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Joaquín Navarro-Valls

1936 - 2017

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Joaquín Navarro-Valls, M.D. (16 November 1936 – 5 July 2017) was a Spanish journalist, physician and academic who served as the director of the Holy See Press Office from 1984 to 2006. His role as the press liaison between the Vatican and the world press corps gave him perhaps the highest visibility of any one person in the Vatican during the long reign of Pope John Paul II, with the exception of the Pope himself. He resigned his post 11 July 2006 and was replaced by Father Federico Lombardi. On 20 January 2007, he was named president of the board of advisers of the Biomedical University of Rome, an office he occupied until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Joaquín Navarro-Valls is the 38th most popular journalist (up from 48th in 2019), the 846th most popular biography from Spain (up from 1,036th in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Journalist.

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Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Joaquín Navarro-Valls ranks 38 out of 196. Before him are Kevin Carter, Edgar Snow, Harriet Quimby, Walker Evans, Diana Nyad, and Joe Rosenthal. After him are Aenne Burda, Marcelo H. del Pilar, James Foley, Letizia Battaglia, Sue Gardner, and Yuri Bezmenov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Joaquín Navarro-Valls ranks 194. Before him are Carla Bley, Slava Metreveli, Ferran Olivella, Antonio María Rouco Varela, Charles Napier, and Mala Sinha. After him are Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, Ivan Dias, Joe Don Baker, Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez, Glenn Murcutt, and José Policarpo. Among people deceased in 2017, Joaquín Navarro-Valls ranks 170. Before him are Maryam Mirzakhani, Henning Jensen, Quett Masire, Bayezid Osman, Jean d'Ormesson, and Claude Rich. After him are Aleksey Batalov, Ivan Dias, Umberto Lenzi, Daliah Lavi, Miloslav Vlk, and William Peter Blatty.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Joaquín Navarro-Valls ranks 846 out of 3,355. Before him are Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva (1895), Constanza Manuel (1315), Joaquín Almunia (1948), José Calvo Sotelo (1893), Ion Andoni Goikoetxea (1965), and Eleanor of Arborea (1340). After him are Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi (1076), Rocío Dúrcal (1944), Andrés Manuel del Río (1764), Ahmad al-Muqtadir (1050), Agobard (769), and Conchita Martínez (1972).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Spain

Among journalists born in Spain, Joaquín Navarro-Valls ranks 1. After him are Sara Carbonero (1984).

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