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Mestre Bimba (born Manuel dos Reis Machado November 23, 1900, Salvador, Brazil - February 15, 1974) was a "mestre" (a master practitioner) of the Afro-Brazilian martial art Capoeira. The son of Luiz Cândido Machado and Maria Martinha do Bonfim, Manuel he was born at the "bairro do Engenho Velho", Salvador. - Ramón Mestre
Ramón Bautista Mestre, an Argentine politician, was Governor of Córdoba from July 12, 1995 to July 12, 1999. He also served as Federal Interventor of Corrientes Province (December 16, 1999 to March 20 2001), Minister of the Interior (from March 20, 2001 to December 21, 2001), and Mayor of the city of Córdoba (from December 1983 to December 1991). A disciple of Cordoba 52nd Governor Justo Páez Molina, … - Audrey Mestre
Audrey Mestre (August 11, 1974-October 12, 2002) was a French world record-setting free-diver. - Mestre Pastinha
Mestre Pastinha (born Vicente Ferreira Pastinha April 5 1889, Salvador, Brazil - November 13 1981) was a "mestre" (a master practitioner) of the Afro-Brazilian martial art Capoeira. The son of José Señor Pastinha and Eugênia Maria de Carvalho, he was exposed to Capoeira at the age of 8 by an African named Benedito. The story goes that an older and stronger boy from Pastinha's neighborhood would often bully and beat him up. - Mestre Cobra Mansa
Cinézio Feliciano Peçanha (born 1960 in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro suburb, Brazil) Mestre Cobra Mansa, more commonly known as "Cobrinha, Cobrinha Mansa", is a "mestre" or master of Capoeira Angola. He is one of the founders and the guiding light of an organization known either as FICA (in Brazil, an acronym for Fundacao International de Capoeira de Angola) or ICAF (in English, this stands for the International Capoeira Angola Foundation, … - Ugo Bassi
Ugo Bassi (august 12 1800 - August 8, 1849) was an Italian patriot. - Tathiana Garbin
Tathiana Garbin (born June 30, 1977, Mestre, Italy) is an Italian female tennis player. On May 21 2007 Garbin reached her career-high singles ranking: World No. 22. She has won 1 singles title and 8 titles in doubles. As of May 21 2007, Garbin is the No.1 ranked Italian in the World. - Enrico Franzoi
Enrico Franzoi (born August 8, 1982 in Mestre) is an Italian professional cyclo-cross and road bicycle racer, currently riding for Lampre-Fondital. Franzoi has won the Italian Cyclo-cross Championships on three occasions - in 2005, 2006 and 2007. - Roberto Succo
Roberto Succo, also known as Roberto Zucco, (April 3, 1962 - May 23, 1988) was born in Venice, Italy. He was a serial killer who murdered several people in Europe in 1987 and 1988. Succo's first killings were on April 9, 1981 when he fatally stabbed his parents after they refused to lend him their car. The same night he also killed a police officer. - Emilio Pujol
Emilio Pujol Vilarrubi (1886-1980) was a composer and the leading twentieth century musicologist and classical guitar teacher. - Francesco Benussi
Francesco Benussi (born October 15, 1981 in Mestre, Venezia) is an Italian football goalkeeper who, as of 2006, is playing for A.C. Siena, on loan from Lecce. He is the first choice keeper, measuring 188cm, weighing 56kg. - João de Sousa Carvalho
João de Sousa Carvalho was the foremost Portuguese composer of his generation. He was born in Estremoz. He studied music from 1753 at the Colégio dos Santos Reis in Vila Viçosa, then from 1761 at the Conservatorio di S Onofrio in Naples. In 1766 his setting of Metastasio’s "La Nitteti" was performed in Rome. In 1767, he joined the Irmandade de S Cecília at Lisbon and was appointed professor of counterpoint in the Seminário da Patriarcal, … - Paolo Casarin
Paolo Casarin (born May 12, 1940 in Mestre). Is a retired football referee from Italy. He is mostly known for supervising two matches in the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain - Jacques-Francois Menou
"Jacques-François de Menou, baron de Boussay" was a French general under Napoleon I of France. Born Jacques Menou in Boussay (Indre-et-Loire) on 3 September 1750, he died in Mestre in the Veneto on 13 August 1810. In 1798 Le Moniteur documented Napoleon's conversion to Islam, claiming his new Muslim name as ‘Aly Napoleon Bonaparte’. - Andrea Vicentino
Andrea Vicentino was an Italian painter of the late-Renaissance or Mannerist period. He was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Battista Maganza. Born in Vicenza, he was also known as "Andrea Michieli" or "Michelli". He moved to Venice in the mid-1570s and registered in the “Fraglia” or guild of Venetian painters in 1583. He worked alongside Tintoretto at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, helping paint "Arrival of Henry III at Venice" (c. - Mario Del del Monaco
Mario del Monaco (Florence July 27, 1915 - October 16, 1982 in Mestre) was an Italian tenor and is regarded by his admirers as one of the greatest or at least the loudest tenors of the 20th Century. Del Monaco was born to a musical upper-class Florentine family. As a young boy he studied the violin but had a passion for singing. He graduated from the Rossini Conservatory at Pesaro, … - Mestre Amen Santo
Mestre Amen Santo is an Afro-Brazilian mestre (master) of the acrobatic martial art of capoeira. He has acted in roles practicing his art in two Hollywood movies, "Only The Strong" and "Kickboxer 4", and created much of the former's fight choreography. He was born in Bahia, Brazil, and as a teenager, took to capoeira as a means of escaping the poverty and violent crime present in his neighborhood. - Mestre Gabriel
José Gabriel da Costa, later known as Mestre Gabriel, is the founder of the União do Vegetal, a religious sect that combines Christianity and indigenous South American religion, utilizing the entheogenic tea ayahuasca as its main sacrament. Gabriel was born in Coração de Maria, in the state of Bahia, Brazil. He received minimal education and moved to Acre, Brazil, later becoming a rubber tapper in the Amazon region. - Mestre João Pequeno
João Pereira dos Santos or Mestre João Pequeno da Pastinha as he is known within capoeira circles, began his life in Capoeira as a student of Mestre Gilvenson (C. Daniel Dawson's book "Capoeira Angola and Mestre João Grande" cites Mestre Barbosa as João Pequeno's first teacher, "see Mestre João Grande") and later became a disciple of Mestre Pastinha - the father of contemporary Capoeira Angola. - Mestre Pé de Chumbo
Pé de Chumbo is a much respected master of Capoeira Angola, an Afro-Brazilian martial art, and a student of João Pequeno's. He has academies in Brazil and in Europe - including several academies in Sweden. In 2005, he opened the first ever Angola academy in Portugal in the city of Aveiro. Most recently, Mestre Pe de Chumbo has started a group in Asheville NC, USA. - Ulrich Del Mestre
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