José Pinto da Fonseca was born in 1896 in the Mariana municipality, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
He was a Brazilian entomologist, a founder of the Brazilian Society of Entomology, an important collector, and preparator of birds. In 1912, he started his studies in the humanities, philosophy, and theology at the Seminário de Mariana. Here, he began to dedicate himself to the knowledge of biological sciences, influenced by his mentors in natural sciences. He collected many animal specimens, including insects, some of which were sent to the Museu Paulista (today the Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo). Da Fonseca joined the museum as a travelling naturalist in 1919. He had a remarkable career. At the end of the 1920s, he was hired as a technical assistant in entomology at the Biological Institute of São Paulo and, during the same period, founded the Adolph Hempel Entomological Institute at this institution. He was a pioneer of biological control in Brazil due to his studies on the use of the wasp Prorops nasuta Waterson, 1923, in the control of the “Broca-do-Café” (coffee berry borer), Hypothenemus hampei (Ferrari, 1867). In 1937, he became a founding member and the first president of the Brazilian Society of Entomology. In 1938, he became the chair of the Entomology Section of the Instituto Biológico, a position he held until his retirement in 1966. Over his prolific career, he published hundreds of studies.
He died in 1982.
Leonard Pinsky was a Canadian medical geneticist and the first chair of the Department of Human Genetics, created within the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University in 1994. He directed both the Centre for Human Genetics (1979-1993) and the McGill Department of Human Genetics (1993-1999). Pinsky was recruited to the McGill Group in Medical Genetics in 1981 as its co-Director with Charles Scriver.
Born in Waterville, Nova Scotia, Georgianna Paige Pinneo graduated from Acadia University in 1916, and studied in Halifax at the Victoria College of Art and Design. In 1939 she became an art teacher at Verdun High School. Her paintings were exhibited widely in eastern Canada and she contributed articles and book reviews to art and education journals.
Dramatist Arthur Wing Pinero began as an actor in Sir Henry Irving's company. His earliest works were farces and comedies, but his four celebrated "problem plays", The Second Mrs Tanqueray (1893), The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith (1895), Iris (1901) and Mid-Channel (1909) are more in the manner of Dumas fils, or even Ibsen. Trelawney of the "Wells" is a nostalgic picture of the theatre Pinero had known as a young man.
Rev. Albert Jehiel Pineo was born on November 13, 1855, in Medford, Kings, Nova Scotia.
He was an educator, clergyman, editor, and amateur naturalist. He graduated from the University of Acadia College (B.A., 1881; M.A., 1893). For a while, he worked as an editor of Canadian Science Monthly. In 1893, he moved to Victoria, B.C., to become a teacher at Victoria High School, a position he held until 1911. Then he became a professor at Camosun College and served as Minister of First Unitarian Church, Vancouver, B.C. He was a member of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science.
In 1882, he married Elizabeth Stearns Masters (1859–1917). He died on July 28, 1933, in Alberni, British Columbia.
