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Lázaro Cárdenas

1895 - 1970

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Lázaro Cárdenas del Río (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlasaɾo ˈkaɾðenas] ; 21 May 1895 – 19 October 1970) was a Mexican army officer and politician who served as president of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. Previously, he served as a general in the Constitutional Army during the Mexican Revolution and as Governor of Michoacán and President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He later served as the Secretary of National Defence. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lázaro Cárdenas has received more than 1,275,543 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Lázaro Cárdenas is the 3,291st most popular politician (down from 3,134th in 2019), the 27th most popular biography from Mexico (up from 28th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Mexican Politician.

Lázaro Cárdenas is most famous for being president of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. He is also known for nationalizing the oil industry in 1938.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.3M

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  • 62.41

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  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.08

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Lázaro Cárdenas has had the most page views in the with 575,573 views, followed by English (142,371), and Russian (12,054). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Azerbaijani (328.07%), Korean (110.05%), and Ido (103.37%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lázaro Cárdenas ranks 3,291 out of 19,576. Before him are Emperor Suinin, Tahmasp II, Sancho IV of Castile, Bruno Kreisky, Tutush I, and Otto Bauer. After him are Eric II of Denmark, Samuel Aba, Princess Olga of Greece and Denmark, Deodoro da Fonseca, Apepi, and Florian Geyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Lázaro Cárdenas ranks 58. Before him are Albert Göring, Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, Lewis Milestone, Dickinson W. Richards, Pavel Sukhoi, and Hans-Georg von Friedeburg. After him are Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Kurt Zeitzler, Vasily Blokhin, Wilhelm Kempff, Richard Barthelmess, and Clara Haskil. Among people deceased in 1970, Lázaro Cárdenas ranks 44. Before him are Fritz Perls, Nina Ricci, Francis Peyton Rous, Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, Richard Neutra, and Italo Gariboldi. After him are Pedro Cea, B. H. Liddell Hart, Sonny Liston, Jean Giono, Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, and E. M. Forster.

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In Mexico

Among people born in Mexico, Lázaro Cárdenas ranks 27 out of 729. Before him are Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán (1957), Moctezuma I (1398), Francisco I. Madero (1873), David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896), Hugo Sánchez (1958), and Vicente Fox (1942). After him are Cantinflas (1911), Guillermo del Toro (1964), Álvaro Obregón (1880), Alejandro González Iñárritu (1963), Thomas Mayne Reid (1818), and Luis Barragán (1902).

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Among POLITICIANS In Mexico

Among politicians born in Mexico, Lázaro Cárdenas ranks 12. Before him are Agustín de Iturbide (1783), Andrés Manuel López Obrador (1953), La Malinche (1502), Moctezuma I (1398), Francisco I. Madero (1873), and Vicente Fox (1942). After him are Álvaro Obregón (1880), Plutarco Elías Calles (1877), Venustiano Carranza (1859), Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal (603), Victoriano Huerta (1850), and Cuitláhuac (1476).

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