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José Figueres Ferrer

1906 - 1990

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José María Hipólito Figueres Ferrer (25 September 1906 – 8 June 1990) served three terms as President of Costa Rica: 1948–1949, 1953–1958 and 1970–1974. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José Figueres Ferrer has received more than 321,699 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). José Figueres Ferrer is the 6,734th most popular politician (up from 7,046th in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from Costa Rica and the 2nd most popular Costa Rican Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, José Figueres Ferrer ranks 6,734 out of 15,577Before him are Valeriy Borzov, Hyder Ali, Henry VII, Duke of Bavaria, Emanuel Ringelblum, Abdel Hakim Amer, and Luis Corvalán. After him are Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, Jean-Marc Ayrault, Edvard Eriksen, José Antonio Aguirre, Ang Duong, and Tughlugh Timur.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, José Figueres Ferrer ranks 103Before him are Curtis LeMay, Phạm Văn Đồng, Philippe Halsman, Jack Churchill, Berthold, Margrave of Baden, and George Sanders. After him are Junio Valerio Borghese, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, William Joyce, Humberto Delgado, Dita Parlo, and Pierre Fournier. Among people deceased in 1990, José Figueres Ferrer ranks 72Before him are Samuel Doe, Nina Kulagina, Tadeusz Kantor, Nicola Abbagnano, Manuel Puig, and Meir Kahane. After him are Taro Kagawa, J. C. R. Licklider, Tom Fogerty, Dexter Gordon, Shigeo Shingo, and Arthur Kennedy.

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In Costa Rica

Among people born in Costa Rica, José Figueres Ferrer ranks 3 out of 104Before him are Óscar Arias (1940) and Chavela Vargas (1919). After him are Keylor Navas (1986), Laura Chinchilla (1959), Abel Pacheco (1933), Franklin Chang Díaz (1950), Luis Guillermo Solís (1958), Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (1940), José María Figueres (1954), Teodoro Picado Michalski (1900), and Adolfo Díaz (1875).

Among POLITICIANS In Costa Rica

Among politicians born in Costa Rica, José Figueres Ferrer ranks 2Before him are Óscar Arias (1940). After him are Laura Chinchilla (1959), Abel Pacheco (1933), Luis Guillermo Solís (1958), Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (1940), José María Figueres (1954), Teodoro Picado Michalski (1900), Adolfo Díaz (1875), Federico Tinoco Granados (1868), Otilio Ulate Blanco (1891), and Rafael Ángel Calderón Guardia (1900).