigaray y Aróstegui) (1742, Cádiz, Spain—1815, Madrid) was a Spanish military officer and viceroy of New Spain, from January 4, 1803 to September 16, 1808, during a period of turbulence.
José de la Serna e Hinojosa José de la Serna e Hinojosa (1770, Jerez de la Frontera, Spain—1832, Cádiz, Spain) was a Spanish general and colonial official. He was the last Spanish viceroy of Peru to exercise effective power (January 29, 1821 to December 1824).
José de la Torre Jose Manuel "Chepo" de la Torre (born on November 13, 1965) in Guadalajara, Jalisco is the Chivas de Guadalajara head coach. On December 10, 2006 he won a championship with Chivas ,becoming into the youngest coach to win a championship in the last decade at age 40 years & 27 days.
José de Paiva Netto José Simões de Paiva Netto, writer, journalist, radio broadcaster, composer and poet, was born on March 2, 1941, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is the President of the Brazilian Non-Governmental Organization Legião da Boa Vontade — LBV (Legion of Good Will — LGW), and also member of the ABI (Brazilian Press Association), FENAJ (Brazilian Federation of Journalists), Academia de Letras do Brasil Central (Academy of Letters of Central ward of Brazil), Sindicato dos Jornalistas do Rio de Janeiro (Journalists' Union of Rio de Janeiro), Sindicato dos Trabalhadores em Empresas de Radiodifusão do Rio de Janeiro (Radio Broadcasting Companies Workers' Union of Rio de Janeiro), Sindicato dos Escritores do Estado do Rio de Janeiro e da União Brasileira de Compositores (UBC) (Writers' Union and Composers' Union of the State of Rio de Janeiro).
José de Palafox y Melzi, Duke of Saragossa Don José de Palafox y Melzi, Duke of Saragossa (es: José Rebolledo de Palafox y Melci, duque de Zaragoza) (1776, Zaragoza – February 15 1847, Madrid), the youngest son of an old Aragonese family, was a Spanish general and hero of the Peninsular War.
José de Ribas José de Ribas (June 6, 1749 in Naples — in Saint Petersburg) known in Russia as Osip (Iosif) Mikhailovich Deribas (Осип (Иосиф) Михайлович Дерибас) was a Russian admiral of Catalan Jewish converso origin. He entered Russian service in 1772 and took part in Russo-Turkish Wars of 1768-1774 and 1787-1792.
José de San Martín José Francisco de San Martín Matorras, commonly known as José de San Martín (25 February, 1778 – 17 August, 1850) was an Argentine general and the prime leader of the southern part of South America's successful struggle for independence from Spain.
José de Viera y Clavijo José de Viera y Clavijo (December 28, 1731-1813), Spanish ecclesiastic, historian, botanist, ethnographer, and professor, best known for his exhaustive History of the Canary Islands (Historia de Canarias). Born in Realejo de Arriba, on the island of Tenerife, he was the son of the town's mayor, Gabriel Viera del Álama.
José de Villa José de Villa (born in 1924) was a Filipino film actor in the 1950s and a film director in the late 1950s and 1960s. He made his made his first movie for Sampaguita Pictures in 1947, Maria Kapra, which starred Ángel Esmeralda.
José de Villamil José de Villamil ou José Villamil (1789-1866) was one of the fathers of the independence of Ecuador, founder of its navy, "conqueror" and first governor of the Galapagos islands, minister of foreign relations.
José dos Santos Ferreira José dos Santos Ferreira, better known as Adé, was born in Portuguese Macau on 28 July 1919 and died in Hong Kong on 24 March 1993. Born to a father from metropolitan Portugal and a Macanese mother, he was the last poet of distinction to write in Macanese (Patuá), the Portuguese-Cantonese creole.
José Daniel Ponce José Daniel Ponce is a former Argentine football (soccer) player, who was part of the Estudiantes de La Plata team that won two back-to-back championships in 1982 and 1983, took part in the process that led to Argentina's victory in the 1986 World Cup, and stayed in the football world after his retirement as a coach and business owner.
José Daporta Gozález José Daporta González (1911–1989) was a Professor of Hygiene and Microbiology as well as a prolific Fine arts Collector. Born in Habana (Cuba), the son of Galician emigrants, he returned to the land of his parents at an early age, where he started and finished his university studies, to become a Professor of the University of Santiago de Compostela at a young age.
José David Mosquera José David Mosquera Mosquera (born October 7, 1983) is a boxer from Colombia, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native South American country. There he was outscored in the first round of the Lightweight (60 kg) division by America's Vicente Escobedo.
José Diokno José Wright Diokno (1922 - 1987) or “'Ka' Pepe”, Filipino nationalist, human rights advocate, lawyer, secretary of justice, and senator, was born on February 26, 1922 to Ramon Diokno, a former associate justice of the Supreme Court, and Eleanor Wright, an American who became a Filipino citizen. He graduated from elementary school with distinction, and finished his secondary education at De La Salle College (De La Salle University-Manila) as valedictorian in 1937.
José Dolores Estrada (president) José Dolores Estrada Morales, in the wake of the turmoil following José Santos Zelaya's fall, briefly served as President of Nicaragua for a week in August 1910, before handing power to his brother, Juan José Estrada. He died the following year.
José Dumont José Dumont (b. 1 July 1950, Bananeiras, Paraíba, Brazil) is a Brazilian TV and movie actor, best known for his role as the family father in Behind the Sun (Abril Despedaçado), an award-winning film of director Walter Salles.
José Eduardo dos Santos José Eduardo dos Santos (born August 28, 1942 in Luanda)In "Ethnicity and conflict in Angola: prospects for reconciliation" Assis Malaquias suggests the possibility that dos Santos was born in São Tomé instead of Luanda is the current President, Head of Government, and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Angola.
José Echegaray José Echegaray y Eizaguirre (April 19, 1832 – September 4, 1916). Born in Madrid, he was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and the leading Spanish dramatist of the last quarter of the 19th century.
José Elías Escobar José Elías Escobar [es-coe-BAR] (born October 30, 1960 in Las Flores, Yaracuy State, Venezuela) is a former Major League Baseball shortstop and right-handed batter who played for the Cleveland Indians (1991).
José Emilio Pacheco José Emilio Pacheco (born June 30, 1939 in Mexico City) is a Mexican poet, essayist, translator, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century.
José Enrique Rodó José Enrique Rodó (1872–1917) was a Latin American essayist from Uruguay. He called for the youth of Latin America to reject materialism, to revert back to Greco-Roman habits of free thought and self enrichment, and to develop and concentrate on their culture.
José Escobar Saliente José Escobar Saliente (in Catalan, Josep Escobar i Saliente) (October 22, 1908--March 31, 1994) was a Spanish comic book writer and artist, born in Barcelona. He signed as Escobar, and is most famous for his creation Zipi y Zape, as well as the character Carpanta.
José Esteban Montiel José Esteban Montiel Gómez (born September 20, 1962 in Ogijares, Granada) is a former long-distance athlete from Spain, who finished in 32nd position (2:19.15,00) in the Men's Marathon at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain.
José Esteban Muñoz José Esteban Muñoz (born 1967) is an American theorist in the fields of Performance Studies, visual culture, queer theory, cultural studies, and critical theory. His book Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics (1999) is a foundational text in queer of color critique, and a major contribution to minority scholarship in the field of Performance Studies.
José Eustasio Rivera José Eustasio Rivera (February 19, 1888 - December 1, 1928) was a Colombian politician and writer who worked as a lawyer in the arrangement of the limits between Colombia and Venezuela, when he could visit the flatlands and the tropical jungle, places that greatly influenced his works.
José Falcón The Portuguese "José Falcón", born José Carlos Frita Falcão in Aldeia de Póvoas, Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal on August 30, 1944 was a courageous Portuguese matador whose bullfighting career spanned just over a decade. At the age of 17 José Falcão debuted his bullfighting skills close to his hometown on May 20, 1962 in Montijo, Portugal and by May 15, 1967 debuted in Mérida, Spain with Juan Carlos Beca Belmonte and Gabriel de la Casa.
José Félix Estigarribia Marshal José Félix Estigarribia Insaurralde (born February 21, 1888; Caraguatay – died September 7, 1940; Altos) was a decorated Paraguayan war hero and President of Paraguay for the Liberal party. Educated as an agronomist, he joined the national Army in 1910 and spent time in Chile and France for additional training.
José Fernando de Abascal y Sousa José Fernando Abascal y Sousa, marqués de la Concordia (sometimes spelled Souza) (June 3, 1743, Oviedo, Asturias, Spain—June 30, 1821, Madrid) was a Spanish military officer and colonial administrator in America. From August 20, 1806 to July 7, 1816 he was viceroy of Peru, during the South American wars of independence.
José Ferrer José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón (January 8, 1909 – January 26, 1992), was an actor and film director, born in the Santurce district of San Juan, Puerto Rico. He was a 1933 graduate of Princeton University, where he wrote a senior thesis titled French Naturalism and Pardo Bazán.
José Filho Duarte José Duarte (born July 6, 1980) is a Brazilian football (soccer) striker, who, as of 2006, plays for Hapoel Kfar-Saba. He previously played for Maccabi Tel-Aviv, Anapolina, Club Brugge, Hapoel Beer Sheva and Hapoel Nazareth Illit.
José Francisco Cardenal José Francisco Cardenal (b. 1940), nicknamed El Chicano, was a Nicaraguan businessman who became known as one of the most pugnacious opponents of the Somoza and then the Sandinista regimes, and played an important role in the early days of the Contra rebellion.
José Francisco Peña Gómez José Francisco Peña Gómez (born March 6, 1937 in Mao, Valverde, Dominican Republic, died May 10, 1998 in Cambita Garabitos, San Cristóbal, Dominican Republic) was the leader of the Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) and former Mayor of Santo Domingo.
José García Román José García Román (1945-) is a Spanish symphonic composer. He is the author of more than one hundred works, including La resurrección de don Quijote, El bosque de Diana (with libretto by Antonio Muñoz Molina), Ruinas de Oradour Sur Glane, and Epur si muoeve o Paseo de los Tristes.
José Gómez Ortega José Gómez Ortega (May 8, 1895—May 16, 1920), commonly known as Joselito or Joselito el Gallo, was a Spanish matador in the early 20th century. He was born in Seville in the famous neighborhood of La Macarena.
José Goldemberg José Goldemberg, a Brazilian physicist, university educator, scientific leader and research scientist, is a leading expert on energy end environment issues and is currently secretary for the environment of the State of São Paulo, Brazil.
José Gomes Ferreira José Gomes Ferreira, GOSE, GOL (July 9 1900 - 1985) was a Portuguese poet and fiction writer with a vast work of varied influences. Gomes Ferreira was also a political activist that participated in the resistance against the dictatorship of Oliveira Salazar, becoming later a member of the Portuguese Communist Party.
José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha José Gonzalo Rodríguez Gacha (May 1947 - December 15, 1989), also known by the nickname El Mexicano, was a Colombian drug lord who was considered the number two leader of the notorious Medellín Cartel behind Pablo Escobar. At the height of his criminal career Rodríguez Gacha was acknowledged as one of the world's most successful drug dealers.
José González-Lander Jose Gonzalez-Lander (November 13, 1933 - January 18, 2000) was a Caracas, Venezuela born engineer credited for leading the planning, design and construction of the Caracas Metro during an uninterrupted period of more than thirty years, from 1966 to 1997.
José Guadalupe Posada Museum The José Guadalupe Posada Museum is located in the Mexican city of Aguascalientes, capital of the State of Aguascalientes, and birthplace of the Mexican graphic artist José Guadalupe Posada. The Museum displays the original signed printed plates with which he created his graphic images.
José Guilherme Merquior José Guilherme Merquior (Rio de Janeiro 22 April 1941 - 1991) , was a Brazilian diplomat, academic, writer, literary critic and philosopher. He divided his published works in two segments; in one the bulk was criticism per se; in the other the emphasis was the history of ideas, or more specific investigations like the highly-esteemed study of Rousseau and Weber.
José Gutiérrez José Gutiérrez Guerra (born in Sucre 1869; died in Antofagasta, Chile, in 1939) was President of Bolivia between 1917 and 1920. Educated in England, he later returned to Bolivia and worked as an economist and in banking.
José Hernández (baseball) José Antonio Hernández Figueroa (born June 14, 1969 in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico) is a Major League Baseball infielder, with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Previously, Hernández played with the Texas Rangers (1991), Cleveland Indians (1992), Chicago Cubs (1994-1999), Atlanta Braves (1999), Milwaukee Brewers (2000-2003), Chicago Cubs (2003), Pittsburgh Pirates (2003), Los Angeles Dodgers (2004), and Cleveland Indians (2005).
José Herrera José Concepción Herrera Ontiveros, best known as José Herrera [er-REH-rah], and nicknamed "Loco", is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the Houston Astros (1967-68) and Montreal Expos (1969-70).
José Ignacio de Sanjinés José Ignacio de Sanjinés (1786 - August 15 1864) was a Bolivian poet and legislator. Born in Chuquisaca, he was a delegate to the Asambleas Deliberante y Constituyente (Deliberative and Constituent Assemblies) of 1825 and 1826, when Bolivia first became an independent republic.
José Ignacio Pavón José Ignacio Pavón (1791, Veracruz—May 24, 1866) was a Mexican lawyer, jurist and politician. From August 13, 1860 to August 15, 1860 he was conservative president of Mexico (in opposition to Benito Juárez, the constitutional president).
José Ignacio Zahinos José Ignacio Zahinos aka Zahinos (born 1 December 1977 in Madrid, Community of Madrid) is Spanish football player who currently plays for Albacete Balompié on loan from Atlético Madrid in the Spanish Segunda División. His usual demarcation is Midfielder.
José Inocencio Alas José Inocencio "Chencho" Alas was born in Chalatenango, El Salvador in 1934, one of ten children. He was a Catholic priest for many years, a friend to Archbishop Oscar Romero, and an advocate of peasant rights.
José Iturbi International Piano Competition The XV José Iturbi International Piano Competition took part in Valencia, from September 14th to the 30th. The competition is held every two years and is a member of the World Federation of International Music Competitions.
José Jadílson dos Santos Silva José Jadílson dos Santos Silva or simply Jadílson (born December 4, 1977 in Maceió) is a left-wingback player from Brazil. He currently plays at São Paulo Futebol Clube after recently moving from Goiás on November 17, 2006.
José Javier Barkero José Javier Barkero Saludes aka Bakero (born 27 April 1979 in Aretxabaleta, Basque Country) is Spanish football player who currently plays for Albacete Balompié of the Spanish Segunda División. His usual demarcation is Midfielder.
José Jimenez Jose Jimenez was a fictional character created and performed by comedian Bill Dana on the Steve Allen Show in 1959 and who became increasingly popular during the 1960s. This character introduced himself with the memorable line: "My name...
José Joaquín de Herrera José Joaquín de Herrera (February 23, 1792, Jalapa, Veracruz—February 10, 1854, Tacubaya, Distrito Federal) was a moderate Mexican politican and president of the Republic three times (1844, 1844-45 and 1848-51), as well as a general in the Mexican Army during the Mexican-American War.
José Joaquín de Olmedo José Joaquín de Olmedo (Guayaquil, March 20,1780 - February 19, 1847) was President of Ecuador from June 6, 1845, to December 8, 1845 although on June 18 of that year there was an attempted coup. He was also a noted poet with an emphasis on patriotic themes, author of poems such as La victoria de Junin, which pictures the Latin American fighters for independence from Spain as the legitimate heirs of the Incas.
José Joaquín Palma Jose Joaquin Palma (1844 - 1911) was the writer of The National Anthem of Guatemala. The anthem was composed by Rafael Álvarez Ovalle and adopted in 1896 as the winner in a competition held by the Guatemalan Government.
José López Rega José López Rega (17 October 1916 – 9 June 1989) was Argentina's Minister of Social Welfare during the Peronist government started in 1973 by Juan Perón and continued after Perón's death in 1974 by his third wife and vice-president, Isabel Martínez de Perón (1974-76), until the coup d'etat of 1976 that initiated the so-called National Reorganization Process (1976-83) under Jorge Videla's direction. Founder of the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance ("Triple A") death squad, he was also a member of Propaganda Due masonic lodge (aka P2), as discovered by Italian police in 1981.
José Lezama Lima José Lezama Lima (December 19 1910-August 8 1976) was a Cuban writer and poet who is considered one of the most influential figures in Latin American literature. Born in the Columbia Military Encampment close to Havana in the city of Marianao where his father was a colonel, Lezama lived through the most turbulent times of Cuba's history, fighting first against the Machado dictatorship, and later surviving the Castro regime.
José Lind José Lind Salgado, nicknamed "Chico", (Born May 1, 1964 in Toa Baja, Puerto Rico) is a former Major League Baseball player, and former manager of the Atlantic League's Bridgeport Bluefish. He is the cousin of Onix Concepcion], another MLB player.
José Lino Grünewald José Lino Grunewald (1931-2000) was born and died in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A multi-disciplinary intellectual, his facets included poetry, translation (especially Ezra Pound's THE CANTOS), essays (major works compiled in O GRAU ZERO DO ESCREVIVER, organized by José Guilherme Corrêa, published in São Paulo, 2002, w/ 284 pages) and movie acting (O GIGANTE DA AMERICA).
José Lins do Rego José Lins do Rego Cavalcanti (July 3, 1901 in Pilar Paraíba - December 12, 1957 in Rio de Janeiro) was a Brazilian novelist most known for his semi-autobiographical "sugarcane cycle." These novels were the basis of films that had distribution in the English speaking world.
José Longinos Martínez José Longinos Martínez was a Spanish naturalist whose account of his travels through Baja California Sur, Baja California, and California in 1792 provided an important early account of the region, its fauna, flora, minerals, and native inhabitants.
José Luis Ballester José Luis Ballester Rubert (born August 6, 1969 in Castellón de la Plana, Castellón) is a former butterfly swimmer from Spain, who competed at three consecutive Summer Olympics for his native country, starting in 1988. At each Olympic appearance he was eliminated in the qualifying heats.
José Luis Blanco José Luis Blanco (born 3 June 1975) is a Spanish middle distance runner who mostly concentrates on the 3000 metres steeplechase. He won a silver medal in this event at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics.
José Luis Calderón José Luis Calderon (born October 24, 1970 in La Plata, Argentina) is an Argentinian football striker who currently plays for Estudiantes de La Plata in his home country. Aside from playing with Estudiantes, he has played for Defensor de Cambaceres, Club Atlético Independiente and Arsenal de Sarandí in Argentina, as well as playing for CF Atlas and Club América in Mexico.
José Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva Luis Carvajal y de la Cueva was born in Magadouro, Portugal, in 1539 in a New Christian family (Jewish converts to Catholicism). When he was 8 his family took him to Sahagún, in the Kingdom of León (Spain), and after his father died his tutor, Duarte de León, sent him back to Portugal.
José Luis Cuciuffo José Luis Cuciuffo (born February 1, 1961 in Córdoba, Argentina - died December 11, 2004 in Buenos Aires Province) was a defender on the 1986 FIFA World Cup-winning Argentine national team. He was fatally wounded in the stomach while out hunting in the southern Buenos Aires province, near the Bahía San Blas bay.
José Luis García-López José Luis García-López (born in 1948) is a Spanish-born comic-book artist who works in the United States of America, mostly for DC Comics. His notable works include Atari Force, Cinder and Ashe, Deadman, New Teen Titans and various DC superheroes.
José Luis González José Luis González (born 1957) was one of the world's fastest 1500 metres runners of the 1980s. In a legendary race in Nice 1985, Gonzalez came third behind Steve Cram and Said Aouita who became the first men to run the distance below 3.
José Luis Lopez Panizo José Luis Lopez Panizo (born Sestao, Vizcaya, January 12 1922), usually shortened to Panizo, was a Spanish/Basque footballer who played for Atlético Bilbao, SD Indautxu and Spain during the 1940s and 1950s. Panizo first played for Nuevo Porto Arsenal and then joined Sestao SC for the 1938/39 season.
José Luis Ortiz Moreno José Luis Ortiz Moreno is an astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain. He leads a team working at the Sierra Nevada Observatory in Granada, Spain, where he is Vicedirector of Technology.
José Luis Reséndez José Luis Reséndez Santos (born October 14, 1978 in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico) won the national male pageant El Modelo Mexico and represented his country in Mister World 2003, held in London, England, where he became the third runner-up. He is also an actor.
José Luis Rodríguez "El Puma" Jose Luis Rodriguez "El Puma" (born January 14, 1943 in Caracas, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan singer and actor who has recorded many international super hits and participated in a handful of telenovelas. He was grew up in very modest conditions, having to shine shoes, and pack bags in a supermarket for a living since an early age.
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the Local and Regional Elections of 2003 José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and the Local and Regional Elections of 2003 describes the main electoral test for José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, before winning the legislative election of 2004. They occurred in 2003, when several important local and regional elections took place.
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's years as an opposition leader José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's years as an opposition leader describes the period when José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was appointed as Secretary General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) in 2000 until he became Prime Minister of Spain on March 14, 2004.
José Luis Tejada Sorzano José Luis Tejada Sorzano (born in La Paz on January 12, 1882; died in Arica, Chile, on October 4, 1938) was installed by the military as president of Bolivia during the Chaco War. A life-long member of the Liberal party of Bolivia (which was in control of the Presidency from 1899 to 1920), Tejada was elected to the Chamber of Deputies in 1914, and appointed Minister of Finance by President José Gutiérrez Guerra in 1917.

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