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Xavier Gispert (born 1 April 1999) [1] is a Spanish field hockey player. He represented Spain at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Francis Xavier, SJ, venerated as Saint Francis Xavier, was a Basque cleric. He was a Catholic missionary and saint who co-founded the Society of Jesus and, as a representative of the Portuguese Empire, led the first Christian mission to Japan.
Mission San Xavier del Bac is a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles (16 km) south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier Indian Reservation. The mission was founded in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino in the center of a centuries-old settlement of the Sobaipuri O'odham, a branch of the Akimel or River O'odham located along the banks of the Santa Cruz River. The mission was named for Francis Xavier, a Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus in Europe. The original church was built to the north of the present Franciscan church. This northern church or churches served the mission until it was razed during an Apache raid in 1770.
Francisco Xavier Serbiá Queipo is a financial commentator, syndicated columnist, and was news anchor of CNN Dinero at CNN en Español, from 2010 to 2023. Serbiá is also a former member of the boy band Menudo.
Xavier Becerra is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 25th United States secretary of health and human services, a position he has held since March 2021. He is the first Latino to hold this position in history. Becerra previously served as the attorney general of California from January 2017 until March 2021. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing Downtown Los Angeles in Congress from 1993 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Becerra was chairman of the House Democratic Caucus from 2013 to 2017.
Xavier University is a private Jesuit university in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It is the sixth-oldest Catholic and fourth-oldest Jesuit university in the United States. Xavier has an undergraduate enrollment of 4,455 students and graduate enrollment of 1,193 students. The school's system comprises the main campus in Cincinnati, as well as regional locations for its accelerated nursing program in Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio.
The fourth government of Jordi Pujol was formed on 16 April 1992 following the latter's reelection as President of Catalonia by the Parliament of Catalonia on 9 April and his swearing-in on 15 April, as a result of the Convergence and Union (CiU) alliance emerging as the largest parliamentary force at the 1992 Catalan regional election and securing a third consecutive absolute majority. It succeeded the third Pujol government and was the Government of Catalonia from 16 April 1992 to 11 January 1996, a total of 1,365 days, or 3 years, 8 months and 26 days.
Henry Heras was a Spanish-Indian Jesuit priest, archeologist and historian based in India.
Eugenio Serrano Gispert is a former Spanish handball player who competed in the 1980, 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics.
Polònia is a popular comedy TV show broadcast in Catalonia by the public broadcaster TV3.
Xavier Romero Frías is a Spanish writer and scholar. He lived among the Maldivians over a 13-year period. His present residence is in Bangkok, Thailand.
Ars Musicae de Barcelona was a Catalan ensemble for the performance of medieval music active between 1935 and 1979.
Chonga is a Spanish-derived term used especially in South Florida, often to indicate a working-class, sexually liberated, very sassy, and emotionally expressive young woman.
Gispert is the name of two premium cigar brands, one previously manufactured in Cuba for Habanos S.A., the Cuban state-owned tobacco company, and the other in Honduras for the Franco-Spanish tobacco monopoly Altadis S.A., a division of Imperial Tobacco.
Núria de Gispert i Català is a Spanish politician and lawyer. Between 2010 and 2015 she served as speaker of Parliament of Catalonia.
The Legion of Silence is a 1956 Spanish drama film directed by José María Forqué and José Antonio Nieves Conde and starring Jorge Mistral and Nani Fernández.
María Dolores Gispert Guart was a Spanish actress, director and radio personality, known for being the Spanish voice of Whoopi Goldberg and Pippi Longstocking.
Xavier Ricardo Arreaga Bermello is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Major League Soccer club New England Revolution and the Ecuador national team.
Núria Gispert i Feliu was a Spanish politician, Catholic activist and social worker. She was born in Barcelona. She was a member of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia. Between 1979 and 1995, she was a member of the City Council of Barcelona.
The 2023 Men's EuroHockey Championship was the nineteenth edition of the Men's EuroHockey Championship, the biennial international men's field hockey championship of Europe organised by the European Hockey Federation.
The 2023 Men's EuroHockey Championship Qualifiers was a series of 4 qualification events for the 2023 EuroHockey Championships in Mönchengladbach. The tournaments were held in Spain, France, Austria and Scotland between 17 and 27 August 2022.