Buenaventura

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Buenaventura (Spanish for 'good fortune', and the name of Saint Bonaventure) or Buena Ventura may refer to:

People

  • Buenaventura Báez (1812-1884), president of the Dominican Republic for five terms
  • Buenaventura Bagaria (1882–1947), a Spanish sports shooter
  • Buenaventura Carlos Aribau (1798–1862), a Spanish economist, writer and politician
  • Buenaventura Cousiño Jorquera (1808–1855), a Chilean politician
  • Buenaventura de Abarzuza y Ferrer (1843–1910), a Spanish diplomat
  • Buenaventura Durruti (1896–1936), a Spanish anarchist and hero of the Spanish Civil War
  • Buenaventura Ferreira (born 1960), a Paraguayan footballer
  • Buenaventura Fernández de Córdoba Spínola (1724–1777), a Spanish aristocrat and priest
  • Buenaventura García de Paredes (1866–1936), a Dominican priest
  • Buenaventura Marcó del Pont (1738–1818), a Spanish businessman
  • Buenaventura S. Medina Jr. (born 1928), a Filipino author
  • Buenaventura Rodriguez (1893–1940), Filipino playwright and politician
  • Buenaventura Sitjar (1739–1808), Franciscan missionary who served in California, U.S.
  • Buenaventura Villamayor (born 1967), a Filipino chess player
  • Rafael Buenaventura (1938–2006), a Filipino banker

Places

Other uses

  • Buenaventura, a 2016 album by La Santa Cecilia
  • "Buenaventura", a song by Paul van Dyk from the 2003 album Reflections
  • Buenaventura River (legend), a non-existent river once believed to run from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean
  • USS Buena Ventura (ID-1335), or USS Buenaventura, a U.S. Navy cargo ship sunk in WW1
  • Buenaventura (mining company), a Peruvian mining company
  • Buenaventura Press, an American publisher and distributor of comics and graphic novels

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Buenaventura
  • All pages with titles containing Buenaventura
  • San Buenaventura (disambiguation)
  • Buenaventura Classic, a men's professional golf tournament
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