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Gregorio Fuentes

1897 - 2002

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G.L Fuentes (July 11, 1897 – January 13, 2002) was a fisherman and the first mate of the Pilar, the boat belonging to the American writer Ernest Hemingway. Fuentes was born in Arrecife on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. He first went to sea as deck boy with his father at age 10. As a teenager, he worked on cargo ships out of the Canary Islands to Trinidad and Puerto Rico, and from the Spanish ports of Valencia and Sevilla to South America. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gregorio Fuentes is the 53rd most popular pilot (up from 55th in 2019), the 1,551st most popular biography from Spain (up from 1,611th in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Pilot.

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Among PILOTS

Among pilots, Gregorio Fuentes ranks 53 out of 71Before him are Natalya Meklin, Vladimir Kokkinaki, Maguba Syrtlanova, Anna Yegorova, Nikolai Kamanin, and Mariya Dolina. After him are Stasys Girėnas, Tatyana Makarova, Wally Funk, Maryse Bastié, Hélène Boucher, and Adrienne Bolland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Gregorio Fuentes ranks 241Before him are Henri Frankfort, Edgard Colle, Pixinguinha, Ossi Oswalda, Sabino Bilbao, and Choʻlpon. After him are Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer, Isabel Briggs Myers, Nils Asther, Dorothy Arzner, Dorothy Shepherd-Barron, and Émile Albrecht. Among people deceased in 2002, Gregorio Fuentes ranks 233Before him are Lance Macklin, Eugen Meier, Marcel Hansenne, Stephen E. Ambrose, Mahmoud Fayad, and Zoran Janković. After him are Rui Campos, Čestmír Vycpálek, Alexander Kazantsev, Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal, Mustafa Mansour, and Eduard Gufeld.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Gregorio Fuentes ranks 1,551 out of 3,355Before him are Juan Manuel Lillo (1965), Francesca Bonnemaison i Farriols (1872), Juan de Mena (1411), Ángel Atienza (1931), Luis Marín (1906), and José Callejón (1987). After him are Emilio Rodríguez (1923), Antonio Creus (1924), Ángel Ganivet (1865), Abel Resino (1960), León Felipe (1884), and Antonia San Juan (1961).

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Among pilots born in Spain, Gregorio Fuentes ranks 1