Alberto

Alberto Segismundo Cruz (1901 – 1989) was a Filipino poet, short story writer and novelist. Three of his novels have been published by Ateneo de Manila Press.

Alberto from the Disney Pixar movie Luca.

Alberto is the name of the deuteragonist from the upcoming Pixar film Luca. Alberto is a streetwise sea monster that can transform into a human like his friend Luca. With this ability, he and Luca befriend a local girl from the nearby seaside village and go through an exciting adventure of discovery.

Alberto Ricardo da Silva was the Roman Catholic bishop of Dili, East Timor. He was born in Aileu, in East Timor when it was still a Portuguese colony. He studied in the minor seminary of Dili and was sent to Macao to study philosophy, and to Portugal to study theology in the major seminary of Leiria.

Alberto Entrerrios is a Spanish professional handball player for HBC Nantes, French team in the LNH Division 1. He is 192 cm tall and weighs 100 kg. He spent 9 seasons playing for BM Ciudad Real and 1 season for BM Atlético de Madrid. Currently, Entrerríos is part of the HBC Nantes team, in the LNH Division 1 in France. He has won the Champions League title with BM Ciudad Real, together with two World Championships with the Spanish national team. He accounts for 225 international matches with Spain, which makes him a seasoned international handball player.

Alberto Manzi (Roma, 3 November 1924 – Pitigliano, 4 December 1997) has been a school teacher, a writer and an Italian television host known mostly for being the art director of the "Non è mai troppo tardi" (It's never too late) TV show broadcast between 1959 and 1968.

Alberto Iglesias Fernández-Berridi (born San Sebastián, 1955)[1] is a Spanish composer. He has written the music for several Spanish films, mostly from Pedro Almodóvar and Julio Medem.

Alberto Contador Velasco (Spanish pronunciation: [alˈβerto kontaˈðor βeˈlasko]; born 6 December 1982) is a Spanish professional cyclist, one of six riders to have won all three Grand Tours of road cycling. He was the winner of the 2007 Tour de France with the Discovery Channel team. With the Astana team he has won the 2008 Giro d'Italia, the 2008 Vuelta a España and the 2009 Tour de France. He initially also won the 2010 Tour de France with this team, and the 2011 Giro d'Italia with team Saxo Bank-SunGard, only to be stripped of these titles later having been found guilty of a doping offence.

Alberto Rodríguez de Lista y Aragón (October 15, 1775 - October 5, 1848), Spanish poet and educationalist, was born at Seville.

Alberto Vázquez-Figueroa (born 11 November 1936 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands) is a Spanish novelist. His novels have sold over 25 million copies worldwide.

Alberto Cortez (born March 11, 1940) is an Argentine singer and songwriter.

Alberto Méndez (1941-2004) was an award-winning Spanish novelist. He graduated from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and worked in publishing. His novel Los girasoles ciegos won several awards, including the Sentenil Prize (2004), the Critics' Prize and the National Prize for Literature in 2005. It was translated into English under the title Blind Sunflowers.[1] The translator was Nick Caistor. It was also made into a film called The Blind Sunflowers.

Alberto Fujimori Fujimori[2] (Spanish: [alˈβeɾto fuxiˈmoɾi] or [fuʝiˈmoɾi]; Japanese: [ɸuʥiꜜmoɽi]; born 28 July 1938) served as President of Peru from 28 July 1990 to 17 November 2000. A controversial figure, Fujimori has been credited with the creation of Fujimorism, defeating the Shining Path insurgency in Peru and restoring its macroeconomic stability.
However, he was criticized for his authoritarian way of ruling the country (especially after 1992) and was accused of human rights violations.
Even amid his prosecution in 2008 for crimes against humanity relating to his presidency, two-thirds of Peruvians polled voiced approval for his leadership in that period.

José Alberto Justiniano (born December 22, 1958 in Villa Consuelo district, Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic), better known by his stage name José Alberto "El Canario" is a Dominican salsa singer.

Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez (born December 11, 1958) is a Spanish[1] politician and minister of justice. He was mayor of Madrid between 2003 and 2011. A stalwart of the conservative People's Party (PP), he has previously been a leading figure in various local and national legislative bodies. In December 2011 Ruiz-Gallardón was appointed Minister of Justice in Mariano Rajoy's inaugural cabinet.

Luis Alberto "El Flaco" Spinetta (23 January 1950 – 8 February 2012) was an Argentine musician. One of the most influential rock musicians of South America, together with Charly García he is considered the father of Argentine rock.

Alberto di Morra was the birthname of Pope Gregory VIII (Pontificate between 1187-1187, pope for 57 days).

Alberto Savinio, real name Andrea Francesco Alberto de Chirico (25 August 1891 - 5 May 1952) was an Italian writer, painter, musician, journalist, essayist, playwright, set designer and composer. He was the younger brother of 'metaphysical' painter Giorgio De Chirico. His work often dealt with philosophical and psychological themes, and he also was heavily concerned with the philosophy of art.

Alberto Burri (1915-1995) was an Italian painter, collagist and designer.

Alberto Aquilani born in Rome, Italy (July 7, 1984) is an Italian football midfielder who, known for his passing ability and thunderous long shots, currently plays for A. S. Roma.

Alberto Tomba (born December 19, 1966), popularly called "Tomba la Bomba" ("Tomba the Bomb"), is a retired Italian alpine skier. He scored notable success in the late 1980s and 1990s in the slalom and giant slalom, winning three Olympic gold medals.

Alberto Gilardino, Cavaliere Ufficiale OMRI, (born July 5, 1982 in Biella, Piedmont) is a World Cup-winning footballer who plays as a striker for ACF Fiorentina and the Italian national team.

Alberto Giacometti (October 10, 1901 – January 11, 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman, and printmaker.

Alberto Fortis - Italian singer.

One of the world's first set of sextuplets are born in Chicago, Illinois. (There were reported but unverified earlier births of sextuplets being born in U.S. on December 30, 1831, in Italy in 1844 and in Maine in 1847) The Bushnell family delivers six babies, three boys, Alberto, Laberto and Norberto, and three girls, Alice Elizabeth, Alincia, and Lucy. Laberto and Lucy die at birth but we believe the other four babies survived the birth. Alinica reportedly survives to age 85, dying on March 27, 1952 in Warsaw, New York. We've also seen a Guinness Book reference that claimed all six sextuplets survived at least two months.

Alberto Moravia, born Alberto Pincherle, (November 28, 1907 – September 26, 1990) was one of the leading Italian novelists in the 20th century.

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His works explored issues of modern sexuality, alienation, and existentialism. He is best known for his antifascist novel Il Conformista (The Conformist), which was the basis for the 1970 film The Conformist which was directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Other Moravia novels that became films include Il Disprezzo (known as A Ghost at Noon or Contempt) filmed by Jean-Luc Godard in 1963 as Le Mépris (Contempt), and La Ciociara (Two Women) filmed by Vittorio de Sica in 1961.

Alberto Sordi, also known as Albertone, (June 15, 1920, Rome - February 25, 2003, Rome) was a beloved Italian actor and a film director. He was also the voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel & Hardy films. Not only an actor and director, Sordi can also be considered a key figure to understand Italian culture and history.