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Pio (given Name)
Pio is a masculine given name. People with the name include: * Padre Pio (1887–1968), stigmatic Capuchin friar, Roman Catholic saint born Francesco Forgione * Pío Baroja (1872–1956), Spanish writer * Pío Cabanillas Gallas (1923–1991), Spanish jurist and politician * Pío Collivadino (1865–1949), Argentine painter * Pío Corcuera (1921–2011), Argentine footballer * Pío del Pilar (1860–1931), Filipino revolutionary general * Pio Fedi (1815–1892), Italian sculptor * Pio Filippani Ronconi (1920–2010) Italian Waffen-SS soldier and orientalist * Pío García-Escudero (born 1952), Spanish architect and politician * Pio Joris (1843–1922), Italian painter * Pio Laghi (1922–2009), Italian Roman Catholic cardinal * Pio Laporte (1878–1930), Canadian politician and physician * Pío Leyva (1917–2006), Cuban singer and composer * Pio Loterio (died 1591), Roman Catholic prelate and Bishop of Fondi * Pio Marchi (1895–?), Italian footballer * Pio Marmaï (born 1984 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padre Pio
Francesco Forgione, OFM Cap., better known as Padre Pio and as Saint Pius of Pietrelcina ( it, Pio da Pietrelcina; 25 May 188723 September 1968), was an Italian Franciscan Capuchin friar, priest, stigmatist, and mystic. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church, celebrated on 23 September. Padre Pio joined the Capuchins at fifteen, spending most of his religious life in the convent of San Giovanni Rotondo. In 1918, his body was marked by stigmata, leading to several investigations by the Holy See, who also imposed temporary limitations on his public appearances. He was involved in the construction of the Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza, a hospital built near the convent of San Giovanni Rotondo. From the appearance of his stigmata until his death, Pio de Pietrelcina was the object of growing popularity among believers, attracting many devotees to San Giovanni Rotondo. Multiple mystical phenomena were reported throughout his life. After his death, his devotion spread ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pio Marmaï
Pio Marmaï (born 13 July 1984) is a French actor. He has appeared in more than twenty films since 2008. Early life and education Marmaï was born on 13 July 1984. His mother is a former costume designer at the Opéra de Strasbourg, and his father a set designer. Marmaï studied at the Scuola Commedia dell'Arte and Créteil Conservatoire in Paris, and drama school at Saint-Étienne Saint-Étienne (; frp, Sant-Etiève; oc, Sant Estève, ) is a city and the prefecture of the Loire department in eastern-central France, in the Massif Central, southwest of Lyon in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Saint-Étienne is the .... Filmography Theatre References External links * 1984 births Living people Actors from Strasbourg French male film actors French male stage actors French male television actors 21st-century French male actors {{France-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pío Valenzuela
Pío Valenzuela y Alejandrino (July 11, 1869 – April 6, 1956) was a Filipino physician and revolutionary leader. At the age of 23, he joined the society of Katipunan, a movement which sought the independence of the Philippines from Spanish colonial rule and started the Philippine Revolution. Together with Andrés Bonifacio and Emilio Jacinto, they formed the secret chamber of the society called ''Camara Reina''. He took charge of the publication of ''Ang Kalayaan'', Katipunan's first and only official publication. He was the one who tried to convince the exiled José Rizal to join the revolutionary movement. When the Katipunan was discovered, he fled to Balintawak (now part of Quezon City) on August 20, 1896, but he later availed of an amnesty that the Spanish colonial government offered and he surrendered on September 1, 1896. He was deported to Spain where he was tried and imprisoned in Madrid. He was later transferred to Málaga, and then to a Spanish outpost in Africa. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pio Tuwai
Pio Tuwai is a Fiji rugby union player. He is currently playing for the Fiji sevens team. Tuwai played for the Sri Lankan Army in 2014. He returned to the Fiji sevens team in 2015 and played at the Hong Kong Sevens The Hong Kong Sevens () is an rugby sevens tournament held annually in Hong Kong on a weekend in late March or early April. Considered the premier tournament on the World Rugby Sevens Series competition, the Hong Kong Sevens is currently the s .... References External links Zimbio Bio Fiji international rugby sevens players Living people Fijian rugby union players 1983 births People from Yasawa Rugby union players from Ba Province {{Fiji-rugbyunion-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pio Bosco Tikoisuva
Pio Bosco Tikoisuva (born 1947 in Taveuni), is a Fijian former rugby union footballer and diplomat. Rugby career Tikoisuva played 19 tests for Fiji between 1968 and 1979. Tikoisiva won his first Test cap in 1968 against Tonga. As he was aged 21, the Fijian selectors had decided that Tikoisuva was too young for Test rugby, and they omitted from the first Test of the series. After Tonga won 8-6, he was added to the side, and Fiji went on to win the series 2 -1, with a 12-10 victory in Lautoka and a 13-9 win in Suva. After a lengthy tour to New Zealand, where Tikoisuva played in the 9-9 draw with the Maoris, in 1970 Fiji side then toured England for the first time in a 13-match tour. It was extended to 14 matches to allow a match against a Wales " Under 25" team. Fiji did not have much success in the early matches of the tour. They had a better result when played the traditional tour-ending match against the Barbarians. As a result of Tikoisuva’s performance on that tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pio Terei
Pio Keith Terei (born 1958) is a Māori actor, singer and comedian on New Zealand television. Early career Early in his working life he sold light commercial trucks for 14 years. In 1995 Terei headlined his own TV3 show ''Pete and Pio'' with fellow comedian Peter Rowley. After the success of ''Pete and Pio'', Terei led his own show called ''Pio!'', featuring similar skits to his previous programme. It ran from 1997 to 1999 and it was during this period that he hosted the ''Coca Cola Christmas in the Park''. When ''Pio!'' was cancelled in 1999, Terei moved to the TVNZ network. In 2000, Terei led a TVNZ programme entitled ''The Life and Times of Te Tutu'', a comedy following the daily life of an 1800s Māori chief. Under his own Pipi Productions company, ''The Life and Times of Te Tutu'' played weekly until cancelled in 2001, when Terei ceased work under Pipi Productions. Comeback His comeback was with the TV ONE series ''Intrepid Journeys'' - a travel show where each we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pio Sanquirico
Pio Sanquirico (Milan, Austrian Empire 1847–1900) was an Italian painter. Biography Sanquirico mostly exhibited in Italy. In 1880 he was invited to the National Exposition of Fine Arts of Turin, where he exhibited ''In Time of Peace''. In 1881 he exhibited three more paintings, ''Alla frutta'', '' Panfilo Castaldi at the Court of the Sforza'' and ''Discovery and Delusion'' in Turin. The same year he displayed ''Una scoperta''; ''Da Monza a Sesto'', and a series of studies at the Expo of the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Florence. In 1883 he painted and exhibited three new canvases: ''Confidenza''; ''Verrà''; and ''Il pulcino nero'' in Milan.The latter was also exhibited in 1883, at the Exhibition in Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ... with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pío Del Río Hortega
Pío del Río Hortega (1882 – 1945) was a Spanish neuroscientist who discovered microglia. Biography Río Hortega was born in Portillo, Valladolid on 5 May 1882. He studied locally and qualified to practice medicine in 1905. He obtained his doctorate at the University of Madrid by researching the pathology of brain tumours. In 1913, he was funded to study research histology in France and Germany but the outbreak of war between them forced him to return to Spain. He worked with the histologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal and briefly with Wilder Penfield. Ramón y Cajal discovered neurons, Penfield helped explain oligodendroglia, whilst Rio Hortega discovered microglia, which are the cells that protect the brain from infection. He managed to identify microglia between 1919 and 1921 by staining the cells with silver carbonate. His method of staining also led to the discovery of oligodendroglia in 1921, which both he and Penfield are now credited with. However it was Rio Hortega wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pio Gama Pinto
Pio Gama Pinto (31 March 1927 – 24 February 1965) was a Kenyan journalist, politician and freedom fighter. He was a socialist leader who dedicated his life to the liberation of the Kenyan people and became independent Kenya's first martyr in 1965. Early years Pinto was born in Nairobi on 31 March 1927 to a Kenyan Asian family of Konkani Goan Catholic descent. Born to immigrant Goan parents hailing from the Indian Overseas Province of Goa, his father was an official in the colonial government of Kenya while his mother was a housewife. At age eight, he was sent to India for his education and spent the next nine years there, passing his matriculation exams at St. Joseph's High School, Arpora and then studying science at Karnatak College, Dharwar for two years before joining the Indian Air Force in 1944 as an apprentice ground engineer. He then took up a job in the Posts and Telegraph office in Bombay, participated in a general strike and became a founding member of the Goa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pío Pico
Don Pío de Jesús Pico (May 5, 1801 – September 11, 1894) was a Californio politician, ranchero, and entrepreneur, famous for serving as the last governor of California (present-day U.S. state of California) under Mexican rule. A member of the prominent Pico family of California, he was one of the wealthiest men in California at the time and a hugely influential figure in Californian society. His legacy can be seen in the numerous places named after him, such as the city of Pico Rivera, Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, Pio Pico State Historic Park, and the numerous schools that bear his name. Early years Pico, a member of the prominent Pico family of California, was born at Mission San Gabriel Arcángel to José María Pico and his wife María Eustaquia Gutiérrez, with the aid of midwife Eulalia Pérez de Guillén Mariné. His paternal grandmother, María Jacinta de la Bastida, was listed in the 1790 census as ''mulata'', meaning mixed race with African ancestry. His pate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pio Fabio Paolini
Pio Fabio Paolini or Pio Paolini (1620 in Udine – 1692) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Biography He migrated from Udine to Rome to become a pupil of Giovanni Lanfranco. In Rome, his masterwork was a ceiling fresco of ''Hope and Truth'' (1677-1679) for the church of San Carlo al Corso. He was inducted into Academy of San Luca The Accademia di San Luca (the "Academy of Saint Luke") is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its fir ... in 1678. After briefly returning to Udine, he relocated to Sicily, where he initially worked in Catania, then in Messina, where he ultimately was buried. Many of his works in Sicily have been damaged by the earthquakes. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pio Panfili
Pio Panfili (May 5, 1723 – 17 June 1812) was an Italian painter and engraver. Biography He was born in Porto San Giorgio in the province of Fermo. He trained with Antiveduto Grammatica, Natale Ricci in Fermo, and finally in the Accademia Clementina of Bologna, and was awarded Bolognese citizenship. After painting throughout the region, he moved to Bologna in 1767. He died in 1812 in Bologna. He painted the ceiling of the staircase of the monastery of the Padri Conventuali of Montegiorgio and the refectory of the Augustinians in Rimini. Also painted for palaces, including the Palazzo Priorale, and the ceiling of the cathedral of Fermo. He published ''Vedute A ''veduta'' (Italian for "view"; plural ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of ''vedute'' are referred to as ''vedutisti''. Origins This genre ... di Bologna'' with 52 engravings by himself and published by Petronio Dal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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