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List Of Palauans
{{Short description, none This is a list of notable people from Palau. Politicians * Johnson Toribiong, President of the Republic (2009-2012) * Tommy Remengesau, President of the Republic (2001-2009) (2012-2020) * Elias Camsek Chin, Senator in 8th OEK (National Congress); Former Vice-President of the Republic (2005-2009) Former President of the Senate 9th OEK. * Kerai Mariur, Former Vice-President of the Republic (2009-2012) Floor Leader of the 10th OEK; VP Senate 11th OEK. * Hokkons Baules, Current President of the Senate 11th OEK. Senator 2nd, and 7th-11th OEK. * Ngiratkel Etpison, President of the Republic (1989-1993) * Kuniwo Nakamura, President of the Republic (1993-2001) * Sandra Pierantozzi, former Vice President of the Republic (2001-2004) * Haruo Remeliik, first President of the Republic (1981-1985) * Lazarus Salii, President of the Republic (1985-1988) * Roman Tmetuchl, former Palauan politician and businessman *Surangel Whipps Jr., Palauan-American business man, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palau
Palau,, officially the Republic of Palau and historically ''Belau'', ''Palaos'' or ''Pelew'', is an island country and microstate in the western Pacific. The nation has approximately 340 islands and connects the western chain of the Caroline Islands with parts of the Federated States of Micronesia. It has a total area of . The most populous island is Koror, home to the country's most populous city of the same name. The capital Ngerulmud is located on the nearby island of Babeldaob, in Melekeok State. Palau shares maritime boundaries with international waters to the north, the Federated States of Micronesia to the east, Indonesia to the south, and the Philippines to the northwest. The country was originally settled approximately 3,000 years ago by migrants from Maritime Southeast Asia. Palau was first drawn on a European map by the Czech missionary Paul Klein based on a description given by a group of Palauans shipwrecked on the Philippine coast on Samar. Palau islands ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roman Tmetuchl
Roman Tmetuchl (February 11, 1926 – July 1, 1999) was a Palauan political leader and businessman. He grew up in Japanese settlement in Palau, Japanese-controlled Palau and joined the Kempeitai, the Japanese secret police, during World War II. After the war, he became the leader of Palau's Liberal Party. He worked in the Congress of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from 1964 to 1978 and advocated for Palau gaining a separate status from the rest of Micronesia. He became governor of Airai and engaged in three unsuccessful Palauan presidential campaigns. As a businessman, Tmetuchl led several construction projects for his business holdings and for the Palauan community, including the Roman Tmetuchl International Airport, Palau International Airport (which was later renamed in his honor) and a Seventh-Day Adventist clinic. Early life Tmetuchl was born in the Eloklsumech clan of Airai in 1926. He grew up in Koror while Palau was under Japanese control. He attended a Japane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palauan People
The Micronesians or Micronesian peoples are various closely related ethnic groups native to Micronesia, a region of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean. They are a part of the Austronesian ethnolinguistic group, which has an Urheimat in Taiwan. Ethno-linguistic groups classified as Micronesian include the Carolinians (Northern Mariana Islands), Chamorros (Guam & Northern Mariana Islands), Chuukese, Mortlockese, Namonuito, Paafang, Puluwat and Pollapese ( Chuuk), I-Kiribati (Kiribati), Kosraeans (Kosrae), Marshallese (Marshall Islands), Nauruans ( Nauru), Palauans, Sonsorolese (Palau), Pohnpeians, Pingelapese, Ngatikese, Mwokilese ( Pohnpei), and Yapese, Ulithian, Woleian, Satawalese (Yap). Origins Based on the current scientific consensus, the Micronesians are considered, by linguistic, archaeological, and human genetic evidence, to be a subset of the sea-migrating Austronesian people, who include the Polynesians and the Melanesians. Austronesians were the first peopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of People By Nationality
This is a list of notable persons by nationality. By nationality Delineating notable nationals of nation-states, and their significant dependent territories. *Afghans *Albanians * Algerians * Americans *Andorrans * Angolans *Antiguans and Barbudans * Argentines * Armenians * Arubans * Australians * Austrians *Azerbaijanis * Bahamians * Bahrainis * Bangladeshis * Barbadians *Basques *Belarusians * Belgians * Belizeans * Beninese *Bermudians * Bhutanese * Bolivians *Bosniaks * Bosnians and Herzegovinians * Botswana *Brazilians * Bretons * British * British Virgin Islanders * Bruneians * Bulgarians ** Macedonian Bulgarians * Burkinabés *Burmese *Burundians * Cambodians * Cameroonians * Canadians * Catalans * Cape Verdeans * List of Caymanians *Chaldeans * Chadians * Chileans * Chinese * Colombians *Comorians * Congolese (DRC) * Congolese (RotC) * Costa Ricans * Croats * Cubans *Cypriots * Czechs *Danes ** Greenlanders * Djiboutians * Dominicans (Commonwealth) * Dominicans (Republic) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bligh Madris
Bligh John Madris (born February 29, 1996) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Houston Astros of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2022 with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Amateur career Madris attended Foothill High School (Henderson, Nevada), Foothill High School in Henderson, Nevada, and played college baseball at Colorado Mesa University. He was selected by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the ninth round of the 2017 Major League Baseball draft. Professional career Pittsburgh Pirates Madris made his professional debut with the West Virginia Black Bears, batting .270 with five home runs and 31 RBIs over 56 games. He spent the 2018 season with the Bradenton Marauders with whom he hit .238 with nine home runs and 53 RBIs over 103 games, and he spent 2019 with the Altoona Curve, batting .260 with eight home runs and 55 RBIs over 132 games. After not playing a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the season, he returned to Altoona to begin the 2021 seas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Immigrant Generations
In sociology, people who permanently resettle to a new country are considered immigrants, regardless of the legal status of their citizenship or residency. The United States Census Bureau (USCB) uses the term "generational status" to refer to the place of birth of an individual or an individual's parents. First-generation immigrants are the first foreign-born family members to gain citizenship or permanent residency in the country. People beyond the first generation are not "immigrants" in the strictest sense of the word and, depending on local laws, may have received citizenship from birth. The categorization of immigrants into generations helps sociologists and demographers track how the children and subsequent generations of immigrant forebears compare to sections of the population that do not have immigrant background or to equivalent generations of prior eras. First generation According to USCB, the first generation of immigrants is composed of individuals who are forei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sha Merirei
Sha Merirei is the handle used by Palauan-American artist and activist Sha Merirei Ongelungel. She was one of the earliest known Palauans to have an internet presence, promoting art, Palauan culture, and Palauan music in the late 1990s. In December 2014, she launched the first Palauan online radio station called Native ExPat Radio. That same month, she was named Miss LGBTQ by the Palau Humanities Project. She is the daughter of Palauan artist, Hans Ongelungel. #BeingMicronesian In September 2018, Sha Merirei started a Twitter thread using the hashtag "#BeingMicronesian." The thread featured screenshots of anti- Micronesian sentiment, mainly from residents of Hawai'i, and was covered by a local news outlet. The news story captured some attention internationally, growing awareness of the Compacts of Free Association (COFA) and plight of Micronesians through outlets such as Radio New Zealand, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, and Associated Press. Around that same time, the Hawaii Advis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uduch Sengebau Senior
J. Uduch Sengebau Senior (born 1965, Ngerbeched, Koror, Palau) is a Palauan lawyer, judge, and politician who has served as the Vice President of Palau since 2021. She was previously a member of the Senate of Palau from 2013 until she took office as Vice President. Senior attended Catholic primary school in Palau before receiving her high school education in Waiakea High School, Hawaii, from where she graduated in 1983. She subsequently studied at the University of Hawaii, receiving a Bachelor of Arts and then graduating with a Juris Doctor degree in 1993. She returned to work in Palau as a staff attorney of the Micronesian Legal Services Corporation, and also worked as an assistant attorney general, an associate judge of the Land Court and an associate justice pro tem of the appellate division of the Supreme Court of Palau. She was senior judge of the Land Court from 2003 until her resignation in 2007. Senior then worked as a lawyer in private practice until her election to pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lazarus Salii
Lazarus Eitaro Salii (17 November 1936 – 20 August 1988) was a politician from Palau. He served as the second elected President of Palau from 25 October 1985 until he committed suicide on 20 August 1988, amid bribery allegations. Salii was elected to the Senate of Micronesian Congress. He was involved in the Palau Constitutional Convention of 1978. After the Constitution took effect in 1981, he became an ambassador. As ambassador, he was given wide-ranging authority to negotiate with the U.S. ambassador. He was ambassador until 1984, when he became a senator, representing Koror in the Palau National Congress. When President Haruo Remeliik was assassinated on 30 June 1985, Salii was elected in August to finish his term of office (although Thomas Remengesau and then Alfonso Oiterong served in the interim). Following his suicide by gunshot in 1988, he was succeeded by Vice President Remengesau as president for the remainder of his term, followed by Ngiratkel Etpison Ngiratk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnson Toribiong
Johnson Toribiong (born 22 July 1946) is a Palauan attorney and politician. Toribiong became the , following his victory in the November 2008 election, and left office in 2013. Before 2020 elections, Toribiong has run for president four times - in 1992, 1996, 2008 and 2012. Background and early career Toribiong was born in |
