Famous People with Name Gaspar

Gaspar Roca            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Gaspar Roca: was a Puerto Rican journalist and economist.He attended and graduated from the Valley Forge Military Academy He was educated at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and held prominent positions in government and the private sector, including the presidency of the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO).Roca was the founder and editor of the Puerto Rican newspaper El Vocero, filling a market niche for a crime-oriented tabloid, left by the closing of El Imparcial. Under his editorship, El Vocero evolved into a mainstream newspaper with legitimate news articles, a well-known set of columnists, including Luis Dávila Colón, José Arsenio Torres, Roberto Rexach Benítez, Eudaldo Báez Galib and Juan Manuel García Passalacqua, and a wide variety of sections and supplements.

Gaspar Villate            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Gaspar Villate: was a Cuban composer who produced abundant and wide-ranging work, mostly centered on opera. After writing the score of Angelo, tirano de Padua, he and his family emigrated to the USA in 1868 when war broke out in Cuba, returning in 1871. He now composed a second opera, Las primeras armas de Richelieu. Sent to Paris to complete his studies, he wrote various contradanzas when he returned.

Gáspár Borbás            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Gáspár Borbás: was a Hungarian amateur football (soccer) player who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.He scored the first goal of the Hungarian national team in 1903 against Cech. The fast left winger played 41 times in the national team and scored 11 goals between (

Gaspar Fagel            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Gaspar Fagel: was a Dutch statesman. Fagel was born into a distinguished patrician family.In 1667 Fagel was one of the signers (the other signers where Grand Pensionary Jan de Witt, Gillis Valckenier and Andries de Graeff) of the Perpetual Edict, that was a resolution of the States of Holland in which they abolished the office of Stadtholder in the province of Holland. At approximately the same time a majority of provinces in the States-General of the Netherlands agreed to declare the office of stadtholder (in any of the provinces) incompatible with the office of Captain general of the Dutch Republic.

Gaspar Van Weerbeke            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Gaspar Van Weerbeke: was a Netherlandish composer of the Renaissance. He was of the same generation as Josquin Desprez, but unique in his blending of the contemporary Italian style with the older Burgundian style of Dufay.Weerbeke combined the styles of the Italians with some of the older techniques of the Burgundians. He was almost alone among the Franco-Flemish composers in avoiding the smooth, imitative polyphonic style which was developing at the time, best exemplified by the music of Josquin Desprez.

Marin Gaspar            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian

Marin Gaspar: is a Romanian boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1936 he was eliminated in the first round of the bantamweight class after losing his fight to Wilhelm Stasch.

Alexandre-Pierre Gaspar            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Alexandre-Pierre Gaspar: is a French Internet pioneer best known as the founder of Q.O.A.C.H (Question Oriented Approach for Common Health) which makes medical knowledge easy understandable and usable by the public via the Internet.

Tamás Gáspár            Origin/Culture/Country: Hungaian

Tamás Gáspár: is a Hungarian wrestler and world champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.

Nuno Jorge Ribeiro Gaspar            Origin/Culture/Country: Portuguese

Nuno Jorge Ribeiro Gaspar: is a Portuguese professional road bicycle racer, he was the winner of the 2003 (Volta a Portugal), he also placed first in the 2009 edition, however he was later disqualified due to testing positive for CERA in a doping test and was banned for two years.

Hugo Gaspar            Origin/Culture/Country: Portuguese

Hugo Gaspar: is a volleyball player from Portugal, who plays for the Men's National Team. He became Best Scorer at the second 2008 Olympic Qualification Tournament in Espinho, where Portugal ended up in second place and missed qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympic