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| Alejandro Fuentes |
Alejandro Fuentes (1809-1916), was a member of the Spanish royal family who in 1834 founded a town in Colombia, named Fresno, when he was just 25 years old. He had to flee the continent, chased out by the town's inhabitants, after the town was flooded and destroyed. (references) |
| Amado Carrillo Fuentes |
Amado Carillo Fuentes was a Mexican drug lord. Born in Sinaloa, Mexico in 1956, he died in 1997 due to complications from plastic surgery he underwent in order to drastically change his appearance. Also known for laundering over US$20 million via Colombia in order to finance his huge fleet of planes used to transport cocaine, he was the oldest of 5 children, and reportedly a great shooter. (references) |
| Annette Fuentes |
Annette Fuentes is an American journalist who writes regularly on health and social policy for The New York Times, The Nation the Village Voice, The Progressive, and In These Times, where she is a contributing editor. Fuentes is also on the faculty of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. (references) |
| Brian Fuentes |
Brian Christopher Fuentes (born August 9, 1975 in Merced, California) is a closer in Major League Baseball who plays for the Colorado Rockies. Previously, Fuentes played for the Seattle Mariners (2001). He bats and throws left-handed. (references) |
| Carlos Fuentes |
Mexican novelist (born in 1928). Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Carlos Fuentes |
Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes Macías (born November 11, 1928) is one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. Fuentes has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages. (references) |
| Daisy Fuentes |
Daisy Fuentes (born November 17, 1966 in Havana, Cuba) is a model from Cuba who became an actress. (references) |
| Gregorio Fuentes |
Gregorio Fuentes (July 11, 1897 - January 13, 2002) was a Cuban nautical captain. He was born on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands, and migrated to Cuba when he was six years old. (references) |
| Gregorio López y Fuentes |
Gregorio López y Fuentes (November 17 1895 - December 10, 1966) was a Mexican novelist, poet, and journalist. He was one of the leading chroniclers of the Mexican Revolution. (references) |
| Melissandre Fuentes |
Melissandre Fuentes (b. March 1, 1988 in Canillo) is a young figure skater from Andorra. (references) |
| Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes |
José Miguel Ramón Ydígoras Fuentes (1895 - 1982) was President of Guatemala from 2 March 1958 to 31 March 1963. (references) |
| Pedro Henriquez de Acevedo, Count of Fuentes |
Count Don Pedro Henriquez d'Azevedo y Toledo de Fuentes (September 18, 1560, Valladolid - May 19, 1643, Rocroi) was a Spanish general and statesman. He was page at the court of Phillip II, partook in the campaign in Portugal under the duke of Alba and was given 1582 the supreme command over the Spanish troops. Sent in 1591 by the king to the Netherlands, he assisted after the death of Alexander Farnese, duke of Parma his successor Peter Ernst von Mansfeld and later Ernst of Austria, after who's death he became intermittent stateholder of the Netherlands. His excessive severity persuaded Phillip II to exchange him for Albrecht of Austria, making him governor and general-captain of Milan, where he spread fear among the Italian nobility, especially the Venetians thorough his policy and army. 1599, he wrote the treaty with the count of Savoy and assisted the conspiracy of Biron. (references) |
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