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Barros
Barros is a Portuguese and Galician surname. It may refer to: People *Alejandra Barros, Mexican actress * Alessandra Barros (born 1979), Brazilian curler *Alex Barros, Brazilian motorcycle road racer *Ana Beatriz Barros, Brazilian model * Ana P. Barros, American civil and environmental engineer *Antônio Carlos de Mariz e Barros, Brazilian navy officer * César Barros (fencer), Chilean fencer * Augusto Barros (1929-1998), Portuguese painter, also known as Barros, and Augusto Barros Ferreira *Dana Barros, United States basketball player *Diego Barros Arana, Chilean educator, diplomat, and historian * Flavio Barros, Brazilian footballer * Giovanna Barros (born 2001), Brazilian curler *Guillermo Barros Schelotto, Argentine footballer * Gustavo Barros Schelotto, Argentine footballer and twin brother of Guillermo * Iván Fandiño Barros (1980–2017), Spanish bullfighter * José Barros, Colombian musician *Juan José Barros, Colombian-born Peruvian footballer *Leila Barros, Brazilian vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusto Barros
Augusto Barros Ferreira, better known as Augusto Barros, and simply Barros, is a Portuguese painter born on August 7, 1929, in Lisbon (Portugal), and dead on February 10, 1998, in Lisbon. Abstractionist painter, and emblematic figure of the Parisian district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés of the 1970s. Biography Childhood and beginnings in Portugal Augusto Barros is painting since the age of 10. His parents have a neighbor painter, which clearly sparked him an early interest in painting. As a teenager, he often likes to go for a stroll at the Port of Lisbon, and contemplate the ocean. He sets himself the goal of going to the American continent, and for that purpose he learns English, on his own, through books and thanks to the travelers he meets at the port (so that at the age of 29, he was one of the interpreters of Queen Elizabeth II, visiting Portugal in 1957). This linguistic competence will prove very useful for the studies he will undertake later in Germany, instead of be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillermo Barros Schelotto
Guillermo Barros Schelotto (; born 4 May 1973) is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a forward. He is the current manager of Vélez Sarsfield. Barros Schelotto played 16 years of his professional career in the Argentine Primera División (six with Gimnasia La Plata and 10 with Boca Juniors). With these two teams, he won a total 17 official titles (one with Gimnasia and 16 with Boca). In 2007, Barros Schelotto left Boca Juniors for Columbus Crew in Major League Soccer, his first move outside his native country. The forward won one league championship and two Supporters' Shields with Columbus as well as two individual awards, before moving back to Gimnasia La Plata in 2011. Playing career Club Argentina Born with a twin brother, Gustavo, Barros Schelotto was hence nicknamed ''El Mellizo'' ("the twin"). He started playing professionally at the end of 1991 with his hometown team Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata, where he scored 45 goals in 181 matches i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diego Barros Arana
Diego Jacinto Agustín Barros Arana (; August 16, 1830 – November 4, 1907) was a Chilean professor, legislator, minister and diplomat. He is considered the most important Chilean historian of the 19th century. His main work ''General History of Chile'' () is a 15-volume work that spanned over 300 years of the nation's history. Barros Arana was of Basque descent. He also was an educator and a . He was director of the Instituto Nacional, a public high school, and of the University of Chile
The University of Chile () is a public university, public research university in Santiago ...
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Ana Beatriz Barros
Ana Beatriz Barros (born 29 May 1982) is a Brazilian model, known for her multiple appearances in the ''Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue'' and for her work with Intimissimi, GUESS (clothing), GUESS, Bebe stores, Bebe, Victoria's Secret, Chanel cosmetics, and Jennifer Lopez's JLO by Jennifer Lopez, JLO fashion line. Early life Barros was born in the town of Itabira, Minas Gerais, Brazil, to Sônia, a housewife, and Reinato Barros, a mechanical engineer. Later, her family moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she spent her childhood. She is of German people, German, Portuguese people, Portuguese, Italian people, Italian and Spanish people, Spanish descent. Career Modeling career 1990s When she was 13, Barros and her older sister, Patricia, were vacationing in Rio de Janeiro when they were spotted by a representative from Elite Model Management. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rui Barros
Rui Gil Soares de Barros (born 24 November 1965) is a Portuguese former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder, currently a manager. He played with success in Portugal (at Porto), Italy – at Juventus – and France (two clubs), later becoming a manager. Over eight seasons, he amassed Primeira Liga totals of 191 matches and 43 goals, all with Porto. Barros represented Portugal on 36 occasions, scoring four goals. Club career Early years and Porto Born in Paredes, Porto District, Barros began his senior career with S.C. Covilhã in the Segunda Liga. He helped Varzim S.C. to promote to the Primeira Liga in his second season as a professional. Barros signed with FC Porto for 1987–88, immediately having an impact: 12 goals in the league, which ended with the championship conquest, also being essential as the northerners began the campaign with two major achievements, the European Super Cup against AFC Ajax and the Intercontinental Cup against Peñarol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dana Barros
Dana Bruce Barros (born April 13, 1967) is an American former professional basketball player from the National Basketball Association (NBA). In college, he played at Boston College, finishing as one of the school's all-time leading scorers. He was the head men's basketball coach at Newbury College in Massachusetts. He is now the owner of AAU Basketball organization, the "Dana Barros Gladiators", based in Avon, Massachusetts, and now Stoughton, Massachusetts. He is of Cape Verdean descent. High school career Barros was a four-year basketball starter at Xaverian Brothers High School in Westwood, Massachusetts, where he tallied 1,821 points, including a record 57 points in a tournament game versus Needham. The 1985 Catholic Conference MVP and Boston Globe All Scholastic averaged over 30 points per game during his senior campaign in an era before the 3-point shot was implemented. He is now in the Xaverian Brothers High School "Hall of Fame". College career Barros played college ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antônio Carlos De Mariz E Barros
Antônio Carlos de Mariz e Barros (7 March 1835 – 28 March 1866) was a Brazilian soldier, combatant in the Uruguayan Campaign and in the Paraguayan War. Mariz e Barros was the son of chief of squad Joaquim José Inácio, Viscount of Inhaúma, Joaquim José Inácio, the viscount of Inhaúma, and his wife, Maria José de Mariz Sarmento. He studied at the Brazilian Navy Academy, having reached the rank of first lieutenant. Mariz e Barros temporarily commanded the yacht ''Paraibano'', and effectively the gunboat ''Campista'' and the corvettes ''Belmonte'', ''Recife'', and the battleship ''Brazilian ironclad Tamandaré, Tamandaré'', gaining prominence on the battlefield during the Uruguay Campaign, where he carried out a successful raid on Paysandú and another against the Sevastopol fort. He was awarded the Order of the Rose after accompanying emperor Pedro II of Brazil, Pedro II on his journey to the North and the Legion of Honour, Legion of Honor for saving a French barge that w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Barros
Alexandre Barros (born October 18, 1970) is a Brazilian people, Brazilian former professional motorcycle road racing, road racer who is a 7-time 500cc/MotoGP race winner and also a race winner in Superbike World Championship. After a long Grand Prix motorcycle racing, Grand Prix career, in 2006 he moved to the Superbike World Championship. He returned to MotoGP for 2007, but retired by the end of the season. Career Early career Barros started racing motorcycles at the age of 8, when he won on his debut in the Brazilian minibike championship. In the next two years, he was twice Brazilian moped champion. In 1981, he was the Brazilian 50cc Champion, and in 1985 he won the title of Brazilian's 250cc category. The year of 1986 saw his international début in the 80cc category—he lied about his age so he could race at the Spanish Grand Prix at the age of 15. He finished the championship in sixteenth place, scoring 6 points. In 1987, he also raced the 80cc championship, finishing seve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Barros Schelotto
Gustavo Barros Schelotto (born 4 May 1973) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Playing career Born in La Plata, Barros Schelotto came through the youth system at Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata with his twin brother Guillermo. Gustavo made his Primera debut against Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield on 4 October 1992. They helped the team to win the ''Copa Centenario'' (the AFA Centenary Cup) in 1993. In 1996, Guillermo was signed by Argentine giants Boca Juniors and Gustavo followed him there in 1997. He was part of 3 national leagues winning squads and helped the team to win the 2000 Libertadores Cup and the Copa Intercontinental later that year. Barros Schelotto played 65 games for Boca in all competitions, scoring 6 goals. In January 2001, Barros Schelotto had a small ''La Liga'' stint, joining Spanish side Villarreal CFbr>before returning to Argentina to join Racing Club de Avellaneda where he won the ''Apertura'' 2001. He then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pía Barros
Pía Barros Bravo (born 20 January 1956) is a Chilean writer, best known for her short stories. She is associated with her country's literary Generation of '80. Biography Pía Barros left Melipilla, the city where she grew up, "without sorrow", together with "a good girl's destiny and the memory of the mare to which, from the age of seven, she told her poems." She moved to Santiago to study pedagogy in Spanish. There she also attended the workshop of Carlos Ruiz-Tagle (later, she herself would hold a famous workshop), who recommended that she stop "perpetrating poems on defenseless people" and devote herself to narrative. In 1989 she was a visiting professor at the University of Oregon, United States. Pía Barros, who declares herself "a very honored feminist", has stood out for her short stories, although she has also written some novels. In addition, she has published some 30 Artist's book, object books with literary material illustrated by prominent Chilean graphic artists, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Barros D'Sa
Lisa Barros D'Sa (born May 1974) is a film director, writer and producer. Barros D'Sa studied English at University of Oxford and holds an MA in Screenwriting from London University of the Arts. She is best known for co-directing and producing the 2019 feature film '' Ordinary Love'', she has also co-directed the films ''Good Vibrations'' and '' Cherrybomb'' with husband Glenn Leyburn. Based on these three 'strikingly different' feature films, the Irish Times described Barros D'Sa and Leyburn as "the most important contemporary filmmakers working from Northern Ireland". Background Barros D'Sa was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1974. Her father was Dr. Aires Agnelo Barnabé Barros D'Sa (1939–2007), a Goan born in Nairobi who was a leading vascular surgeon during The Troubles. Her mother Elizabeth (Libby) was an anaesthetist. Career In 2006, Barros D'Sa founded a film production company called Canderblinks Film with long-term collaborators Glenn Leyburn and David Holmes. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramón Barros Luco
Ramón Barros Luco (; June 9, 1835 – September 20, 1919) was President of Chile between 1910 and 1915. Barros Luco was born in 1835 in Santiago, Barros Luco was son of Ramón Luis Barros Fernández and Dolores Luco Fernández de Leiva. He graduated from Law School in 1858. He died in Santiago in 1919. He was elected representative for the city of Casablanca in 1861, and from then on occupied a seat in the Lower House, being elected representative for Caldera (1867–70), Curicó (1870–73), Valparaíso (1873–76, and 1888–91), as well as for Santiago, during four separate terms, between 1876 and 1894. Later, he was elected senator for Linares (1900–06). In his position as President of the House of Deputies in 1891, he endorsed the move to dismiss the then President of the Republic, José Manuel Balmaceda, a move drawn up by the Congress. In addition, he lent his support to the uprising of the National Army, whose movements he oversaw, (alongside Waldo Silva, vice-pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
