POLITICIAN

Ferdinand Marcos

1917 - 1989

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Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. (September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino politician, dictator and kleptocrat who served as the tenth president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. Marcos ruled the country under martial law from 1972 to 1981, and with vastly expanded powers under the 1973 Constitution until he was deposed by a nonviolent revolution in 1986. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ferdinand Marcos has received more than 11,247,305 page views. His biography is available in 127 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 126 in 2019). Ferdinand Marcos is the 1,642nd most popular politician (up from 2,429th in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Philippines (down from 2nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Filipino Politician.

Ferdinand Marcos was the president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. Marcos is most famous for his declaration of Martial Law in 1972 and his ousting from power in 1986.

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  • 127

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.14

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  • 8.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ferdinand Marcos ranks 1,642 out of 19,576Before him are Rodion Malinovsky, Henry, King of Portugal, Oruç Reis, Critias, Aung San, and Empress Lü. After him are Robert, Count of Clermont, Charles II of Naples, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Cemal Gürsel, Publius Clodius Pulcher, and Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Ferdinand Marcos ranks 12Before him are Ilya Prigogine, Ella Fitzgerald, Dean Martin, Eric Hobsbawm, Frederica of Hanover, and I. M. Pei. After him are Anthony Burgess, Ernest Borgnine, Christian de Duve, Sidney Sheldon, Joan Clarke, and Kenan Evren. Among people deceased in 1989, Ferdinand Marcos ranks 26Before him are Vladimir Horowitz, Graham Chapman, Sándor Márai, Andrei Gromyko, Thomas Bernhard, and Hu Yaobang. After him are Silvana Mangano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Emilio Segrè, George Beadle, Daphne du Maurier, and Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein.

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In Philippines

Among people born in Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos ranks 4 out of 155Before him are Rodrigo Duterte (1945), Bongbong Marcos (1957), and Corazon Aquino (1933). After him are José Rizal (1861), Lapu-Lapu (1491), Diosdado Macapagal (1910), Emilio Aguinaldo (1869), Imelda Marcos (1929), Benigno Aquino Jr. (1932), Paulino Alcántara (1896), and Andrés Bonifacio (1863).

Among POLITICIANS In Philippines

Among politicians born in Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos ranks 4Before him are Rodrigo Duterte (1945), Bongbong Marcos (1957), and Corazon Aquino (1933). After him are Lapu-Lapu (1491), Diosdado Macapagal (1910), Emilio Aguinaldo (1869), Benigno Aquino Jr. (1932), Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (1947), Manuel L. Quezon (1878), Elpidio Quirino (1890), and Jose P. Laurel (1891).