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Jacques Delors

1925 - 2023

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Jacques Lucien Jean Delors (French pronunciation: [ʒak lysjɛ̃ ʒɑ̃ dəlɔʁ]; 20 July 1925 – 27 December 2023) was a French politician who served as the eighth president of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995. Delors played a key role in the creation of the single market, the euro and the modern European Union. As president of the European Commission (EC), Delors was the most visible and influential leader in European affairs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Delors has received more than 647,879 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Jacques Delors is the 67th most popular economist (down from 57th in 2019), the 902nd most popular biography from France (down from 815th in 2019) and the 10th most popular French Economist.

Jacques Delors is most famous for being the president of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995. He is credited with leading the effort to create the euro, and is often called the "Father of the Euro."

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Among ECONOMISTS

Among economists, Jacques Delors ranks 67 out of 315Before him are Theodore Schultz, William Stanley Jevons, Oliver E. Williamson, Henry Mintzberg, Robert Lucas Jr., and Eugen Böhm von Bawerk. After him are James Mill, Wang Anshi, James Tobin, Reinhard Selten, Tansu Çiller, and Trygve Haavelmo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Jacques Delors ranks 50Before him are Sam Peckinpah, Oona O'Neill, Luciano Berio, Gerald Durrell, Robert Venturi, and Sibghatullah Mojaddedi. After him are George Kennedy, Roy J. Glauber, Barbara Bush, Simon van der Meer, Bülent Ecevit, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Among people deceased in 2023, Jacques Delors ranks 33Before him are Harry Belafonte, Robert Solow, Alan Arkin, Robert Lucas Jr., Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, and Ferid Murad. After him are K. Alex Müller, Tony Bennett, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Miroslav Blažević, Wolfgang Schäuble, and Paul Berg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Delors ranks 902 out of 6,011Before him are Bruno Latour (1947), Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy (1143), Auguste Mariette (1821), Arnaut Daniel (1150), Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1700), and Marie de France (1101). After him are George Steiner (1929), Fredegund (545), Jean-Marie Lehn (1939), Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (1748), Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (1011), and Claude Chappe (1763).

Among ECONOMISTS In France

Among economists born in France, Jacques Delors ranks 10Before him are Jean-Baptiste Say (1767), Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727), Léon Walras (1834), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (1949), Frédéric Bastiat (1801), and Maurice Allais (1911). After him are Jean-Claude Trichet (1942), Gérard Debreu (1921), Jean Tirole (1953), Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play (1806), Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay (1712), and Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (1715).