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Fuentes (surname)
Fuentes is a Spanish language surname meaning "fountains". Notable people with the surname include: * Adrián Fuentes (born 1996), Spanish football (soccer) player * Adriana Fuentes Cortés (born 1968), Mexican politician of the National Action Party (PAN) * Adriana Fuentes Téllez (born 1964), Mexican politician of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) * Agustin Fuentes, American primatologist * Alberto Fuentes Mohr (1927–1979), Guatemalan economist and politician *Alejandra Fuentes (born 1980), Venezuelan diver *Alejandro Jano Fuentes (1972–2019), Mexican singer *Alejandro Javiero Fuentes (born 1999), Norwegian singer born in Chile *Alfredo Felipe Fuentes (1949–2025), Cuban journalist and activist *Amado Carrillo Fuentes (1956–1997), Mexican drug lord *Amalia Fuentes (1940–2019), Filipina actress *Amarilis Fuentes (1894–1955), Ecuadorian teacher and suffragist *Andrea Fuentes (born 1983), Spanish synchronised swimmer, sister of Tina Fuentes *Ángel Fuentes (born 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrián Fuentes
Adrián Fuentes González (born 17 July 1996) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as either a forward or a left winger for Córdoba CF. Club career Born in Madrid, Fuentes was an ED Moratalaz youth graduate. In August 2015, he joined Tercera División side EF Alhama on a trial basis, subsequently signing a contract and making his senior debut during the campaign. In July 2016, Fuentes joined Lorca FC and was assigned to the reserves also in the fourth division. Roughly one year later he moved to another reserve team, Deportivo Alavés B in the same category. In July 2018, Fuentes was loaned to Alavés' affiliate club NK Istra 1961, for one season. He made his professional debut on 1 October, coming on as a late substitute for goalscorer Ramón Mierez in a 3–0 Croatian First Football League away win against NK Rudeš. Fuentes' loan was renewed in 2019 and 2020, scoring four goals in 36 league games for the club from Pula. He also scored in both legs of a 3– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Fuentes
Carmen Fuentes Yagüe (born 7 June 1965) is a retired Spanish long-distance runner. She finished eighteenth in 5000 metres at the 1994 European Championships and competed at the 1995 World Championships. She became Spanish champion in the same event in 1995. Fuentes was also a prolific competitor at the World Cross Country Championships. She finished 21st at the 1995 World Cross Country Championships, and seventh with the Spanish team. In the same year she finished fifteenth at the 1995 World Half Marathon Championships and won a bronze medal with the Spanish team. Her personal best times were 32:35.62 minutes in the 10,000 metres (1996), 1:12:01 hours in the half marathon (1995) and 2:31:20 hours in the marathon The marathon is a long-distance foot race with a distance of kilometres ( 26 mi 385 yd), usually run as a road race, but the distance can be covered on trail routes. The marathon can be completed by running or with a run/walk strategy. There ... (1995 Rotter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hernán Fuentes
José Hernán Fuentes Besoain Jr. (26 February 1918 – 7 January 1999) was a Chilean modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in .... References External links * 1918 births 1999 deaths Chilean male modern pentathletes Olympic modern pentathletes for Chile Modern pentathletes at the 1948 Summer Olympics Modern pentathletes at the 1952 Summer Olympics Pan American Games bronze medalists for Chile Pan American Games bronze medalists in modern pentathlon Modern pentathletes at the 1955 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1955 Pan American Games 20th-century Chilean sportsmen Place of birth missing {{Chile-modern-pentathlon-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidemarie Fuentes
Heidemarie Fuentes is an American actress and producer. Fuentes is best known for such films as '' Hey DJ'', ''Opie Gets Laid ''Opie Gets Laid'', originally titled ''Sunnyvale'' for its film festival submissions, is a 2005 American independent romantic comedy film written, directed and led by James Ricardo, also starring April Wade, Ute Werner and Jesselynn Desmond. P ...'', '' Mrs. Harris'' and ''La Femme Vampir''. References External links * Film producers from California American film actresses American television actresses German emigrants to the United States Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American women film producers 21st-century American women {{US-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo Fuentes
Gustavo Fuentes (born 8 April 1973 in Buenos Aires) is a former Argentine footballer who plays as a striker. Club career Fuentes has played for some fifteen clubs during his career, which has taken him through several continents. See also * Dundee United FC Season 2000-01 Dundee (; ; or , ) is the List of towns and cities in Scotland by population, fourth-largest city in Scotland. The mid-year population estimate for the locality was . It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firt ... External links * BDFA profile* 1973 births Footballers from Buenos Aires Living people Argentine men's footballers Talleres de Córdoba footballers Club Atlético River Plate (Montevideo) players C.A. Cerro players Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Israel Liverpool F.C. (Montevideo) players Platense F.C. players C.D. Marathón players F.C. Motagua players Dundee United F.C. players C.D. Olimpia players Bnei Yehuda Tel Aviv F.C. players Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Old Man And The Sea
''The Old Man and the Sea'' is a 1952 novella by the American author Ernest Hemingway. Written between December 1950 and February 1951, it was the last major fictional work Hemingway published during his lifetime. It tells the story of Santiago, an aging fisherman, and his long struggle to catch a giant marlin. The novella was highly anticipated and was released to record sales; the initial critical reception was equally positive, but attitudes have varied significantly since then. Hemingway began writing ''The Old Man and the Sea'' in Cuba during a tumultuous period in his life. His previous novel ''Across the River and Into the Trees'' had met with negative reviews and, amid a breakdown in relations with his wife Mary, he had fallen in love with his muse Adriana Ivancich. Having completed one book of a planned "sea trilogy", Hemingway began to write as an addendum a story about an old man and a marlin that had originally been told to him fifteen years earlier. He wrote up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Miller Hemingway ( ; July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer and journalist. Known for an economical, understated style that influenced later 20th-century writers, he has been romanticized for his adventurous lifestyle and outspoken, blunt public image. Some of his seven novels, six short-story collections and two non-fiction works have become classics of American literature, and he was awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Literature. Hemingway was raised in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. After high school, he spent six months as a reporter for ''The Kansas City Star'' before enlisting in the American Red Cross, Red Cross. He served as an ambulance driver on the Italian Front (World War I), Italian Front in World War I and was seriously wounded by shrapnel in 1918. In 1921, Hemingway moved to Paris, where he worked as a foreign correspondent for the ''Toronto Star'' and was influenced by the modernist writers and artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregorio Fuentes
G.L Fuentes (July 11, 1897 – January 13, 2002) was a fisherman and the first mate of the ''Pilar'', the boat belonging to the American writer Ernest Hemingway. Fuentes was born in Arrecife on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. He first went to sea as deck boy with his father at age 10. As a teenager, he worked on cargo ships out of the Canary Islands to Trinidad and Puerto Rico, and from the Spanish ports of Valencia and Sevilla to South America. He migrated permanently to Cuba when he was 22. He attempted to reclaim his Spanish citizenship in 2001. In 1938, Fuentes replaced the ''Pilar'''s original first mate, Carlos Gutiérrez, after Hemingway's mistress, Jane Mason, hired him to be the first mate of her boat after becoming jealous of Hemingway's relationship with Martha Gellhorn. Fuentes, a lifelong cigar smoker, died from cancer in Cojimar in 2002. He was often said to be the model for the character Santiago in Hemingway’s ''The Old Man and the Sea'', but he died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabricio Fuentes
Fabricio Fabio Fuentes (born 13 October 1976) is an Argentine retired footballer who played as a central defender. He competed professionally, other than in his country, in France, Mexico and Spain, amassing Primera División totals of 218 games and 18 goals over the course of ten seasons. Club career Fuentes was born in Las Acequias. He began his career playing for Newell's Old Boys in 1996, leaving the following year for Quilmes Atlético Club in the Argentine second division before rejoining Newell's in 1998. In 2001, Fuentes was signed for his first spell at Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield, on a US$450,000 fee (for 50% of his transfer rights). In January 2003 he was sold to Mexican club Querétaro F.C. for US$1,200,000 but, in the transfer agreement, it was established that the player would stay with Vélez until the end of the season. However, after a good last months as Vélez's captain, Fuentes' value increased, and he was immediately sold by Querétaro to En Avant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugenio Fuentes
Eugenio Fuentes (born 1958 in Montehermoso, Cáceres), is an acclaimed Spanish novelist. Four of his novels have been translated into English, the crime novels ''The Depths of the Forest'', ''The Blood of the Angels'', ''The Pianist's Hands'' and ''At Close Quarters'' all published by Arcadia. Bibliography Novels *''Las batallas de Breda'' (1990) *''El nacimiento de Cupido'' (Premio Internacional de novela de Ciudad de San Fernando Luis Berenguer, 1993) *''Tantas mentiras'' (Premio de Novela Extremadura, 1997) *''El interior del bosque'' (1999); published in English as ''The depths of the forest'' *''La sangre de los angeles'' (2001); published in English as ''The blood of the angels'' *''Las manos del pianista'' (2003); published in English as ''The pianist's hands'' *''Venas de nieve'' (2005) *''Cuerpo a cuerpo'' (2007); published in English as '' At Close Quarters'' *''Contrarreloj'' (2009) Short stories *''Vías muertas'' (1997). External linksEnglish Publisher's author pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eufemiano Fuentes
Eufemiano Fuentes (born 1955) is a Spanish sports doctor who was implicated in the Operación Puerto doping case. Biography Fuentes was once an athlete. He then became the team doctor of Team ONCE, Amaya and Kelme. The former Kelme rider Jesús Manzano accused Fuentes of being involved with doping. Team doctor of the Kelme team in 2005. At that time he had been the doctor of the Kelme team for 16 months. He announced that he was retiring from involvement with professional cycling, citing health and family reasons as well as a desire to investigate retinoblastoma cancer in the Instituto del Cáncer de Canarias. Fuentes was arrested by the Guardia Civil on May 22, 2006, together with four others: the manager of the Liberty Seguros team Manolo Saiz, José Luis Merino a haematologist at an analytical laboratory in Madrid, Alberto León, a professional mountain biker, and José Ignacio Labarta, who was at that time the assistant sports director of Comunidad Valenciana. In Fuentes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erasmo Fuentes
Erasmo Fuentes de Hoyos (born 1943) is a Mexican-born member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and sculptor who resides in Mapleton, Utah. Among his more well known works is "Anxiously Engaged" (made with his son Alex Fuentes) which is a sculpture of Mormon missionaries on bikes; the sculpture is displayed at the Missionary Training Center in Provo, Utah. Fuentes was born in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, but was raised in Saltillo, Mexico as a Latter-day Saint. He first came to the United States to work in 1964 and studied sculpture at Brigham Young University, graduating in 1968. He also was on the BYU Ballroom Dance Company, which was founded by his uncle, Benjamin F. de Hoyos. Fuentes studied particularly under Dallas Anderson. Fuentes had first trained in modeling in the taxidermy shop of his father, Arturo Fuentes. For several years prior to 1984, Fuentes ran a wood pallet construction factory in Saltillo with his wife Cynthia. The factory went under i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
