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António de Oliveira Salazar

1889 - 1970

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António de Oliveira Salazar (28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese statesman, academic, and economist who served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. Having come to power under the Ditadura Nacional ("National Dictatorship"), he reframed the regime as the corporatist Estado Novo ("New State"), with himself as a dictator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of António de Oliveira Salazar has received more than 3,696,976 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). António de Oliveira Salazar is the 225th most popular politician (up from 248th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Portugal (down from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Portuguese Politician.

António de Oliveira Salazar was a Portuguese politician who is most famous for being the dictator of Portugal from 1932 to 1968.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, António de Oliveira Salazar ranks 225 out of 19,576. Before him are Nicholas I of Russia, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Harun al-Rashid, Sonia Gandhi, Leopold II of Belgium, and Joseph Goebbels. After him are Sennacherib, Mehmed VI, Yuri Andropov, Enver Hoxha, Reinhard Heydrich, and Bill Clinton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, António de Oliveira Salazar ranks 5. Before him are Adolf Hitler, Charlie Chaplin, Martin Heidegger, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. After him are Jawaharlal Nehru, Jean Cocteau, Edwin Hubble, Paul Karrer, Ante Pavelić, Anna Akhmatova, and Arnold J. Toynbee. Among people deceased in 1970, António de Oliveira Salazar ranks 5. Before him are Charles de Gaulle, Janis Joplin, Bertrand Russell, and Gamal Abdel Nasser. After him are Erich Maria Remarque, Abraham Maslow, Jimi Hendrix, Yukio Mishima, Max Born, Sukarno, and Alexander Kerensky.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, António de Oliveira Salazar ranks 7 out of 633. Before him are Ferdinand Magellan (1480), Vasco da Gama (1460), Bartolomeu Dias (1450), Anthony of Padua (1195), José Saramago (1922), and Cristiano Ronaldo (1985). After him are António Guterres (1949), Prince Henry the Navigator (1394), Pedro Álvares Cabral (1467), Fernando Pessoa (1888), Luís de Camões (1524), and Manuel I of Portugal (1469).

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Among POLITICIANS In Portugal

Among politicians born in Portugal, António de Oliveira Salazar ranks 1. After him are António Guterres (1949), Manuel I of Portugal (1469), Afonso I of Portugal (1109), Pedro I of Brazil (1798), Sebastian of Portugal (1554), John I of Portugal (1358), Manuel II of Portugal (1889), John III of Portugal (1502), Afonso V of Portugal (1432), John IV of Portugal (1604), and John VI of Portugal (1767).

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