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C. R. Swart

1894 - 1982

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Charles Robberts Swart (5 December 1894 – 16 July 1982), nicknamed "Blackie", was a South African politician who served as the last governor-general of the Union of South Africa from 1959 to 1961 and the first state president of the Republic of South Africa from 1961 to 1967. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of C. R. Swart has received more than 122,423 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). C. R. Swart is the 10,866th most popular politician (up from 11,208th in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from South Africa (up from 74th in 2019) and the 20th most popular South African Politician.

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  • 51.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, C. R. Swart ranks 10,866 out of 15,577. Before him are Jeannette Rankin, Louis-Mathieu Molé, Surendranath Banerjee, Odilo, Duke of Bavaria, Anatolijs Gorbunovs, and Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi. After him are Lucius Aemilius Paullus, Blanche of Montferrat, Yahya ibn Muhammad, Moses Finley, Frederick II, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, and George VII of Georgia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, C. R. Swart ranks 137. Before him are Aleksandr Khinchin, Ivan Papanin, Harold Innis, Magda Julin, Olive Thomas, and Tibor Déry. After him are Jean Rostand, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Paul Dessau, David Butler, Kurt Blome, and Mae Marsh. Among people deceased in 1982, C. R. Swart ranks 126. Before him are Khalid al-Islambouli, Art Pepper, Harald Ertl, Leonid Utyosov, Warren Oates, and Patrick Magee. After him are Alberto Cavalcanti, Seraphim Rose, Haskell Curry, Renzo Rossellini, Olle Hellbom, and Fernando Lamas.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, C. R. Swart ranks 54 out of 374. Before him are Dave Matthews (1967), Christiaan de Wet (1854), Glynis Johns (1923), Oscar Pistorius (1986), Marlene Dumas (1953), and Alice Krige (1954). After him are Esther Brand (1922), Cyril Cusack (1910), Trevor Jones (1949), Piet Joubert (1834), J. B. M. Hertzog (1866), and Koos de la Rey (1847).

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Among POLITICIANS In South Africa

Among politicians born in South Africa, C. R. Swart ranks 20. Before him are Andries Pretorius (1798), Louis Botha (1862), John Vorster (1915), Marais Viljoen (1915), Dingane kaSenzangakhona (1795), and Christiaan de Wet (1854). After him are Piet Joubert (1834), J. B. M. Hertzog (1866), Marthinus Wessel Pretorius (1819), J. G. Strijdom (1893), Nico Diederichs (1903), and Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868).

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