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Jan Masaryk

1886 - 1948

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Jan Garrigue Masaryk (14 September 1886 – 10 March 1948) was a Czech diplomat and politician who served as the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1940 to 1948. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Masaryk has received more than 429,455 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Jan Masaryk is the 1,937th most popular politician (up from 2,341st in 2019), the 64th most popular biography from Czechia (up from 73rd in 2019) and the 15th most popular Czech Politician.

Jan Masaryk was a Czech diplomat, politician, and author. He is most famous for being the Czech ambassador to the United Kingdom during World War II and the first post-war Czechoslovak Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jan Masaryk ranks 1,937 out of 19,576Before him are Charles Albert of Sardinia, Abbas II of Persia, Álmos, Edgar the Peaceful, Psamtik III, and Maria Manuela, Princess of Portugal. After him are Injong of Joseon, Ephialtes of Trachis, Maria Sophie of Bavaria, Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, and Francis, Duke of Anjou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Jan Masaryk ranks 20Before him are Karl Barth, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Karl von Frisch, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, George Mallory, and Karl Polanyi. After him are Theodor Morell, Hermann Broch, Gotthard Heinrici, Zhu De, Robert Robinson, and Edward Rydz-Śmigły. Among people deceased in 1948, Jan Masaryk ranks 19Before him are Andrei Zhdanov, Nikolai Berdyaev, Karl Brandt, Johannes Blaskowitz, Witold Pilecki, and Babe Ruth. After him are Theodor Morell, Ruth Benedict, Karl Gebhardt, Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and Maria Mandl.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Masaryk ranks 64 out of 1,200Before him are Anton Raphael Mengs (1728), Karl Renner (1870), George of Poděbrady (1420), Ludmila of Bohemia (860), Franz Werfel (1890), and Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787). After him are Jaroslav Seifert (1901), Jerome of Prague (1379), Karl Kraus (1874), Lída Baarová (1914), Carl Ferdinand Cori (1896), and Eugen Böhm von Bawerk (1851).

Among POLITICIANS In Czechia

Among politicians born in Czechia, Jan Masaryk ranks 15Before him are Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (1289), Ludvík Svoboda (1895), Wenceslaus II of Bohemia (1271), Emil Hácha (1872), Karl Renner (1870), and George of Poděbrady (1420). After him are Karl Hermann Frank (1898), Karel Schwarzenberg (1937), Bonne of Luxembourg (1315), Wenceslaus I of Bohemia (1205), Ottokar I of Bohemia (1155), and Maria Christina of Austria (1858).