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Mesquita (surname)
Mesquita is Portuguese and Galician surname meaning "mosque". Notable people with the name include: * Aender Naves Mesquita, Brazilian footballer *Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, American political scientist * Caroline Mesquita, French artist *Dayenne Mesquita, Brazilian actress * Idalina Mesquita, Brazilian handball player * Jaqueline Mesquita (born 1985), Brazilian mathematician * Jerônima Mesquita, Brazilian feminist *Michel Platini Mesquita, Brazilian footballer * Quintiliano de Mesquita, Brazilian physician and scientist * Raul Mesquita, Portuguese author * Rodrigo Paixão Mesquita, Brazilian footballer *Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, Dutch artist *Tiago Mesquita, Portuguese footballer * Vanessa Mesquita, Brazilian model *Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita Vicente Nicolau de Mesquita (July 9, 1818 in São Lourenço, Portuguese Macau – March 20, 1880 in São Lourenço, Portuguese Macau) was an officer of the Portuguese Army in Macau. He is widely remembered for his role at the Portu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aender Naves Mesquita
Aender Naves Mesquita (commonly known as Aender, ; born 12 February 1983) is a former Brazilian-born Hong Kong professional footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for Hong Kong First Division League club Central & Western. Club career Shum Shui Po On 28 October 2011, Aender joined Hong Kong First Division League club Sham Shui Po. Although unable to save the team from relegation, he was voted as Most Favorite Player by fans at the Hong Kong Top Footballer Awards. Tai Po Following the relegation of Sham Shui Po, Aender joined fellow First Division club Wofoo Tai Po, signing a 1-year contract. On 4 May 2013, he scored in the 90th minute against Yokohama FC Hong Kong, changing the scoreboard into 2–1 for Wofoo Tai Po. As Citizen and Sunray Cave JC Sun Hei have won their match respectively, a win was critical for Wofoo Tai Po as 3 points could avoid relegation. However, in the last minute of stoppage time, Yokohama FC Hong Kong's Kenji Fukuda scored and thus sent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (; born November 24, 1946) is a political scientist, professor at New York University, and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Biography Bueno de Mesquita graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1963, (along with Richard Axel and Alexander Rosenberg), earned his BA degree from Queens College, New York in 1967 and then his MA and PhD from the University of Michigan. He specializes in international relations, foreign policy, and nation building. He is one of the originators of selectorate theory, and was also the director of New York University's Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy from 2006 to 2016. He was a founding partner at Mesquita & Roundell, until that company merged with his other company, Selectors, LLC, that used the selectorate model for macro-level policy analysis. Now, the company is called Selectors, LLC and uses both the forecasting model and the selectorate approach in consulting. Bueno de Mesquita is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Mesquita
Caroline Mesquita (born 1989) is a French sculptor. Mesquita was born in Brest, in Finistère, France. She has used film, and particularly stop motion animation, as a component of her work. Her work is included in the collections of the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris and the Fonds régional d'art contemporain A Fonds régional d'art contemporain (Frac) is a public regional collection of contemporary art set in one of the metropolitan or overseas regions of France. There are currently 23 Fracs across the country, organised into a national network called P .... References 1989 births Living people 21st-century French women artists 21st-century French sculptors French women sculptors Artists from Brest, France {{France-sculptor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dayenne Mesquita
Dayenne Proença Mesquita (born September 23, 1985), best known as Day Mesquita, is a Brazilian actress who played the lead role in two telenovelas. Career Born in Telêmaco Borba, before becoming an actress, Dayenne Mesquita studied theater, classic ballet and jazz, and because of that, she won the role of the lead antagonist, Amanda Vasconcelos in 2007 Rede Bandeirantes' telenovela Dance Dance Dance. After playing the lead role in an episode of Lendas Urbanas, in 2008, she was cast in the lead role as Eliana Vilela, a character who falls in love with her adoptive brother, in 2009 SBT's telenovela Vende-se um Véu de Noiva. She guest starred in two Rede Globo telenovelas after that, Morde e Assopra in 2010, and A Vida da Gente in 2011. Dayenne Mesquita played the lawyer Stela in the 2012 telenovela Cheias de Charme She played Fernanda in the 2013 telenovela Além do Horizonte. Dayenne Mesquita played the young Yunet in the first phase of the 2015 telenovela Os Dez Mandamento ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Idalina Mesquita
Idalina Mesquita (born 2 July 1976) is a Brazilian handball player. She was born in Rio de Janeiro. She competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where the Brazilian team placed 8th, and also at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 .... References External links * 1976 births Living people Sportspeople from Rio de Janeiro (city) Brazilian female handball players Olympic handball players for Brazil Handball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Handball players at the 2003 Pan American Games Handball players at the 2007 Pan American Games Pan American Games medalists in handball Pan Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaqueline Mesquita
Jaqueline Godoy Mesquita (born 1985) is a Brazilian mathematician specializing in differential equations and functional differential equations. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Brasília. Education and career Mesquita was born on 20 September 1985. After graduating from the University of Brasília in 2007, she earned a Ph.D. at the University of São Paulo in 2012, with the dissertation ''Measure functional differential equations and impulsive functional dynamic equations on time scales'', jointly supervised by Marcia Cristina Anderson Braz Federson and Antonín Slavík, based in part on work as a visiting student at the Czech Academy of Sciences. After postdoctoral study at the University of São Paulo and the University of Santiago, Chile, she became a professor at the University of Brasília in 2015. Recognition The International Society of Differential Equations gave Mesquita their Bernd Aulbach student prize in 2012. Mesquita became an affiliate memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerônima Mesquita
Jerônima Mesquita (30 April 1880 – 1972) was a Brazilian feminist. She is regarded as the pioneer of the women's movement in Brazil, and co-founded the Federação Brasileira pelo Progresso Feminino with Berta Lutz Bertha Maria Júlia Lutz (August 2, 1894 – September 16, 1976) was a Brazilian zoologist, politician, and diplomat. Lutz became a leading figure in both the Pan American feminist movement and human rights movement. She was instrumental in gaini ... and Stela Guerra Duval in 1922. References 1880 births 1972 deaths Brazilian suffragists Brazilian feminists {{Brazil-activist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Platini Mesquita
Michel Platini Ferreira Mesquita or simply Michel Platini (born 8 September 1983) is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a forward for Gama. Career Platini played for Brazlândia, Mexican Primera División side Pachuca, Gama, Araguaína, Grêmio Anápolis, Hong Kong First Division League side South China and Veranópolis, before moving to Chernomorets Burgas in Bulgaria. Chernomorets Burgas Platini signed a three-year contract with Chernomorets on 29 June 2008, after a successful trial period with the club. He marked his competitive debut on 5 July with the equalising goal in Chernomorets's second round match of Intertoto Cup against ND Gorica which ended in a 1–1 draw. Platini made his Bulgarian A Group debut against Botev Plovdiv in a 1–0 away win on 10 August. He scored his first league goal for Chernomorets on 21 September 2008 against Litex Lovech in a 2–2 away draw. During his first season, he scored 10 goals in 27 league games. In May 2009 it was reported i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quintiliano De Mesquita
Quintiliano H. de Mesquita (Quintiliano H. Guedes de Mesquita) (1918 – October 28, 2000), Brazilian physician and scientist, was born in João Pessoa, state of Paraíba. His parents were Odilon Martins de Mesquita, trader, and Nathália Guedes Pereira. Biography He obtained his degree of M.D. in 1939 at the Faculdade de Medicina do Recife, state of Pernambuco. In 1940 he moved to São Paulo where he made his specialization in cardiology at the Hospital Municipal de São Paulo under the direction of Dr. Dante Pazzanese, staying there as voluntary assistant giving annual lectures on arrythmias until 1949. In 1945 he founded and directed the Cardiology Institute of Matarazzo Hospital till 1979. In 1943 he was one of the founders of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology. Dr. Mesquita was also appointed as honorary professor at the Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal da Paraíba. Among Dr. Mesquita's several pioneer contributions to the medical science, the most import ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raul Mesquita
Raúl António Proença de Marcelino Mesquita (born May 12, 1949) is a Portuguese author. He graduated in with a degree in philosophy from the Lisbon Classical University. Biography Raúl Mesquita was born in Lisbon, where he attended the Lycée Français, followed by the grammar schools Liceu Camões and Liceu D. João de Castro, finishing his studies at the Lisbon Classical University. Grandson of Raul Proença, he escaped from Portugal in June 1970 as a conscientious objector. He then lived in Belgium and in the United Kingdom, and was recognised as a political exile by the UN in Brussels in December 1970. He returned to his homeland in December 1974, after the Democratic revolution. He has published works both in psychology and in philosophy, such as, a Psychology Dictionary (co-author), ''Dicionário de Psicologia'' and the ''Critical Dictionary of Philosophy,'' (''Dicionário Crítico de Filosofia'') sole author, Plátano Editora. Recently he has turned to fiction. In 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodrigo Paixão Mesquita
Rodrigo Paixão Mesquita (born March 4, 1985), known as Rodrigo Paulista, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder. Rodrigo Paulista played for Figueirense and Internacional in the Campeonato Brasileiro, and also spent a football career in Shenyang Dongjin and Anhui Jiufang in the second division In sport, the Second Division, also called Division 2 or Division II is usually the second highest division of a league, and will often have promotion and relegation with divisions above and below. Following the rise of Premier League style compet ... of the Chinese football league. Honours * Campeonato Gaúcho: 2003, 2004, 2005. References External links * 1985 births Living people Brazilian men's footballers Sport Club Internacional players Figueirense FC players América Futebol Clube (RN) players Grêmio Barueri Futebol players Sociedade Esportiva e Recreativa Caxias do Sul players Guarani FC players Shenyang Dongjin F.C. players Anhui Jiuf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Jessurun De Mesquita
Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (6 June 1868 – 11 February 1944) was a Dutch graphic artist active in the years before the Second World War. His pupils included graphic artist M. C. Escher (1898–1972). A Sephardic Jew, in his old age he was sent to Auschwitz by the Nazis, where he was gassed along with his wife. After the war, de Mesquita was largely forgotten. Early life and education Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita was born on 6 June 1868 into a Jewish family living in Amsterdam. Though a member of a tightly knit Sephardic community, a minority among Dutch Jews, de Mesquita, like most of his contemporaries, was not religiously observant. His father, a secondary school teacher of Hebrew and German, died when Sam or Sampie, as he was called, was five. At the age of fourteen, the young de Mesquita applied to the Rijksakademie in pursuit of his artistic interests, only to be rejected. Deeply disappointed, he apprenticed himself to an acting city architect, for whom he worked for tw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
