POLITICIAN

Kaspar Villiger

1941 - Today

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Kaspar Villiger (FEELIGER; born 5 February 1941) is a Swiss businessman, former tobacco manufacturer and politician. He served as a member of the Federal Council (Switzerland) since 1 February 1989 for The Liberals. Villiger served two terms as President of the Swiss Confederation in 1995 and again in 2002. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kaspar Villiger has received more than 69,417 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Kaspar Villiger is the 14,007th most popular politician (down from 13,297th in 2019), the 483rd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 440th in 2019) and the 90th most popular Swiss Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 69k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kaspar Villiger ranks 14,007 out of 19,576. Before him are Duško Marković, Ahmose-Sitkamose, Quintus Marcius Philippus, Fritz Schäffer, Nicander of Sparta, and Smendes II. After him are Stephen Gardiner, Caroline Harrison, Wei Fenghe, Cándido Bareiro, Tamara Rylova, and Yaa Asantewaa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Kaspar Villiger ranks 385. Before him are Youcef Yousfi, Ayşe Kulin, Jacob Nena, Sheila Fitzpatrick, Klaus Bonsack, and Valeri Zolotukhin. After him are Neil Aspinall, Navi Pillay, Andrei Smirnov, Pascoal Mocumbi, Peter Bonetti, and Ole Ritter.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Kaspar Villiger ranks 483 out of 1,015. Before him are Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724), Johann Amman (1707), Urs Fischer (1966), Lionel Dunsterville (1865), Vreni Schneider (1964), and Alex Zülle (1968). After him are Gottfried Dienst (1919), Karl Bodmer (1809), Massimo Busacca (1969), Anton Allemann (1936), Heinrich Schmid (1921), and Albert Eschenmoser (1925).

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Among POLITICIANS In Switzerland

Among politicians born in Switzerland, Kaspar Villiger ranks 90. Before him are Marc-Émile Ruchet (1853), Max Petitpierre (1899), Otto Stich (1927), Arnold Koller (1933), Kurt Furgler (1924), and Élisabeth Baume-Schneider (1963). After him are Wilhelm Matthias Naeff (1802), Alois Estermann (1954), Jakob Stämpfli (1820), Eugen Huber (1849), Louis Ruchonnet (1834), and Giuseppe Lepori (1902).

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