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Iñaki Urdangarin

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Iñaki Urdangarin Liebaert (born 15 January 1968) is a retired Spanish handball player turned entrepreneur and the former husband of Infanta Cristina, younger daughter of King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía. He was the brother-in-law of King Felipe VI. Urdangarin was convicted in the Nóos case for embezzling about 6 million euros in public funds for sporting events through his nonprofit foundation beginning in 2004, and for political corruption by misusing his former courtesy title of consort Duke of Palma de Mallorca as the husband of Infanta Cristina. In June 2018 he was sentenced to 5 years and 10 months in prison; he was initially imprisoned in Ávila, but as of 2021 he was on supervised release. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Iñaki Urdangarin is the 12,876th most popular politician (down from 10,572nd in 2019), the 1,219th most popular biography from Spain (down from 983rd in 2019) and the 344th most popular Spanish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Iñaki Urdangarin ranks 12,876 out of 19,576Before him are Álvaro de Luna, 1st Duke of Trujillo, J. B. M. Hertzog, Alfred Deakin, Glenn Youngkin, Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov, and Jusuf Kalla. After him are Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Dorin Recean, Sao Shwe Thaik, John V, Margrave of Brandenburg-Salzwedel, John Diefenbaker, and Frederick II of Legnica.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Iñaki Urdangarin ranks 134Before him are Frédéric Vasseur, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Stephanie Seymour, Jorja Fox, and Maria Grazia Cucinotta. After him are Petr Korda, Kelly Hu, Boban Babunski, Casper Van Dien, Dragana Mirković, and David Gray.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Iñaki Urdangarin ranks 1,219 out of 3,355Before him are Ferran Adrià (1962), Luis Vélez de Guevara (1579), Juan Mata (1988), José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca (1728), Antón Lamazares (1954), and Txillardegi (1929). After him are Ferran Torres (2000), Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (1824), Pero López de Ayala (1332), Enrique Mateos (1934), José Antonio Pavón Jiménez (1754), and Isacio Calleja (1936).

Among POLITICIANS In Spain

Among politicians born in Spain, Iñaki Urdangarin ranks 344Before him are Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuán (1809), Victoria Kent (1891), Eduardo Dato (1856), Ángel María Villar (1950), Emilio Castelar (1832), and José Moñino, 1st Count of Floridablanca (1728). After him are Pero López de Ayala (1332), Baltasar Hidalgo de Cisneros (1756), Arsenio Martínez Campos (1831), Víctor Balaguer i Cirera (1824), Pablo Iglesias Posse (1850), and Alberto Núñez Feijóo (1961).