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Kārlis Ulmanis

1877 - 1942

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Kārlis Augusts Vilhelms Ulmanis ([ˈkaːrlis ˈɑuɡusts ˈvilxɛlms ˈuɫmɑnis]; 4 September 1877 – 20 September 1942) was a Latvian politician and a dictator. He was one of the most prominent Latvian politicians of pre-World War II Latvia during the Interwar period of independence from November 1918 to June 1940 and served as the country's first prime minister. He served four times as prime minister, the last time as the head of an authoritarian regime, during which he subsequently also adopted the title of President of Latvia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kārlis Ulmanis has received more than 289,668 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Kārlis Ulmanis is the 2,624th most popular politician (down from 2,519th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Latvia and the most popular Latvian Politician.

Kārlis Ulmanis was most famous for being the president of Latvia from 1934 to 1940.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kārlis Ulmanis ranks 2,624 out of 15,577Before him are Léon Gambetta, Vsevolod I of Kiev, Bolesław III Wrymouth, Pepin I of Aquitaine, Vishvamitra, and Cecrops I. After him are Louise Françoise de Bourbon, Duchess of Bourbon, Gisela of Hungary, Yusuf ibn Tashfin, Emperor Ling of Han, Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, and Wilhelm Liebknecht.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Kārlis Ulmanis ranks 18Before him are Edgar Cayce, Raoul Dufy, G. H. Hardy, Oswald Avery, Kees van Dongen, and Heinrich Otto Wieland. After him are Said Nursî, Arthur Cecil Pigou, Maurice Halbwachs, Alfred Cortot, Princess Auguste of Bavaria, and André Maginot. Among people deceased in 1942, Kārlis Ulmanis ranks 29Before him are Hector Guimard, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, Jozef Gabčík, Bruno Schulz, Hans-Joachim Marseille, and Michel Fokine. After him are Yanka Kupala, Herschel Grynszpan, Séraphine Louis, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Felix Hausdorff, and Henri de Baillet-Latour.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Kārlis Ulmanis ranks 10 out of 284Before him are Mikhail Tal (1936), Isaiah Berlin (1909), Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761), Nicolai Hartmann (1882), Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948), and Mariss Jansons (1943). After him are Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (1937), Aron Nimzowitsch (1886), Gidon Kremer (1947), Jacob Kettler (1610), Egils Levits (1955), and Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717).

Among POLITICIANS In Latvia

Among politicians born in Latvia, Kārlis Ulmanis ranks 1After him are Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga (1937), Jacob Kettler (1610), Egils Levits (1955), Ernst Gideon von Laudon (1717), Peter von Biron (1724), Ernst Johann von Biron (1690), Guntis Ulmanis (1939), Andris Bērziņš (1944), Pauline Therese of Württemberg (1800), Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804), and Frederick William, Duke of Courland (1692).