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Longo
Longo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alessandro Longo (1864–1945), Italian composer and musicologist *Andrea Longo (other), multiple people *Andrej Longo (born 1959), Italian writer *Annalie Longo (born 1991), New Zealand women's football player *Antonio Longo (other), multiple people *Bartolo Longo (1841–1926), Italian lawyer beatified by the Roman Catholic Church *List of Puerto Rican scientists and inventors, Carlos Ortiz Longo (born 1962), Puerto Rican mechanical and materials science engineer *Christian Longo (born 1974), convicted murderer *Dennise Longo Quiñones (fl. 1990s–2010s), Puerto Rican lawyer and government official *Davide Longo (born 1975), professional Rugby-league player *Evan Longoria (born 1985), nicknamed Longo *Gaetano Longo (1865–1900), Italian mass murderer *Gonzalo Longo (born 1974), Argentine rugby union footballer *Jeannie Longo (born 1958), French racing cyclist *Joseph S. Longo (1914–1993), Justice of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evan Longoria
Evan Michael Longoria (born October 7, 1985), nicknamed "Longo", is an American former professional baseball third baseman who played 16 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Rays, San Francisco Giants, and Arizona Diamondbacks. Longoria played college baseball for the Long Beach State Dirtbags, winning the CSN Bay Area Cape Cod League MVP and Big West Conference Co-Player of the Year. He was selected by the Rays in the first round as the third overall pick in the 2006 MLB draft. After two seasons in the minors, he made his major league debut for the Rays in , and was named to the American League team for the 2008 MLB All Star Game. Longoria was also named the 2008 American League Rookie of the Year. He made the All-Star team three times, being selected from 2008 to 2010. Longoria appeared in two World Series, first with the Rays during his rookie season in 2008, and later with the Diamondbacks during his final season in 2023. The 15-season gap betwee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Longo
Robert Longo (born January 7, 1953) is an American artist, filmmaker, photographer and musician. Longo became first well known in the 1980s for his ''Men in the Cities'' drawing and print series, which depict sharply dressed men and women writhing in contorted emotion. He lives in New York and East Hampton.Jonathan Griffin (December 5, 2020)Artist Robert Longo: 'Taking down statues was one of America's greatest moments'''Financial Times''.Maximilíano Durón (May 13, 2021)Pictures Generation Star Robert Longo Heads to Pace Gallery After Metro Pictures's Closure''ARTnews''. Early life and education Longo was born in 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Long Island. During his childhood he had a fascination with mass media; movies, television, magazines, and comic books, which continue to influence his art. Longo began college at the University of North Texas, in the town of Denton, but left before earning a degree. He later studied sculpture under Leonda Finke, who encou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuele Longo
Samuele Longo (born 12 January 1992) is an Italian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Spanish club Antequera. Club career Early career Born in Valdobbiadene, Province of Treviso, Veneto, Longo started his career at Treviso FBC 1993. He was the member of ''Esordienti'' under-13 team in 2004–05 season. In January 2009 Inter Milan bought Longo and Mame Baba Thiam outright. Longo spent the rest of 2008–09 season in Treviso's ''Allievi Nazionali'' under-17 team in a temporary deal before formally became an Inter player on 1 July 2009. Inter Milan Youth ;2009–10 Longo was a junior member of Inter's reserve team in the 2009–10 season, as a backup for Denis Alibec, Mattia Destro and Simone Dell'Agnello. On 28 January 2010, after being sparingly used by Inter, he left for Piacenza Calcio, along with Giuseppe Angarano and Luca Stocchi. In total, Longo only played 4 times in the reserve league that season. ;2010–11 In the 2010–2011 season, despite Inter t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Longo's
Longo Brothers Fruit Markets Inc., commonly known as Longo's, is a Canadian chain of retail supermarkets and online grocer, grocery delivery service that serves the Southern Ontario area. It is controlled by Sobeys parent Empire Company in partnership with the founding Longo family. Its corporate office is located in Vaughan, Ontario, and it operates locations mainly in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. History Longo's was founded in 1956 by Italian immigrant brothers Joe, Tommy and Gus Longo, who immigrated to Canada in 1951 from Termini Imerese, Sicily. They established their first store at the intersection of Yonge Street and Castlefield Avenue in Toronto, with the name "Broadway Fruit Market". This store was about , and it had eight family members working there. After the Longo family joined Antonino in Canada, they opened a store on Yonge Street in 1956. A year after the father's death in 1961, the store moved to East York. Their second location was in Malton, at the so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roberto Longo (mathematician)
Roberto Longo (born 9 May 1953) is an Italian mathematician, specializing in operator algebras and quantum field theory. Education and career Roberto Longo graduated in Mathematics at the Sapienza University of Rome in 1975 under the supervision of the mathematical physicist Sergio Doplicher. From 1975 to 1977 Longo was a predoctoral fellow of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche and later assistant professor at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he became an associate professor in 1980. In 1987 he was nominated full professor of functional analysis at the University of Rome Tor Vergata and since 2010 he is the director of the Center for Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in Rome. Between 1978 and 1979 he was visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, Berkeley. He has been a visiting professor in numerous research centers, including the CNRS in Marseille, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley, California, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartolo Longo
Bartolo Longo, TOSD (February 10, 1841 – October 5, 1926) was an Italian lawyer and former Satanic priest who returned to the Catholic faith and became a Dominican tertiary, dedicating his life to the Rosary and the Virgin Mary. He was eventually awarded a papal knighthood of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. He was beatified in 1980. Early years Bartolo Longo was born into a wealthy family on February 10, 1841, in the small town of Latiano, near Brindisi, in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. His parents were devout Catholics. In 1851, Longo's father died and his mother remarried a lawyer. Despite Longo's stepfather wanting him to study in order to become a teacher, Longo was set on becoming a lawyer. In 1861, Longo succeeded in convincing his stepfather and was sent to the University of Naples to study law.Brown, Ann M., "Apostle of the Rosary: Blessed Bartolo Longo", New Hope Publications. 2004. In the 1860s, the Catholic Church in Italy found it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valter Longo
Valter D. Longo (born 1967) is an Italian-American biogerontologist and cell biologist known for his studies on the role of fasting and nutrient response genes on cellular protection aging and diseases and for proposing that longevity is regulated by similar genes and mechanisms in many eukaryotes. He is currently a professor at the USC Davis School of Gerontology with a joint appointment in the department of Biological Sciences as well as serving as the director of the USC Longevity Institute. Early life and education Valter Longo was born into a Calabrian family in the northern Italian city of Genoa in 1967. As a child, he spent much of his time imitating Jimi Hendrix's guitar-playing style. At the age of 16, he moved to Chicago to study jazz guitar, and lived with extended relatives. While there, he observed that his relatives in the United States were genetically similar to his family back home, but many of them were suffering from diabetes and cardiovascular disease due t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Longo
Michael Josef Longo (March 19, 1937 – March 22, 2020) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and author. Early life Longo was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to parents who had a musical background. His father played bass, his mother played organ at church, and his music training began at a young age. Mike recalled seeing Sugar Chile Robinson playing boogie woogie piano: "The first time I saw him, man, he knocked me out. I must have been three or four years old. He played after the Count Basie show, so I went home and started picking out boogie woogie bass lines." His parents took him for formal lessons at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music at four. He moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida soon after. At the age of 12, he won a local talent contest. Career Longo's career began in his father's band, but later Cannonball Adderley helped him get gigs of his own. Their working relationship pre-dated Adderley's emergence as a band leader. Adderley approached the teenaged Longo because he need ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Longo
Christian Michael Longo (born January 23, 1974) is a convicted murderer who killed his wife and three children in Oregon in December 2001. Background Christian Michael Longo was raised in Ypsilanti Township, Michigan. In 1993, at the age of 19, Longo married 26-year-old Mary Jane Baker and had three children with her. Longo and his family often encountered financial difficulties due to his reckless spending habits. The Longo family lived in Newport, Oregon. Christian was employed at a local Starbucks, while Mary Jane was a stay-at-home mother. She was also a Jehovah's Witness and active in their local Kingdom Hall. By all accounts, the two devoted their time to raising their three young children. At the time of the murders, the couple had been married for eight years and enjoyed sailing and jigsaw puzzles in their spare time. Murders The body of four-year-old Zachary Longo was found on December 19, 2001, in Lint Slough, a backwater of the Alsea River estuary. Divers located the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeannie Longo
Jeannie Longo (born 31 October 1958) is a French racing cyclist, 6-time French champion and 13-time world champion. Longo began racing in 1975 and was active in cycling through 2012. She was once widely considered the best female cyclist of all time, although that reputation is now clouded by suspicion of doping throughout her career. She is famous for her competitive nature and her longevity in the sport – when she was selected to compete for France in the 2008 Olympics, it was her seventh Olympic Games; some of Longo's competitors that year had not yet been born when she took part in her first Olympics in 1984. She had stated that 2008 would be her final participation in the Olympics. In the Women's road race, she finished 24th, 33 seconds behind winner Nicole Cooke, who was one year old when Longo first rode in the Olympics. At the same Olympics, she finished 4th in the road time trial, just two seconds shy of securing a bronze medal. She is currently number two on the al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annalie Longo
Annalie Antonia Longo (born 1 July 1991) is a Former New Zealand professional footballer who played for Wellington Phoenix in the A-League Women and the New Zealand national team. She has played for Sydney FC and Melbourne Victory in the Australian W-League. Early life Longo got into football when she used to go with her dad, Paul, to watch her brothers, Jason and Julian, play for Eden Football Club. She joined the club which merged with Mt Roskill to become Three Kings United. She received additional coaching at the Wynton Rufer Soccer School of Excellence from 1999 to 2006. Longo attended Epsom Girls' Grammar School and played for their first XI, winning the NZ Secondary Schoolgirls tournament in 2008 with future international teammates Anna Green and Hannah Wall. This was after the team won the Auckland provincial championships unbeaten. Club career Three Kings United Longo played youth football for Three Kings United throughout her childhood. She debuted for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaetano Longo
Gaetano Longo ( 1865 – 14 September 1900) was an Italian man who murdered ten people and injured one other in an hour-long mass shooting in Pastena, Lazio, Kingdom of Italy, on 14 September 1900, after suspecting his wife of infidelity. Background In 1899 or early 1900, ex-soldier Gaetano Longo emigrated to New York, United States, in hopes of improving his living conditions. His wife, Annunziata ( 1873–1900), was left behind in Italy, with Longo promising to bring her to the U.S. as soon as he was able. While Longo was abroad, Annunziata allegedly had several affairs with different men in their village. Through a letter sent by someone she had slighted, Longo was made aware of this and returned to Italy on 11 June; rather than going home, he spent several weeks in the nearby town of Caserta to gather evidence before enacting revenge. Murder spree On 14 September 1900, Longo returned to Pastena. His first victim was his wife's alleged lover, a man from a wealthy family named ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
