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Carlos Menem

1930 - 2021

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Carlos Saúl Menem (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɾlos ˈmenen] ; 2 July 1930 – 14 February 2021) was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the president of Argentina from 1989 to 1999. Ideologically, he identified as a Peronist and supported economically liberal policies. He led Argentina as president during the 1990s and implemented a free market liberalization. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carlos Menem has received more than 1,388,207 page views. His biography is available in 62 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Carlos Menem is the 1,515th most popular politician (up from 2,049th in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Argentina and the 6th most popular Argentinean Politician.

Carlos Menem is most famous for being the president of Argentina from 1989 to 1999. He is also known for implementing a series of neoliberal economic reforms during his presidency.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 62

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Carlos Menem ranks 1,515 out of 19,576. Before him are Pepi I Meryre, Herod Agrippa, Achaemenes, Clara Petacci, Constantine VIII, and Nitocris. After him are Theuderic I, José Eduardo dos Santos, Ferenc Szálasi, Miguel Primo de Rivera, Yu the Great, and Lajos Kossuth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Carlos Menem ranks 27. Before him are Jean-Louis Trintignant, Philippe Noiret, Tu Youyou, Richard Harris, Ion Iliescu, and Maximilian Schell. After him are Claude Chabrol, Niki de Saint Phalle, Silvana Mangano, Harold Pinter, Johan Galtung, and Immanuel Wallerstein. Among people deceased in 2021, Carlos Menem ranks 14. Before him are F. W. de Klerk, Chun Doo-hwan, Christopher Plummer, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Charlie Watts, and Isamu Akasaki. After him are Bernie Madoff, Desmond Tutu, Raffaella Carrà, Bernard Tapie, Roh Tae-woo, and Paul J. Crutzen.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Carlos Menem ranks 19 out of 1,154. Before him are Martha Argerich (1941), Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953), Daniel Barenboim (1942), José de San Martín (1778), Omar Sívori (1935), and Mario Kempes (1954). After him are Leopoldo Galtieri (1926), Héctor Cúper (1955), Gabriel Batistuta (1969), Diego Simeone (1970), Guillermo Stábile (1905), and Néstor Kirchner (1950).

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Among POLITICIANS In Argentina

Among politicians born in Argentina, Carlos Menem ranks 6. Before him are Eva Perón (1919), Juan Perón (1895), Isabel Martínez de Perón (1931), Jorge Rafael Videla (1925), and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953). After him are Leopoldo Galtieri (1926), Néstor Kirchner (1950), Alberto Fernández (1959), Raúl Alfonsín (1927), Richard Walther Darré (1895), and Reynaldo Bignone (1928).

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