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Osmany
Osmany is both a masculine given name, occurring especially in Cuba, and a surname, occurring in South Asia. Notable people with the name include: Given name * (born 1963), Cuban racing cyclist * Osmany Cienfuegos (1931–2025), Cuban politician * Osmany Juantorena (born 1985), Cuban-born Italian volleyball player * Osmany Uriarte (born 1995), Cuban volleyball player * Osmani Urrutia Osmani Urrutia Ramírez (also spelled ''Osmany'') (born June 29, 1976) is a Cuban baseball player. He plays right field for the Las Tunas Magos of the Cuban National Series and for the Cuba national baseball team. Career in Cuba Playing for La ..., also ''Osmany Urrutia'' (born 1976), Cuban baseball player Surname * Laleh Osmany (born 1992), Afghan women's rights activist * Mufleh R. Osmany, former foreign secretary of Bangladesh and diplomat * Sarmad Jalal Osmany (1950–2025), Pakistani jurist, chief justice of the Sindh High Court See also * Usmani, people with this name {{given ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarmad Jalal Osmany
Sarmad Jalal Osmany (; 13 October 1950 – 21 April 2025) was a Pakistani jurist who served as a chief justice of the Sindh High Court. Background Osmany was born on 13 October 1950 in Lahore. He received his early education from St. Anthony's High School, Lahore. He attended the University of Peshawar, where he graduated with a BA in 1971. Later, he obtained his LLB from the University of the Punjab in 1975, and earned an LLM from the University of London in 1978. Osmany died after a long battle with cancer in Karachi, on 21 April 2025, at the age of 74. Career Osmany began his legal career as an associate at a law firm in Karachi between 1979 and 1982, followed by a stint at Shearman & Sterling in New York City from 1983 to 1984, focusing on international trade and banking. In 1985, Osmany founded his own law firm in Karachi, practising primarily in the fields of banking, shipping, and mergers and acquisitions. He also served as legal adviser to the Privatization Commissio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osmany Juantorena
Osmany Juantorena Portuondo (born 12 August 1985) is a Cuban-born Italian professional volleyball player, a member of Cuba national volleyball team in 2003–2006 and current member of Italian club Modena Volley. Juantorena was bronze medalist of the 2005 World League and silver medalist 2016 Summer Olympics. He is a multiple winner of the CEV Champions League and FIVB Club World Championship with the Italian club Trentino Volley. Juantorena is the record owner of the highest number of Most Valuable Player awards at FIVB Club World Championship, with 4 times. Personal life Juantorena was born in Santiago de Cuba. He is a nephew of Alberto Juantorena, a Cuban former track runner and politician. Osmany Juantorena and his wife Glenda became first time parents on May 3, 2013 with the arrival of their first baby daughter named Victoria. On September 23, 2018 with arrival second baby daughter named Angelica. He is fan of Inter and in 2019 he launched a shoe line. Career Clubs He s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laleh Osmany
Lalah Osmany (; born 1992) is a women's rights activist from Afghanistan, who founded the social media campaign #WhereIsMyName, which opposes the tradition that women's names were not used publicly in Afghanistan. For her work she was recognised among the BBC's 100 Women in 2020. Biography Osmany was born in 1992 in Afghanistan; she later studied Islamic Law at Herat University. In 2017 she co-founded the #WhereIsMyName social media campaign with Tahmineh Rashiq. The campaign was set up in protest against the fact that in Afghanistan, women traditionally had no right for their names to be used in public. This custom meant that women's names did not appear on official documents such as birth or death certificates, and not even on her tombstone. Mary Akrami, the chair of the Afghanistan's Women Network, described the news of the change in the law as a “positive step toward establishing women’s identity". Fawzia Koofi, an Afghan former MP and women's rights activist, said ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osmany Cienfuegos
Osmany Cienfuegos Gorriarán (4 February 1931 – 17 May 2025) was a Cuban politician and older brother of Camilo Cienfuegos. He served in various roles in the Cuban government. Cienfuegos was the only one of three brothers who attended the University of Havana, where he graduated as an architect in 1954. He joined the Popular Socialist Party (Partido Socialista Popular, PSP). He was exiled to Mexico in 1957 and remained there until 1959. After his brother's death, he was chosen to be the Minister of Construction in 1960. After the foundation of the Communist Party of Cuba in 1965, Cienfuegos was chosen as the president of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the PCC Central Committee. He played a key role in implementing Cuban policies toward Africa in the 1960s, such as the intervention in the Congo in 1965. In 1966, he was appointed Secretary General of the Organization of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America ( OSPAAAL). He was removed from the Politb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osmany Uriarte
Osmany Santiago Uriarte Mestre (born 4 June 1995) is a Cuban male volleyball player. Uriarte Mestre was part of the Cuba men's national volleyball team at the 2014 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Championship The 2014 FIVB Men's Volleyball World Championship was held in Poland from 30 August to 21 September 2014. The tournament featured 24 teams to determine the world champions in men's volleyball. In addition to the host nation Poland, 23 teams qual ... in Poland. He played for Sancti Spíritus. Uriarte Mestre was one of the six players of the Cuban national volleyball team arrested and charged with aggravated rape in July 2016 in Tampere, Finland. He was found guilty in September 2016 and was sentenced to five years in prison. His sentence was ultimately reduced to four years. Clubs * Sancti Spíritus (2014) * Maliye Milli Piyango (2015) * Inegol Belediyespor (2018–2019) * Galatasaray (2020) * Cizre Belediyespor (2021) References External links Volleybox.net profile {{D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Usmani
Usmani, Othmani or Uthmani is a large Muslim community (Urdu: عثمانی), found mainly in South Asia. Notable people Last name * Fazlur Rahman Usmani, Indian Muslim scholar * Aziz-ul-Rahman Usmani, Indian Muslim scholar * Shabbir Ahmad Usmani, Pakistani Muslim scholar * Atiqur Rahman Usmani, Indian Muslim scholar * Rafi Usmani, Pakistani Muslim scholar * Taqi Usmani, Pakistani Muslim scholar * M. A. G. Osmani, Bengali military leader * Sumayya Usmani, Pakistani-born Scottish food writer *Vjosa Osmani, fifth President of Kosovo *Maskoor Usmani, Indian politician Given name * Osmany Cienfuegos, Cuban politician * Osmani García, Cuban rapper * Osmany Juantorena, Cuban-Italian volleyball player * Osmani Urrutia, Cuban baseball player See also * Abbasi (other) * Alavi * Behna * Farooqi * Gardezi * Hashemi * Osmany * Quraishi * Siddiqui Siddiqui () are a Muslim community, found mainly in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, and in communities in Saudi Arabia, the M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osmani Urrutia
Osmani Urrutia Ramírez (also spelled ''Osmany'') (born June 29, 1976) is a Cuban baseball player. He plays right field for the Las Tunas Magos of the Cuban National Series and for the Cuba national baseball team. Career in Cuba Playing for Las Tunas, Urrutia hit over .400 in the Cuban National Series for three straight years, beginning in 2000 (.431 in 2000-2001, .408 in 2001-2002 and .421 in 2002-2003). International experience Urrutia, who is and , has competed in many international tournaments for Cuba, including: * 2001 World Championship (Taiwan) * 2000 and 2001 World Cup of Baseball in the Netherlands * 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic * 2003 World Cup of Baseball (Cuba) * 2004 Athens Olympics * 2006 World Baseball Classic During the 2005 World Cup of Baseball, Urrutia hit for a .387 average with five runs batted in (RBI) and 12 hits in 31 at-bats. During the 2006 World Baseball Classic, Urrutia batted .387 with one home run and seven RBIs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba (largest island), Isla de la Juventud, and List of islands of Cuba, 4,195 islands, islets and cays surrounding the main island. It is located where the northern Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic Ocean meet. Cuba is located east of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico), south of both Florida and the Bahamas, west of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic), and north of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. Havana is the largest city and capital. Cuba is the List of countries and dependencies by population, third-most populous country in the Caribbean after Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with about 10 million inhabitants. It is the largest country in the Caribbean by area. The territory that is now Cuba was inhabited as early as the 4th millennium BC, with the Guanahatabey and Taino, Taíno peoples inhabiting the area at the time of Spanish colonization of the Americas, Spanish colonization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Asia
South Asia is the southern Subregion#Asia, subregion of Asia that is defined in both geographical and Ethnicity, ethnic-Culture, cultural terms. South Asia, with a population of 2.04 billion, contains a quarter (25%) of the world's population. As commonly conceptualised, the modern State (polity), states of South Asia include Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, with Afghanistan also often included, which may otherwise be classified as part of Central Asia. South Asia borders East Asia to the northeast, Central Asia to the northwest, West Asia to the west and Southeast Asia to the east. Apart from Southeast Asia, Littoral South Asia, Maritime South Asia is the only subregion of Asia that lies partly within the Southern Hemisphere. The British Indian Ocean Territory and two out of Atolls of Maldives, 26 atolls of the Maldives in South Asia lie entirely within the Southern Hemisphere. Topographically, it is dominated by the Indian subcontinent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masculine Given Names
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A '' Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. In Western culture, the idioms "" and "being on first-name terms" refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or ''gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cuban Given Names
Cuban or Cubans may refer to: Related to Cuba * of or related to Cuba, a country in the Caribbean * Cubans, people from Cuba, or of Cuban descent ** Cuban exile, a person who left Cuba for political reasons, or a descendant thereof * Cuban Americans, citizens of the United States who are of Cuban descent * Cuban Spanish, the dialect of Cuba * Culture of Cuba * Cuban cigar * Cuban cuisine ** Cuban sandwich People with the surname * Brian Cuban (born 1961), American lawyer and activist * Mark Cuban (born 1958), American entrepreneur See also * * Kuban (other) * List of Cubans * Demographics of Cuba * Cuban Boys, a British music act * Cuban eight, a type of aerobatic maneuver * Cuban Missile Crisis * Cubane Cubane is a synthetic hydrocarbon compound with the Chemical formula, formula . It consists of eight carbon atoms arranged at the corners of a Cube (geometry), cube, with one hydrogen atom attached to each carbon atom. A solid crystalline substanc ..., a synthetic hydr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
