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António de Oliveira Salazar

1889 - 1970

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António de Oliveira Salazar (, US also , Portuguese: [ɐ̃ˈtɔni.u ðɨ ɔliˈvɐjɾɐ sɐlɐˈzaɾ]; 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 3,405,941 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). António de Oliveira Salazar is the 248th most popular politician (up from 272nd in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Portugal (up from 7th 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 248 out of 15,577. Before him are James VI and I, Şehzade Bayezid, Woodrow Wilson, Helmut Kohl, Henry II of France, and Philip V of Spain. After him are Hu Jintao, Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, Charles XII of Sweden, Safiye Sultan, Bill Clinton, and Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, António de Oliveira Salazar ranks 6. Before him are Adolf Hitler, Charlie Chaplin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Jawaharlal Nehru. After him are Jean Cocteau, Edwin Hubble, Anna Akhmatova, Arnold J. Toynbee, Ante Pavelić, and Vaslav Nijinsky. Among people deceased in 1970, António de Oliveira Salazar ranks 6. Before him are Charles de Gaulle, Janis Joplin, Bertrand Russell, Abraham Maslow, and Gamal Abdel Nasser. After him are Jimi Hendrix, Erich Maria Remarque, Yukio Mishima, Sukarno, Hjalmar Schacht, and Max Born.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, António de Oliveira Salazar ranks 5 out of 555. Before him are Ferdinand Magellan (1480), Vasco da Gama (1460), Bartolomeu Dias (1450), and Anthony of Padua (1195). After him are Prince Henry the Navigator (1394), José Saramago (1922), Pedro Álvares Cabral (1467), António Guterres (1949), Fernando Pessoa (1888), Manuel I of Portugal (1469), and Pope Damasus I (305).

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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 II of Portugal (1455), John I of Portugal (1358), John III of Portugal (1502), Afonso V of Portugal (1432), Manuel II of Portugal (1889), and John IV of Portugal (1604).

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