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Álvaro Colom

1951 - 2023

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Álvaro Colom Caballeros (Spanish: [ˈalβaɾo koˈlon]; 15 June 1951 – 23 January 2023) was a Guatemalan engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the 47th president of Guatemala from 2008 to 2012, as well as the General-Secretary of the political party, National Unity of Hope (UNE). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Álvaro Colom has received more than 249,270 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Álvaro Colom is the 9,853rd most popular politician (up from 11,880th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Guatemala (up from 15th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Guatemalan Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Álvaro Colom ranks 9,853 out of 19,576Before him are Francesco Dandolo, Alexander Ypsilantis, Vasily of Kostroma, Sextus Julius Caesar, Pavel Kiselyov, and Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg. After him are Takizawa Bakin, Anton Ulrich, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen, Helena, Mithridates IV of Parthia, Elisabeth of Bavaria, Electress of Saxony, and Ulrich V, Count of Württemberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Álvaro Colom ranks 154Before him are Orson Scott Card, David Kabua, Tony Danza, Alec John Such, Mick Mars, and Francesco Moser. After him are Alvin E. Roth, Mihai Ghimpu, Hans-Joachim Stuck, Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed, Angelique Rockas, and Zeudi Araya. Among people deceased in 2023, Álvaro Colom ranks 235Before him are Jean-Jacques Honorat, Marinho Peres, Hugh Hudson, Anton Tus, Frederic Forrest, and Kenneth Anger. After him are Richard Belzer, Carmen Sevilla, Peter Bieri, Giovanni Lodetti, Sherif Ismail, and Vera Vasilyeva.

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In Guatemala

Among people born in Guatemala, Álvaro Colom ranks 11 out of 44Before him are Carlos Castillo Armas (1914), Alejandro Giammattei (1956), Juan José Arévalo (1904), Jorge Ubico (1878), Rafael Carrera (1814), and Otto Pérez Molina (1950). After him are Oscar Isaac (1979), Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes (1895), Alejandro Maldonado (1936), Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1857), Óscar Berger (1946), and Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores (1930).

Among POLITICIANS In Guatemala

Among politicians born in Guatemala, Álvaro Colom ranks 9Before him are Carlos Castillo Armas (1914), Alejandro Giammattei (1956), Juan José Arévalo (1904), Jorge Ubico (1878), Rafael Carrera (1814), and Otto Pérez Molina (1950). After him are Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes (1895), Alejandro Maldonado (1936), Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1857), Óscar Berger (1946), Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores (1930), and Álvaro Arzú (1946).