Martínez was born in Sagua La Grande, Cuba, to Gladys V. ( Ruíz ) and Melquíades C. Martínez .< ref > Melquíades C. Martínez Gladys V. Ruíz

He works to decipher the parchments of Melquíades but stops to have an affair with his childhood partner and the love of his life, Amaranta Úrsula, not knowing that she is his aunt.

"... Melquíades ' final keys were revealed to him and he saw the epigraph of the parchments perfectly placed in the order of man's time and space: ' The first in line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by ants '.

" It is assumed he dies in the great wind that destroys Macondo the moment he finishes reading Melquíades ' parchments.

Melquíades is one of a band of gypsies who visit Macondo every year in March, displaying amazing items from around the world.

Melquíades then dies a second time from drowning in the river near Macondo and, following a grand ceremony organized by the Buendías, is the first individual buried in Macondo.

He became involved in politics and in 1914 joined the Reformist Republican Party led by Melquíades Álvarez.

The laboratory was first designed by Melquíades near the start of the story and remains essentially unchanged throughout its course.

The ghost of Melquíades in Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude or the baby ghost in Toni Morrison's Beloved who visit or haunt the inhabitants of their previous residence are both presented by the narrator as ordinary occurrences ; the reader, therefore, accepts the marvelous as normal and common.

Melquíades, the keeper of the historical archive in the novel, represents both the whimsical and the literary.

Melquíades sells José Arcadio Buendía several new inventions including a pair of magnets and an alchemist's lab.

Later, the gypsies report that Melquíades died in Singapore, but he, nonetheless, returns to live with the Buendía family.

Trujillo's three children with María Martínez were Rafael Leonidas Ramfis born on June 5, 1929, María de los Angeles del Sagrado Corazón de Jesus ( Angelita ), born in Paris on June 10, 1939, and Leonidas Rhadamés, born on December 1, 1942.

After his first book Corazón Rojo ( Red Heart, 2005 ) where he testifies over his life after the cardiovascular problems, he publishes in 2007 the Prologue of the book La Globalización Neoliberal y sus repercusiones en la educación ( The Neoliberal Globalization and his impact in the education ) from the University teacher and researcher Enrique Díez and in 2008 he publishes El Tiempo y la Memoria ( Time and Memory ) wrote in collaboration with the Cordoban journalist and writer Rafael Martínez Simancas where he manifests his will to keep fighting

* Rafael Martínez ( gymnast ) ( born 1983 ), Spanish artistic gymnast

* Rafael Martínez Aguilera, also known as Rafa Martínez, Spanish basketball player

* Rafael Martínez Nadal ( 1877 – 1941 ), third president of the Senate of Puerto Rico

* Rafael Martínez Torres ( born 1959 ), Puerto Rican jurist

* Rafael Martínez ( racing driver ), Mexican racing driver

* Rafael Martínez ( athlete ), Cuban discus thrower, see Athletics at the 1930 Central American and Caribbean Games

José Eusebio Otálora Martínez was a Colombian statesman and General who became President of the United States of Colombia in 1882 in his capacity as the Second Presidential Designate following the death of President Francisco Javier Zaldúa, and the non acceptance of the office by the First Designate Rafael Núñez

Players: José de Jesús Corona Rodríguez, Francisco Ochoa Magaña, Aarón Galindo Rubio, Diego Alfonso Martínez Balderas, Mario Pérez Zúñiga, Gonzalo Pineda Reyes, Francisco Javier Rodríguez Pinedo, Ismael de Jesús Rodríguez Vega, Israel López Hernández, Antonio Naelson Matías, Luis Ernesto Pérez Gómez, Omar Bravo Tordecillas, Juan Pablo García Contreras, Rafael Márquez Alvarez, Sergio Amauri Ponce Villegas, Ismael Iñiguez González,

The protest was condemned by the legislators Rafael Martínez Nadal and Santiago Iglesias ; and endorsed by others, including the future leader of the statehood party, Manuel García Méndez.

This included a military parade and speeches by Governor Blanton Winship, Senate president Rafael Martínez Nadal, and others.

The Senate, along with its members and staff, are housed in the eastern half of the Capitol Building, the Rafael Martínez Nadal Senate Annex Building, the Luis Muñoz Marín Office Building, the Antonio R. Barceló Building, the Luis A. Ferré Building, the Ramón Mellado Parsons Office Building and the Baltasar Corrada del Rio Office Building.

A meeting in 1983 with Rafael Martínez in Zaragoza Comic Fair would determine his professional future.

* Rafael Martínez, gymnast.

* Artigas, Mariano ; Glick, Thomas F., Martínez, Rafael A .; Negotiating Darwin: the Vatican confronts evolution, 1877 – 1902, JHU Press, 2006, ISBN 0-8018-8389-X, 9780801883897, Google books

The situation escalated until Martínez was overthrown and replaced by a military junta led by Lieutenant General Jorge Rafael Videla, on 24 March 1976.

Marcos Rafael Armas Ruiz ( born August 5, 1969 ), better known as Marcos Armas, is a former Major League Baseball first baseman and right-handed batter who played for the Oakland Athletics ().

On 15 June 2009, over 65, 000 Beticos including icons such as Rafael Gordillo, del Sol, Hipólito Rincón, Julio Cardeñosa and others joined the protest march in Sevilla with the slogan " 15-J Yo Voy Betis " to let the majority owner Ruiz de Lopera know that it was time to put his 54 % share of the club on the market for someone, some entity or the Betis supporters to buy those shares and remove Lopera from the day to day operations of the club.

The line-up in those years was: Nicolás Adamo, Oscar Antonio Huss, Ángel Allegri, Armando Ovide, Jorge Ruiz, Rafael García Fierro, Norberto Conde, Ernesto Sansone, Juan José Ferraro, Osvaldo Zubeldía and Juan Carlos Mendiburu, coached by Victorio Spinetto.

enjoyed saying: " If Picasso, Pablo Ruiz or Bacon could come through a time channel and come to Verrocchio's studio, or Rafael Sanzio's, they would not last a week, they would be kicked out as bad painters …"

Principal conductors have been Armand Marsick, Vladimir Golschmann, Jesús Arámbarri, José Limantour, Antoine de Babier, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Alberto Bolet, Pedro Pirfano, Urbano Ruiz Laorden and Theo Alcántara.

The North Bay is connected to San Francisco by the Golden Gate Bridge and to the East Bay by the Richmond – San Rafael Bridge ( usually called either the Richmond Bridge or San Rafael Bridge ), and the Carquinez Bridge, which crosses the San Pablo Bay between Benicia and Martinez.

Jan de Saeyelleer or Sadeleer had three sons, all usually called " Sadeler ": Jan I ( 1550 Brussels-1600 Brussels or possibly Venice ), Aegidius I ( c. 1555 Brussels-c. 1609 Frankfurt am Main ) and Rafael I ( 1560 / 61 Antwerp-1628 or 1632 ).

* August 31 – The First Carlist war ( Spain ) ends with the Convenio de Vergara, also known as the Abrazo de Vergara (" the embrace in Vergara "; Bergara in Basque ), between liberal general Baldomero Espartero, Count of Luchana and Carlist General Rafael Maroto.

After its rebuilding, Santo Domingo was known officially as Ciudad Trujillo in honor of dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo, who governed from 1930.

All that was left of the Mission was a single pear tree from the old Mission's orchard, it is for this reason that San Rafael is known as the " most obliterated of California's missions.

In 1873, A. D. Ferron, the surveyor, named this creek after himself, but prior to this time it was known as Rafael.

He has an older sister, Adelia ( also known as Ada ); his cousins include actors Miguel and Rafael Ferrer, who are the sons of his aunt, singer Rosemary Clooney, and actor José Ferrer.

Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina was born in San Cristóbal to José Trujillo Valdez, a small retailer possibly of Canarian origin, and Altagracia Julia Molina Chevalier, later known as Mamá Julia, who was of Afro-Dominican ancestry.

Rafael Muñiz García de la Noceda, better known as Rafo Muñiz ( born 1956 ) is a Puerto Rican actor, comedian, director and, more notably, producer of television shows and concerts.

Many well known major league players came from the Macon Braves, such as Chipper Jones, Andruw Jones, Rafael Furcal, Tony Graffanino, John Rocker, John Smoltz, and Marcus Giles.

Rafael Medoff concludes that ' actually there is no evidence that the Mufti's presence was a factor at all ; the Wisliceny hearsay is not merely uncorroborated, but conflicts with everything else that is known about the origins of the Final Solution.

There have been instances of one-handed drag bunts as well ; in MLB, Rafael Furcal has been known to try such a bunt.

The band recorded their first album in January 2010 with the well known producer Rafael Ramos in Rio de Janeiro.

Reséndiz had many aliases but was chiefly known and sought after as Rafael Resendez-Ramirez.

* Rafael Derby — Also known as the Alto, this is a medium-range, BVR active radar-homing missile

* Rafael Núñez ( hacker ) ( also known as RaFa ), a hacker / cracker and model from Venezuela

In Barcelona, several monuments have been raised to him, the best known of which is the statue located at the end of the Passeig de Lluís Companys, by Rafael Atché i Ferré and which was dedicated in 1917, withdrawn and saved during the Spanish Civil War and repositioned in 1977.

Rafael Cordero Santiago ( October 24, 1942-January 17, 2004 ) – better known as Churumba – was the Mayor of Ponce, Puerto Rico from 1989 to 2004.

The noted Spanish structural engineer Rafael Guastavino ( 1842 – 1908 ), famous for his vaultings, known as Guastavino tile work, designed vaults in dozens of Beaux-Arts buildings in the Boston, New York, and elsewhere.

In Israel, it is known as a " Rafael hat "; as Rafael Eitan, an Israeli general, politician, and former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces used to wear one.

Santiago Arrospide, also known as Santi Potros, and Rafael Caride Simon were sentenced to 790 years in prison for their role in the attack.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is best known for creating theatrical interactive installations in public spaces across Europe, Asia and America.

The team is also known for their youth development system which has produced international players such as Enrique Borja, José Luis González " La Calaca ", Hugo Sánchez, Claudio Suárez, Alberto Garcia Aspe, Jorge Campos, Manuel Negrete, Luis Flores, Gerardo Torrado, Luis García, Braulio Luna, Israel Castro, Francisco Fonseca, Rafael Márquez Lugo, Efraín Juárez, Héctor Alfredo Moreno, and Pablo Barrera.

Marin Academy ( familiarly known as MA ) is a private college preparatory high school in San Rafael, California.