Researching Rafael Valle
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The name Rafael means "Form of RAPHAEL. God Has Healed" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Rafael Valle on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Rafael Valle and the Valle Family Tree
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Some Famous People called Rafael Valle
Rafael del Valle (poet)
Rafael del Valle Rodríguez (1847 - 1917) was a Puerto Rican-Spanish poet and physician.
Born in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, he studied medicine in the University of Barcelona. He was a student at Louis Pasteur's class in Pasteur's institute. He exerted his profession of medicine in Aguada, Aguadilla, Arecibo, and San Juan, at the same that he cultivated Literature.
Rafael del Valle was the father of Rodulfo del Valle (1871 - 1948), mayor of Ponce from 1918 to 1920.
Due to his political ideas, he was exiled to Venezuela in 1881, returning in 1898 with the change in sovereignty in Puerto Rico. He was a leader of the party of Luis Muñoz Rivera and member of the Executive Council of Puerto Rico.
His lyric work was compiled posthumously in the book "Poesías Completas" (Complete Poetries) in 1921. He was essentially a romantic poet with incursions in religious, political, progressive, and educative fields.
Source: Rafael del Valle (poet), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaRafael Valle
Rafael Valle González (born March 1, 1938 in San Juan, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican retired professional basketball player. In the 1950s and 1960s, he played with the Cangrejeros de Santurce and the Santos de San Juan teams in the Puerto Rican National Basketball League.
During that time, he was also a member of the Puerto Rican national basketball team, leading the team to a 13th place at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where he scored 127 points in seven games. In 1956, he was the highest scorer of the league, with 693 points in 24 games, for an average of 28.5 points per game.
In 2008, he was selected as one of the 12 best players in Puerto Rican basketball history between 1920 and 1969. In a recent interview, Coach Flor Meléndez picked Valle as part of his all-time Puerto Rican starting five in the power forward position along with PG. Pachín Vicens, SG. Neftalí Rivera, SF. Raymond Dalmau, C. José ‘Piculín’ Ortiz.
Valle was 1.93m tall and weighed 91 kg.
Source: Rafael Valle, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Valle
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