Famous People with Name Camargo

João Arthur Bueno De Camargo            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

João Arthur Bueno De Camargo: also known as João Arthur and Joãozinho is a Brazilian midfielder. He currently plays for Palmeiras. João Arthur made his debut for Palmeiras as a second half substitute in a Campeonato Paulista 2010 match against Ituano on 24 January 2010.

Sérgio De Camargo            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Sérgio De Camargo: was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. De Camargo studied at the Academia Altamira in Buenos Aires under Emilio Pettoruti and Lucio Fontana. Camargo also studied philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris. On a protracted trip through Europe in 1948, Camargo met Brancusi, Arp, Henri Laurens and Georges Vantangerloo.Sérgio de Camargo began to work in sculpture and his early pieces are reminiscent of Picasso and H. Laurens. Returning to Brazil in 1950, Camargo came into contact with Brazilian Constructivists. In 1952-53 he again returned to Europe and went to China in 1954. Between 1961 and 1974 Sérgio de Camargo remained in Paris, where he became a member of the Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel. During that period he concentrated on structuring monochrome white surfaces with cylindrical wooden reliefs in which the play of light and shadow alternates between order and chaos, fullness and emptiness

Marie Anne De Cupis De Camargo            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Marie Anne De Cupis De Camargo: was a French/Belgian dancer. The first woman to execute the entrechat quatre, Camargo was also responsible for two innovations in ballet as she was the first dancer to wear slippers instead of heeled shoes, and she was the first female to wear the short calf-length ballet skirt and the now standardized ballet tights.

Emiliano Camargo            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Emiliano Camargo: is a Colombian Olympic fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée and team foil events at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Alberto Lleras Camargo            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Alberto Lleras Camargo: was an important Colombian diplomat and political figure. He was a member of the Liberal Party of Colombia; he served as congressman (1931–1935), Minister of Education, Minister of the Interior and Minister of Foreign Affairs, during the governments of Alfonso López Pumarejo and Eduardo Santos. He served too as acting President of Colombia between 1945 and 1946. He then served as the first secretary general of the Organization of American States from 1948 to 1954. Finally, he served as President of Colombia between 1958 and 1962. During this later term, he founded the Colombian Institute for Agrarian Reform (INCORA), with the intention of implementing a needed degree of land reform in the country.