Placido may refer to:
People
Surname
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José Plácido de Castro (1873–1908), Brazilian soldier and politician
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Michele Placido, (born 1946) Italian actor and director
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Plácido Vega y Daza
Plácido de la Vega Daza y Colón de Portugal (1830–1878) was a General and Governor of the Mexican state Sinaloa.
Origins and ancestry
He descended directly from Cristopher Columbus' great-great grandson, the Admiral and 3rd Duke of Veragua a ...
, (1830-1878) 19th century Mexican general and politician
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Mike De Placido, (born 1954) English footballer
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Violante Placido
Maria Violante Placido (; born 1 May 1976) is an Italian actress and singer.
Early life
Placido was born in Rome, Italy. She is the daughter of actor-director Michele Placido and actress Simonetta Stefanelli.
Career Film
Her film debut was al ...
, actress, singer, and daughter of Michele Placido
Given name
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Placido (Tonkawa leader) (c.1790—1862) chieftain of the Tonkawa Indians of Texas
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Placido Columbani, 18th-century Italian architectural designer, who worked chiefly in England
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Placido Costanzi
Placido Costanzi (1702–1759) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period.
Placido Costanzi was born in 1702 to a family of gem-makers in Rome. He was exposed to art at a very young age, and became a pupil of Benedetto Luti and painted m ...
, (1702-1759) Italian painter
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Plácido Domingo
José Plácido Domingo Embil (born 21 January 1941) is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, regularly performing in Italian, French ...
, (born 1941) Spanish operatic tenor
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Placido Falconio
Placido Falconio, also called Falconi in some sources, was an Italian composer of the 16th century. His birth and death dates are unknown; his first publication dates from 1575, his last from 1588.
In 1549, he entered a Benedictine monastery, and ...
, aka "Falconi", 16th-century Italian composer
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Plácido Polanco, (born 1975) Dominican Major League Baseball player
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Placido Puccinelli Padre Placido Puccinelli (1609–1685) was a Cassinese monk, historian and scholar. He was born at Pescia and educated at the abbey of S. Maria in Florence. He began his monastic career on 15 January 1626. For a long time, he was itinerant, tra ...
, (1609-1685) 17th-century Cassinese monk, historian and scholar
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Placido Rizzotto
Placido Rizzotto (; 2 January 1914 – 10 March 1948) was an Italian partisan, socialist peasant and trade union leader from Corleone, who was kidnapped and murdered by Sicilian Mafia boss Luciano Leggio on 10 March 1948. Before he was killed, R ...
(1914–1948), Italian partisan, socialist peasant and trade union leader
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Plácido Rodriguez
Plácido Rodríguez C.M.F. (born October 11, 1940) is a Mexican-born American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Lubbock in Texas from 1994 to 2015 and as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Anton ...
, (born 1940) Mexican-born priest and current bishop of Lubbock, Texas
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Placido Zurla, (1769-1834) 19th-century Italian writer and Cardinal Vicar of Rome
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Placido Flamingo
The Muppets are a group of puppet characters created by Jim Henson, many for the purpose of appearing on the children's television program ''Sesame Street''. Some of the best known Muppets on ''Sesame Street'' include Big Bird, Oscar the Grouch, ...
, an opera-singing flamingo on Sesame Street named after Plácido Domingo, mainly appearing in the 1980s
* (1809–1844), also known as Plácido, Cuban poet and revolutionary
Places
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Plácido de Castro, Acre, Brazil
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Plácido Aderaldo Castelo, a stadium in Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
Films
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''Plácido'' (film), a 1961 Spanish film directed by Luis García Berlanga
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