DIPLOMAT

Alfonso García Robles

1911 - 1991

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Alfonso García Robles (20 March 1911 – 2 September 1991) was a Mexican diplomat and politician who, in conjunction with Sweden's Alva Myrdal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. García Robles was born in Zamora, Michoacán, and trained in law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the Institute of Higher International Studies (IHEI) in Paris, France (1936), and The Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands (1938) before joining his country's foreign service in 1939. He served as a delegate to the 1945 San Francisco Conference that established the United Nations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alfonso García Robles has received more than 152,588 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Alfonso García Robles is the 30th most popular diplomat, the 55th most popular biography from Mexico (up from 64th in 2019) and the most popular Mexican Diplomat.

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Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Alfonso García Robles ranks 30 out of 90Before him are Viktor Chernomyrdin, Megasthenes, Thomas Klestil, Édith Cresson, Irina Bokova, and Hans Blix. After him are Giovanni Villani, George Blake, Yukiya Amano, Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Amr Moussa, and Ralph Bunche.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Alfonso García Robles ranks 68Before him are Akira Yoshizawa, Nicholas Ray, Dieter Wisliceny, Stanisława Walasiewicz, Lina Heydrich, and Karl Silberbauer. After him are Feodor Lynen, Lee J. Cobb, Princess Isabelle of Orléans-Braganza, Luis Walter Alvarez, Jussi Björling, and William Stuart-Houston. Among people deceased in 1991, Alfonso García Robles ranks 51Before him are Salvador Luria, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Shapour Bakhtiar, Richard Stone, Tony Richardson, and Robert Maxwell. After him are Princess Ileana of Romania, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Roddenberry, Christian de Castries, George Stigler, and Aladár Gerevich.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Alfonso García Robles ranks 55 out of 729Before him are Chespirito (1929), Vicente Guerrero (1782), Ahuitzotl (1486), Guadalupe Victoria (1786), José María Morelos (1765), and Dolores del Río (1905). After him are Nezahualcoyotl (1402), Acamapichtli (1325), Luis Echeverría (1922), Helena Rojo (1944), Axayacatl (1449), and Antonio Carbajal (1929).

Among DIPLOMATS In Mexico

Among diplomats born in Mexico, Alfonso García Robles ranks 1