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Alberto Granado

1922 - 2011

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Alberto Granado Jiménez (Spanish: [alˈβeɾto ɣɾaˈnaðo xiˈmenes]; August 8, 1922 – March 5, 2011) was an Argentine–Cuban biochemist, doctor, author, and scientist. A youthful friend and traveling companion of Che Guevara during their 1952 motorcycle tour in Latin America, Granado later founded the University of Santiago de Cuba School of Medicine. He authored the memoir Traveling with Che Guevara: The Making of a Revolutionary, which served as a reference for the 2004 film The Motorcycle Diaries, in which he was played by Rodrigo de la Serna. An elderly Alberto Granado makes a short appearance at the end of the film. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alberto Granado is the 292nd most popular companion (up from 305th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Argentina and the 2nd most popular Argentinean Companion.

Alberto Granado is most famous for being a friend and companion to the famous revolutionary, Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

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Among companions, Alberto Granado ranks 292 out of 784. Before him are Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Hümaşah Sultan, Maria Barbara Bach, Princess Zorka of Montenegro, Bertrade de Montfort, and Clodia Pulchra. After him are Olivera Despina, Kaya Sultan, Hannah Pick-Goslar, Marie of Brabant, Queen of France, Milena Vukotić, and Flavia Maximiana Theodora.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Alberto Granado ranks 58. Before him are Renata Tebaldi, Yang Chen-Ning, Cornelius Castoriadis, Betty White, Michel Galabru, and Arthur Penn. After him are Barbara Bel Geddes, Ugo Tognazzi, Blake Edwards, Francesco Rosi, Ken Noritake, and Bernardin Gantin. Among people deceased in 2011, Alberto Granado ranks 56. Before him are Linda Christian, Ante Marković, Aristides Pereira, Yelena Bonner, Leonora Carrington, and Tomislav Ivić. After him are Masahiro Hamazaki, Itamar Franco, Diana Wynne Jones, Jorge Semprún, Frans Sammut, and Roberts Blossom.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Alberto Granado ranks 53 out of 1,154. Before him are Hipólito Yrigoyen (1852), Francisco Varallo (1910), Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878), Violet Jessop (1887), Roberto Eduardo Viola (1924), and Luis Galván (1948). After him are Mauricio Macri (1959), Bernardo Houssay (1887), Hugo Gatti (1944), Raimundo Orsi (1901), Guillermo Vilas (1952), and Ernesto Laclau (1935).

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Among COMPANIONS In Argentina

Among companions born in Argentina, Alberto Granado ranks 2. Before him are Queen Máxima of the Netherlands (1971). After him are Juliana Awada (1974).

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