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Ferrer may refer to: Generic *Ferrer (surname) People surnamed Ferrer or de Ferrer *Ada Ferrer (born 1962), American historian *Albert Ferrer (born 1970), Spanish footballer *Aldo Ferrer (1927–2016), Argentine economist *Alex Ferrer, judge in the courtroom television show ''Judge Alex'' *Aurelia Ferrer (1880–1963), Argentine film actress * Concepció Ferrer (born 1938), Spanish academic and politician * Danay Ferrer (born 1974) *David Ferrer (born 1982), Spanish tennis player *Darien Ferrer (born 1983), Cuban volleyball player *Dennis Ferrer, American music producer and DJ *Eduardo Blasco Ferrer (1956–2017), Spanish-born specialist in the Sardinian language *Fernando Ferrer (born 1950), American politician *Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia (1859–1909), Catalan educator, anarchist, and free-thinker who founded the ''Escuela Moderna'' *Frank Ferrer, American rock drummer and session musician * Héctor Altuve Ferrer *Horacio Ferrer (1933–2014) Uruguayan-Argentine poet, broadcas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferrer (surname)
Ferrer is a common surname in Catalan language, Catalan, ranked 35th in Catalonia and was listed as 1,648th most common surname in the world. Origin Ferrer is a surname popular in the Catalan language, Catalan language of Spain.Fr. S.M.Hoga"Saint Vincent Ferrer, O.P.". Longmans, Green and Co, London: 1911. Pp. 1–2 Ferrer is an occupational surname for a blacksmith or ironworker as described by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland- derived from the Latin word ''ferrum'' or ''ferrarius'' meaning iron'','' via the Catalan ''ferro'', and thus shares a common occupational derivation with the most common English surname, Smith (surname), Smith. It is recorded in almost every country in Europe in the appropriate spelling, hence making it international in origin. It is one of the most common Catalan surnames, ranked 35th in Catalonia. The surname Ferrer is a Spanish variant of the surnames ''Farrar (surname), Farrar'' , which is a variant of the occupational nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim Ferrer
Ibrahim Ferrer (February 20, 1927 – August 6, 2005) was a Cuban singer who played with Los Bocucos for nearly forty years. He also performed with Conjunto Sorpresa, Chepín y su Orquesta Oriental and Mario Patterson. After his retirement in 1991, he was brought back in the studio to record with the Afro-Cuban All Stars and Buena Vista Social Club in March 1996. He then toured internationally with these revival groups and recorded several solo albums for World Circuit before his death in 2005. Early life Ferrer was born at a dance club in San Luis, near the city of Santiago de Cuba. His mother died when he was 12, leaving him orphaned and forcing him to sing on the streets ( busk) to earn money. The following year, Ferrer joined his first ever musical group—a duet with his cousin—called Jovenes del Son ( es, Youths of Rhythm). They performed at private functions and the two youths managed to scrape together enough money to live. Career Over the next few years, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Ladaria Ferrer
Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer (born 19 April 1944) is a Spanish Jesuit, theologian and a cardinal of the Catholic Church. After a thirty-year career teaching theology, he joined the Roman Curia in 2004 as Secretary-General of the International Theological Commission. He was made an archbishop when named secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) in 2008 and was raised to the rank of cardinal in 2018, after becoming prefect of the CDF in 2017. Birth and education Ladaria Ferrer was born in Manacor, on the island of Majorca, Spain. He studied at the University of Madrid, graduating with a degree in law in 1966. He entered the Society of Jesus on 17 October 1966. After attending the Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid and the Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Ladaria was ordained to the priesthood on 29 July 1973. In 1975 he obtained a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical Gregorian Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llorenç Serra Ferrer
Lorenzo Serra Ferrer (; ca, Llorenç Serra Ferrer ; born 5 March 1953) is a Spanish football manager. His career was mainly associated with Mallorca and Betis, and he also served the former in various other capacities. Playing career Born in Sa Pobla, Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Serra Ferrer played three years with local amateurs UD Poblense in the Tercera División, retiring from football at only 23. Coaching career Early years After coaching youth team La Salle, Serra Ferrer joined his only club as a player in 1980. After two national championships, he led them to a first-ever promotion to the Segunda División B in his second season. Mallorca In 1983, Serra Ferrer signed for another side in the region, RCD Mallorca, spending two years with the B team. In the 1983–84 season, he also coached the main squad in one game as an interim manager. With Mallorca, Serra Ferrer promoted twice to La Liga, in 1986 and 1989, also reaching the Copa del Rey final in 1991, losing 1–0 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Ferrer
Kevin Manuel Ferrer (born March 26, 1993) is a Filipino professional basketball player for the Terrafirma Dyip of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). High school career Ferrer played for the Tiger Cubs from 2009 up to 2010. In his rookie season with the Tiger Cubs, Ferrer was crowned the Junior's Rookie of the Year. Ferrer along with season MVP Ron Javier led the Tigers into a second-place finish at the end of the eliminations. Unfortunately, the Tiger Cubs were eliminated by the Kiefer Ravena-led Ateneo Blue Eaglets squad in the Final Four despite having a twice-to-beat advantage against the Eaglets. In his final season with the Tiger Cubs, Ferrer was crowned the Junior's Most Valuable Player where he led the Tiger Cubs into the Finals where they faced off once again with Ravena and the Blue Eaglets who finished the elimination round undefeated at 14–0 with an automatic Finals berth and a 1–0 advantage in a virtual best-of-5 final series. In Game 1, Ferrer l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julio Ferrer
Julio Ferrer (23 May 1953 – 4 January 2022) was a Puerto Rican sprinter. He competed in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1976 Summer Olympics Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phi .... Ferrer died on 4 January 2022, at the age of 68. References External links * 1953 births 2022 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1976 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Carolina, Puerto Rico Puerto Rican male sprinters Puerto Rican male hurdlers Olympic track and field athletes for Puerto Rico Athletes (track and field) at the 1979 Pan American Games Athletes (track and field) at the 1983 Pan American Games Pan American Games competitors for Puerto Rico Place of birth missing Central American and Carib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Joaquín De Ferrer
José Joaquín de Ferrer y Cafranga (Pasaia, October 26, 1763 – Bilbao, May 18, 1818) was a Spaniard, Spanish Basque people, Basque astronomer. In 1779, aged 17, he was on board the Guipuzcoan Company of Caracas, Gipuzcoana Company's ''HMS Prince William (1780), Nuestra Señora de la Asunción'' off Cape St Vincent when the vessel was captured by the British. After surviving captivity with the help of his family, he undertook studies. In 1801, Ferrer was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society. The Spanish astronomer was part of the first solar eclipse expeditions. He journeyed to Cuba in 1803 and to New York State in 1806 and observed the two solar eclipses successfully. In the description of the Solar eclipse of June 16, 1806, solar eclipse in 1806 observed from Kinderhook, New York he coined the word "solar corona, corona" for the bright ring observable during a total eclipse. References Further reading * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ferrer De, Jose Joaq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Figueres Ferrer
José María Hipólito Figueres Ferrer (25 September 1906 – 8 June 1990) served as President of Costa Rica on three occasions: 1948–1949, 1953–1958 and 1970–1974. During his first term in office he abolished the country's army, nationalized its banking sector, and granted women and Afro-Costa Ricans the right to vote, as well as access to Costa Rican nationality to people of African descent. His son José María Figueres was also President of Costa Rica from 1994 to 1998. Early life and career Figueres was born on 25 September 1906 in San Ramón in Alajuela province. Figueres was the eldest of the four children of a Catalan doctor and his wife, a teacher, who had recently immigrated from Catalonia to San Ramón in west-central Costa Rica. Figueres' first language was Catalan. In 1924 he left for Boston, United States, on a work and study trip. There he studied hydroelectric engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Figueres returned to Costa Rica i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Ferrer Selma
José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacular form of Joseph, which is also in current usage as a given name. José is also commonly used as part of masculine name composites, such as José Manuel, José Maria or Antonio José, and also in female name composites like Maria José or Marie-José. The feminine written form is ''Josée'' as in French. In Netherlandic Dutch, however, ''José'' is a feminine given name and is pronounced ; it may occur as part of name composites like Marie-José or as a feminine first name in its own right; it can also be short for the name ''Josina'' and even a Dutch hypocorism of the name ''Johanna''. In England, Jose is originally a Romano-Celtic surname, and people with this family name can usually be found in, or traced to, the English county of C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josep Ferrer I Bujons
Josep Ferrer i Bujons (born in Sant Martí de Maçana, Rubió, 12 May 1959) is a Catalan linguist, author, poet and professor graduate in Catalan Philology. He has written five books, of which the first four are compilations of poems. Ferrer has been corrector and editor of the weekly local newspaper '' La Veu de l'Anoia'' and he also has collaborated in the Anoia edition of Regió 7, another Catalan local newspaper. He has also been professor of Catalan language and literature in some high schools of Secondary education in Central Catalonia. Likewise, Ferrer is a co-founder of the magazine '' Revista d'Igualada'' (2nd period). Ferrer has also published several opinion articles in a local digital newspaper, Anoiadiari.cat. Nowadays, he works as a corrector at the Catalan language edition of ''El Periódico de Catalunya'', the best-selling newspaper in Catalonia. Regarding writing, Ferrer published four books of poems the decades of the 1980s and 1990s and a novel in 1999. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Ferrer (guitarist)
José Ferrer Esteve de Fujadas (in 19th-century France known as "Joseph Ferrer") (13 March 1835 – 7 March 1916) was a Spanish guitarist and composer. Life Ferrer was born in Torroella de Montgrí, Girona, and studied guitar with his father, a guitarist and collector of sheet music, before continuing his studies with José Brocá. In 1882, he left Spain for Paris in order to teach at the Institut Rudy and at the Académie Internationale de Musique, also becoming the official guitarist of the Comédie Française, and remained in Paris for 16 years. Ferrer gave regular performances as a soloist. He taught at the Conservatori Superior de Música del Liceu in Barcelona from 1898 to 1901. Following a period of moving between Barcelona and Paris, he settled permanently in Barcelona in 1905, where he died. Music Most of Ferrer's compositions were written for guitar but, being a deeply religious man, he also wrote some sacred music. His works for guitar solo and duo resemble th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Ferrer
José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992) was a Puerto Rican actor and director of stage, film and television. He was one of the most celebrated and esteemed Hispanic American actors during his lifetime, with a career spanning nearly 60 years between 1935 and 1992. He achieved prominence for his portrayal of Cyrano de Bergerac in the play of the same name, which earned him the inaugural Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1947. He reprised the role in a 1950 film version and won an Academy Award, making him the first Hispanic actor and the first Puerto Rican-born to win an Oscar. His other notable film roles include Charles VII in ''Joan of Arc'' (1948), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in ''Moulin Rouge'' (1952), defense attorney Barney Greenwald in ''The Caine Mutiny'' (1954), Alfred Dreyfus in ''I Accuse!'' (1958), which he also directed; the Turkish Bey in ''Lawrence of Arabia'' (1962), Siegfried Rieber in ''Ship of Fools'' (1965), a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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