Ballan (surname)
Ballan is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alessandro Ballan (born 1979), Italian cyclist *Fahd Ballan (1933–1997), Syrian singer *Giada Ballan (born 1973), Italian synchronized swimmer * Hani Ballan (born 1967), Qatari football executive *Sam Ballan (1911–1998), known by his pen name Sam Marcy, American Marxist *Yousef Hani Ballan Yousef Hani Ballan (Arabic:يوسف هاني بلان) (born 9 December 1996) is a Qatari footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are associati ...

Alessandro Ballan
Alessandro Ballan (born 6 November 1979 in Castelfranco Veneto, Veneto) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer who most recently rode for UCI World Tour team . He is best known for winning the World Road Race Championships, in 2008. Although he possessed a frame that was usually more associated with climbing, Ballan established himself as a leading spring classics contender. His nickname, ''Bontempino'', is a diminutive reference to Guido Bontempi, to whom he bears a resemblance. Career Ballan turned professional in 2004 with the team. Despite a decent amateur career, Ballan was not sought after by professional teams, and required a little bit of help to secure a professional contract. In his first season, Ballan worked as a domestique for Romāns Vainšteins and Gianluca Bortolami. 2005 In 2005, Ballan was given the opportunity to aim for high placings in the spring classics and achieved a stage victory and second overall in the Three Days of De Panne, along wi ...
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Fahd Ballan
Fahd Ballan ( ar, فهد بلان; 22 March 1933 – 24 December 1997) was a popular Syrian Druze singer and actor. Like most of his generation of artists who started their show business careers in the early sixties he was exposed to a world of influences of those decades of music glory. His voice and looks made him a symbol of masculinity and won him many acting roles in his youth. Fahd Ballan traveled to Egypt and worked with Farid al-Atrash. He married actress Mariam Fakhr Eddine and had an acting career. At least one of his tracks (Ma Aqdarshi Ala Kidah ) is done in Egyptian dialect. Most of his songs are performed in a Hourani dialect typical of Southern Syria and Northern Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive .... One track is done in formal Arabic (Jassa El ...
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Giada Ballan
Giada Ballan (born 19 October 1973) is an Italian former synchronized swimmer who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics and in the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from .... References 1973 births Living people Italian synchronized swimmers Olympic synchronized swimmers for Italy Synchronized swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Synchronized swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics {{Italy-swimming-bio-stub ...
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Hani Ballan
Hani Taleb Ballan (born 13 July 1967) is the chief executive officer of the highest tier of professional football league in Qatar, the Qatar Stars League (QSL), a position he has held since 2014. Education Ballan studied mechanical engineering at Oxford Brookes University in England, UK. He also holds a Pre-Masters Diploma in Project Management from a course he took in Paris, France at the Lille University of Science and Technology. Refereeing career Ballan began his career as a professional referee in 1992 and spent a total of 12 years officiating the game. He refereed at top-level football in Qatar, known at the time as the Qatar Professional League. He also enjoyed a long spell as an official FIFA Referee (1998–2004). Ballan's career as a referee saw him officiating in a number of high-profile tournaments, such as the 1998 Asian Games The 1998 Asian Games (), officially known as the 13th Asian Games and the XIII Asiad, was an Asian multi-sport event celebrated in Bangkok ...
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Sam Marcy
Sam Ballan (1911 – February 1, 1998), known by his pen name Sam Marcy, was an American lawyer, writer, and Marxist-Leninist activist of the post-World War II era. He co-founded the Workers World Party in 1959 and served as its chairperson until his death. Biography Marcy was born in the Russian Empire to Jewish parents. During the Russian Civil War, his family was a target of anti-Jewish pogroms by the White movement and received protection from the communist forces. They resettled in Brooklyn, where Marcy became an activist for the Communist Party USA. He studied law at St. Johns University and provided legal advice to labor unions in New York. Marcy grew discontented as a member of the Communist Party, viewing the Third International as increasingly detached from working class interests and instead a mouthpiece for Joseph Stalin, whose oppressive bureaucracy he despised. He joined the Trotskyist movement in the 1940s, building a branch of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP ...
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