POLITICIAN

Francisco Xavier do Amaral

1937 - 2012

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Francisco Xavier do Amaral (3 December 1937 – 6 March 2012) was an East Timorese politician. A founder of the Frente Revolucionária de Timor Leste Independente (Fretilin), Amaral was sworn in as the first President of East Timor when the country, then a Portuguese colony, made a unilateral declaration of independence on 28 November 1975. He was a member of the National Parliament for the Timorese Social Democratic Association from 2001 until his death in 2012. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Francisco Xavier do Amaral has received more than 123,026 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Francisco Xavier do Amaral is the 12,640th most popular politician (up from 12,675th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Timor-Leste and the 7th most popular East Timorese Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.09

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Francisco Xavier do Amaral ranks 12,640 out of 19,576. Before him are Giovanni II Cornaro, Primo Nebiolo, Ali Rıza Pasha, Sándor Wekerle, Jean-Baptiste Nothomb, and Tilemachos Karakalos. After him are Francisco Antonio Pinto, Vladimir Potanin, Murtaza Rakhimov, Marcel Cachin, David V of Georgia, and Manuel García-Prieto, 1st Marquess of Alhucemas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Francisco Xavier do Amaral ranks 276. Before him are José Augusto, Richard Petty, Ken Ogata, Manoj Kumar, Gary Hocking, and Coen Moulijn. After him are Lenny Wilkens, Cheng Yen, Shirley Eaton, Kader Khan, Márta Rudas, and Alfredo Rojas. Among people deceased in 2012, Francisco Xavier do Amaral ranks 216. Before him are Levon Helm, Jack Taylor, Richard Lynch, Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Peter Carsten, and Sergio Toppi. After him are John Hick, Simin Daneshvar, Barry Commoner, Jim Marshall, Pierre Schoendoerffer, and Humayun Ahmed.

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In Timor-Leste

Among people born in Timor-Leste, Francisco Xavier do Amaral ranks 8 out of 12. Before him are Xanana Gusmão (1946), Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo (1948), Francisco Guterres (1954), Taur Matan Ruak (1956), Mari Alkatiri (1949), and Nicolau dos Reis Lobato (1946). After him are Virgílio do Carmo da Silva (1967), Estanislau da Silva (1952), Rui Maria de Araújo (1964), and Fernando de Araújo (1963).

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Among POLITICIANS In Timor-Leste

Among politicians born in Timor-Leste, Francisco Xavier do Amaral ranks 7. Before him are José Ramos-Horta (1949), Xanana Gusmão (1946), Francisco Guterres (1954), Taur Matan Ruak (1956), Mari Alkatiri (1949), and Nicolau dos Reis Lobato (1946). After him are Estanislau da Silva (1952), Rui Maria de Araújo (1964), and Fernando de Araújo (1963).

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