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Camara (surname)
Camara, Câmara, Cámara is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Footballers * Abdoulaye Camara (born 1980), Malian footballer * Aboubacar M'Baye Camara (born 1985), Guinean footballer * Fredson Camara Pereira (born 1981), Brazilian footballer * Hassoun Camara (born 1986), French footballer * Henri Camara (born 1977), Senegalese footballer * Ibrahima Sory Camara (born 1985), Guinean footballer * Kader Camara (born 1982), Guinean footballer * Kémoko Camara (born 1975), Guinean footballer * Mamadi Camara (soccer, born 1995), Guinean footballer * Mamadi Camará (footballer, born 2003), Bissau-Guinean footballer * Mangué Camara (born 1982), Guinean footballer * Mohamed Ali Camara (born 1997), Guinean footballer * Mohamed Mady Camara (born 1997), Guinean footballer * Mohammed Camara (born 1975), Guinean footballer * Oumar Camara (born 1992), French footballer * Papa Camara (1951–2018), Guinean footballer and manager * Sékou Camara (footballer, born 1985) (1985� ...
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Abdoulaye Camara
Abdoulaye Camara (born 2 January 1980) is a Malian former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Defender (association football), defender. He made 9 appearances for the Mali national football team, Mali national team from 2002 to 2008. Club career After initially playing with Onze Créateurs de Niaréla in Mali, he joined Slovenian club FC Koper in 1997. After one season he moved to Italy to play with Udinese Calcio in the Serie A. After two seasons he moved to Belgium signing with Cercle Brugge K.S.V., Cercle Brugge, but after at the end of the season he returned to Italy to play with A.S.D. Castel di Sangro Calcio, Castel di Sangro Calcio. In 2002, R.A.A. Louviéroise, La Louvière brought him for one season, and in summer 2003 he signed with Ligue 2 club Grenoble Foot 38, Grenoble. By 2007 he was in South Africa playing with top league Thanda Royal Zulu. In 2008, he moved to FC AK before joining Butcherfille Rovers Durban in 2009. International career ...
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Souleymane Camara
Souleymane Camara (born 22 December 1982) is a Senegalese former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is a former Senegal international and has represented his nation at the 2002 FIFA World Cup and three Africa Cup of Nations tournaments in 2002, 2006, and 2012. As of 2021, he holds the record of the most appearances for French club Montpellier, with 433, and is the club's second-highest goalscorer, with 76 goals. Club career Camara was influential in Montpellier winning their first ever Ligue 1 title in 2012, scoring 9 goals, including one goal in a crucial 2–0 victory over Rennes with two matches left in the season. On 5 August 2017, Camara scored the only goal in Montpellier's 1–0 win against Caen on matchday 1 of the 2017–18 season. It was his 48th Ligue 1 goal for Montpellier and made him Montpellier's record scorer in Ligue 1, breaking Laurent Blanc's 26-year-old record of 47 Division 1 goals scored for Montpellier in four seasons. In March 2019 ...
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Moussa Dadis Camara
Captain Moussa Dadis Camara (; born 1 January 1964), now called Moïse Dadis Camara (),''Le Populaire'', , N°3232, 31 August 2010, p. 2 is an ex-officer of the Guinean army who served as the President of Guinea from 23 December 2008 to 15 January 2010. He was the leader of the National Council for Democracy and Development (french: Conseil National de la Démocratie et du Développement, CNDD), which seized power in a military coup d'état on 23 December 2008 shortly after the death of long-time president Lansana Conté. On 28 September 2009, protests occurred in the capital Conakry demanding that Camara step down. The security forces responded with force, and several dozen people died. On 3 December 2009, Camara was shot in the head during an assassination attempt and subsequently left the country to Morocco for medical treatment. Sékouba Konaté took over as acting president, with the United States and France expressing their desire to keep Camara out of the country. He ...
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Juan De La Cámara
Juan de la Cámara (1525–1602) was a Spanish conquistador and an hidalgo. Born in Alcala de Henares, Spain, he arrived in New Spain (present day Mexico) in 1539 and joined the Spanish Conquest of Yucatán, becoming one of the main collaborators of Francisco de Montejo. He had participated in the conquests of Mexico and Guatemala, and among the ''conquistadores'' he had the best and oldest documents of ancestral nobility. In the beginnings of the General Captaincy of Yucatán, Don Juan de la Cámara occupied very important positions. One of the founders of the city of Mérida in Yucatán, for many years, he was ''alguacil'' of Mérida and in 1565, mayor of this city. The patriarch of the Yucatecan branch of the House of Cámara, many of his descendants held high political office during centuries of Spanish rule and, after independence, during the 19th and 20th centuries. Military campaigns Juan de la Cámara took part in the conquest of "Las provincials de Grimel de Ch ...
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Manuel De La Cámara
Admiral Manuel de la Cámara y Livermoore (or Libermoore) (7 May 1836 – 4 January 1920) was a Spanish naval officer. He saw service in many of Spain′s wars of the second half of the nineteenth century and is most notable for commanding a relief squadron that made an abortive attempt to relieve Spanish forces in the Philippine Islands during the Spanish–American War. Early life Cámara was born at Málaga, Spain, on 7 May 1836Some sources claim Cámara was born a year earlier, on 7 May 1835; see, for example''The Encyclopedia of the Spanish–American and Philippine–American Wars'' Santa Barbara, California: ABC-CLIO LLC, 2009, , p. 85. One source places his birth on 30 May 1835 and his baptism on that day as well (segeneatnet.org Manuel de la Cámara Livermore Family Tree by Fernando Francisco. into a family of merchants. He was the son of José de la Cámara y Moreno (1793–1869) and Dolores Livermore Salas (1803–1875). His father was a Spanish merchant mariner and se ...
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Juan Rodríguez De La Cámara
Juan Rodríguez de la Cámara (1390–1450), also known as Juan Rodríguez del Padrón, was a Galician writer and poet, considered the last poet of the Galician school.James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, ''A History of Spanish Literature'' (D. Appleton and Company, 1898), 97. Born in Padrón, he was born to a hidalgo family. He may have served as a page to Juan II of Castile, and may have attended the Council of Florence in 1434 as secretary to the cardinal Juan de Cervantes, a respected jurist and a friend of Pero Tafur. He was exiled for reasons not completely known, but may have been connected with an illicit romance at court; Rodríguez's indiscreet revelations to a talkative friend apparently led to a romantic breach of some kind with a noble lady.James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, ''Chapters on Spanish Literature'' (A. Constable and Company, ltd., 1908), 74. James Fitzmaurice-Kelly writes that "the conjectures that make Rodríguez the lover of Juan II's wife, Isabel, or of Enrique IV's wif ...
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Jessica Camara
Jessica Camara (born 18 April 1988) is a Canadian professional boxer who challenged for the WBA, WBO, and IBO female light welterweight titles in November 2021. Professional career Camara made her professional debut on 30 March 2017, scoring a four-round unanimous decision (UD) victory against Heidy Martinez at the Montreal Casino in Canada. After compiling a record of 7–1, she faced Melissa St. Vil for the vacant WBO- NABO female lightweight title on 8 February 2021 at the Civic Center in Hammond, Indiana. Camara lost via ten-round UD with two judges scoring the bout 96–94 and the third scoring it 97–93. After an eight-round UD victory against Heather Hardy in May 2021, she faced reigning champion Kali Reis for the WBA, IBO, and vacant WBO female light welterweight titles on 19 November at the SNHU Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire. In her first attempt at a world championship, Camara suffered the third defeat of her career, losing via ten-round split decision ...
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Javier Cámara
Javier Cámara Rodríguez (born 19 January 1967) is a Spanish actor. He became known for two television roles as a priest in '' ¡Ay, señor, señor!'' and ''Éste es mi barrio''. He has since featured in films such as '' Torrente, the Dumb Arm of the Law'' (which earned him wide public recognition in Spain), ''Talk to Her'', '' Torremolinos 73'', ''Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed'', '' Truman'' and '' Forgotten We'll Be''. Other television credits include performances in series such as ''7 vidas'', ''The Young Pope'' and ''The New Pope'' (portraying a cleric again) or ''Narcos'', likewise starring as the title character in the Juan Carrasco politico-satirical saga ('' Vota Juan'', '' Vamos Juan'' and '' Venga Juan''). Early life Javier Cámara Rodríguez was born on 19 January 1967 in Albelda de Iregua, province of Logroño. He trained his acting chops at the theatre group of IES Laboral (his high school) and the Logroño's Theatre School, later moving to Madrid to train at th ...
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Hélder Câmara
Hélder Pessoa Câmara (7 February 1909 – 27 August 1999) was a Brazilian Catholic archbishop. A self-identified socialist, he was the Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, serving from 1964 to 1985, during the military dictatorship in Brazil. He was declared a Servant of God in 2015. Câmara was an advocate of liberation theology. He did social and political work for the poor and for human rights and democracy during the military regime. Câmara preached for a church closer to the disfavoured people. He is quoted as having said, "When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist." Early life and education He was born Hélder Pessoa Câmara on in Fortaleza, Ceará, in the poor Northeast Region of Brazil. His father was an accountant and his mother was a primary school teacher. He was educated in local Catholic schools and entered seminary in 1923. Career He was ordained a priest in 1931, with direct authorization of th ...
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Gora Camara
Gora Camara (born April 12, 2001) is a Senegalese professional basketball player for Universo Treviso Basket of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). Due to his Italian upbringing, he is considered a "homegrown player" in the domestic championship. Professional career Virtus Bologna (2018–present) After having played in the youth teams of Virtus Bologna for several years, Camara was added to the first team in the 2018–19 season, during which he won the Basketball Champions League. Loans to Casale and Pesaro (2019–2022) In the 2019–20 season, Camara was loaned to Junior Casale Monferrato, a team of Italy's second league, Serie A2. Camara played in Monferrato also in the following season, until 2021. In the 2021–22 season, he was loaned to Pesaro of the LBA; along with Pesaro, he reached the national playoffs. However, Pesaro was ousted 3–0 by Virtus in the first round. Return to Virtus (2022–2023) On 3 August 2022, Camara returned to Virtus Bologna, where he pla ...
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Fatou Kiné Camara
Fatou Kiné Camara (born 29 December 1964) is a Senegalese lawyer and women's rights campaigner. The daughter of a magistrate and government minister, Camara has a doctorate in law and works as a lecturer and researcher. She has supported campaigns for reform in many areas of the law and is particularly involved in attempting to increase the availability of abortions and free legal advice. Life Camara was born on 29 December 1964 in Dakar. Her father, Ousmane Camara, was a magistrate for the French colonial authorities. He was a minister in the government of Senegal's first president, Léopold Sédar Senghor. After Senghor's resignation in December 1980, her father became Senegal's ambassador to the United Kingdom and Camara joined him, completing her secondary education in London. She studied law at the Panthéon-Assas University (Sorbonne Law School) in Paris and attained a doctorate in the same subject from the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar in 1988. Camara is president ...
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Babacar Camara
Babacar Camara (born October 15, 1981) is a Senegalese professional basketball player for Titánicos de León in Mexico. Career overview Babacar Camara grew up in Dakar, Senegal. After graduating from Yalla En High School in 1999, he went to Cheikh Anta Diop University for a short while before transferring to Cal.St.-Fullerton University where he played for the varsity basketball team for four years. After graduating from there he played professional basketball with noteworthy performances especially for the Chinese team Jilin Northeast Tigers. He also played with Los Angeles D-FendersBabacar Camara D-League Statistics
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