Famous People with Name Juana

Juana Manuela Gorriti            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Juana Manuela Gorriti: was an Argentine writer with extensive political and literary links to Bolivia and Peru.Juana Manuela Gorriti was born in Salta near the Bolivian border. She came from a wealthy upper class family, and attended a convent school when she was eight. Her father, José Ignacio de Gorriti, was a politician and soldier, and signed the Argentine Declaration of Independence on July 9th.

Juana Molina            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Juana Molina: is a singer-songwriter and an actress.Following the military coup in Argentina of 1976, Molina's family fled the country and lived in exile in Paris for six years. She grew up in a musical environment and her tango-singing father taught her guitar from the age of five.

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.

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.