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Fructuoso Rivera

1784 - 1854

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José Fructuoso Rivera y Toscana (17 October 1784 – 13 January 1854) was an Uruguayan general and patriot who fought for the liberation of Banda Oriental from Brazilian rule, thrice served as President of Uruguay and was one of the instigators of the long Uruguayan Civil War. He is also considered to be the founder of the Colorado Party, which ruled Uruguay without interruption from 1865 until 1958. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fructuoso Rivera has received more than 118,060 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Fructuoso Rivera is the 7,271st most popular politician (up from 8,125th in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Uruguay (up from 40th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Uruguayan Politician.

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  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.14

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Fructuoso Rivera ranks 7,271 out of 19,576. Before him are Hastein, Perctarit, Hussein Dey, Jahandar Shah, Frederick, Duke of Bohemia, and Andrej Plenković. After him are Ernst Niekisch, Emperor Suzaku, Albert Bormann, Louis I, Prince of Monaco, Marie Thérèse Rodet Geoffrin, and John II, Duke of Bavaria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1784, Fructuoso Rivera ranks 23. Before him are Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Peter von Cornelius, Duchess Charlotte Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Moses Montefiore, Ferdinand Ries, and George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen. After him are Dionisio Aguado y García, François-Joseph Fétis, Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Friedrich Graf von Wrangel, Sándor Kőrösi Csoma, and Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest. Among people deceased in 1854, Fructuoso Rivera ranks 13. Before him are Johann Peter Eckermann, Charles III, Duke of Parma, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Józef Elsner, Princess Louise Amelie of Baden, and Zénaïde Bonaparte. After him are John Martin, Kamehameha III, Almeida Garrett, Marcellin Marbot, Jeremias Gotthelf, and Pierre Alphonse Laurent.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Fructuoso Rivera ranks 37 out of 444. Before him are Jorge Batlle (1927), Ernesto Mascheroni (1907), Juan María Bordaberry (1928), Juan Carlos Onetti (1909), Óscar Míguez (1927), and Bernardo Arévalo (1958). After him are Santos Iriarte (1902), Luis Alberto Lacalle (1941), Horacio Quiroga (1878), Carlos Páez Vilaró (1923), Álvaro Gestido (1907), and Peregrino Anselmo (1902).

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Among POLITICIANS In Uruguay

Among politicians born in Uruguay, Fructuoso Rivera ranks 8. Before him are Tabaré Vázquez (1940), José Gervasio Artigas (1764), Julio María Sanguinetti (1936), Jorge Batlle (1927), Juan María Bordaberry (1928), and Bernardo Arévalo (1958). After him are Luis Alberto Lacalle (1941), Manuel Oribe (1792), Venancio Flores (1808), José Batlle y Ordóñez (1856), Lucía Topolansky (1944), and Gregorio Conrado Álvarez (1925).

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