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Antonio López de Santa Anna

1794 - 1876

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Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón, usually known as Antonio López de Santa Anna (Spanish pronunciation: [anˈtonjo ˈlopes ðe sanˈtana]; 21 February 1794 – 21 June 1876), or just Santa Anna, was a Mexican soldier, politician, and caudillo who served as the 8th president of Mexico multiple times between 1833 and 1855. He also served as Vice President of Mexico from 1837 to 1839. He was a controversial and pivotal figure in Mexican politics during the 19th century, to the point that he has been called an "uncrowned monarch", and historians often refer to the three decades after Mexican independence as the "Age of Santa Anna".Santa Anna was in charge of the garrison at Veracruz at the time Mexico won independence in 1821. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Antonio López de Santa Anna has received more than 4,510,551 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Antonio López de Santa Anna is the 2,106th most popular politician (down from 2,050th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Mexico (up from 18th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Mexican Politician.

Antonio López de Santa Anna is most famous for being the president of Mexico three times. He was president from 1833-1835, 1837-1840, and 1841-1844.

Memorability Metrics

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  • 65.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Antonio López de Santa Anna has had the most page views in the with 515,079 views, followed by Spanish (450,545), and German (40,029). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Yoruba (70.60%), Finnish (57.88%), and Uzbek (47.78%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Antonio López de Santa Anna ranks 2,106 out of 19,576. Before him are Amyntas IV of Macedon, Roman Herzog, John VII Palaiologos, Ajax the Lesser, Dihya, and Theodora Porphyrogenita. After him are Manasseh, Philip, Duke of Parma, Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, Vasily II of Moscow, Jacques Pierre Brissot, and Peter II of Aragon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1794, Antonio López de Santa Anna ranks 1. After him are Matthew C. Perry, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Elias Magnus Fries, Infante Francisco de Paula, Duke of Cádiz, Theobald Boehm, William Whewell, Józef Bem, Ignaz Moscheles, Wilhelm Müller, Aimable Pélissier, and Eduard Rüppell. Among people deceased in 1876, Antonio López de Santa Anna ranks 8. Before him are George Sand, Abdülaziz, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Truganini, Karl Ernst von Baer, and George Armstrong Custer. After him are Catherine Labouré, Marie d'Agoult, Ildefons Cerdà, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, Maria Vittoria dal Pozzo, and Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Antonio López de Santa Anna ranks 14 out of 729. Before him are Octavio Paz (1914), Porfirio Díaz (1830), Carlos Santana (1947), Cuauhtémoc (1495), Salma Hayek (1966), and Benito Juárez (1806). After him are Agustín de Iturbide (1783), Andrés Manuel López Obrador (1953), Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648), Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla (1753), La Malinche (1502), and Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo (1946).

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Among POLITICIANS In Mexico

Among politicians born in Mexico, Antonio López de Santa Anna ranks 5. Before him are Moctezuma II (1466), Porfirio Díaz (1830), Cuauhtémoc (1495), and Benito Juárez (1806). After him are Agustín de Iturbide (1783), Andrés Manuel López Obrador (1953), La Malinche (1502), Moctezuma I (1398), Francisco I. Madero (1873), Vicente Fox (1942), and Lázaro Cárdenas (1895).

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