Famous People with Name Juana

Juana Reina Castrillo            Origin/Culture/Country: Spanish

Juana Reina Castrillo: was a Spanish actress and copla singer.She became popular thanks to songs by famous copla songwriters like León or Quiroga and she debuted in movies with La blanca Paloma (White Pigeon) (1941).On June 15, 1964, she married the flamenco dancer Federico Casado Algrenti, and she later inaugurated a restaurant in Madrid and a dancing academy in Seville.She died from a respiratory insuficience and she is buried in the cemetery San Fernando in Seville.

Juana Miguelina González Sánchez            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Juana Miguelina González Sánchez: is a female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, wearing the number #11 jersey. There she ended up in eleventh place with the Dominican Republic women's national

Juana Saviñón Pérez            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Juana Saviñón Pérez: is a female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who competed for her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, wearing the number #8 jersey.

Juana Rosario Arrendel            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Juana Rosario Arrendel: is a high jumper from the Dominican Republic. The other are Miguelina Cobián, Carmen Romero, Bárbara Hechevarría, María Caridad Colón and Letitia Vriesde.

Juana Borrero            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Juana Borrero: was a Cuban painter and poet. A native of the Santo Suárez neighborhood of Havana, she died in Key West, Florida. She was the daughter of the writer and patriot Esteban Borrero Echevarría and of Consuelo Pierra, and began painting when she was five; she wrote her first poem at seven, and spoke multiple languages by the time she was ten. In 1887 she entered the San Alejandro Arts Academy; by 1891 her poems were being published in magazines around Cuba. She died of tuberculosis at only eighteen.

José Antonio Hernando De Juana            Origin/Culture/Country: Spanish

José Antonio Hernando De Juana: is a retired boxer from Spain, who represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the lightweight division (– 51 kg) by Puerto Rico's eventual silver medalist Luis Ortiz.