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Marcano
Marcano is a surname of Spanish origin. The Italian version of this surname is "Marciano". It was a military family that came to the New World with Christopher Columbus. The Family later grew and spread throughout the Caribbean, where the surname became rooted in the countries of Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Cuba and Venezuela (Margarita Island) and eventually Trinidad & Tobago. People Notable people with the surname include: * Alfredo Marcano (1947–2009), Venezuelan boxer *Arturo J. Marcano Guevara, Venezuelan sports author and activist *Bobby Marcano (1951–1990), Venezuelan baseball player *César Marcano (born 1987), Venezuelan cyclist *Cristina Marcano (born 1960), Venezuelan biographer of Hugo Chávez *Danielle Marcano (born 1997), American soccer player * Elias Marcano (born 1971), Venezuelan wrestler * Héctor Marcano (born 1956), Puerto Rican television producer, host, actor and comedian * (born 1979), Venezuelan lawyer and politician former mayor of Diego Bauti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Chávez
Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (; 28 July 1954 – 5 March 2013) was a Venezuelan politician who was president of Venezuela from 1999 until his death in 2013, except for a brief period in 2002. Chávez was also leader of the Fifth Republic Movement political party from its foundation in 1997 until 2007, when it merged with several other parties to form the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), which he led until 2012. Born into a middle-class family in Sabaneta, Barinas, Chávez became a career military officer and, after becoming dissatisfied with the Venezuelan political system based on the Puntofijo Pact, he founded the clandestine Revolutionary Bolivarian Movement-200 (MBR-200) in the early 1980s. Chávez led the MBR-200 in its unsuccessful coup d'état against the Democratic Action government of President Carlos Andrés Pérez in 1992, for which he was imprisoned. Pardoned from prison two years later, he founded the Fifth Republic Movement political party, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iván Marcano
Iván Marcano Sierra (; born 23 June 1987) is a Spanish professional Association football, footballer who plays for Portuguese club FC Porto. Mainly a central defender, he can also play as a left-back. After starting out at Racing de Santander and appearing for the club in La Liga, he went on to spend the better part of his career with FC Porto, Porto, playing nearly 200 competitive matches and winning the 2017–18 Primeira Liga, 2017–18, 2019–20 Primeira Liga, 2019–20 and 2021–22 Primeira Liga championships. He also had spells abroad in Greece (Olympiacos F.C., Olympiacos, twice), Russia and Italy. Marcano represented Spain national football team, Spain at Spain national under-21 football team, under-21 level. Club career Racing Santander, Spain, Santander-born Marcano, a youth graduate of hometown's Racing de Santander, made his first appearance with the main squad in an away win over UD Almería on 30 September 2007, due to injuries in the Cantabrian side. However, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tucupita Marcano
Tucupita José Marcano (born September 16, 1999) is a Venezuelan professional baseball infielder for the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Career San Diego Padres On July 2, 2016, Marcano signed with the San Diego Padres as an international free agent. Marcano made his professional debut in 2017 with the Dominican Summer League Padres, slashing .206/.337/.353 in 49 games. In 2018, Marcano split the season between the AZL Padres and the Low-A Tri-City Dust Devils, accumulating a .366/.450/.438 slash line with 1 home run and 26 RBI. The following season, Marcano played with the Single-A Fort Wayne TinCaps, hitting .270/.323/.337 with 2 home runs and 45 RBI in 111 games with the team. Marcano did not play in a game in 2020 due to the cancellation of the minor league season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Padres added him to their 40-man roster after the 2020 season. On April 1, 2021, Marcano made his M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danielle Marcano
Danielle Julia Marcano (born August 20, 1997) is an American professional soccer player, who plays as a forward for , Ankara Büyükşehir Belediyesi Fomget GSK. in the Turkish Women's Football Super League. Early life Danielle Julia Marcano was born to Michael Marcano and his wife Lora in Red Bank, New Jersey, United States, on August 20, 1997. She has an older brother Ryan who also played college soccer. Marcano attended the private Greater Atlanta Christian School in Norcross, Georgia, where she scored 70 goals for her high school team. She was named GHSA Girls' Soccer Player of the Year in 2014 and 2015. Between 2015 and 2018, Marcano studied psychology at the University of Tennessee. College career Marcano played college soccer with the Tennessee Volunteers from 2015 to 2018 with 76 total appearances, scoring 16 goals including six game-winners, and making seven assists. Initially a wing-back, Marcano was moved to forward in 2017. During the first round of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Héctor Marcano
Héctor Marcano (born November 3, 1956) is a Puerto Rican producer, host, actor, and comedian. Marcano is also an owner of low-power television station WWXY-LD Channel 38. Hector Marcano currently serves as Vice President of Hispanic Operations East, for iHeartMedia. Marcano works with iHeartMedia's Hispanic radio stations, with a special focus in the Miami, Chicago, Orlando, and Atlanta markets. Early years Héctor Marcano was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Career Marcano's career took off after Luis Vigoreaux's death. He started hosting ''A Millón'', a Puerto Rican game show, along with Sonia Noemí and Rafael José. The show was rated the number one television game show for several years. In 1987, alongside '' El Gangster'' Marcano performed as host of Super Siete's ''La Hora de Oro''. In the same year, Marcano had a highly publicized wedding to Ivette Rivera-Lisojo. The wedding was shown live on Puerto Rican television. Vea, a local show biz magazine, produced a ''weddi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zuray Marcano
Zuray Marcano Fuenmayor (26 May 1954 – 23 August 2020) was a Venezuelan teacher and Paralympic powerlifter. In 2016, she was a competitor at the Rio Paralympics at the age of 62. Life Marcano was born in 1954 and suffered from polio whilst still a baby. She was left with disabilities which meant that when her fellow schoolmates did sports and exercise she was asked to keep score and she never competed. She took a degree in teaching and she was awarded a master's degree in Education from the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao.Rio Paralympics 2016: Zuray Marcano, the 62-year-old weightlifter Olivia Blair and Charlie Hammans, Tuesday 6 September 2016, The Independent, Retrieved 7 September 2016 Marcano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Marcano
Roberto "Bobby" Marcano Cherubini (June 7, 1951 – November 13, 1990) was a Venezuelan professional baseball player who made a name for himself playing in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) and for Tiburones de La Guaira in the Venezuelan Winter League. Born in El Clavo, Marcano played minor league baseball in the United States from to , first with the Cleveland Indians organization, and later with the California Angels organization. During the MLB off-seasons he also played for Tiburones de La Guaira steadily from 1969 to 1985. In , Marcano went to Japan, where he joined the Hankyu Braves as a second baseman. (The team has since become the Orix BlueWave, and then the Orix Buffaloes.) With Marcano putting up big numbers, the Braves went to four straight Japan Series, winning the first three (the first championships in the franchise's history). Marcano played for Hankyu for eight years, then joined the Yakult Swallows for another three. Over the course of his NPB career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Marcano
Alfredo Marcano (January 17, 1947 – April 5, 2009) was a Venezuelan professional boxer who competed from 1966 to 1975. He held the world junior lightweight title. Professional boxing career During his career, Marcano won the WBA and lineal super featherweight titles. Marcano challenged for the WBA title on July 29, 1971, against Hiroshi Kobayashi. The fight took place in Japan—the home country of the champion. Marcano won the fight with a tenth round technical knockout. After becoming champion, Marcano returned to Venezuela to make his first defence, against the Japanese challenger Kenji Iwata, Marcano once again won with a knockout. It was to be the only defence of his title, as he lost a unanimous decision to Ben Villaflor in his next fight. After the fight Marcano went undefeated until September 1974, when he unsuccessfully challenged Bobby Chacon for the vacant WBC featherweight title—the fight ended in the ninth round with Chacon scoring a knockout. In March 1975 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Marcano García
Pablo Marcano García (born January 15, 1952, in Gurabo, Puerto Rico), is a Puerto Rican artist. He holds a bachelor's degree in social science (cum laude) from the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey. In 1975 he completed all his partial requirements for obtaining his Master's and Doctorate, simultaneously, in Political Science at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). In January 1985, his book The Criminality and Crisis of Prisons in Puerto Rico was published, which has been used by prominent sociologists, criminologists, and jurists in the country's universities. At the age of 30, under the tutelage of one of our best graphic artists, Carlos Irizarry, he started in drawing and painting. He also receives guidance from African-American artists Jamil (Bryson Harris) and Rashid Wright. In 2004, Marcano García founded, in union with Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Danny Rivera, the International Institute of Fine Arts and Music. This novel pedagogical project is inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Marcano
Jason Marcano (30 December 1983 – 30 May 2019) was a Trinidad and Tobago international footballer who played as a forward. Personal life Marcano was born to parents Maria John and Steve Marcano, the only boy with five sisters. He started his football career at the age of 10 while attending arima west government primary school, he later went on to play for the under 20 team and the Trinidad and Tobago under 23 Olympic team in 2003. Marcano lived in his home town of Arima with his wife and son. He was a cousin of professional footballer Elton John, with whom he played at San Juan Jabloteh and Central. Death On 30 May 2019, Marcano was driving along Trinidad's Eastern Main Road near Arouca when he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a wall, killing him. Honours San Juan Jabloteh *TT Pro League: 2008 *Trinidad and Tobago FA Trophy: 2010–11 Central *TT Pro League: 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17 *Trinidad and Tobago Goal Shield: 2014 *CFU Club Championship: 2015, 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soraya Marcano
Soraya Marcano (born 1965 in Cidra, Puerto Rico) is a visual artist based in New York City. She studied at the University of Puerto Rico and completed a master's degree in Fine Arts at Pratt Institute. Work Her mixed media artwork has been exhibited internationally and it is represented in public and private collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chamalieres, Center for the Humanities, The New York Public Library, Rockefeller Library, and Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, among others. Marcano has participated in international artist-in-residence programs, including White Colony, Millay Colony and the Jamaica Center for the Arts; furthermore, she is the recipient of several recognitions and awards. She has also been an educator at Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, and The Guggenheim Museum. Her work, which includes mixed media, writing, objects, and digital work, provides an exploration of mobility, as well as the experience of massive displacem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Marcano
Ray Marcano is an American journalist, music critic, and musician known for his work as a medical reporter, and later a music critic, for the ''Dayton Daily News'' in the 1980s and 1990s. In 2000, he became president of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), the largest journalism organization in the United States, only the second black president of the organization in its history. He was one of the directors of the Cox Media Group, which owns the ''Dayton Daily News''. Early life and work Marcano grew up in The Bronx's Soundview, Bronx, Monroe housing project. He attended The High School of Music & Art, studying voice, percussion and piano, with the hope to become a Rhythm and blues, R&B star. At school, he was in a band jazz band with jazz bass guitarist Marcus Miller, who later worked with Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, but felt that he did not have the talent to make it as a professional jazz musician. Marcano began his career as a journalist in the early 1980s. Aroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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