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List Of Spanish Americans
This is a list of notable Americans who self-identify as Americans of Spanish American, Spanish descent, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants. There are also many people in the United States of various Latin Americans, Latin American "national" origin who self-identify their Kinship, heritage or origins in census data as being Spaniard. List Artists and designers * Adela Akers (1933–2023) – Textile artist * Mabel Alvarez (1891–1985) – Artist * Carlos Baena (animator), Carlos Baena – Pixar animator * Javier Cabada (born 1931) – Artist * Eva Camacho-Sánchez – Fashion designer * Federico Castellón (1914–1971) – Painter and sculptor * Beatriz Colomina (born 1952) – Architecture historian * Julio de Diego (1900–1979) – Visual artist * Anh Duong (born 1960) – French-American artist, actress, and model born * John A. Garcia (born 1949) – Entrepreneur and philanthropist * Frank Garcia (magic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Frank Garcia (magician)
Frank Garcia (May 8, 1927 – July 15, 1993) was a magician and professional gambler. He was known as "The Man With The Million Dollar Hands." His specialty was gambling scams and cheating. Biography The son of Spanish immigrants, he decided to become a magician after seeing a performance of David "Fu Manchu" Bamberg. As "The Gambling Investigator" he demonstrated and exposed cheating methods at trade shows and to law enforcement organizations throughout the United States and on television shows. Frank Garcia wrote and lectured about the subject throughout his life. Garcia made "close-up" work his domain. His repertory of card manipulations, sponge-ball magic, cups and balls, and sleight-of-hand was highly regarded by his peers. Frank was a frequent guest on TV talk shows including The Dick Cavett Show ''The Dick Cavett Show'' is the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks, including: * ABC daytime, (March 4, 1968 – Januar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Narciso Rodriguez
Narciso Jesus Rodriguez III (; born January 27, 1961) is an American fashion designer. Early life and education Rodriguez was born in Newark, New Jersey, the eldest child and only son of Cuban parents. His parents, Narciso Rodríguez Sanchez II, a longshoreman, and Rawedia María Rodríguez. His paternal grandfather was born on the Canary Islands. Rodriguez graduated from St. Cecilias High School in 1979, a small Catholic school in Kearny, New Jersey. He then studied at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City, where Isaac Mizrahi was a classmate. His parents were against Narciso entering fashion. Career Rodriguez performed freelance design work in New York before becoming Women’s Design Director for the Anne Klein label, then later working for Calvin Klein. His first major attention came in 1996 when he designed the wedding dress of fellow Calvin Klein employee Carolyn Bessette for her wedding to John F. Kennedy Jr. Early in his career, Rodriguez worked as a desi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faye Resnick
Faye Denise Resnick (née Hutchison; born July 3, 1957) is an American television personality, author, and interior designer. She is best known for her involvement in the O.J. Simpson murder trial and for her appearance on the reality television series ''The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills''. Early life Faye Resnick was born July 3, 1957, one of four children. Resnick claimed her father regularly beat her for wetting the bed when she was a child (the October 20, 1994 ''L.A. Times'' article indicated it was her stepfather who beat her, escalating from spankings when she was a youngster to "hideous beatings" as she matured). According to Resnick, her mother ignored her husband's rampages. Her mother worked a day job as a nurse and was a budding journalist at night. She ultimately became a successful columnist who wrote about holistic medicine, and later became a Jehovah's Witness, making Faye's childhood "even more chaotic". Resnick "describes her mother as a religious fanatic w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Prieto (artist)
Antonio Prieto (1912 – March 11, 1967) was an American ceramic artist and art professor at Mills College in Oakland, California. He was instrumental in developing an important ceramics collection for the Mills College Art Museum. He was born in Yaldepenas, Spain on August 23, 1912, and died in Oakland on March 11, 1967. History Prieto immigrated to the United States as a child in 1916. After studying at Alfred University from 1943 to 1946, he chaired the Ceramics Program and taught at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland (now California College of the Arts) from 1946 to 1950. At the time, F. Carlton Ball was teaching ceramics at Mills College. When Ball left Mills, Prieto succeeded him. While teaching at Mills College from 1950 to 1967, Prieto compiled a personal collection of ceramic art, including works by Robert Arneson, Viola Frey, Henry Varnum Poor, Peter Voulkos, and Marguerite Wildenhain. After Prieto's death, artists contributed more works to a memorial c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Oliver may refer to: Arts, entertainment and literature Books * ''Oliver the Western Engine'', volume 24 in ''The Railway Series'' by Rev. W. Awdry * ''Oliver Twist'', a novel by Charles Dickens Fictional characters * Ariadne Oliver, in the novels of Agatha Christie * Oliver (Disney character) * Oliver Fish, a gay police officer on the American soap opera ''One Life to Live'' * Oliver Hampton, in the American television series ''How to Get Away with Murder'' * Oliver Jones (''The Bold and the Beautiful''), on the American soap opera ''The Bold and the Beautiful'' * Oliver Lightload, in the movie ''Cars'' * Oliver Oken, from ''Hannah Montana'' * Oliver (paladin), a paladin featured in the Matter of France * Oliver Queen, DC Comic book hero also known as the Green Arrow * Oliver (Thomas and Friends character), a locomotive in the Thomas and Friends franchise * Oliver Trask, a controversial minor character from the first season of ''The O.C.'' * Oliver Twist (charac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esteban Munras
Esteban () is a Spanish male given name, derived from Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos) and related to the English names Steven and Stephen. Although in its original pronunciation the accent is on the penultimate syllable, English-speakers tend to pronounce it as a proparoxytone . People with the given name * Esteban Alvarado, Costa Rican goalkeeper * Esteban Andrés Suárez, Spanish football goalkeeper * Esteban Cambiasso, Argentine footballer * Esteban Dorr (born 2000), French table tennis player * Esteban de Dorantes, 16th Century Explorer of North America * Esteban de la Fuente, Argentine basketball player * Esteban Fuertes, Argentine footballer * Esteban Granero, Spanish footballer * Esteban Guerrieri, Argentine racing driver * Esteban Gutiérrez, Mexican racing driver * Esteban Herrault, French para table tennis player * Esteban Lazo Hernández, Cuban politician * Esteban Loaiza, Mexican retired baseball player * Esteban Navarro, Spanish novelist * Esteban Ocon, F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Moscoso
Victor Moscoso (born July 28, 1936) is a Spanish–American artist best known for producing psychedelic rock posters, advertisements, and underground comix in San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s. He was the first of the rock poster artists of the 1960s era with formal academic training and experience. He was the first of the rock poster artists to use photographic collage in many of his posters. Early life and education Moscoso was born in the Vilaboa parish of Culleredo, Galicia. He moved with his mother to Oleiros. His father, whose parents had already emigrated to New Jersey, was exiled to the U.S. after being persecuted by the '' falange''. At the age of four, Moscoso and his mother, joined his father, and travelled to Brooklyn, where he stayed until he was an adult. His father worked as a painter and taught him about color combination. His mother was a seamstress After studying art at Cooper Union in New York City and at Yale University, Moscoso moved to San Franci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Mopope
Stephen Mopope (1898–1974) was a Kiowa painter, dancer, and Native American flute player from Oklahoma. He was the most prolific member of the group of artists known as the Kiowa Six.Watson, Mary JoMopope, Stephen (1898-1974). ''Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture.'' (2 May 2009) Early life Stephen Mopope was born on 27 August 1898 near the Redstone Baptist Mission on the Kiowa Reservation in Indian Territory. Qued Koi was his Kiowa name, which translates as "Painted Robe,"Lester, 372 and is sometimes spelled, "Wood Coy." His maternal grandfather was Appiatan, a famed Kiowa warrior, and his great-uncles were Silver Horn and Oheltoint (Ohettoint), both of whom were accomplished artists. Oheltoint was one of the Fort Marion ledger artists. Mopope's paternal grandfather was a Spanish captive, adopted by Kiowa chief Many Bears. When Mopope was a young child, his relatives observed him drawing pictures in the sand, so the artists in his famil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wenceslao Moreno
Wenceslao is a Spanish masculine given name, derived from Wenceslaus, itself a Latinized version of the Czech name Václav. It may refer to: * Wences Casares (born 1974), Argentine entrepreneur * Wenceslao Carrillo Alonso-Forjador, Spanish Socialist leader, father of Santiago Carrillo * Wenceslao Díaz (born 1987), Mexican retired footballer * Wenceslao Díaz Gallegos (1834–1895), Chilean scientist and surgeon * Wenceslao Fernández Flórez ((1885–1964), Spanish journalist and novelist * Wenceslao Figuereo (1834–1910), Dominican politician * Wenceslao Herrera Coyac (born 1948), Mexican politician * Wenceslao Moguel Wenceslao Moguel Herrera (1 November 1896 – 29 July 1976), known in the press as El Fusilado (''Spanish'': "The Shot One"), was a Mexican soldier under Pancho Villa who was captured on 18 March 1915 during the Mexican Revolution, and survived ... (c. 1890–1976), Mexican soldier in the Mexican Revolution who survived execution by firing squad * Wencesl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adele Morales
Adele Carolyn Morales (June 12, 1925 – November 22, 2015) was an American painter, actress, and memoirist. Morales studied painting under Hans Hofman and was known for her abstractexpressionist paintingsand her work in papier mâché. She also performed at the Actors Studio and was active in the New York art scene of the 1950s. While best known publicly for her marriage to Norman Mailer and the stabbing incident, Morales maintained an independent creative career throughout her life.Moore, M.J. (2020). "Blood in the Morning: The Turbulent Relationship of Norman Mailer and Adele Morales" https://www.criminalelement.com/blood-in-the-morning-the-turbulent-relationship-of-norman-mailer-and-adele-morales/ (Retrieved April, 7, 2025) Early life Morales was born in New York City, to a family of Peruvian origin. She grew up in Bensonhurst but moved to Manhattan, where she studied painting with Hans Hofmann and took up a bohemian lifestyle, being involved for several years with Edwin Fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Mora
Joseph Jacinto Mora (October 22, 1876 – October 10, 1947) was a Uruguayan-born American cowboy, photographer, artist, cartoonist, illustrator, painter, muralist, sculptor, and historian who wrote about his experiences in California. He has been called the "Renaissance Man of the West". Early life Mora was born on October 22, 1876, in Montevideo, Uruguay. His father was the Catalan sculptor, Domingo Mora, and his mother was Laura Gaillard Mora, an intellectual born in the Bordeaux region of France. His elder brother was F. Luis Mora, who would become an artist and the first Hispanic member of the National Academy of Design. The family entered the United States in 1880 and first settled in New York City, and then Perth Amboy, New Jersey. Jo Mora studied art at the Art Students League of New York and the Cowles Art School in Boston. He also studied with William Merritt Chase. He worked as a cartoonist for the Boston Evening Traveller, and later, the Boston Herald. In 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
