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Horia Sima

1907 - 1993

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Horia Sima (3 July 1906 – 25 May 1993) was a Romanian fascist politician, best known as the second and last leader of the fascist paramilitary movement known as the Iron Guard (also known as the Legion of the Archangel Michael). Sima was also the Vice President of the Council of Ministers and de facto co-leader in Ion Antonescu's National Legionary State. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Horia Sima has received more than 412,280 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Horia Sima is the 4,964th most popular politician (down from 4,734th in 2019), the 86th most popular biography from Romania (up from 332nd in 2019) and the 40th most popular Romanian Politician.

Horia Sima was a Romanian communist politician who served as the first president of Romania from 1947 to 1954. He was the leader of the Romanian Communist Party and is most famous for his role in the Romanian Revolution of 1989.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Horia Sima ranks 4,964 out of 19,576. Before him are Ivan Sirko, Emperor Zhaozong of Tang, Sverker II of Sweden, Nicomedes I of Bithynia, Saitō Makoto, and Henry L. Stimson. After him are Otto II, Duke of Bavaria, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria, Munjong of Goryeo, Tassilo III, Duke of Bavaria, and František Palacký.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Horia Sima ranks 68. Before him are Miklós Rózsa, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Chūya Nakahara, Lee Miller, Giovanni Ferrari, and Emilie Schindler. After him are Mehdi Bazargan, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Cesar Romero, Pierre Mendès France, Mahadevi Varma, and Sisavang Vatthana. Among people deceased in 1993, Horia Sima ranks 46. Before him are Dražen Petrović, Stewart Granger, River Phoenix, Pat Nixon, Jimmy Doolittle, and Don Ameche. After him are György Sárosi, Kakuei Tanaka, Lucia Popp, Hans Baur, Yuri Lotman, and Helen Hayes.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Horia Sima ranks 86 out of 844. Before him are Iolanda Balaș (1936), Peter Mogila (1596), Nicolae Iorga (1871), Ana Aslan (1897), Michael Cretu (1957), and Pertevniyal Sultan (1812). After him are Ion Țiriac (1939), Endre Ady (1877), Angelica Rozeanu (1921), György Kurtág (1926), Princess Ileana of Romania (1909), and Vladimir Cosma (1940).

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Among POLITICIANS In Romania

Among politicians born in Romania, Horia Sima ranks 40. Before him are Petru Groza (1884), László Rajk (1909), Mihnea cel Rău (1462), Mircea II of Wallachia (1422), Nicolae Iorga (1871), and Pertevniyal Sultan (1812). After him are Rezső Kasztner (1906), Ben Ferencz (1920), Aureolus (220), Ion Gheorghe Maurer (1902), Christopher Báthory (1530), and Mundzuk (368).

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