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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 307,752 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Gustavo Rojas Pinilla is the 8,783rd most popular politician (down from 7,895th in 2019), the 34th most popular biography from Colombia (down from 30th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Colombian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla ranks 8,783 out of 15,577. Before him are Galvarino, Seocheon of Goguryeo, Katō Takaaki, Audoin, Károly Grósz, and Shaul Mofaz. After him are Lais of Hyccara, Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha, Emilio Castelar, Anerood Jugnauth, Mirwais Hotak, and Judith of Schweinfurt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla ranks 122. Before him are Victor Young, Bluma Zeigarnik, Catherine Hessling, Luigi Longo, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, and Santos Urdinarán. After him are Hermann Esser, Alexander Novikov, Arturo Umberto Illia, Lorenzo Fernández, Hellmuth Walter, and Sumitranandan Pant. Among people deceased in 1975, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla ranks 87. Before him are Sam Giancana, Philipp Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg, Lennart Skoglund, Faisal bin Musaid Al Saud, Georg Ots, and Achille Van Acker. After him are Alvin Hansen, Boris Blacher, Jan Mukařovský, Mina Witkojc, Kazimierz Fajans, and William Hartnell.

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In Colombia

Among people born in Colombia, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla ranks 34 out of 306. Before him are Radamel Falcao (1986), José de Jesús Pimiento Rodríguez (1919), Samael Aun Weor (1917), Álvaro Mutis (1923), Luis Garavito (1957), and John Leguizamo (1964). After him are Camilo Torres Restrepo (1929), Juan Pablo Montoya (1975), Policarpa Salavarrieta (1795), Alfonso López Michelsen (1913), Juanes (1972), and Laura Montoya (1874).

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Among POLITICIANS In Colombia

Among politicians born in Colombia, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla ranks 15. Before him are Belisario Betancur (1923), Virgilio Barco Vargas (1921), Ernesto Samper (1950), Manuel Marulanda (1930), Julio César Turbay Ayala (1916), and Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (1903). After him are Alfonso López Michelsen (1913), Omayra Sánchez (1972), Andrés Pastrana Arango (1954), Iván Duque Márquez (1976), Rafael Núñez (1825), and Laureano Gómez (1889).

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