POLITICIAN

Pierre Gemayel

1905 - 1984

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Pierre Amine Gemayel, also spelled Jmayyel, Jemayyel or al-Jumayyil (Arabic: بيار الجميّل; 6 November 1905 – 29 August 1984), was a Lebanese political leader. A Maronite Catholic, he is remembered as the founder of the Kataeb Party (also known as the Phalangist Party), as a parliamentary powerbroker, and as the father of Bachir Gemayel and Amine Gemayel, both of whom were elected to the presidency of the republic in his lifetime. He opposed the French Mandate over Lebanon in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and advocated an independent state, free from foreign control. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre Gemayel has received more than 346,785 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Pierre Gemayel is the 3,772nd most popular politician (up from 6,251st in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Lebanon (up from 39th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Lebanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Pierre Gemayel ranks 3,772 out of 19,576. Before him are Sigebert II, Wim Kok, Şehzade Mahmud, Terauchi Masatake, Döme Sztójay, and Vakhtang I of Iberia. After him are Gundobad, Berengaria of Castile, Vishvamitra, Kim Tu-bong, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, and Malcolm III of Scotland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Pierre Gemayel ranks 41. Before him are Dhyan Chand, Nikolai Tikhonov, Enrique Ballestrero, Franz Ziereis, George H. Hitchings, and Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim. After him are Fred Trump, Severo Ochoa, Takashi Shimura, Princess Margarita of Greece and Denmark, Jean Vigo, and Lale Andersen. Among people deceased in 1984, Pierre Gemayel ranks 35. Before him are Dmitry Ustinov, Stanley Milgram, Vicente Aleixandre, Philippe Ariès, Viktor Shklovsky, and Karl Rahner. After him are Tito Gobbi, Kim Il, Henri Michaux, Oskar Werner, Yigael Yadin, and Enrico Berlinguer.

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In Lebanon

Among people born in Lebanon, Pierre Gemayel ranks 22 out of 145. Before him are Bachir Gemayel (1947), Amin Maalouf (1949), Eusebius of Nicomedia (280), Émile Lahoud (1936), Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir (1073), and Amine Gemayel (1942). After him are Rashid Rida (1865), Fouad Siniora (1943), Hiram I (-1000), Antonella Lualdi (1931), Alfonso Jordan (1103), and Michel Suleiman (1948).

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Among POLITICIANS In Lebanon

Among politicians born in Lebanon, Pierre Gemayel ranks 11. Before him are Rafic Hariri (1944), Hassan Nasrallah (1960), Najib Mikati (1955), Bachir Gemayel (1947), Émile Lahoud (1936), and Amine Gemayel (1942). After him are Fouad Siniora (1943), Hiram I (-1000), Alfonso Jordan (1103), Michel Suleiman (1948), Tammam Salam (1945), and Kamal Jumblatt (1917).

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