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Muniz (surname)
Muniz or Muñiz is a surname, primarily in the Spanish language, where it is spelled Muñiz (Muniz is an American or Portuguese variant). It may refer to: * Aned Y. Muñiz Gracia, a professor * Carlos Muñiz (born 1981), a baseball player * Frankie Muniz (born 1985), an American actor * Júlio César de Paula Muniz Júnior (born 1988), a Brazilian football player * Manny Muñiz (born 1947), a Puerto Rican baseball player * Marco Antonio Muñiz (born 1933), a Mexican singer * Marc Anthony (born 1968), a Puerto Rican singer (born ''Marco Antonio Muñiz'') * Rafo Muñiz (born 1956), a Puerto Rican actor, director, & producer * Tomás Muñiz (1900-1965), a Puerto Rican radio and television producer * Tommy Muñiz (1922-2009), a Puerto Rican comedian * Vik Muniz (born 1961), an avant-garde artist See also * Moniz * Muñoz Muñoz ( or ) is a Spanish language, Spanish-language surname—with a Portuguese language, Portuguese-language variant (Munhoz (surname), Munhoz), from Basque " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Muñiz
Carlos Javier Muñiz (born March 12, 1981) is an American former Major League Baseball relief pitcher. Muñiz made his major league debut on September 25, . He threw 1.1 innings and gave up 2 earned runs. Muñiz was called up to the Mets on May 27, , to replace injured pitcher Matt Wise in the bullpen. He was then sent back down to the New Orleans Zephyrs, which was the Mets Triple-A affiliate prior to 2009. He was then recalled on June 25 when Claudio Vargas Claudio Vargas Almonte (born June 19, 1978) is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. He has previously played for the Montreal Expos/Washington Nationals, Arizona Diamondbacks, Milwaukee Brewers, New York Mets, and Los Angeles Dodger ... was designated for assignment. External links 1981 births Living people New York Mets players Baseball players from Torrance, California Major League Baseball pitchers American baseball players of Mexican descent Brooklyn Cyclones players Hagerstown Suns players ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankie Muniz
Francisco Muniz IV (; born December 5, 1985) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the title character in the Fox sitcom ''Malcolm in the Middle'' (2000–2006), which earned him an Emmy Award nomination and two Golden Globe Award nominations. He is also known for his film roles in the films ''Deuces Wild'' (2002)'', Big Fat Liar'' (2002), ''Agent Cody Banks'' (2003), and ''Racing Stripes'' (2005). At the height of his fame, he was considered one of the most popular child actors and "one of Hollywood's most bankable teens" in 2003. In 2008, he put his acting career on hold to pursue an open-wheel racing career, and competed in the Atlantic Championship. From 2012 to 2014, he was the drummer of the indie rock band Kingsfoil. Early life Francisco Muniz IV was born in Wood-Ridge, New Jersey, on December 5, 1985, the son of nurse Denise and restaurateur Francisco Muniz III. Muniz's mother is half Irish and half Italian, while his father is Puerto Rican (of Spanish desce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Júlio César De Paula Muniz Júnior
Júlio is a Portuguese masculine given name. The equivalent in Spanish is Julio. The diminutive form is Julinho, as in Júlio César Teixeira known as Julinho, a Brazilian footballer. See also *Julio (other) *Julio (given name) *Julio (surname) Julio is a Spanish male surname or family name. It can also be a first name / given name. See Julio (given name). The equivalent in Portuguese is the accented Júlio It may refer to: * Agustín Julio (born 1974), Colombian football player * Dav ... Portuguese masculine given names {{given-name-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manny Muñiz
Manuel Muñiz Rodriguez (born December 31, 1947) is a Puerto Rican former professional baseball pitcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies The Philadelphia Phillies are an American professional baseball team based in Philadelphia. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) National League East, East division. Since 2004, the team's home sta ... in part of the season. References External links Manny Muñizat Baseball Almanac Major League Baseball pitchers Philadelphia Phillies players Miami Marlins (FSL) players Spartanburg Phillies players Bakersfield Bears players Macon Peaches players Tidewater Tides players Reading Phillies players Raleigh-Durham Phillies players Eugene Emeralds players Major League Baseball players from Puerto Rico People from Caguas, Puerto Rico 1947 births Living people {{US-baseball-pitcher-1940s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Antonio Muñiz
Marco Antonio Muñiz (born 3 March 1933) is a Mexican singer from Jalisco, Mexico. Known all over Latin America, he also acted in the 1965 film ''Sinful'' (Spanish: El Pecador). He belongs to the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. Early life and career Muñiz was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco. From an early age, he showed musical talent. Muñiz's first album was a tribute to singers of other eras. It was titled "Aquellas Canciones!" ("Those Songs!"), and it was released in 1956. That was the first of close to 80 albums, all of which he recorded under the BMG or RCA Internacional labels. For many years he was part of the musical group "Los Tres Ases" and recorded many songs that made the Group famous and made Muniz famous too. Career in the 60s In 1965, he began an uninterrupted streak of years traveling to Puerto Rico's Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan around Christmas, to offer concerts there. (At one time, Muñiz claimed he was such a regular at the hotel that he could figure his wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marc Anthony
Marco Antonio Muñiz Rivera (born September 16, 1968), known professionally as Marc Anthony, is an American singer, songwriter, and actor. He is the top selling tropical salsa artist of all time. A three-time Grammy Award and six-time Latin Grammy Award winner, he has sold more than 12 million albums worldwide. Known for his Latin salsa numbers and ballads, Anthony has won numerous awards and his achievements have been honored through various recognitions. He was the recipient of the 2009 Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) Lifetime Achievement Award. He also received the "2009 CHCI Chair's Lifetime Achievement Award" on September 16, 2009. He holds the Guinness World Record for best-selling tropical/salsa artist and the most number-one albums on the ''Billboard'' Tropical Albums year-end charts. He is also the artist with the most number one songs on the ''Billboard'' Latin Tropical Airplay chart with 32 songs. Early life Marco Antonio Muñiz was born in New Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafo Muñiz
Rafael Muñiz García de la Noceda, better known as Rafo Muñiz (born 1956) is a Puerto Rican actor, comedian, director, and producer of television shows and concerts. The son of pioneering comic actor and producer Tommy Muñiz, Rafo's acting career began in the role of "Miguel" in "Gloria y Miguel", which aired on WAPA in Puerto Rico. After graduating high school, he starred alongside his father as his father's son in law in the sitcom '' Los García'' (''The Garcias''), also on WAPA, during the late 1970s. From there on, Rafo had on and off work as an actor, but by 1985, he had become a game show host at WAPA-TV. By that era also, he established a company named Promotores Latinos, where he performs as company President and main show producer. Promotores Latinos is now known as ProLat Entertainment. Since the 1980s, Muñiz has been one of the top music promoters/managers in Puerto Rico, and his firm, ProLat Entertainment, has represented artists such as Jennifer Lopez, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tomás Muñiz
Tomás Domingo Muñiz Souffront (August 4, 1900 – September 9, 1963) was a well known Puerto Rican radio and television producer. He is sometimes respectfully called by the general public in Puerto Rico as ''Don Tomás'' Muñiz, to differentiate him from his namesake and son, Tommy Muñiz As a young man, Tomás Muñiz worked as a real estate agent, and later as an advertising copy writer -and later executive- of the ''West Indies Advertising Company (WIAC)''. He later produced radio shows and administered the agency's radio station, WIAC-AM in San Juan. He was one of the first persons to give José Miguel Agrelot work. He also worked with a large number of other entertainers. His son, Lucas Tomás Muñiz, or Tommy Jr., later on became owner of Teleluz, a major competitor of WAPA-TV and Canal 2. Tomás Muñiz was the patriarch of a show business family: one of his seven children, Tommy, is a media legend in Puerto Rico, his grandson Rafo Muñiz Rafael Muñiz Garc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Muñiz
Lucas Tomás Muñiz Ramírez (4 February 1922 – 15 January 2009), better known as Tommy Muñiz, was a Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican comedy and drama actor, media producer, businessman and network owner. He is considered to be one of the pioneering figures of the television business in Puerto Rico. Although Muñíz was born in Ponce, he was raised in the capital city of San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan where he studied. Muñíz developed an interest in the entertainment business thanks to Tomás Muñiz, his father Tomas and to his uncle and godparent, godfather Félix Muñíz, who also produced radio programs.Article about his death in Primera Hora Muñiz was a successful radio producer in Puerto Rico during the mid- to late 1940s. Five of his radio programs -comedie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vik Muniz
Vik Muniz (; born 1961) is a Brazilian artist and photographer. Initially a sculptor, Muniz grew interested with the photographic representations of his work, eventually focusing completely on photography. Primarily working with unconventional materials such as tomato sauce, diamonds, magazine clippings, chocolate syrup, dust, dirt, etc., Muniz creates works of art, referencing old master's paintings and celebrity portraits, among other things, and then photographs them. His work has been met with both commercial success and critical acclaim, and has been exhibited worldwide. He is currently represented by Galeria Nara Roesler based in New York and Brazil. In 2010, Muniz was featured in the documentary film '' Waste Land.'' Directed by Lucy Walker, the film highlights Muniz's work on one of the world's largest garbage dumps, Jardim Gramacho, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The film was nominated to the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 83rd Academy Awards. E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moniz
Moniz is a surname in the Portuguese language, namely in Portugal and Brazil. It is believed to derive from a Gothic, or Gascon given name Munnius, Monio, Munino, Monnio, Munnio used in the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle-Ages. It is uncertain whether the Galician and Asturian 'Muñiz' or 'Muniz' surnames are in any way related with Moniz. The Portuguese variants of the medieval name were Munio, Monio and Moninho, making Moniz (son of Moninho or Munio) a patronymic surname. It may refer to: *António Egas Moniz (1874-1955), Portuguese physician, neurologist and Nobel Prize laureate * Bryant Moniz, quarterback for the University of Hawaii Warriors football team * Charlie Moniz (born 1980), Canadian musician * Diogo Gil Moniz, Portuguese nobleman, son of Gil Aires Moniz *Ernest Moniz (born 1944), American physicist and U.S. Secretary of Energy (2013–2017) *Febo Moniz (1515-aft. 1580), Portuguese nobleman * Febo Moniz de Lusignan, Portuguese nobleman, grandfather of Febo Moniz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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