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Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco

1897 - 1967

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Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco (20 September 1897 – 18 July 1967) was a Brazilian military officer and politician who served as the 26th president of Brazil, the first of the Brazilian military dictatorship following the 1964 coup d'état. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco has received more than 331,237 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia. Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco is the 3,827th most popular politician (up from 4,078th in 2019), the 66th most popular biography from Brazil (up from 70th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Brazilian Politician.

Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco was a Brazilian writer who is most famous for his novel "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands."

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  • 66.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 47

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco ranks 3,827 out of 19,576. Before him are Jindeok of Silla, Godigisel, Emperor Go-Nara, Baldwin II, Margrave of Flanders, Sviatoslav II of Kiev, and Li Yuanhong. After him are Chen Shou, Hans Modrow, Sancho Ramírez, Joscelin III, Count of Edessa, Tuman bay II, and Barquq.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco ranks 53. Before him are John Cockcroft, Margaret Mahler, Emil Maurice, Vasily Sokolovsky, Ye Jianying, and Herbert Gille. After him are Mary, Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood, Einar Gerhardsen, Douglas Sirk, Dmitry Pavlov, Zakir Husain, and Theodor Busse. Among people deceased in 1967, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco ranks 42. Before him are Totò, John Cockcroft, Harald Quandt, Ejnar Hertzsprung, Vladimir Bartol, and Violeta Parra. After him are Otis Redding, Joseph Pilates, Abdel Hakim Amer, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Luigi Tenco, and Anthony Mann.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco ranks 66 out of 2,236. Before him are Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior (1943), Deodoro da Fonseca (1827), Vinicius de Moraes (1913), Machado de Assis (1839), Hebe Camargo (1929), and Pepe (1935). After him are Zizinho (1921), Careca (1960), João Goulart (1918), Dunga (1963), Carlos Ghosn (1954), and Anita Garibaldi (1821).

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Among POLITICIANS In Brazil

Among politicians born in Brazil, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco ranks 11. Before him are Getúlio Vargas (1882), Michel Temer (1940), Maria II of Portugal (1819), Juscelino Kubitschek (1902), Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1931), and Deodoro da Fonseca (1827). After him are João Goulart (1918), Anita Garibaldi (1821), Zumbi (1655), Ernesto Geisel (1907), Tancredo Neves (1910), and Sérgio Vieira de Mello (1948).

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