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Rafael Trujillo

1891 - 1961

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Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina (24 October 1891 – 30 May 1961), nicknamed El Jefe (Spanish: [el ˈxefe])), was a Dominican military commander and dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from August 1930 until his assassination in May 1961. He served as president from 1930 to 1938 and again from 1942 to 1952, ruling for the rest of his life as an unelected military strongman under figurehead presidents. His rule of 31 years, known to Dominicans as the Trujillo Era (Spanish: El Trujillato or La Era de Trujillo), was one of the longest for a non-royal leader in the world, and centered around a personality cult of the ruling family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rafael Trujillo has received more than 3,404,596 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia. Rafael Trujillo is the 1,331st most popular politician (up from 1,519th in 2019), the most popular biography from Dominican Republic and the most popular Dominican Politician.

Rafael Trujillo was a Dominican dictator who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 to 1961. He is most famous for his brutal rule.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Rafael Trujillo ranks 1,331 out of 15,577Before him are Christine Lagarde, Cheoljong of Joseon, Wenceslaus III of Bohemia, Shang Yang, Anna Jagiellon, and Giorgio Napolitano. After him are Injo of Joseon, Emperor Xian of Han, Karolos Papoulias, John V Palaiologos, Aristide Briand, and Horst Köhler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Rafael Trujillo ranks 17Before him are Nelly Sachs, Henry Miller, Frederick Banting, Pär Lagerkvist, Walther Bothe, and Rudolf Carnap. After him are Otto Dix, Genrikh Yagoda, Helmuth Weidling, Ilya Ehrenburg, Fritz Todt, and Tadamichi Kuribayashi. Among people deceased in 1961, Rafael Trujillo ranks 12Before him are Gary Cooper, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emily Greene Balch, Jules Bordet, and Zog I of Albania. After him are Adnan Menderes, Frantz Fanon, Mohammed V of Morocco, Percy Williams Bridgman, Kurt Meyer, and Otto Loewi.

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In Dominican Republic

Among people born in Dominican Republic, Rafael Trujillo ranks 1 out of 47After him are Oscar de la Renta (1932), Théodore Chassériau (1819), Hatuey (1478), Joaquín Balaguer (1906), Juan Pablo Duarte (1813), Juan Bosch (1909), Maria Montez (1912), Danilo Medina (1951), Leonel Fernández (1953), Máximo Gómez (1836), and Héctor Trujillo (1908).

Among POLITICIANS In Dominican Republic

Among politicians born in Dominican Republic, Rafael Trujillo ranks 1After him are Hatuey (1478), Joaquín Balaguer (1906), Juan Pablo Duarte (1813), Juan Bosch (1909), Danilo Medina (1951), Leonel Fernández (1953), Héctor Trujillo (1908), Luis Abinader (1967), Ulises Heureaux (1845), Salvador Jorge Blanco (1926), and Antonio Guzmán Fernández (1911).