Cervantes
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People
- Alfonso J. CervantesAlfonso J. CervantesAlfonso Juan Cervantes was the thirty-ninth Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, from 1965 to 1973.- Personal life and early political career :...
(1920-1983), mayor of St. Louis, Missouri - Francisco Cervantes de SalazarFrancisco Cervantes de SalazarFrancisco Cervantes de Salazar was a Spanish man of letters.He was born and raised in Toledo. He first attended Alejo Venegas’s Grammar School and then studied at the University of Salamanca. In 1539 he accompanied Licenciado Pedro Giron to the Low Countries where he met, among other luminaries,...
, 16th-century man of letters - Ignacio CervantesIgnacio CervantesIgnacio Cervantes Kawanagh was a Cuban virtuoso pianist and composer. He was influential in the creolization of Cuban music....
, Cuban composer - Jorge CervantesJorge CervantesJorge Cervantes is a pseudonym for George Van Patten, a horticulturist and writer specializing in indoor, outdoor, and greenhouse cannabis cultivation...
, a world-renowned expert on indoor, outdoor, and greenhouse cannabis cultivation - Lorna Dee CervantesLorna Dee CervantesLorna Dee Cervantes is an award-winning Chicana-Native American poet who is considered one of the major Chicana poets of the past 40 years. She has been described by Alurista, as "probably the best Chicana poet active today." Lorna Dee Cervantes was born in 1954 in California. She grew up in San...
, Chicana poet and activist - Miguel de CervantesMiguel de CervantesMiguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered the first modern novel, is a classic of Western literature, and is regarded amongst the best works of fiction ever written...
, author of Don Quixote - Vicente (Vincente) de CervantesVicente CervantesVicente de Cervantes was a notable Spanish and Mexican physician and botanist.-Background:Don Vicente Cervantes was a contemporary of Martín Sessé y Lacasta and corresponded with Jean-Louis Berlandier, the French naturalist who botanized in Mexico and Texas as part of the Mexican Boundary...
(b. 1755, d. 1829), Mexican botanist
Places
- Cervantes, Western AustraliaCervantes, Western AustraliaCervantes is a town in Western Australia. The town is located just off Indian Ocean Drive about north north west of the state capital, Perth in the Shire of Dandaragan Local Government Area. At the 2006 census, Cervantes had a population of 503. The town was named after a ship that was wrecked...
, town - Cervantes, Ilocos SurCervantes, Ilocos SurCervantes is a 4th class municipality in the province of Ilocos Sur, Philippines. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 14,116 people in 2,673 households.The municipality is officially the Summer Capital of Ilocos Sur...
, a municipality in the Philippines - Cervantes, LugoCervantes, LugoCervantes is a municipality in the comarca of Os Ancares, in the province of Lugo, Galicia .It had a population of 1,973 in 2005, and has an area of 277 square kilometres. Its highest point is Mustellar , in the Ancares mountains....
, a municipality in Galicia, Spain - Cervantes, Río Negro, a municipality in Río Negro, Argentina
Other
- Cervantes de LeonCervantes de Leonis a fictional character in the Soul series of video games. Created by Namco's Project Soul division, he first appeared in Soul Edge and its subsequent sequels, later appearing in various merchandise related to the series...
, a fictional character in the Soul series of fighting games - Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de CervantesBiblioteca Virtual Miguel de CervantesThe Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes is a large-scale digital library project, hosted and maintained by the University of Alicante in Alicante, Spain. It comprises the largest open-access repository of digitised Spanish-language historical texts and literature from the Ibero-American world...
, a digital library and archive of Spanish-language historical and literary works, hosted by the University of Alicante, Spain - Cervantes, a radar developed in the 1980s by Thorn-EMI as an updated version of their Cymbeline (radar)Cymbeline (radar)Radar, Field Artillery, No 15, better known as Cymbeline, was a widely-used British mortar locating radar operating in the I band using a Foster scanner...
- Cervantes (film)Cervantes (film)Cervantes is a highly fictionalized 1967 film biography of the early life of Miguel de Cervantes . It was the first screen biography of the author...
, a 1967 film directed by Vincent Sherman - Miguel de Cervantes PrizeMiguel de Cervantes PrizeThe Miguel de Cervantes Prize , established in 1976, is awarded annually to honour the lifetime achievement of an outstanding writer in the Spanish language. The prize is similar to the Booker Prize, with its candidates from Commonwealth countries, in that it rewards authors from any...
, a Spanish prize awarded to outstanding writers. - Miguel de Cervantes European UniversityMiguel de Cervantes European UniversityMiguel de Cervantes European University is a private university located in Valladolid, Spain.It was established in 2002 and currently has around 1.500 students.- external links :*...
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