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Jared Taylor Isaacman (born February 11, 1983) is an American entrepreneur, pilot, philanthropist, and commercial astronaut. He was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump in December 2024 to serve as the next administrator of NASA. [3]
The Rufino family are a prominent family of business owners, politicians, and philanthropists in the Philippines.Prominent members of the family include former Forbes richest Filipina, media powerhouse Marixi Rufino-Prieto of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, celebrity socialite Tessa Rufino-Prieto Valdes, real estate magnate Carlos "Charlie" Rufino, artist Maria Victoria "Marivic or Mav" Rufino ...
Billionaire Spaceflight Launch Date Arrival Date Notes Dennis Tito: Space Adventures / MirCorp ISS EP-1 (Soyuz TM-32/TM-31) 28 April 2001: 6 May 2001: First billionaire in space, orbital space; first space tourist to the International Space Station [3] [1] [4] Mark Shuttleworth: Space Adventures ISS EP-3 (Soyuz TM-34/TM-33) 25 April 2002: 2 May ...
The family's accumulated wealth has been divided among many descendants, only one of which (Benjamin de Rothschild) was officially recognized as a billionaire. Determining the family's exact wealth has been deemed implausible; [ 58 ] conspiracy theories claiming the family is worth trillions of dollars have not been proven.
Sia was born in Iloilo City in 1977 and grew up in Roxas City, the eldest of three siblings having parents from both Capiz and Iloilo. [5] He was nicknamed "Injap", a portmanteau of "Intsik" (the Filipino/Tagalog term for Chinese) and "Japanese"; as his father, Edgar Sr., is a Chinese Filipino, while his mother, the former Pacita Jaruda, is a Japanese Filipina (Japanese surname Haruda, 春田).
Tan Caktiong was born on January 5, 1953 in the then-undivided province of Davao (in now Davao del Sur) to Chinese immigrant parents from Fujian. [6] His father worked in a restaurant in China and as a cook in a Buddhist monastery in Manila before setting up his restaurant in Davao City. [7]
Roberto Velayo Ongpin (January 6, 1937 – February 4, 2023) was a Filipino businessman who served as the Minister of Commerce and Industry (initially as Minister of Industry) during the Marcos administration. [3]
Bernadette Lorraine Palisada Dominguez Sembrano-Aguinaldo (Tagalog: [pɐliˈsada dɔˈmɪŋgɛs sɛmˈbɾanɔ ʔagɪˈnaldɔ]; born February 18, 1976) is a Filipina broadcast journalist, magazine show host, news presenter, television host, musician, former field reporter and author.