1914 - 1957
Carlos Castillo Armas (locally ['kaɾlos kas'tiʝo 'aɾmas]; 4 November 1914 – 26 July 1957) was a Guatemalan military officer and politician who was the 28th president of Guatemala, serving from 1954 to 1957 after taking power in a coup d'état. A member of the right-wing National Liberation Movement (MLN) party, his authoritarian government was closely allied with the United States. Born to a planter, out of wedlock, Castillo Armas was educated at Guatemala's military academy. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlos Castillo Armas has received more than 574,217 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Carlos Castillo Armas is the 6,603rd most popular politician (up from 8,804th in 2019), the 5th most popular biography from Guatemala and the 3rd most popular Guatemalan Politician.
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Among politicians, Carlos Castillo Armas ranks 6,603 out of 15,577. Before him are Margaret Chan, Arduin of Ivrea, Yen Chia-kan, Tadukhipa, Rhadamistus, and Theopompus of Sparta. After him are Nicolas Hayek, Maxwell D. Taylor, Nikolai Krylenko, Margaret Sambiria, Setepenre, and George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt.
1947 - Present
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 6,597
955 - 1015
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 6,598
1905 - 1993
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 6,599
1365 BC - 1400 BC
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 6,600
500 - 58
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 6,601
800 BC - 700 BC
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 6,602
1914 - 1957
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 6,603
1928 - 2010
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 6,604
1901 - 1987
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 6,605
1885 - 1938
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 6,606
1230 - 1282
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 6,607
1400 BC - 1400 BC
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 6,608
1605 - 1661
HPI: 56.33
Rank: 6,609
Among people born in 1914, Carlos Castillo Armas ranks 87. Before him are Achille Compagnoni, Saul Steinberg, Go Seigen, Bill Finger, Birabongse Bhanudej, and Pietro Germi. After him are Omar Ali Saifuddien III, Max Manus, Bernard Malamud, Woody Strode, Princess Maria Francesca of Savoy, and Nicanor Parra. Among people deceased in 1957, Carlos Castillo Armas ranks 70. Before him are Shoghi Effendi, Leo Perutz, Alexander Vertinsky, Kurt von Tippelskirch, Soemu Toyoda, and Malcolm Lowry. After him are Ernst Gräfenberg, Prince Franz of Bavaria, Heinrich Bär, Josef Hofmann, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Washington Luís.
1914 - 2009
HPI: 56.90
Rank: 81
1914 - 1999
HPI: 56.82
Rank: 82
1914 - 2014
HPI: 56.61
Rank: 83
1914 - 1974
HPI: 56.52
Rank: 84
1914 - 1985
HPI: 56.51
Rank: 85
1914 - 1974
HPI: 56.35
Rank: 86
1914 - 1957
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 87
1914 - 1986
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 88
1914 - 1996
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 89
1914 - 1986
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 90
1914 - 1994
HPI: 56.19
Rank: 91
1914 - 2001
HPI: 56.10
Rank: 92
1914 - 2018
HPI: 56.03
Rank: 93
1897 - 1957
HPI: 57.59
Rank: 64
1882 - 1957
HPI: 57.56
Rank: 65
1889 - 1957
HPI: 56.96
Rank: 66
1891 - 1957
HPI: 56.94
Rank: 67
1885 - 1957
HPI: 56.77
Rank: 68
1909 - 1957
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 69
1914 - 1957
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 70
1881 - 1957
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 71
1875 - 1957
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 72
1913 - 1957
HPI: 55.98
Rank: 73
1876 - 1957
HPI: 55.96
Rank: 74
1893 - 1957
HPI: 55.81
Rank: 75
1869 - 1957
HPI: 55.78
Rank: 76
Among people born in Guatemala, Carlos Castillo Armas ranks 5 out of 42. Before him are Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899), Jacobo Árbenz (1913), Rigoberta Menchú (1959), and Efraín Ríos Montt (1926). After him are Oscar Isaac (1979), Jorge Ubico (1878), Alejandro Giammattei (1956), Rafael Carrera (1814), Otto Pérez Molina (1950), Juan José Arévalo (1904), and Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1857).
1899 - 1974
HPI: 65.58
Rank: 1
1913 - 1971
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 2
1959 - Present
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 3
1926 - 2018
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 4
1914 - 1957
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 5
1979 - Present
HPI: 54.46
Rank: 6
1878 - 1946
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 7
1956 - Present
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 8
1814 - 1865
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 9
1950 - Present
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 10
1904 - 1990
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 11
1857 - 1924
HPI: 50.12
Rank: 12
Among politicians born in Guatemala, Carlos Castillo Armas ranks 3. Before him are Jacobo Árbenz (1913) and Efraín Ríos Montt (1926). After him are Jorge Ubico (1878), Alejandro Giammattei (1956), Rafael Carrera (1814), Otto Pérez Molina (1950), Juan José Arévalo (1904), Manuel Estrada Cabrera (1857), Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes (1895), Alejandro Maldonado (1936), and Álvaro Colom (1951).
1913 - 1971
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 1
1926 - 2018
HPI: 57.29
Rank: 2
1914 - 1957
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 3
1878 - 1946
HPI: 54.13
Rank: 4
1956 - Present
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 5
1814 - 1865
HPI: 53.14
Rank: 6
1950 - Present
HPI: 51.95
Rank: 7
1904 - 1990
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 8
1857 - 1924
HPI: 50.12
Rank: 9
1895 - 1982
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 10
1936 - Present
HPI: 49.70
Rank: 11
1951 - 2023
HPI: 49.53
Rank: 12