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Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries
**Spanish cuisine
Other places
* Spanish, Ontario, Cana ...
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Portuguese
Portuguese may refer to:
* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance language
*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
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surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community.
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Batista (footballer, born 1955)
João Batista da Silva (born 8 March 1955), known as Batista, is a former Brazilian footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.
He competed in the men's tournament at the 1976 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in football at the ...
, Brazilian football player
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Dave Bautista
David Michael Bautista Jr. (born January 18, 1969) is an American actor and retired professional wrestler. He had several stints in WWE between 2002 and 2019. In his acting career, he is most widely known for his portrayal of Drax the Destro ...
, American actor and professional wrestler, also known as Batista
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Edina Alves Batista
Edina Alves Batista (born 10 January 1980) is a Brazilian association football referee.
Career
She was an official at two games in April 2018 at the 2018 Copa América Femenina held in Chile.
She officiated several matches at the 2019 FIFA ...
, Brazilian football referee
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Eike Batista
Eike Fuhrken Batista da Silva (; born 3 November 1956) is a Brazilian-German serial entrepreneur who made and lost a fortune in mining and oil and gas industries. He engaged in a quest to promote Brazil's infrastructure with large-scale project ...
, Brazilian mining businessman
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Felix Batista
Felix I. Batista (disappeared 10 December 2008) is a Cuban-American anti- kidnapping expert and former U.S. Army major who has negotiated resolution to nearly 100 kidnapping and ransom cases, dozens of them in Mexico. Batista was a consultant ...
, American security expert who was kidnapped in 2008
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Fulgencio Batista
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (; ; born Rubén Zaldívar, January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and as its U.S.-backed military dictator ...
, Cuban general and president
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Miguel Batista
Miguel Descartes Batista Jerez (born February 19, 1971) is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Florida Marlins, Chicago Cubs, Montreal Expos, Kansas City Royals, Ari ...
, Dominican baseball player
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Randas Batista
Randas José Vilela Batista (Passos, Minas Gerais, 1947) is a Brazilian medical doctor and cardiac surgeon. He graduated in medicine at the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR) in 1972. After that, he moved to United States to do residency. Twelve ...
, Brazilian medical doctor and cardiac surgeon
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Sergio Batista
Sergio Daniel "Checho" Batista (; born 9 November 1962) is an Argentine football manager and former international player.
As a footballer he played as a midfield for Argentinos Juniors, River Plate, Nueva Chicago, Tosu Futures and All Boys. H ...
, Argentine football player and coach
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Tony Batista
Leocadio Francisco "Tony" Batista Hernandez (born December 9, 1973) is a Dominican former Major League Baseball infielder. He played in the major leagues from to and to , and with the SoftBank Hawks of the Japanese Pacific League in .
Care ...
, Dominican baseball player
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Wesley Batista
Wesley Mendonça Batista (born 8 December 1972) is a Brazilian billionaire businessman, and founder of JBS S.A. Batista was the president of the JBS group and was responsible for the implementation of JBS operations in the US since the acquisit ...
(born 1972), Brazilian billionaire businessman
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William Batista
William Rocha Batista (born 27 July 1980) is a former Brazilian professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder or forward.
Career
Batista started his career in the small Brazilian club Portuguesa Santista at the age of 16, and ...
, Brazilian footballer
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Angel Batista
Angelo "Angel" Juan Marcos Batista (; Spanish ) is a fictional character in the Showtime television series '' Dexter'' and the novels by Jeff Lindsay upon which it is based. He is portrayed in the television series by David Zayas. Batista spen ...
, a character in ''Dexter''
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Batiste (disambiguation) Batiste is a lightweight woven fabric.
Batiste may also refer to:
People
* Batiste (surname)
* Batiste Madalena (1902–1988), American commercial artist
See also
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* Baptiste (disambiguation)
*Baptist (disambiguation)
*Batista
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Baptiste (disambiguation)
Baptiste may refer to:
*Baptiste (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname
*Baptiste, Centre, a commune of Haiti
*Baptiste, Sud, a village in the Aquin commune of Haiti
* ''Baptiste'' (TV series), a BBC TV se ...
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Baptista (disambiguation)
Baptista is a Portuguese term meaning Baptist. It may refer to:
* Baptista (surname) Portuguese surname meaning "Baptist"
*Baptista Lake titi, a species of monkey found in Brazil
* Joao Baptista de Ajuda, a city of Benin
* Estádio Lourival Baptis ...
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Baptist (disambiguation)
Baptist or baptists or ''variation'', may refer to:
Religion
* A person who baptizes people, who performs a baptism
** John the Baptist, Jewish religious figure and element of Christian religion
* The Baptists, a Protestant Christian denomination
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Batista (grape)
Canari noir is a red French wine grape variety that has been historically grown in the Ariège department in the foothills of the French Pyrénées. However DNA profiling in 2001 showed that plantings of a grape called ''Gamay Luverdon'' growing ...
, Spanish name for the French wine grape Canari noir
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Batista procedure
The Batista procedure (also called a reduction left ventriculoplasty) was an experimental heart procedure that proposed the reversal of the effects of remodeling in cases of end-stage dilated cardiomyopathy refractory to conventional medical therap ...
, a surgical operation
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Batiste (surname)
Batiste is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Alvin Batiste (1932–2007), American jazz clarinetist
*D'Anthony Batiste (born 1982), American footballer
*Édouard Batiste (1820–1876), French composer and organist
*John Batiste ...
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Battista
Battista is a given name and surname which means Baptist in Italian.
Given named
* Battista Agnese (died 1564), cartographer from the Republic of Genoa, who worked in the Venetian Republic
* Battista Dossi, also known as Battista de Luteri, Ital ...
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Bautista
Bautista (Spanish for "baptist") is a Spanish language surname also used as a first name, often in reference to John the Baptist. Notable people with the surname include:
*Adolfo Bautista (born 1979), Mexican footballer
*Alba Bautista (born 2002) ...
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Portuguese-language surnames
Spanish-language surnames