POLITICIAN

Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás

1900 - 1988

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María del Carmen Polo y Martínez-Valdés, 1st Lady of Meirás, Grandee of Spain (11 June 1900 – 6 February 1988) was the wife of the dictator, general and "caudillo" Francisco Franco. She exerted a major influence in censoring the press. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás has received more than 300,223 page views. Her biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás is the 6,063rd most popular politician (down from 4,982nd in 2019), the 551st most popular biography from Spain (down from 442nd in 2019) and the 207th most popular Spanish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás ranks 6,063 out of 19,576Before her are Duke Wilhelm in Bavaria, Spencer Perceval, Chandragupta I, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Margaret, Countess of Anjou, and Cai Yong. After her are Hor, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Marie-Louise Meilleur, Pedro Lascuráin, Frederick II, Margrave of Meissen, and Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás ranks 75Before her are Agnes Moorehead, Camille Chamoun, Wilhelm Rediess, William Heinesen, Jean Arthur, and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. After her are Robert Desnos, George Uhlenbeck, Marc Allégret, Eduardo De Filippo, Joseph Needham, and Herbert Bayer. Among people deceased in 1988, Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás ranks 57Before her are Bacha Khan, Isamu Noguchi, Antonín Puč, Dino Grandi, Heo Jeong, and Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. After her are John Carradine, George Uhlenbeck, Sergey Gorshkov, Vladimír Menšík, Lev Pontryagin, and Bluma Zeigarnik.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás ranks 551 out of 3,355Before her are Fermin (272), Infante Carlos, Count of Montemolin (1818), Miguel Ángel González Suárez (1947), Luis Ladaria Ferrer (1944), Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo (1926), and Luis de Molina (1535). After her are Moses de León (1250), Pedro Alonso (1971), Reccared II (650), Elvira of Castile, Queen of Sicily (1103), Witteric (570), and Luis del Sol (1935).

Among POLITICIANS In Spain

Among politicians born in Spain, Carmen Polo, 1st Lady of Meirás ranks 207Before her are Ordoño III of León (926), Agustín Muñoz Grandes (1896), Bernard of Septimania (795), Federica Montseny (1905), Infante Carlos, Count of Montemolin (1818), and Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo (1926). After her are Moses de León (1250), Reccared II (650), Witteric (570), Infanta Beatriz of Spain (1909), Ordoño IV of León (926), and Gaius Julius Vindex (25).