Famous People with Name Vega

Raúl Cárdenas De La Vega            Origin/Culture/Country: Mexican

Raúl Cárdenas De La Vega: a former Mexican football player and coach. He represented the Mexico national football team as a player in three FIFA World Cups: 1954, 1958 and 1962, and coached the national team when they reached the quarterfinals at home in the 1970 FIFA World Cup.

Jorge De La Vega            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Jorge De La Vega: was an Argentine abstract painter. His wife was Pauleta de la Vega.Although de la Vega studied architecture in Buenos Aires, he was self-taught as a painter. From 1961 to 1965 he was a member of the art movement called Nueva Figuración. In addition to museums in Argentina, his works hang in the Phoenix Art Museum, the Museu de Arte Moderna Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the Art Museum of the Americas at the OAS in Washington, DC.

Ángel Santos Colón Vega            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Ángel Santos Colón Vega: aka Santitos Colón, was a Puerto Rican salsa music singer and crooner, born in Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico and raised in Mayagüez. He was a former resident of Dr. Vadi street of the Cristy residential district in town (which he constantly made a reference of during his lifetime). He sang, among others, with Tito Puente's orchestra and was a member of the Fania All Stars. His is the voice heard singing chorus most prominently and saying "Aha! Aha!" in the original version of Oye Como Va by Puente's orchestra.

Sabas Pretelt De La Vega            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Sabas Pretelt De La Vega: He is an economist and humanist by training, has a Masters degree in Business Administration and has been a Professor at several Colombian universities.

Óscar Únzaga De La Vega            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Óscar Únzaga De La Vega: was a Bolivian political figure and rebel. He, most significantly, founded the Bolivian Socialist Falange movement in 1937, and ran for President in the 1956 elections, when his party became the main opposition movement to the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR). Unzaga, originally an educator, was assassinated in 1959, ostensibly as he planned to enlist military help in an attempt to dislodge the MNR from power. He is revered as a hero/martyr by some factions of the well-to-do Bolivian political elites.