Famous People with Name Ricardo

Ricardo Toledo Carranza            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ricardo Toledo Carranza: is a Costa Rican politician.

Ricardo Castro Beeche            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ricardo Castro Beeche: was a Costa Rican politician and writer.

Ricardo "Rick" Rodrigue            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ricardo "Rick" Rodrigue: is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. Rodriguez pitched in parts of four seasons in the major leagues between 1986 and 1990. In 2008, he served as pitching coach for the Sacramento River Cats.Rodriguez was drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 2nd round of the 1981 Major League Baseball Draft out of the University of California, Riverside. He spent the next five seasons working his way up through their farm system, reaching the majors for the first time in 1986. He pitched parts of that season and 1987 for the A's, but was released in December 1987.

Ricardo José Orellana Rivas            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ricardo José Orellana Rivas: is a Salvadoran footballer who currently plays for C.D. Luis Angel Firpo.Orellana's professional career began on July 3, 2007 when he signed a contract with now defunct Salvadoran national league club, San Salvador F.C.. He was one of six players from the El Salvador U17 national team, that would sign for San Salvador that season.

Ricardo Ovidio "chilenito" Valencia            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ricardo Ovidio "chilenito" Valencia: was a Salvadoran footballer who played most of his career in C.D. FAS. Valencia has made 26 appearances for the El Salvador national football team, scoring five goals. In 1954 he won the gold medal with the Salvadoran team in the Juegos Deportivos Centroa

Joaquín Amparo Balaguer Ricardo            Origin/Culture/Country:

Joaquín Amparo Balaguer Ricardo: was the President of the Dominican Republic from 1960 to 1962, from 1966 to 1978, and again from 1986 to 1996. An unlikely strongman, he had been a protégé of Rafael Trujillo and, though frequently accused of election fraud and of intimidating would-be opponents, he was considered one of the craftiest politicians.

David Ricardo            Origin/Culture/Country: English

David Ricardo: was a political economist, often credited with systematizing economics, and was one of the most influential of the classical economists, along with Thomas Malthus and Adam Smith. He was also a member of Parliament, businessman, financier and speculator, who amassed a considerable personal fortune. Perhaps the most important of his contributions was the theory of comparative advantage, an fundamental argument in favor of free trade among countries and of specialization among individuals. Ricardo argued that there is mutual benefit from trade (or exchange) even if one party (e.g. resource-rich country, highly-skilled artisan) is more productive in every possible area than its trading counterpart (e.g. resource-poor country, unskilled laborer), as long as each concentrates on the activities where it has relative productivity advantage.[1]

Joaquín Antonio Balaguer Ricardo            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Joaquín Antonio Balaguer Ricardo: was the President of the Dominican Republic from 1960 to 1962, from 1966 to 1978, and again from 1986 to 1996.When Trujillo arranged to have his brother Héctor re-elected to the presidency in 1957, he chose Balaguer as vice-president. Three years later, w

Cassiano Ricardo            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Cassiano Ricardo: was a Brazilian journalist, critic, and poet.He became a late adherent to Brazilian modernism and co-founded the mystical nationalist journal Novissima.[1] His Marcha para Oeste supported the frontier for being both anti-liberal and democratic.[2] He held a hierarchical view of such a society with the whites holding "the spirit of adventure and command".[3]

Augustus Louis Ricardo            Origin/Culture/Country: English

Augustus Louis Ricardo: was an English cricketer. Ricardo was born in Chelsea, London. Ricardo made a single first-class appearance for pre-county club Hampshire in 1861 against the Marylebone Cricket Club. In the match he scored 5 runs and took 2 catches.