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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 110,437 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Francisco Xavier do Amaral is the 12,718th most popular politician (down from 10,887th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Timor-Leste and the 7th most popular East Timorese Politician.

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  • 22

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Francisco Xavier do Amaral ranks 12,718 out of 15,577Before him are Domingo Santa María, Wolfgang Larrazábal, Herbert Lawford, Abdelhamid Brahimi, Manius Aquillius, and Carlos Gomes Júnior. After him are Hrant Shahinyan, Grigory Gershuni, Smendes II, Janet Reno, Aulus Atilius Serranus, and Federico Franco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Francisco Xavier do Amaral ranks 281Before him are David Margulies, Zoltán Horváth, Anita Traversi, Moacyr Scliar, Merle Haggard, and William Lombardy. After him are Vitaly Zholobov, George Chuvalo, Pino Puglisi, Rupiah Banda, Andrija Anković, and Zhang Jie. Among people deceased in 2012, Francisco Xavier do Amaral ranks 231Before him are Richard Lynch, Sergio Livingstone, Vladimir Krutov, Yash Chopra, Hector Bianciotti, and Levon Helm. After him are Émile Allais, Isuzu Yamada, Ann Curtis, Phyllis Diller, Maeve Binchy, and Richard D. Zanuck.

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In Timor-Leste

Among people born in Timor-Leste, Francisco Xavier do Amaral ranks 8 out of 11Before 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 Rui Maria de Araújo (1964), Estanislau da Silva (1952), and Fernando de Araújo (1963).

Among POLITICIANS In Timor-Leste

Among politicians born in Timor-Leste, Francisco Xavier do Amaral ranks 7Before 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 Rui Maria de Araújo (1964), Estanislau da Silva (1952), and Fernando de Araújo (1963).