DIPLOMAT

Porfirio Rubirosa

1909 - 1965

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Porfirio Rubirosa Ariza (January 22, 1909 – July 5, 1965) was a Dominican diplomat, race car driver, soldier and polo player. He was a supporter of dictator Rafael Trujillo, and was rumored to be a political assassin under his regime. Rubirosa made his mark as an international playboy for his jetsetting lifestyle and his legendary sexual prowess with women. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Porfirio Rubirosa has received more than 1,464,572 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Porfirio Rubirosa is the 37th most popular diplomat (down from 32nd in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Porfirio Rubirosas by language

Over the past year Porfirio Rubirosa has had the most page views in the with 223,325 views, followed by Spanish (81,306), and French (37,097). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Esperanto (694.44%), Armenian (78.38%), and Russian (48.01%)

Among DIPLOMATS

Among diplomats, Porfirio Rubirosa ranks 37 out of 90Before him are Giovanni Villani, George Blake, Yukiya Amano, Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, Amr Moussa, and Ralph Bunche. After him are Dean Acheson, Martin Luther, Mikhail Borodin, Jean Kennedy Smith, William J. Burns, and Richard Holbrooke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Porfirio Rubirosa ranks 77Before him are Gunnar Björnstrand, Taqi al-Din al-Nabhani, Teiichi Matsumaru, Franz Bardon, C. Northcote Parkinson, and Gottfried von Cramm. After him are Ben Webster, Stavros Niarchos, William M. Branham, Homi J. Bhabha, Albert R. Broccoli, and Willi Boskovsky. Among people deceased in 1965, Porfirio Rubirosa ranks 52Before him are Hayato Ikeda, Jesse Douglas, Georges Gurvitch, Herberts Cukurs, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, and Taimur bin Feisal. After him are Carl Værnet, Otozō Yamada, William M. Branham, Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay, Oskar R. Lange, and José Mendes Cabeçadas.

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