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Georgios Papadopoulos

1919 - 1999

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Georgios Papadopoulos (; Greek: Γεώργιος Παπαδόπουλος [ʝeˈorʝi.os papaˈðopulos]; 5 May 1919 – 27 June 1999) was a Greek military officer and dictator who led a coup d'etat in Greece in 1967 and became the country's Prime Minister from 1967 to 1973. He also was the President of Greece under the junta in 1973, following a referendum. However, after the effective suppression of the Athens Polytechnic uprising, he was, in turn, overthrown by hardliner Dimitrios Ioannidis, in a string of events that would culminate to the fall of the regime in 1974. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georgios Papadopoulos has received more than 916,482 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia. Georgios Papadopoulos is the 1,902nd most popular politician (down from 1,786th in 2019), the 155th most popular biography from Greece (down from 147th in 2019) and the 56th most popular Greek Politician.

Georgios Papadopoulos was a Greek military officer who led a coup d'état that overthrew King Constantine II of Greece and his government.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Georgios Papadopoulos ranks 1,902 out of 15,577Before him are Salome Zourabichvili, Abd al-Rahman II, Masoud Barzani, John I of Castile, Ismail II, and Attalus I. After him are William V, Prince of Orange, Milo of Croton, Ananda Mahidol, Lütfi Pasha, Jim Mattis, and Joan II of Navarre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Georgios Papadopoulos ranks 13Before him are Desmond Doss, Primo Levi, Zhao Ziyang, Giulio Andreotti, Margot Fonteyn, and Lino Ventura. After him are Nat King Cole, Choi Kyu-hah, Donald Pleasence, Kim Jong-suk, Gerhard Barkhorn, and Fausto Coppi. Among people deceased in 1999, Georgios Papadopoulos ranks 16Before him are Amália Rodrigues, Yehudi Menuhin, Raisa Gorbacheva, Wilt Chamberlain, Robert Bresson, and Wassily Leontief. After him are Petr Shelokhonov, Willi Stoph, Desmond Llewelyn, Jerzy Grotowski, Joe DiMaggio, and Dirk Bogarde.

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In Greece

Among people born in Greece, Georgios Papadopoulos ranks 155 out of 936Before him are Pausanias (null), Craterus (-370), Longus (110), Pleistarchus (-500), Lysander (-401), and Prodicus (-460). After him are Antipope Alexander V (1339), Antonia Minor (-36), Andronicus of Rhodes (-100), Demetrius Vikelas (1835), Pherecydes of Syros (-580), and Cleomenes I (-600).

Among POLITICIANS In Greece

Among politicians born in Greece, Georgios Papadopoulos ranks 56Before him are Ioannis Metaxas (1871), Ephialtes of Trachis (-550), Sophia Palaiologina (1455), Agesilaus II (-444), Ioannis Kapodistrias (1776), and Pleistarchus (-500). After him are Antonia Minor (-36), Cleomenes I (-600), Aeschines (-389), Nicias (-500), Antigonus II Gonatas (-319), and Cleomenes III (-260).