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Luis García Meza

1929 - 2018

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Luis García Meza Tejada (8 August 1929 – 29 April 2018) was a Bolivian general who served as the de facto 57th president of Bolivia from 1980 to 1981. He was a dictator convicted of human rights violations and leader of a violent coup. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luis García Meza has received more than 197,802 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Luis García Meza is the 8,021st most popular politician (up from 8,502nd in 2019), the 7th most popular biography from Bolivia and the 6th most popular Bolivian Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.81

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Luis García Meza ranks 8,021 out of 19,576. Before him are Duchess Louise Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Floris III, Count of Holland, Mikhail Speransky, Kamehameha III, Adelaide of Susa, and Louis of Nassau. After him are Catherine I, Latin Empress, Sigismund, Duke of Bavaria, Juan Carlos Onganía, Samuel von Brukenthal, Fatma Sultan, and Håkan the Red.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Luis García Meza ranks 154. Before him are Roger Byrne, P. Ramlee, Katherine Helmond, Andre Gunder Frank, John C. Bogle, and Lennart Skoglund. After him are Aleksandar Petrović, Walter Brandmüller, Ed Asner, Shakuntala Devi, Amitai Etzioni, and Peter Sculthorpe. Among people deceased in 2018, Luis García Meza ranks 115. Before him are Josep Lluís Núñez, Irena Szewińska, Choi Eun-hee, Tom Wolfe, Philip Kerr, and Lill-Babs. After him are Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Đỗ Mười, Sridevi, Dan Gurney, Maria Bueno, and Azeglio Vicini.

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In Bolivia

Among people born in Bolivia, Luis García Meza ranks 7 out of 105. Before him are Evo Morales (1959), René Barrientos (1919), Hugo Banzer (1926), Luis Arce (1963), Mario Terán (1942), and Lidia Gueiler Tejada (1921). After him are Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (1930), Víctor Paz Estenssoro (1907), Andrés de Santa Cruz (1792), Jeanine Áñez (1967), Túpac Katari (1750), and Jaime Paz Zamora (1939).

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Among POLITICIANS In Bolivia

Among politicians born in Bolivia, Luis García Meza ranks 6. Before him are Evo Morales (1959), René Barrientos (1919), Hugo Banzer (1926), Luis Arce (1963), and Lidia Gueiler Tejada (1921). After him are Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada (1930), Víctor Paz Estenssoro (1907), Andrés de Santa Cruz (1792), Jeanine Áñez (1967), Jaime Paz Zamora (1939), and Carlos Mesa (1953).

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