Famous People with Name Caro

Miguel Antonio Caro            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Miguel Antonio Caro: was a Colombian scholar and politician. Though he never used the title of President, but the one of Vice President of Colombia in charge of the Executive authority from 1894-1896 and 1896-1898., by respect to his mentor Rafael Núñez, whose illness forced him to cede day-to-day power.

Nydia Caro            Origin/Culture/Country: Jamaican

Nydia Caro: an American & Puerto Rican actress and singer. Born in New York City to parents from Rincón, Puerto Rico, she initiated her career in the arts at a very young age while living in New York. After completing high school she enrolled in the New York School of Performing Arts in singing, dancing, and acting classes.Caro made her debut in show business acting at an NBC television show. In 1967, shortly after her father passed away, she moved to Puerto Rico and released her first album titled "Dimelo tu." She has released 20 internationally acclaimed albums and CDs ever since. Caro enrolled at the University of Puerto Rico in literature to enhance her Spanish skills. Nevertheless, she was hired immediately to co-host a popular teen show by channel 2 ("Show Coca Cola").

Julio De Caro            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Julio De Caro: was an Argentine composer, musician and conductor prominent in the Tango genre.Julio de Caro was born to José de Caro and Matilde Ricciardi de Caro in the Balvanera section of Buenos Aires, in 1899. His parents, Italian immigrants from the Lombardy region of Italy, both had professional backgrounds in music: his mother had been a singer and his father, a musician in Milan's famed opera house, La Scala.His father opened a conservatory in the San Telmo district, in 1913, soon becoming one of the city's best known sources for music, instruments, parts, and lessons. He and his brother, Francisco, were both taught the piano and violin, respectively; though their father ultimately granted them their wish to exchange instruments (a third brother, Emilio, learned the violin). Against his father's wishes, Julio obtained a spot as a second violinist at the Lorea Theatre for a 1915 performance of a zarzuela

Nikodem Caro            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Nikodem Caro: was an industrial chemist and entrepreneur.[1][2] Caro was born in Lódz, and studied chemistry in Berlin at the Royal Technical College of Charlottenburg (now Technical University of Berlin) and got his doctorate from Rostock University. From 1895 on he worked in the Deutsche Dynamit AG with Adolf Frank on the development of calcium cyanamide as a means of fixing nitrogen, hence the Frank-Caro process. Caro became an important figure in the nitrogen fixation industry and a rival of Fritz Haber.[3]

Marc Caro            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Marc Caro: is a French filmmaker and cartoonist, best known for his co-directing projects with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The two of them met at a film festival in 1974, and directed three short and two feature length films together.