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Josip Broz Tito

1892 - 1980

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Josip Broz (Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Јосип Броз, pronounced [jǒsip brôːz] ; 7 May 1892 – 4 May 1980), commonly known as Tito (; Тито, pronounced [tîto]), was a Yugoslav communist revolutionary and politician who served in various positions of national leadership from 1943 until his death in 1980. During World War II, he led the Yugoslav Partisans, often regarded as the most effective resistance movement in German-occupied Europe. Following Yugoslavia's liberation in 1945, he served as its prime minister from 29 November 1945 to 29 June 1963 and president from 14 January 1953 until his death in 1980. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josip Broz Tito has received more than 9,317,475 page views. His biography is available in 105 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 99 in 2019). Josip Broz Tito is the 51st most popular politician (up from 58th in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Croatia and the most popular Croatian Politician.

Josip Broz Tito was the first president of Yugoslavia, and he is most famous for uniting the country after World War II.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Josip Broz Tito ranks 51 out of 19,576Before him are Louis XV of France, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pericles, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Nero, and Justinian I. After him are Akhenaten, William IV of the United Kingdom, Peter the Great, James K. Polk, Sargon of Akkad, and Muammar Gaddafi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1892, Josip Broz Tito ranks 2Before him is J. R. R. Tolkien. After him are Francisco Franco, Manfred von Richthofen, Ivo Andrić, Walter Benjamin, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Haile Selassie, Alexander Alekhine, Pearl S. Buck, and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Among people deceased in 1980, Josip Broz Tito ranks 1After him are Jean-Paul Sartre, Karl Dönitz, Alfred Hitchcock, John Lennon, Jean Piaget, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Erich Fromm, Roland Barthes, Bon Scott, Oskar Kokoschka, and Steve McQueen.

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In Croatia

Among people born in Croatia, Josip Broz Tito ranks 2 out of 700Before him are Nikola Tesla (1856). After him are Diocletian (244), Rüstem Pasha (1500), Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa (-63), Valens (328), Franjo Tuđman (1922), János Kádár (1912), Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711), Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934), Pope John IV (600), and Pope Caius (250).

Among POLITICIANS In Croatia

Among politicians born in Croatia, Josip Broz Tito ranks 1After him are Diocletian (244), Rüstem Pasha (1500), Valens (328), Franjo Tuđman (1922), János Kádár (1912), Crispus (305), Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (1968), Ivan Ribar (1881), Joanna II of Naples (1373), Tomislav of Croatia (null), and Stjepan Radić (1871).