POLITICIAN

John A. Costello

1891 - 1976

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John Aloysius Costello (20 June 1891 – 5 January 1976) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 1948 to 1951 and from 1954 to 1957, Leader of the Opposition from 1951 to 1954 and from 1957 to 1959, and Attorney General of Ireland from 1926 to 1932. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John A. Costello has received more than 219,218 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). John A. Costello is the 16,107th most popular politician (down from 14,806th in 2019), the 282nd most popular biography from Ireland (down from 268th in 2019) and the 44th most popular Irish Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, John A. Costello ranks 16,107 out of 19,576. Before him are Gheorghe Mironescu, Neil Kinnock, Agathocles of Bactria, Grace Mugabe, Manolache Costache Epureanu, and Marc Garneau. After him are Jim Risch, Shōichi Nakagawa, Mary Arthur McElroy, Hubert Minnis, Wopke Hoekstra, and Emiliano González Navero.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, John A. Costello ranks 252. Before him are Oliverio Girondo, Mamie Smith, Erik Lindahl, Jean Jacoby, Bernhard Zondek, and Béla von Kehrling. After him are Lorenzo Mangiante, August Gailit, Hans Liesche, Gustaf Lindblom, Arnold Jackson, and Irving Pichel. Among people deceased in 1976, John A. Costello ranks 235. Before him are Antoni Słonimski, L. S. Lowry, Horacio Muñoz, Richard Arlen, Norman Foster, and Jimmy Garrison. After him are Alfredo Dinale, Edgar Moon, Alexandru Cuedan, Gastone Darè, Joe Fulks, and Ivan Borkovský.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, John A. Costello ranks 282 out of 549. Before him are Sir George Staunton, 1st Baronet (1737), William Desmond Taylor (1872), John O'Shea (1981), George Salmon (1819), Caoimhín Kelleher (1998), and Colum McCann (1965). After him are Margaret Mazzantini (1961), Peter Sutherland (1946), Tony Dunne (1941), Charlie McGettigan (1950), Richard Mulcahy (1886), and William Stokes (1804).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ireland

Among politicians born in Ireland, John A. Costello ranks 44. Before him are Leo Varadkar (1979), Garret FitzGerald (1926), Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo (1822), Charles Haughey (1925), Cathal Brugha (1874), and Jack Lynch (1917). After him are Peter Sutherland (1946), Richard Mulcahy (1886), Albert Reynolds (1932), Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet (1715), Joseph Plunkett (1887), and Diarmait Mac Murchada (1110).

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