Famous People with Name Armas

Armas Rudolf Taipale            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Armas Rudolf Taipale: was a Finnish athlete who competed mainly in the discus throw.He competed for Finland in the 1912 Summer Olympics held in Stockholm, Sweden in the discus throw where he won the gold medal. He followed this up with another gold medal in the discus throw – both hands, where the distance thrown with left arm was added to the distance thrown with the right arm.After the war, Armas was one of the few defending champions to return to the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp, Belgium where he attempted to defend his discus title, the discus – both hands was not an event in any other games except 1912. He failed to win the gold finishing second to fellow Finn Elmer Niklander.

Armas Johannes Pesonen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Armas Johannes Pesonen: was a Finnish track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.

Armas Adam Toivonen            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Armas Adam Toivonen: was a Finnish athlete who competed mainly in the Marathon.He competed for Finland in the 1932 Summer Olympics held in Los Angeles, United States in the Marathon where he won the bronze medal.

Armas Eliel Lindgren            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Armas Eliel Lindgren: was Finnish architect, professor and painter.In 1900 he started working in the Polytechnic Institute as a history of art professor.[1] From 1902 to 1912 he held the position of the artistic director of the higher department of the Central School of Arts and Crafts of Helsinki[2] In 1905 Lindgren departed from Gesellius, Lindgren, and Saarinen and set up his own office. In the 1910s he collaborated closely with Wivi Lönn. They designed together the Uusi ylioppilastalo in 1910 and the Estonia Theatre in 1912.[3]

Armas Äikiä            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Armas Äikiä: was a Finnish communist writer and journalist. He wrote the Anthem of Karelo-Finnish SSR. A citizen of two countries, who had several collection of poems published in the Soviet Union. Äikiä was one of the few Finnish exile writers and politicians who in the 1930s and 1940s avoided Stalin's terror and forced labour camps. Back in Finland, when the Communist Party was banned, he spent years in prison and wrote defiant poems.

Christian Armas            Origin/Culture/Country: Mexican

Christian Armas: a Mexican professional football defender who currently plays for Jaguares de Chiapas in the Primera División de México.

Igor Armas            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Igor Armas: is a Moldovan football defender who currently plays for Hammarby IF in Stockholm, Sweden.

Ximena Armas            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Ximena Armas: is a Chilean painter. Ximena Armas's works hide secrets. Nothing is revealed; all is instead veiled with ribbons and bands, hemmed with curtains, burrowed beneath a mass of stones. She fringes all her paintings with mystery, dresses them with shades. One is struck at once by their odd composition, made of striped bands, ruffled feathers, or beach huts. Her figures hide or suddenly appear as shadows or silhouettes. The artist plays at staging over and over again the familiar elements of her dreamlike world, thus totally mastering space and swamping it with symbols.

Mario Chanes De Armas            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Mario Chanes De Armas: was a former Cuban revolutionary and ally of Fidel Castro. He was a veteran of the attack on the Moncada barracks in July 1953 and served time in Batista's New Model Prison on the Isle of Pines with fellow revolutionary Fidel Castro. After Castro's rise to power, he was labeled an enemy of the regime and imprisoned for almost 30 years.

Aguelmis Rojas De Armas            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Aguelmis Rojas De Armas: is a male long-distance runner from Cuba. He represented his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, where he finished in 47th place in the men's marathon event, clocking 2:21.59. Rojas set his personal best (2:14.15) in the marathon on April 18, 2004 in Havana. He finished fourth in the men's marathon at the 2003 Pan American Games. At the 2007 IAAF World Road Running Championships, he set the Cuban record of 1:03:48 for the half marathon, although he finished in 55th place. Aside from road competitions, he occasionally runs on the track and was the winner of the gold medal over 10,000 metres at the 2005 Central American and Caribbean Championships.