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Celâl Bayar

1883 - 1986

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Mahmut Celâlettin "Celâl" Bayar (16 May 1883 – 22 August 1986) was a Turkish economist and politician who was the third president of Turkey from 1950 to 1960; previously he was the prime minister of Turkey from 1937 to 1939. Bayar began his career in the Committee of Union and Progress, establishing its Izmir and Bursa branches. Following the declaration of the Republic, he founded much of Turkey's early financial institutions, including the country's first bank, İş Bankası. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Celâl Bayar has received more than 477,901 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Celâl Bayar is the 1,804th most popular politician (down from 1,617th in 2019), the 209th most popular biography from Türkiye (up from 221st in 2019) and the 111th most popular Turkish Politician.

Celâl Bayar is most famous for being the first president of the Turkish Republic. He was also a member of the Republican People's Party, which was the dominant party in Turkey from 1923 to 1950.

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Celâl Bayar ranks 1,804 out of 19,576. Before him are Ferdinand I of Naples, Isaac I Komnenos, Catherine Cornaro, Meñli I Giray, Bahadur Shah Zafar, and Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor. After him are Al-Mutawakkil, Jiang Ziya, Peter IV of Aragon, Senusret I, Chenghua Emperor, and Joseph McCarthy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Celâl Bayar ranks 26. Before him are Semyon Budyonny, Maurice Utrillo, Norman Haworth, Theo van Doesburg, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, and Johannes Blaskowitz. After him are Wang Jingwei, Andrey Vyshinsky, Napoleon Hill, Angela Hitler, Douglas Fairbanks, and Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy. Among people deceased in 1986, Celâl Bayar ranks 17. Before him are Cliff Burton, Jean Genet, Harold Macmillan, Frank Herbert, Urho Kekkonen, and Henry Moore. After him are Jaroslav Seifert, Edward Adelbert Doisy, Georgia O'Keeffe, Cary Grant, Albert Szent-Györgyi, and James Rainwater.

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In Türkiye

Among people born in Türkiye, Celâl Bayar ranks 209 out of 1,347. Before him are Saint Timothy (17), Nikephoros III Botaneiates (1002), Sultan Cem (1459), Theophanu (960), Michael Psellos (1018), and Elia Kazan (1909). After him are Adnan Menderes (1899), Romanos III Argyros (968), Sabbas the Sanctified (439), Herophilos (-335), Thābit ibn Qurra (836), and Alexios II Komnenos (1169).

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Among POLITICIANS In Türkiye

Among politicians born in Türkiye, Celâl Bayar ranks 111. Before him are Cemal Gürsel (1895), Ahmet Necdet Sezer (1941), Romanos II (938), Nikephoros III Botaneiates (1002), Sultan Cem (1459), and Theophanu (960). After him are Adnan Menderes (1899), Romanos III Argyros (968), Alexios II Komnenos (1169), Philippikos Bardanes (700), Beyhan Sultan (1497), and Fahri Korutürk (1903).

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