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Aristides de Sousa Mendes

1885 - 1954

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Aristides de Sousa Mendes do Amaral e Abranches (European Portuguese pronunciation: [ɐɾiʃˈtiðɨʒ ðɨ ˈsozɐ ˈmẽdɨʃ]; July 19, 1885 – April 3, 1954) was a Portuguese consul during World War II. As the Portuguese consul-general in the French city of Bordeaux, he defied the orders of António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo regime, issuing visas and passports to an undetermined number of refugees fleeing Nazi-occupied France, including Jews. For this, Sousa Mendes was punished by the Salazar regime with one year of inactivity with the right to one half of his rank's pay, being obliged subsequently to be retired. However, he ended up never being expelled from the foreign service nor forced to retire and he received a full consul salary until his death in 1954. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aristides de Sousa Mendes has received more than 457,952 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Aristides de Sousa Mendes is the 4,028th most popular politician (up from 5,130th in 2019), the 94th most popular biography from Portugal (up from 117th in 2019) and the 54th most popular Portuguese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Aristides de Sousa Mendes ranks 4,028 out of 19,576. Before him are Aleksander Čeferin, Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, Fujiko Fujio, Manuel Belgrano, Abdel Hakim Amer, and Ladislaus II of Hungary. After him are Kenneth III of Scotland, Princess Märtha Louise of Norway, Esen Taishi, Macbeth, King of Scotland, Prabowo Subianto, and Antigonus III Doson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Aristides de Sousa Mendes ranks 48. Before him are Nikolaus von Falkenhorst, Tamara Karsavina, Will Durant, Romano Guardini, Clementine Churchill, and Christian Wirth. After him are Velimir Khlebnikov, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Otto Klemperer, Sacha Guitry, Per Albin Hansson, and Franz Böhme. Among people deceased in 1954, Aristides de Sousa Mendes ranks 27. Before him are Lucien Tesnière, The French Angel, Clemens Krauss, Hannes Meyer, Martin Andersen Nexø, and Auguste Perret. After him are Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Sadriddin Ayni, Ivan Ilyin, Thea von Harbou, Marius Jacob, and Franco Alfano.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Aristides de Sousa Mendes ranks 94 out of 633. Before him are Maria Isabel of Braganza (1797), Óscar Carmona (1869), Berengaria of Portugal (1198), Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy (1504), Rui Costa (1972), and Luís Figo (1972). After him are João Gonçalves Zarco (1390), Gracia Mendes Nasi (1510), Fernão Mendes Pinto (1509), Isabel of Coimbra (1432), António, Prior of Crato (1531), and Pedro Nunes (1502).

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Among POLITICIANS In Portugal

Among politicians born in Portugal, Aristides de Sousa Mendes ranks 54. Before him are António Costa (1961), Wamba (630), António de Spínola (1910), Beatrice of Portugal (1373), Óscar Carmona (1869), and Beatrice of Portugal, Duchess of Savoy (1504). After him are Gracia Mendes Nasi (1510), António, Prior of Crato (1531), Urraca of Castile, Queen of Portugal (1186), Joseph Nasi (1524), Teófilo Braga (1843), and Francisco da Costa Gomes (1914).

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