|
Yon (name)
Yon is a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name * Yon García (born 1979), Spanish former figure skater and five-time Spanish national champion * Yon Goicoechea (born 1984), Venezuelan lawyer and political activist * Yon González (born 1986), Spanish actor * Pak Yǒn, Korean name taken by shipwrecked Dutch sailor Jan Jansz. Weltevree (1595-?) * Yon Soriano (born 1987), Dominican sprinter * Yon Tumarkin (born 1989), Israeli actor and singer * Yon (fl. 1996-2011), a captive Iriomote cat Surname * Yon Hyong-muk (1931-2005), North Korean politician and Prime Minister of North Korea * Marco Yon (1929-1970), Guatemalan revolutionary * Michael Yon (born 1964), American writer and photographer * Pietro Yon (1886–1943), Italian organist and composer * Tom A. Yon (1882-1971), American politician * Simon "Yon" Hall, a member of the Australian musical comedy trio Tripod A tripod is a portable three-legged frame or stand, used as a platform for su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yon García
Yon Garcia (born 2 July 1979) is a Spanish former competitive figure skater. He is a five-time Spanish national champion. Programs Results References External links * Spanish male single skaters 1979 births Living people Sportspeople from San Sebastián {{Spain-figure-skating-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yon Goicoechea
Yon Alexander Goicoechea Lara (born 8 November 1984) is a Venezuelan lawyer, activist and organizer. He emerged as one of the leaders behind the Venezuelan Student Movement, which formed as a result of actions by Hugo Chavez' to amass further power as the country's president. He holds degrees from the Andrés Bello Catholic University and Columbia University. Milton Friedman Prize In 2008, the Cato Institute awarded Goicoechea the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty which comes with an award of $500,000. At the time, Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa called Goicoechea, "a symbol of… democratic reaction when freedom is threatened." After receiving the Prize, Goicoechea experienced harassment in Venezuela, and state-run television depicted him as a cartoon clutching wards of cash stamped with the words "Made in USA." As a result of his activism, he experienced death threats, which led him to move between various friends' homes to stay safe. President Chávez called th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yon González
Yon González Luna (born 20 May 1986) is a Spanish actor. He is probably best known for his performance as Iván Noiret León in the Antena 3 series '' The Boarding School'' (''El internado''), as well as for his role of Julio Olmedo/Espinosa in the television series '' Gran Hotel'' and for that of Francisco Gómez in the Netflix series '' Cable Girls''. Acting career Yon González began his acting career in the LaSexta series ''SMS'' in 2006. He then went on to star in the Antena 3 series '' The Boarding School'' (''El internado'') from 2007 to 2010 which brought him wider popularity. González's performance as Iván Noiret León earned him an ACE Award for Best New Actor in 2010, as well as a Golden Nymph for Best Actor – Drama nomination at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival 2009. Throughout 2008 and 2009, González starred in the motion pictures '' Sex, Party and Lies'' (''Mentiras y gordas''), opposite Mario Casas, Hugo Silva and his ''The Boarding School'' co–sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Jansz
Jan Janszoon van Haarlem, commonly known as Reis Mourad the Younger (c. 1570 – c. 1641), was an Ottoman and Salé Rovers Dutch pirate in Algeria and Morocco who converted to Islam after being captured by a Moorish state in 1618. He began serving as a pirate, one of the most famous of the 17th-century "Salé Rovers". Together with other corsairs, he helped establish the independent Republic of Salé at the city of that name, serving as the first President and Commander. He also served as Governor of Oualidia. Early life Jan Janszoon van Haerlem was born in Haarlem in 1570, which is in Holland, then a province ruled by the Habsburg monarchy. The Eighty Years War between Dutch rebels and the Spanish Empire under King Philip II had started seven years before his birth; it lasted all his life. Little is known about his early life. He married Soutgen Cave in 1595 and had two children with her, Edward and Lysbeth. Privateering In 1600, Jan Janszoon began as a Dutch privateer sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yon Soriano
Yon Manuel Soriano (born 2 January 1987) is a Dominican Republic sprinter. He competed in the 4 × 400 m relay event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Soriano was born in Guaymate, La Romana Province La Romana () is a province of the Dominican Republic. The capital is also named La Romana, and is the third-largest city in the country. La Romana was elevated to the category of province in 1944. File:Catalina Island, La Romana, Dominican Republ .... Personal bests *400 m: 45.66 A – San José, 7 August 2015 *4 × 400 m: 3:01.73 – San José, 9 August 2015 International competitions References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Soriano, Yon 1987 births Living people Dominican Republic male sprinters Dominican Republic male middle-distance runners People from Guaymate World Athletics Championships athletes for the Dominican Republic Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of the Dominican Republic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yon Tumarkin
Yon Tumarkin ( he, יון תומרקין; born 22 July 1989) is an Israeli actor and singer, best known for playing Leo in the TV series ''Split''. Early life Tumarkin was born and raised in Jaffa, Israel, to a family of Jewish descent. He is the youngest son of Naama Tumarkin and artist Yigal Tumarkin. His paternal grandfather was German actor Martin Hellberg, whose father was a pastor. When he was 13, his parents were divorced and he and his mother moved to Tel Aviv. There he went to the high school Tichon Ironi Alef and got the diploma of Art. On August 18, 2008, he took a break from the army for his television work. In 2011, Yon Tumarkin finished his work at the army. Career By the age of eight, Tumarkin was discovered by casting director Yael Aviv when sitting in a cafe with his father. The next day, Tumarkin went to his first audition. During his childhood, Tumarkin appeared in many different TV commercials. He got his first bigger acting job at the age of ten in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iriomote Cat
The Iriomote cat (''Prionailurus bengalensis iriomotensis'') is a subspecies of the leopard cat that lives exclusively on the Japanese island of Iriomote. It has been listed as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List since 2008, as the only population comprises fewer than 250 adult individuals and is considered declining. As of 2007, there were an estimated 100–109 individuals remaining. In Japanese, it is called . In local dialects of the Yaeyama language, it is known as , , and .今泉(1994), Pp.8–13, Pp. 144-147戸川(1972), Pp.13–92 Description The fur of the Iriomote cat is mostly dark gray and light brown, with lighter hair on the belly and insides of the limbs. Hair along the jaw is white. There are two dark brown spots on each cheek. There are 5–7 stripes spanning from the forehead to the back of the head, but, unlike the leopard cat, the stripes stop before reaching the shoulders. Dark brown spots cover the sides of the body, and there are 3–4 bands of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yon Hyong-muk
Yon Hyong-muk, also spelt Yong Hyong-muk (November 3, 1931 – October 22, 2005), was a long-serving politician in North Korea and at the height of his career the most powerful person in that country outside the Kim family. He was Prime Minister of North Korea from 1988 to 1992. He was born in Kyongwon County and had a strong revolutionary background in his family. He was educated locally and employed as a farm worker. Yon was educated in Czechoslovakia and by the 1950s, he was firmly established within the hierarchy of the Workers' Party of Korea. In 1967 he was selected as a deputy to the Supreme People's Assembly. During the 1970s, Yon further advanced in the Party and by the middle 1980s he was regarded as the fourth most powerful person in North Korea after Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong-il, and veteran marshal and defence minister O Jin-u. He was a candidate member of the Politburo from the early 1980s and became Prime Minister of North Korea in 1989. During this era, Yon served as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Antonio Yon Sosa
Marco Antonio Yon Sosa (7 September 1929 – May 18, 1970) was leader of the Revolutionary Movement 13th November, a Guatemalan guerrilla organization. Yon Sosa left the Rebel Armed Forces in 1969. He was affiliated to the Fourth International from 1963 until 1966 when he broke with the International over alleged misappropriation of funds. Yon was killed in a shootout with Mexican border police in 1970, in the Chiapas area near the Guatemalan border. The circumstances of his death, however are disputed; Robert Lamberg notes in 1972 that Yon had been underground by that point for quite some time with the general circumstances making an armed confrontation with border forces unlikely. Gino Perente notes that Yon Sosa hadn't died in some act of revolutionary heroism at all, but in a drunken car accident in downtown Guatemala City. Yon participated in the November 13, 1960, military uprising against president Miguel Ydígoras. Yon's father was a Chinese merchant, and under hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Yon
Michael Yon (born 1964) ''''. Published January 21, 2008. Retrieved August 3, 2009. is an American writer and photographer. He served in the Special Forces in the early-1980s, and he became a writer in the mid-1990s. He focused on military writing after the . Yon has been embedded on numerous occasions with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pietro Yon
Pietro Alessandro Yon (August 8, 1886 – November 22, 1943) was an Italian-born organist and composer who made his career in the United States. Early life Yon was born in Settimo Vittone, (Piedmont, Italy). His earliest studies in music began at age 6 with Angelo Burbatti, organist at the Cathedral of Ivrea. At the conservatory of Milan he was Polibio Fumagalli, Polibio Fumagalli's pupil. From 1901-1904 he was enrolled at the conservatory in Turin, studying organ with Remondi and composition with Giovanni Bolzoni (composer), Giovanni Bolzoni. He then attended the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, studying organ with , piano with Bustini and Giovanni Sgambati, Sgambati, and De Sanctis in composition. In 1905 he graduated with the academy's first-prize medal and won a medal from the minister of public instruction. From 1905 to 1907 he served as assistant organist under his former teacher Renzi at St. Peter's Basilica, St. Peter's in the Vatican. Relocation to America In t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom A
Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name) Characters * Tom Anderson, a character in '' Beavis and Butt-Head'' * Tom Beck, a character in the 1998 American science-fiction disaster movie '' Deep Impact'' * Tom Buchanan, the main antagonist from the 1925 novel ''The Great Gatsby'' * Tom Cat, a character from the ''Tom and Jerry'' cartoons * Tom Lucitor, a character from the American animated series '' Star vs. the Forces of Evil'' * Tom Natsworthy, from the science fantasy novel '' Mortal Engines'' * Tom Nook, a character in ''Animal Crossing'' video game series * Tom Servo, a robot character from the ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' television series * Tom Sloane, a non-adult character from the animated sitcom ''Daria'' * Talking Tom, the protagonist from the ''Talking Tom & Friends'' franchise * Tom, a character from the '' Deltora Quest'' books by Emily Rodda * Tom, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
