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Alberto Granado

1922 - 2011

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Alberto Granado Jiménez (August 8, 1922 – March 5, 2011) was an Argentine–Cuban biochemist, doctor, writer, and scientist. He was also the youthful friend and traveling companion of Che Guevara during their 1952 motorcycle tour in Latin America. Granado later founded the University of Santiago de Cuba School of Medicine. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alberto Granado has received more than 381,779 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Alberto Granado is the 305th most popular companion (down from 256th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from Argentina (down from 35th in 2019) and the most popular Argentinean Companion.

Alberto Granado is most famous for being a friend and companion to the famous revolutionary, Ernesto "Che" Guevara.

Memorability Metrics

  • 380k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.61

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Alberto Granado ranks 305 out of 784. Before him are Farida of Egypt, Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies, Melania Trump, Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Irene Angelina, and Juana Enríquez. After him are Queen Anne of Romania, Charlotte, Princess Royal, Margaret Leijonhufvud, Charles I, Duke of Bourbon, Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, and Julia Drusilla.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Alberto Granado ranks 59. Before him are Robert W. Holley, Juan Antonio Villacañas, Mao Anying, Francesco Rosi, Jake LaMotta, and Blake Edwards. After him are Oskar Werner, Marek Edelman, Ken Noritake, Hussein-Ali Montazeri, Lucian Freud, and Ugo Tognazzi. Among people deceased in 2011, Alberto Granado ranks 52. Before him are Gunter Sachs, Richard Winters, Leonora Carrington, Aristides Pereira, Diana Wynne Jones, and Ante Marković. After him are Pete Postlethwaite, Linda Christian, Lucian Freud, Maria Schneider, Valentin Ivanov, and William Lipscomb.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Alberto Granado ranks 53 out of 1,154. Before him are Violet Jessop (1887), Carlos Monzón (1942), Jorge Valdano (1955), Manuel Belgrano (1770), Raimundo Orsi (1901), and Ramón Díaz (1959). After him are Eduardo Duhalde (1941), Francisco Varallo (1910), Adolfo Pérez Esquivel (1931), Carlos Saavedra Lamas (1878), Ernesto Laclau (1935), and Isabel Sarli (1929).

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Among COMPANIONS In Argentina

Among companions born in Argentina, Alberto Granado ranks 1. After him are Queen Máxima of the Netherlands (1971), and Juliana Awada (1974).

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