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Aleksandar Ranković

1909 - 1983

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Aleksandar Ranković Leka (nom de guerre Marko; Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Ранковић Лека; 28 November 1909 – 19 August 1983) was a Serbian and Yugoslav communist politician, considered to be the third most powerful man in Yugoslavia after Josip Broz Tito and Edvard Kardelj. Ranković was a proponent of a centralized Yugoslavia and opposed efforts that promoted decentralization that he deemed to be against the interests of the Serbian people; he ensured Serbs had a strong presence in Serbia's Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo's nomenklatura. Ranković cautioned against separatist forces in Kosovo who were commonly suspected of pursuing seditious activities.The popularity of Ranković in Serbia became apparent at his funeral in 1983, which large numbers of people attended. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleksandar Ranković has received more than 264,961 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Aleksandar Ranković is the 3,291st most popular politician (down from 3,030th in 2019), the 48th most popular biography from Serbia (down from 46th in 2019) and the 35th most popular Serbian Politician.

Aleksandar Ranković was the Yugoslav Minister of the Interior from 1966 to 1969, and he is most famous for his role in the suppression of the Croatian Spring movement.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Aleksandar Ranković ranks 3,291 out of 15,577Before him are Mihnea cel Rău, William II of Holland, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, Cordell Hull, Henry II, Count of Champagne, and Gottlob Berger. After him are Lady Margaret Beaufort, Otto I, Duke of Saxony, Yasuo Fukuda, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, and Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Aleksandar Ranković ranks 33Before him are Marinus van der Lubbe, Magda Schneider, Souphanouvong, Virginia Apgar, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and Jessica Tandy. After him are Leo Fender, Stanislaw Ulam, Ernst vom Rath, Matt Busby, Hélder Câmara, and László Rajk. Among people deceased in 1983, Aleksandar Ranković ranks 26Before him are Gerhard Barkhorn, Buckminster Fuller, Alfred Tarski, John Fante, Anna Seghers, and George Balanchine. After him are Muddy Waters, Haldan Keffer Hartline, Ulf von Euler, Robert Aldrich, Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado, and Prince Charles, Count of Flanders.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Aleksandar Ranković ranks 48 out of 564Before him are Milan Nedić (1878), Krum (710), Milorad Pavić (1929), Tomislav Nikolić (1952), Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia (1806), and Mihajlo Pupin (1858). After him are Dragan Džajić (1946), Bora Milutinović (1944), Milena Dravić (1940), Aleksandar Vučić (1970), Danilo Kiš (1935), and Vesna Vulović (1950).

Among POLITICIANS In Serbia

Among politicians born in Serbia, Aleksandar Ranković ranks 35Before him are Quintillus (220), Nikola Pašić (1845), Milan Nedić (1878), Krum (710), Tomislav Nikolić (1952), and Alexander Karađorđević, Prince of Serbia (1806). After him are Aleksandar Vučić (1970), Mihailo Obrenović (1823), Radomir Putnik (1847), Borisav Jović (1928), Dušan Simović (1882), and Şehsuvar Sultan (1682).