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Guillermo Canciani (born 18 November 1918) was an Argentine sports shooter. He competed in the 50 m rifle event at the 1936 Summer Olympics. [1]
Guillermo Vilas is an Argentine former professional tennis player. Vilas was the world No. 1 of the Grand Prix seasons in 1974, 1975 and 1977. He won four major titles and the year-end championships, totalling 62 singles titles alongside 16 doubles titles during his career on the ATP tour. World Tennis, Agence France-Presse and Livre d'or du tennis 1977, among other rankings and publications, rated him as world No. 1 in 1977. In the computerized ATP rankings, he peaked at No. 2 in April 1975, a position he held for a total of 83 weeks, although some have argued that Vilas should have been ranked No. 1 for at least 10 weeks, particularly in 1977 when he won 2 majors. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1991, two years after his first retirement.
Francisco Guillermo Ochoa Magaña, commonly known as "Memo Ochoa", is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Primeira Liga club AVS and the Mexico national team. Ochoa is the most capped goalkeeper in the history of the national side, and currently third on the all-time list with 150 appearances.
Guillermo del Toro Gómez is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and artist. His work has been characterized by a strong connection to fairy tales and horror, with an effort to infuse visual or poetic beauty in the grotesque. Also known for his fascination of gothic literature, art and film in which he implements into films. He has had a lifelong fascination with monsters, which he considers symbols of great power. He is also known for his use of insectile and religious imagery, his themes of Catholicism, anti-fascism, and celebrating imperfection, underworld motifs, practical special effects, and dominant amber lighting.
Aghasi Aghagul oghlu Mammadov is an Azerbaijani boxer who competed in the bantamweight division (54 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.
Mexico competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 97 competitors, 92 men and 5 women, took part in 54 events in 17 sports.
Club Social y Atlético Guillermo Brown, mostly known as Guillermo Brown or Brown de Puerto Madryn, is an Argentine sports club from Puerto Madryn in Chubut Province. The football team currently plays in the Primera B Nacional.
Guillermo Solá Aravena was a middle- and long-distance runner from Chile. He won the gold medal in the men's 3,000 metres steeplechase event at the 1955 Pan American Games, and he won silver medal in the men's 1,500 meters steeplechase event at the 1951 Pan American Games. Solá represented his native South American country at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
Guillermo Martínez López is a Cuban javelin thrower.
In Greek and Roman mythology, Aura is a minor wind goddess, whose name means "breeze". The plural form, Aurae is sometimes found to describe a group of breeze nymphs. According to the late antiquity writer Nonnus, Aura is the daughter of the Titan Lelantos and the mother, by Dionysus, of Iacchus, a minor deity connected with the Eleusinian mysteries, while Quintus Smyrnaeus makes the Aurae daughters of Boreas, the god of the north wind. Aurae was the title of a play by the Athenian comic poet Metagenes, who was contemporary with Aristophanes, Phrynichus, and Plato.
Guillermo Zacarias Saavedra Tapia was a Chilean football midfielder, who played for his native country in the 1930 FIFA World Cup. He was also part of Chile's team at the 1928 Summer Olympics.
Guillermo Martín Farré is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is the current manager of Peruvian club Sporting Cristal.
Pseudo-Chalcidian vase painting is an important style of black-figure Greek vase painting, dating to the 6th century BC.
Guillermo Echevarría Pérez was a Mexican swimmer who competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Guillermo Molina Ríos is a Spanish water polo player who competed for the Spain men's national water polo team in four consecutive Summer Olympics (2004 Athens, 2008 Beijing, 2012 London and 2016 Rio. He was the joint top goalscorer at the 2016 Olympics, with 19 goals. Afterwards he competed for Italy men's national water polo team in the 2018 Men's European Water Polo Championship. He helped Italian water polo club Pro Recco win the LEN Champions League in 2009–10 and 2011–12 season.
The Assizes of Romania, formally the Book of the Usages and Statutes of the Empire of Romania, is a collection of laws compiled in the Principality of Achaea that became the common law code of the states of Frankish Greece in the 13th–15th centuries, and continued in occasional use in the Venetian Ionian Islands until the 18th century.
José Higueras is a tennis coach and former professional tennis player from Spain.
Joseph Williams "Bill" Wagner was a Mexican basketball player, farmer, international businessman and pilot. An alumnus of the University of Arizona, where he played basketball and football, he competed in the men's basketball tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics representing Mexico.
Sergio Canciani is an Italian former rower. He competed in the men's eight event at the 2004 Summer Olympics.
Pet et Répète: La véritable histoire is a French novel written by Canadian author Katia Canciani, illustrated by Guillaume Perreault, and published in 2019 by Fonfon. It won the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for French-language children's illustration.
Katia Canciani is a Canadian writer and aviator originally from Blainville, Quebec. She was awarded the Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration for the novel Pet et Répète: La véritable histoire at the 2020 Governor General's Awards.