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Joaquín Navarro-Valls

1936 - 2017

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Joaquín Navarro-Valls, M.D. (November 16, 1936 – July 5, 2017) was a Spanish journalist, physician and academic who served as the Director of the Holy See Press Office from 1984 to 2006. His role as the press liaison between the Vatican and the world press corps gave him perhaps the highest visibility of any one person in the Vatican during the long reign of Pope John Paul II, with the exception of the Pope himself. He resigned his post July 11, 2006 and was replaced by Father Federico Lombardi. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joaquín Navarro-Valls has received more than 62,217 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Joaquín Navarro-Valls is the 48th most popular journalist (down from 45th in 2019), the 1,036th most popular biography from Spain (down from 925th in 2019) and the most popular Spanish Journalist.

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  • 52.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.85

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Joaquín Navarro-Valls ranks 48 out of 196. Before him are Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Ara Güler, Letizia Battaglia, Maria Ressa, Eve Arnold, and Marta Hillers. After him are Edward R. Murrow, Marion Dönhoff, Mauricio Funes, Sue Gardner, Yuri Bezmenov, and Kazimierz Nowak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Joaquín Navarro-Valls ranks 233. Before him are Mala Sinha, Edward Feigenbaum, Lars Gustafsson, Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, Éder Jofre, and Jerónimo Saavedra. After him are Reiner Klimke, Keir Dullea, Christopher Alexander, Yuri Ilyenko, Knud Enemark Jensen, and Joe E. Tata. Among people deceased in 2017, Joaquín Navarro-Valls ranks 207. Before him are Laura Biagiotti, Ricardo Piglia, Leo Kinnunen, Charles P. Thacker, Waldir Peres, and Octavio Lepage. After him are Allan Holdsworth, Gilbert Baker, Mike Connors, Imre Földi, Georgy Grechko, and Stanisław Skrowaczewski.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Joaquín Navarro-Valls ranks 1,036 out of 3,355. Before him are María Mercader (1918), Jerónimo Saavedra (1936), Nicolás Salmerón y Alonso (1838), Migueli (1951), Fausto Elhuyar (1755), and Juan O'Donojú (1762). After him are Ignacio Ramonet (1943), Maria de Luna (1353), José Enrique Varela (1891), Justo Tejada (1933), Émile Henry (1872), and Ibn Hayyan (987).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Spain

Among journalists born in Spain, Joaquín Navarro-Valls ranks 1. After him are Sara Carbonero (1984).

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