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Johannes Virolainen

1914 - 2000

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Johannes Virolainen (pronounced [ˈjohɑnːes ˈʋirolɑi̯nen] ; born 31 January 1914 in Rural municipality of Viipuri, died 11 December 2000 in Lohja) was a Finnish politician and who served as 30th Prime Minister of Finland, helped inhabitants of Karelia, opposed the use of alcohol and created Mandatory Swedish in Finnish basic schools. Virolainen was born near Viipuri. After the Continuation War Virolainen moved to Lohja, but he remained one of the leaders of the evacuated Karelians, and never gave up the hope that Soviet Union and later Russia would return Finnish Karelia to Finland. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johannes Virolainen has received more than 47,647 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Johannes Virolainen is the 12,802nd most popular politician (up from 13,076th in 2019), the 1,438th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,550th in 2019) and the 362nd most popular Russian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 48k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.74

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Johannes Virolainen ranks 12,802 out of 19,576. Before him are Beatrice of Navarre, Countess of La Marche, Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders, John II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal, Litokwa Tomeing, Manuel Gómez Pedraza, and Paul Cambon. After him are Yuli-Yoel Edelstein, Amir Sjarifuddin, Corina Casanova, Mohsen Rezaee, Jan Piotr Sapieha, and Atanasio Aguirre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Johannes Virolainen ranks 219. Before him are Hovhannes Shiraz, Jacques Dufilho, Henri Laborit, Dorothy Lamour, Christl Cranz, and Vincent J. McMahon. After him are Afonsinho, Irmã Dulce, Ralph Ellison, Grigol Abashidze, Reuben Fine, and Wilhelm Hahnemann. Among people deceased in 2000, Johannes Virolainen ranks 175. Before him are Anne Hébert, Werner Klemperer, Paula Wessely, Carlos Guastavino, Ansumane Mané, and Rinaldo Martino. After him are Herbert Friedman, Gustaw Herling-Grudziński, Robert Dienst, Đorđe Martinović incident, William Porter, and Rodolfo Pini.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Johannes Virolainen ranks 1,438 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Kemurdzhian (1921), Vadym Meller (1884), Ernst Neizvestny (1925), Vasily Trediakovsky (1703), Lena Katina (1984), and Vera Komissarzhevskaya (1864). After him are Marina Semyonova (1908), Yuri Rytkheu (1930), Anton Delvig (1798), Vladimir Gardin (1877), Sandra Kalniete (1952), and Alexander Men (1935).

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Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Johannes Virolainen ranks 362. Before him are Vitaly Churkin (1952), Anatoli Firsov (1941), Alexander Protopopov (1866), Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov (1786), Carl Enckell (1876), and Vladimir Potanin (1961). After him are Sandra Kalniete (1952), Countess Friederike von Schlieben (1757), Fyodor Dan (1871), Igor Rodionov (1936), Galina Starovoytova (1946), and Anatoly Pepelyayev (1891).

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