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Ricardo Lagos

1938 - Today

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Ricardo Froilán Lagos Escobar (Spanish pronunciation: [riˈkaɾðo fɾojˈlan ˈlaɣos eskoˈβaɾ]; born 2 March 1938) is a Chilean lawyer, economist and social-democratic politician who served as president of Chile from 2000 to 2006. During the 1980s he was a well-known opponent of the Chilean military dictatorship and astounded contemporaries in 1988 by openly denouncing dictator Augusto Pinochet on live television. He served as Minister of Education from 1990 to 1992 and Minister of Public Works from 1994 to 1998 under president Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle before narrowly winning the 1999–2000 presidential election in a runoff against Independent Democrat Union (UDI) candidate Joaquín Lavín. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ricardo Lagos has received more than 387,444 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Ricardo Lagos is the 4,076th most popular politician (up from 4,535th in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Chile (up from 17th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Chilean Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ricardo Lagos ranks 4,076 out of 15,577Before him are Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Rumen Radev, Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Eric XII of Sweden, and Countess Palatine Dorothea Sophie of Neuburg. After him are Sisygambis, Stefan the First-Crowned, Franz Josef Strauss, Shamash-shum-ukin, Prince Henry of Battenberg, and Dong Biwu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Ricardo Lagos ranks 76Before him are J. J. Cale, Dean Reed, Kenny Rogers, Georg Baselitz, Carlos Bilardo, and Oscar Robertson. After him are Wim Kok, Oliver Reed, Issey Miyake, Connie Francis, Frank Langella, and Marcello Gandini.

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In Chile

Among people born in Chile, Ricardo Lagos ranks 16 out of 265Before him are Manuel Pellegrini (1953), Claudio Arrau (1903), Luis Sepúlveda (1949), Patricio Aylwin (1918), Violeta Parra (1917), and Roberto Bolaño (1953). After him are Eduardo Frei Montalva (1911), Jorge Medina (1926), Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (1942), Lautaro (1534), Iván Zamorano (1967), and Elías Figueroa (1946).

Among POLITICIANS In Chile

Among politicians born in Chile, Ricardo Lagos ranks 7Before him are Augusto Pinochet (1915), Salvador Allende (1908), Michelle Bachelet (1951), Sebastián Piñera (1949), Bernardo O'Higgins (1778), and Patricio Aylwin (1918). After him are Eduardo Frei Montalva (1911), Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (1942), Lucía Hiriart (1923), Luis Corvalán (1916), Orlando Letelier (1932), and Jorge Alessandri (1896).