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Fernando may mean:

  • An Iberian given name equivalent to the Germanic given name Ferdinand, with an original meaning of "adventurous, bold journey".
Fernando (song)

"Fernando" is a song by the Swedish pop group ABBA. It was the group's first non-album single and was released in March 1976 through Polar Music. Solo parts were sung by Anni-Frid Lyngstad. The track was featured on the 1976 compilation album Greatest Hits in some countries, although in Australia and New Zealand, "Fernando" was included on the 1996 CD reissue of the group's fourth studio album Arrival. "Fernando" is also featured on the multi-million selling Gold: Greatest Hits compilation. The song was to become ABBA's best-selling single of all time, with 6,000,000 copies sold in 1976 alone. It is one of less than forty all-time singles to have sold 10 million (or more) physical copies worldwide, making it one of the best selling singles of all time.

Fernando (Brazilian footballer, born 1987)

Fernando Francisco Reges Mouta (born 25 July 1987), known simply as Fernando, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for English club Manchester City as a defensive midfielder.

He spent most of his career with Porto with whom he signed in 2007, going on to appear in 236 official games and win 12 major titles, including four national championships and the 2011 Europa League.

Fernando (disambiguation)

Fernando is a Spanish and Portuguese given name.

Fernando may also refer to:

  • Fernando (Brazilian footballer, born 1987) plays for Manchester City
  • Fernando (Brazilian footballer, born 1993) plays for Fluminense
  • Fernando de Noronha, a Brazilian island in the Atlantic
  • "Fernando", 1975 song recorded by Anni-Frid Lyngstad as a solo artist, and by ABBA in 1976
  • Cirque Fernando, a former Parisian circus
  • Fernando's Hideaway, a recurring Saturday Night Live segment appearing in seasons 9 and 10 featuring Billy Crystal as the title character (a parody of Fernando Lamas).
Fernando (Barcelona Metro)

Fernando was a former Barcelona metro station. The station site is located on line L3 between the existing stations of Liceu and Drassanes, and under the Rambla boulevard.

The station opened in 1946 as the terminus of a short extension of L3 from Liceu station. It had a single track and long platform, and was accessed by an entrance at the junction of the Ramblas and Carrer de Ferran. The station was closed in 1968 to permit the extension of the line to Drassanes station.

Fernando (footballer, born 1986)

Fernando Augusto Azevedo Pedreira (born 14 November 1986), commonly known as Fernando or Fernando Baiano, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays for Hong Kong club Kitchee.

Usage examples of "fernando".

A few rickety tables outside faced the Plaza de Arboles and the fifties tourist-coordinated stucco church across the way, San Fernando de Something-or-Other.

On learning the rank of Don Fernando and the resolution of Don Luis the four then settled it between themselves that three of them should return to tell his father how matters stood, and that the other should remain to wait upon Don Luis, and not leave him until they came back for him, or his father's orders were known.

Tcholok had no known police record, $46,000 in a savings account at the San Fernando Savings and Loan, and $8,700 in her checking account at the Los Angeles and California Bank.

The gentleman grasped her firmly by the shoulders, and being so fully occupied with holding her back, he was unable to put a hand to his veil which was falling off, as it did at length entirely, and Dorothea, who was holding the lady in her arms, raising her eyes saw that he who likewise held her was her husband, Don Fernando.

Late in the evening they drove through the Hollywood hills along Mulholland Drive and stopped to look out first over the dazzling sea of floating light that is Los Angeles, and later stopped to look across the dazzling sea of floating light that is the San Fernando Valley.

He harked back to Fernando, Stefan, Attila, all who had been eager to go, left behind and .

If she ever looked back over this extraordinary period in her life, she would recall, first, the sun coming up over the studio ranch in the San Fernando Valley and then the torturing blaze of klieg lights in her eyes.

Fernando navigated the complicated neighborhood street plan, his friends tailing us in the muscle car, until we found the address.

Even now, months after the world had adjusted to the fact of the Transition, the newswires still hummed with developments taking place in California, be they dry stories in the business pages about new manufacturing techniques, or yellow press hysteria about the “perversions” and “moral sickness” that were widely believed to be rampant within the confines of the San Fernando Valley.

It was an open secret now, within the diplomatic community, that Don Fernando had privately written to Urban VIII asking whether a petition for laicization would be looked upon with favor.

Neither of them spoke for the first half hour until they crested the Newhall Pass at the top of the San Fernando Valley, the great roller coasters and spires of the Magic Mountain amusement park appearing on their left.

They drove down from the last hill, into the flat urban maze of the San Fernando Valley.

Time to move fast, through what was left of Burbank and the San Fernando Valley.

The photographs were taken by Raul Ruiz, a 28-year-old teacher of Latin American studies at San Fernando Valley State College.

They'd waited here all day, meaning to make the passage through the pass and into the San Fernando after dark, and after the Indian tracker had scouted it.