When was María Estela Martínez Cartas de Perón born?
Isabel Martínez de Perón
María Estela Martínez Cartas de Perón (born 4 February 1931), better known as Isabel Martínez de Perón () or Isabel Perón, served as the 42nd President of Argentina from 1974 to 1976. She was the third wife of President Juan Perón. During her husband's third term as president from 1973 to 1974, Isabel served as both vice president and First Lady. Following her husband's death in office in 1974, Isabel served as president of Argentina from 1 July 1974 to 24 March 1976, when the military took over the government and placed her under house arrest for five years, before exiling her to Spain in 1981. She holds the distinction of having been the first woman to have had the title of "President", as opposed to a queen or prime minister.
Nela Martínez
Nela Martínez Espinosa (November 24, 1912 – July 30, 2004) was an Ecuadorian communist, political militant, activist, and writer.
Cristina Farfán
María Cristina Farfán Manzanilla was born on 24 July 1846 in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico to Candelaria Manzanilla and José María Farfán. She was raised in a strict environment and educated at home by the lawyer and teacher, José María Jesús Apolinario García Montero, typically known as José García Montero.
Martin de Porres
Juan Martin de Porres Velázquez was born in the city of Lima,Viceroyalty of Peru, on December 9, 1579. He was the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman, Don Juan de Porres, and Ana Velázquez, a freed slave from Panama, of African or possibly part Native American descent. He had a sister named Juana, born two years later in 1581. After the birth of his sister, the father abandoned the family. Ana Velázquez supported her children by taking in laundry. He grew up in poverty and, when his mother could not support him, Martin was confided to a primary school for two years, and then placed with a barber/surgeon to learn the medical arts. He spent hours of the night in prayer, a practice which increased as he grew older.
Esther Angélica Martínez
Esther Angélica Martínez Cárdenas (born 7 December 1970) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the PRI. She currently serves as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing San Luis Potosí.
Teresa Mañé Miravet
Teresa Mañé Miravet (November 29, 1865 in Cubelles, Catalonia, Spain - February 5, 1939 in Perpignan) was a teacher, editor and writer under the pseudonym Soledad Gustavo. She was married to Juan Montseny Carret (aka Federico Urales); their daughter was Spanish minister Federica Montseny.
María Teresa Sánchez
Born in Managua on 15 October 1918, Sánchez was self-taught as a writer. According to the acclaimed poet Ernesto Cardenal, she was "the first women of letters of Nicaragua and was of great importance as a promoter of Nicaraguan culture". In 1940, she founded the literary association "Círculo de Letras" and opened the publishing house Nuevos Horizontes which played an important part in collecting and reviving Nicaragua's most significant literary works. Cardenal also tells us that "For a long, fruitful period for Nicaraguan literature (the 1940s and 1950s), her home was a meeting place for writers and artists, and a venue for conferences and exhibitions".
Maria Antonia Armengol
María Antonia de Armengol Criado (Valencian: Maria Antònia, Paris, France, 22 September 1950) is a Spanish politician who belongs to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).
María Cristina Arango Vega
María Cristina Arango Vega (15 October 1928 – 15 September 2017) was the widow of the 23rd President of Colombia, Misael Pastrana Borrero, and served as First Lady of Colombia from 1970 to 1974. She was also the mother of the 30th President Andrés Pastrana Arango.
Eva Perón
María Eva Duarte de Perón (7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952) was the wife of Argentine President Juan Perón (1895–1974) and First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is usually referred to as Eva Perón or Evita.
Maria Teresa Fontela Goulart
Maria Teresa was born on August 23, 1940 in São Borja, Rio Grande do Sul. She was educated at the Colégio Metodista Americano (American Methodist High School), a traditional boarding school in Porto Alegre. Her parents lived next door to Jango (João Goulart) in São Borja. According to her, despite the fact that they were neighbors, she only met him personally at the age of 14, when Dinarte Dornelles, uncle of then President Getúlio Vargas, asked her to deliver a letter to Jango, who was the Minister of Labour and Employment at the time. Maria Teresa tried not to fall in love with Jango, because she thought someone as important as he would not be interested in her.
Luz María Umpierre
Luz María Umpierre was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, in 1947, and grew up in a working-class neighborhood called "La veintiuna" (Stop 21) in a household with sixteen people.[1][2] Her mother was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in New York City; for this reason, Umpierre was exposed to English and Spanish as a child. Her father was a government worker. Umpierre studied at the Sacred Heart Academy and at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, both in Puerto Rico, graduating from both with honors.
Elisa Martínez Contreras
Elisa Martínez was born circa 1900, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Silverio Martínez and Brigida Contreras de Martínez. She was later said to be "some four years older" than her husband, Arévalo, who was born in 1904. He came to Argentina to study in 1927, and they married the following year. She had graduated as a Teacher of Primary Education in 1921, and proceeded to teach at a school in Buenos Aires for over twenty years straight.
María Nestora Téllez
Maria Nestora was born in San Juan del Rio, Queretaro, on February 25, 1828, and baptized the day after, as María Josefa Francisca de Paula. Nevertheless, being then the day of Saint Nestor, she took the name of Nestora. Her parents were Antonio Tellez, who had been a member of the Queretaro Conspiracy (root of the Mexican War of Independence), and Trinidad Rendon, both teachers.
María Ester Gatti
María Ester Gatti de Islas (January 13, 1918 – December 5, 2010) was a Uruguayan teacher and human rights activist.
Mercedes Pinto
Mercedes Pinto Armas de la Rosa y Clós (La Laguna, Tenerife, 12 October 1883 – Ciudad de México, 21 October 1976) was a Spanish writer. Her 1926 novel "He" is the basis of the Luis Buñuel film "Él" ("This Strange Passion", 1952).
María Teresa Obregón Zamora
María Teresa Obregón Zamora (1888-1956) was a teacher, suffragist and politician in Costa Rica. She was part of the group that formed the Asociación Nacional de Educadores (ANDE) (National Association of Educators) and fought for women's enfranchisement. After winning the vote, she helped found the National Liberation Party of Costa Rica and was one of the first three women elected as a Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica. In 2002, Obregón was honored as one of the inaugural group of women inducted into La Galería de las Mujeres de Costa Rica (The Women's Gallery of Costa Rica).
Mateo de la Mata Ponce de León
Mateo de la Mata Ponce de León (sometimes "Mateo de la Mata y Ponce de León") (b. Requena, Valencia, Spain – d. November 16, 1720, Lima) was a Spanish colonial official in Peru. He was president of the "Audiencia" of Quito from 1691 to 1699. (Quito was then part of the Viceroyalty of Peru.) From March 2 to August 15, 1716 he served as interim viceroy of Peru.
Isabel Freire de Matos
Isabel Freire de Matos (February 2, 1915 – September 30, 2004) was a writer, educator, journalist, and activist for Puerto Rican independence. Freire de Matos was the author of several children's books and the wife of Francisco Matos Paoli, a high-ranking member of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party.
Infanta María del Pilar of Spain
Born on 4 June 1861 at the Royal Palace of Madrid, Infanta Pilar was the third among the five children who survived infancy in the marriage of Queen Isabella II of Spain and the King consort Francisco de Asis of Bourbon, Duke of Cadiz. The infanta was christened the day following her birth as María del Pilar Berenguela Isabel Francisca de Asís Cristina Sebastiana Gabriela Francisca Caracciolo Saturnina. Her godparents were, her paternal aunt, Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain with her husband Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain, a couple who had married the previous year.
José María de Peralta y La Vega
Peralta was born to Antonia de la Vega y Castañeda and José de Peralta y Barrios on September 28, 1763 in Jaén, Spain. Peralta first came to then-colonial Costa Rica in 1782 as a member of the entorauge of Bishop Esteban Lorenzo de Tristan of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. When Tristan returned, Peralta remained in Costa Rica.
Esther Norma Arrostito
Esther Norma Arrostito (January 17, 1940 – January 15, 1978) was an Argentine political activist and leftist militant, initially close to communist ideology. In 1970, she became one of the founders of the peronist revolutionary movement Montoneros along with Fernando Abal Medina, who developed a romantic relationship with her. She played a key role in the kidnapping and killing of General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu.
Maria Elena Martinez
Martínez was born in northern Mexico in 1966 and moved with her family to Chicago in the 1970s. She earned a B.A. at Northwestern University in 1988, and entered the doctoral program in History at University of Chicago, studying with Friedrich Katz. She taught at University of Southern California until her death of adrenal cancer in 2014. While teaching at USC, she inaugurated the Colonial Latin America seminar at the USC-Huntington Library Early Modern Studies Institute. She gave large number of academic presentations, one of which at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was videotaped in May 2004.
Inés Pertiné Urien
Pertiné, the daughter of María Celia Urien Irigoyen and Julio Jorge Pertin, was born on December 27, 1942. She attended colegio Asunción, which is now called San Martín de Tours. Pertiné married Fernando de la Rúa, a lawyer and politician, on December 1, 1970, after dating for three years. She was 27 years old at the time, while he was 33. The couple had three children, Antonio, Fernando and Agustina.
Isabel Martínez de Perón
María Estela Martínez Cartas was born in La Rioja, Argentina, into a lower-middle-class family, daughter of María Josefa Cartas Olguín and Carmelo Martínez. She dropped out of school after the fifth grade. In the early 1950s she became a nightclub dancer, adopting the name Isabel, the saint's name (the Spanish form of that of Saint Elizabeth of Portugal) that she had chosen as a confirmation name.
María Catalina Irigoyen Echegaray
Blessed María Catalina Irigoyen Echegaray (25 November 1848 - 10 October 1918) - in religious María Desposorios - was a Spanish Roman Catholic professed religious and a professed member from the Siervos de María Ministros de los Enfermos. From her adolescence she worked to comfort and tend to the old and ill and her religious call manifested while doing this work; she entered the order where her work increased.
Madre María Rosa
Not much is known about María. She was born in Madrid on January 14, 1660. Her parents were Joseph de Leon y Ayala and Estefania Muñoz. Her given name was Josepha de Leon y Ayala but changed it to Maria Rosa when she became a nun. This was a customary practice. She entered the Capuchin covenant at the age of seventeen in 1677. She was appointed first mother abbess of the new convent to be founded in Lima. Because of this, she left Spain never to return again in 1712 with four other founding nuns. She documented her whole journey almost day by day to leave her account for both her original convent back in Madrid and the new one in Lima. One month before her death, she stepped down from her position and her co-founder, María Gertrudis was elected abbess. She passed away August 14, 1716 at the age of fifty-six.
Teresa Espasa
María Teresa Espasa Moltó is a Spanish Valencian poet, essayist and professor. She was born in Dénia, Marina Alta, Alicante) in the middle of the 20th century. She is known for her intense and animated literary and cultural style developed during the talk show "La Buhardilla" and through the magazine, "Corondel".
María Cristina Petite
María Cristina Petite (born 10 May 1972 in Barakaldo) is a retired Spanish long-distance runner who specialized in the 3000 and 5000 metres. She competed in the women's 5000 metres at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
María Cadilla
Dr. María Cadilla Colón de Martínez (December 21, 1884 – August 23, 1951) was a writer, educator, women's rights activist and one of the first women in Puerto Rico to earn a doctoral degree.
Marialejandra Martín
Marialejandra Martín Castillo (born November 23, 1964 in Caracas), AKA Mariale Martin, Alejandra Martin & Maria Alejandra Martin, is one of the most recognized Venezuelan actors. Marialejandra made her professional debut in the feature film "Ifigenia" (1986), directed by Ivan Feo (1986) and has since worked extensively in film, theater and television. She is well known for her leading role in "Por Estas Calles" (RCTV 1992-1994), an extremely popular TV show with a very realistic approach to everyday life.
María Victoria Calle Correa
María Victoria Calle Correa (born 8 May 1959) is a Magistrate of the Constitutional Court of Colombia, serving since April 2009. Calle is the second female magistrate (after Clara Inés Vargas Hernández). A lawyer from the University of Medellín, she specialized in Administrative Law from Saint Thomas Aquinas University and the University of Salamanca, and received a Master's in Administrative Law from Externado University. Prior to her nomination, she worked in Previsora Seguros S.A., and insurance provider, since 2004, and was its Vice President of Legal Affairs since 2005.
Mecha Ortiz
María Mercedes Varela Nimo Domínguez Castro, known as Mecha was born 24 September 1900. Until she was twenty-nine, Mecha, was married to a farmer and was busy being a wife and mother. She had enrolled for acting classes in the Conservatorio Nacional de Música y Declamación (National Conservatory of Music and Speech) in the inaugural class under the direction of Carlos López Buchardo and Enrique García Velloso. This first class of 1926, which included Ortiz, Miguel Mileo and Paulina Singerman, among others, sought to teach acting using a standardized manual. When her husband was thrown from a horse and had a serious back injury, she took a job in the prosecutor's office, refusing help from her well-to-do family. Her sister, Amanda Varela, was an established actress and got her a screen test with Paramount Studios of France. She was selected but no films were made, so her sister introduced her to a friend, influential film critic Chas de Cruz, who helped her find work.
Estela de Carlotto
Guido Carlotto, her husband, died in La Plata on October 21, 2001. Estela Barnes de Carlotto earned the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights in 2003. She was on hand with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner to inaugurate the "Jardin des Mères et Grand-mères de la Place de Mai" in Paris, in 2008. Filmmaker Nicolás Gil Lavedra began production on a biographical film, "Estela", in 2011, starring Susú Pecoraro as the renowned activist.
María del Carmen Martín
María del Carmen Martín (born 1 September 1976) is a Spanish field hockey player who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Laura of Saint Catherine of Siena
María Laura de Jesús Montoya Upegui was born on 26 May 1874 in Jericó in the United States of Colombia as the second of three children to Juan de la Cruz Montoya and Dolores Upegui; she was baptized that same day. Her siblings were older sister Carmelina and younger brother Juan de la Cruz; a maternal cousin was Luisa Upegui. During the Colombian Civil War of 1876 her father was killed and the household left poor as a subsequent result of this. She was sent to live with her maternal grandmother due to this; her grandfather was Lucio Upegui.
Micaela Villegas
Maria Micaela Villegas Hurtado (September 28, 1748 – May 16, 1819), known as La Perricholi, was arguably the most famous Peruvian woman of the eighteenth century. She was a celebrated entertainer and the famous mistress of Manuel de Amat y Juniet, Viceroy of Peru from 1761 to 1776. Their son, Manuel de Amat y Villegas, was one of the signers of Peru’s declaration of independence from Spain on July 28, 1821.
Maria Salas
María Estela Salas Marín (born 25 May 1969 in Chachalacas, Veracruz) is a Paralympian athlete from Mexico competing mainly in the throwing events.
Juan Perón
Perón's stay in Venezuela had been cut short by the 1958 ousting of General Pérez Jiménez. In Panama, he met the nightclub singer María Estela Martínez (known as "Isabel"). Eventually settling in Madrid, Spain under the protection of Francisco Franco, he married Isabel in 1961 and was admitted back into the Catholic Church in 1963.
Following a failed December 1964 attempt to return to Buenos Aires, he sent his wife to Argentina in 1965, to meet political dissidents and advance Perón's policy of confrontation and electoral boycotts. She organized a meeting in the house of Bernardo Alberte, Perón's delegate and sponsor of various left-wing Peronist movements such as the CGT de los Argentinos (CGTA), an offshoot of the umbrella CGT union. During Isabel's visit, adviser Raúl Lastiri introduced her to his father-in-law, José López Rega. A policeman with an interest in the occult, he won Isabel's trust through their common dislike of Jorge Antonio, a prominent Argentine industrialist and the Peronist movement's main financial backer during their perilous 1960s. Accompanying her to Spain, López Rega worked for Perón's security before becoming the couple's personal secretary. A return of the Popular Union (UP) in 1965 and their victories in congressional elections that year helped lead to the overthrow of the moderate President Arturo Illia, and to the return of dictatorship.
María Teresa de Borbón, 15th Countess of Chinchón
Born in Velada, Toledo, Spain, she was the elder daughter of Infante Luis of Spain and his morganatic wife, the Aragonese aristocrat María Teresa de Vallabriga y Rozas, Español y Drummond (5 September 1758 – 16 February 1820). Her father was the 13th Count of Chinchón and a Grandee of Spain First Class.
María Teresa Torras
Maria Teresa Torras (née Maria Teresa Recoder; Villacarlos, Menorca, 2 January 1927 - Caracas, 7 March 2009), was Venezuelan-nationalized Spanish artist specializing in sculpture, textiles and metalwork.
María Emilia Casas
María Emilia Casas Baamonde (born 30 November 1950) is a Spanish jurist. She was the country's first woman Professor of Labor and Social Security Law. In 1998, she joined the Constitutional Court of Spain, becoming the youngest member in the history of the institution. In 2004, she was the Constitutional Court's first woman president, and she continued in that role until 2011. During her presidency, progress was made in anti-discrimination and equality law.
Matilde Montoya
Matilde Petra Montoya Lafragua (b. Mexico City, March 14, 1859 – d. Mexico City, January 26, 1939) was the first female physician in Mexico. Initially working as a midwife, she became one of the first women to attend and graduate Medical School, eventually earning her doctorate in 1887. Montoya played an important role in the social establishment of women's rights and the movements toward unbiased opportunities for education and occupations for women. There is, however, some evidence that a woman named Zenaida Ucounkoff studied medicine in 1877.
Estela Quesada
Estela Quesada Hernández was born on 24 June 1924 in Alajuela, Costa Rica to Augusto Quesada Cabezas and Eneida Hernández Sanabria She attended schools first at Escuela Bernardo Soto and then the Instituto de Alajuela, before attaining her teaching license from Escuela Normal de Heredia. She was one of the first two teachers who taught at the Escuela Juan Chavez Rojas in the rural areas of what is now Ciudad Quesada which was in such a remote part of San Carlos at the time that she had to travel via river and horseback. There was no secondary education opportunity in the area, so she founded a Complementary School, as her which eventually became the Liceo San Carlos.
Maria Rita Teresa Batalla-Laforteza
Maria Rita Teresa Batalla-Laforteza (Born Maria Rita Teresa Herce Batalla) was born on August 3, 1960 in Cabuyao, Laguna. She is the daughter of Dr. Virginia Herce Batalla (acupuncturist) and artist and composer Domingo M. Batalla. She grew up in a small town in Cabuyao, Laguna and still resides there. She has attended numerous schools throughout her education, including the Canossa School in Laguna and the Philippine Women's University. But mostly, her education has been in the University of Sto. Tomas having had her pre-school, college and graduate school years there.
Maria Cristina Mena
Mena was born in Mexico City during the regime of President Porfirio Diaz. She received her early education at an English boarding school where she became fluent in Spanish, English, French, and Italian. Later in her life, Mena learned Braille and translated fiction into the language as part of her advocacy work for the blind; she translated a variety of works, including her own children's literature. Daughter to a “politically powerful and socially prominent” family, she was sent to New York City in 1907 to escape the political tensions that led to the Mexican Revolution. Six years later, Mena published her first short stories in "The Century Magazine" and "American Magazine". She continued to write for them until 1916, when she married playwright and journalist Henry Kellet Chambers. Mena did not produce any writings between 1916 and 1942, apart from her posthumously published correspondence with D.H. Lawrence. In 1942 Mena published the first of five children's books under her married name, Maria Cristina Chambers, the last of which was published in 1953. Her final publication in "The Texas Quarterly", “Afternoons in Italy with D.H. Lawrence,” was printed the year before her death at seventy-two.
María Teresa Tula
Tula was born in Izalco on 23 April 1951. She was brought up by her grandmother and attended school for less than two years before she had her first child at fifteen whilst she was living with her brothers, sisters and step-siblings. She met José Rafael Canales Guevara who was a blacksmith when she was sixteen. Guevara was arrested for organising workers against their employers. Tula joined the group called COMADRES which created protests against the government. Comadres had been set up with the support of Archbishop Romero and it was a support group for the relatives of those who were forcibly disappeared or killed. Romero was himself killed in 1980 as was Tula's husband. Tula's husband's body was found with a bullet wound to his head two days after people, who said they were the police, took him away to help with a robbery enquiry. Tula's husband was said to have been a witness to the crime. Friends said that she should not reclaim her husband's body but Tula defied their advice. 1980 was the year that the government and the opposition became entrenched. The political and military opposition were subject to the death squads who killed 1000 people per month. After the death of her husband, Tula worked full-time for COMADRES, who themselves became a target. Some of her fellow activists were captured and killed, but COMADRES did not shy away from controversy and their workers visited dumps to photograph bodies so that families would know the fate of the "disappeared". Tula was given a specific warning of her own fate by an escaped prisoner of the government.
María Colón Sánchez
Maria Colón Sánchez (1926 - November 25, 1989) a.k.a. "La Madrina" (The Godmother), was an activist and politician who, in 1988, became the first Hispanic woman elected to the Connecticut General Assembly. She was also the founder of the Puerto Rican Parade Committee in 1964 and co-founded La Casa de Puerto Rico, the Society of Legal Services, the Spanish-American Merchants Association, the Puerto Rican Businessmen Association, and the Community Renewal Team.
Estela Perlas-Bernabe
Justice Estela Perlas-Bernabe was born in Plaridel, Bulacan. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Commerce major in Banking and Finance magna cum laude at St. Paul College of Manila and earned her law degree from the Ateneo de Manila Law School graduating as Class Salutatorian in 1976. She passed the bar examination in 1977 with a bar rating of 85.156%.
María de los Ángeles Errisúriz
María de los Ángeles Errisúriz Alarcón (born in Allende, Coahuila, México; January 18, 1966) is a Mexican writer, teacher and politician. She was Secretary of Education in Coahuila state. Co-author of 18 books to teachers and students about Intelligence Skills Development published in Spanish editorial "Trillas". Currently she is General Director of the Instituto Nacional para la Educación de los Adultos (INEA).
Maria José de Castro Rebello Mendes
Maria José de Castro Rebello Mendes (Salvador, September 20, 1891 - Rio de Janeiro, October 29, 1936) was the first Brazilian woman to be accepted to work for the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a controversial event back when women were expected to be subordinated to their husband.
María Martín
María Martín (born 14 July 1923) is a retired Spanish actress. After making her screen debut in 1943 Martín appeared in around eighty films during her career including "Dawn of America" (1951) and "Bilbao" (1978)
Ezequiel Martínez Estrada
Ezequiel Martínez Estrada (September 14, 1895 – November 4, 1964) was an Argentine writer, poet, essayist, and literary critic. An admired biographer and critic, he was often political in his writings, and was a confirmed anti-Peronist. While in his middle years he was identified with the ideas of Nietzsche or Kafka, in his last years he was closely identified with the Cuban revolution and Fidel Castro.
Ester Capella
Ester Capella i Farré (born 3 April 1963) is a Spanish lawyer and politician from Catalonia. She is the current Minister of Justice of Catalonia. She was previously a member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain and Senate of Spain.
Teresa Martínez de Varela
Teresa Martínez de Varela (also known under the pseudonym, Lisa de Andráfueda, 1 July 1913–16 June 1998) was an Afro-Colombian teacher and writer. She was one of the first black women in Colombia to publish. Misunderstood, and often denied the ability to publish her works, the intellectual left many unpublished manuscripts at her death. For many years, she was known only as the mother of , founder of Grupo Niche. Rediscovered in 2009, when Úrsula Mena de Lozano published her biography, some of her works were then collected in an anthology published by the Ministry of Culture in 2010. She is now regarded as one of the pioneering voices to bring African identity in Colombia into the literary landscape of the country and one of the primary intellectuals of her era.
Esther Orozco
María Esther Orozco Orozco (born 25 April 1945) is a Mexican biologist, researcher and politician. She has received the UNESCO/Institut Pasteur Medal (1997), the L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science (2006) served as rector of the Autonomous University of Mexico City (UACM) and has run for governor of Chihuahua representing the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
Maria Martinez
Maria Montoya Martinez (1887, San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico – July 20, 1980, San Ildefonso Pueblo) was a Native American artist who created internationally known pottery. Martinez (born Maria Poveka Montoya), her husband Julian, and other family members examined traditional Pueblo pottery styles and techniques to create pieces which reflect the Pueblo people’s legacy of fine artwork and crafts.
Ester Soré
Ester Soré (born Marta Yupanqui Donoso, 27 May 1915 - 6 September 1996) is the main singer of Chilean melodies of the 20th century. She recorded for the first time the successful one "Chile Lindo" "("Pretty Chile")", of Clara Solovera, and did not only he contribute to enrich the way to interpret those songs thanks to a voice recognized among the clearest and expressive of her time. Besides was a popular artist in an extensive sense: in the radio, the disks, the tours and the movies. From the folk music, and decades before words as showoman or entertainer were receptions here, Ester Soré, to whom they called the Black Pretty one, was the entretenedora Chilean of her time.
María de los Ángeles Ortiz
María de los Ángeles Ortíz Hernández (18 February 1973 in Comalcalco, Tabasco) is a paralympian athlete from Mexico competing mainly in category F57/58 shot putt events.
Juan Perón
Juan Domingo Perón was born in Lobos, Buenos Aires Province, on 8 October 1895. He was the son of Juana Sosa Toledo and Mario Tomás Perón. The Perón branch of his family was originally Spanish, but settled in Spanish Sardinia, from which his great-grandfather emigrated in the 1830s; in later life Perón would publicly express his pride in his Sardinian roots. He also had Spanish, British and French Basque ancestry.
Ezequiel Martínez Estrada
Beginning in 1924, Martínez Estrada taught literature at the Colegio Nacional of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. He would continue this for decades, losing the job only when Juan Domingo Perón rose to power in 1945 (and returning briefly after Perón fell from power in 1956).
Enrique Zileri
Enrique Zileri Gibson (4 June 1931 – 24 August 2014) was the publisher of "Caretas" (Masks), Peru's leading newsmagazine, which was cofounded by his mother Doris Gibson. He ran the magazine as "a symbol of resistance" against successive Peruvian dictators and their censors. He won many international honours, including the Maria Moors Cabot Prize (1975), but was twice deported by his own government, and the magazine was shut down at least eight times. The Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa called him an "indefatigable defender of freedom and democracy" who "could never be bribed or intimidated".
Princess María Cristina of Orléans
María Cristina de Orléans (born "Marie Christine d'Orléans", 29 October 1852 – 28 April 1879) was one of the daughters of Prince Antoine, Duke of Montpensier, a son of King Louis Philippe I, and Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain, the youngest daughter of Ferdinand VII of Spain. María Cristina was raised in Seville, and given her father's close relationship with the Spanish Royal Family, she and her siblings were awarded the title of Infante and Infanta of Spain. She died at the age of 26 from tuberculosis.
María Pita
María Mayor Fernández de Cámara y Pita (Sigrás, 1565–1643), known as María Pita, was a Galician heroine in the defense of Coruña, northern Spain, against an English attack upon the Spanish mainland in 1589.
María Rivera Urquieta
María Mercedes Rivera Urquieta was born on 12 June 1894 in Vallenar, in what was at the time Atacama Province, Chile but is now in Huasco Province, to Tobias Rivera Iriarte and Petronila Urquieta Mondaca.
María Catalina Irigoyen Echegaray
María Catalina Irigoyen Echegaray was born on 25 November 1848 as the last of eight children to Tiburcio Irigoyen (his house was related to Saint Francis Xavier); she was a twin with the seventh child. Two older sisters were Joaquina and Cipriana who married. Her baptism was celebrated on 26 November at the Pamplona Cathedral.
María Telo
María Telo Núñez (Cáceres, October 8, 1915 - Madrid, August 5, 2014) was a Spanish jurist and feminist, considered one of the 100 women of the 20th century for her defense of women's rights. In 1944, she opposed the Technical Body of Civil Administration of the Ministry of Agriculture, being the first woman to access it. In 1976, she organized the First International Congress of Women Lawyers that took place from December 13 to 16 in Madrid. She has got and been awarded many prizes for her commitment to justice and for her struggle in favor of democracy and women's equality.
María Gabriela Berreyesa Castro
María Gabriela Berrelleza (also spelled Berreyesa) was born November 26, 1780, and christened the same day at Mission Santa Clara de Asís in upper Las Californias, near present-day San José . She was the first child of the family of María Gertrudis Peralta and Nicholas Antonio Berrelleza. On February 16, 1795 she married 22-year-old Francisco María Castro, third son of Joaquin de Castro, one of the founding settlers of the Pueblo de San Jose, and a corporal in the artillery company of Presidio San Francisco.
María Martínez Santillán
María del Carmen Martínez Santillán (born 8 July 1963) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Labor Party. As of 2013 she served as Deputy of the LXII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Michoacán.
Luz María Doria
Luz Maria Doria (born in Cartagena, Colombia, July 10, 1965) is the author of the book ""La Mujer de Mis Sueños"" ("The Woman of My Dreams") and ""Tu Momento Estelar"" ("your Shinning Moment"), vice-president and executive producer of the morning show "Despierta America" on the Spanish Network Univision. Also she writes a weekly column on Mondays for the Spanish newspaper "La Opinión" in Los Angeles and "El Diario de NY" in New York.
María Teresa Fernández de la Vega
María Teresa Fernández de la Vega Sanz (born 15 June 1949) is a Spanish Socialist politician. She is the current President of the Spanish Council of State. From 18 April 2004 to 20 October 2010, she was the first deputy prime minister, minister of the Presidency and cabinet spokesperson in the government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. She is the first female deputy prime minister and president of the Council of State in Spanish history.
Montse Pérez
Montserrat Pérez i López (28 October 1956 – 28 April 2018), was a Spanish Catalan actress. Born in Barcelona, and very popular for her role as Mercedes in "Plats Bruts", she was part of the company Els Joglars between 1987 and 1991. She also worked with the theatre company Dagoll Dagom.
Ángela Peralta
Ángela Peralta (6 July 1845 – Mexico City – 30 August 1883, Mazatlán) (baptised María de los Ángeles Manuela Tranquilina Cirila Efrena Peralta Castera) was an operatic soprano of international fame and a leading figure in the operatic life of 19th-century Mexico. Called the "Mexican Nightingale" in Europe, she had already sung to acclaim in major European opera houses by the age of 20. Although primarily known for her singing, she was also a composer as well as an accomplished pianist and harpist.
Infanta María Cristina of Spain
Infanta Maria Cristina of Spain, Countess Marone ("Doña María Cristina Teresa Alejandra María de Guadalupe María de la Concepción Ildefonsa Victoria Eugenia de Borbón y Battenberg"; 12 December 1911 – 23 December 1996) was the fourth child of Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg and paternal aunt of King Juan Carlos I.
Carlos Maria Elías y de la Quintana
Carlos Maria Elías y de la Quintana (September 18, 1841 – August 20, 1907) was a Peruvian diplomat and politician. He was born in Lima, Peru. He was a member of the Constitutional Party (Peru). He served in the Chamber of Deputies of Peru and Senate of Peru. He served as minister of foreign affairs and interior in the Government of Peru. He served twice as Prime Minister of Peru (September–October 1887, June 1892 – March 1893).
Mercedes Carvajal de Arocha
Carvajal was born on the island of Trinidad in 1902 in Port of Spain. She took the nom de plume of Lucila Palacios. She chose the name of Lucila in honour of the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral whose real first name was Lucila. Her new surname was taken from Concepción Palacios who was Simon Bolivar's mother. She married Carlos Arocha and they had four children.
Esther de Cáceres
Cáceres was born in Montevideo in 1903. She qualified as a doctor in Montevideo. She then taught humanities to trainee teachers whilst becoming part of the intelligentsia of Montevideo. In 1929 she published "Las ínsulas extrañas" and in 1931 "Canción". She published several other books of poetry including "Concierto de amor y otros poemas" which had an introduction by Gabriela Mistral in 1951.
Maria Elena Martinez
María Elena Martínez-Lopez (b. Pascuales, Durango, Mexico 2 December 1966, died Los Angeles CA, 16 November 2014) was a historian of colonial Mexico. Her landmark book, "Genealogical Fictions: Limpieza de Sangre, Religion, and Gender in Colonial Mexico" garnered significant academic recognition.
Santa Evita
Santa Evita is a 1995 novel by the Argentine writer Tomás Eloy Martínez. In a blend of fact and fiction, the novel focuses on the Argentine first lady Eva Perón, and tracks her embalmed corpse after her death from cancer at age 33. The book became a bestseller in Argentina and has been widely translated. Worldwide, it estimated to have sold 10 million copies, which makes it one of the best-selling books of all time.
Nela Martínez
Nela Martinez was born in Cañar, Ecuador and enjoyed writing since her childhood. She joined the Communist Party of Ecuador at a young age, eventually becoming part of its leadership.
La razón de mi vida
La Razón de mi vida (literal translation: "The Reason for My Life") is the autobiography of Eva Perón, First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. Published in 1951 shortly before Eva Perón's death, it became one of the fastest selling books in Argentine history. Written in a conversational tone, it is largely a compilation of her speeches. Eva Perón shares her perspectives on feminism and the role of women in political life, labor rights, poverty, and, of course, Peronism, the political movement founded by her husband Juan Perón. In 1952, the year she died, the Congress of Argentina ordered the autobiography to be used as a textbook in the Argentine schools.
Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
María de las Mercedes de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y Orléans, Countess of Barcelona (Spanish: "Doña María de las Mercedes Cristina Genara Isabel Luisa Carolina Victoria y Todos los Santos de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y Orléans" (; 23 December 1910 – 2 January 2000) was the mother of Juan Carlos I, King of Spain from 1975 to 2014.
María Esther Jiménez Ramos
María Esther Jiménez Ramos (born 20 November 1963) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the National Action Party. As of 2014 she served as Deputy of the LX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Puebla.
Marcel·lí Perelló i Domingo
Marcel·lí Perelló i Domingo born in (Barcelona in 1897? - died Mexico City 1961) was a Catalan guerrilla politician and newspaper writer. He was the first Secretary of Estat Català. He was part of a plot against the Spanish Throne, was imprisoned and exiled to Mexico.
Mercedes Carvajal de Arocha
Mercedes Carvajal de Arocha known as Lucila Palacios (8 November, 1902 – 31 August, 1994) was a Trinidadian-Venezuelan writer, politician and diplomat. She was the first woman member of the Academia Venezolana de la Lengua.
Manuel María de Peralta y Alfaro
Manuel María de Peralta y Alfaro (July 4, 1847 – August 1, 1930) was a Costa Rican diplomat and historian. De Peralta y Alfaro was born in Taras, Cartago, Costa Rica, on July 4, 1847. He was the only Costa Rican to ever be given the designation of "Hero of the Motherland" twice.
María del Carmen Pinete Vargas
María del Carmen Pinete Vargas as known as Maru Pinete (born 29 August 1960) is a Mexican politician woman from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. She serves as a deputy to the LXIII Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing the second federal electoral district of Veracruz.
Estela Estévez
Maria Estela Estévez Barreiro (born 24 February 1965 in Vigo) is a retired Spanish athlete who competed in middle-distance events and the cross-country. She represented her country at the 1992 Summer Olympics as well as two World Championships.
María del Carmen Martínez Sancho
María del Carmen Martínez Sancho (Toledo, 1901 – Malaga, 1995) was the first woman in Spain to gain a PhD in Mathematics. She was the first Professor of Mathematics to work in secondary school education in Spain, and the first woman to be appointed to the "Board of Extension of Studies" at the University of Berlin. She was part of Madrid and Seville's "Instituto-Escuela."
Mariana Cox Méndez
Mariana Cox Méndez (also, Mariana Cox-Stuven; pseudonyms, Shade and Oliver Brand; Punta Arenas, 1871 - Paris, September 8, 1914) was a Chilean writer, feminist, essayist and novelist. In addition to novels and short stories, she wrote pieces in the newspaper "El Mercurio", "La Union", and "La Nación". She was condemned and criticized by Chilean society because she wrote for the media. Her work can be framed within the so-called "feminismo aristocrático", which includes her contemporaries such as Inés Echeverría Bello, María Mercedes Vial, Teresa Wilms Montt, María Luisa Fernández de García Huidobro, and Ximena Morla Lynch. Her second marriage was to Juan Stuven González. She had a son, Ivan.
María Luisa Ponte
María Luisa Ponte Mancini (21 June 1918 – 2 May 1996) was a Spanish actress. She appeared in over 135 films and television shows between 1952 and 1995. She appeared in the 1977 film "Black Litter", which was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival.
María Esther Vázquez
She was born in Buenos Aires in 1937 into a family of Galician descent. Her father was born in Cambados, and her mother in Vilanova de Arousa. At 16, she entered the Universidad de Buenos Aires to study literature. In 1957, while working at the National Library, she met the library's director, Jorge Luis Borges. He introduced her to his fellow writers from "Sur" magazine.
María Teresa Prieto
María Teresa Prieto was born in Oviedo in 1896 to a middle-class Asturian family. She studied with pianist and composer Saturnino del Fresno in Asturias and Benito de la Parra at the Conservatory of Madrid. She went to stay with her brother Carlos in Mexico in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War where she studied with Manuel Ponce and Carlos Chavez. She also studied with Darius Milhaud at Mills College in Oakland, California, in 1946 and 1947. She returned to Spain briefly in 1958 to receive the Samuel Ross prize for "Modal Quartet", but never returned to live there.
María Jesús Alvarado Rivera
After returning from exile, she devoted her time to radio, theater and cinema, with the primary purpose of getting voting rights for women in Peru. She also wrote a play, "The Perricholi", that was aired by Radio Nacional del Perú. She established the Academy of Dramatic Arts, "Ollanta", with her own money which found acceptance by the Ministry of Education as it helped to create the Directorate of Cultural and Art in Peru. In 1938, she mooted the introduction of the "Code of Rights" for women, in 1940, she wrote on the topic of "Eugenics and Child" in "Semana de la Salud". In 1945, the government approved her proposal to establish the national theater. She also became the Councillor of the Municipality of Lima.
The feminist movement launched by Alvarado Rivera took a long time to take shape, and it was only in 1955 that women got the right to vote in Peru. She died on May 6, 1971, at 92 years of age, a much disappointed woman as her efforts in the feminist movement did not get her acclaim during her lifetime.
Teresa Parodi
Teresa Adelina Sellarés, best known as Teresa Parodi, (born December 30, 1947) is an Argentine singer and songwriter. She held the inaugural post of the Minister of Culture of Argentina from 6 May 2014 to 9 December 2015. She was a deputy to the Mercosur Parliament (Parlasur) representing the nationwide district of Argentina from 10 December 2015 to 6 October 2016. She was elected on the Front for Victory ticket in the 2015 election.
Perla López Loyo
María Elena Perla López Loyo (born 2 April 1951) is a Mexican politician from the Institutional Revolutionary Party. From 2009 to 2012 she served as Deputy of the LXI Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Tlaxcala.
Teresa Aquino-Oreta
Maria Teresa Aquino-Oreta (born Maria Teresa Aquino Aquino on June 28, 1944), better known as Tessie Aquino-Oreta, is a Filipino politician. She was the chairperson of the Senate Committee on Education, Arts and Culture in the 11th Congress.
María Jesús Alvarado Rivera
María Jesús Alvarado Rivera (27 May 18786 May 1971) was a Peruvian rebel feminist, educator, journalist, writer and social activist. She was noted by the National Council of Women of Peru in 1969 as the "first modern champion of women's rights in Peru".
Esperanza López Mateos
Esperanza López Mateos was born in Mexico City on January 8, 1907. According to her baptismal certificate dated January 19, 1907 at the church of San Cosmas, the girl María Esperanza Adolfina Mateos is the natural daughter of Elena Mateos. The name of her father is not mentioned. These dates are consistent with those of her birth certificate, in which her name only appears as Esperanza Mateos, natural daughter of Elena Mateos. The baptismal certificate of her half-brother Rafael Fernando López Mateos, born March 12, 1904, states that at that time Elena Mateos was a widow and Rafael Fernando was the son of her late husband Mariano Gerardo López; the vital records reveal that the father's death date was the same as the son's birthdate. The latter died a year later, on April 27, 1905. Regina Santiago argues that the father of Esperanza and her younger brother Adolfo was Gonzalo de Murga. In either case, Esperanza and Adolfo took the name of Elena's late husband, Mariano López. This marriage produced two older sons, Mariano (born 1900) and Elena.
María Josefa Mujía
María Josefa Catalina Estrada Mujía was born in Sucre in 1812 to Miguel Mujía and Andrea Estrada. She grew up during the Bolivian War of Independence (1809–1825) and was the eldest of six brothers. Her early education included Spanish literary classics and the writings of Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Following the death of her father, she became blind at the age of 14. She later underwent eye surgery, to no avail.
Estela de Carlotto
Enriqueta Estela Barnes de Carlotto (Buenos Aires, born 22 October 1930) is an Argentine human rights activist and president of the association of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. One of her daughters, Laura Estela Carlotto, was kidnapped and missing while pregnant in Buenos Aires, in late 1977. Through stories, she could ascertain that her daughter had given birth to a boy, and that her grandson was appropriated and his identity changed. She searched for him for nearly 36 years, until, on August 5, 2014, after a DNA check voluntarily made by the person concerned, her grandson was identified, and became the 114th in the list of recovered grandchildren.