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Felipe González Márquez is a Spanish lawyer and politician born on 5 March 1942 in the Bellavista neighbourhood of Seville.
The son of Felipe González Helguera, a livestock dealer originally from Cantabria, and Juana Márquez Domínguez from Huelva, he grew up in a middle-class family.
Márquez studied law at the University of Seville, graduating in the mid-1960s, and also took a course in economics at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.