José María Maravall Herrero

José María Maravall Herrero (born 1942 in Madrid) is a Spanish academic and politician of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE). Maravall was Spanish Minister of Education and Science between 1982 and 1988, and was elected to the Spanish Parliament in 1986, representing Valencia Province. Maravall eventually returned to academic life, where he has continued his study of politics. As of 2010, he serves on the Advisory Council of the Juan March Institute, is a Professor of Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid, an Honorary Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Maravall holds doctorates from both the Complutense University of Madrid and Oxford, as well as an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Warwick. He has been a Research Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and Senior Lecturer at the University of Warwick. He is a "Commandeur de l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques" in France and has won the National Award for Political Science and Sociology in Spain.

José María

José María (abbreviated José Mª) is a Spanish language male given name, usually considered a single given name rather than two names, and is a combination of the Spanish names of Joseph and Mary, the parents of Jesus Christ. The separate names "José" for males and "María" for females also exist in the Spanish language. They can also combine in the inverse order forming the female name "María José" (M.ª José); that is, the gender of the compound names "José María" and "María José" is determined by their first component. The name "José María" is colloquially shortened to "José Mari", "Josema" or replaced by the hypocoristic forms "Chema" or "Chemari".

"José María", with its Portuguese language equivalent José Maria (notice the absence of the acute accent over the i in the Portuguese version) is a common name, and many famous people have this name or a similar one:

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