Parra
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Parra is a Spanish surname meaning vine bower or trellis, for example an Arbor (garden).

People
  • Alondra de la Parra
    Alondra de la Parra
    Alondra de la Parra is a Mexican American conductor. She is also the founder and artistic director of the New York-based Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, an orchestra that promotes young soloists and composers from the Americas....

     Mexican conductor
  • Parra family
    Parra family
    The Parra family is a Chilean family known for its many artists. Members of the Parra family are noted contributors to Chilean culture with almost every member being a distinguished national artist. The family is not related to the Parra brothers, members of the Chilean rock fusion group Los...

    , Chilean family known for its many artists
    • Violeta Parra
      Violeta Parra
      Violeta del Carmen Parra Sandoval was a notable Chilean composer, songwriter, folklorist, ethnomusicologist and visual artist...

      , Chilean folk singer
    • Nicanor Parra
      Nicanor Parra
      Nicanor Parra Sandoval is a mathematician and poet born in San Fabián de Alico, Chile, who has been considered to be a popular poet in Chile with enormous influence and popularity in Latin America, and also considered one of the most important poets of the Spanish language literature...

      , Chilean mathematician and poet
    • Gabriel Parra
      Gabriel Parra
      Gabriel Parra was the former drummer of Chilean folk group "Los Jaivas". He died in a crash in Peru in 1988. His daughter Juanita Parra replaced him as drummer in Los Jaivas after his death....

      , Chilean drummer of the folk group "Los Jaivas
      Los Jaivas
      Los Jaivas are a Chilean musical group who perform in folk, rock, and progressive rock styles.-History:Los Jaivas appeared in Chilean music in 1963 as a progressive-rock-andino group, mixing rock with South American ancestral music...

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    • Juanita Parra, Chilean drummer of the folk group "Los Jaivas"
  • Fabio Parra
    Fabio Parra
    Fabio Enrique Parra Pinto is a retired Colombian road racing cyclist. Parra was successful as an amateur in Colombia, winning the Novatos classification for new riders or riders riding their first edition of the race, and finishing 14th in the 1979 Vuelta a Colombia and then the General...

    , Colombian road cyclist
  • John Parra
    John Parra
    John Fredy Parra Celada is a male professional road cyclist from Colombia.-Career:2002John Fredy Parra Celada is a male professional road cyclist from Colombia.-Career:2002John Fredy Parra Celada is a male professional road cyclist...

    , Colombian road cyclist
  • Lorenzo Parra
    Lorenzo Parra
    Lorenzo "Lencho" Parra is a Venezuelan professional boxer. He is a former World Boxing Association flyweight champion....

    , Venezuelan flyweight boxer
  • Carolina Parra
    Carolina Parra
    Carolina Moraes Parra is a guitarist and drummer for the Brazilian indie-electro band CSS. She joined CSS at the Tim Festival gig in 2004....

    , Brazilian musician
  • Manny Parra
    Manny Parra
    Manuel Alex "Manny" Parra is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Milwaukee Brewers.-Early life:...

    , Mexican-American baseball player
  • Beatriz Parra Durango
    Beatriz Parra Durango
    Ecuador's foremost classical soprano, Beatriz Parra Durango was born in Guayaquil, 1940. Her mother was the journalist Dora Durango Lopez. Parra Durango was married to Enrique Gil with whom had her only daughter, the vedette Beatriz Gil Parra, born in 1959...

    , Ecuadorian classical soprano
  • Francisco Parra Capó
    Francisco Parra Capó
    Francisco Parra Capó was a Puerto Rican attorney, politician, and Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico, from 1921 to 1923.-Early years:Francisco Parra Capó was born in Ponce in 1867, the son of Francisco Parra Duperón and Eufemia Capó Ortiz de la Renta Bermudas....

    , mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  • Francisco Parra Duperón
    Francisco Parra Duperón
    Francisco Parra Duperón born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico was a lawyer and banker. He became a lawyer at a young age and moved from Mayagüez to Ponce, Puerto Rico where he established his law practice....

    , lawyer


Plant
  • Vitis
    Vitis
    Vitis is a genus of about 60 species of vining plants in the flowering plant family Vitaceae. The genus is made up of species predominantly from the Northern hemisphere. It is economically important as the source of grapes, both for direct consumption of the fruit and for fermentation to produce...



Places
  • Parra, Goa
    Parra, Goa
    Parra is a village in Bardez sub-district, North Goa, India....

    , a village in the Bardez sub-district of Goa, India
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