List of persons declared persona non grata

Persona non grata (Latin, plural: personae non gratae), literally meaning "an unwelcome person", is a legal term used in diplomacy that indicates a proscription against a foreign person entering or remaining in the country. It is the most serious form of censure which one country can apply to foreign diplomats, who are otherwise protected by diplomatic immunity from arrest and other normal kinds of prosecution.

• The Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 included the list of 150 personae non gratae of Turkey, which forbade the entry of mainly a group of former Ottoman Empire officials and AbOUT 100 other persons to Turkey, until the lifting of this status in 1938.
• Kurt Waldheim, former Secretary-General of the United Nations and President of Austria, and his wife were given persona non grata status in the U.S. and other countries when he was accused of having known about [...] war crimes and not having done anything about them.
• In September 1952, the American Ambassador to the Soviet Union, George F. Kennan, was declared persona non grata after making a statement which the Soviets believed linked them to [...] Germany. The Soviets refused to allow Kennan to reenter the Soviet Union.
• In 1995, Croatia declared Carl Bildt a persona non grata announcing that he had "lost the credibility necessary for the role of a peace mediator". Bildt had suggested that the President of Croatia, Franjo Tuđman was as guilty of war crimes as the Krajina Serb leader, Milan Martić.
• In 2007, the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands House of Representatives voted a Saipan resident and US citizen, Ron Hodges, persona non grata by resolution. Hodges was castigated for his letter writing campaign critical of CNMI governance and abuses against alien workers, entitled Chamberonomics. His letters supported a US takeover of CNMI labor and immigration. Labor and human abuses in the CNMI garment industry had long been the subject of international criticism. The resolution's validity hinged on the question of CNMI sovereignty, but was never enforced and became moot after President Bush signed PL-2739 into law, thus federalizing CNMI labor and immigration.
• In 2008, President of Bolivia Evo Morales declared U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg persona non grata, claiming that the U.S. government conspired against him and supported his opponents.
• Following Bolivia's expulsion of Goldberg, President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez declared U.S. Ambassador Patrick D. Duddy "persona non grata" in solidarity with Morales' action. Chavez did not cite any specific alleged infractions by Duddy.
• In October 2008 Serbia expelled ambassadors of Montenegro and the Republic of Macedonia after these countries recognized the independence of Kosovo. In November 2008 Serbia also expelled the ambassador from Malaysia after Malaysia recognized Kosovo's independence.
• On December 23, 2008 Fiji followed through on a threat to expel New Zealand's high commissioner to the island nation. The expulsion came a day after the interim Prime Minister of Fiji announced he would not expel New Zealand's top diplomat because he wanted to improve his relationship with New Zealand. In retaliation to the expulsion, New Zealand declared Fiji's High Commissioner in Wellington persona non grata, John Key already stating that there would be retaliatory action if its commissioner was expelled.
• In January 2009, following Venezuela expelling Israeli diplomats due to Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip, Israel ordered Venezuelan diplomats to leave the country, declaring them "persona non grata in Israel".
• In March 2009, President Evo Morales of Bolivia declared a member of the US embassy (political division) persona non grata.
• On April 8, 2009, President of Moldova Vladimir Voronin declared Romanian Ambassador Filip Teodorescu and Councilor-Minister, Ioan Gaborean, persona non grata, claiming that "their activity was inconsistent with their diplomatic status" after the Moldovan flag on the Parliament building was torn down and replaced with Romanian and EU flags during post-election riots in Moldova.
• On June 8, 2009, Russia declared Finnish diplomat Simo Pietiläinen, persona non grata, due to a controversial action by Pietiläinen where he smuggled Anton Salonen out of Russia following a long custody dispute between his Finnish father and Russian born lover.
• On August 21, 2009 Slovakia declared Hungarian President László Sólyom a persona non grata (this exact term was not used, only "unwelcome person", and he was not allowed to cross the border), on the day when the president had been due to unveil a statue of Saint Stephen of Hungary in Komárno. The date is the next day after the Hungarian national holiday celebrating the saint king. The main reason of the ban was that this date is also the day of the anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in which Hungary's armed forces also took part in order to crush the Prague Spring of 1968. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has also expressed his concerns that the president "attempted to stress the Hungarian statehood on sovereign Slovak soil".
• On November 3, 2009, the Prime Minister of Fiji declared Australian and New Zealand diplomats to Fiji persona non grata. In response, one day later the Australian and New Zealand Governments declared the respective Fijian Representatives persona non grata and they were given 24 hours to depart the country. The move came as international tension between Fiji and Australia/New Zealand intensified following a decision by Fijian Prime Minister – Commodore Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama's decision to indefinitely delay elections in the country.
• On January 8, 2010, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry declared Respect MP George Galloway "persona non grata" after he attempted to take 200 aid trucks into the Gaza Strip, along with international activists. He was subsequently deported from Egypt back to the UK.

• On March 30, 2011, The Kuwaiti Minister of Foreign Affairs, declared three Iranian diplomats, including the Ambassador, persona non grata for allegedly spying. Upon on orders from His Highness the Emir of Kuwait, the deputy prime minister, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, expelled the high ranking Iranian diplomats.

• On April 5, 2011, the Ecuador Ministry declared U.S. Ambassador Heather Hodges persona non grata after she did not provide sufficient answers about a leaked diplomatic cable related to Ecuador. In retaliation the U.S. declared the Ecuadorean Ambassador Luis Gallegos persona non grata on April 7, 2011.

• On May 1, 2011 The Libyan ambassador to the United Kingdom, Omar Jelban, was given 24 hours to leave the country after Foreign Secretary William Hague said he was "persona non grata". The expulsion was in response to attacks on British embassy premises in Tripoli following the death of Colonel Gaddafi's son in a NATO air strike.
• May 6, 2011 the fourteen Libyan ambassadors to France were declared personae non gratae because of "conduct and activities that are not compatible with the UN resolutions, particularly resolution 1973" and "going against the protection of Libyan civilians".
• On May 19, 2011 the Russian Foreign Ministry said Israel's military attaché to Moscow Col. Vadim Leiderman was declared persona non grata after being caught receiving secret information from a Russian citizen.