Bunche is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Ralph Johnson Bunche was an American political scientist, diplomat, and leading actor in the mid-20th Century decolonization process and US civil rights movement, who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel. In the List of black Nobel laureates he is the first African American and first person of African descent to be awarded a Nobel Prize. He was involved in the formation and administration of the United Nations and played a major role in both the decolonization process and numerous peacekeeping operations sponsored by the UN. In 1963, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President John F. Kennedy. At the UN, Bunche gained such fame that Ebony magazine proclaimed him perhaps the most influential African American of the first half of the 20th Century and "[f]or nearly a decade, he was the most celebrated African American of his time both [in the US] and abroad."
Villani is an Italian surname. The surname can also be found in France. Notable people with the surname include:
Ralph Johnson Bunche House, the last home of American diplomat Ralph Bunche (1903-1971), is a National Historic Landmark in New York City. It is a single-family home built in 1927 in the neo-Tudor style, and is located at 115-24 Grosvenor Road, Kew Gardens, Queens. It is named after Ralph Bunche, who helped to found the United Nations in 1945. In 1950 he became the first African American and first person of color to win the Nobel Peace Prize, for mediating armistice agreements between Israel and its neighboring countries.
Anttonen is a Finnish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
You is the pinyin romanization of several Chinese family names including 尤 Yóu, 游 Yóu, 犹 Yóu, 由 Yóu, 右 Yòu, 幽 Yōu, etc. Among these names, 尤 Yóu and 游 Yóu are relatively common. 尤 Yóu is the 19th surname in Hundred Family Surnames.
Erskine is a Scottish surname. The name is derived from a habitational name from a location (Erskine) on the southern bank of the River Clyde, near Glasgow. This place was first recorded in 1225 as Erskin. Early spellings of the place include: Yrskin (1227); Ireskin (1262); Harskin (1300), and Irschen (1300). The Scottish Gaelic form of the surname is Arascain. Legend dictates that the name was given by King Malcolm II to a man who killed the Danish General Enrique at the Battle of Murthill. He is said to have shown the bloody knife to king and said eris-skyne, meaning "upon the knife". The King, in honour of his valour, granted him the surname Eriskine.
Bunch is a surname. According to George Fraser Black, it is "a surname peculiar to Perth and neighbourhood, and found in Perth so early as first half of the fifteenth century".
The Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center is a research, educational and professional development center for international affairs at Howard University in Washington, D.C.. The center was founded in 1993 to serve as a resource center for students interested in pursuing careers in foreign affairs and to process subject-related inquiries from outside entities like government agencies, NGOs, corporations, other universities and foreign embassies.
McElhaney is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Plaisted is a surname and occasional masculine given name. People with the name Plaisted include:
Entwistle is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Macchio is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Karlov is a Slavic masculine surname that originates from the given name Carl. Its feminine counterpart is Karlova. Notable people with the surname include:
Spotts is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Tonda is a Czech masculine given name that is a diminutive form of Antonín used in the Czech Republic. Notable people with this name include the following:
DiCarlo or diCarlo is an Italian surname first found in Milan. Notable people with the surname include:
Tamm is surname.
Ralph Bunche may refer to:
Daughton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Petrovsky (masculine), Petrovskaya (feminine) is a Russian-language surname. Notable people with his surname include: