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Yáñez
Yáñez is a Spanish language surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adrian Yanez (born 1993), American mixed martial artist * Agustín Yáñez (1904–1980), Mexican writer and politician * Desideria Quintanar de Yáñez (1814–1893), first woman to join the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico * Eduardo Yáñez (born 1960) Mexican actor * Emmanuel Yáñez (born 1985), Uruguayan road cyclist * Enrique Yáñez (1908–1990), Mexican architect * Jeronimo Yanez, American police officer who shot Philando Castile * José María Yáñez (1803–1880), Mexican war hero of the war of independence from Spain * Mario Yáñez (born 1993), Mexican squash player * Puri Yáñez (born 1936) Spanish-born surrealist painter * René Yañez (1942–2018), Mexican-American artist, curator, and community activist * Rio Yañez (born 1980), American artist and curator * Rubén Yáñez (born 1993), Spanish footballer * Vicente Yáñez Pinzón Vicente Yáñez Pinzón ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubén Yáñez
Orlando Rubén Yáñez Alabart (born 12 October 1993), known as Rubén Yáñez (), is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Málaga CF as a goalkeeper. Club career Real Madrid Born in Blanes, Girona, Catalonia, Yáñez joined Real Madrid's youth academy from local side Girona FC in 2010, aged 17. He made his senior debut in the 2012–13 season, playing 26 games for the C-team in Segunda División B. In July 2013, Yáñez was promoted to the reserves, in Segunda División. On 8 September 2013, Yáñez made his professional debut, starting in a 0–1 home loss against CD Mirandés. Mainly a backup to Fernando Pacheco during the campaign, he appeared in four matches as his side suffered relegation. After Pacheco's promotion to the main squad, Yáñez was an undisputed starter for the reserves in 2014–15, contributing with 30 appearances. On 5 August 2015 he was promoted to the first team by new manager Rafael Benítez, and made his debut four days later, coming o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Yáñez
Eduardo Yáñez Luévano (; born September 25, 1960) is a Mexican actor. Biography Yáñez was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He lived with his mother. He never met his father. Career Producer Ernesto Alonso saw his potential and gave him his first role in the soap opera '' Quiéreme siempre''. Yáñez played the role of "Carlos" alongside the actress Victoria Ruffo. Yáñez married his first wife, Norma Adriana Garcia, in 1987. They had a son named Eduardo Yáñez Jr. They were divorced three years later. In 1991, Yáñez moved to the United States where he worked on two soap operas for Capital Vision, ''Marielena'' and ''Guadalupe''. Later he worked in Hollywood, on movies such as ''Striptease'', '' Wild Things'', and ''Megiddo''. His most recent American movie was ''The Punisher''. He has also worked in television series such as ''Savannah'' and '' Soldier of Fortune''. He also worked in ''Sleeper Cell'' and ''Cold Case''. In 1996, Yáñez married Francesca Cruz, a Cuban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agustín Yáñez
Agustín Yáñez Delgadillo (May 4, 1904 in Guadalajara, Jalisco – January 17, 1980 in Mexico City) was a Mexican writer and politician who served as Governor of Jalisco and Secretary of Public Education during Gustavo Díaz Ordaz's presidency. He is the author of numerous books and the recipient, in 1952 as member of the ''Academia Mexicana de la Lengua'', in 1973, of the ''Premio Nacional de las Letras''. Al filo del agua (On the Edge of the Storm) is universally acknowledged as his masterpiece, according to the Encyclopedia of Latin American and Caribbean literature, 1900-2003 By Daniel Balderston, Mike Gonzalez, page 616. Education and teaching profession Yáñez studied law in the ''Escuela de Jurisprudencia de Guadalajara'' and philosophy in the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He held several teaching positions throughout his life, he was a professor in the ''Escuela Normal para Señoritas de Guadalajara'' from 1923 to 1929, in the ''Preparatoria José P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enrique Yáñez
Enrique Yáñez (né Enrique Yañez de la Fuente; 1908 – 1990) was a Mexican architect. He was a theorist of functionalist architecture, and specialized in Mexican hospital architecture. Early life and education Enrique Yañez de la Fuente was born on June 17, 1908, in Mexico City. He studied architecture at the then National School of Architecture (now School of Architecture, UNAM) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, he graduated in 1938. While in college, Yañez studied under architects Enrique del Moral, Juan O'Gorman, and José Villagrán García. Career Yáñez is considered to be the cornerstone of Mexican social and hospital architecture, he worked on the building concepts of the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS), and the Institute for Social Security and Services for State Workers (ISSSTE) under Carlos Obregón Santacilia, and published numerous specialist literature. He was a member of Colegio de Arquitectos de la Ciudad de México (CAM-SAM ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón
Vicente Yáñez Pinzón () (c. 1462 – after 1514) was a Spanish navigator and explorer, the youngest of the Pinzón brothers. Along with his older brother, Martín Alonso Pinzón (''c.'' 1441 – ''c.'' 1493), who captained the '' Pinta'', he sailed with Christopher Columbus on the first voyage to the New World, in 1492, as captain of the ''Niña''. Personal life Pinzón was born in Palos de la Frontera on the Atlantic coast of Huelva, youngest of the three prominent sons of seaman Martín Pinzón and his wife Mayor Vicente. His birth year is uncertain; it is generally given as c. 1462; Juan Gil concludes from legal documents that his two daughters were over the age of 20 in 1509, that it certainly cannot be later than 1469. 1469 would be quite a late date, given that there is record of him being a corsair or privateer (with his older brother Martín Alonso) in Mediterranean waters between 1477 and 1479 when other towns failed to provide Palos with an adequate supply of grain i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José María Yáñez
General José María Yáñez Carrillo (1803 – August 10, 1880) was a Mexican hero of the war of independence from Spain and the invasions by France and the United States. He was born to peasants in Valle de Santiago, Guanajuato, and ran way from home as a child to see other lands and customs of the people. At the age of 18, he joined the Ejército Trigarante to fight for the Independence of Mexico where he was promoted, and had his best performance in the defense of Tampico against an expedition eight years after the independence was consummated. In 1838, he contributed to the successful defense of Veracruz against French invaders when they attacked during the ''Pastry War''. On May 20, 1846, he revolted against President Mariano Paredes y Arrillaga, who was a conservative trying to turn the republic into a monarchy. As a general in Jalisco, commanding an army of 500 men and six artillery pieces, he attacked the invading U.S. Army, which had arrived through the San Bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Desideria Quintanar De Yáñez
Desideria Quintanar de Yáñez (1814–1893) was the first woman baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in Mexico. Family life Desideria Quintanar was born in 1814 in Nopala, Hidalgo, Mexico. She married Rafael Yáñez and had three children: José María, Manuel, and Tereza. Her livelihood was that of providing for her family by growing maize and legumes. Between 1840 and 1850, her family prospered financially; they owned several properties in San Sebastián, a town in Nopala and close to Veracruz, where they raised goats, sheep, and other livestock. She lived through the reign of the emperor Maximillian I. Her son, José María, had fought in the anti-monarchical army as a commander against the French intervention in Mexico in the 1860s in Hidalgo. Desideria was eventually widowed. She died in 1893 at the age of 79. Baptism into the LDS Church In February 1880, Desideria claimed to have a dream about a pamphlet called "Una Voz de Amonesta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Yáñez
Mario Yanez (born 29 July 1993 in Mexico City) is a Mexican professional squash player. As of February 2018, he was ranked number 212 in the world, and number 10 in Mexico. He has competed in and reached the final stages of multiple professional PSA World Tour Sports competitions that are a recurring series of events or races, but do not constitute a sports league. Series Sports Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ... tournaments. References 1993 births Living people Mexican male squash players Rochester Yellowjackets men's squash players 21st-century American sportsmen {{Mexico-squash-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puri Yáñez
Puri Yáñez (born 1936, Cartagena, Spain) is a Spanish-born artist known for her surrealist oil paintings. Born in 1936 in Cartagena, Spain, and at the age of three she moved with her family to Mexico due to the fall of the Spanish Republic in 1939. She attended the Women's University of Mexico (Universidad Femenina de México) from 1952 to 1955 and at Faculty of Arts and Design The Faculty of Arts and Design (formerly known as the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas or ENAP), is a college of art in Xochimilco, Mexico City. The school is part the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and is responsible for teaching ... (previously named Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas) from 1956 to 1958. References 1936 births Living people 20th-century Mexican painters 20th-century Spanish painters 20th-century Spanish women artists 21st-century Spanish women artists Mexican surrealist artists Spanish surrealist artists Spanish emigrants to Mexico Mexican women p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
René Yañez
René Yañez (19 September 1942 – 29 May 2018) was a Mexican-American painter, assemblage artist, performance artist, curator and community activist located in San Francisco, California. He was a well-known contributor to the arts of San Francisco and is a co-founder of Galería de la Raza, a non-profit community focused gallery that features Latino and Chicano artists and their allies. In the early 1970s, he was one of the first curators in the United States to introduce Mexico's '' Día de Muertos'' (Day of the Dead) as a contemporary focus and an important cultural celebration. Early life He was born with the name René Yañez-Cirlos on 19 September 1942 in Tijuana, Mexico, and he moved to San Diego, California, with his family in 1954. Yañez became a United States citizen in 1961. He was drafted in to the Vietnam War, and when he was discharged in 1966, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area. Yañez went to school at Merritt College, California College of the Arts, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio Yañez
Rio Yañez (born in 1980) is an American curator and artist. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Biography Rio Yañez was born in 1980 at San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco, California to artists Yolanda Lopez and René Yañez. His parents separated after a few years but they remained as neighbors in the same building in the Mission District in San Francisco. Yañez attended California Institute of the Arts and received a BFA degree in 2005. Rio and René Yañez collaborated on art for many years, starting in 2005. He has been active with his art at Galeria de la Raza, SOMArts, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, among others. Yañez was a member of the food-based art group ''The Great Tortilla Conspiracy ''making tortilla art, other members include Joseph "Jos" Sances, René Yañez, and Art Hazelwood. In 2014, Rio Yañez moved to the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland. After his father passed away in 2018, Rio took up the role as co-curator of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrian Yanez
Adrian Yanez (born November 29, 1993) is an American mixed martial artist who competes in the Bantamweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. As of December 6, 2022, he is #13 in the UFC bantamweight rankings. Background His father being a Golden Gloves winner, Yanez went into boxing from a young age, but later on took up BJJ. He started training MMA at the age of 15, having his first fight at the age of 17. Before the UFC, Yanez worked for the City of Deer Park as a Meter Reader. For most of his mixed martial arts career Yanez trained under late Saul Soliz in Houston, TX. Mixed martial arts career Early career After finishing a successful 6-0 amateur career with four consecutive TKO’s, Yanez made his professional debut at just 20 years old, and ended with Yanez victorious by TKO in the third round. Suffering his first defeat against Levi Mowles in his very next bout, having no answer for the wrestling and ground and pound, he lost via unanimous decision. The Tex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
