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Giovanni Giolitti

1842 - 1928

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Giovanni Giolitti (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni dʒoˈlitti]; 27 October 1842 – 17 July 1928) was an Italian statesman. He was the prime minister of Italy five times between 1892 and 1921. He is the longest-serving democratically elected prime minister in Italian history, and the second-longest serving overall after Benito Mussolini. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Giovanni Giolitti has received more than 470,890 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Giovanni Giolitti is the 2,974th most popular politician (up from 3,796th in 2019), the 982nd most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,181st in 2019) and the 204th most popular Italian Politician.

Giolitti is most famous for his liberal economic policies, which he implemented during his time as Prime Minister of Italy. He is also known for his support of the Risorgimento, which was a movement for the unification of Italy.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Giovanni Giolitti ranks 2,974 out of 19,576Before him are Bahram I, Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma, Mahmud I of Great Seljuq, Hyeokgeose of Silla, Christina of Lorraine, and Milton Obote. After him are Mihailo Obrenović, Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, Calchas, Zechariah of Israel, Telipinu, and Syphax.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Giovanni Giolitti ranks 19Before him are Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, Okita Sōji, Hermann Cohen, Arrigo Boito, Georg Brandes, and Vasily Vereshchagin. After him are James Dewar, Ambrose Bierce, Sophus Lie, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Carl von Linde, and Osborne Reynolds. Among people deceased in 1928, Giovanni Giolitti ranks 16Before him are Johannes Fibiger, Theodore William Richards, Zhang Zuolin, Franz Stuck, Thomas Hardy, and Italo Svevo. After him are Myrtle Corbin, Stjepan Radić, Antonio Abetti, Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach, Luigi Cadorna, and H. H. Asquith.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Giolitti ranks 982 out of 5,161Before him are Italo Gariboldi (1879), Scribonia (-70), Pietro Pomponazzi (1462), Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma (1870), Gerard of Cremona (1114), and Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608). After him are Barbara Strozzi (1619), Sextus Pompey (-67), Vittoria Colonna (1490), Lucia Bosè (1931), Stesichorus (-630), and Luigi Einaudi (1874).

Among POLITICIANS In Italy

Among politicians born in Italy, Giovanni Giolitti ranks 204Before him are Odilo Globočnik (1904), Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1562), Florianus (232), Lucilla (150), Bartolomeo Colleoni (1400), and Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma (1870). After him are Luigi Einaudi (1874), Fulvia (-77), Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1610), Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora (1804), Alfonso IV of Aragon (1299), and Enrico De Nicola (1877).