Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero

Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero
The Order of Manuel Amador Guerrero is the highest honour of Panama. Named after Manuel Amador Guerrero, 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, Queen of 7 States at the time of appointment, 29 November 1953
Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav Marshal and President of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 15 March 1976
Don Juan Carlos I, King of Spain, 16 September 1977
Fra' Andrew Bertie, Grand-Master of the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, 2000
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, 8 August 2001
Akihito, Emperor of Japan
Rainier III, Sovereign Prince of Monaco
Julio María Sanguinetti Coirolo, former President of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay
Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil
Nicos Anastasiades, President of Cyprus, 23 July 2013
Grand-Cross
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Consort of 7 States at the time of appointment, 29 November 1953
Carlos González Parrodi, 1981
Carmen Romano, 1981
Alfonso de Rosenzweig Díaz, 1981
Luis G. Zorrilla, 1981
Fredrick Chien, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China, 1994
Eduardo Valdés Escoffery, 1994
Howard Baker 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, 1 June 2012
Yuan-Tseh Lee, 17 October 2012
Lawrence Edward Chewning Fábrega, Ambassador to the Organization of American States and Vatican City 18 August 2014
Dionisio Johnson, 30 December 2015
Grand-Officer
Anthony Bailey, interfaith campaigner, 2004
Martin D. Young
Sir Sean Connery, 11 March 2003
Paxson Offield, 2005
Robert Berry, 2005
Elsie Alvarado de Ricord, 2005
Eric Douglas Green, 17 October 2012
Dwight D. Eisenhower, President of the United States of America
Commander
Jorge Illueca, sometime President of the Republic of Panama
José López Portillo, President of the Mexican United States, 1981
Carlos Menem, President of the Argentine Republic, 1994
Sebastián Piñera, later President of the Republic of Chile, 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
Fire Department of New York, 27 November 2001
Harriet Mayor Fulbright
Jimmy Carter, 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
Harold Christian Hofmann 2007
Luis Anderson McNeil
References
Orders, decorations, and medals of Panama
Manuel Amador Guerrero, Order of
Awards established in 1953
1953 establishments in Panama