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Lluís Companys

1882 - 1940

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Lluís Companys i Jover (Catalan pronunciation: [ʎuˈis kumˈpaɲs]; 21 June 1882 – 15 October 1940) was a Catalan politician who served as president of Catalonia, Spain from 1934 and during the Spanish Civil War. Companys was a lawyer close to labour movement and one of the most prominent leaders of the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) political party, founded in 1931. He had a key role in the events of the proclamation and first steps of the Second Spanish Republic. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lluís Companys has received more than 479,424 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia. Lluís Companys is the 3,032nd most popular politician (up from 3,234th in 2019), the 263rd most popular biography from Spain (up from 280th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular Spanish Politician.

Lluís Companys is most famous for their high-quality wines.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lluís Companys ranks 3,032 out of 19,576. Before him are Sultan Husayn Bayqara, Boris Shcherbina, Charles III, Duke of Savoy, Deiphobus, Ernest, Elector of Saxony, and Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. After him are Xanana Gusmão, Laurent Gbagbo, Topa Inca Yupanqui, Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, and Walter Hallstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Lluís Companys ranks 48. Before him are Nicolai Hartmann, Moritz Schlick, Yanka Kupala, Boris Shaposhnikov, Karol Szymanowski, and Otto Neurath. After him are Éamon de Valera, B. Traven, Yusef of Morocco, Wacław Sierpiński, Jean Giraudoux, and Petre Dumitrescu. Among people deceased in 1940, Lluís Companys ranks 27. Before him are Italo Balbo, Spyridon Louis, Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Gerda Wegener, and Kyösti Kallio. After him are Vsevolod Meyerhold, Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse, Michael Hainisch, Eugène Dubois, Édouard Vuillard, and Vito Volterra.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Lluís Companys ranks 263 out of 3,355. Before him are Juan Luis Vives (1492), Lope de Aguirre (1518), Andrés Iniesta (1984), Wittiza (687), Raymond of Penyafort (1175), and Vicente Aleixandre (1898). After him are Iker Casillas (1981), Pompeia Plotina (65), Ruy López de Segura (1530), Alfonso I of Asturias (693), Muhammad I of Córdoba (823), and Nachmanides (1194).

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Among POLITICIANS In Spain

Among politicians born in Spain, Lluís Companys ranks 93. Before him are Manuel Godoy (1767), Infanta Catherine Michelle of Spain (1567), Abd al-Rahman ibn Abd Allah al-Ghafiqi (650), Felipe González (1942), Alfonso III of Aragon (1265), and Wittiza (687). After him are Alfonso I of Asturias (693), Muhammad I of Córdoba (823), Chindasuinth (563), Hisham II (965), Maria Anna of Spain (1606), and Postumus (250).

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