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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, dead 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 44,283 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Johannes Virolainen is the 13,121st most popular politician (down from 11,919th in 2019), the 1,554th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,378th in 2019) and the 379th most popular Russian Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Johannes Virolainen ranks 13,121 out of 15,577Before him are Alf Landon, Paul-Émile Janson, Eardwulf of Northumbria, Dilara Aliyeva, Oʻtkir Sultonov, and Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García. After him are Hermano da Silva Ramos, Mugur Isărescu, Edmond Leburton, Hussa of Bernicia, Ariobarzanes II of Cappadocia, and Mona Sahlin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Johannes Virolainen ranks 239Before him are William Gibson, Giuseppe Caprio, Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr., Sarla Thakral, Jyoti Basu, and Hermínio de Brito. After him are Ehrenfried Patzel, Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Adolf Urban, David Wayne, Giuseppe Baldo, and Victor Sen Yung. Among people deceased in 2000, Johannes Virolainen ranks 182Before him are Curt Siodmak, Herbert Friedman, Ioannis Andreou, Piero Pasinati, Tofig Guliyev, and Rodolfo Pini. After him are Pietro Palazzini, Spyridon Belokas, Karen Hoff, Laila Kinnunen, Humberto de Araújo Benevenuto, and Vincentas Sladkevičius.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Johannes Virolainen ranks 1,554 out of 3,262Before him are Klara Rumyanova (1929), Roman Vishniac (1897), Vera Karalli (1889), Alexander Popov (1971), Sergey Obraztsov (1901), and Alexander Karpinsky (1846). After him are Yuri Semin (1947), Giorgi Shengelaia (1937), Vitaly Bianki (1894), Maria Zakharova (1975), Valeri Zolotukhin (1941), and Marietta Shaginyan (1888).

Among POLITICIANS In Russia

Among politicians born in Russia, Johannes Virolainen ranks 379Before him are Vladimir Yermoshin (1942), Natalia Kuchinskaya (1949), Alexander Maltsev (1949), Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov (1879), Viktor Nogin (1878), and Vsevolod of Pskov (null). After him are Maria Zakharova (1975), Ivan Babushkin (1873), Anatoliy Serdyukov (1962), Galina Starovoytova (1946), Gavriil Popov (1936), and Ramazan Abdulatipov (1946).