Famous People with Name Abelardo

Abelardo Díaz Alfaro            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Abelardo Díaz Alfaro: was a Puerto Rican author who reached great fame throughout Latin America during the 1940s. Some say his actual year of birth was 1919, but officially it was always announced as 1916. His book Campo Alegre is a text that has been studied at schools in Austria, Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand as well as all over the Americas.

Abelardo Colomé Ibarra            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Abelardo Colomé Ibarra: is a Vice President of the Council of State of Cuba. He is the Minister of the Interior of the country. He is a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba. He bears the title Hero of the Republic of Cuba, and holds the Order of Máximo Gómez in recognition of, in Fidel Castro's own words, "his extraordinary merits in the insurrectional struggle against the tyranny and the imperialist neocolonial domination, the struggle for the consolidation and defense of the socialist state, and the accomplishment of heroic internationalist missions."

Abelardo Sztrum            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Abelardo Sztrum: an Argentine sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1990s to the early 2000s. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, he was eliminated in the semfinals of both the K-1 1000 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Four years later in Sydney, Sztrum was eliminated in the heats of the K-2 1000 m event.

Abelardo Menéndez            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Abelardo Menéndez: was a Cuban Olympic fencer. He competed at the 1952 and 1960 Summer Olympics.

Abelardo Olivier            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Abelardo Olivier: was an Italian Olympic fencer.

Richard Velayo Abelardo            Origin/Culture/Country: Philippines

Richard Velayo Abelardo: was a Filipino film director.He married an embroiderer from Malate and had two girls, Louise and Rita. He paid for his brother, Bayani's, education as a camera man. His wife, Salud (née Carmona), learned how to be a make-up artist. In 1935, the whole family went back to the Philippines due to the Depression. Isang Tapales, an opera singer, asked him to be the art director for her play, Madame Butterfly. He was renowned for his exciting and realistic scenic backgrounds. Pacita Madrigal, a famous ballet dancer, hired him for the Fire Dance.

Nicanor Sta. Ana Abelardo            Origin/Culture/Country: Philippines

Nicanor Sta. Ana Abelardo: was a Filipino composer who composed over a hundred of Kundiman songs, especially before the Second World War.As a composition major at the University of the Philippines, he also composed the melody for the university's official anthem, U.P. Naming Mahal.The building housing the College of Music in UP Diliman (Abelardo Hall) is named in his honor.[2]