The Most Famous

JOURNALISTS from Spain

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This page contains a list of the greatest Spanish Journalists. The pantheon dataset contains 196 Journalists, 2 of which were born in Spain. This makes Spain the birth place of the 14th most number of Journalists behind Brazil, and Philippines.

Top 2

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Spanish Journalists of all time. This list of famous Spanish Journalists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Joaquín Navarro-Valls (1936 - 2017)

With an HPI of 52.56, Joaquín Navarro-Valls is the most famous Spanish Journalist.  His biography has been translated into 19 different languages on wikipedia.

Joaquín Navarro-Valls, M.D. (November 16, 1936 – July 5, 2017) was a Spanish journalist, physician and academic who served as the Director of the Holy See Press Office from 1984 to 2006. His role as the press liaison between the Vatican and the world press corps gave him perhaps the highest visibility of any one person in the Vatican during the long reign of Pope John Paul II, with the exception of the Pope himself. He resigned his post July 11, 2006 and was replaced by Father Federico Lombardi. On January 20, 2007, he was named president of the board of advisers of the Biomedical University of Rome, an office he occupied until his death.

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2. Sara Carbonero (b. 1984)

With an HPI of 43.99, Sara Carbonero is the 2nd most famous Spanish Journalist.  Her biography has been translated into 25 different languages.

Sara Carbonero Arévalo (born 3 February 1984) is a Spanish sports journalist. Since early 2000, she was a TV presenter for Telecinco, until she moved to Porto, in Portugal, when her ex-husband Iker Casillas joined Porto in July 2015.

People

Pantheon has 2 people classified as Spanish journalists born between 1936 and 1984. Of these 2, 1 (50.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Spanish journalists include Sara Carbonero. The most famous deceased Spanish journalists include Joaquín Navarro-Valls.

Living Spanish Journalists

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Deceased Spanish Journalists

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