Famous People with Name Prospero

Prospero Alpini            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Prospero Alpini: was an Italian physician and botanist.in the republic of Venice, in his youth he served for a time in the Milanese army, but in 1574 he went to study medicine at Padua. After taking his doctor's degree in 1578, he settled as a physician in Campo San Pietro, a small town in the Paduan territory. But his tastes were botanical, and to extend his knowledge of exotic plants he travelled to Egypt in 1580 as physician to George Emo or Hemi, the Venetian consul in Cairo.In Egypt he spent three years, and from a practice in the management of Date Palms, which he observed in that country, he seems to have deduced the doctrine of the sexual difference of plants, which was adopted as the foundation of the Linnaean taxonomy system. He says that "the female date-trees or palms do not bear fruit unless the branches of the male and female plants are mixed together;

Prospero “Pros” S. Amatong            Origin/Culture/Country: Philippines

Prospero “Pros” S. Amatong: was a Filipino politician. Amatong served as the Governor of Davao del Norte[1] from 1992 until 1998 and as a Congressman in the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 1998 until 2007.

Prospero C. Nograles            Origin/Culture/Country: Philippines

Prospero C. Nograles: is the former Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. He was elected as the Speaker of the House on February 5, 2008, the first ever elected Speaker from Mindanao in a hundred years in Philippine legislative history.[1] Beginning in 1989, Nograles has been elected to five terms as a member of the House of Representatives, representing the 1st District of Davao City.

Próspero París            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Próspero París: was a French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who served as Apostolic Vicar of Nanking from 1900 until his death. On April 6, 1900, París was appointed Apostolic Vicar of Kiangnan and Titular bishop of Silandus by Pope Leo XIII. He received his episcopal consecration on the following November 11 from Bishop Paul-Marie Reynaud, CM, with Bishops Jules-Auguste Coqset, CM, and Joseph-Claude Excoffier, MEP, serving as co-consecrators.