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Leonel Fernández

1953 - Today

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Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna () (born 26 December 1953) is a Dominican lawyer, academic, and was the 50th and 52nd President of the Dominican Republic from 1996 to 2000 and from 2004 to 2012. From 2016 until 2020, he was the President of the EU–LAC Foundation. Fernández became the first elected president of the Dominican Republic under his political party, the Dominican Liberation Party (Partido de la Liberación Dominicana, or PLD), although party founder Juan Bosch was also sworn in as president in 1963 after the first democratic elections held in roughly four decades in the country. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leonel Fernández has received more than 537,343 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Leonel Fernández is the 10,185th most popular politician (down from 10,177th in 2019), the 10th most popular biography from Dominican Republic and the 7th most popular Dominican Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Leonel Fernández ranks 10,185 out of 19,576Before him are Marcia, Otto IV, Duke of Lower Bavaria, Patriarch Miron of Romania, Eberhard Louis, Duke of Württemberg, Alexander I of Georgia, and Sancho, Count of Provence. After him are Qu Qiubai, Ali Nasir Muhammad, Mahendra of Nepal, Yekuno Amlak, Jamil Mahuad, and Tulayha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Leonel Fernández ranks 143Before him are Pavlo Lazarenko, Chaka Khan, Sophie Calle, Steve Bannon, Eric Tsang, and Kumba Ialá. After him are José Costa, Esther Hayut, Gideon Levy, Kiti Mánver, Slavoljub Muslin, and Leon Spinks.

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In Dominican Republic

Among people born in Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández ranks 10 out of 51Before him are Joaquín Balaguer (1906), Juan Pablo Duarte (1813), Hatuey (1478), Maria Montez (1912), Juan Bosch (1909), and Danilo Medina (1951). After him are Máximo Gómez (1836), Héctor Trujillo (1908), Juan Luis Guerra (1957), Luis Abinader (1967), Salvador Jorge Blanco (1926), and Hipólito Mejía (1941).

Among POLITICIANS In Dominican Republic

Among politicians born in Dominican Republic, Leonel Fernández ranks 7Before him are Rafael Trujillo (1891), Joaquín Balaguer (1906), Juan Pablo Duarte (1813), Hatuey (1478), Juan Bosch (1909), and Danilo Medina (1951). After him are Héctor Trujillo (1908), Luis Abinader (1967), Salvador Jorge Blanco (1926), Hipólito Mejía (1941), Ulises Heureaux (1845), and Antonio Guzmán Fernández (1911).