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- DJ PremierDJ PremierChristopher Edward Martin , better known by his stage name DJ Premier , is an American record producer and DJ, and was the instrumental half of the hip hop duo Gang Starr, together with emcee Guru...
, hip-hop producer, sometimes goes by nickname Primo - Primo CarneraPrimo CarneraPrimo Carnera was an Italian boxer, nicknamed the Ambling Alp, who became the world heavyweight champion.-Biography:...
(1906 – 1967), Italian boxer, World Heavyweight champion 1933 - 1934 - Primo CassarinoPrimo CassarinoPrimo Cassarino is a New York mobster who became an enforcer for Gambino crime family, and extorted money from actor Steven Seagal.-Foulest mouth in Brooklyn:...
(born 1956), enforcer for the Gambino crime family - Primo ColónEddie ColonEdwin "Eddie" Carlos Colón is a Puerto Rican professional wrestler. He is currently signed by WWE wrestling on its Raw brand as Primo. He is the son of Carlos Colón, Sr. and the younger brother of wrestlers Stacy and Carly Colón, better known as Carlito in WWE...
(born 1982), ring name of professional wrestler Eddie Colón - Primo ContiPrimo ContiPrimo Conti was an Italian Futurist artist.Conti was born in Florence. Between the ages of 8 and 9, his precocious talent in the fields of music, poetry and painting was showing signs of his genius...
(1900 - 1988), Italian Futurist artist - Primo LeviPrimo LeviPrimo Michele Levi was an Italian Jewish chemist and writer. He was the author of two novels and several collections of short stories, essays, and poems, but is best known for If This Is a Man, his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland...
(1919 - 1987), Jewish Italian chemist, Holocaust survivor, and author - Primo RiccitelliPrimo RiccitelliPrimo Riccitelli , was an Italian composer.One of six children, he was born in the village of Cognoli, Campli in the Abruzzo Region of Italy. His father, Giuseppe, was a small land owner and his mother, Maria Maiaroli, a homemaker. The one-day old infant was baptized at the local parish hall of...
(1875 - 1941), Italian composer - Primo ZampariniPrimo ZampariniPrimo Zamparini was an Italian bantamweight professional boxer who won silver in Boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He fought against and was defeated by Oleg Grigoryev who won gold.-References:...
, Italian bantamweight Olympic and professional boxer - Primož BrezecPrimož BrezecPrimož Brezec is a Slovenian professional basketball player with Lokomotiv Kuban of the Russian Super League. He is a 7 ft 1 in tall center. Brezec has played seven seasons in the NBA.-Europe:...
(born 1979), Slovenian professional basketball player - Al PrimoAl PrimoAlbert T. Primo is a television news executive who was credited with creating the Eyewitness News format.-Biography:He was born in 1937 and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...
(born 1938), television news executive credited with creating the Eyewitness News format - Francisco Primo de Verdad y Ramos (1760 — 1808), New Spain lawyer and politician
- The Italian name of Saint PrimusPrimus and FelicianSaints Primus and Felician were brothers who suffered martyrdom about the year 297 during the Diocletian persecution. The "Martyrologium Hieronymianum" Saints Primus and Felician (Felicianus) were brothers who suffered martyrdom about the year 297 during the Diocletian persecution. The...
Primo Venerando Nicolosi- 1982-now (Australian Architect and developer)
Places in Italy
- Casorate PrimoCasorate PrimoCasorate Primo is a comune in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 20 km southwest of Milan and about 20 km northwest of Pavia...
, a municipality in the Province of Pavia in Lombardy - Castano PrimoCastano PrimoCastano Primo is a city and comune in Province of Milan, in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 35 km northwest of Milan.Castano Primo borders the following municipalities: Lonate Pozzolo, Vanzaghello, Magnago, Nosate, Buscate, Cameri, Turbigo, Robecchetto con Induno, Cuggiono...
, a municipality in the Province of Milan in Lombardy - Masciago PrimoMasciago PrimoMasciago Primo is a comune in the Province of Varese in the Italian region Lombardy, located about 60 km northwest of Milan and about 12 km northwest of Varese...
, a municipality in the Province of Varese in Lombardy - Palasport Primo CarneraPalasport Primo CarneraPalasport Primo Carnera is an indoor sporting arena located in Udine, Italy. The capacity of the arena is 3,850 people. It is currently home of the Pallalcesto Amatori Udine basketball team. It is named after former world heavyweight boxing champion Primo Carnera, who was born in Sequals, near...
, an indoor sporting arena in Udine
Art, music, and literature
- Primo (2005 film)Primo (2005 film)Primo is a 2005 film directed by Richard Wilson, starring the BAFTA-nominated Antony Sher and broadcast by HBO and the BBC.This film is a recording of the Royal National Theatre production of the play Primo, also directed by Wilson...
, a 2005 film of Antony Sher's play of the same title, adapted from Primo Levi's Holocaust memoir If This Is a Man - Primo VictoriaPrimo VictoriaPrimo Victoria is the second album by Swedish power metal band Sabaton. This was the first album they released for their new label, Black Lodge Records.-Track listing:# "Primo Victoria" – 4:10 - About D-Day of Operation Overlord....
, a 2005 album by Swedish power-metal band Sabaton - O Primo BasílioO Primo BasílioO Primo Basílio is one of the greatest realist novels of the Portuguese author José Maria de Eça de Queiroz, also known under the modernized spelling Eça de Queirós. He worked in the Portuguese consular service, stationed at 53 Grey Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, from late 1874 until April 1879...
, an 1878 novel by Portuguese author José Maria Eça de Queiroz - Riccardo PrimoRiccardo PrimoRiccardo primo, re d’Inghilterra is an opera in three acts written for the Royal Academy of Music by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Paolo Antonio Rolli, after Francesco Briani's Isacio tiranno, set by Antonio Lotti in 1710...
, a 1727 opera in three acts by George Frideric Handel - An alternate term for the subidor, a drum used in the music of Puerto Rico
Business and industry
- Primo Brewing & Malting CompanyPrimo Brewing & Malting CompanyPrimo Brewing Company is a Honolulu-based beer manufacturing company. The company claims the title "Hawai’i’s original beer".-History:Around 1897 or 1898 the Honolulu Brewing & Malting Company was formed, and launched the Primo Lager brand in 1901. From 1920 to 1933 prohibition caused Primo to halt...
, based in Honolulu, Hawaii - Primo FilmesPrimo FilmesLed by Joana Mariani, Matias Mariani and Marcelo Monteiro, Primo Filmes has produced the feature-films Drained , Fabricating Tom Zé and 3.5 Overpass...
, a Brazilian film production company - Primo SchincariolPrimo SchincariolPrimo Schincariol is a South American brewery and beverage maker based in Brazil. In 2004, Schincariol became the largest Brazilian fully owned brewery, gaining this title after AmBev merged with the Belgian Interbrew, becoming InBev. Currenty, AB-Inbev is a Brazilian-Belgian owned company...
, a South American brewery and beverage maker based in Brazil - Primo smallgoodsPrimo smallgoodsPrimo Smallgoods, based in Chullora in Western Sydney, Australia is the largest producer of ham, bacon and smallgoods in the Southern Hemisphere.It was founded in 1985, and now has more than 2,000 employees....
, a Sydney-based company, the largest producer of ham, bacon and small goods in the Southern Hemisphere - PRIMO (software), software for bio-informatics developed at the Genome Center at University of Texas at Austin
- PRIMOSPRIMOSPRIMOS was an operating system developed during the 1970s by Prime Computer for its minicomputer systems. It rapidly gained popularity and by the mid-1980s was a serious contender as a mainline minicomputer operating system...
, an operating system developed during the 1970s by Prime Computer - DUPLO Primo and Lego Primo, now known as Lego BabyLego BabyLego Baby is a line of bricks by the Lego Group for very young children.In the past it was sold first as Duplo Primo then as Lego Primo and became Lego Baby from 2000....
, a line of Lego blocks for small children - Plaxton PrimoPlaxton PrimoThe Plaxton Primo is a type of small low-floor bus based on the Enterprise Bus Plasma. It was launched by Plaxton in 2005.It is the result of close co-operation between Enterprise Bus Ltd and Plaxton. The fully welded stainless steel integral chassis final assembly is supplied in right hand drive...
, a type of small bus produced by Plaxton - Primo Lenses, a lenses brand-line manufactured by PanavisionPanavisionPanavision is an American motion picture equipment company specializing in cameras and lenses, based in Woodland Hills, California. Formed by Robert Gottschalk as a small partnership to create anamorphic projection lenses during the widescreen boom in the 1950s, Panavision expanded its product...
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- Primo vistoPrimo vistoPrimo visto, Primavista, Prima-vista, Primi-vist, Primiuiste,Primofistula, or even Primefisto, is a 16th-century gambling card game fashionable c. 1530-1640...
, a 16th-century card game - Primos (SEPTA station)Primos (SEPTA station)Primos is a station along the SEPTA West Chester Line in Primos, Pennsylvania. The station, located at Oak and Secane Avenues, includes a 52-space parking lot. Station is served by Media/Elwyn Line. It consists of a pre-fabricated office trailer on one platform, and an open brick shelter on the other...
, a station along the SEPTA West Chester Line in Pennsylvania - Primo Longobordo (S-501), an Italian submarine that may once have been the USS Volador (SS-490)USS Volador (SS-490)USS Volador , a , was the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for the volador. The contract to build her was awarded to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, and her keel was laid down on 15 June 1945, but work on her construction was discontinued in January 1946...