Rómulo O'Farrill II (15 December 1917 – 18 May 2006) was a Mexican

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businessman. His father, Rómulo O'Farrill, founded the '' Novedades'' newspaper and owned the first commercial

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(

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, Canal 4) through his company Televisión de México. With engineer Guillermo González Camarena and businessmen

Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta (2 March 1895 – 23 September 1972) was a Mexican businessman, known for founding the entertainment conglomerate Telesistema Mexicano (now Televisa). Early life Azcárraga was born on 2 March 1895 in Tampico, Ta ...

, Ernesto Barrientos Reyes and

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as partners, they created the ''Telesistema Mexicano, S.A.'' company. Later on, in partnership with Emilio Azcárraga Milmo and Miguel Alemán Velasco and Televisión Independiente de México, he created TELEVISA. He was the honorary

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. He learned English and graduated from

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in 1937.

Family

Married to Hilda Ávila Camacho, daughter of General

Maximino Ávila Camacho Maximino Ávila Camacho (1891 in Teziutlán, Puebla – 1945 in Mexico City) was a Constitutionalist Army officer in the Mexican Revolution and afterwards politician who served as governor of Puebla from 1937 to 1941 and as secretary of P ...

, for 60 years, he fathered six children, only four of whom survived. He has 10 grandchildren.

Trivia

A bridge and a street in

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are named after him.

References

External links

O'Farrill, Rómulo Antonio (Jr.) (1917-2006), media entrepreneur in: ''Irish Migration Studies in Latin America'' 5:1 (March 2007), pp. 82-83.
1917 births 2006 deaths Saint Anselm College alumni Maria Moors Cabot Prize winners Mexican people of Irish descent 20th-century Mexican businesspeople Mexican company founders {{mexico-business-bio-stub