- Rene Corona
Rene Corona (born August 17, 1984 in Corona, United States) is an American soccer player, who currently plays midfielder for Chivas USA of Major League Soccer. Corona played college soccer at Santa Ana College. He helped lead them to the Division III National Title in 2004, appearing in 23 matches and scoring 7 goals along the way. He was a member of the Chivas USA reserve team before being called up in July 2006. - Juan Vallejo Corona
Juan Vallejo Corona (born: 1934) is an American serial killer that was convicted of murdering 25 men in 1971. The book, "The Road to Yuba City,"provides details of Corona's crimes. Corona was born in Mexico, and moved to Yuba City, California in the 1950s, to work on a farm. He soon became married and raised four daughters. Corona had reportedly suffered from schizophrenic episodes, but he was otherwise regarded as a hard worker. - Heriberto Jara Corona
General Heriberto Jara Corona was a Mexican revolutionary and politician who served as Governor of Veracruz. Jara Corona was born in the town of Nogales, in the state of Veracruz, to Emilio Jara Andrade and María del Carmen Corona. He got enrolled in the Mexican Revolution while working at a factory in the municipality of Rio Blanco in his native Veracruz. - Giorgio Corona
Giorgio Corona is a Foward for Mantova. He was in Catania Calcio before joining Mantova in July 2007. His contract will run until June 30 2010. - Renato Corona
Renato C. Corona (born October 15, 1948) is an incumbent Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He was appointed to the Court on April 9, 2002 by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. - Leonardo Corona
Leonardo Corona (1561 - 1605) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance period, active mainly in Venice. Born in Murano. For the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo (Venice), he painted an "Annunciation"; while for San Stefano, he painted an "Assumption". He is said to have been a pupil of the elder Titian, and completed some of his canvases after the master's death. His pupils included Santo Peranda and Baldasarre Anna. - José de Jesús Corona
José de Jesús Corona Rodriguez is a Mexican international football goalkeeper who currently plays for UAG Tecos in the Primera División de México. Corona started his career in CF Atlas in 2002, being an important and vital goalkeeper for Atlas. Playing 47 games from 2002 to 2004, he was transferred to UAG Tecos in 2004. Corona has been capped by the Mexico national football team, … - Ken Calvert
Kenneth Stanton (Ken) Calvert (born June 8 1953), an American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1993, representing California's 44th congressional district. The district is part of the Inland Empire and south Orange County areas of Southern California. - Robert Wilson
Sir Robert Wilson (16 April, 1927 - 2 September, 2002) FRS, CBE, Kt, the son of a Durham miner studied physics at King's College, Durham and obtained his PhD in Edinburgh where he worked at the Royal Observatory on stellar spectra. He was an astronomer, who fully embraced the opportunities provided by the space age and he was one of the pioneers who laid the ground work for the development of the Great Space Observatories, such as the Hubble Space Telescope. - John Sabini
John Sabini is a member of the New York State Senate from Queens. A former member of the New York City Council, he represents the 13th Senate district, which includes the neighborhoods of Corona, Jackson Heights, Elmhurst and East Elmhurst. - Jose Peralta
Jose Peralta represents District 39 in the New York State Assembly, which is located in Queens, New York and includes Corona, Elmhurst and Jackson Heights. First elected to the Assembly at the age of 30, Peralta previously worked as a "community liaison" to Assemblyman Brian McLaughlin. He is a graduate of Queens College. - Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison is a professor at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom. He is best known for his magnetic twisting theory involving the Coronal heating problem of the Sun's atmosphere. - Eugene Parker
Eugene N. Parker (born 10 June, 1927) is an American solar astrophysicist who received his BS degree in physics from Michigan State University in 1948 and Ph.D., from Caltech in 1951. He is most famous for developing, in the mid 1950s, the theory of the supersonic solar wind, and for predicting the Parker spiral shape of the solar magnetic field in the outer solar system. In 1987, Parker proposed that the solar corona might be heated by myriad tiny "micro-flares", … - Eugene Montanez
Eugene Montanez is the current Mayor of Corona City Council, in Corona, California. He was elected to his first term on the City Council in 2002. During his tenure on the Council, he has served on the Finance & Administration Committee and the Corona Arts and Culture Advisory Committee. He also represents the City of Corona as a member of the Western Riverside County Regional Conservation Authority, Tri-Tunnel Express Committee and Riverside Transit Authority. - Gary Ackerman
Gary Leonard Ackerman (born November 19, 1942) is presently serving his twelfth term in the United States House of Representatives. Ackerman represents the Fifth Congressional District of New York, encompassing the North Shore of Long Island, including West and Northeast Queens and Northern Nassau County (map). It includes areas like Corona, Flushing, Jamaica Estates, Bayside, Whitestone, Douglaston, and Little Neck in Queens, as well as Great Neck, Sands Point, … - Bernard Lyot
Bernard Ferdinand Lyot (February 27 1897 in Paris - April 2 1952 in Cairo) was a French astronomer. His interest in astronomy started in 1914. He soon acquired a 4-inch telescope and soon upgraded to a 6-inch. From graduation in 1918 until 1929, he worked as a demonstrator at the Ecole Polytechnique. He studied engineering, physics, and chemistry at the University of Paris, and from 1920 until his death he worked for the Meudon Observatory. - Serphin Maltese
Serphin R. Maltese (Born: Corona neighborhood of Queens, New York City on December 7, 1932) is a Republican New York State Senator representing New York's 15th State Senate District, located in Central and Southern Queens. Maltese first elected to the New York State Senate in November of 1988. He was reelected in 2004 to his ninth term on the Republican, Conservative and Independence Party lines with opposition despite representing a strongly Democratic district. - Rodolfo Lavín
Rodolfo Lavín is a Mexican racecar driver from San Luis Potosí who most notably raced in the Champ Car World Series. In Mexico, Lavín raced in Formula Azteca and Formula 3. With funding in the form of sponsorship from Corona, with whom his father is on the board, Lavin raced in Indy Lights from 1996-2000 and Toyota Atlantics from 2001-2002. Lavín was not particularly successful in either series, with no wins, … - Roberto Zanetti
Roberto Zanetti (born November 28 1956) is an Italian music producer, composer and businessman. A native of Massa, Italy, he uses the alias Robyx He has founded several companies, Robyx Productions, Extravaganza Publishing and DWA Records. Zanetti has produced and written music for several artists including, Savage, Ice MC, Double You, Alexia, Corona and Zucchero. In the early to mid 90's, Robyx was a pioneering producer of Classic Eurodance, … - María Asunción Aramburuzabala
María Asunción Aramburuzabala Larregui de Garza, is Mexico's richest woman thanks to her holdings in Grupo Modelo, one of the 10 biggest brewers in the world (best known for the worldwide success of "Corona" beer). Aramburuzabala is the daughter of a Basque immigrant Pablo Aramburuzabala Ocaranza who arrived in Mexico nearly penniless. He was a meticulous saver and investor and tried to pass his talents onto his two daughters, Marisun and her younger sister Lucrecia. - Sandra Chambers
Sandra Chambers, also known as Sandy Chambers or Sandy, is a dance music vocalist. Her voice has been used in a lot of Italian electronic music productions, in particular she functioned as the vocalist for dance music project Corona for the most part of the 1990s. - Jeffrion Aubry
Jeffrion L. Aubry represents District 35 in the New York State Assembly, which is comprised of East Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, Corona and Woodside. Chosen in a special election in 1992, Aubry is the current Chairman of the Corrections Committee, as well as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Airports and Economic Development and a member of several other standing committees, including Cities, Economic Development, Commerce and Industry and Social Services, among others. - Alan Hood
Alan Hood is a professor in the Solar and Magnetospheric Theory Group at St. Andrews University in Scotland. He is best known for his wave heating theory involving the Coronal heating problem of the Sun's atmosphere. - Chauncey H. Griffith
Chauncey H. Griffith, American printer and typeface designer. Griffith was born in the U.S. state of Ohio, and began his career as a compositor and pressman. In 1906 he joined the Mergenthaler Linotype Company as part of their sales force. He became sales manager, and oversaw the entrenchment of Linotype equipment as the industry standard in newspaper and book composition. Griffith advanced to become a vice president for typographic design, … - Brenda Ann Spencer
Brenda Ann Spencer (born April 3 1962 in San Diego, California, United States) wounded eight children and one police officer and killed principal Burton Wragg, and custodian Mike Suchar, in a shooting spree at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, on Monday, January 29, 1979. The school was across the street from her house. She used the rifle she had recently been given for Christmas from her father. - Miguel Angel García Pérez-Roldán
Miguel Angel García Pérez-Roldán aka Corona is Spanish football player who currently plays for UD Almería of the Spanish La Liga. His usual demarcation is Midfielder. - Archie Bleyer
Archie Bleyer (June 12, 1909 - March 20, 1989) was an American song arranger and bandleader. He was born in the Corona section of the New York City borough of Queens. He began playing the piano when he was only seven years old. In 1927 he went to Columbia College, intending to become an electrical engineer, but as a sophomore switched to a music major. Without graduating, he left to become an arranger. - Fred Carter
Frederick Carter (born 1835, date of death unknown) was a convict transported to Western Australia, later to become one of the colony's ex-convict school teachers. Frederick Carter was born in 1835. A gunsmith by trade, he had a lifelong interest in sports, especially horseracing, and he was an outstanding rider and trainer of horses. In 1865, Carter was found guilty of a felony by the Birmingham courts, and sentenced to ten years' penal servitude. - Doug Bird
James Douglas Bird (born March 5, 1950 in Corona, California) was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 1973 to 1983. - Arnold Friedman
Arnold Friedman was an American Modernist painter. He was born in Corona, Queens, worked for the Federal Art Project and studied at the Art Students League in New York under the tutelage of Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller. In 1909, he took a six-month leave of absence from his job to study art in Paris. During this time, he was introduced to the styles of Impressionism and Cubism. He exhibited with many of the most avant-garde venues and dealers of the period, … - Joey Digiamarino
Joseph Anthony "Joey" DiGiamarino (born April 6, 1977 in Corona, California) is an American soccer player, who last played left defense for the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. DiGiamarino, nicknamed "DiGi", played college soccer at Cal State-Fullerton, but left it after his sophomore season, becoming one of the early Project-40 signings in MLS history. He was allocated to the Rapids in 1997, but did not see any time with the team that year, … - Olga Souza
Olga Souza (born 16 July 1968, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an Afro-Brazilian singer, and dancer who was the lead singer in the musical project Corona. - Iosif Shklovsky
Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky was a Soviet/Russian astronomer and astrophysicist. His last name is sometimes given as Shklovskii or Shklovskij, and his first name is sometimes given as Josif or Josef. Shklovsky was born in Glukhov, a city in the Ukrainian part of the Russian Empire. After graduating from the seven-year secondary school, he worked as a foreman on building Baikal Amur Mainline. - Pietro Tacchini
Pietro Tacchini was an Italian astronomer. He was born and raised in Modena, Italy. He studied engineering at the University of Padova. At the age of 21, he was appointed the director of a small observatory in Modena. By 1863 he became the "Primo Astronomo Aggiunto", or director of the observatory, at Palermo, Italy. He would remain there until 1879, and focused most of his attention on observations of the Sun. - Myles Pinkney
Myles Pinkney (born Myles Eugene Pinkney, 2 April 1957 Corona, California) is an internationally known artist. He is recognized especially for his highly detailed fantasy and science fiction artwork, published in many formats, including collectibles from The Franklin Mint and The Bradford Exchange. His calendars, published since 1995, are among the most popular in the genre. - Bengt Edlén
Bengt Edlén, 1906-1993, was a Swedish professor of physics and astronomer specialized in spectroscopy. He participated in solving the Corona Mystery: unidentified spectral lines in the spectrum of sun was speculatively believed to originate from a hitherto unidentified chemical element coined Coronium, but instead revealed, by Edlén, to be lines from several times ionized iron. - Frank Watson Dyson
Sir Frank Watson Dyson (January 8 1868 - May 25 1939) was an English astronomer. He won scholarships to Heath Grammar School, Halifax and Cambridge University, where he studied mathematics and astronomy. He was Astronomer Royal for Scotland from 1905 to 1910, and Astronomer Royal (and director of the Royal Greenwich Observatory) from 1910 to 1933. In 1928, he introduced a new free-pendulum clock in the Observatory. - Seth Barnes Nicholson
Seth Barnes Nicholson was an American astronomer. Nicholson was born in Springfield, Illinois and was raised in rural Illinois. He was educated at Drake University where he became interested in astronomy. In 1914, at the University of California's Lick Observatory, while observing the recently-discovered Jupiter moon Pasiphaë, he discovered a new one: Sinope, whose orbit he computed for his Ph.D. thesis in 1915. He spent his entire career at Mount Wilson Observatory, … - Merton Davies
Merton E. Davies (1917-2001) worked for the Douglas Aircraft corporation in the 1940s and became a pioneer of spy satellite technology (including Corona) as a member of RAND Corporation after it split off from Douglas in 1948. Although the majority of his work in this regard remains classified, on August 18, 2000 he was acknowledged as one of the founders of national reconnaissance by the National Reconnaissance Office. - George Henry Peters
George Henry Peters was an American astronomer. He died in Washington, D.C. He worked at the U.S. Naval Observatory as an astrophotographer, discovering three asteroids and photographing the Sun's corona.
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