Famous People with Name Baldomero

Baldomero (Mel) Almada            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Baldomero (Mel) Almada: February 7, 1913 - August 13, 1988) was a center fielder in Major League Baseball who played from 1933 through 1939 for the Boston Red Sox (1933-37), Washington Senators (1937-38), St. Louis Browns (1938-39) and Brooklyn Dodgers (1939). He batted and threw left-handed.

Baldomero Sanín Cano            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Baldomero Sanín Cano: was a Colombian essayist, journalist, linguist, humanist and university professor.He graduated as a teacher in the Normal de Rionegro, in the department of Antioquia, and became undersecretary of the Reyes administration and ambassador of Colombia in England. He was a collaborator of the Hispania magazine and an editor of the newspaper La Nación of Buenos Aires. He served as a Minister in Argentina in 1934. He was a member of the Academia Colombiana de la Lengua. He was also Rector of the University of El Cauca in Popayan and also collaborator of El Tiempo in Bogota.

Baldomero Olivera            Origin/Culture/Country: Philippines

Baldomero Olivera: is a Filipino chemist most famous for discovery of many cone snail toxins important for neuroscience. These molecules, called conotoxins led to a breakthrough in the study of ion channels and neuro-muscular synapses. He discovered and first characterized E. coli DNA ligase, a key enzyme of genetic engineering and recombinant DNA technology.

Baldomero Pedro "Merito" Acosta Fernández            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Baldomero Pedro "Merito" Acosta Fernández: was an outfielder in Major League Baseball who played five seasons for the Philadelphia Athletics and Washington Senators. Acosta played winter baseball in the Cuban League from 1913 to 1925 and was also a long-time manager and part-owner of the Havana Cubans. In the 1918/19 season, Acosta made an unassisted triple play while playing center field. With the bases loaded, he sprinted in to catch the ball, then continued to touch second base before the runner could return and tagged the runner from first base. In his first season as a manager, 1922/23, he led a brand new franchise, Marianao, to a championship. Acosta was elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955.