Diego Hidalgo Schnur (5 November 1942) is a Spanish philanthropist, intellectual and businessman.[1] He is the son of Diego Hidalgo y Durán (1886-1961), who was a prominent jurist, author, intellectual and Minister of War under the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1936), and of Gerda Schnur de Hidalgo (1910-1969), also an intellectual who lived in Paris from 1926 and 1939.[2] He speaks several languages, and is fluent in Spanish, French, English.