Giron or Girón may refer to:
People
Girón or Giron is a Spanish and French surname and refer to the following people:
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Alicia Girón García
Alicia Girón García (1938 – 22 February 2020) was a Spanish librarian. She began working in the Madrid public library system in 1969 where she helped plan expansion and digitisation and eventually became its director. From 1983 Girón was d ...
(1938-2020), Spanish librarian
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Charles Giron
Charles Alexandre Giron (2 April 1850 – 9 June 1914) was a Swiss painter and art critic. He specialized in portraits and scenes with figures; some of them mildly humorous.
Biography
Giron was born on 2 April 1850 in Geneva. His father, Antoine ...
(1850-1914), Swiss painter
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Francisco Hernández Girón
Francisco Hernández Girón, born in Cáceres, Spain, Cáceres, Extremadura, died in Lima on December 7, 1554, was a Spanish conquistador.
Hernández Girón arrived in Peru in 1535 with, among others, the future governor Blasco Núñez Vela. In ...
(died 1554), Peruvian conquistador and rebel
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Gabriel Girón
Gabriel Oscar Girón Villarreal (born 27 February 1988) is a Mexican-Panamanian professional basketball player for Libertadores de Querétaro of the Mexican Liga Nacional de Baloncesto Profesional (LNBP). He was a part of the 2017 Mexican champion ...
(born 1988), Mexican basketball player
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José Antonio Girón
José Antonio Girón de Velasco (28 August 1911, Herrera de Pisuerga, Palencia – 22 August 1995, Fuengirola, Málaga) was a prominent Spanish Falangist politician. He was minister of Labor (1941–57), counselor of the Council of the Real ...
(1911-1995), Falangist politician
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Marcos Giron
Marcos Andres Giron ( ; born July 24, 1993; ) is an American professional tennis player. He has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 37 achieved on August 5, 2024 and a doubles ranking of No. 194 achieved on August 1, 2022. Giron won the s ...
(born 1993), American tennis player
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Pedro Girón (disambiguation) Pedro Girón may refer to:
*Pedro Girón, 1st Lord of Osuna (1423–1466), known as Pedro Girón Acuña Pacheco
*Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd Count of Ureña (died 1531)
*Pedro Téllez-Girón, 1st Duke of Osuna (1537–1590)
*Pedro Téllez-Girón, 3rd ...
, several people with this name
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Socorro Girón
Socorro Girón (9 March 1919 – 2005) was a Puerto Rican historian, writer, and scholar. She is best known for her legendary book ''"Ponce, el teatro La Perla y La Campana de la Almudaina: Historia de Ponce desde sus comienzos hasta la Segund ...
(1919-2004), Puerto Rican historian
Places
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Giron, France
Giron () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France.
Geography Climate
Giron has an oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification ''Cfb''). The average annual temperature in Giron is . The average annual rainfall is with Decem ...
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Girón, Santander, a town in Colombia
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Playa Girón
:''Note: "Playa Girón" is also the title of a song included in the album " Días y Flores", by Silvio Rodriguez.''
Playa Girón (; "Girón beach") is a beach and village on the east bank of the Bahia de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs), which is located ...
, location of the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Girón, Azuay
Girón is a town and parish in Azuay Province, Ecuador. The town has a population of 4,353, and Girón parish as a whole has a population of 8,441.
History
Girón was initially occupied by the Leoquina culture. During the Inca Empire, the area w ...
, a town and canton in Ecuador
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Kiruna
(; ; ; ) is the northernmost Stad (Sweden), city in Sweden, situated in the province of Lapland, Sweden, Lapland. It had 17,002 inhabitants in 2016 and is the seat of Kiruna Municipality (population: 23,167 in 2016) in Norrbotten County. The c ...
(Giron in Northern Sámi), northernmost city in Sweden
Others
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''Girón'' (newspaper), official organ of the Communist Party provincial committee in Matanzas, Cuba
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Girón Formation, a geological formation in the Andes
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