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Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal

1924 - 2010

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Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal (7 July 1924 – 20 July 2010) was prime minister of Iceland for the Social Democratic Party (Alþýðuflokkurinn) from 15 October 1979 to 8 February 1980. Prior to that he was Minister of Foreign Affairs 1978–1980. He was minister of foreign affairs during his tenure as PM, therefore the only politician from the independence 1944 to serve in both cabinet positions at the same time. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal has received more than 23,648 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal is the 13,097th most popular politician (down from 11,567th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Iceland (down from 46th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Icelander Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal ranks 13,097 out of 15,577Before him are Francisco Xavier de Luna Pizarro, Annette Lu, Manius Otacilius Crassus, Ezana of Axum, Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, and Harry Cohn. After him are Federico Laredo Brú, Marvin Hart, Jyoti Basu, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Jubal Early, and Christian Lundeberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal ranks 279Before him are Bobo Brazil, J. D. Tippit, Tatyana Lioznova, Rudy Van Gelder, Carlos Humberto Romero, and Yuri Bondarev. After him are Peter Scholl-Latour, Boris Vasilyev, Karel Kachyňa, Kihachi Okamoto, Kenny Dorham, and Shirley Chisholm. Among people deceased in 2010, Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal ranks 234Before him are Farooq Leghari, Herb Ellis, Enrique Morente, Dezső Bundzsák, Raymond Impanis, and Bhairon Singh Shekhawat. After him are Jyoti Basu, Abbey Lincoln, Harold Gould, Anneliese Rothenberger, Jamie Gillis, and Takeshi Shudo.

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In Iceland

Among people born in Iceland, Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal ranks 52 out of 180Before him are Ólafur Thors (1892), Einar Benediktsson (1864), Saint Thorlak (1133), Gunnar Thoroddsen (1910), Geir Hallgrímsson (1925), and Friðrik Þór Friðriksson (1954). After him are Vilhjálmur Einarsson (1934), Eggert Ólafsson (1726), Einar Már Guðmundsson (1954), Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson (1847), Jón Magnússon (1859), and Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (1958).

Among POLITICIANS In Iceland

Among politicians born in Iceland, Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal ranks 18Before him are Davíð Oddsson (1948), Steingrímur Hermannsson (1928), Hannes Hafstein (1861), Ólafur Thors (1892), Gunnar Thoroddsen (1910), and Geir Hallgrímsson (1925). After him are Jón Magnússon (1859), Hermann Jónasson (1896), Steingrímur Steinþórsson (1893), Ingibjörg H. Bjarnason (1867), Sigurður Eggerz (1875), and Jóhann Hafstein (1915).