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Ramón Emeterio Betances

1827 - 1898

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Ramón Emeterio Betances y Alacán (April 8, 1827 – September 16, 1898) was a Puerto Rican independence advocate and medical doctor. He was the primary instigator of the Grito de Lares revolt and designer of the Grito de Lares flag. Since the Grito galvanized a burgeoning nationalist movement among Puerto Ricans, Betances is also considered to be the father of the Puerto Rican independence movement and the El Padre de la Patria (The Father of the Homeland). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ramón Emeterio Betances has received more than 319,623 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ramón Emeterio Betances is the 14,260th most popular politician (down from 13,365th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Puerto Rico (down from 20th in 2019) and the most popular Puerto Rican Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ramón Emeterio Betances ranks 14,260 out of 19,576Before him are Sergey Ling, Keir Starmer, Antonio Aguilar y Correa, Marquis of Vega de Armijo, Hermann Jónasson, Prince Aimone, Duke of Apulia, and Heidi Hautala. After him are Cherie Blair, Malcolm Fraser, Aleida Assmann, Kang Kyung-wha, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, and John Julius Norwich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Ramón Emeterio Betances ranks 53Before him are Jacques-Louis Soret, Petko Slaveykov, Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov, Kostandin Kristoforidhi, Lydia Becker, and William Dwight Whitney. After him are Karl Maximovich, Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, Lev Lagorio, Charles John Andersson, Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, and Quintino Sella. Among people deceased in 1898, Ramón Emeterio Betances ranks 61Before him are Matilda Joslyn Gage, Calixto García, Joaquín Crespo, Hermann Wilhelm Vogel, Emil Hartmann, and Karl Knies. After him are Osbert Salvin, Maria Katharina Kasper, Félix María Zuloaga, Ángel Ganivet, John Hopkinson, and Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg.

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In Puerto Rico

Among people born in Puerto Rico, Ramón Emeterio Betances ranks 23 out of 77Before him are Luis Miguel (1970), Osvaldo Ríos (1960), Don Omar (1978), Chayanne (1968), Míriam Colón (1936), and José Torres (1936). After him are Cheo Feliciano (1935), Pedro Morales (1942), Manuel Rivera-Ortiz (1968), David Zayas (1962), Luis Muñoz Marín (1898), and Tego Calderón (1972).

Among POLITICIANS In Puerto Rico

Among politicians born in Puerto Rico, Ramón Emeterio Betances ranks 1After him are Luis Muñoz Marín (1898), Sila María Calderón (1942), Pedro Pierluisi (1959), Luis Fortuño (1960), Wanda Vázquez Garced (1960), Alejandro García Padilla (1971), and Ricardo Rosselló (1979).