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Fuentes (surname)
Fuentes is a Spanish language surname meaning "fountains." Notable people with the surname include: * Adrián Fuentes (born 1996), Spanish football (soccer) player * Adriana Fuentes Cortés (born 1968), Mexican politician of the National Action Party (PAN) * Adriana Fuentes Téllez (born 1964), Mexican politician of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) * Agustin Fuentes, American primatologist *Alberto Fuentes Mohr (1927–1979), Guatemalan economist and politician * Alejandra Fuentes (born 1980), Venezuelan diver *Alejandro Jano Fuentes (1972–2019), Mexican singer * Alejandro Javiero Fuentes (born 1999), Norwegian singer born in Chile *Alfredo Felipe Fuentes (born 1949), Cuban journalist and activist *Amado Carrillo Fuentes (1956-1997), Mexican drug lord *Amalia Fuentes (1940–2019), Filipina actress * Amarilis Fuentes (1894–1955), Ecuadorian teacher and suffragist *Andrea Fuentes (born 1983), Spanish synchronised swimmer, sister of Tina Fuentes * Ángel Fuentes (born 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrián Fuentes
Adrián Fuentes González (born 17 July 1996) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for CD Castellón as a left winger. Club career Born in Madrid, Fuentes was an ED Moratalaz youth graduate. In August 2015, he joined Tercera División side EF Alhama on a trial basis, subsequently signing a contract and making his senior debut during the campaign. In July 2016, Fuentes joined Lorca FC and was assigned to the reserves also in the fourth division. Roughly one year later he moved to another reserve team, Deportivo Alavés B in the same category. In July 2018, Fuentes was loaned to Alavés' affiliate club NK Istra 1961, for one season. He made his professional debut on 1 October, coming on as a late substitute for goalscorer Ramón Mierez in a 3–0 Croatian First Football League away win against NK Rudeš. His loan was renewed in 2019 and 2020, scoring 4 goals in 36 league games for the club from Pula; he also scored in both legs of a 3–1 aggregate win over HNK Šib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Fuentes
Carmen Fuentes Yagüe (born 7 June 1965) is a retired Spanish long-distance runner. She finished eighteenth in 5000 metres at the 1994 European Championships and competed at the 1995 World Championships. She became Spanish champion in the same event in 1995. Fuentes was also a prolific competitor at the World Cross Country Championships. She finished 21st at the 1995 World Cross Country Championships, and seventh with the Spanish team. In the same year she finished fifteenth at the 1995 World Half Marathon Championships and won a bronze medal with the Spanish team. Her personal best times were 32:35.62 minutes in the 10,000 metres (1996), 1:12:01 hours in the half marathon (1995) and 2:31:20 hours in the marathon (1995 Rotterdam Marathon The Rotterdam Marathon, currently branded NN Rotterdam Marathon, is an annual marathon that has been held in Rotterdam, Netherlands since 1981. It has been held in April every year since the third edition in 1984 and attracts many top ath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Francisco Fuentes
Juan Francisco Fuentes Aragonés (Barcelona, 1955) is a Spanish historian specialized in contemporary history. Born in 1955 in Barcelona, he is professor at the Complutense University of Madrid. His works cover contemporary history and socialism in Spain, including biographies of José Marchena, Francisco Largo Caballero, Luis Araquistáin Luis Araquistáin Quevedo (Bárcena de Pie de Concha, Cantabria, Spain, 1886 – Geneva, Switzerland, 1959) was a Spanish politician and writer. Member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from a young age, he belonged to the circl ..., and Adolfo Suárez. He collaborated with Javier Fernández Sebastián, with whom he wrote ''Historia del periodismo español'' and ''Diccionario político y social del siglo XX español''. Works *''José Marchena: biografía política e intelectual'' (Crítica, 1989) *(Coauthor: Javier Fernández Sebastián) ''Historia del periodismo español. Prensa, política y opinión pública en la Españ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humberto Fuentes
Humberto Fuentes Rodríguez (born December 13, 1961) is a retired male weightlifter from Venezuela. He competed in three Summer Olympics for his native South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...n country during his career. Major results References sports-reference 1961 births Living people Venezuelan male weightlifters Weightlifters at the 1980 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1988 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1992 Summer Olympics Olympic weightlifters of Venezuela Weightlifters at the 1991 Pan American Games Pan American Games silver medalists for Venezuela Pan American Games medalists in weightlifting Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in weightlifting Central American and Caribbean Games gold medalists for Venezuela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernán Fuentes
José Hernán Fuentes Besoain Jr. (26 February 1918 – 7 January 1999) was a Chilean modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin .... References External links * 1918 births 1999 deaths Chilean male modern pentathletes Olympic modern pentathletes for Chile Modern pentathletes at the 1948 Summer Olympics Modern pentathletes at the 1952 Summer Olympics Pan American Games bronze medalists for Chile Pan American Games medalists in modern pentathlon Modern pentathletes at the 1955 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1955 Pan American Games 20th-century Chilean people Place of birth missing {{Chile-modern-pentathlon-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidemarie Fuentes
Heidemarie Fuentes is an American actress and producer. Fuentes is best known for such films as '' Hey DJ'', ''Opie Gets Laid ''Opie Gets Laid'', originally titled ''Sunnyvale'' for its film festival submissions, is a 2005 American independent romantic comedy film written and directed by James Ricardo and starring James Ricardo, April Wade, Ute Werner and Jesselynn Des ...'', '' Mrs. Harris'' and ''La Femme Vampir''. References External links * * Heidemarie Fuenteson Myspace * American film producers American film actresses American television actresses German emigrants to the United States Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American women film producers 21st-century American women {{US-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Fuentes
Gustavo Fuentes (born 8 April 1973 in Buenos Aires) is a former Argentine footballer who plays as a striker Striker or The Strikers may refer to: People *A participant in a strike action *A participant in a hunger strike *Blacksmith's striker, a type of blacksmith's assistant *Striker's Independent Society, the oldest mystic krewe in America People wi .... Club career Fuentes has played for some fifteen clubs during his career, which has taken him through several continents. See also * Dundee United FC Season 2000-01 External links * BDFA profileArgentine Primera statistics 1973 births Footballers from Buenos Aires Living people Argentine men's footballers Talleres de Córdoba footballers Club Atlético River Plate (Montevideo) players C.A. Cerro players Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Israel Liverpool F.C. (Montevideo) players Platense F.C. players C.D. Marathón players F.C. Motagua players Dundee United F.C. players C.D. Olimpia players Bnei Yehuda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Old Man And The Sea
''The Old Man and the Sea'' is a novella written by the American author Ernest Hemingway in 1951 in Cayo Blanco (Cuba), and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction written by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba. In 1953, ''The Old Man and the Sea'' was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and it was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954. Plot summary Santiago is an aging, experienced fisherman who has gone eighty-four days without catching a fish. He is now seen as "''salao''" (colloquial pronunciation of "''salado''", which means salty), the worst form of unlucky. Manolin, a young man whom Santiago has trained since childhood, has been forced by his parents to work on a luckier boat. Manolin re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. His economical and understated style—which he termed the iceberg theory—had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his adventurous lifestyle and public image brought him admiration from later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works. Three of his novels, four short-story collections, and three nonfiction works were published posthumously. Many of his works are considered classics of American literature. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois. After high school, he was a reporter for a few months for ''The Kansas City Star'' before leaving for the Italian Front (World War I), Italian Front to enlist as an ambulance driver in World War I. In 1918, he was se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregorio Fuentes
G.L Fuentes (July 11, 1897 – January 13, 2002) was a fisherman and the first mate of the ''Pilar'', the boat belonging to the American writer Ernest Hemingway. Fuentes was born in Arrecife on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. He first went to sea as deck boy with his father at age 10. As a teenager, he worked on cargo ships out of the Canary Islands to Trinidad and Puerto Rico, and from the Spanish ports of Valencia and Sevilla to South America. He migrated permanently to Cuba when he was 22. He attempted to reclaim his Spanish citizenship in 2001. In 1938, Fuentes replaced the ''Pilar'''s original first mate, Carlos Gutiérrez, after Hemingway's mistress, Jane Mason, hired him to be the first mate of her boat after becoming jealous of Hemingway's relationship with Martha Gellhorn. Fuentes, a lifelong cigar smoker, died from cancer in Cojimar in 2002. He was often said to be the model for the character Santiago in Hemingway’s ''The Old Man and the Sea'', but he d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabricio Fuentes
Fabricio Fabio Fuentes (born 13 October 1976) is an Argentine retired footballer who played as a central defender. He competed professionally, other than in his country, in France, Mexico and Spain, amassing Primera División totals of 218 games and 18 goals over the course of ten seasons. Club career Fuentes was born in Las Acequias. He began his career playing for Newell's Old Boys in 1996, leaving the following year for Quilmes Atlético Club in the Argentine second division before rejoining Newell's in 1998. In 2001, Fuentes was signed for his first spell at Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield, on a US$450,000 fee (for 50% of his transfer rights). In January 2003 he was sold to Mexican club Querétaro F.C. for US$1,200,000 but, in the transfer agreement, it was established that the player would stay with Vélez until the end of the season. However, after a good last months as Vélez's captain, Fuentes' value increased, and he was immediately sold by Querétaro to En Avant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenio Fuentes
Eugenio Fuentes (born 1958 in Montehermoso, Cáceres), is an acclaimed Spanish novelist. Four of his novels have been translated into English, the crime novels ''The Depths of the Forest'', ''The Blood of the Angels'', ''The Pianist's Hands'' and ''At Close Quarters'' all published by Arcadia. Bibliography Novels *''Las batallas de Breda'' (1990) *''El nacimiento de Cupido'' (Premio Internacional de novela de Ciudad de San Fernando Luis Berenguer, 1993) *''Tantas mentiras'' (Premio de Novela Extremadura, 1997) *''El interior del bosque'' (1999); published in English as ''The depths of the forest'' *''La sangre de los angeles'' (2001); published in English as ''The blood of the angels'' *''Las manos del pianista'' (2003); published in English as ''The pianist's hands'' *''Venas de nieve'' (2005) *''Cuerpo a cuerpo'' (2007); published in English as '' At Close Quarters'' *''Contrarreloj'' (2009) Short stories *''Vías muertas'' (1997). External linksEnglish Publisher's author pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
