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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 273,820 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Ernesto Cardenal is the 5,754th most popular politician (down from 5,441st in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Nicaragua 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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    Languages Editions (L)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ernesto Cardenal ranks 5,754 out of 19,576. Before him are Rehavam Ze'evi, Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Richard Glücks, Jinpyeong of Silla, Ma Liang, and Béla Miklós. After him are Antilochus, Ernst von Weizsäcker, Bernard of Saxe-Weimar, Charles Emmanuel, Prince of Carignano, Apil-Sin, and Everard des Barres.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Ernesto Cardenal ranks 102. Before him are Martin Rodbell, Honor Blackman, Uzi Narkiss, Tofiq Bahramov, John Pople, and Georges Delerue. After him are Muhammad ibn al-Uthaymeen, Lepa Radić, Robert Hardy, Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, Pierre Bérégovoy, and Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Among people deceased in 2020, Ernesto Cardenal ranks 98. Before him are George Blake, Wim Suurbier, Chadwick Boseman, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Shin Kyuk-ho, and Stanley Ho. After him are Gérard Houllier, Peter Green, Florian Schneider, Jerry Stiller, Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, and Otto Barić.

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In Nicaragua

Among people born in Nicaragua, Ernesto Cardenal ranks 7 out of 34. Before him are Daniel Ortega (1945), Augusto César Sandino (1895), Anastasio Somoza Debayle (1925), Anastasio Somoza García (1896), Violeta Chamorro (1929), and Rubén Darío (1867). After him are Barbara Carrera (1945), Enrique Bolaños (1928), Luis Somoza Debayle (1922), Bianca Jagger (1945), Arnoldo Alemán (1946), and Gioconda Belli (1948).

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Among POLITICIANS In Nicaragua

Among politicians born in Nicaragua, Ernesto Cardenal ranks 5. Before 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), Juan Bautista Sacasa (1874), Edén Pastora (1936), José Santos Zelaya (1853), and Emiliano Chamorro Vargas (1871).

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