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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 23,404 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal is the 14,048th most popular politician (down from 13,052nd in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from Iceland (down from 52nd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Icelander Politician.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal has had the most page views in the with 2,567 views, followed by Spanish (899), and Icelandic (779). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Finnish (121.80%), Catalan (74.60%), and Ido (69.04%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal ranks 14,048 out of 19,576. Before him are Dacian Cioloș, Adad-shuma-usur, Pascoal Mocumbi, Roy Mata, Beornwulf of Mercia, and Nikolai Avksentiev. After him are John of Cappadocia, Ivan Evstratiev Geshov, Vuk Grgurević, Charles Spencer, 3rd Duke of Marlborough, Belaid Abdessalam, and Kurt Beck.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal ranks 313. Before him are Val Avery, Attilio Giovannini, János Starker, Rafael Iglesias, Billy Barty, and Alberto Uria. After him are Priscilla Pointer, Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Freddie Bartholomew, David Cox, Jane Greer, and Rod Serling. Among people deceased in 2010, Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal ranks 255. Before him are Raymond Impanis, Godfrey Binaisa, Carla Del Poggio, Jamie Gillis, Lhasa de Sela, and Paul Gray. After him are Daisuke Gōri, Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, Roy Ward Baker, Robert B. Parker, William Tenn, and Vladimir Maslachenko.

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In Iceland

Among people born in Iceland, Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal ranks 56 out of 190. Before him are Vilhjálmur Einarsson (1934), Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson (1963), Eggert Ólafsson (1726), Einar Benediktsson (1864), Friðrik Þór Friðriksson (1954), and Ísleifur Gissurarson (1006). After him are Ásgeir Sigurvinsson (1955), Hermann Jónasson (1896), Jón Kalman Stefánsson (1963), Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (1958), Sveinbjörn Sveinbjörnsson (1847), and Einar Már Guðmundsson (1954).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iceland

Among politicians born in Iceland, Benedikt Sigurðsson Gröndal ranks 18. Before him are Geir Haarde (1951), Davíð Oddsson (1948), Hannes Hafstein (1861), Ólafur Thors (1892), Gunnar Thoroddsen (1910), and Geir Hallgrímsson (1925). After him are Hermann Jónasson (1896), Þorsteinn Pálsson (1947), Bjarni Benediktsson (1970), Jóhann Hafstein (1915), Tryggvi Þórhallsson (1889), and Stefán Jóhann Stefánsson (1894).

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