Patricio Samper Gnecco | |
Ambassador From: | Colombia |
Country: | Israel |
Term Start: | 1993 |
Term End: | 2 May 2001 |
Predecessor: | Alfonso Valdivieso Sarmiento |
Successor: | David de La Rosa Pérez |
President: | César Gaviria Trujillo |
Ambassador From2: | Colombia |
Country2: | Bulgaria |
Term Start2: | 1992 |
Term End2: | 1993 |
Predecessor2: | Evelio Ramírez Martínez |
President2: | Andrés Pastrana Arango |
Birth Date: | 1 November 1930 |
Birth Place: | Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
Death Place: | Bogotá, D.C., Colombia |
Nationality: | Colombian |
Party: | New Liberalism |
Alma Mater: | National University of Colombia (BArch) |
Profession: | Architect |
Patricio Samper Gnecco (1 November 1930 - 5 January 2006) was a Colombia architect, urbanist and politician. A former Ambassador of Colombia to Israel and former Ambassador of Colombia to Bulgaria, he also served as Councilman for Bogotá from 1980 until 1990.
Patricio was born on 1 November 1930 in Bogotá[1] to Santiago Samper Ortega descendant of the O'Donnell dynasty and Blanca Gnecco Fallón.[2] He married Beatriz Elvira Salazar Camacho with whom he had eight children, Santiago, Jerónimo, Ana María, Mónica, Fernando, Arturo, Paula, and Guillermo;[2] they later separated. He later remarried to Genoveva Carrasco with whom he had two children, Estefanía and Simón.[2] After the death of his second wife in 1995, he remarried to Maria José de F Rodrigues who survived him after his death on 5 January 2006 in Bogotá. He was a cousin of Ernesto Samper Pizano