Chirino is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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José Leonardo Chirino
José Leonardo Chirino (April 25, 1754 – December 10, 1796) was a free zambo who helped lead a 1795 uprising in Santa Ana de Coro, Venezuela. José Leonardo Chirino Airport is named after him.
1795 rebellion
1795 was perhaps the most revoluti ...
(1754–1796), revolutionary
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Martín Chirino
Martín Chirino López (1 March 1925 – 11 March 2019) was a Spanish sculptor. Cofounder of the group El Paso (The Step) in 1957, Chirino worked mainly with iron and his work is categorized as abstract art.
Biography
First years
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(1925–2019), Spanish sculptor
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Pedro Chirino Pedro Chirino (1557 – 16 September 1635) was a Spanish priest and historian who served as a Jesuit missionary in the Philippines. He is most remembered for his work, ''Relación de las Islas Filipinas'' (1604), one of the earliest works about the ...
(1557–1635), Spanish historian and Jesuit missionary
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Rogelio Chirino (born 1946), Cuban sprint canoeist
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Willy Chirino
Willy Chirino (born April 5, 1947, in Consolación del Sur, Pinar del Río, Cuba) is a Cuban-American musician.
Early life
Following the communist revolution in Cuba, Chirino came to the United States in 1960 as part of Operation Peter Pan, ...
(born 1947), American singer
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Pedro Almíndez Chirino
Pedro Almíndez Chirino (or ''Pedro Almíndez Chirinos'') was a conquistador born in Úbeda and member of several councils that governed New Spain while Hernán Cortés was traveling to Honduras, in 1525-26. Almíndez was an ally of Gonzalo de ...
, Spanish conquistador
See also
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