MILITARY PERSONNEL

Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho

1936 - 2021

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Otelo Nuno Romão Saraiva de Carvalho, GCL (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɔˈtɛlu sɐˈɾajvɐ ðɨ kɐɾˈvaʎu]; 31 August 1936 – 25 July 2021) was a Portuguese military officer who was the chief strategist of the 1974 Carnation Revolution. He later became a terrorist leader. After the Revolution, Otelo assumed leadership roles in the first Portuguese Provisional Governments, alongside Vasco Gonçalves and Francisco da Costa Gomes, and as the head of military defense force COPCON. In 1976, Otelo ran in the first Portuguese presidential election, in which he placed second with the base of his support coming from the far-left. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho has received more than 266,288 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho is the 1,133rd most popular military personnel (down from 848th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Mozambique (down from 10th in 2019) and the most popular Mozambican Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho ranks 1,133 out of 2,058Before him are Max Pauly, Petar Bojović, Nadezhda Durova, Pierre André de Suffren, Arthur Rostron, and Edward Vernon. After him are Robert Gould Shaw, Doris Miller, Grigory Shtern, Drogo of Hauteville, Huijong of Goryeo, and Bardas Phokas the Younger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho ranks 191Before him are Michel Jazy, Han Seung-soo, Fernando Solanas, Antonio María Rouco Varela, Joe Don Baker, and Koji Sasaki. After him are Hazem El Beblawi, Stefano Delle Chiaie, Valentín Paniagua, Polina Astakhova, Andrej Kvašňák, and Philip Kaufman. Among people deceased in 2021, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho ranks 186Before him are Aleksandr Privalov, Anna Chromý, Charles Grodin, Shunsuke Kikuchi, Zlatko Kranjčar, and Gustavo Noboa. After him are Eric Carle, Wilfried Van Moer, Sabah Fakhri, Sándor Puhl, Lou Ottens, and Albert Vanhoye.

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In Mozambique

Among people born in Mozambique, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho ranks 11 out of 38Before him are Graça Machel (1945), Joaquim Chissano (1939), Armando Guebuza (1943), Mário Coluna (1935), Filipe Nyusi (1959), and Afric Simone (1956). After him are Eduardo Mondlane (1920), Ruy Guerra (1931), Júlio Duarte Langa (1927), Paulo Fonseca (1973), Mia Couto (1955), and Mariza (1973).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Mozambique

Among military personnels born in Mozambique, Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho ranks 1