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Echenique
Echenique is a surname of Basque origin. Echenique, (spelled ''Etxenike'' in standard Basque means "close to the house". Other spelling variants are ''Echeñique'' and ''Etchenique''. Notable people with the surname include: Sport *Karla Echenique, Dominican volleyball player * José Echenique, Venezuelan basketball player *Rafael Echenique, Argentine golfer Music * Cecilia Echenique, Chilean singer-songwriter *Benjamín Juárez Echenique, Mexican popular musical conductor * José Miguel "Negro" Piñera Echenique, Chilean musician Politics * Gertrudis Echenique, Chilean First Lady between 1896 and 1901. Wife of Federico Errázuriz Echaurren *José Rufino Echenique José Rufino Pompeyo Echenique Benavente (November 16, 1808 in Puno, Peru – June 16, 1887 in Lima, Peru) served as the 12th President of Peru from 1851 to 1855. He participated in the Peruvian War of Independence. In 1851, Echenique won the p ..., Peruvian politician. President of Peru from 1851 until 1855 * Pablo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pedro Miguel Etxenike
Pedro Miguel Etxenike Landiribar, also known as Pedro Miguel Echenique (born 8 June 1950, Isaba, Navarre), is a theoretical solid-state physicist, Professor of Condensed Matter Physics at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), and former minister of the Basque Autonomous Community. Early life and education Etxenike was the son of the medical doctor Pedro Etxenike and the teacher Felisa Landiribar. Growing up with one brother and one sister in a small navarrese village (with about 800 inhabitants at the time) he later attended a Capuchin boarding school He attended the University of Navarre and graduated in Physics in 1972, receiving the Special Degree Prize and End-of-Studies Award. In 1973 began his studies at the University of Cambridge with a March stipend. In 1976 he obtained his Ph.D. (with a thesis directed by John Pendry) and in 1977 he received (directed by Rufus Ritchie) a Doctorate in Physics from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, for which he receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pablo Echenique Robba
Pablo Echenique Robba (born 28 August 1978 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina) is an Argentine-born Spanish physicist and politician. He came to Spain aged 13 to live in Zaragoza. He had Spinal muscular atrophy. "En la izquierda a veces la gente se vuelve anticientífica" Published by Materia on 30 May 2014 Consulted 26 June 2014 Echenique was elected a member of the in the April 2019 Spanish general election< ...
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Karla Echenique
Karla Miguelina Echenique (born May 16, 1986 in Santo Domingo) is a volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who played as a setter for the Women's National Team at the 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament in Japan, but did not qualify for the 2008 Summer Olympics. She, and the Dominican Republic team did, however, qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics, where they finished 5th. Personal Life: Karla has a brother and more than one sister. One of her sisters is Michelle Echenique who is a current student at The University of Florida. Career She won the Silver Medal with the National Junior Team at 2002 NORCECA Youth Girls' Volleyball Championship and was selected tournament "Best Setter". Same year she participated at the 2002 World Championships with the National Senior Team at the age of 15, making her the youngest player at the competition. She helped her team to reach the 13th place. In beach volleyball she won the bronze medal at the 2006 National Championship, pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rafael Echenique
Rafael Echenique (born 18 October 1980) is an Argentine professional golfer. Early life and amateur career Echenique was born in San Luis, Argentina. He won the Argentine Amateur Rankings in 1997/98. Professional career Echenique turned pro in 1999. Having failed to gain a place on the European Tour via the qualifying school on four occasions, he finally won a card on the main tour by virtue of finishing seventh on the 2006 Challenge Tour, helped by winning the Telia Challenge Waxholm in Sweden. He also finished second in the Apulia San Domenico Grand Final. Later that year he won the biggest title of his career, the Argentine Open in his home country. Echenique's first year on the European Tour was highlighted by a second-place finish in the TCL Classic as he just did enough to retain his playing privileges for the following season. In 2008, a tie for fourth in the Celtic Manor Wales Open and seventh in the Omega European Masters, along with several other top twenty finishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Bryce
Alfredo Bryce Echenique (born February 19, 1939) is a Peruvian writer born in Lima. He has written numerous books and short stories. Early days Bryce was born to a Peruvian family of upper class, related to the Scottish-Peruvian businessman John Weddle Bryce (1817 in Edinburgh – 9 March 1888), ancestor of the Marquesses of Milford-Haven and of the Duchesses of Abercon and Westminster. He was the third son and the fourth of the five children of the banker Francisco Bryce Arróspide and his wife, Elena Echenique Basombrío, granddaughter of the former President José Rufino Echenique. Bryce studied elementary education at Inmaculado Corazón school, and high school at Santa María school and Saint Paul's College, a British boarding school for boys in Lima. Upon the wish of his family, Bryce Echenique studied law at the National University of San Marcos, where he obtained his degree in 1964. His literary interest nevertheless prevailed and so, shortly afterwards, he complet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Rufino Echenique
José Rufino Pompeyo Echenique Benavente (November 16, 1808 in Puno, Peru – June 16, 1887 in Lima, Peru) served as the 12th President of Peru from 1851 to 1855. He participated in the Peruvian War of Independence. In 1851, Echenique won the presidential elections to succeed Ramón Castilla. Under his government, the first civil laws of Peru were promulgated, and slavery was abolished. The finalizing phase of the construction of the Tacna-Arica railroad was also completed. Echenique was overthrown by a liberal revolution led by Ramón Castilla in 1855 after a ball hosted by his wife, Victoria Tristán. He served as the President of the Chamber of Deputies in 1864, and President of the Senate from 1868 to 1871. His son, Juan Martín Echenique, was also active in Peruvian politics. Echenique hosted the Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (, ; ; 7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French Post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastián Piñera
Miguel Juan Sebastián Piñera Echenique OMCh (; born 1 December 1949) is a Chilean billionaire businessman and politician who served as president of Chile from 2010 to 2014 and again from 2018 to 2022. The son of a Christian Democratic politician and diplomat, he studied business administration at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and economics at Harvard University. He had an estimated net worth of 2.8 billion dollars in 2019 according to ''Forbes'', making him one of the richest people in Chile. A member of the liberal-conservative National Renewal party, he served as a senator for the East Santiago district from 1990 to 1998, running for the presidency in the 2005 election, which he lost to Michelle Bachelet, and again, successfully, in 2010. As a result, he became Chile's first conservative president to be democratically elected since 1958, and the first to hold the office since the departure of Augusto Pinochet in 1990. Following the social unrest t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Echenique
José Echenique (born November 28, 1965 in Caracas) is a retired male basketball player from Venezuela, who played as a power forward during his career. He competed for the Venezuela national basketball team The Venezuela national basketball team is organized and run by the Venezuelan Basketball Federation (FVB). ( es, link=no, Federación Venezolana de Baloncesto) They won the 2015 FIBA AmeriCup. Venezuela qualified for two Summer Olympiads: 1992 ... at the 1990 FIBA World Championship. Personal life Echenique is the father of Venezuela national team member Gregory Echenique. References 1965 births Living people Venezuelan men's basketball players 1990 FIBA World Championship players Sportspeople from Caracas Power forwards (basketball) 20th-century Venezuelan people 21st-century Venezuelan people {{Venezuela-basketball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilia Echenique
Cecilia Echenique (October 28, 1957) is a Chilean singer-songwriter. Among Chilean musicians, she is one of the most versatile and thus remains vigent in the current Chilean musical landscape. She studied at the "Instituto de Música" de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile". She is most known for having been part of the children's music group "Mazapan" for 10 years. More recently, she was vocal coach for the "La Paz" team in the Chilean TV show '' Todos a Coro'', hosted by Rafael Araneda and Karen Doggenweiler. She and her chorus obtained the third place. Biography In 1980, the singer had her musical debut with the children's music group Mazapán, with whom she recorded multiple albums and hosted a TV program in Canal 11 and later in Televisión Nacional de Chile. Meanwhile, she also pursued her interest for her own generation's music: Canto Nuevo. Along with Eduardo Peralta, she inaugurated Café del Cerro, a key location in the development of the musical movement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gertrudis Echenique
Gertrudis Josefa del Carmen Echenique y Mujica (1849–1928) was First Lady of Chile between 1896 and 1901. She was born in Santiago, the daughter of Juan José Echenique Bascuñán and of his second wife, Jesús Mujica Echaurren. She married Federico Errázuriz Echaurren in 1868, and together they had two children: Federico (1869-1897) and Elena Errázuriz Echeñique (1870-1966). After the death of her husband, she withdrew to her hacienda of ''El Huique'', in the province of Colchagua, which she continued to manage until her death. See also *First Ladies of Chile The First Lady of Chile ( es, Primera Dama de Chile) is the title for the wife of the president of Chile, who is traditionally responsible for directing and coordinating activities in the social field of the presidency and also accompany the pres ... External linksGenealogical chart of Errázuriz familyMuseum of ''El Huique'' 1849 births 1928 deaths People from Santiago First ladies of Chile Chilea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Piñera
José Piñera Echenique (born October 6, 1948) is a Chilean economist, one of the famous Chicago Boys, who served as minister of Labor and Social Security, and of Mining, in the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. He is the architect of Chile's private pension system based on personal retirement accounts. Piñera has been called "the world's foremost advocate of privatizing public pension systems" as well as "the Pension Reform Pied Piper" (by the Wall Street Journal). He is now Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank based in Washington, President of the International Center for Pension Reform based in Santiago, Senior Fellow at the Italian libertarian think tank Istituto Bruno Leoni, and member of the advisory board of the Vienna-based Educational Initiative for Central and Eastern Europe. He has a master's degree and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University. Piñera is a board member in Chile and an active supporter of SOS Childre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamín Juárez Echenique
Benjamin Juarez Echenique is a music conductor and scholar with over four decades of experience in the arts, and was born in Mexico City on July 17, 1951. He studied in Mexico at the National School of Music, National University of Mexico, the California Institute of the Arts, where he obtained his Master of Fine Arts in Music, as well as in Italy, France and England. He was principal guest conductor and assistant conductor of the State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra from 1979 to 1981; associate conductor of the Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra from 1983 to 1987; and music director of the Gran Festival de la Ciudad de Mexico in 1989-90. He has lectured and run workshops on music and the arts in Mexico and abroad, where in 1984, Juarez was honored as the first Latin American to conduct an orchestra in China. He was Head of the Music Department at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Musical Director of the Mexico City’s Grand Festival, and taught at the UNA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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