Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. A person who is not welcome, especially a diplomat in a foreign country.
WordNet
n. a diplomat who is unacceptable to the government to which he is sent
a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome [syn: unwelcome person]
Wikipedia
In diplomacy, the term persona non grata ( Latin, plural: personae non gratae), literally meaning "person not appreciated", refers to a foreign person whose entering or remaining in a particular country is prohibited by that country's government. 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.
Persona Non Grata is a 2003 documentary film directed by Oliver Stone for the HBO series America Undercover about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. It includes interviews with Israeli Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, and various Palestinian activists.
Persona Non Grata is the third studio release by Dutch crossover band Urban Dance Squad. With the departure of DJ DNA, the band decided to maintain a more aggressive approach than on their previous two albums, resulting in their most hard rock and heavy metal influenced album. The stylistic change resulted in some moderate success in Europe. The album was released in April 1994. The song "Demagogue" became a European club hit. The album was reissued in 1999 as a 2-CD set with the second CD consisting of live material.
Persona Non Grata is a 2015 Japanese historical drama. It depicts a life of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who was appointed a vice-consul and later a consul in Lithuania and served there from 1939 to 1940 and who saved lives of some 6,000 Jewish refugees by issuing transit visas to Japanese Empire.
Even though most of the film is set in Interwar Lithuania, various places in Poland were chosen for filming.
Usage examples of "persona non grata".
While he could have been declared persona non grata, this could not have been done without his father's knowledge, and, furthermore, would have caused the usual diplo.
But, when they sent him to Afghanistan as persona non grata, he must have added a low-level patch to the compiler….
The man was persona non grata, virtually on the run, and stealing an Army truck .
Agent Bradford had made it very clear that I was persona non grata.
If I can go to the sale and bowl him out and we've got the place covered with cameras, and the auction records, we can get the FO to declare him persona non grata inside a week.
If I might inquire, since we're so persona non grata, what brings you here at all?
If a diplomat is exposed he can be declared persona non grata and expelled.