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Samper (surname)
Samper is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Bernardo Samper, a Colombian squash player * Cristián Samper, a Colombian-American biologist and museum administrator * Juan Felipe Samper, a Colombian musician * Ernesto Samper, a Colombian politician * Daniel Samper Pizano, a Colombian lawyer and writer, brother of Ernesto Samper *Daniel Samper Ospina Daniel Samper Ospina was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1974. He is a Colombian comedian and columnist, and previous director of adult magazine ''SoHo'' from 2001 to 2014. He also wrote for Revista Semana. Samper studied literature at Pontifica ..., a Colombian comedian and journalist, son of Daniel Samper Pizano * Ricardo Samper, a Spanish political figure during the Second Spanish Republic * Sergi Samper, a Spanish football player {{surname, Samper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardo Samper
Bernardo Samper García del Diestro (born April 8, 1982 in Bogotá), known as Bernardo Samper, is a professional male squash player who represented Colombia. He reached a career-high world ranking of World No. 57 in November 2007 after having joined the Professional Squash Association The Professional Squash Association (PSA) is the governing body for the men's and women's professional squash circuit. The body operates in a similar fashion to the ATP and the WTA for tennis. The PSA's highest professional level, the PSA Wor ... (PSA) in 2000. References External links * * 1982 births Living people Colombian male squash players Trinity Bantams men's squash players Sportspeople from Bogotá Squash players at the 2007 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Colombia Pan American Games medalists in squash South American Games gold medalists for Colombia South American Games bronze medalists for Colombia South American Games medalists in squa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristián Samper
Cristián Samper (born September 25, 1965) is a Colombian-American tropical biologist specializing in conservation biology and environmental policy. He is the Managing Director and Leader of Nature Solutions at the Bezos Earth Fund. He served as President and CEO of WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) from 2012 to 2022.Parker, Lonnae O'Neal. "Smithsonian Names New Director of Natural History Museum." ''Washington Post.'' July 26, 2012. He was the Director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, the world's largest natural history collection, from 2003 to 2012, and served as acting Secretary of the Smithsonian from 2007 to 2008, the first Latin American to hold the position. In April 2015, Dr. Samper was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Early life and education Samper was born on September 25, 1965 in San José, Costa Rica, the youngest child of Armando Samper Gnecco, an agronomist and economist from Colombia, and Jean Kutschba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samper (singer)
Juan Felipe Samper (Born in Cali , Colombia. September 23, 1985) better known as "SAMPER" is a musician, songwriter, Colombian pop rock singer winner of 2 Premios Shock, 1 Premios Nuestra Tierra and Latin Grammy nominee. Biography Samper was born September 23, 1985, in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Son of Francisco Samper (publicist) and Beatriz Perez (business woman). He has 3 younger sisters, Maria, Cayetana and Eloisa. The two youngest from his father's second marriage. Throughout his childhood and adolescence he was a member of various musical group. He studied in Cali's musical conservatory conservatorio musical de Cali as a small boy and was also a member of the choir in his school. He was also part of "Misi" "Misi" (a musical theatre academy) and was part of various music ensembles of jazz, rock and punk during his school years mainly playing the drums. At the end of high school years he founded the music band "Atabake" one of the pioneers of the "tropipop" mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernesto Samper
Ernesto Samper Pizano (born 3 August 1950) is a Colombian politician. Samper is a member of the influential Samper family. He served as the President of Colombia from 1994 to 1998, representing the Liberal Party. From 2014 to 2017 he served as the Secretary General of the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR). He was involved in the 8000 process scandal, which takes its name from the folio number assigned to it by the chief prosecutor's office. The prosecutor charged that money from the Cali Cartel was funneled into Samper's presidential campaign to gain his success in what would have been a very close race after he failed to win by a majority during the first round (Colombia has 2 rounds of elections, unless the first round yields a majority winner). The Colombian Chamber of Representatives acquitted Samper by a vote of 111 to 43, concluding the process. Genealogy Samper is related to several other Colombians of note. One of his great great grandfathers, Teodoro Val ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Samper Pizano
Daniel Samper Pizano (born 8 June 1945) is a Colombian lawyer, journalist, and prolific writer. Career Samper attended the Gimnasio Moderno, where he began writing in the student newspaper ''El Aguilucho''. At the age of 19 he worked for the Colombian newspaper '' El Tiempo'' as a reporter. After graduating from high school, Samper studied law in the Pontifical Xavierian University and later attended graduate school for journalism at the University of Kansas, United States. He was also awarded the Nieman Fellowship by Harvard University. Since then he has been an editor, columnist and author of some 38 books, TV and movie screenwriter and winner of numerous recognitions and awards in Colombia and abroad; Among these, the Maria Moors Cabot prize awarded by Columbia University, the "Rey de España" prize and has won the Colombian "Simón Bolívar Prize for Journalism" three times. His writings are notable for his wide-ranging and soft sense of humor, combined with a degree of soc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Samper Ospina
Daniel Samper Ospina was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1974. He is a Colombian comedian and columnist, and previous director of adult magazine ''SoHo'' from 2001 to 2014. He also wrote for Revista Semana. Samper studied literature at Pontifical Xavierian University, later becoming a literature teacher at Gimnasio Moderno School, and a journalism teacher at University of the Andes, in Bogotá. As a journalist he worked at ''Cromos'', and ''Jet Set''; as a columnist, he wrote columns for '' El Tiempo'', and from 2008 to 2020, he wrote at ''Semana'', turning it into a controversial, subject for debate in the media.eltiempo.com: ¿No le parece que en sus columnas de humor político a veces se pasa de la raya? Da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Samper
Ricardo Samper Ibáñez (25 August 1881 – 27 October 1938) was a Spanish political figure during the Second Spanish Republic. Political career Samper served as Valencia mayor between 1920 and 1923. In 1931 he was elected as Member of the Parliament with Alejandro Lerroux's Radical Republican Party. He served first as Minister of Labor and later as Minister of Industry. On 28 April 1934, he was appointed as the 127th President of the Government when Lerroux quit. As one of Lerroux's chief lieutenants, he was asked by Alcala Zamora to succeed Lerroux. He was also a follower of Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, the novelist from the more liberal side of the party. Samper resigned the post in October, after losing CEDA's support amid the "Revolutionary Insurrection of 1934". On 4 October, a new coalition was announced, and the "Socialist revolutionary committee" was announced. He served in the following government for one month, after which he quit politics. Samper left Spain at the ou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
