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Cecília Meireles

1901 - 1964

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Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles (7 November 1901 – 9 November 1964) was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet. She is a canonical name of Brazilian Modernism, one of the great female poets in the Portuguese language, and is widely considered the best female poet from Brazil, though she objected to the word poetess because of gender discrimination.She traveled in the Americas in the 1940s, visiting the United States, Mexico, Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. In the summer of 1940, she gave lectures at the University of Texas, Austin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cecília Meireles has received more than 80,222 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 17 in 2019). Cecília Meireles is the 14,688th most popular politician (down from 12,841st in 2019), the 576th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 420th in 2019) and the 69th most popular Brazilian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 80k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Cecília Meireles has had the most page views in the with 130,697 views, followed by English (8,206), and Spanish (4,588). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (37.58%), Finnish (36.27%), and Catalan (22.32%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Cecília Meireles ranks 14,688 out of 19,576. Before her are Ramón Villeda Morales, Mikhail Solomentsev, Norman Mineta, Andris Bērziņš, Ora Namir, and Constantin Angelescu. After her are Menyhért Lónyay, Zdeněk Mlynář, S. Jaishankar, Lothar Bolz, Frederick IV, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Gennaios Kolokotronis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Cecília Meireles ranks 256. Before her are František Halas, Bud Houser, Frank Belknap Long, Casiano Chavarría, Mercedes Comaposada, and Reinhold Mack. After her are Ramón J. Sender, Syama Prasad Mukherjee, Lisette Model, Mildred Dunnock, Paul Yü Pin, and Thawan Thamrongnawasawat. Among people deceased in 1964, Cecília Meireles ranks 157. Before her are Luis Batlle Berres, Steponas Kairys, Paul A. Baran, Arpenik Nalbandyan, Consuelo Vanderbilt, and Lillian Copeland. After her are Karl Johan Svensson, Pentti Eskola, Luiz Gervazoni, Sakari Tuomioja, Lars Christensen, and Guru Dutt.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Cecília Meireles ranks 576 out of 2,236. Before her are Edílson (1971), Malcom (1997), Nelson Prudêncio (1944), Alberto Nepomuceno (1864), Ricardo Teixeira (1947), and Valdomiro (1946). After her are Éder Militão (1998), Alfredo Brilhante da Costa (1904), Manuel Antônio de Almeida (1831), Raphinha (1996), Américo Castro (1885), and Nathalia Timberg (1929).

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Among POLITICIANS In Brazil

Among politicians born in Brazil, Cecília Meireles ranks 69. Before her are José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco (1845), Leonel Brizola (1922), Hamilton Mourão (1953), Paulo Maluf (1931), Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald (1905), and Ricardo Teixeira (1947). After her are Joaquim Nabuco (1849), Pedro Diniz (1970), José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco (1819), Fernando Haddad (1963), João Pinheiro Chagas (1863), and Marco Maciel (1940).

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