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Ernesto Cardenal

1925 - 2020

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Ernesto Cardenal Martínez (20 January 1925 – 1 March 2020) was a Nicaraguan Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was a liberation theologian and the founder of the primitivist art community in the Solentiname Islands, where he lived for more than ten years (1965–1977). A former member of the Nicaraguan Sandinistas, he was Nicaragua's minister of culture from 1979 to 1987. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ernesto Cardenal has received more than 257,960 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Ernesto Cardenal is the 5,455th most popular politician (down from 2,478th in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Nicaragua (down from 2nd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Nicaraguan Politician.

Ernesto Cardenal is most famous for being a Nicaraguan priest, poet, and revolutionary. He was also a member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ernesto Cardenal ranks 5,455 out of 15,577Before him are Artabasdos, Emperor Uda, Mikhail Tomsky, Waleran III, Duke of Limburg, Amyrtaeus, and Princess Alexandrine of Prussia. After him are Azai Nagamasa, Khamudi, Thomas of Bosnia, William I, Count of Burgundy, Alan García, and Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Ernesto Cardenal ranks 99Before him are Nicolai Gedda, Veljko Kadijević, William Styron, Sammy Davis Jr., Martin Rodbell, and Tom Gehrels. After him are Georges Delerue, Justo Gallego Martínez, Lepa Radić, Dettmar Cramer, Gore Vidal, and Alexander Shulgin. Among people deceased in 2020, Ernesto Cardenal ranks 94Before him are Momčilo Krajišnik, Peter Green, Mark Blum, Kang Kek Iew, Ida Haendel, and Bill Withers. After him are Kelly Preston, Stanley Ho, Florian Schneider, Vera Lynn, Jack Welch, and Lorenzo Sanz.

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In Nicaragua

Among people born in Nicaragua, Ernesto Cardenal ranks 7 out of 29Before him are Daniel Ortega (1945), Anastasio Somoza Debayle (1925), Augusto César Sandino (1895), Rubén Darío (1867), Anastasio Somoza García (1896), and Violeta Chamorro (1929). After him are Enrique Bolaños (1928), Luis Somoza Debayle (1922), Barbara Carrera (1945), Arnoldo Alemán (1946), Bianca Jagger (1945), and Edén Pastora (1936).

Among POLITICIANS In Nicaragua

Among politicians born in Nicaragua, Ernesto Cardenal ranks 5Before him are Daniel Ortega (1945), Anastasio Somoza Debayle (1925), Anastasio Somoza García (1896), and Violeta Chamorro (1929). After him are Enrique Bolaños (1928), Luis Somoza Debayle (1922), Arnoldo Alemán (1946), Edén Pastora (1936), Juan Bautista Sacasa (1874), José Santos Zelaya (1853), and Emiliano Chamorro Vargas (1871).