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René Favaloro

1923 - 2000

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René Gerónimo Favaloro (July 12, 1923 – July 29, 2000) was an Argentine cardiac surgeon and educator best known for his pioneering work on coronary artery bypass surgery using the great saphenous vein. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of René Favaloro has received more than 1,156,222 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. René Favaloro is the 410th most popular physician (down from 379th in 2019), the 222nd most popular biography from Argentina (down from 175th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Argentinean Physician.

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  • 52.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.23

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.58

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, René Favaloro ranks 410 out of 726. Before her are Rufus of Ephesus, Paul Julius Möbius, Marcus Elieser Bloch, William Stewart Halsted, Alfonso López Trujillo, and Paul Neumann. After her are Kusumoto Ine, Adrien Proust, Scipione Riva-Rocci, Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, Luigi Carlo Farini, and Shinobu Ishihara.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, René Favaloro ranks 184. Before her are Jorge María Mejía, Fatmawati, Jozef Lenárt, Raoul Bott, Anita Björk, and Sam Phillips. After her are Octavio Lepage, Václav Ježek, Sam Francis, Simeon ten Holt, Norberto Méndez, and Valentin Varennikov. Among people deceased in 2000, René Favaloro ranks 125. Before her are Ian Dury, Claire Trevor, Abdul Haris Nasution, Leonidas Pyrgos, Alfred Schwarzmann, and Bruno Zevi. After her are Jean Peters, Edward Gorey, Charles Gray, Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, Ferenc Farkas, and Poul Hartling.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, René Favaloro ranks 222 out of 1,154. Before her are Luis Moreno Ocampo (1952), José Della Torre (1906), Ricardo Piglia (1941), Charly García (1951), Roberto Perfumo (1942), and Roque Sáenz Peña (1851). After her are Martín Demichelis (1980), Gabriel Heinze (1978), Adolfo Zumelzú (1902), José Sanfilippo (1935), Osvaldo Pugliese (1905), and Maxi López (1984).

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Among PHYSICIANS In Argentina

Among physicians born in Argentina, René Favaloro ranks 2. Before her are Bernardo Houssay (1887). After her are Cecilia Grierson (1859), and María Teresa Ferrari (1887).

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