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Luis Corvalán

1916 - 2010

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Luis Nicolás Corvalán Lepe (14 September 1916, in Puerto Montt – 21 July 2010) was a Chilean politician. He served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh). Corvalán joined the Communist Party of Chile at the age of fifteen in the city of Chillán shortly after the fall of the dictatorship of Carlos Ibáñez del Campo in 1932. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luis Corvalán has received more than 83,129 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Luis Corvalán is the 5,771st most popular politician (up from 6,717th in 2019), the 24th most popular biography from Chile (up from 27th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Chilean Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 83k

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  • 58.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Luis Corvalán ranks 5,771 out of 19,576. Before him are Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, Christopher Báthory, Şehzade Korkut, Princess Josephine of Baden, Rashad al-Alimi, and Hamida Djandoubi. After him are Christina Magdalena of the Palatinate-Zweibrücken, Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Drastamat Kanayan, Ahmose, Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, and Princess Margaret of Prussia.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Luis Corvalán ranks 69. Before him are Georg Henrik von Wright, Michael Gough, Hassan Gouled Aptidon, Sterling Hayden, Ernst Wilimowski, and Léo Ferré. After him are Bernard Blier, Betty Grable, Zein Al-Sharaf Talal, Giorgio Bassani, Archduke Felix of Austria, and Pietro Rava. Among people deceased in 2010, Luis Corvalán ranks 64. Before him are Hwang Jang-yop, Carlos Andrés Pérez, Wolfgang Wagner, Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Giulietta Simionato, and Bent Larsen. After him are Ariel Ramírez, Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Satoshi Kon, Solomon Burke, and Martin Gardner.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, Luis Corvalán ranks 24 out of 321. Before him are Ricardo Lagos (1938), Lautaro (1534), Iván Zamorano (1967), Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (1942), Leonel Sánchez (1936), and Hugo Gunckel Lüer (1901). After him are Roberto Matta (1911), Raúl Ruiz (1941), Jorge Alessandri (1896), Alexis Sánchez (1988), Orlando Letelier (1932), and Francisco Varela (1946).

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Among POLITICIANS In Chile

Among politicians born in Chile, Luis Corvalán ranks 10. Before him are Sebastián Piñera (1949), Bernardo O'Higgins (1778), Patricio Aylwin (1918), Eduardo Frei Montalva (1911), Ricardo Lagos (1938), and Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (1942). After him are Jorge Alessandri (1896), Orlando Letelier (1932), Carlos Ibáñez del Campo (1877), Arturo Alessandri (1868), Lucía Hiriart (1923), and Gabriel González Videla (1898).

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