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Sapiro
Sapiro is one variant of a Jewish Ashkenazi surname (see more at Shapiro). Notable people with the surname include: *Aaron Sapiro (1884–1959), Jewish American cooperative activist *Guillermo Sapiro (born 1966), Uruguayan computer scientist and electrical engineer *I. I. Pjateckii-Sapiro / Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro (1929–2009), Soviet-born Israeli mathematician * Miriam Sapiro (born 1960), US Democrat and civil servant *Shireen Sapiro (born 1991), South African Paralympic swimmer *Virginia Sapiro (born 1951), American political scientist and political psychologist See also * Kingdom of Sapiro from ''Encantadia'', a Filipino fantasy franchise * Shapiro, surname (main article); variants: ** Chapiro, list ** Sapir (surname), list ** Schapira, list ** Schapiro, list ** Shapero, list ** Shapira, list ** Spear (surname), list ** Spero, list ** Spira (surname), list ** Spire - see André Spire ** Spiro (surname), list ** Szapiro, list ** Szpiro, list *Speyer Speyer (, old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Encantadia
''Encantadia'' is a Filipino fantasy franchise produced and published by GMA Network. It consists of four television series that have run from 2005 to present and a single film. The first was shown in 2005 carrying the title alone and ended in the same year with total of 160 episodes. The second series title '' Etheria'' premiered in the same year and ended in 2006 with 50 episodes. Due to its significant success, the third series title '' Encantadia: Pag-ibig Hanggang Wakas'' premiered in 2006 consisting of 48 episodes. In 2016, 11 years after the original run, a reboot of the series premiered on the same network featuring a new cast. In 2005, ''Encantadia'' had a crossover film with '' Mulawin'' entitled '' Mulawin: The Movie'', which was produced by GMA Pictures as an entry to the 2005 Metro Manila Film Festival. Synopsis Encantadia is a vast and enchanted realm. It comprises three major kingdoms Lireo, Sapiro, Hathoria, and a land territory, under the protectory of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miriam Sapiro
Miriam Elizabeth Sapiro (born 1960) served as the Deputy Trade Representative under Ron Kirk and became the acting Trade Representative on May 23, 2013. A former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, Sapiro served as well in the State Department and on the National Security Council under Presidents Reagan, Bush and Clinton. Following her tenure in the Obama administration, Sapiro was appointed partner at Finsbury and later the Head of the DC Office and SVP of public affairs at Sard Verbinnen & Co. Currently, Sapiro is a member of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on International Communications & Information Policy. Early life and career Sapiro attended New York University School of Law. She was the founder and president of Summit Strategies International, a consulting firm involved in internet and telecommunications policies. Prior to that, she was an executive in the technology sector. Sapiro worked in the White House for then-President Bill Clinton as Spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Sapiro
Aaron Leland Sapiro (February 5, 1884 – November 23, 1959) was an American cooperative activist, lawyer and major leader of the farmers' movement during the 1920s. One of the many issues he spoke on was cooperative grain marketing and was particularly active in California and Saskatoon in Saskatchewan where he addressed several meetings between 1923 and 1924. Biography Sapiro was born in Oakland, California. The son of Jewish immigrants, his childhood was lived in relative poverty. Despite this, he was able to obtain a law degree and gain a position on the California markets board staff, where he became acquainted with the concepts of agricultural cooperation for the first time. He was active in organizing in the United States before being posted by the Farmers’ Union leadership to promote the Pool in western Canada most notably Saskatchewan. He also devised a plan for the "commodity method" of cooperative marketing, which became widely known as the "California Plan" or "Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shireen Sapiro
Shireen Sapiro (born 25 January 1991 in Krugersdorp) is a South African Paralympic swimmer, most notable for her performance at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, winning a gold medal for the 100 m backstroke. She also claimed a bronze medal at the London 2012 Paralympics in the 100m backstroke. On 9 April 2004, Sapiro was seriously injured in a waterskiing accident which resulted in her left leg being paralysed. At the 2009 Maccabiah Games, Sapiro was appointed flag bearer for the South African delegation at the opening ceremony. While Sapiro generally competes in Paralympic events, she competed in the open competition of the swimming Swimming is the self-propulsion of a person through water, or other liquid, usually for recreation, sport, exercise, or survival. Locomotion is achieved through coordinated movement of the limbs and the body to achieve hydrodynamic thrust that r ... events against able-bodied swimmers. Footnotes External links * * Living people South ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guillermo Sapiro
Guillermo Sapiro (born 1966) is an Israeli-Uruguayan computer scientist, electrical engineer and professor who has made notable contributions to image processing. He worked at The University of Minnesota for 15 years before becoming a professor at Duke University. He has also worked at Hewlett Packard Labs (HP Laboratories) researching image processing and is known for being one of the people who originally developed the LOCO-I Compression Algorithm for lossless image compression (that was used in NASA's ICER image file format for various Mars rover expeditions) while he was working there. He has also made significant contributions towards the development of the rotobrush tool in Adobe After Effects, which has been included in After Effects since version CS5. Adobe makes use of his research in various projects like Photoshop and also frequently hires his students. He also teaches a massive open online course through Coursera on image and video processing In electronics engineering ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia Sapiro
Virginia Sapiro (born February 28, 1951) is an American political scientist and political psychologist. A native of East Orange, New Jersey, Sapiro graduated from Clark University in 1972, and obtained her doctorate from the University of Michigan in 1976, after which she began teaching at University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was appointed Sophonisba P. Breckinridge Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies there in 1995, and served through 2007, when she joined the Boston University faculty. Sapiro has served the American Political Science Association The American Political Science Association (APSA) is a professional association of political science students and scholars in the United States. Founded in 1903 in the Tilton Memorial Library (now Tilton Hall) of Tulane University in New Orleans, ... as secretary, vice president, and president of the APSA Organized Section on Women and Politics Research and as well as the APSA Organized Section on Elections, Public Opinio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shapiro
Shapiro, and its variations such as Shapira, Schapiro, Schapira, Sapir, Sapira, Spira, Sapiro, Spiro (name)/Spyro (in Greek), Szapiro/Szpiro (in Polish) and Chapiro (in French), is a Jewish Ashkenazi surname. Etymology The surname is derived from the medieval name of Speyer, Germany, compare Spire, the French name for that city. Other name variants attributed to Speyer include Sapiro, Spira, Spire, Spiro, Spero, Chapiro, Sprai, Szpir, Szpiro, Sapir and Spear. The Jewish community of Speyer was one of three leading cities central to the development of Ashkenazi culture, referred to as the , an acronym based on the names of the cities. The family name Speyer (based on the modern German name for the same city) has also become a well-known surname that was spread by Jews from Frankfurt to England, the United States and Canada in the late 19th and early 20th century. Some suggest that the surname derives from the Aramaic word () meaning "handsome". Notable people surnamed Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spero , American comedian
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Spero is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Anthony Spero (1929-2008), American criminal *David Spero (born 1951), American DJ and music manager *Deborah Spero, American law enforcement official *Donald Spero (born 1939), American rower and venture capitalist *Emji Spero, American queer performance artist *Ernest Spero (1894-1960), British politician *George Spero (footballer) (born 1941), Australian rules footballer *Greg Spero (born 1985), American pianist and composer * Joan E. Spero (born 1944), American diplomat *Nancy Spero (1926–2009), American visual artist *Shubert Spero (born 1923), American rabbi *Stanislas Spero Adotevi (born 1934), Beninese politician *Wendy Spero Wendy Spero is an actress, comedian, and writer who has performed on NPR, Comedy Central, VH1, NBC, and the Food Network. Her one woman show, "Who's Your Daddy?" was produced at Edinburgh Fringe Festival after a year-long run at the Upright Citi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speyer
Speyer (, older spelling ''Speier'', French: ''Spire,'' historical English: ''Spires''; pfl, Schbaija) is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany with approximately 50,000 inhabitants. Located on the left bank of the river Rhine, Speyer lies south of Ludwigshafen and Mannheim, and south-west of Heidelberg. Founded by the Romans, it is one of Germany's oldest cities. Speyer Cathedral, a number of other churches, and the Altpörtel (''old gate'') dominate the Speyer landscape. In the cathedral, beneath the high altar, are the tombs of eight Holy Roman Emperors and German kings. The city is famous for the 1529 Protestation at Speyer. One of the ShUM-cities which formed the cultural center of Jewish life in Europe during the Middle Ages, Speyer and its Jewish courtyard was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2021. History The first known names were ''Noviomagus'' and ''Civitas Nemetum'', after the Teutonic tribe, Nemetes, settled in the area. The nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szpiro
Szpiro is a Polish Jewish surname, a variant of Shapiro. Notable people with this surname include: * Abram Szpiro (1912-1943), Polish chess master * George Szpiro George Geza Szpiro (born 18 February 1950 in Vienna) is an Israeli–Swiss author, journalist, and mathematician. He has written articles and books on popular mathematics and related topics. Life and career Szpiro was born in Vienna in 1950, and mo ... (born 1950), Israeli-Swiss author, journalist, and mathematician * Lucien Szpiro (1941–2020), French mathematician * Dawid Szpiro (1922-1944), Victim of the Holocaust ** Szpiro's conjecture See also * Szapiro {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Szapiro
Szapiro is a Polish Jewish surname, a variant of Shapiro. Notable people with this surname include: *Anna Szapiro, mother of Georges Charpak *Deborah Szapiro, film producer *Jakub Szapiro, The King of Warsaw (TV series) main character * Gedali Szapiro (Grzegorz Szapiro, Gedalia Shapira, 1929–1972), Polish–Israeli chess master *Hanna Sawicka (Hanna Krystyna Szapiro 1917–1943), Polish communist * Henoch Szapiro (Henryk Szaro, 1900–1942), Polish screenwriter and film director * Klonimus Kalmish Szapiro (1889–1943), Grand Rabbi of Piaseczno, Poland * Marek Szapiro (1884-1942), artist *Salomea Szapiro, mother of Stefan Kisielewski * Salomon Szapiro (1882–1944), Polish chess master *Shayne-Feygl Szapiro (Dina Blond, 1887-1985), member of the Jewish Labour Bund in Poland and a prolific Yiddish translator * Willy Schapiro (also Szapiro or Schapira, 1910–1944), Polish Jew soldier See also *Szpiro Szpiro is a Polish Jewish surname, a variant of Shapiro. Notable people with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spiro (name)
Spiro is a surname with a variety of origins, as well as a given name among Greek-speaking populations, Albanians, and the Christians of Lebanon. Origins As a Greek name, Spiro may also be spelled Spyro. It comes from the ''Greek'' Spiros/Spyros/Speros ( gr, Σπύρος), with a nominative final "s" that is usually dropped when Anglicised. It is a male given name fairly common in Greek-speaking population (Greece especially in Corfu whose patron saint is Saint Spyridon, in Cyprus, Greek diaspora) as well as among the Christians of Lebanon where it is a common first and last name. It is a shortened form of the archaic-sounding Spyridon (Σπυρίδων), which means in ancient Greek "basket used to carry seeds" (Σπυρί, grain, seed). The Greek diminutives for Spirydon are Pipis (Πίπης ) and Pipeto (Πιπέτο). Špiro is also a masculine given name in Croatia and Montenegro. In Germany, the surname Spiro originated as a corruption of Speyer, the name of a town in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
