FAMOUS URQUIDEZ (S)

1.  BENNY THE JET URQUIDEZ   - WORLD FAMOUS KICKBOXER AND KARATE CHOREOGRAPHER.   HALF SPANISH HALF MEXICAN BUT PART OF THE BLACKFOOT TRIBE.   SINCE HE IS PART SPANISH HE MAY BE A   2ND GENERATION  SPANISH DESCENDANT (CREOLLO) WHICH WOULD BE UNIQUE IN KNOWING THAT HIS FATHER IS URQUIDEZ AND IS A NATIVE OF SPAIN.   QUESTION IS:  WHERE PART OF SPAIN IS HIS FATHER?   IS HE FROM THE BASQUE PROVINCES?     

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Urquidez

2.  RENE VERDUGO URQUIDEZ - PART OF THE INFAMOUS CARTEL THAT HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF KILLING THE WELL PUBLICIZED FEDERAL AGENT CAMARENA.   HE HAS HIS OWN WEBPAGE TO ESPOU8E HIS INNOCENCE.

http://www.reneverdugo.org/index.html

HE IS MOST LIKELY A MEMBER OF THE SONORA URQUIDEZ FAMILY SINCE HE WAS BORN IN THE STATE OF SONORA.

3.  LYNN URQUIDES.    A WELL LIKED ARIZONA SCHOOL TEACHER WHO HAD AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NAMED AFTER HER.   THE WEBSITE FOR THE LYNN URQUIDES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IS:  http://edweb.tusd.k12.az.us/Lynn_Urquides/

PROBABLY PART OF THE SONORA FAMILY OF URQUIDEZ(S) BECAUSE OF HER LIVING IN THE STATE OF ARIZONA - PROXIMATE TO THE STATE OF SONORA.  ANYTHING ABOUT HER WOULD BE DEEPLY APPRECIATED.   SHE APPEARS TO BE A HIGHLY RESPECTED URQUIDES WHO MADE HER MARK IN THE WORLD.     ELEMENTARY CHILDREN ARE GRADUATING FROM THE LYNN URQUIDES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - A HIGH HONOR TO THE FAMILY NAME.

4. WIFE OF THE CALIFORNIA SPANISH GOVERNOR DURING THE 1700'S.

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5.  JESUS URQUIDES -  A TEENAGER URQUIDES LEFT HIS HOME IN SONORA, MEXICO AROUND 1850 AND EVENTUALLY BECAME A FOUNDER OF A BOISE IDAHO MEXICAN ENCLAVE.   (HISTORY OF BOISE, IDAHO).

6.  FERNANDO URQUIDES - BORN IN SPAIN ON ABOUT 1816 MARRIED MARIA DE JESUS RAMIREZ AT TUSCON IN 1855.    THERE THREE SONS WERE HILARO, EPIFANIO AND NATIVIDAD.   FOUNDER OF THE ARIZONA URQUIDESES.

7.   (1968 - 1974): Alejandro Páez Urquidi.  GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF DURANGO FOR THE LISTED YEARS.   VERY DISTANT RELATIVE OF THE URKIDE CLAN.   ONE MUST REMEMBER THAT THE URQUIDE, URQUIDES, URQUIDEZ AND URQUIDI ARE ALL RELATED, ALL BASQUE AND ALL COMING FROM ONE AREA OF NORTHERN SPAIN.