Carmona (surname)
Carmona is a Portuguese and Spanish surname. Notable persons with that name include: * Adriana Carmona (born 1972), Venezuelan taekwondo practitioner * Alberto Porro Carmona (born 1980), Spanish conductor, composer, author, music lecturer, teacher and saxophonist * Alejandro Carmona (born 1983), Puerto Rican basketball player * Andrea Meza Carmona (born 1994), Miss Universe 2020 * Anthony Carmona (born 1953), fifth President of Trinidad and Tobago * Antonio Carmona Añorve (living), Mexican director of police, current governor of Baja California * Arthur Paul Carmona (1982–2008), American wrongfully convicted person * Carlos Carmona (born 1987), Chilean football player * Carlos Carmona Bonet (born 1987), Spanish football player * Carmona Rodrigues (born 1956), Portuguese university professor and politician, grand-nephew of Óscar * Chango Carmona (born 1944), Mexican boxer * Fausto Carmona, false name used until 2012 by Roberto Hernández (born 1980), Dominican baseball pi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Portuguese Language
Portuguese ( or, in full, ) is a western Romance language of the Indo-European language family, originating in the Iberian Peninsula of Europe. It is an official language of Portugal, Brazil, Cape Verde, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau and São Tomé and Príncipe, while having co-official language status in East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, and Macau. A Portuguese-speaking person or nation is referred to as " Lusophone" (). As the result of expansion during colonial times, a cultural presence of Portuguese speakers is also found around the world. Portuguese is part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of Vulgar Latin in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia and the County of Portugal, and has kept some Celtic phonology in its lexicon. With approximately 250 million native speakers and 24 million L2 (second language) speakers, Portuguese has approximately 274 million total speakers. It is usually listed as the sixth-most spoken language, the third-most sp ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Grégory Carmona
Grégory Carmona (born 17 January 1979) is a French former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Career Carmona is the son of a former Montpellier player, Norbert Carmona, who made two appearances for the club in the 1977–78 season. A quick attacking midfielder, Carmona joined the Montpellier youth academy in 1993 from Castelnau Le Crès, where he had played alongside future professional players such as Sébastien Gimenez, Romain Rambier and Grégory Vignal. In 1997 he was part of the team reaching the final in the Coupe Gambardella which was eventually lost to Lyon. He made his professional debut for the first team on 25 March 2000 against Auxerre, in which he came on as a 88th-minute substitute for Rui Pataca in a 2–0 win. He played three league games during the season which saw the club suffer relegation to Ligue 2. He signed his first professional contract after the season, but after only making seven league appearances in the following season, he was ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Richard Carmona
Richard Henry Carmona (born November 22, 1949) is an American physician, nurse, police officer, public health administrator, and politician. He was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the seventeenth Surgeon General of the United States. Appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002, Carmona left office at the end of July 2006 upon the expiration of his term. After leaving office, Carmona was highly critical of the Bush administration for suppressing scientific findings which conflicted with the administration's ideological agenda. In August 2006, Carmona returned home to Tucson, Arizona. In November 2011, he announced he would seek the Democratic Party's nomination for United States Senate in the hopes of succeeding outgoing Republican Senator Jon Kyl, despite being registered as a political Independent. He narrowly lost to Republican challenger Congressman Jeff Flake. Early life, education, and early career Carmona was born in New York ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Reema Harrysingh-Carmona
Reema Harrysingh-Carmona (born 22 November 1970) is a Trinidadian and Tobagonian economist who served as the First Lady of Trinidad and Tobago from 2013 until 2018. She is the wife of the fifth President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Anthony Carmona. Early life Reema Harrysingh Carmona was born in Hoboken, New Jersey. Her father, the late Cobee Harrysingh, was a retired engineering contractor and her mother is Savitri Seeteram-Harrysingh. She was the daughter of Indo-Trinidadian parents, and attended St. Brigid's Girls' Roman Catholic and Iere High School, both in Siparia, Trinidad and Tobago. After passing ninth, she passed 'O' Level from the Caribbean Examinations Council. She migrated to Canada where she attended Cairine Wilson High School in Ottawa. She subsequently attended the University of Ottawa, from which she obtained a degree of Bachelor of Science in Economics. She and the President Carmona have two children, Christian (b. 1999) and Anura (b. 2002). Her ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rafael Carmona
Rafael Carmona (October 2, 1972 – August 2, 2021) was a former Major League Baseball pitcher for the Seattle Mariners. He played for them from - with his best season being . He appeared in 53 games, mostly relief, and went 8–3 with a 4.28 ERA and 62 strikeouts. On November 30, 1997, Carmona was in a car accident in Puerto Rico. He broke two bones in his right arm. The injury largely ended his career. Carmona died on August 2, 2021, aged 48. See also * List of Major League Baseball players from Puerto Rico Puerto Rico currently has the fourth-most active players in Major League Baseball (MLB) among Latin American jurisdictions, behind the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Cuba. More than three hundred players from the archipelago have played in t ... References External linksBaseball-Reference {{DEFAULTSORT:Carmona, Rafael 1972 births 2021 deaths Seattle Mariners players Major League Baseball pitchers Major League Baseball players from Puerto Rico Bellingham Mari ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pedro Carmona (footballer)
Pedro Carmona da Silva Neto (born 15 April 1988) is a Brazilian retired professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder A midfielder is an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As #Cent .... References External links * 1988 births Living people Brazilian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Brazilian expatriate men's footballers Esporte Clube Juventude players SC Internacional players Figueirense FC players Esporte Clube São José players Criciúma Esporte Clube players SE Palmeiras players Associação Desportiva São Caetano players Clube Náutico Capibaribe players Suwon FC players Sport Club do Recife players K League 2 players Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in South Korea Expatriate men's footballers in South Korea Footballers from ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pedro Carmona-Alvarez
Pedro Carmona-Alvarez (born 15 February 1972) is a Chilean / Norwegian novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ..., poet and musician. He made his literary debut in 1997 with the poetry collection ''Helter''. Among his novels are ''La det bare bli blåmerker igjen'' from 2000 and ''Rust'' from 2009. He was awarded the Cappelen Prize in 2004. Personal life Carmona-Alvarez was born on 15 February 1972 in La Serena, Chile. A refugee with his family in Argentina as a child, he later settled in Norway. References 1972 births Living people Chilean emigrants to Norway 20th-century Norwegian poets Norwegian male poets 21st-century Norwegian novelists Norwegian musicians Norwegian male novelists 20th-century Norwegian male writers 21st-century Norwegian male ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pedro Carmona (Oaxaca)
Pedro Carmona is a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party who was mayor of the district ''( colonia)'' of Felipe Carrillo Puerto in the municipality of Santa Lucía del Camino in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. A local news organization, ''Centros Medios Libres'', alleged that Pedro Carmona was the person who fatally shot Indymedia journalist Brad Will on October 27, 2006 during the teachers' strike in Oaxaca Oaxaca ( , also , , from nci, Huāxyacac ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Oaxaca ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Oaxaca), is one of the 32 states that compose the political divisions of Mexico, Federative Entities of Mexico. It is .... References External links Alleged photo of Pedro Carmona before he allegedly killed Brad Will People from Oaxaca Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{Mexico-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Pedro Carmona
Pedro Francisco Carmona Estanga (born 6 July 1941) is a former Venezuelan business leader who was briefly installed as acting president of Venezuela in place of Hugo Chávez, following the attempted military coup in April 2002.Venezuelan coup leader given asylum - BBC News, 27 May 2002 April 2002 The early part of 2002 saw mass protests and a general strike by opponents of Hugo Chávez. On April 11, 2002, following clashes between both supporters and opponents of Chávez, Lucas Rincón, commander-in-chief of the , announ ...[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Óscar Carmona
António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona (; 24 November 1869 – 18 April 1951) was a Portuguese Army officer and politician who served as prime minister of Portugal from 1926 to 1928 and as the 11th president of Portugal from 1926 until his death in 1951. He also served as the Minister of War, in late 1923 and in 1926, and as a Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1926. Political origin Carmona was a republican and a freemason and was a quick adherent to the proclamation of the Portuguese First Republic on 5 October 1910. He was, however, never a sympathizer of the democratic form of government, and – as he would later confess in an interview to António Ferro – he only voted for the first time at the 1933 constitutional referendum. During the First Republic, he briefly served as Minister of War in the cabinet of António Ginestal Machado in 1923. Unlike the popular marshal Gomes da Costa, Carmona had not seen action in World War I. Presidency Carmona was very active in the 2 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Olga Carmona
Olga Carmona García (born 12 June 2000) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left back for Liga F club Real Madrid and the Spain national team. Club career Born in Seville, Andalusia, Carmona began her football career at the age of six with Sevilla Este. In Carmona's first professional season, she contributed with five goals in 25 matches as Sevilla finished 12th. In 2007, she moved to the youth team of Sevilla FC, where she was to spend nine years. For the 2016–17 season, Carmona made it into the first team that was playing in the Segunda División, the second division in Spain at the time. She managed with her team in her first season promotion to the Primera División. While her club landed in the lower mid-table of the league for the following three seasons, Carmona reached the semi-finals of both 2018–19 and 2019–20 domestic cups, in which Sevilla were defeated by eventual winners Real Sociedad and FC Barcelona. In the summer of 2020, Carmona signe ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Nicanor Carmona
Nicanor Carmona (1842–1940) was a Peruvian politician. He was Minister of Finance in 1894. He was twice the mayor of Lima Lima ( ; ), originally founded as Ciudad de Los Reyes (City of The Kings) is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of ..., first from 1910 to 1913, and second from 1915 to 1916. He was president of the President of the Senate from 1914 to 1915. References Peruvian Ministers of Economy and Finance Presidents of the Senate of Peru Mayors of Lima 1842 births 1940 deaths {{Peru-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |