1874 - 1944
Antanas Smetona (Lithuanian: [ɐnˈtǎːnɐs sʲmʲɛtoːˈnɐ] ; 10 August 1874 – 9 January 1944) was a Lithuanian intellectual, journalist and politician who served as the first president of Lithuania from 1919 to 1920 and again from 1926 until the Soviet occupation of Lithuania in 1940. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antanas Smetona has received more than 357,801 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Antanas Smetona is the 2,166th most popular politician (up from 2,598th in 2019), the 18th most popular biography from Lithuania (up from 20th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Lithuanian Politician.
Antanas Smetona was a Lithuanian politician who served as the President of Lithuania from 1926 to 1940. He is most famous for his efforts to establish an independent Lithuanian state.
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Among politicians, Antanas Smetona ranks 2,166 out of 15,577. Before him are Peter, King of Hungary, Robert, King of Naples, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Alfonso III of Asturias, Bill de Blasio, and Haakon the Good. After him are Tianqi Emperor, Mara Branković, Risto Ryti, Fuad Masum, Lugal-zage-si, and Moshe Katsav.
1011 - 1050
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 2,160
1277 - 1343
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 2,161
1860 - 1941
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 2,162
848 - 910
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 2,163
1961 - Present
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 2,164
918 - 961
HPI: 64.52
Rank: 2,165
1874 - 1944
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 2,166
1605 - 1627
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 2,167
1416 - 1487
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 2,168
1889 - 1956
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 2,169
1938 - Present
HPI: 64.50
Rank: 2,170
2360 BC - 2335 BC
HPI: 64.49
Rank: 2,171
1945 - Present
HPI: 64.49
Rank: 2,172
Among people born in 1874, Antanas Smetona ranks 30. Before him are Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Nicholas Roerich, August Krogh, Gustav Holst, Konstantin Päts, and Karl Kraus. After him are Inessa Armand, Reinhold Glière, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Josef Suk, Abbas II of Egypt, and Auguste Perret. Among people deceased in 1944, Antanas Smetona ranks 37. Before him are Louis Renault, Erich Hoepner, Kasturba Gandhi, Aristide Maillol, Wang Jingwei, and Arthur Eddington. After him are Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Werner von Haeften, Gustav Bauer, Hilma af Klint, Giovanni Gentile, and Pehr Evind Svinhufvud.
1874 - 1929
HPI: 66.11
Rank: 24
1874 - 1947
HPI: 66.06
Rank: 25
1874 - 1949
HPI: 65.16
Rank: 26
1874 - 1934
HPI: 64.93
Rank: 27
1874 - 1956
HPI: 64.90
Rank: 28
1874 - 1936
HPI: 64.74
Rank: 29
1874 - 1944
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 30
1874 - 1920
HPI: 62.97
Rank: 31
1874 - 1956
HPI: 62.80
Rank: 32
1874 - 1940
HPI: 62.52
Rank: 33
1874 - 1935
HPI: 62.31
Rank: 34
1874 - 1944
HPI: 62.26
Rank: 35
1874 - 1954
HPI: 61.09
Rank: 36
1877 - 1944
HPI: 65.34
Rank: 31
1886 - 1944
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 32
1869 - 1944
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 33
1861 - 1944
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 34
1883 - 1944
HPI: 64.86
Rank: 35
1882 - 1944
HPI: 64.66
Rank: 36
1874 - 1944
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 37
1863 - 1944
HPI: 64.49
Rank: 38
1908 - 1944
HPI: 64.12
Rank: 39
1870 - 1944
HPI: 63.95
Rank: 40
1862 - 1944
HPI: 63.93
Rank: 41
1875 - 1944
HPI: 63.43
Rank: 42
1861 - 1944
HPI: 63.38
Rank: 43
Among people born in Lithuania, Antanas Smetona ranks 18 out of 287. Before him are César Cui (1835), Pyotr Wrangel (1878), Kęstutis (1297), Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858), Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875), and Petr Shelokhonov (1929). After him are Jascha Heifetz (1901), Barbara Radziwiłł (1520), Marija Gimbutas (1921), Vytautas Landsbergis (1932), Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), and Valdas Adamkus (1926).
1835 - 1918
HPI: 66.25
Rank: 12
1878 - 1928
HPI: 65.86
Rank: 13
1297 - 1382
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 14
1858 - 1922
HPI: 65.28
Rank: 15
1875 - 1911
HPI: 65.23
Rank: 16
1929 - 1999
HPI: 65.04
Rank: 17
1874 - 1944
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 18
1901 - 1987
HPI: 64.48
Rank: 19
1520 - 1551
HPI: 64.00
Rank: 20
1921 - 1994
HPI: 63.61
Rank: 21
1932 - Present
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 22
1904 - 1936
HPI: 63.22
Rank: 23
1926 - Present
HPI: 63.08
Rank: 24
Among politicians born in Lithuania, Antanas Smetona ranks 8. Before him are Józef Piłsudski (1867), Vytautas (1352), Mindaugas (1203), Gediminas (1275), Algirdas (1296), and Kęstutis (1297). After him are Vytautas Landsbergis (1932), Valdas Adamkus (1926), Algirdas Brazauskas (1932), Gabriel Narutowicz (1865), Dalia Grybauskaitė (1956), and Sigismund Kęstutaitis (1365).
1867 - 1935
HPI: 72.75
Rank: 2
1352 - 1430
HPI: 71.60
Rank: 3
1203 - 1263
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 4
1275 - 1341
HPI: 69.66
Rank: 5
1296 - 1377
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 6
1297 - 1382
HPI: 65.66
Rank: 7
1874 - 1944
HPI: 64.51
Rank: 8
1932 - Present
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 9
1926 - Present
HPI: 63.08
Rank: 10
1932 - 2010
HPI: 62.00
Rank: 11
1865 - 1922
HPI: 60.83
Rank: 12
1956 - Present
HPI: 60.63
Rank: 13
1365 - 1440
HPI: 60.59
Rank: 14