Who were some famous people or rulers or kings or presidents or etc from Panamas history?

Answer 1

Vasco Núñez de Balboa the explorer was one in the 16th century. Panama was a Spanish colony and afterwards remained a part of Colombia until 1903 and then owed its independence largely to the USA supporting the movement to separate Panama from Colombia. Afterwards it was effectively ruled by a group of powerful commercial families, until a miltary coup led by Omar Torrijos Herrera ousted the then ruling president Arias. Omar Torrijos remained in power from 1968 as leader of the military junta until he died in a plane crash in 1981. Panama had no indigenous kings, only the kings of Spain during the colonial period. Of them, Philip II was the only historically 'important' king.