Famous People with Name Ricardo

Ricardo Canales            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ricardo Canales: is a Honduran football goalkeeper, who currently plays for Motagua. He made his debut in Liga Nacional on 16 May 2001 playing for Victoria against Real España.

Ricardo Antonio García Rodríguez            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ricardo Antonio García Rodríguez: was a Costa Rican professional footballer who played for A.D. Municipal Puntarenas.

Ricardo González Fonseca            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ricardo González Fonseca: is a Costa Rican professional footballer who currently plays for CS Herediano in the Primera División de Costa Rica.González Fonseca has made 34 appearances for the Costa Rica national football team, including three qualifying matches for the 2006 FIFA World Cup and five qualifying matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Ricardo Moreno Cañas            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ricardo Moreno Cañas: was a Costa Rican politician.

Ricardo Toledo Carranza            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Ricardo Toledo Carranza: is a Costa Rican politician.

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.