Famous People with Name Pena

Nicolás Rodriguez Peña            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Nicolás Rodriguez Peña: was an Argentine politician. Born in Buenos Aires in April 1775, he worked in commerce which allowed him to amass a considerable fortune. Among his several successful businesses, he had a soap factory partnership with Hipólito Vieytes, which was a center of conspirators during the revolution against Spanish rule. In 1805 he was a member of the "Independence Lodge", a masonic lodge, along with other prominent revolutionary patriots such as Juan José Castelli and Manuel Belgrano. This group used to meet in his ranch, then situated in what today is Rodriguez Peña square in Buenos Aires.

José Flober Peña Peña            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

José Flober Peña Peña: is a male professional road cyclist from Colombia. He was nicknamed "Donatelo" during his career.

Bethania De La Cruz De Peña            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Bethania De La Cruz De Peña: is a female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who twice won the bronze medal with the Dominican women's national team at the NORCECA Championship. She became Best Scorer at the 2007 edition of this event.

Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena: was a Brazilian politician, president between 1906 and 1909. Before his political career, Pena was a lawyer, jurist and member of the Brazilian Supreme Court.He began his political career in 1874 with an election to the Imperial General Assembly. In the succeeding years, Pena reconciled legislative work with some periods occupying secretariats — secretary of Agriculture (1882), Commerce and Public Issues (1883) and Justice (1885). Pena then presided over the provincial assembly of Minas Gerais.

Luís Carlos Martins Pena            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Luís Carlos Martins Pena: was a Brazilian playwright, famous for introducing to Brazil the "comedy of customs", getting known as "the Brazilian Molière" because of that.Martins Pena was born in Rio de Janeiro, to João Martins Pena and Francisca de Paula Julieta Pena. Losing his father when he was 1 year old, and his mother when he was 10, he was delivered to the care of tutors, who ingressed him at the world of commerce. However, seeing that it was not what he wanted, he entered at the Escola Nacional de Belas Artes in 1835, learning Architecture, Statuary, Drawing and Music. Entering at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1838, he travelled to many countries, such as England, where he contracted tuberculosis. Moving to Lisbon in an unsuccessful attempt of mitigating the disease, he dies in 1848.