Famous People with Name Torne

Monserrat Gil Torne            Origin/Culture/Country: Andorran

Monserrat Gil Torne: is an Andorran politician in the Liberal Party of Andorra (PLA). Until the 2009 general election she served as Minister for Health, Social Welfare and Family and is a member of the National Executive Committee of the PLA.

Monica Kristina Ingeborg Törnell            Origin/Culture/Country: Swedish

Monica Kristina Ingeborg Törnell: a Swedish singer and songwriter. After being discovered by Cornelis Vreeswijk 1971, she was a prominent singer in several genres, mainly folk and rock music, for over two decades. Together with Lasse Holm, she represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 in Bergen, Norway. She was the mother of Tobias (born in 1973) and Mattias Törnell (born in 1980).Monica Törnell lived her first years in Trönö (in the Norrala municipality), but she later moved with her family to Söderhamn.[1] In this city, she started to visit Folkets Park, where she heard artists such as Lill-Babs, Jerry Williams, and many others.[2] Early in her life, Törnell had her public debut before audience of 700 people at the 1962 Ericsson Christmas party in Söderhamn,

Recaredo Santos Tornero            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Recaredo Santos Tornero: was a Chilean editor, journalist and director of El Mercurio de Valparaíso and founder of El Comercio. He published Chile Ilustrado in 1872, the first illustrated album of Chile, with a descriptive guide, historic, politic, industrial, social and statistical review of the country and a rich graphic backup, with more than 200 wood engravings and 10 litographs. He was awarded for this book on 1876 Philadelphia Exposition. He founded El Comercio newspaper in 1890, on the eve of the 1891 Chilean Revolution, to support President José Manuel Balmaceda, who had bad relationship with the Chilean press.