The Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero ( es, Orden de Manuel Amador Guerrero) is the highest
honour
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of
Panama
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. Named after
Manuel Amador Guerrero
Manuel Amador Guerrero (30 June 1833 – 2 May 1909), was the first president of Panama from 20 February 1904 to 1 October 1908. He was a member of the Conservative Party.
Early life
Manuel Amador Guerrero was born on 30 June 1833 in Turbac ...
, the first president of Panama, the order was established on the 50th anniversary of Panama's independence on 29 October 1953. It is awarded to recognize distinguished people (Panamanians and non-Panamanians) in the sciences, arts, and politics.
Grades
There are four grades of the order:
* Collar (''Collar'')
* Grand-Cross (''Gran-Cruz'')
* Grand-Officer (''Gran-Oficial'')
* Commander (''Comendador'')
Awardees
Collar
*
Elizabeth II
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, Queen of
7 States at the time of appointment, 29 November 1953
*
Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav Marshal and President of the
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
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, 15 March 1976
* Don
Juan Carlos I,
King of Spain, 16 September 1977
* Fra'
Andrew Bertie
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, Grand-Master of the
, 2000
*
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
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, President of the
Federative Republic of Brazil
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, 8 August 2001
*
Akihito
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B ...
,
Emperor of Japan
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*
Rainier III
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, Sovereign
Prince of Monaco
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*
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*Julio (given name)
*Julio (surname)
*Júlio de Castilhos, a municipality of the western part of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
* ''Julio'' (album), a 1983 compilation albu ...
, former President of the
Oriental Republic of Uruguay
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*
Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira
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, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil
*
Nicos Anastasiades
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, President of
Cyprus
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, 23 July 2013
Grand-Cross
*
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
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, Prince Consort of
7 States at the time of appointment, 29 November 1953
*
Carlos González Parrodi, 1981
*
Carmen Romano
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Personal life and death
In the 1970 ...
, 1981
* Alfonso de Rosenzweig Díaz, 1981
* Luis G. Zorrilla, 1981
*
Fredrick Chien
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,
Minister of Foreign Affairs
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of the
Republic of China, 1994
* Eduardo Valdés Escoffery, 1994
*
Howard Baker Jr., 2001
* Dionisio de Gracia Guillén, 2001
*
Suleiman Tayeb Ahmed Salem
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On August 30, 2000 he was injured in an accid ...
, 24 January 2008
*
Juan Daniel Alemán, General Secretary of the
Central American Integration System
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, 11 October 2010
*
Juan Pablo de Laiglesia
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, 18 November 2011
*
Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem
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, 1 June 2012
*
Yuan-Tseh Lee
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, 17 October 2012
* Lawrence Edward Chewning Fábrega, Ambassador to the
Organization of American States and
Vatican City
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* pt, Cidade do Vati ...
18 August 2014
* Dionisio Johnson, 30 December 2015
Grand-Officer
* Sir
Anthony Bailey, interfaith campaigner
* Martin D. Young
* Sir
Sean Connery, 11 March 2003
*
Paxson Offield, 2005
* Robert Berry, 2005
*
Elsie Alvarado de Ricord, 2005
*
Eric Douglas Green, 17 October 2012
*
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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, President of the United States of America
Commander
*
Jorge Illueca
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Illueca was born in Panama City, Panama. He attended the University of Panama, Harvard Un ...
, sometime President of the
Republic of Panama
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*
José López Portillo
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, President of the
Mexican United States, 1981
*
Carlos Menem, President of the
Argentine Republic
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, 1994
*
Sebastián Piñera
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, later President of the
Republic of Chile
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, 2013
Unknown grade
* Eugene N. S. Girard II
* Anil K. Dhingra, 1997
* Paul R. Noland, 1997
*
Jorge Alessandri Rodríguez, President of Chile
*
Enrique Berruga, 1 June 2001
*
Fire Department of New York
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, 27 November 2001
*
Harriet Mayor Fulbright
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*
Jimmy Carter
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, President of the United States of America
* Karl Johnson, 2001
* Ramiro Ordóñez Jonama, 2001
* Ricardo M. Alba, 2002
* Harold Bernstein, 2002
* Raul Orillac Arango, 2003
* Matt Kim, 2012
*
David Rockefeller
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* Harold Christian Hofmann 2007
*
Luis Anderson McNeil
References
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Orders, decorations, and medals of Panama
Manuel Amador Guerrero, Order of
Awards established in 1953
1953 establishments in Panama