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Edgars Rinkēvičs

1973 - Today

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Edgars Rinkēvičs (born 21 September 1973) is a Latvian public official and politician serving as the 11th and current president of Latvia since July 2023. He previously served as the minister of foreign affairs of Latvia from 2011 to 2023, and head of the Chancery of the President of Latvia as state secretary of the Ministry of Defence, as well as a deputy of the Saeima. Upon taking office as president, Rinkēvičs became the first openly gay head of state in a European Union country. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edgars Rinkēvičs has received more than 403,108 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Edgars Rinkēvičs is the 9,593rd most popular politician (up from 16,013th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Latvia (up from 180th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular Latvian Politician.

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  • 54.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

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    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Edgars Rinkēvičs ranks 9,593 out of 19,576. Before him are Rafael Grossi, Erich von Hornbostel, Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho, John Jacob, Marquis of Montferrat, John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, and Count Gustav Kálnoky. After him are Ghiyas-ud-din Baraq, Prince Henry of the Netherlands, Fernando Villavicencio, Pap of Armenia, Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, and Károly Grósz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1973, Edgars Rinkēvičs ranks 63. Before him are Takeshi Kaneshiro, Li Bingbing, Ceca, Giancarlo Fisichella, Federica Mogherini, and Roberto Martínez. After him are Pharrell Williams, Savo Milošević, David Blaine, Tyra Banks, Stephenie Meyer, and Matteo Salvini.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Edgars Rinkēvičs ranks 63 out of 323. Before him are Inese Jaunzeme (1932), Jānis Pujats (1930), Pēteris Stučka (1865), Paul Walden (1863), Mstislav Keldysh (1911), and Max Weinreich (1894). After him are Vilis Lācis (1904), Maria Skobtsova (1891), Alfred Neuland (1895), Vasiliy Ulrikh (1889), Alberts Kviesis (1881), and Anatole Abragam (1914).

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Among POLITICIANS In Latvia

Among politicians born in Latvia, Edgars Rinkēvičs ranks 22. Before him are Laimdota Straujuma (1951), Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter (1884), Jānis K. Bērziņš (1889), Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804), Ferdinand Kettler (1655), and Pēteris Stučka (1865). After him are Vasiliy Ulrikh (1889), Alberts Kviesis (1881), Tatjana Ždanoka (1950), Ivars Godmanis (1951), Valdis Dombrovskis (1971), and Jānis Rudzutaks (1887).

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