Famous People with Name Carles

Carles Sans López            Origin/Culture/Country: Spanish

Carles Sans López: is a former water polo player from Spain, who was a member of the national team that won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

Carles Poch Gradin            Origin/Culture/Country: Spanish

Carles Poch Gradin: is a Spanish professional tennis player. He has reached the finals of ten Futures tournaments; five of these he won on Romania, Latvia, Poland and Spain.

Carles Juanmartí Santiago            Origin/Culture/Country: Spanish

Carles Juanmartí Santiago: is a Spanish slalom canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. Juanmartí also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of 11th in the K-1 event at Athens in 2004.

Arthur Beecher Carles            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Arthur Beecher Carles: was an American Modernist painter.He returned to France from June to October 1912 and exhibited at the 1912 Salon d'Automne. After his return to America he exhibited at the Armory Show of 1913. He taught at the Pennsylvania Academy in Philadelphia from 1917 to 1925 and taught privately afterwards. His later years were marked by bouts of alcoholism. In December 1941 he suffered a stroke that left him an invalid until his death in 1952. His daughter Mercedes Carles, also an artist and the founder of the New York Studio School, was married to photographer and designer Herbert Matter.

Jean-Antonin Carles            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Jean-Antonin Carles: was a French sculptor. Carlès began his studies in Marseille and then successively to the École des Beaux-Arts de Toulouse and that of Paris. He was a pupil of François Jouffroy (1806-1882) and Ernest-Eugène Hiolle (1834-1886), he won the Grand Prix de l'Exposition Universelle in 1889. He belonged to the Society of French Artists. Several models of his sculptures (La Jeunesse, Retour de chasse) are kept at the Musée des Jacobins d'Auch (Gers). He died in Paris.

Adele Simone Carles            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Adele Simone Carles: is an Australian politician. She has been a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since May 2009, representing the electorate of Fremantle. Initially elected as a Greens WA member, she resigned from the party on 6 May 2010 to sit as an ind

Guido Carlesi            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Guido Carlesi: was a Italian professional road bicycle racer.In 1961, he finished 2nd in the general classification of the 1961 Tour de France.

Per Carleson            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Per Carleson: was a Swedish Olympic fencer.