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Spero is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Anthony Spero (1929-2008), American criminal *David Spero (born 1951), American DJ and music manager *Deborah Spero, American law enforcement official *Donald Spero (born 1939), American rower and venture capitalist *Emji Spero, American queer performance artist *Ernest Spero (1894-1960), British politician *George Spero (footballer) (born 1941), Australian rules footballer *Greg Spero (born 1985), American pianist and composer *Joan E. Spero (born 1944), American diplomat *Nancy Spero (1926–2009), American visual artist *Shubert Spero Rabbi Shubert Spero (born September 23, 1923) is an American rabbi. Early life Spero was born in New York City. He studied at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn, New York. He received his B.S degree at City College of New York and attained an M.A ... (born 1923), American rabbi * Stanislas Spero Adotevi (born 1934), Beninese politician * Wendy Spero, American comedian {{surname ...
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Anthony Spero
Anthony "Old Man" Spero (February 18, 1929 – September 29, 2008) was an Italian-American mobster who rose to the position of consigliere and acting boss of the Bonanno crime family. Biography "Spero was a large man with dark hair, a dark complexion and was good looking in a rough way" Philip Carlo wrote. "He was fair, smart, and exceedingly well versed in the ways of the street". According to the testimony of boss-turned-informant Joe Massino, Anthony Spero was inducted into the Bonanno crime family by Carmine Galante on June 14, 1977. The ceremony was held in a Queens bar, and among those inducted were Massino, Joseph Chilli, Jr., Peter Monteleone and several other men. A reserved and low profile man, Spero's hobby was breeding racing pigeons in coops on the roof of a Bensonhurst building. To avoid electronic surveillance from law enforcement, Spero sometimes held crew meetings on the same rooftop. Spero was married with two daughters, Jill and Diana, and owned a home in Sta ...
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David Spero
David Spero was a rock-radio pioneer in the 1970s and is a high-profile music manager and owner of the Cleveland office of Alliance Artists Ltd. Radio DJ At the age of 13, before beginning his career as a DJ at WXEN (now WHLK), WNCR (now WGAR-FM), WMMS, M105-FM (now WMJI), and WNCX, Spero worked as a cue card holder on '' The Upbeat Show'' which his father, Herman Spero, produced. At 15, Spero was helping to set the order of songs as a co-writer and assistant producer of the show. In describing the show, Spero explained that it was like Dick Clark's ''American Bandstand'' in that it featured the newest performers and their music, but unlike Clark's show, which had just one act and mostly dancing, ''Upbeat'' had eight or more live acts each week. At the age of 16, Spero got his start in radio on WXEN's graveyard shift. Shortly after WXEN, Spero moved to WNCR and then WMMS at around 19 years of age. While still living with his parents, Spero got a break at WNCR when radio h ...
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Deborah Spero
Deborah Spero was Deputy Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), from April 2004 to August 2007. From November 25, 2005 until June 2, 2006, she served as the Acting Commissioner of CBP. As Acting Commissioner, she advanced strategic initiatives focused on CBP’s priority mission of preventing terrorists and terrorist weapons from entering the United States. Biography As Deputy Commissioner, Spero is responsible for providing leadership and executive-level direction to CBP's day-to-day operations. This includes oversight of agency initiatives that facilitate the international movement of legitimate, low-risk goods and travelers while promoting effective border security. Immediately before serving as Deputy Commissioner, Spero directed CBP’s transition team, coordinating the unprecedented merger of work-forces from three legacy agencies (U.S. Customs Service, U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) to form ...
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Donald Spero
Donald M. "Don" Spero (born August 9, 1939) is an American physicist, venture capitalist, and a former U.S. and world champion rower who competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and won the single sculls 1966 World Rowing Championships. He also won a gold medal at the 1961 Maccabiah Games in the coxed four, and won the 1963 and 1964 U.S. national championships. He was elected to the Helms/Rowing Hall of Fame, Cornell University Hall of Fame, New York Athletic Club Hall of Fame, and International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. Early life and education Spero was born in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States, and is Jewish. He received his degree in Engineering Physics with honors in 1962 from Cornell University, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society and elected to Tau Beta Pi. He received a Ph.D. in Plasma Physics from Columbia University, and performed post-doctoral work in Physics at the University of Maryland.. New Markets Venture Partners Spero rowed for the New Y ...
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Emji Spero
Emji Saint Spero is a trans queer writer and performance artist living in Los Angeles, California. Their practice occupies a hybrid space between poetry and prose. They are a member of curbAlert, a performance duo with J Shelley Harrison, since 2018. They co-founded the Oakland-based Timeless, Infinite Light with Joel Gregory. In 2014, Timeless, Infinite Light was a founding collective of Omni Commons, a collectively-run community space in Oakland, along with the Bay Area Public School, and Sudo Room Sudo Room. Saint Spero is the author of ''disgust'' ( Nomadic Press, 2021) and ''almost any shit will do'' (Timeless, Infinite Light, 2014), and they co-founded the Oakland-based small press and queer poetry cult Timeless, Infinite Light with Joel Gregory. With Lauren Levin, they were editor of ''We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan'' (2019), which was awarded the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction. Career Spero authored two bo ...
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Ernest Spero
(George) Ernest Spero, later Spears, (2 March 1894 – 7 January 1960 ''or'' June 1976) was a British physician, writer, journalist, businessman and politician. He served as a Liberal MP in 1923–24, and a Labour MP from 1929–30, when he resigned his seat ahead of a court case and bankruptcy proceedings. He left the country for the United States, where he changed his name and became a naturalised citizen, practising as an ophthalmologist. Spero was born in 1894 in Dover to Isidore Spero, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, and his wife Rachel. Isidore was a dentist, and George, along with his brothers Samuel and Leopold, trained in medicine. He studied at the London Hospital and Royal Dental Hospital from October 1912, joining the Royal Navy as a surgeon following the outbreak of the First World War, subsequently travelling around the world twice. Following the war, Spero returned to medicine and became active in politics. He contested the seat of Leicester West for the Liberal P ...
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George Spero (footballer)
George Spero (born 29 November 1941) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). He suffered a serious knee injury in his only senior VFL season and a year later he returned to his old club, Keilor Keilor is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, north-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the Cities of Brimbank and Hume local government areas. Keilor recorded a population of 5,906 at the 2021 census. Whi .... Spent six more seasons with Keilor before finishing his career with Tooberac. Notes External links * *Essendon Football Club past player profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Spero, George 1941 births Living people Australian rules footballers from Victoria (Australia) Essendon Football Club players Keilor Football Club players ...
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Greg Spero
Greg Spero (born February 22, 1985) is an American pianist from Highland Park, Illinois. He has toured with Halsey and the Miles Electric Band and has composed music for film and television. He leads the jazz band Spirit Fingers. He also runs a label called Tiny Room, which runs live streamed sessions from its studio in Los Angeles and has been featured on NPR Live Sessions. When the coronavirus pandemic caused live music to cease in 2020, he launched a startup called weeBID which is the first fan initiated crowd funding platform. Spero was described as "a new breed Of record exec, at vanguard of big changes in music industry". He outlined his vision for weeBID at the Center for Creative Entrepreneurship, Chicago in August 2021. Career Spero's mother was a classical pianist and his father was a blues pianist. When he was fourteen, he joined his father's band. He also worked with Frank Catalano, Buddy Rich, and Robert Irving III. Spero became a devotee of Nichiren Daishonin's Bud ...
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Joan E
Joan may refer to: People and fictional characters *Joan (given name), including a list of women, men and fictional characters *:Joan of Arc, a French military heroine *Joan (surname) Weather events *Tropical Storm Joan (other), multiple tropical cyclones are named Joan Music * ''Joan'' (album), a 1967 album by Joan Baez *"Joan", a song by The Art Bears from their 1978 album ''Hopes and Fears'' *"Joan", a song by Lene Lovich from her 1980 album ''Flex'' *"Joan", a song by Erasure from their 1991 album ''Chorus'' *"Joan", a song by The Innocence Mission from their 1991 album ''Umbrella'' *"Joan", a song by God Is My Co-Pilot from their 1992 album ''I Am Not This Body'' Other uses *Jōan (era), a Japanese era name * ''Joan'' (play), 2015 one-woman play written by Lucy J. Skillbeck *Joan Township, Ontario, a geographic township See also *''Jo-an'' tea house, National Treasure in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, Japan * *Jane (other) *Jean (other) *Jeanne (di ...
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Nancy Spero
Nancy Spero (August 24, 1926 – October 18, 2009) was an American visual artist. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Spero lived for much of her life in New York City. She married and collaborated with artist Leon Golub. As both artist and activist, Nancy Spero had a career that spanned fifty years. She is known for her continuous engagement with contemporary political, social, and cultural concerns. Spero chronicled wars and apocalyptic violence as well as articulating visions of ecstatic rebirth and the celebratory cycles of life. Her complex network of collective and individual voices was a catalyst for the creation of her figurative lexicon representing women from prehistory to the present in such epic-scale paintings and collage on paper as ''Torture of Women'' (1976), ''Notes in Time on Women'' (1979) and ''The First Language'' (1981). In 2010, ''Notes in Time'' was posthumously reanimated as a digital scroll in the online magazine ''Triple Canopy''. Spero has had a number of retrosp ...
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Shubert Spero
Rabbi Shubert Spero (born September 23, 1923) is an American rabbi. Early life Spero was born in New York City. He studied at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn, New York. He received his B.S degree at City College of New York and attained an M.A and a PhD in philosophy at Western Reserve University. In 1947 he received smicha and in 1950 became rabbi of Young Israel of Cleveland, Ohio. Career Spero is currently the Irving Stone Professor of Jewish Thought at Bar Ilan University and Rabbi Emeritus of Young Israel of Cleveland, Ohio. He has written extensively on the subjects of halakha, ethics, the Holocaust, Jewish philosophy and the thought of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik. Personal life In 1983 with his wife and family he made aliyah to Israel settling in Jerusalem Jerusalem (; he, יְרוּשָׁלַיִם ; ar, القُدس ) (combining the Biblical and common usage Arabic names); grc, Ἱερουσαλήμ/Ἰεροσόλυμα, Hierousalḗm/Hierosóluma; hy, ...
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Stanislas Spero Adotevi
Stanislas Spero Adotevi (born 4 February 1934) is a Beninese politician, civil servant and UNICEF official. He served in Benin's government as Minister of Information in 1963 and as Minister of Culture between 1965 and 1968. He was later Director of the Institute of Applied Research and Director of the National Archives and Museums. In 1981 he was appointed as UNICEF Representative in the Republic of Upper Volta (Burkina Faso) and in 1987 he became the UNICEF Regional Director for West and Central Africa, directing UNICEF's work in 23 African countries. In 1995 he was appointed Special Advisor to UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy Carol Bellamy (born January 14, 1942) is an American nonprofit executive and former politician. She is chair of the board of the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF). Previously, she was director of the Peace Corps, executive ....Mathurin C. Houngnikpo and Samuel Decalo, "Adotevi, Stanislas Spero," in ''Historical Dictionary of ...
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