The Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero ( es, Orden de Manuel Amador Guerrero) is the highest

honour Honour (British English) or honor (American English; see spelling differences) is the idea of a bond between an individual and a society as a quality of a person that is both of social teaching and of personal ethos, that manifests itself as a ...

Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cost ...

. 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 Turb ...

, 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 Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; 21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022) was Queen of the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth realms from 6 February 1952 until her death in 2022. She was queen regnant of 32 sovereign states during ...

, Queen of 7 States at the time of appointment, 29 November 1953 *

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, Yugoslav Marshal and President of the

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, 15 March 1976 * Don

Juan Carlos I Juan Carlos I (;, * ca, Joan Carles I, * gl, Xoán Carlos I, Juan Carlos Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón y Borbón-Dos Sicilias, born 5 January 1938) is a member of the Spanish royal family who reigned as King of Spain from 22 Novem ...

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, 16 September 1977 * Fra'

Andrew Bertie Andrew Willoughby Ninian Bertie (15 May 1929 – 7 February 2008) was Prince and Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta from 1988 until his death in 2008. On 20 February 2015 a formal inquiry for the cause of his beatificat ...

, Grand-Master of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, 2000 *

Fernando Henrique Cardoso Fernando Henrique Cardoso (; born 18 June 1931), also known by his initials FHC (), is a Brazilian sociologist, professor and politician who served as the 34th president of Brazil from 1 January 1995 to 31 December 2002. He was the first Brazi ...

, President of the

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, 8 August 2001 *

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, Sovereign

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* Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo, former President of the

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Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira (; 12 September 1902 – 22 August 1976), also known by his initials JK, was a prominent Brazilian politician who served as the 21st president of Brazil from 1956 to 1961. His term was marked by economic prosp ...

, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil *

Nicos Anastasiades Nicos Anastasiades ( el, Νίκος Αναστασιάδης ; born 27 September 1946) is a Cypriot politician who is the current president of Cyprus since 2013. He was re-elected in 2018. Previously, he was the leader of Democratic Rally betw ...

, President of Cyprus, 23 July 2013

Grand-Cross

Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (born Prince Philip of Greece and Denmark, later Philip Mountbatten; 10 June 1921 – 9 April 2021) was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II. As such, he served as the consort of the British monarch from E ...

, Prince Consort of 7 States at the time of appointment, 29 November 1953 * Carlos González Parrodi, 1981 *

Carmen Romano Carmen Romano de López Portillo (born Carmen Romano Nolk; 10 February 1926 – 9 May 2000) was the First Lady of Mexico from 1976 to 1982. She was the first wife of Mexican president José López Portillo. Personal life and death In the 19 ...

, 1981 * Alfonso de Rosenzweig Díaz, 1981 * Luis G. Zorrilla, 1981 *

Fredrick Chien Fredrick F. Chien, or Fred Chien, Chien Foo (; born 21 March 1935), is a retired Taiwanese diplomat and politician who served as the President of the Republic of China Control Yuan from 1999 to 2005. After graduating from Yale University, he a ...

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of the

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, 1994 * Eduardo Valdés Escoffery, 1994 *

Howard Baker Howard Henry Baker Jr. (November 15, 1925 June 26, 2014) was an American politician and diplomat who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1967 to 1985. During his tenure, he rose to the rank of Senate Minority Leader and then ...

Jr., 2001 * Dionisio de Gracia Guillén, 2001 * Suleiman Tayeb Ahmed Salem, 24 January 2008 * Juan Daniel Alemán, General Secretary of the Central American Integration System, 11 October 2010 * Juan Pablo de Laiglesia, 18 November 2011 *

Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem ( el, Πατριάρχης Ιεροσολύμων Θεόφιλος Γ'; ar, غبطة بطريرك المدينة المقدسة اورشليم وسائر أعمال فلسطين كيريوس كيريوس � ...

, 1 June 2012 *

Yuan-Tseh Lee Yuan Tseh Lee (; born 19 November 1936) is a Taiwanese chemist and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the first Taiwanese Nobel Prize laureate who, along with the Hungarian-Canadian John C. Polanyi and Americ ...

, 17 October 2012 * Lawrence Edward Chewning Fábrega, Ambassador to the

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and

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18 August 2014 * Dionisio Johnson, 30 December 2015

Grand-Officer

* Sir Anthony Bailey, interfaith campaigner * Martin D. Young * Sir

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, 11 March 2003 * Paxson Offield, 2005 * Robert Berry, 2005 * Elsie Alvarado de Ricord, 2005 * Eric Douglas Green, 17 October 2012 *

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, President of the United States of America

Commander

* Jorge Illueca, sometime President of the

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José López Portillo José Guillermo Abel López Portillo y Pacheco (; 16 June 1920 – 17 February 2004) was a Mexican writer, lawyer and politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) who served as the 58th president of Mexico from 1976 t ...

, President of the Mexican United States, 1981 *

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, President of the

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, 1994 *

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, later President of the

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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 *

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, 27 November 2001 * Harriet Mayor Fulbright *

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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 David Rockefeller (June 12, 1915 – March 20, 2017) was an American investment banker who served as chairman and chief executive of Chase Manhattan Corporation. He was the oldest living member of the third generation of the Rockefeller family, ...

* Harold Christian Hofmann 2007 * Luis Anderson McNeil

References

{{reflist Orders, decorations, and medals of Panama Manuel Amador Guerrero, Order of Awards established in 1953 1953 establishments in Panama