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José Miguel Carrera

1785 - 1821

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José Miguel Carrera Verdugo (Latin American Spanish: [xoˈse miˈɣel kaˈreɾa]; October 15, 1785 – September 4, 1821) was a Chilean general, formerly Spanish military, member of the prominent Carrera family, and considered one of the founders of independent Chile. Carrera was the most important leader of the Chilean War of Independence during the period of the Patria Vieja ("Old Republic"). After the Spanish "Reconquista de Chile" ("Reconquest"), he continued campaigning from exile after defeat. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of José Miguel Carrera has received more than 165,628 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). José Miguel Carrera is the 10,921st most popular politician (down from 9,028th in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from Chile (down from 42nd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Chilean Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, José Miguel Carrera ranks 10,921 out of 19,576. Before him are Sadako Ogata, John W. McCormack, Bajram Curri, Honoré I, Lord of Monaco, Adalgis, and Oleksandr Korniychuk. After him are Bashir Shihab II, Orgetorix, Henri Queuille, Conrad I, Count of Württemberg, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, and Proculus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1785, José Miguel Carrera ranks 34. Before him are William Jackson Hooker, August Immanuel Bekker, Victor de Broglie, Edward Bransfield, Karl, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and Vicente López y Planes. After him are Hermann, Fürst von Pückler-Muskau, Agustín Gamarra, Lady Caroline Lamb, Archduke Karl of Austria-Este, Shah Shujah Durrani, and Anna Sundström. Among people deceased in 1821, José Miguel Carrera ranks 18. Before him are Jean Rapp, Johann Peter Frank, Louis Claude Richard, Princess Caroline of Hesse-Darmstadt, Marie-Denise Villers, and Jean-Nicolas Corvisart. After him are Juan O'Donojú, Athanasios Diakos, Heinrich Kuhl, Fulgencio Yegros, Anders Jahan Retzius, and Constance Mayer.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, José Miguel Carrera ranks 56 out of 321. Before him are Roberto Rojas (1957), Juan Ignacio Molina (1740), Teresa of the Andes (1900), José Donoso (1924), Vicar (1934), and Vicente Huidobro (1893). After him are Pedro Aguirre Cerda (1879), Claudio Bravo (1983), Marlene Ahrens (1933), Gabriel Boric (1986), Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa (1933), and Fernando Riera (1920).

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Among POLITICIANS In Chile

Among politicians born in Chile, José Miguel Carrera ranks 18. Before him are Orlando Letelier (1932), Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (1877), Arturo Alessandri (1868), Lucía Hiriart (1923), Gabriel González Videla (1898), and José Manuel Balmaceda (1840). After him are Pedro Aguirre Cerda (1879), Gabriel Boric (1986), Ramón Freire (1787), Aníbal Pinto (1825), José Joaquín Prieto (1786), and Manuel Bulnes (1799).

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