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João Figueiredo

1918 - 1999

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João Baptista de Oliveira Figueiredo (Portuguese: [ʒuˈɐ̃w baˈtʃistɐ dʒi oliˈvejɾɐ fiɡejˈɾedu, ˈʒwɐ̃w -]; 15 January 1918 – 24 December 1999) was a Brazilian military leader and politician who was the 30th president of Brazil from 1979 to 1985, the last of the military regime that ruled the country following the 1964 Brazilian coup d'état. He was chief of the Secret Service (SNI) during the term of his predecessor, Ernesto Geisel, who appointed him to the presidency at the end of his own mandate. He continued the process of redemocratization that Geisel had started and sanctioned a law decreeing amnesty for all political crimes committed during the regime. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of João Figueiredo has received more than 365,558 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). João Figueiredo is the 5,231st most popular politician (down from 5,146th in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from Brazil and the 19th most popular Brazilian Politician.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.58

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, João Figueiredo ranks 5,231 out of 15,577. Before him are Hwang Jang-yop, Rexhep Meidani, Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria, Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and Hipólito Yrigoyen. After him are Liamine Zéroual, Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan, Anne Hidalgo, Basina of Thuringia, and Margaret of Austria, Queen of Bohemia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, João Figueiredo ranks 71. Before him are B. K. S. Iyengar, Fanny Blankers-Koen, Jin Youzhi, Yigal Allon, Jean-Marie Loret, and Kakuei Tanaka. After him are Gabriel Axel, Philip José Farmer, Kenichi Fukui, Humaira Begum, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, and Takashi Kasahara. Among people deceased in 1999, João Figueiredo ranks 54. Before him are Edward Dmytryk, Fabrizio De André, Joe D'Amato, Bernard Buffet, Rafael Alberti, and Amintore Fanfani. After him are André Martinet, Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Gyula Zsengellér, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Alfredo Kraus, and Dusty Springfield.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, João Figueiredo ranks 95 out of 2,067. Before him are Leonardo Boff (1938), Chico Buarque (1944), Florinda Bolkan (1941), Rubens Barrichello (1972), Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório (1943), and José Sarney (1930). After him are Wilson Fittipaldi Júnior (1943), Dunga (1963), Tancredo Neves (1910), José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920), Chico Xavier (1910), and Leovegildo Lins da Gama Júnior (1954).

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Among POLITICIANS In Brazil

Among politicians born in Brazil, João Figueiredo ranks 19. Before him are João Goulart (1918), Ernesto Geisel (1907), Sérgio Vieira de Mello (1948), Anita Garibaldi (1821), Emílio Garrastazu Médici (1905), and José Sarney (1930). After him are Tancredo Neves (1910), Princess Francisca of Brazil (1824), Bernardino Machado (1851), Artur da Costa e Silva (1899), Fernando Collor de Mello (1949), and Jânio Quadros (1917).

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