Borrell () is a common surname in modern
Catalan language
Catalan (; autonym: , ), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as '' Valencian'' ( autonym: ), is a Western Romance language. It is the official language of Andorra, and an official language of three autonomous communities in eas ...
, and was also a given name in the past. It can refer to:
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Alfons Borrell i Palazón
Alfons Borrell i Palazón (3 June 1931 – 6 October 2020) was a Spanish abstract painter.
Life
Alfons Borrell was born in Barcelona in 1931. At the age of nine, his family moved to Sabadell. After several casual jobs in 1950 he completed his m ...
(born 1931), Catalan painter
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Andrea Borrell
Andrea Leonora Borrell Hernández (born November 10, 1963 in Las Villas, Villa Clara) is a retired female basketball player from Cuba. She twice competed for her native country at the Summer Olympics
The Summer Olympic Games (french: ...
(born 1963), Cuban basketball player
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Borrell of Ausona
Borrell I was the first count of Cerdanya, Urgell, and Osona from between 797 and 799 to his death in 820.Ramon d'Abadal i de Vinyals (1986). ''El domini carolingi a Catalunya''. . He was a Visigoth nobleman, probably from ''Cerretana'' (Cerdanya). ...
(died 820), first
count of Cerdanya The County of Cerdanya ( ca, Comtat de Cerdanya, ; la, Comitatus Ceritaniae; es, Condado de Cerdaña, french: Comté de Cerdagne) was one of the Catalan counties formed in the last decades of the 8th century by the Franks in the ''Marca Hispanica' ...
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Borrell II of Barcelona (died 992), Count of Barcelona
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Borrell I of Pallars Borrell I (Spanish: ''Borrell I de Pallars'') was the sovereign Count of Pallars in 948–995.
Life
Count Borrell was a son of the Count Lope I of Pallars and Goltregoda of Cerdanya Goltregoda of Cerdanya (920-963) was countess consort of Pallars ...
(died 995), Count of Pallars
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Borrell (died 1018), bishop of Vic
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Dick Borrell (born 1951), American politician, businessman, and educator
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Emily Borrell
Emily Borrell Cruz (born 19 February 1992) is a Cuban female volleyball player. She is a member of the Cuba women's national volleyball team and played for Villa Clara in 2014.
She was part of the Cuban national team at the 2010 FIVB Volleybal ...
(born 1992), Cuban volleyball player
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Federico Borrell García
Federico Borrell García (January 3, 1912 – September 5, 1936) was a Spanish Republican and anarchist militiaman during the Spanish Civil War, commonly thought to be the subject in the famous Robert Capa photo ''The Falling Soldier''.
Bio ...
(died 1936), Spanish Republican soldier of the
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War ( es, Guerra Civil Española)) or The Revolution ( es, La Revolución, link=no) among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War ( es, Cuarta Guerra Carlista, link=no) among Carlism, Carlists, and The Rebellion ( es, La Rebeli ...
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Francisco Mora y Borrell
Francisco Mora y Borrell (November 25, 1827 – August 3, 1905) was a Spanish-born prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the third Bishop of Monterey-Los Angeles, serving from 1878 to 1896.
Biography Early life
Mora was born on November 25, 1827 ...
, 19th century Catalan-American priest
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Henry Perigal Borrell
Henry Perigal Borrell (1795, London – 2 October 1851, Smyrna) was a British numismatist. He was the son of John Henry Borrell (anglicised from Borel), a London clockmaker from Couvet, and Kitty Borrell (née Howe). Having learned the numismatic ...
(1795-1851), British
numismatist
A numismatist is a specialist in numismatics ("of coins"; from Late Latin ''numismatis'', genitive of ''numisma''). Numismatists include collectors, specialist dealers, and scholars who use coins and other currency in object-based research. Altho ...
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Johnny Borrell
Jonathan Edward Borrell (born 4 April 1980) is an English guitarist and singer, currently the frontman of the rock band Razorlight.
Early life and career
Borrell was born in Sutton, London. His father, New Zealand-born John Borrell, was a war ...
(born 1980), British musician
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Josep Borrell
Josep Borrell Fontelles (; born 24 April 1947) is a Spanish politician serving as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy since 1 December 2019. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), he served ...
(born 1947), Spanish politician,
High Representative of the European Union since 2019.
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Lazaro Borrell
Lazaro Manuel Borrell Hernández (born September 20, 1972 in Santa Clara, Cuba) is a Cuban former professional basketball player. He is a 6'8", 220 lb forward.
During the debut of Cuba's Liga Superior de Baloncesto, Borrell played for th ...
(born 1972), Cuban athlete
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Pedro Borrell
Pedro José Borrell Bentz (born in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic October 6, 1944) is an internationally recognized Dominican architect and archeologist who has earned several awards and is recognized for the transcendence in his architectur ...
(born 1944), Dominican architect and archeologist
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Pere Borrell del Caso
Pere Borrell del Caso (13 December 1835, in Puigcerdà – 16 May 1910, in Barcelona) was a Spanish painter, illustrator and engraver, known for his ''trompe-l'œil'' paintings; especially ''Escaping Criticism'' (1874).
His father was a cabinetm ...
(1835-1910), Catalan painter
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Ramon Borrell, Count of Barcelona
Ramon Borrell ( ca, Ramon Borrell, es, Ramón Borrell; 972–1017) was count of Barcelona, Girona and Ausona from 992. He was the son of Borrell II of Barcelona and Letgarda of Rouergue, and was associated with his father in ruling the counties ...
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count of Barcelona
The Count of Barcelona ( ca, Comte de Barcelona, es, Conde de Barcelona, french: Comte de Barcelone, ) was the ruler of the County of Barcelona and also, by extension and according with the usages and Catalan constitutions, of the Principality o ...
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Girona
Girona (officially and in Catalan , Spanish: ''Gerona'' ) is a city in northern Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers. The city had an official population of 103,369 in 2020. Girona is the capit ...
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Ausona
The County of Osona, also Ausona ( ca, Comtat d'Osona, ; la, Comitatus Ausonae), was one of the Catalan counties of the ''Marca Hispanica'' in the Early and High Middle Ages. It was based around the capital city of Vic (''Vicus'') and the correspo ...
from 992.
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Teresa Borrell
Teresa Borrell (born 19 May 1962 in Lyttelton, New Zealand) is a shooting competitor for New Zealand. At the 2002 Commonwealth Games she won a gold medal in the Double Trap (Pairs) event partnering Nadine Stanton.
She also compete ...
(born 1962), New Zealand sports shooter
See also
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Borel (disambiguation) Borel may refer to:
People
* Borel (author), 18th-century French playwright
* Borel (1906–1967), pseudonym of the French actor Jacques Henri Cottance
* Émile Borel (1871 – 1956), a French mathematician known for his founding work in the area ...
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Borrel
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Catalan-language surnames