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Hans Blix

1928 - Today

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Hans Martin Blix (Swedish: [hɑːns ˈblɪks] ; born 28 June 1928) is a Swedish diplomat and politician for the Liberal People's Party. He was Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs (1978–1979) and later became the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency. As such, Blix was the first Western representative to inspect the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union on-site and led the agency's response to them. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Blix has received more than 559,092 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Hans Blix is the 29th most popular diplomat (up from 33rd in 2019), the 187th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 266th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Swedish Diplomat.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Hans Blix ranks 29 out of 90. Before him are Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Megasthenes, Thomas Klestil, Édith Cresson, and Irina Bokova. After him are Alfonso García Robles, Giovanni Villani, George Blake, Yukiya Amano, Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, and Amr Moussa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Hans Blix ranks 88. Before him are Alan J. Pakula, James Garner, Tony Richardson, Patrick McGoohan, Robert Sheckley, and Elias James Corey. After him are Marco Ferreri, Walter Mondale, Wolfgang von Trips, Sara Montiel, Burt Bacharach, and Gustav Leonhardt.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Hans Blix ranks 187 out of 1,879. Before him are PewDiePie (1989), Johan August Arfwedson (1792), Erik Acharius (1757), Tage Erlander (1901), Lars Lagerbäck (1948), and Gunilla Bielke (1568). After him are Prince Carl Philip, Duke of Värmland (1979), Bo Larsson (1944), Inge the Younger (1100), Britt Ekland (1942), Vagn Walfrid Ekman (1874), and Anna Lindh (1957).

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Among DIPLOMATS In Sweden

Among diplomats born in Sweden, Hans Blix ranks 5. Before him are Dag Hammarskjöld (1905), Raoul Wallenberg (1912), Folke Bernadotte (1895), and Alva Myrdal (1902).

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