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Fatu (other)
Fatu may refer to: Professional wrestlers *Solofa Fatu Jr. (born 1965), known as Rikishi and Fatu *Edward Smith Fatu (1973–2009), known as Umaga * Jacob Fatu * Joshua Samuel and Jonathan Solofa Fatu (born 1985), known as The Usos *Joseph Fatu (born 1993), known as Solo Sikoa * Sam Fatu (born 1965) *Trinity Fatu (born 1987), known as Naomi Others *Fatu Gayflor (born 1966), Liberian singer *Fatu Feu'u (born 1946), Samoan artist * Fatu Kekula, Liberian nurse and inventor *Anastasie Fătu (1816–1886), Romanian scientist *Florea Fătu (1924–1995), Romanian footballer * Ilie Fătu (born 1974), Romanian weightlifter *Tufuga Fatu (1914–1981), Western Samoan chief *Mr. Fatu (Fatu Lauoletolo), Samoan singer *Fatu, a northern white rhinoceros See also * Fatou (other) Fatou may refer to: People * Aminata Fatou Diallo (born 1995), French footballer * Cecilia Fatou-Berre (1901 – 1989), religious sister * Fatou Baldeh (born 1983), Gambian women's rights activist * Fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rikishi (wrestler)
Solofa Fatu Jr. (born October 11, 1965) is an American professional wrestler, best known under the ring names Rikishi and Fatu with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), where he is a one-time WWE Intercontinental Championship, Intercontinental Champion, two-time World Tag Team Championship (WWE), World Tag Team Champion, and one-time WWE Raw Tag Team Championship, WWE Tag Team Champion. He is a member of the Anoa'i family of Samoan wrestlers. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame by his sons, wrestlers The Usos, Jey and Jimmy Uso, in 2015. Early life Solofa Fatu was born on October 11, 1965, in San Francisco to Solofa Fatu Sr. and Elevera Anoa'i Fatu, and grew up in the Sunnydale Projects in the Visitacion Valley, San Francisco, Visitacion Valley neighborhood, where his maternal grandparents were preachers. He attended Balboa High School (California), Balboa High School, and competed on the amateur wrestling, wrestling team. In 1982, when he was seventeen years old, Fatu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatu Feu'u
Fatu Akelei Feu'u (born 1946) is a noted Samoan painter from the village of Poutasi in the district of Falealili in Samoa. He has established a reputation as the elder statesman of Pacific art in New Zealand. Biography Feu'u emigrated to New Zealand in 1966 after growing up in the village of Poutasi, Western Samoa. He always wanted to be an artist and noted the difference of how art was viewed between Samoa and New Zealand, with 'beautifully made, functional canoes and houses' being art in Samoa and in New Zealand art was 'something extra special not to be touched'. Feu'u has been an exhibiting artist since the early 1980s and became a full-time artist in 1988, prior to that he worked as a designer and colour advisor for textile and car companies. He was influenced and mentored by artists Tony Fomison, Pat Hanly and Philip Clairmont. In 1995 he became the first artist of Pacific heritage awarded the James Wallace Art Award. He was appointed an Honorary Officer of the New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern White Rhinoceros
The northern white rhinoceros or northern white rhino (''Ceratotherium simum cottoni'') is one of two subspecies of the white rhinoceros (the other being the southern white rhinoceros). Formerly found in several countries in East and Central Africa south of the Sahara, this subspecies is a grazer in grasslands and savanna woodlands. Since 19 March 2018, there are only two known rhinos of this subspecies left, called Najin and Fatu, both of which are female; barring the existence of unknown or misclassified male northern white rhinos elsewhere in Africa, this makes the subspecies functionally extinct. The two female rhinos belong to the Dvůr Králové Zoo in the Czech Republic but live in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya and are protected round-the-clock by armed guards. According to the latest International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assessment from 2020, the subspecies is considered "Critically Endangered (Possibly Extinct in the Wild)." Living rhinos Ol Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tufuga Fatu
Tauaanae Tufuga Fatuatia (5 February 1914 – 5 December 1981) was a Western Samoan chief and politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly from 1954 until 1964, and as Minister for Health from 1961 to 1964. Biography Born in 1914,Lauofo Meti (2002) ''Samoa: The Making of the Constitution'', National University of Samoa, p329 Fatu attended Avele College and became a schoolteacher.Tauaanae Tufuga Fatu ''Pacific Islands Monthly'', February 1982, p66 He was conferred with the ''Tufuga'' title in the 1930s, and was involved in the Methodist church, chairing its lands development board, also serving as a director of the Development Bank of Western Samoa. A member of the |
Ilie Fătu
Ilie Fătu (born 18 April 1974) is a Romanian former weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lif .... He competed in the men's middleweight event at the 1996 Summer Olympics. References External links * 1974 births Living people Romanian male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Romania Weightlifters at the 1996 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Bistrița 20th-century Romanian people 21st-century Romanian people {{Romania-weightlifting-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florea Fătu
Florea Fătu (17 July 1924 – 11 December 1995) was a Romanian football striker. He was a part of CSCA București's team that won the first match in the history of the club. International career Florea Fătu played one friendly game at international level for Romania, coming as a substitute at half-time when he replaced Nicolae Dumitrescu in a 2–1 victory against Poland played on the Polish Army Stadium from Warsaw. Honours ;Petrolul Ploiești *Divizia B: 1953 * Cupa României runner-up: 1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh ... Notes References External links *Florea Fătu at Labtof.ro 1924 births 1995 deaths Romanian footballers Romania international footballers Association football forwards Liga I players Liga II players FC Petrolul Ploiești pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anastasie Fătu
Anastasie Fătu (originally Năstase Fêtu or Fĕtu, also known as Anastasius Fétul, Anastasie Fĕtul or Anastase Fătul; January 2, 1816 – March 15, 1886) was a Moldavian and Romanian physician, naturalist, philanthropist and political figure, a titular member of the Romanian Academy and founder of Iași's Botanical Garden. Of lowly origins, he benefited from the meritocratic program instituted by Moldavia's government in the 1830s, and went on to study law at the University of Vienna, with hopes of becoming a political economist. After graduating, he changed his professional path, and trained in medicine at the University of Paris. Recognized for pioneering contributions in cardiology, pediatrics, obstetrics and balneotherapy, he was also an early speaker for public health and social medicine, as well as an educational theorist and textbook author. Fătu's career as a professor of natural sciences took him to the Gregorian Institute, the Socola Monastery school, and u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatu Kekula
Fatu Kekula is a Liberian woman who was a nursing student during the Ebola virus epidemic in Liberia. Four of her family members became ill and could not access medical care in a hospital. She improvised a "trash bag method" that would allow her to care for her family members without becoming ill herself. Three of her family members survived the epidemic, and Kekula herself did not contract the virus. The trash bag method has been recognized as a relatively simple and accessible way for people to protect themselves in an epidemic if they cannot get treatment in a hospital. Ebola outbreak On 27 July 2014, Fatu Kekula's father, Moses, became ill and was taken to a local hospital in Kakata, Kakata, Liberia. Unknown to the family, the hospital bed he was given had just been used by someone who died of Ebola virus disease, Ebola. After hospital staff began contracting the disease, the hospital shut down; Kekula attempted to take her father to a hospital in Monrovia, but they were all at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fatu Gayflor
Fatu Gayflor (born 1966) is a Liberian singer. Dubbed "Princess Fatu Gayflor, the golden voice of Liberia", she has performed at major music venues and festivals throughout the world and has made a number of recordings. Born in the village of Kakata in northwestern Liberia, Gayflor is a member of the Loma ethnic group. As a child she learned the rituals and song of her people and learned to play the sekere as a member of the sande society. In 1978, at just 12 years of age, she joined the Liberian National Cultural Troupe (LNCT) in Keneja. With the LNCT she learned traditional songs from 16 different ethnic groups across Liberia. She eventually became the group's lead singer and toured throughout the world with the ensemble; notably performing at the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition. Gayflor made her first two solo albums in Liberia during the mid-1980s. She left the country for the Ivory Coast in 1989 due to the First Liberian Civil War; making her third album while residing in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umaga (wrestler)
Edward Smith Fatu (March 28, 1973 – December 4, 2009) was an American professional wrestler, best known for his time with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) under the ring name Umaga. Prior to Umaga, Fatu was also notable for his time with All Japan Pro Wrestling in the mid 2000s, where he was a main eventer under the ring name Jamal. He was a member of the Anoaʻi family, a renowned Samoan wrestling family. During his first stint with WWE billed as Jamal, he was part of tag team 3-Minute Warning, with his cousin Matt Anoaʻi, billed as Rosey. He was released from the company in June 2003, later going to All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW) and becoming a mainstay for the company from late 2003 to 2005. In April 2006, Fatu returned to WWE under the ring name Umaga. Fatu went undefeated on the Raw brand throughout the year before finally suffering his first defeat in January 2007 at the hands of then WWE Champion John Cena. The following month, he won the WWE Intercontinental Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi (wrestler)
Trinity Fatu ( née McCray; born November 30, 1987) is an American professional wrestler and dancer. She is currently signed to WWE, where she performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Naomi. In August 2009, Naomi signed with World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and was assigned to its past developmental territory Florida Championship Wrestling (FCW), where she was the inaugural FCW Divas Champion. In August 2010, she competed in the all-female third season of '' NXT'', where she came in second place. In January 2012, she made her main roster debut alongside Cameron, forming The Funkadactyls. Since July 2013, Naomi has appeared as one of the main cast members of the reality television series '' Total Divas''. In February 2017, Naomi won the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship at the Elimination Chamber event, becoming the first African-American woman to capture the title. She would then become the inaugural winner of the WrestleMania Women's Battle Royal at Wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Fatu
Samuel Larry Anoa'i Fatu (born October 11, 1965) is an American retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation under the ring names The Tonga Kid and Tama and with World Championship Wrestling as The Samoan Savage. Professional wrestling career World Wrestling Federation (1983–1988) Fatu debuted as a professional wrestler in 1983, after being trained by the Wild Samoans. Shortly after debuting he joined the World Wrestling Federation as "Samoan No. 4," wrestling at untelevised house shows before making his television debut in the fall of 1983 as the Tonga Kid. Billed as the cousin of Superfly Jimmy Snuka, he entered into his first major feud with Snuka's rival Roddy Piper. In late 1986, he teamed with Tonga Fifita, who was wrestling under the name King Tonga. Fatu was renamed to Tama, while Fifita was renamed to Haku. Together, they were christened The Islanders. The Islanders gained several key victories, includi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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