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For example, Peña is a common Spanish surname and a common noun that means "rocky hill"; it is often anglicized as Pena, changing the name to the Spanish word for "pity", often used in terms of sorrow. When Federico Peña was first running for mayor of Denver in 1983, the Denver Post printed his name without the tilde as "Pena." After he won ...
Don Gaspar Castellano y de la Peña, Count de Castellano, was a Spanish author. Don José González de la Peña y Rodríguez de la Encina, Barón de Forna (1887–1961) was a Spanish portrait painter and artist, and consul general of Spain in Venezuela. Luis Sáenz Peña (1822–1907), President of Argentina (1892–1895)
Iván de la Peña López (Spanish pronunciation: [iˈβan delaˈpeɲa]; born 6 May 1976) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. During his career, he earned the nicknames Pequeño Buda ('Little Buddha') and Lo Pelat ('The Shaven One') due to his shaven head and slight frame.
Peña or de la Peña is a Spanish habitation surname.The origin of the surname can be traced directly to the Middle Ages; the earliest public record of the surname dates to the 13th century in the Valle de Mena (Burgos) in the Kingdom of Castile.
De la Peña joined Urrea in an uprising to overthrow Santa Anna and restore the Constitution of 1824. While De la Pena was in Texas, he had kept a diary which was not published till 1955. It was located by researcher J. Sanchez Garza and subsequently translated into English by Carmen Perry of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas.
Peña y Peña was born in the town of Tacuba, in Mexico City on 10 March 1789 [1] [2] to a poor family. Upon finishing his primary education he entered the Tridentine Seminary and received high marks and various awards from the departments of grammar, rhetoric, philosophy, and civil and canonical jurisprudence, winning a scholarship along with Manuel Posada y Garduño, the future archbishop of ...
Ernesto de la Peña (Spanish pronunciation: [eɾˈnesto ðe la ˈpeɲa]; 21 November 1927 – 10 September 2012) was a Mexican writer, translator and cultural advocate. Peña was also a linguist and polyglot who studied thirty-three languages, as varied as Latin , Greek , Hebrew and Sanskrit .
De la Peña and a U.S. Navy captain in Honduras in 2018. De la Peña retired from the Army as a colonel. During his career, he was also a division chief of the U.S. Northern Command. [2] De la Peña worked for the private military contractor L-3 before founding [3] [2] de la Peña Consulting, LLC in June 2011. [2] He spent five years leading ...