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Tamayo (surname)
Tamayo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born 1942), Cuban cosmonaut * Francisco Tamayo (1902-1985), Venezuelan botanist * Franz Tamayo (1878–1956), Bolivian intellectual *Gustavo Tamayo, Colombian ophthalmologist *Jeff Tamayo, pioneer of Taekwondo and military officer in the Philippines *José Luis Tamayo (1858–1947), Ecuadorian president * Juan José Tamayo (born 1946), Spanish theologian * Manuel Tamayo y Baus (1829–1898), Spanish dramatist * María Fernanda Tamayo, Ecuadorian police official * Misael Tamayo Hernández (1952–2006), Mexican journalist *Rufino Tamayo Rufino del Carmen Arellanes Tamayo (August 25, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.Sullivan, 170-171Ades, 357 Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, ... (1899–1991), Mexican painter {{surname, Tamayo Spanish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez
Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez (born January 29, 1942) is a Cuban military officer, legislator, and former cosmonaut and the first person of African heritage in space. In 1980, as a member of the crew of Soyuz 38, he became the first Cuban citizen, the first Latin American, the first person of African descent, and the first person from a country in the Western Hemisphere other than the United States to travel into Earth orbit. Early life and military service Tamayo was born on January 29, 1942, in Baracoa, Guantánamo province, into a family of Afro-Cuban descent. Orphaned as an infant, he was adopted at age 1 by Rafael Tamayo and Esperanza Méndez. He began working at age 13 as a shoeshine and vegetable vendor and later worked as a carpenter's assistant. During the Cuban Revolution he joined the Association of Young Rebels, a group protesting the Batista regime, and later the Revolutionary Work Youth Brigades. After the Cuban Revolution, he entered the Technical Institute "Rebel Army" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Tamayo
Francisco Tamayo Yepes (4 October 1902 in Lara, Venezuela – 14 February 1985 in Caracas, Venezuela) was a Venezuelan botanist. Species named after Tamayo include Erytina tamayonis, Ichantus tamayonis, Lupinus tamayoanus ''Lupinus tamayoanus'' is a plant of the genus ''Lupinus'' in the legume family. ''Lupinus tamayoanus'' was described in 1942 from samples collected in Mérida, Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( ..., Mammiliaria tamayonis, Paspalum tamayonis, Peperomia tamayoi and Tamayoa paraguanensis. References 1902 births 1985 deaths 20th-century Venezuelan botanists People from Lara (state) {{botanist, Tamayo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Tamayo
Franz Tamayo Solares (28 February 1879 in La Paz – 29 July 1956) was a Bolivian intellectual, writer, and politician. The Franz Tamayo Province is named after him. He was renowned for his oratory. A prominent Bolivian poet and philosopher, he wrote a number of educational treatises and also practiced law, journalism, and diplomacy. Tamayo was of Mestizo background; he had both Aymara and Spanish ancestry. Career and influence Tamayo's racial concepts were and continue to be very influential in Bolivian thought, life, and culture. He considered Indians (indigenous or originary people) skilled only in the faculties of physical labor, such as agricultural work or military service, but deficient in faculties of the mind that whites ( creoles or those of European descent) excelled in. Mestizos (of mixed descent) he considered proficient in both the areas of physical and mental labor and therefore able to function as citizens of the Bolivian Republic, assuming acculturation to Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Tamayo
Gustavo E. Tamayo is a Colombian ophthalmologist known for developing a refractive surgery method known as Contoured Ablation Patterns (CAP), which enables doctors to make surgeries faster and at an easier rate. Tamayo has also developed and patented a procedure to treat presbyopia, which is at the moment being tested by AMO (Abbott Medical Optics) in order to massively apply this procedure in a global manner once approved by the FDA. He also has other patents dealing with cataract removal through laser application. Tamayo was designated subdirector of the Subspecialty Refractive Surgery Day at American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting in 2008 which took place 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 ... and was appointed director for the same meeting in its 2009 edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Tamayo
Col. Antonio "Jeff" De Lara Tamayo was the chef-de-mission of the Philippine delegate to 27th SEA Games in Myanmar in 2013. He is the second vice president of the Philippine Olympic Committee and board of director of Larong Volleyball sa Pilipinas, Inc. (LVPI). Tamayo currently served as the overall security officer of the 28-man Philippine contingent in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Since 2004, he was the president of the Philippine Soft Tennis Association and in 2007 president of the Southeast Asian Soft Tennis Federation. He was a silver medalist in 1982 in the Asian Taekwondo Championships in Singapore. He was the taekwondo coach of the Philippine Military Academy from 1983 to 1992 and a coach to Ali Atienza and Bea Lucero. He is a ranking colonel in the Philippine Air Force and a former commanding chief of the Presidential Escorts group used for former president Joseph Estrada and former vice president Teofisto Guingona Teofisto "Tito" Tayko G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Luis Tamayo
José Luis Tamayo Terán (29 July 1858 – 7 July 1947) was President of Ecuador from 1 September 1920 to 31 August 1924. He was a member of the Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party The Ecuadorian Radical Liberal Party ( es, Partido Liberal Radical Ecuatoriano, abbreviated as ''PLRE'') was a liberal party in Ecuador and is one of the oldest existing political parties in Ecuador. History The party evolved out of divisions be .... He was Presidents of the Chamber of Deputies in 1898, and President of the Senate in 1905. He was the last Ecuadoran President to complete a full term in office until Galo Plaza Lasso did so nearly a quarter-century later. Among Tamayo's actions in office was to promulgate Ecuador's first regulations regarding the oil industry, although the law had little practical effect. He was also active in establishing vice taxes in order to fund programs to arrest the spread of venereal disease among the prostitutes of Quito. References JOSE LUIS TA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan José Tamayo
Juan José Tamayo (born October 7, 1946 in Amusco, Palencia) is a Spanish theologian and professor of theology at the Charles III University of Madrid. He specializes in Catholic hierarchy but has broadened into Islamic studies. He has contributed to controversies about Opus Dei, and has written over 50 books. He is president of the Asociación de Teólogos Juan XXIII. On September 16, 2009, Tamayo won the Seventh President of the Republic of Tunisia International Prize for Islamic Studies for his book ''Islam: Culture, Religion and Politics'' (in Spanish), beating some 28 candidates from 13 different countries. Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali presented the award during a ceremony held in Carthage Palace in Carthage. The book examines western prejudices against the Islamic world, questioning the common western stereotypes of Islam as a sexist, patriarchal, and fundamentally violent religion, and how it has become a successor to communism in critique following recent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Tamayo Y Baus
Manuel Tamayo y Baus (15 September 1829 – 20 June 1898) was a Spanish dramatist. Life He was born at Madrid, into a family connected with the theatre, his mother being the eminent actress Joaquina Baus. She appeared as Geneviève de Brabant in an arrangement from the French made by Tamayo when he was in his twelfth year. Through the influence of his uncle, Antonio Gil y Zárate, minister of education, Tamayo's independence was secured by his nomination to a post in a government office. The earliest of his printed pieces, ''Juana de Arco'' (1847), is an arrangement from Schiller, and ''Una Aventura de Richelieu'', which the author has not cared to preserve, is said to be an imitation of Alexandre Dumas, père. The general idea of his ''Angela'' (1852) was derived from Schillers ''Kabale und Liebe'', but the atmosphere is Spanish, the situations are original, and the phrasing is Tamayos own. His first great success was ''Virginia'' (1853), a dramatic essay in Vittorio Alfieri, Alf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Fernanda Tamayo
María Fernanda Tamayo Rivera is an Ecuadorian law enforcement official, the first woman to become the country's inspector general of police. Early years María Fernanda Tamayo was born in Shell Mera, Pastaza Province, Ecuador. She has three brothers and two sisters. Since she was 8 years old, she showed signs of her vocation to join the police force. She was inspired by watching the American TV series ''Police Woman'', starring Angie Dickinson. Her mother always supported her in her aspirations. However, after finishing her secondary education, Tamayo could not attend the Superior Police School since women were not yet admitted to the institution, so she opted for her second passion, technology, and entered the National Polytechnic School as a systems engineering major. Police career Two years later, Tamayo left the program after the National Police began to admit women, receiving 700 applicants, of which 32 were selected. She was part of the first women's class in 1983. After ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Misael Tamayo Hernández
Misael Tamayo Hernández (2 March 1952 – 10 November 2006) was a Mexican journalist, editorial director, and founder of ''El Despertar de la Costa'', a family-run newspaper from the state of Guerrero. As a journalist, he was a harsh critic of local corruption, drug trafficking, and the Mexican drug cartels. On 10 November 2006, Tamayo Hernández was abducted and found dead inside a motel room in Guerrero, presumably killed by a lethal injection; the crime is yet to be solved, but there are signs that his death was work-related. Early life and career Tamayo Hernández was born in the Tierra Caliente region in Tlalchapa, Guerrero on 2 March 1952. Before going into journalism, he worked at a credit bank for the government at his locality and as a rancher. He had some experience in politics by joining the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), but he gave it up and followed his dream to pursue a career in journalism and create his own newspaper in 2001. Tamayo Hernández was t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rufino Tamayo
Rufino del Carmen Arellanes Tamayo (August 25, 1899 – June 24, 1991) was a Mexican painter of Zapotec heritage, born in Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico.Sullivan, 170-171Ades, 357 Tamayo was active in the mid-20th century in Mexico and New York, painting figurative abstraction with surrealist influences. Early life Tamayo was born in Oaxaca, Mexico in 1899 to parents Manuel Arellanes and Florentina Tamayo. His mother was a seamstress and his father was a shoemaker. His mother died of tuberculosis in 1911. His Zapotec heritage is often cited as an early influence. After his mother's death, he moved to Mexico City to live with his aunt, where he spent a lot of time working alongside her in the city's fruit markets. While there, he devoted himself to helping his family with their small business. However, in 1917 Tamayo's aunt enrolled him at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas at San Carlos to study art. As a student, he experimented with and was influenced by Cubism, Impressio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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