Pedro Gómez Valderrama (13 February 1923 - 7 May 1992) was a Colombian lawyer, writer and career diplomat, who served as the 1st Ambassador of Colombia to the Soviet Union

Ambassador of Colombia to Russia

The Ambassador of Colombia to Russia is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Colombia to the Russian Federation dually accredited as Non-Resident to the Republic of Belarus....

 and as Ambassador of Colombia to Spain

Ambassador of Colombia to Spain

The Ambassador of Colombia to Spain is the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Colombia to the Kingdom of Spain dually accredited as Non-Resident to the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, the Principality of Andorra, and the Kingdom of Morocco.The Ambassador is...

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Personal life

Born on 13 February 1932 in Bucaramanga

Bucaramanga

Bucaramanga is a Colombian city, and capital city of the department of Santander, Colombia. Bucaramanga has the fifth largest city economy and sixth largest population in Colombia, with 1,212,656 people in its metropolitan area...

, Santander

Santander Department

Santander is a department of Colombia. Santander inherited the name of one of the nine original states of the United States of Colombia. It is located in the central northern part of the country, east of the Magdalena River, bordered to the south and southeast by Boyacá, to the northeast by Norte...

, he was the eldest child of Pedro Alejandro Gómez Naranjo and Lucía Valderrama, his younger siblings were: Hernando, José Luis, Carmen Lucía, and Mariá Cecilia. He took after his father, who was a lawyer, politician, writer, and former Governor of Santander. He married Beatriz Vila Londoño with whom he had three children: Pedro Alejandro, Carlos Alberto, and Marcela.