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Juan Perón

1895 - 1974

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Juan Domingo Perón (UK: , US: , Spanish: [ˈxwan doˈmiŋɡo peˈɾon] ; 8 October 1895 – 1 July 1974) was an Argentine lieutenant general and statesman who served as the 29th president of Argentina from 1946 to his overthrow in 1955, and again as the 40th president from 1973 to his death in 1974. He is the only Argentine president elected three times, and holds the highest percentage of votes in clean elections with universal suffrage. Perón is the most important and controversial Argentine politician of the 20th century, and his influence extends to the present day. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Juan Perón has received more than 5,489,217 page views. His biography is available in 81 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 76 in 2019). Juan Perón is the 342nd most popular politician (up from 481st in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Argentina (up from 9th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Argentinean Politician.

Juan Perón was an Argentine military officer and politician who served as President of Argentina from 1946 to 1955 and 1973 to 1974. He is most famous for his social reforms in Argentina.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Juan Perón ranks 342 out of 19,576Before him are Mehmed V, Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, Edward VI of England, Raúl Castro, Louis XVIII of France, and Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. After him are Godfrey of Bouillon, Liu Bei, Stepan Bandera, Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein, François Hollande, and Victor Emmanuel III of Italy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Juan Perón ranks 2Before him is George VI. After him are Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Carl Orff, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Amin al-Husseini, Buster Keaton, Richard Sorge, Ernst Jünger, Wilm Hosenfeld, Jiddu Krishnamurti, and Max Horkheimer. Among people deceased in 1974, Juan Perón ranks 4Before him are Charles Lindbergh, Oskar Schindler, and Georgy Zhukov. After him are Georges Pompidou, Amin al-Husseini, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, James Chadwick, Vittorio De Sica, Pär Lagerkvist, U Thant, and Baldur von Schirach.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Juan Perón ranks 7 out of 1,154Before him are Che Guevara (1928), Pope Francis (1936), Diego Maradona (1960), Jorge Luis Borges (1899), Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926), and Eva Perón (1919). After him are Astor Piazzolla (1921), Juan Manuel Fangio (1911), Lionel Messi (1987), Isabel Martínez de Perón (1931), Jorge Rafael Videla (1925), and Martha Argerich (1941).

Among POLITICIANS In Argentina

Among politicians born in Argentina, Juan Perón ranks 2Before him are Eva Perón (1919). After him are Isabel Martínez de Perón (1931), Jorge Rafael Videla (1925), Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953), Carlos Menem (1930), Leopoldo Galtieri (1926), Néstor Kirchner (1950), Alberto Fernández (1959), Raúl Alfonsín (1927), Richard Walther Darré (1895), and Reynaldo Bignone (1928).