Gines (disambiguation)
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Gines can refer to:
  • Gines
    Gines
    Gines is a municipality in the province of Seville, Andalusia, Spain....

    , municipality of Spain
    Spain
    Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

  • San Ginés, Madrid
    San Ginés, Madrid
    The church of San Ginés, in Madrid, is one of the oldest churches in that city. It is situated on the Calle Arenal. References to it appear in documents dating from the ninth century...

    , church in Madrid
    Madrid
    Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...

  • San Ginés, Arrecife
    San Ginés, Arrecife
    San Ginés is church a in Arrecife, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, Spain. Originally the location of a hermitage built in 1574 that contained images of Saint Peter and Saint Ginés, it was flooded and completely rebuilt in 1667. It was expanded in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Saint Ginés ...

    , church in Arrecife
    Arrecife
    Arrecife is a city in the Canary Islands situated in the centre-east of the island of Lanzarote of which it has been the capital since 1852. The city owes its name to the rock reef which covers the beach located in the city...

    , Lanzarote
    Lanzarote
    Lanzarote , a Spanish island, is the easternmost of the autonomous Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, approximately 125 km off the coast of Africa and 1,000 km from the Iberian Peninsula. Covering 845.9 km2, it stands as the fourth largest of the islands...

  • San Ginés, Guadalajara
    San Ginés, Guadalajara
    San Ginés is a church in Guadalajara, Spain....

    , church in Guadalajara, Spain
    Guadalajara, Spain
    Guadalajara is a city and municipality in the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha, Spain, and in the natural region of La Alcarria. It is the capital of the province of Guadalajara. It is located roughly 60 km northeast of Madrid on the Henares River, and has a population of 83,789...



"Ginés" is a Spanish
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

 personal name
Personal name
A personal name is the proper name identifying an individual person, and today usually comprises a given name bestowed at birth or at a young age plus a surname. It is nearly universal for a human to have a name; except in rare cases, for example feral children growing up in isolation, or infants...

. It is the Spanish form of the Roman name "Genesius
Genesius
Genesius may refer to:*Any of several Saints Genesius*Joseph Genesius, tenth-century Byzantine historian*Genesius Theatre in Reading, Pennsylvania...

".

People with this name include:
  • Ginés de la Jara
    Ginés de la Jara
    Saint Ginés de la Jara is a semi-legendary saint of Spain. He is associated with the region surrounding Cartagena, of which he is co-patron...

    , Spanish saint of the Early Middle Ages
  • Ginés González García
    Ginés González García
    Ginés González García is a medical doctor and was the Minister of Health and Environment of Argentina during the administrations of Presidents Eduardo Duhalde and Néstor Kirchner.-Career:...

     (1945- ), Minister of Health and Environment of Argentina
  • Gines Perez de Hita
    Gines Perez de Hita
    Ginés Pérez de Hita was a Spanish novelist and poet, born at Mula about the middle of the 16th century.It is likely that he joined the campaign against the Muslim presence in Spain in 1560.-Guerras civiles de Granada:...

     (1544-ca. 1605), Spanish novelist and poet
  • Gines de Mafra
    Gines de Mafra
    Ginés de Mafra was a Spanish explorer who sailed to the Philippines in the 16th century. De Mafra was a member of the expeditions of Ferdinand Magellan of 1519–1521 and Ruy López de Villalobos of 1542–1545.- Voyage to the Philippine Islands:...

     (1493-1546), Spanish explorer
  • Ginés Pérez de la Parra
    Ginés Pérez de la Parra
    Ginés Pérez de la Parra , also known as Juan Ginés Pérez, was a Spanish Valencian composer during the Renaissance. He was born in Orihuela, a city in what is now the province of Alicante...

    (ca. 1548-1600), Valencian composer
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