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Fidel Castro

1926 - 2016

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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz ( KASS-troh, Latin American Spanish: [fiˈðel aleˈxandɾo ˈkastɾo ˈrus]; 13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008. Ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1965 until 2011. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fidel Castro has received more than 27,111,470 page views. His biography is available in 151 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 147 in 2019). Fidel Castro is the 69th most popular politician (down from 55th in 2019), the most popular biography from Cuba and the most popular Cuban Politician.

Fidel Castro was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2006. He is most famous for being the leader of Cuba and for being a communist.

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Fidel Castro ranks 69 out of 19,576. Before him are Frederick the Great, Richard I of England, Selim II, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Leon Trotsky. After him are Nikita Khrushchev, Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, Benjamin Franklin, Narendra Modi, Nicolae Ceaușescu, and Nicholas II of Russia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Fidel Castro ranks 3. Before him are Elizabeth II, and Marilyn Monroe. After him are Michel Foucault, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Ingvar Kamprad, Jiang Zemin, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Leslie Nielsen, Dario Fo, Andrzej Wajda, and Svetlana Alliluyeva. Among people deceased in 2016, Fidel Castro ranks 2. Before him is Muhammad Ali. After him are Johan Cruyff, Shimon Peres, Umberto Eco, Bud Spencer, David Bowie, Debbie Reynolds, Alan Rickman, Bhumibol Adulyadej, Leonard Cohen, and Zaha Hadid.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Fidel Castro ranks 1 out of 300. After him are Raúl Castro (1931), Fulgencio Batista (1901), José Raúl Capablanca (1888), Italo Calvino (1923), José Martí (1853), Paul Lafargue (1842), Camilo Cienfuegos (1932), Alberto Korda (1928), Andy García (1956), Gloria Estefan (1957), and Compay Segundo (1907).

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Among POLITICIANS In Cuba

Among politicians born in Cuba, Fidel Castro ranks 1. After him are Raúl Castro (1931), Fulgencio Batista (1901), Emilio Mola (1887), Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado (1919), Miguel Díaz-Canel (1960), Juan Almeida Bosque (1927), Sergio Oliva (1941), Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1956), Gerardo Machado (1871), Juanita Castro (1933), and Aleida March (1936).

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