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Tormo (river)
Tormo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Cristina García-Orcoyen Tormo (born 1948), Spanish politician and environmentalist *Elías Tormo (1869–1957), Spanish art historian *Ricardo Tormo (1952–1998), Spanish motorcycle road racer *Sara Sorribes Tormo (born 1996), Spanish tennis player See also *Tordo *Tormod {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cristina García-Orcoyen Tormo
Cristina García-Orcoyen Tormo (born 2 January 1948) is a Spanish People's Party politician and environmentalist who served a single term as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the European Parliament between 1999 and 2004. She was the general secretary of the World Wide Fund for Nature in Spain () from 1983 to 1996 and was made head of the private non-profit Environment Foundation in 1996. Tormo worked on several directives and community initiatives relating to the environment, industrial and foreign policy when she was an elected member of the European Parliament. Biography Tormo was born in Madrid, Spain on 2 January 1948. She obtained a degree in Political and Economic Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid and has an MBA in Business Management and Business Administration from Madrid's IESE Business School. Tormo also graduated from the EOI Business School in Madrid with a diploma in Foreign Trade. Between 1983 and 1996, she was the general secretary of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elías Tormo
Elías Tormo y Monzó (1869–1957) was a Spanish art historian. Life Tormo was born in Albaida (Valencia), on 23 June 1869. He studied Law in Valencia and Arts in Madrid, becoming a professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela. In 1903 he moved to Universidad Central (now Complutense University of Madrid) to take up the first professorship in Art History ever to be established in Spain. He eventually became rector of the university. Together with Manuel Gómez-Moreno Martínez he founded the journal '' Archivo Español de Arte y Arqueología''. He was a member of the Real Academia de la Historia and of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando. He also served in public office as a parliamentarian (1903-5, 1907-23, 1927-30, 1949-52), and as Minister of Public Instruction and Fine Arts (1930-31). In 1924 Alfonso XIII did away with the distinction between state and personal arms by combining the two. Elías Tormo was the author of the reform, he took the arms o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ricardo Tormo
Ricardo Tormo Blaya (7 September 1952 – 27 December 1998) was a Spanish professional motorcycle road racer. He competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from to , most prominently as a two-time 50cc world champion riding Bultaco motorcycles. The Circuit de Valencia race track was renamed Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana Ricardo Tormo in his honor. Biography Tormo was born in the village of Alacor in the municipality of Canals in the Spanish province of Valencia. When he was 8, his family moved into the center of Canals. Tormo won the FIM 50cc world championship as a member of the Bultaco factory racing team. He repeated as 50cc world champion in on a privately backed Bultaco. He was also a three-time 50cc Spanish national champion and a four-time 125cc national champion. His career was closely linked to that of Ángel Nieto, who was both a teammate and rival of Tormo. In 1983, together with Jorge “Aspar” Martínez, Tormo signed with the Derbi factory to compete ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sara Sorribes Tormo
Sara Sorribes Tormo (; born 8 October 1996) is a Spanish professional tennis player. She achieved her career-high singles WTA rankings, ranking of world No. 32 on 7 February 2022 and No. 17 in doubles on 6 May 2024. She has won two singles titles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as one doubles title on the WTA 125 tournaments, WTA Challenger Tour. On the ITF Women's Circuit, ITF Circuit, she has won ten singles and five doubles titles. She is a bronze medalist in Tennis at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles, women's doubles at the 2024 Summer Olympics. She won her maiden WTA Tour title at the 2021 Abierto Zapopan in Guadalajara. On the Challenger Tour, she has been runner-up at the Bol Open, and champion at the Open de Limoges, in doubles in 2019. Sorribes Tormo made her WTA Tour main-draw debut at the 2015 Rio Open, after making it through the qualifying rounds. Her first appearance at a Grand Slam tournament came at 2015 French Open – Women's singl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tordo
Tordo is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Fernando Tordo Fernando Travassos Tordo (born 29 March 1948) is a Portuguese singer and songwriter. Since 2003, he has been a Commander of the Order of Merit, an honor bestowed on him by the Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio. Considered one of the most proli ... (born 1948), Portuguese singer and composer * Jean-François Tordo (born 1964), French rugby union player * João Tordo (born 1975), Portuguese writer See also * Tord * Tormo {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |