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Bjarni Benediktsson

1908 - 1970

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Bjarni Benediktsson (30 April 1908 – 10 July 1970) was an Icelandic politician of the Independence Party who served as prime minister of Iceland from 1963 to 1970. His father, Benedikt Sveinsson (1877–1954), was a leader in the independence movement in Iceland and a member of the Althingi from 1908 to 1931. Bjarni studied constitutional law and became a professor at the University of Iceland at age 24. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bjarni Benediktsson has received more than 18,801 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Bjarni Benediktsson is the 9,519th most popular politician (up from 9,530th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Iceland (up from 26th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Icelander Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Bjarni Benediktsson ranks 9,519 out of 15,577. Before him are Hugo von Pohl, Wenceslaus II, Duke of Bohemia, Alcetas, Ernest Augustus II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Regina Jonas, and Petro Shelest. After him are Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland, Black Hawk, Otto IV, Duke of Lower Bavaria, Lawrence Eagleburger, Nikephoros II Orsini, and Nicomedes III of Bithynia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Bjarni Benediktsson ranks 140. Before him are Juan López Fontana, Yevgeny Vuchetich, William Hartnell, Gisèle Freund, Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark, and Petro Shelest. After him are Karel Ančerl, Son Ngoc Thanh, Anna Sten, Elek Schwartz, Maria Prymachenko, and Fritz Fischer. Among people deceased in 1970, Bjarni Benediktsson ranks 115. Before him are Abraham Zapruder, Reizo Fukuhara, Alan Wilson, Marlen Haushofer, Lucía Sánchez Saornil, and Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow. After him are Hugh Dowding, Terry Sawchuk, René Schneider, Paul Schmidt, Nikolaus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Oldenburg, and Ernst May.

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In Iceland

Among people born in Iceland, Bjarni Benediktsson ranks 23 out of 180. Before him are Kristján Eldjárn (1916), Jón Arason (1484), Guðni Th. Jóhannesson (1968), Hallgrímur Pétursson (1614), Magnús Scheving (1964), and Halldór Ásgrímsson (1947). After him are Thorvald Eiriksson (972), Stefán Karl Stefánsson (1975), Jónas Hallgrímsson (1807), Jón Ögmundsson (1052), Gunnar Hansen (1947), and Geir Haarde (1951).

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Among POLITICIANS In Iceland

Among politicians born in Iceland, Bjarni Benediktsson ranks 9. Before him are Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson (1943), Ásgeir Ásgeirsson (1894), Jón Sigurðsson (1811), Kristján Eldjárn (1916), Guðni Th. Jóhannesson (1968), and Halldór Ásgrímsson (1947). After him are Geir Haarde (1951), Katrín Jakobsdóttir (1976), Davíð Oddsson (1948), Steingrímur Hermannsson (1928), Hannes Hafstein (1861), and Ólafur Thors (1892).

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