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Piñera (surname)
Piñera is a Hispanic surname. Notable people with the surname include: ;Piñera family *Bernardino Piñera (1915–2020), Chilean prelate of the Catholic Church *José Piñera Carvallo (1917–1991), Chilean engineer, diplomat and politician. His sons include: *José Piñera (born 1948), Chilean economist * Miguel Piñera (born 1954), Chilean celebrity *Sebastián Piñera (1949–2024), Chilean businessman and President (2010–2014, 2018-2022) ;Others * Antonia Is Piñera (born 1966), Spanish football defender * Eva Piñera (born 1974), Spanish swimmer * Gerardo Carrera Piñera (born 1987), Spanish football player * Isma Piñera (born 1977), Spanish football player * Juan Piñera (born 1949), Cuban musician *Mike Pinera (born 1948), American guitarist *Virgilio Piñera Virgilio Piñera Llera ( Cárdenas, Cuba, August 4, 1912 – Havana, October 18, 1979) was a Cuban author, playwright, poet, short story writer, essayist and translator. His most notorious works are the poem ''La ...
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Piñera Family
The Piñera family is a Chilean family which gained political influence in the late 20th century. Prominent members *Sebastián Piñera, President of Chile (2010-2014, 2018-2021) *José Piñera, economist, brother of Sebastián *Miguel Piñera, musician, brother of Sebastián * Pablo Piñera, brother of Sebastián *Bernardino Piñera, Catholic bishop, uncle of Sebastián *Andrés Chadwick, senator, cousin of Sebastián * Herman Chadwick, brother of Andrés * María Teresa Chadwick, sister of Andrés *Cecilia Morel, First Lady (2010-2014), wife of Sebastián *José Antonio Viera-Gallo José Antonio Viera-Gallo Quesney (born 2 December 1943) is a Chilean politician. Before turning 30, Viera-Gallo was a Member of Congress during the left-wing elected government of president Salvador Allende, representing the Socialist Party of ..., Socialist politician, husband of María Teresa Ancestry References {{DEFAULTSORT:Pinera Family ...
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Bernardino Piñera
Monsignor Bernardino Piñera Carvallo (22 September 1915 – 21 June 2020) was a Chilean bishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Life Born in Paris, France, Piñera was ordained a priest on 5 April 1947. He worked for the Catholic Action. On 11 February 1958, Pope Pius XII appointed Piñera Carvallo auxiliary bishop of Talca. Later, he was appointed Bishop of Temuco (1960–77) and Archbishop of La Serena (1983–90). From 1983 to 1988, he was president of the Episcopal Conference of Chile. Piñera Carvallo attended the Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965. He was the paternal uncle of Sebastián Piñera, the president of Chile. Vatican sex abuse investigation On 21 August 2019, Chile's nuncio Ivo Scapolo announced that the Vatican had launched an investigation into claims that Piñera sexually abused at least one child 50 years earlier. No charges were ever filed, however. Death Msgr Piñera died in Santiago on 21 June 2020, aged 104. Piñera had contracted COVID-19 a ...
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José Piñera Carvallo
Manuel José Piñera Carvallo (22 September 1917 – 3 June 1991) was a Chilean engineer, diplomat and Christian Democratic politician. He was born in Paris in 1917 and died in Santiago in 1991. Early life Piñera Carvallo was the son of lawyer José Manuel Piñera Figueroa and Elena Carvallo Castillo. His great-grandfather, José Piñera Lombera, a native of Lima, Peru, but from Asturias, arrived in La Serena in 1827, being the first Piñera to arrive in Chile. José Piñera Carvallo lived in Paris, France, where he received a secular education in conjunction with his siblings Bernardino (doctor and bishop), Paulette and Marie Louise. At 17, he returned to Chile, studying at the Padres Franceses school in the capital and then in the School of Engineering at the Catholic University of Chile. Personal life While still young he married Magdalena Echenique Rozas, daughter of José Miguel Echenique Correa and Josefa Rozas Ariztía. Carvallo's mother was the granddaughter of the a ...
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José Piñera
José Piñera Echenique (born October 6, 1948) is a Chilean economist, one of the famous Chicago Boys, who served as minister of Labor and Social Security, and of Mining, in the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He is the architect of Chile's private pension system based on personal retirement accounts. Piñera has been called "the world's foremost advocate of privatizing public pension systems" as well as "the Pension Reform Pied Piper" (by the Wall Street Journal). He is now Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Washington, President of the International Center for Pension Reform based in Santiago, Senior Fellow at the Italian libertarian think tank Istituto Bruno Leoni, and member of the advisory board of the Vienna-based Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe. He has a master's degree and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. Piñera is a board member in Chile and an active supporter of SOS Children' ...
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Miguel Piñera
280px, Miguel ''Negro'' Piñera. 280px, Negro Piñera in Bierfest Valdivia. José Miguel Carlos Piñera Echenique, known in Chile by his nickname "Negro" Piñera (born October 18, 1954) is a Chilean celebrity, night club owner and amateur musician. He is the brother of President of Chile Sebastián Piñera and of economist José Piñera. Piñera was married to Argentinean model Belén Hidalgo. Negro Piñera is of Asturian and Basque Basque may refer to: * Basques, an ethnic group of Spain and France * Basque language, their language Places * Basque Country (greater region), the homeland of the Basque people with parts in both Spain and France * Basque Country (autonomous co ... descent. Miguel Piñera is the fifth son of José Piñera Carvallo and Magdalena Echenique Rozas. His siblings are Guadalupe, José, Sebastián, Pablo, and María Teresa. He studied at the Colegio del Verbo Divino, and Saint George's School. During his adolescence, he lived in Belgium through hi ...
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Sebastián Piñera
Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique OMCh (; born 1 December 1949) is a Chilean billionaire businessman and politician who served as president of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022. The son of a Christian Democratic politician and diplomat, he studied business administration at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and economics at Harvard University. He had an estimated net worth of 2.8  billion dollars in 2019 according to ''Forbes'', making him one of the richest people in Chile. A member of the liberal-conservative National Renewal party, he served as a senator for the East Santiago district from 1990 to 1998, running for the presidency in the 2005 election, which he lost to Michelle Bachelet, and again, successfully, in 2010. As a result, he became Chile's first conservative president to be democratically elected since 1958, and the first to hold the office since the departure of Augusto Pinochet in 1990. Following the social unrest th ...
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Antonia Is Piñera
María Antonia "Toña" Is Piñera (born in Oviedo, 1966) is a Spanish former football defender who played through her career for CFF Tradehi. She earned 33 caps for the Spain women's national football team from 1989 through the 1990s, taking part in the 1997 European Championship.Line-ups
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Eva Piñera
Eva Piñera Piñera (born July 1, 1974) is a former backstroke swimmer from Spain, who competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ... for her native country where she finished in 20th place in the 100 m Backstroke, and in 15th position with the Women's Team in the 4x100 m Medley Relay. References Spanish Olympic Committee External links * * 1974 births Living people Sportspeople from Gijón Spanish female backstroke swimmers Olympic swimmers for Spain Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics 20th-century Spanish women {{Spain-swimming-bio-stub ...
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Gerardo Carrera Piñera
Gerardo Carrera Piñera (born 5 March 1987 in Gijón, Asturias), known simply as Gerardo, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for SD Sarriana as an attacking midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie .... External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Carrera, Gerardo 1987 births Living people Spanish footballers Footballers from Gijón Association football midfielders Segunda División players Segunda División B players Tercera División players Divisiones Regionales de Fútbol players Sporting de Gijón B players Atlético Malagueño players Málaga CF players UD Las Palmas players Pontevedra CF footballers AD Alcorcón footballers CD Teruel footballers CD Toledo players Sestao River footballers Barakaldo CF footballers UD Somozas players ...
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Isma Piñera
Ismael "Isma" Piñera Zapatero (born 27 May 1977 in Gijón) is a Spanish retired footballer, who was most recently the manager of Sporting de Gijón B. Playing career Isma Piñera began his career with affiliate clubs to Sporting de Gijón, while studying at the Colegio de la Inmaculada. He spent a short spell with Candás, before making his Sporting debut on 12 November 1997, in a 0-1 loss to Mérida. He spent the majority of his career with Sporting, before a serious injury sustained in 2002 sidelined him for over 2 years. On his return, it was deemed his performances were not of a high enough quality, and he was sold to lower division side Racing de Ferrol. Coaching career Isma currently works as a coach for Sporting de Gijón B Real Sporting de Gijón B is a Spanish football club based in Gijón, in the autonomous community of Asturias. Founded in 1960 it is the reserve team of Sporting de Gijón, and currently plays in Tercera Federación – Group 2, holding home ga ...
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Juan Piñera
Juan Piñera (born 1949 in Havana) is a Cuban musician who during his long career has covered a wide professional spectrum as performer, composer, professor and musical adviser. Studies Juan Piñera took his first piano lessons from his sister Ninfa María Piñera. After some time he continued his piano studies with Cuban professor César Pérez Sentenat and with Silvio Rodríguez Cárdenas at Conservatorio Alejandro García Caturla in Marianao, Havana. At the same time, he studied with Argentinean harpsichordist Lidia Guerberof. In 1968 Piñera followed up with his piano studies at the Escuela Nacional de Artes, where he received instruction from Silvio Rodríguez Cárdenas, Ninowska Fernández-Britto and Ana Martínez Estrada. After graduating in 1972, he studied musical composition with José Ardévol and Roberto Valera at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA). He also studied under Margot Rojas Mendoza. Professional activity As a composer, Piñera has received numerous comm ...
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Mike Pinera
Mike Pinera (born September 29, 1948) is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer who started professionally in the late 1960s with the group Blues Image, which had a number 4 hit in 1970 with their song "Ride Captain Ride". After the break-up of that group, he joined Iron Butterfly, and later formed the group Ramatam. Pinera was then the founding member of the band New Cactus, a later incarnation of the band Cactus (American band), Cactus. He was the lead guitarist for Alice Cooper from 1980 to 1982. He is currently performing with his solo band and The Classic Rock All-Stars. Career Early years Mike Pinera and his group Blues Image were co-founders and house band at Thee Image, a Miami Beach concert venue they opened and co-headlined on weekends, playing with such groups as Cream, Grateful Dead, The Yardbirds, The Animals, Frank Zappa and many more.M ...
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