Famous People with Name Vera

Vera Florence Bradford            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Vera Florence Bradford: was an Australian classical pianist and teacher, with a very long career. Her playing was admired for its depth and beauty of tone, classical unity and tremendous power.Vera Bradford was born in Melbourne to a musical family. Her mother Edith was a pianist, and her father Frederick and brother Cec were violinists. She started learning the piano at the age of seven, and she graduated from the University of Melbourne Conservatorium in 1927, with the highest honours. In 1928 she took up a scholarship with Percy Grainger in Chicago. (Grainger and his wife Ella became close friends of Vera’s, and Ella always stayed with Vera on Percy's visits to Australia.) She also studied at the Chicago Musical College with Rudolph Ganz and Alexander Raab. It was Raab who introduced her to the technique that made her famous, the 'arm weight' technique of the Russian teacher Theodor Leschetizky, which she had first experienced when seeing Benno Moiseiwitsch perform in Melbourne in the 1920s. It was this which developed the big tone and control that became a feature of her performances of the works of Brahms, Rachmaninoff and Liszt. Raab insisted she not play the piano for a year, so that she could unlearn her previous techniques, and practise with the piano lid down.

Maikel Folch Vera            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Maikel Folch Vera: is a left-handed pitcher for the Cuban national baseball team. Folch plays for Ciego de Ávila in the Cuban National Series, where he posted a league-low 2.09 ERA during the 2004-05 season, compiling a 10-0 record.

Honorino Landa Vera            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Honorino Landa Vera: was a Chilean football player.He was the youngest player of the Chilean team that won third place in the 1962 FIFA World Cup. Once he received his high-school diploma in 1959, he went to play for the Unión Española (Spanish Union) team. In 1961, he scored 24 goals in the national championship; thanks to this, he was called up for the national team of his country. He stopped playing soccer in 1975.

Luis Vera            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Luis Vera: is a Venezuelan football (soccer) midfielder for Caracas FC and Venezuela. He is nicknamed "El Pájaro".He has played over 50 times for Venezuela national team and was a participant at the 2007 Copa America.

Oscar Luis Vera            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Oscar Luis Vera: an Argentine football defender. He currently plays for Club Bamin Real Potosí.

María Elizabeth Vera            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

María Elizabeth Vera: an Argentine singer-songwriter, composer and actress. She is best-known of being a member of Argentine all-female band Bandana. In 2007, she participated in reality show Big Brother VIP.