Omar Torrijos

Omar Torrijos

male, deceased (1981)
came to power in a coup, Panamanian military commander, panamanian, Past leaders by coup, panama, panamacanal
Omar Efraín Torrijos Herrera was a Panamanian army officer and the de facto leader of Panama from 1968 to 1981. Torrijos never held elected office i...
Walter Reed

Walter Reed

male, deceased (1902)
Methodist, from Virginia, Congressional Gold Medal recipient, Entomologist, yellow fever, mosquito…panamacanal
Major Walter Reed, M.D., (September 13 1851 - November 23 1902) was a U.S. Army physician who in 1900 led the team which confirmed the theory...
Ferdinand de Lesseps

Ferdinand de Lesseps

male, deceased (1894)
suez canal, Member of the Académie française, French, diplomat, Member of the Académie des sciences, panamacanal
Ferdinand Marie Vicomte de Lesseps (November 191805-December 71894) was the maker of the Suez Canal, which joined the Mediterranean and Red Seas...
Alberto Aleman

Alberto Aleman

male
civil engineering, panamanian, panamacanal, panama city, Texas A & M University, Business Person
Alberto Aleman Zubieta is the current Administrator of the Panama Canal. Born in Panama City, Aleman obtained degrees in both industrial and civil...
Zbigniew Brzezinski

Zbigniew Brzezinski

male, 81 years old
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski, Geostrategist, Center for Strategic and International Studies, project for the new american century, Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Republican…panamacanal
Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski (born March 28, 1928, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish-American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who...
Robert Pastor

Robert Pastor

male, 62 years old
American University, North American Union, Center for North American Studies, Carter Center, panamacanal, United States National Security Advisor
Robert Pastor was the United States national security advisor on Latin America and the Caribbean under President Jimmy Carter. Pastor was nominated...
George Washington Goethals

George Washington Goethals

male, deceased (1928)
Goethals Medal, Staten Island, West Point graduate, civil engineer, engineer, United States Army general…Governor of Panama Canal Zone, panamacanal
George Washington Goethals [Go-tuhles] (29 June, 1858 - 21 January, 1928) was a United States Army officer and civil engineer, best known for his...

William C. Gorgas

male, deceased (1920)
from Alabama, United States Army, physician, Malaria, surgeon general, yellow fever…panamacanal
Major General William Crawford Gorgas (October 3, 1854, in Mobile, Alabama -- July 3, 1920, in London) was a United States physician and 22nd...
Sol M. Linowitz

Sol M. Linowitz

male, deceased (2005)
Hamilton College, Businessman, panamacanal, American, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, Sol Myron Linowitz…panama, Panama Canal Treaties
Sol M. Linowitz (deceased 1913-2005) was "a 1938 graduate of the Cornell Law School. A cofounder and former chairman of the Xerox Corporation,...
William Nelson Cromwell

William Nelson Cromwell

male, deceased (1948)
Columbia University alumni, Columbia Law School, American, panamacanal, entrepreneur, New York lawyer
William Nelson Cromwell (1854-1948) was an American attorney active in promotion of the Panama Canal and other major ventures. He was born in...