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Michael Dukakis

1933 - Today

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Michael Stanley Dukakis ( duu-KAH-kiss; born November 3, 1933) is an American retired lawyer and politician who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and from 1983 to 1991. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history and only the second Greek-American governor in U.S. history, after Spiro Agnew. He was nominated by the Democratic Party for president in the 1988 election, losing to the Republican nominee, Vice President George H. W. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Dukakis has received more than 6,175,419 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Michael Dukakis is the 8,585th most popular politician (up from 9,468th in 2019), the 2,875th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,451st in 2019) and the 181st most popular American Politician.

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  • 55.18

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  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Michael Dukakis ranks 8,585 out of 19,576. Before him are Selim I Giray, Barbara of Brandenburg, Marquise of Mantua, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Eucleidas, Ferdinando Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, and Gabriel González Videla. After him are Giustiniano Participazio, Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus, Amanishakheto, Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, Práxedes Mateo Sagasta, and Azzone Visconti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Michael Dukakis ranks 152. Before him are Azeglio Vicini, Félicien Kabuga, Ahmad al-Khatib, Valentina Ponomaryova, Heather Armitage, and Edward Bunker. After him are Kerstin Ekman, John Aniston, Geraldo Majella Agnelo, Andrei Voznesensky, Diane Cilento, and Ludovico Scarfiotti.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Michael Dukakis ranks 2,875 out of 20,380. Before him are Morton Feldman (1926), William Steig (1907), James P. Allison (1948), Howard Zinn (1922), Andre Braugher (1962), and Gloria Leonard (1940). After him are Beatrice Wood (1893), Carmen Argenziano (1943), Neil Patrick Harris (1973), Maria Bello (1967), Candy Darling (1944), and Duane Allman (1946).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Michael Dukakis ranks 181. Before him are Charles W. Fairbanks (1852), Ralph Nader (1934), Edith Roosevelt (1861), Robert H. Jackson (1892), William P. Rogers (1913), and Charles Joseph Bonaparte (1851). After him are Winfield Scott (1786), Elbridge Gerry (1744), Ronald Inglehart (1934), Hannibal Hamlin (1809), Elihu Root (1845), and Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1809).

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