Famous People with Name Ferrer

Mel Ferrer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mel Ferrer: was an American actor, film director and film producer.Melchor Gaston Ferrer was born in Elberon, New Jersey, of Spanish and Irish descent. His father, Dr. José María Ferrer (1857–1920), was born in Cuba and was an authority on pneumonia and served as chief of staff of St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City. His American mother, the former Mary Matilda Irene O'Donohue (1878–1967), was a daughter of coffee broker Joseph J. O'Donohue, New York's City Commissioner of Parks, a founder of the Coffee Exchange, and a founder of the Brooklyn-New York Ferry. An ardent opponent of Prohibition, Irene Ferrer was named, in 1934, the New York State chairman of the Citizens Committee for Sane Liquor Laws.

Miguel José Ferrer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Miguel José Ferrer: Ferrer was born in Santa Monica, California, the oldest of five children of Puerto Rican Academy Award-winner José Ferrer and American singer Rosemary Clooney. His siblings are Maria, Gabriel, Monsita, and Rafael (also an actor) and his cousin is actor George Clooney. Ferrer was raised in Hollywood and as a teenager his interests shifted towards music. Ferrer played the drums on Keith Moon's Two Sides of the Moon. Band mate Bill Mumy ("Will Robinson" on the television classic Lost In Space) cast him as a drummer in his first television role, in the series Sunshine. He only took the role because Mother talked him into it.

Nino Ferrer            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Nino Ferrer: was a famous French - Italian singer, actor and jazz musician.The son of bourgeois parents, an Italian father and a French mother, Nino declared having had a pleasant childhood in a cultivated art-loving family. He spent the first five years of his life in New Caledonia where his father, an engineer, worked in a nickel mine. On holiday in France in 1939, Nino and his mother were unable to leave Europe because of the World War II. While his father carried on working in New Caledonia, they spent difficult years stuck and penniless in Italy, where Nino’s mother was considered the wife of an enemy.

Antonio Longás Ferrer            Origin/Culture/Country: Spanish

Antonio Longás Ferrer: a Spanish football player. He currently plays for Barcelona Atlètic, on loan from Real Zaragoza.Longás has also been capped for the unofficial autonomous team of Aragon.

Mercedes Ferrer            Origin/Culture/Country: Spanish

Mercedes Ferrer: a Spanish singer-songwriter, active since 1983.Influenced by the Doors, Bob Dylan or David Bowie, she took part in several French musical bands until she went back to Madrid in 1984, during la movida madrileña. She met Carlos Torero and more musicians and they created the group La llave, which wan VIII trofeo rock Villa de Madrid in 1985 and was a support band of The Cure.She started later a solo career during which she has met Yoko Ono or Nacho Cano, who was the writer of the famous song Vivimos siempre juntos (We Lived Always Together). At the early 1990s she lived in New York and went back to Madrid in 1993. She has participated in several artistic events, like a tribute to John Lennon or a concert for the victims of 11 March 2004 Madrid train bombings.