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Gustavo Rojas Pinilla

1900 - 1975

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Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (12 March 1900 – 17 January 1975) was a Colombian army general, civil engineer and politician who ruled as 19th President of Colombia in a military dictatorship from June 1953 to May 1957. Rojas Pinilla gained prominence as a colonel during La Violencia, the period of civil strife in Colombia during the late 1940s and early 1950s that saw infighting between the ruling Conservatives and Liberal guerillas, and was named to the cabinet of Conservative President Mariano Ospina Pérez. In 1953, he mounted a successful coup d'état against Ospina's successor as president, the extreme right-wing Laureano Gómez Castro, imposing martial law. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla has received more than 331,991 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Gustavo Rojas Pinilla is the 8,798th most popular politician (down from 8,756th in 2019), the 37th most popular biography from Colombia (down from 34th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Colombian Politician.

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  • 4.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla ranks 8,798 out of 19,576. Before him are Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Nasr of Granada, Eleanor of England, Countess of Leicester, Joachim Ernest, Prince of Anhalt, Nebettawy, and Arsenije III Čarnojević. After him are Christine of Saxony, Charles Savarin, Björn at Haugi, László Bárdossy, Jaba Ioseliani, and Teodósio II, Duke of Braganza.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla ranks 118. Before him are Srinagarindra, Mikhail Katukov, Ernst Krenek, Lidia Ruslanova, Vítězslav Nezval, and Santos Urdinarán. After him are Alfred Newman, Luigi Longo, Leo Löwenthal, Franz Neumann, Hans Stuck, and René Crevel. Among people deceased in 1975, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla ranks 85. Before him are Franz Six, William A. Wellman, Cannonball Adderley, Ma Bufang, Lung Chien, and Ezzard Charles. After him are K. Kamaraj, Richard Conte, Boris Blacher, Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, Sam Giancana, and Kazimierz Fajans.

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In Colombia

Among people born in Colombia, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla ranks 37 out of 356. Before him are Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (1903), Julio César Turbay Ayala (1916), Álvaro Mutis (1923), Laura Montoya (1874), Camilo Torres Restrepo (1929), and Samael Aun Weor (1917). After him are Policarpa Salavarrieta (1795), Darío Castrillón Hoyos (1929), Alfonso López Michelsen (1913), Omayra Sánchez (1972), Faustino Asprilla (1969), and Iván Córdoba (1976).

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Among POLITICIANS In Colombia

Among politicians born in Colombia, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla ranks 17. Before him are Belisario Betancur (1923), Francisco de Paula Santander (1792), Ernesto Samper (1950), Manuel Marulanda (1930), Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (1903), and Julio César Turbay Ayala (1916). After him are Alfonso López Michelsen (1913), Omayra Sánchez (1972), Andrés Pastrana Arango (1954), Laureano Gómez (1889), Rafael Núñez (1825), and Misael Pastrana Borrero (1923).

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