POLITICIAN

Liam Cosgrave

1920 - 2017

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Liam Cosgrave (13 April 1920 – 4 October 2017) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 1973 to 1977, Leader of Fine Gael from 1965 to 1977, Leader of the Opposition from 1965 to 1973, Minister for External Affairs from 1954 to 1957, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry and Commerce and Government Chief Whip from 1948 to 1951. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1943 to 1981. Born in Castleknock, Dublin, Cosgrave was the son of W. T. Cosgrave, the first President of the Executive Council in the newly formed Irish Free State. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Liam Cosgrave has received more than 316,854 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Liam Cosgrave is the 14,796th most popular politician (down from 14,435th in 2019), the 222nd most popular biography from Ireland (up from 250th in 2019) and the 36th most popular Irish Politician.

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  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Liam Cosgrave ranks 14,796 out of 19,576. Before him are Little Crow, Natalia Gavrilița, Gennady Burbulis, Johan Henrik Deuntzer, Mohamed Ould Bilal, and Gavriil Popov. After him are Lucius Manlius Vulso Longus, Bernd Lucke, Qin Jiwei, Mikhail Chigir, Ahmed Obaid Bin Dagher, and Pencho Zlatev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Liam Cosgrave ranks 324. Before him are Konstantin Beskov, Dorothy Tyler-Odam, Claude Cheysson, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Marie Ljalková, and An Wang. After him are Captain Tom, Julian Jaynes, Thomas Sebeok, Robert Lamoureux, Tatyana Makarova, and Nida Senff. Among people deceased in 2017, Liam Cosgrave ranks 373. Before him are Joseph Bologna, Vladimir Levenshtein, Mark Fisher, Curt Lowens, Fernando Birri, and Rose Marie. After him are Barbara Hale, Clifford Husbands, Inomjon Usmonxoʻjayev, August Ames, Alina Janowska, and Armand Gatti.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Liam Cosgrave ranks 222 out of 549. Before him are William Thompson (1775), James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde (1665), Joe Kelly (1913), Oliver Plunkett (1625), Willoughby Hamilton (1864), and Sean Kelly (1956). After him are John Philip Holland (1840), Ray McAnally (1926), W. T. Cosgrave (1880), Finnian of Clonard (470), Rex Ingram (1892), and Philip Pettit (1945).

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Among POLITICIANS In Ireland

Among politicians born in Ireland, Liam Cosgrave ranks 36. Before him are Patrick Hillery (1923), Enda Kenny (1951), Seán T. O'Kelly (1882), Micheál Martin (1960), Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (1911), and James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde (1665). After him are W. T. Cosgrave (1880), Leo Varadkar (1979), Garret FitzGerald (1926), Richard Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo (1822), Charles Haughey (1925), and Cathal Brugha (1874).

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