Famous People with Name Alvarez

Rodrigo Flores Álvarez            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Rodrigo Flores Álvarez: was a Chilean engineer and chess master.Flores was Chilean Champion eleven times: 1931, 1935, 1938, 1941, 1944, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1956, 1961, and 1965.

Walter Alvarez            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Walter Alvarez: son of Nobel Prize winning physicist Luis Alvarez, is a professor in the Earth and Planetary Science department at the University of California, Berkeley.He worked for American Overseas Petroleum Limited in The Netherlands, and in Libya at the time of Colonel Gadaffi’s revolution. Having developed a side interest in archaeological geology, he left the oil company and spent some time in Italy, studying the Roman volcanics and their influence on patterns of settlement in early Roman times.Alvarez then moved to Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory of Columbia University, and began studying the Mediterranean tectonics in the light of the new theory of plate tectonics. His work on tectonic paleomagnetism in Italy led to a study of the geomagnetic reversals recorded in Italian deep-sea limestones, and he and his colleagues were able to date the reversals for an interval of more than 100 million years of Earth history.

Mabel Alvarez            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mabel Alvarez: was a Spanish-American artist and oil painter. She was born to a prominent Spanish family who lived on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.Alvarez demonstrated artistic talent at a young age and 1915 enrolled in a Los Angeles art school, where she enjoyed immediate success. She painted a large mural for the Panama-California Exposition San Diego, for which she won a Gold Medal. Alvarez attended William Cahill’s prestigious School for Illustration and Painting in Los Angeles and drew a haunting charcoal portrait of a woman in profile used by the School for its catalog cover.

Al Alvarez            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Al Alvarez: is an English poet, writer and critic who publishes under the name A. Alvarez and Al Alvarez.Born Alfred Alvarez, he was educated at Oundle School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he took a First in English. After teaching briefly in Oxford and t

Lissette Álvarez            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Lissette Álvarez: a singer, songwriter and record producer from Cuba. She is best known for recording a Spanish language version of Bonnie Tyler's Total Eclipse of the Heart in 1985.She and her sister were sent to live in the United States in the early 1960s through Operation Peter Pan, a US government sponsored program in conjunction with the Catholic Welfare Bureau that transported 14,000 Cuban children from Cuba to the United States. The scheme was devised for families opposed to the Cuban revolution of 1959, who feared that the government would indoctrinate their children into communism.