Famous People with Name Ventura

Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura: was an Italian actor who starred in French movies.He was born in Parma, northern Italy, the son of Giovanni Ventura and Luisa Borrini. Lino Ventura dropped out of school at the age of eight and later took on a variety of jobs. At one point Ventura was pursuing a prizefighting and professional wrestling career but had to end it because of an injury.Despite living most of his life in France and speaking Italian with a French accent, he never acquired French citizenship.In 1953 Ventura entered the film industry in a gangster movie called Touchez pas au grisbi by Jacques Becker and started to build up an acting career in similar hard boiled gangster movies

Giampiero Ventura            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Giampiero Ventura: an Italian football manager.After a short playing career started with Sampdoria, Ventura was forced to retire from active football at the age of 25 because of a serious back injury. He therefore opted to become a coach in the blucerchiati 's youth system, then becoming an assistant coach in 1979; he then left Sampdoria in 1981 to pursue a head coaching career, starting from several amateur teams from Liguria. In 1985 he achieved his first promotion to a professional league with Entella.

Iñaki Astiz Ventura            Origin/Culture/Country: Spanish

Iñaki Astiz Ventura: a Spanish football defender who currently plays for Legia Warsaw, in the Polish first division.A product of Navarran side CA Osasuna's youth system, Astiz's earlier career was played with the B-team. This was where he met manager Jan Urban, a former Osasuna Polish player, who was team manager at the time. Thus, he spent 2007-08 on loan to Legia Warsaw (where Urban would serve as manager) in the Polish Orange Ekstraklasa, thus becoming the first Spaniard ever to play in that competition.

Yolanda Ventura            Origin/Culture/Country: Mexican

Yolanda Ventura: an actress of telenovelas in Mexico and former singer and member of the Spanish pop band Parchís. She is the daughter of Spanish musician Rudi Ventura and wife of Mexican actor Alejandro Aragón.She joined Parchís after a recording company posted an advertisement looking for kids who could sing, dance and act. A few months later, in 1979, the band was formed and name after the Spanish version of the Pachisi board game. The band was a success in Spain and Latin America, they recorded five albums and filmed seven movies (three in Argentina).

José Ramón Machado Ventura            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

José Ramón Machado Ventura: is the First Vice-President of the Council of State in Cuba. With the election of Raúl Castro as President of Cuba on 24 February 2008, Machado was elected to succeed him as First Vice President.