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Pio (given Name)
Pio is a masculine given name, the Spanish-language equivalent to Pius. People with the name include: * Padre Pio (1887–1968), stigmatic Capuchin friar, Roman Catholic saint born Francesco Forgione * Pío Baroja (1872–1956), Spanish writer * Pío Cabanillas Gallas (1923–1991), Spanish jurist and politician * Pío Collivadino (1865–1949), Argentine painter * Pío Corcuera (1921–2011), Argentine footballer * Pío del Pilar (1860–1931), Filipino revolutionary general * Pio Fedi (1815–1892), Italian sculptor * Pio Filippani Ronconi (1920–2010) Italian Waffen-SS soldier and orientalist * Pío García-Escudero (born 1952), Spanish architect and politician * Pio Joris (1843–1922), Italian painter * Pio Laghi (1922–2009), Italian Roman Catholic cardinal * Pio Laporte (1878–1930), Canadian politician and physician * Pío Leyva (1917–2006), Cuban singer and composer * Pio Loterio (died 1591), Roman Catholic prelate and Bishop of Fondi * Pio Marchi (1895– ...
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Pius
Pius ( , ; ) is a masculine given name. Its feminine form is Pia. It may refer to: People Monarch * Antoninus Pius (86–161), Roman emperor Popes * Pope Pius (other) * Antipope Pius XIII (1918–2009), who led the breakaway True Catholic Church sect Given name * Pius Adesanmi (1972–2019), Nigerian-born Canadian academic and author * Pius Bazighe (born 1972), Nigerian javelin thrower * Pius Font i Quer (1888–1964), Catalan botanist, pharmacist and chemist * Pius Bonifacius Gams (1816–1892), German Benedictine ecclesiastical historian * Pius Heinz (born 1989), German poker player * Pius Lasisi Jimoh (1950–2014), Nigerian politician * Pius F. Koakanu (died 1885), Hawaiian politician * Pius Langa (1939–2013), South African lawyer and judge * Pius Lee, American political power broker and landlord * Pius Malip (died 1988), Papua New Guinean politician * Pius Ferdinand Messerschmitt (1858–1915), German painter, illustrator and watercolorist * Pius Ncu ...
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Pio Marchi
Pio Marchi (1895 – December 1942) was an Italian professional footballer who played as a midfielder for Juventus. His younger brother Guido Guido is a given name. It has been a male first name in Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Argentina, the Low Countries, Scandinavia, Spain, Portugal and Latin America, as well as other places with migration from those. Regarding origins, there ... was also a professional footballer. References 1895 births 1942 deaths Italian men's footballers Juventus FC players Men's association football midfielders People from Carmagnola Footballers from Piedmont 20th-century Italian sportsmen {{Italy-footy-midfielder-1890s-stub ...
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Pío Valenzuela
Pío Valenzuela y Alejandrino (July 11, 1869 – April 6, 1956) was a Filipino physician and revolutionary leader. At the age of 22, he joined the society of Katipunan, a movement which sought the independence of the Philippines from Spanish colonial rule and started the Philippine Revolution. Together with Andrés Bonifacio and Emilio Jacinto, they formed the secret chamber of the society called ''Camara Reina or Kamara Negra''. He took charge of the publication of '' Ang Kalayaan'', Katipunan's first and only official publication. He was the one who tried to convince the exiled José Rizal to join the revolutionary movement. When the Katipunan was discovered, he fled to Balintawak (now part of Quezon City) on August 20, 1896, but he later availed of an amnesty that the Spanish colonial government offered, and he surrendered on September 1, 1896. He was deported to Spain where he was tried and imprisoned in Madrid. He was later transferred to Málaga, and then to a Spanish out ...
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Pio Tuwai
Pio Tuwai is a Fiji rugby union player. He currently plays for the Fiji sevens team. Tuwai played for the Sri Lankan Army in 2014. He returned to the Fiji sevens team in 2015 and played at the Hong Kong Sevens The Hong Kong Sevens ( zh, t=香港國際七人欖球賽, link=no) is a rugby sevens tournament held annually in Hong Kong on a weekend in late March or early April. Considered the premier tournament on the World Rugby Sevens Series competiti .... References External links Zimbio Bio Fiji international rugby sevens players Living people Fijian rugby union players 1983 births People from Yasawa Rugby union players from Ba Province World Games gold medalists for Fiji World Games medalists in rugby sevens Medalists at the 2009 World Games 21st-century Fijian sportsmen {{Fiji-rugbyunion-bio-stub ...
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Pio Bosco Tikoisuva
Pio Bosco Tikoisuva (born 1947 in Taveuni Taveuni (pronounced ) is the third-largest island in Fiji, after Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, with a total land area of . The cigar-shaped island, a massive shield volcano which rises from the floor of the Pacific Ocean, is situated east of Vanua ...) is a Fijian former rugby union footballer and diplomat. Rugby career Tikoisuva played 19 Test match (rugby union), tests for Fiji national rugby union team, Fiji between 1968 and 1979. Tikoisiva won his first Test Cap (sport)#Rugby union, cap in 1968 against Tonga national rugby union team, Tonga. As he was aged 21, the Fijian Selector (sport), selectors had decided that Tikoisuva was too young for Test rugby, and they omitted from the first Test of the series. After Tonga won 8-6, he was added to the side, and Fiji went on to win the series 2 -1, with a 12-10 victory in Lautoka and a 13-9 win in Suva. After a lengthy tour to New Zealand, where Tikoisuva played in the 9-9 draw with the Ne ...
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Pio Terei
Pio Keith Terei (born 1958) is a Māori actor, singer and comedian on New Zealand television. Early career Early in his working life he sold light commercial trucks for 14 years. In 1995 Terei headlined his own TV3 show ''Pete and Pio'' with fellow comedian Peter Rowley. After the success of ''Pete and Pio'', Terei led his own show called ''Pio!'', featuring similar skits to his previous programme. It ran from 1997 to 1999 and it was during this period that he hosted the ''Coca Cola Christmas in the Park''. When ''Pio!'' was cancelled in 1999, Terei moved to the TVNZ network. In 2000, Terei led a TVNZ programme entitled ''The Life and Times of Te Tutu'', a comedy following the daily life of an 1800s Māori chief. Under his own Pipi Productions company, ''The Life and Times of Te Tutu'' played weekly until cancelled in 2001, when Terei ceased work under Pipi Productions. Comeback His comeback was with the TV ONE series ''Intrepid Journeys'' - a travel show where each week ...
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Pio Sanquirico
Pio Sanquirico ( Gudo Visconti, Austrian Empire 1847– Milan, 1900) was an Italian painter. Biography Sanquirico mostly exhibited in Italy. In 1880 he was invited to the National Exposition of Fine Arts of Turin, where he exhibited ''In Time of Peace''. In 1881 he exhibited three more paintings, ''Alla frutta'', '' Panfilo Castaldi at the Court of the Sforza'' and ''Discovery and Delusion'' in Turin. The same year he displayed ''Una scoperta''; ''Da Monza a Sesto'', and a series of studies at the Expo of the Society for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts in Florence. In 1883 he painted and exhibited three new canvases: ''Confidenza''; ''Verrà''; and ''Il pulcino nero'' in Milan.The latter was also exhibited in 1883, at the Exhibition in Rome with another painting depicting ''Giordano Bruno'', with the following inscription: ''Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam'' (Perhaps you pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it). H ...
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Pío Del Río Hortega
Pío del Río Hortega (1882 – 1945) was a Spanish neuroscientist who discovered microglia. Biography Río Hortega was born in Portillo, Valladolid on 5 May 1882. He studied locally and qualified to practice medicine in 1905. He obtained his doctorate at the Complutense University of Madrid, University of Madrid by researching the pathology of brain tumours. In 1913, he was funded to study research histology in France and Germany but the outbreak of war between them forced him to return to Spain. He worked with the histologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal and briefly with Wilder Penfield. Ramón y Cajal discovered neurons, Penfield helped explain oligodendroglia, whilst Rio Hortega discovered microglia, which are the cells that protect the brain from infection. He managed to identify microglia between 1919 and 1921 by staining the cells with silver carbonate. His method of staining also led to the discovery of oligodendroglia in 1921, which both he and Penfield are now credited with ...
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Pio Gama Pinto
Pio Gama Pinto (31 March 1927 – 24 February 1965) was a Kenyan journalist, politician and freedom fighter. He was a socialist leader who was key in Kenya's struggle for independence. He was assassinated in 1965, leading many to consider him independent Kenya's first political martyr. Early years Pinto was born in Nairobi on 31 March 1927 to a family of Goan Catholic descent. Born to immigrant Goan parents hailing from the Portuguese Goa, his father was an official in the colonial government of Kenya while his mother was a housewife. At age eight, he was sent to Goa for his education and spent the next nine years there, passing his matriculation exams at St. Joseph's High School, Arpora and then moving to the Bombay Presidency, studying science at Karnatak College, Dharwar for two years before joining the Royal Indian Air Force in 1944 as an apprentice ground engineer. He then took up a job in the Posts and Telegraph office in Bombay, participated in a general strike an ...
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Pío Pico
Don (honorific), Don Pío de Jesús Pico IV (May 5, 1801 – September 11, 1894) was a California politician, ranchero, and entrepreneur, famous for serving as the List of governors of California before 1850, last governor of Alta California under Mexican rule from 1845 to 1846. He briefly held the governorship during a disputed period in 1832. A member of the prominent Pico family of California, he was one of the wealthiest men in California at the time and a hugely influential figure in Californian society, continuing as a citizen of the nascent U.S. state of California. His legacy can be seen in the numerous places named after him, such as the city of Pico Rivera, California, Pico Rivera, Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles, Pio Pico State Historic Park, and numerous schools that bear his name. Early years Ancestry Pío Pico was of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Native American, Spaniards, Spanish, Italians, Italian, and Africans, African ancestry. His earliest known ancesto ...
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Pio Fabio Paolini
Pio Fabio Paolini or Pio Paolini (1620 in Udine – 1692) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Biography He migrated from Udine to Rome to become a pupil of Giovanni Lanfranco. In Rome, his masterwork was a ceiling fresco of ''Hope and Truth'' (1677-1679) for the church of San Carlo al Corso. He was inducted into Academy of San Luca in 1678. After briefly returning to Udine, he relocated to Sicily, where he initially worked in Catania Catania (, , , Sicilian and ) is the second-largest municipality on Sicily, after Palermo, both by area and by population. Despite being the second city of the island, Catania is the center of the most densely populated Sicilian conurbation, wh ..., then in Messina, where he ultimately was buried. Many of his works in Sicily have been damaged by the earthquakes.
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Pio Panfili
Pio Panfili (May 5, 1723 – 17 June 1812) was an Italian painter and engraver. Biography He was born in Porto San Giorgio in the province of Fermo. He trained with Antiveduto Grammatica, Natale Ricci in Fermo, and finally in the Accademia Clementina of Bologna, and was awarded Bolognese citizenship. After painting throughout the region, he moved to Bologna in 1767. He died in 1812 in Bologna. He painted the ceiling of the staircase of the monastery of the Padri Conventuali of Montegiorgio and the refectory of the Augustinians in Rimini. Also painted for palaces, including the Palazzo Priorale, and the ceiling of the cathedral of Fermo. He published ''Vedute A ''veduta'' (; : ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of ''vedute'' are referred to as ''vedutisti''. Origins This genre of landscape originated ... di Bologna'' with 52 engravings by himself and published by Petronio Dall ...
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