The Order of Rubén Darío () is a medal of honor in
Nicaragua
Nicaragua, officially the Republic of Nicaragua, is the geographically largest Sovereign state, country in Central America, comprising . With a population of 7,142,529 as of 2024, it is the third-most populous country in Central America aft ...
that was established on February 16, 1951. It is given to notable people who contributed to the world of art, literature, science and international relations.
History
The Order of Rubén Darío was proposed by
Anastasio Somoza García
Anastasio Somoza García (1 February 1896 – 29 September 1956) was the leader of Nicaragua from 1936 until his assassination in 1956. He was officially the 21st President of Nicaragua from 1 January 1937 to 1 May 1947 and from 21 May 1950 unt ...
on February 16, 1951; named after Nicaraguan poet
Rubén Darío
Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (18 January 1867 – 6 February 1916), known as Rubén Darío ( , ), was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-language literary movement known as '' modernismo'' (modernism) that flourished at the end of ...
and given to notable people who contributed in the field of art, literature, science and international relations.
Recipients
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Julio Cortázar
Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; ) was an Argentine and naturalised French novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenc ...
, Argentinian-French writer.
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Gregorio Selser, Argentinian journalist and writer.
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Aleida March
Aleida March Torres (born 19 October 1936) is a Cuban revolutionary who was Ernesto "Che" Guevara's second wife, and a member of Fidel Castro's Cuban army.
Biography
Aleida March was an active combatant in Che Guevara's Lightning Campaign in De ...
, Cuban politician.
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Margot Honecker, East German politician.
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Florence Jaugey, French actress, movie director and producer.
* , Spanish politician.
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Raphael Girard, Swiss-Guatemalan ethnographer.
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Mario Vargas Llosa
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa (28 March 1936 – 13 April 2025) was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists a ...
, Peruvian writer
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Grace Kelly
Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982), also known as Grace of Monaco, was an American actress and Princess of Monaco as the wife of Prince Rainier III from their marriage on April 18, 1956, until her death in 1982. ...
, American actress and the princess of Monaco.
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Rainier III, Prince of Monaco
Rainier III (Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi; 31 May 1923 – 6 April 2005) was Prince of Monaco from 1949 to his death in 2005. Rainier ruled the Principality of Monaco for almost 56 years.
Rainier was born at the Prince's Pal ...
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* , Nicaraguan writer.
* , Nicaraguan ethnomusicologist.
* , Nicaraguan music group.
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June Beer, Afro-Nicaraguan poet, artist and writer.
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Ernesto Cardenal
Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (20 January 1925 – 1 March 2020) was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived fo ...
, Nicaraguan poet, politician and priest.
* , Nicaraguan musician.
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Silvio Conrado, Nicaraguan economist.
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José Coronel Urtecho, Nicaraguan writer.
* , Nicaraguan painter.
* , Nicaraguan photographer.
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Rossana Lacayo, photographer, film director and screenwriter.
* , Nicaraguan composer.
* , Nicaraguan dancer and choreographer.
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Carlos Martínez Rivas, Nicaraguan poet.
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Carlos Mejía Godoy, Nicaraguan composer.
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Luis Enrique Mejía Godoy, Nicaraguan musician, composer and singer-songwriter.
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Ernesto Mejía Sánchez, Nicaraguan writer.
* , Nicaraguan photojournalism.
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Armando Morales
Armando Morales (January 15, 1927 – November 16, 2011) was an internationally renowned Nicaraguan painter. Morales is considered one of the most important painters of Nicaragua.
Morales, who was born in Granada, Nicaragua, received many award ...
, Nicaraguan painter.
* , Nicaraguan dancer.
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Róger Pérez de la Rocha, Nicaraguan painter.
* , Nicaraguan writer.
* , Nicaraguan writer and professor.
* , Nicaraguan painter.
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Mauricio Herdocia Sacasa, Nicaraguan lawyer and diplomat
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Fernando Silva Espinoza, Nicaraguan poet, novelist and painter
* , Nicaraguan musician and composer.
* , Nicaraguan composer and singer-songwriter.
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Raúl Sapena Pastor, Paraguayan lawyer and diplomat.
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Yiye Ávila
José Joaquín Ávila Portalatín (September 11, 1925 – June 28, 2013), better known as Yiye Ávila, was a Puerto Rican people, Puerto Rican Pentecostal Evangelism, Evangelist and writer of Sephardi Jews, Sephardic origins. His preaching and m ...
, Puerto Rican preacher and writer.
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Manuel Fraga
Manuel Fraga Iribarne (; 23 November 1922 – 15 January 2012) was a Spanish professor and politician during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, who was also one of the founders of the People's Alliance (Spain), People's Alliance (AP). Fraga ...
, Spanish politician.
* , Spanish composer.
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Ramón Belauste, Spanish football player
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Jacqueline Cochran
Jacqueline Cochran (May 11, 1906 – August 9, 1980) was an American pilot and business executive. She pioneered women's aviation as one of the most prominent racing pilots of her generation. She set numerous records and was the first woman to br ...
, American pilot and business executive.
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Francis Spellman
Francis Joseph Spellman (May 4, 1889 – December 2, 1967) was an Catholic Church in the United States, American Catholic prelate who served as Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, Archbishop of New York from 1939 until his death in 1967. F ...
, American catholic prelate.
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David Spencer, American evangelist.
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Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano (; 3 September 1940 – 13 April 2015) was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "a literary giant of the Latin American left" and "global soccer's pre-eminent man of le ...
, Uruguayan writer.
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TeleSUR
Telesur (stylized as teleSUR) is a Latin American terrestrial and satellite news television network headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela, and sponsored by the governments of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.
First proposed in 2005 and subsidized ...
, TV channel.
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Tadatoshi Akiba
is a Japanese mathematician and politician and served as the mayor of the city of Hiroshima, Japan from 1999 to 2011.
Early life
He studied mathematics at the University of Tokyo, receiving a B.S. in 1966 and an M.S. in 1968. He continued hi ...
, Japanese politician
References
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Awards established in 1951
1951 establishments in Nicaragua