Top Celebrity Names Starting With Ferdinand

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   Ferdinand Marcos

   1917 - 1989 Male
   

   President of the Philippines

   
   

   Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos was a Filipino dictator who held the title of President of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He was a lawyer, member of the Philippine House of Representatives (1949–1959) and a member of the Philippine Senate (1959–1965). He was Senate President from 1963–1965. While in power he implemented wide-ranging programs of infrastructure development and economic reform.… read more

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   Ferdinand von Prondzynski

   Age 57 Male
   

   Politician, Professor, Lawyer

   
   

   Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski is the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland. He is known as a lawyer, a legal academic, a high profile public commentator and a university leader in Ireland and Scotland.… read more

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   Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller

   1864 - 1937 Male
   

   Philosopher, Professor, Painter

   
   

   Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller was a German-British philosopher. Born in Altona, Holstein (at that time member of the German Confederation, but under Danish administration), Schiller studied at the University of Oxford, and later was a professor there, after being invited back after a brief time at Cornell University. Later in his life he taught at the University of Southern California.… read more

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   Ferdinand Magellan

   4712 BC - 1521 Male
   

   Sea Explorer

   
   

   Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer. He was born in Sabrosa, in northern Portugal, and served King Charles I of Spain in search of a westward route to the "Spice Islands" (modern Maluku Islands in Indonesia). Magellan's expedition of 1519–1522 became the first expedition to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean (then named "peaceful sea" by Magellan; the passage being made via the Strait of Magellan), and the first to cross the Pacific.… read more

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   Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche

   1909 - 1998 Male
   

   Designer, Entrepreneur, Chief Executive Officer

   
   

   Ferdinand Anton Ernst Porsche, mainly known as Ferry Porsche, was an Austrian technical automobile designer and automaker-entrepreneur. He operated Porsche AG in Stuttgart, Germany. His father, Ferdinand Porsche Sr was also a renowned automobile engineer. His nephew, Dr. Ferdinand Piëch, was chairman of Volkswagen from 1993 to 2002, and his son, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, was involved in the design of the 911.… read more

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   Ferdinand II of Aragon

   1452 - 1516 Male
   

   King of Aragon

   
   

   Ferdinand the Catholic was King of Aragon, Sicily, Naples (as Ferdinand III), Majorca, Valencia, Sardinia, and Navarre, Count of Barcelona, jure uxoris King of Castile (1474–1504, as Ferdinand V, in right of his wife, Isabella I) and then regent of that country also from 1508 to his death, in the name of his mentally unstable daughter Joanna.… read more

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   Ferdinand Foch

   1851 - 1929 Male
   

   Soldier, Theorist, Thinker

   
   

   Ferdinand Foch, GCB, OM, DSO was a French soldier, military theorist, and First World War hero credited with possessing "the most original and subtle mind in the French army" in the early 20th century. Foch's prestige soared as a result of the 1914 victory at the Marne for which he was widely credited as the chief actor while commanding the French Ninth Army.… read more

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   Ferdinand de Lesseps

   1805 - 1894 Male
   

   Developer, Diplomat

   
   

   Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps, was the French developer of the Suez Canal, which joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas in 1869, and substantially reduced sailing distances and times between the West and the East.… read more

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   Ferdinand Porsche

   1875 - 1951 Male
   

   Automotive Engineer, Doctor, Engineer

   
   

   Ferdinand Porsche was an Austrian-German automotive engineer and honorary Doctor of Engineering. He is best known for creating the first hybrid vehicle (gasoline-electric), the Volkswagen Beetle, and the Mercedes-Benz SS/SSK, as well as the first of many Porsche automobiles. Porsche designed the 1923 Benz Tropfenwagen, which was the first race car with mid-engine, rear-wheel drive layout.… read more

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    Ferdinand I of León and Castile

    1017 - 1065 Male
    

    Count, Uncle, King

    
    

    Ferdinand I, called the Great (el Magno), was the Count of Castile from his uncle's death in 1029 and the King of León after defeating his brother-in-law in 1037. According to tradition, he was the first to have himself crowned Emperor of Spain (1056), and his heirs carried on the tradition. He was a younger son of Sancho III of Navarre and Mayor of Castile, and by his father's will recognised the supremacy of his eldest brother, García Sánchez III of Navarre.… read more

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    Ferdinand Richard

    Age 61 Male
    

    Musician, Composer

    
    

    Hervé Richard, better known as Ferdinand Richard, is a French avant-rock bass guitarist and composer. Richard was a founding member of the French avant-rock group Etron Fou Leloublan in 1973, and remained with them until they broke up in 1986. He was also a member of Alfred Harth's group Gestalt et Jive in the mid 1980s, and collaborated with Fred Frith in 1989 to record Dropera (1991).… read more

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    Ferdinand I of Bulgaria

    1861 - 1948 Male
    

    Ruler, Czar, Knight

    
    

    Ferdinand, born Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry, was the ruler of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1918, first as knyaz and later as tsar (1908–1918). He was also an author, botanist, entomologist and philatelist.… read more

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    Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.

    Age 54 Male
    

    Senator, Politician, Congressman

    
    

    Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos, Jr., also known as Bongbong Marcos is a Filipino politician and a senator to the 15th Congress. He is the only son of Ferdinand E. Marcos, the former president of the Philippines (1965–1986), and former First Lady Imelda Romualdez-Marcos. He is a former representative and former governor of Ilocos Norte before his election to the Senate in 2010. He is married to Louise Araneta Marcos and resides at Batac, Ilocos Norte.… read more

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    Ferdinand Lassalle

    1825 - 1864 Male
    

    Jurist, Socialist

    
    

    Ferdinand Johann Gottlieb Lassalle was a German-Jewish jurist, philosopher, and socialist political activist. Lassalle is best remembered as a founding father of the international socialist movement in Germany.… read more

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    Ferdinand Verbiest

    1623 - 1688 Male
    

    Jesuit Missionary

    
    

    Father Ferdinand Verbiest was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty. He was born in Pittem near Tielt in Flanders, later part of the modern state of Belgium. He is known as Nan Huairen (南懷仁) in Chinese. He was an accomplished mathematician and astronomer and proved to the court of Kangxi Emperor that European astronomy was more accurate than Chinese astronomy.… read more

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    Ferdinand Oyono

    1929 - 2010 Male
    

    Politician, Colonialist, Classic

    
    

    Ferdinand Léopold Oyono was an author from Cameroon whose work is recognized for a sense of irony that reveals how easily people can be fooled. Writing in French in the 1950s, Oyono had only a brief literary career, but his anti-colonialist novels are considered classics of 20th century African literature; his first novel, Une vie de boy—published in 1956 and later translated as Houseboy—is considered particularly important.… read more