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List Of Romani People
This is a list of notable Romani people and people of Romani descent. Activists *Alba Flores – Spanish actress * Alfonso Mejia-Arias – Mexican musician and politician *Ceija Stojka – Austrian artist and writer * Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor – Romanian historian, archeologist, anthropologist and writer *Delia Grigore – Romanian writer *Ian Hancock – English linguist * Katarina Taikon – Swedish actress and author * Marcel Courthiade – French linguist * Milena Hübschmannová – Czech professor * Paul Polansky – American writer *Ronald Lee – Canadian writer *Saša Barbul – Serbian actor and film director Artists *Damian Le Bas, English artist *Delaine Le Bas, English artist *Joe Machine, English painter * La Chunga, Spanish painter *Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter * Tracy Emin, English artist Athletes Johnboy Smith - British parathlete Boxers *Billy Joe Saunders – English * Randolph Turpin – English * Dick Turpin – English *Dorel Simion – R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romani People
The Romani (also spelled Romany or Rromani , ), colloquially known as the Roma, are an Indo-Aryan ethnic group, traditionally nomadic itinerants. They live in Europe and Anatolia, and have diaspora populations located worldwide, with significant concentrations in the Americas. In the English language, the Romani people are widely known by the exonym Gypsies (or Gipsies), which is considered pejorative by many Romani people due to its connotations of illegality and irregularity as well as its historical use as a racial slur. For versions (some of which are cognates) of the word in many other languages (e.g., , , it, zingaro, , and ) this perception is either very small or non-existent. At the first World Romani Congress in 1971, its attendees unanimously voted to reject the use of all exonyms for the Romani people, including ''Gypsy'', due to their aforementioned negative and stereotypical connotations. Linguistic and genetic evidence suggests that the Roma originated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the Cubist movement, the invention of Assemblage (art), constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped develop and explore. Among his most famous works are the Proto-Cubism, proto-Cubist ''Les Demoiselles d'Avignon'' (1907), and the anti-war painting ''Guernica (Picasso), Guernica'' (1937), Guernica (Picasso)#Composition, a dramatic portrayal of the bombing of Guernica by German and Italian air forces during the Spanish Civil War. Picasso demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent in his early years, painting in a naturalistic manner through his childhood and adolescence. During the first decade of the 20th century, his style changed as he experimente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Václav Sivák
Václav Sivák (born 27 May 1999) is an undefeated Czech professional kickboxer who competes in the welterweight division. He is the current WAKO-PRO World Light Welterweight Champion. Biography and career Václav Sivák was born in Ostrava, Czech Republic and grew up with in an excluded Romani locality in Vítkovice. Sivák started practicing karate at the age 6 however, he was often disqualified for hitting too hard. At the age of 11, he transitioned to Muay Thai. At the age of 16 he moved to Hamr Gym in Ostrava. Under the guidance of his coach Viktor Petrlík he amassed a 94–5 amateur kickboxing record. In 2019 Sivak became the first Czech to win a gold medal at the senior WAKO World Championships. Sivak next faced Lukas Mandinec at XFN Muay Thai Evening X on February 9, 2019. He won the fight by unanimous decision. Sivak extended his winning streak with an extra round decision win over Mochamed Machaev at XFN Legends on March 29, 2019. On April 19, 2018, Sivák faced Fan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nieky Holzken
Nicolaas Hubertus Holzken (born December 16, 1983) is a Dutch super middleweight kickboxer and professional boxer currently signed to ONE Championship, where he competes in the Lightweight division. He is the former Glory Welterweight Champion. In 2015 Kickboxing Planet voted him the Kickboxer of the Year. As of November 2021, Combat Press ranks him as the #5 welterweight kickboxer in the world. In 2018, Holzken participated in the World Boxing Super Series as a substitute. Background After his parents separated when he was an infant, Nieky was raised up by his paternal grandparents. Inspired by martial arts movies, he started training kickboxing at the age of ten. Career K-1 Nieky Holzken made his K-1 debut on November 26, 2006, at K-1 World MAX North European Qualification in Stockholm, Sweden. He won the tournament by three consecutive KO's over Björn Kjöllerström, Joakim Karlsson and Elias Daniel. The win qualified him for the K-1 World MAX 2007 Final Elimination, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoltan Lunka
Zoltan Lunka (born 22 May 1970 in Miercurea Nirajului, Romania) was a professional boxing, boxer, who won a Olympic medalists in boxing, Flyweight bronze medal at the Boxing at the 1996 Summer Olympics, 1996 Summer Olympics for Germany. A year earlier, at the 1995 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Berlin, he captured the world title. Olympic results *Defeated Martín Castillo (Mexico) 13-7 *Defeated Hermensen Ballo (Indonesia) 18-12 *Defeated Mehdi Assous (Algeria) 19-6 *Lost to Bulat Jumadilov (Kazakhstan) 18-23 Pro career Lunka turned pro in 1996, losing his only notable fight, against World Boxing Organization, WBO Flyweight Title holder Fernando Montiel. Montiel won by TKO in the 7th. Lunka retired after the bout with a record of 21-2-0. External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lunka, Zoltan 1970 births Living people People from Mureș County Romanian male boxers Flyweight boxers Olympic boxers of Germany Olympic bronze medalists for Germany Boxers at the 1996 Summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serafim Todorov
Serafim Simeonov Todorov ( bg, Серафим Симеонов Тодоров; born 6 July 1969) is a former Bulgarian Olympic amateur boxer. He won three consecutive gold medals at both the World and European Championships, and silver at the 1996 Olympics. He is the last boxer to defeat Floyd Mayweather Jr., albeit via a highly controversial decision, who later went on to become one of the all-time greats in professional boxing. Amateur career As an amateur, Todorov won the world championships three times, in 1991 at bantamweight, and in 1993 and 1995 at featherweight. He won a silver medal at bantamweight in 1989, losing to Cuban Enrique Carrion in the final. He also won the European amateur championships in 1989 and 1991 at bantamweight, and in 1993 at featherweight. Todorov represented Bulgaria at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympic Games. In 1992 he lost in the quarter-finals to North Korean Li Gwang-Sik. At the 1996 Summer Olympics, Todorov qualified to the semi-finals where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Carmona Heredia
Samuel Carmona Heredia (born 28 May 1996) is a Spanish professional boxer. As an amateur, he competed in the light flyweight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and was eliminated in the quarterfinal. Amateur boxing career He began his career in 2008. In 2013, was runner-up in the Young Amateur Championship of Spain, 52 kg, defeating José María González for 19: 6 in the semifinal and fell in the final 10: 6 against Grabriel Escobar. In 2014, he again fell against Escobar, this time in the semifinals by 2: 1, and beat Ivan Chaves in the fight for third place. That same year, he won the Tournament of Spain in the category of less than 49 kg, when he defeated Gustavo de la Nuez in the final. In 2015, he won the Spanish championship, winning the final against Brandon Moreno Núñez, receiving a call from Rafael Lozano to will become part of the selection española. On 4 June at the 2015 European Championships held in Samokov (Bulgaria), he finished in 5th place, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian Simion
Marian Simion (born 14 September 1975 in București) is a Romanian boxer, who competed in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal. He repeated that feat one year later, at the 2001 World Amateur Boxing Championships in Belfast after having won the world title at the previous tournament in Houston, Texas, United States. He is the older brother of Olympic boxer Dorel Simion. Simion qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics by ending up in first place at the 2nd AIBA European 2004 Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Warsaw, Poland. Olympic results 1996 *Defeated Hussein Bayram (France) 13-6 *Defeated Fernando Vargas (United States) 8-7 *Defeated Hassan Al (Denmark) 16-8 *Lost to Juan Hernández Sierra (Cuba) 7-20 2000 *Defeated Ciro di Corcia (Italy) 19-8 *Defeated José Luis Zertuche (Mexico) RSC 3 *Defeated Frédéric Esther (France) RSC 3 *Defeated Pornchai Thongburan (Thailand) 26-16 *Lost to Yermakhan Ibraimov (Kazakhstan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivailo Marinov
Ivailo Marinov ( bg, Ивайло Маринов; born 13 July 1960 in Varna, also known as Ismail Mustafov, Ismail Huseinov or Ivailo Khristov) is a Bulgarian boxer of Muslim Romani ancestry, who won the bronze medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics in light flyweight, and the gold medal in the same category at the 1988 Summer Olympics Amateur career Besides his Olympics results, Marinov also won the gold medal at the World Championship in 1982. Marinov also won four gold medals in the European Boxing Championships in 1981, 1983, 1989 and 1991 and a silver medal in 1985. 1980 Olympic results Below is the record of Ivailo Marinov, a Bulgarian light flyweight boxer who competed at the 1980 Moscow Olympics: *Round of 32: bye *Round of 16: Defeated Gerard Hawkins (Ireland) by decision, 5-0 *Quarterfinal: Defeated Ahmed Siad (Algeria) by decision, 5-0 *Semifinal: Lost to Hipolito Ramos (Cuba) by decision, 1-4 (was awarded bronze medal) 1988 Olympic results Below is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faustino Reyes
Faustino Reyes López (born 4 April 1975 in Marchena, Seville) is a former boxer from Spain, who represented his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There he won the silver medal in the featherweight division (– 57 kg), after being defeated in the final by Germany's Andreas Tews. Olympic results *Defeated Brian Carr (Great Britain) 22-10 *Defeated Somluck Kamsing (Thailand) 24-15 *Defeated Eddy Suarez (Cuba) 17-7 *Defeated Ramazan Palyani (Unified Team) 14-9 *Lost to Andreas Tews Andreas Tews (born 11 September 1968) is a German former amateur boxer. Tews won the Flyweight Silver medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics and the Featherweight Gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. His first international success came with hi ... (Germany) 9-16 External links *Spanish Olympic Committee 1975 births Living people People from Campiña de Morón y Marchena Sportspeople from the Province of Seville Featherweight boxers Boxers at the 1992 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorel Simion
Dorel Simion (born February 13, 1977 in București) is a Romanian boxer. Simion won the Welterweight bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He also won gold at the 1997 World Championships and 1998 European Championships. Personal He is the younger brother of Olympian Marian Simion Marian Simion (born 14 September 1975 in București) is a Romanian boxer, who competed in the Light Middleweight (71 kg) at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal. He repeated that feat one year later, at the 2001 World Amateur .... Amateur career His Olympic results were: *Defeated Ruben Fuchu (Puerto Rico) RSCO 3 *Defeated Roberto Guerra (Cuba) 11–7 *Defeated Steven Kuchler (Germany) 26–14 *Lost to Oleg Saitov (Russia) 19–10 External links * 1977 births Living people Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic boxers of Romania Olympic bronze medalists for Romania Olympic medalists in boxing Romanian male boxers AIBA World Boxing Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dick Turpin (boxer)
Dick Turpin, (26 November 1920 – 7 July 1990) was an English middleweight boxer. He was British and Commonwealth middleweight champion, reputedly being the first black fighter to win a British boxing title. He was elder brother and trainer of the more famous Randolph Turpin, who became world middleweight champion after beating Sugar Ray Robinson in 1951. Dick was the son of Lionel Turpin who had been born in British Guyana and his wife, Beatrice Elizabeth Whitehouse. He had two brothers Jack, who was a featherweight and Randolph, a middleweight. Professional career Turpin fought his first professional bout in March 1939 against Jimmy Griffiths, in Coventry. He lost on points over ten rounds. He went on to build up a domestic record of 86 fights with 68 wins, 12 losses, 5 draws and one no-contest, before his first title fight. This was for the Commonwealth middleweight title, in May 1948, and was against Richard Bos Murphy of New Zealand. Turpin won the fight, at Coventry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
