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Ronald Reagan

1911 - 2004

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Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. A member of the Republican Party, he became an important figure in the American conservative movement. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ronald Reagan has received more than 58,183,333 page views. His biography is available in 251 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 249 in 2019). Ronald Reagan is the 87th most popular politician (down from 71st in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from United States (down from 23rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Politician.

Ronald Reagan was the 40th president of the United States, serving from 1981 to 1989. He is most famous for his economic policies, including supply-side economics, tax cuts, and deregulation, which are collectively known as Reaganomics.

Memorability Metrics

  • 58M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 81.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 251

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 9.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ronald Reagan ranks 87 out of 19,576. Before him are Uthman, Selim I, Harald V of Norway, Nebuchadnezzar II, Giuseppe Garibaldi, and Hurrem Sultan. After him are Kim Il-sung, Napoleon III, George Washington, Trajan, Hirohito, and Leonid Brezhnev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Ronald Reagan ranks 1. After him are Josef Mengele, Konstantin Chernenko, Georges Pompidou, Baba Vanga, Naguib Mahfouz, Władysław Szpilman, Emil Cioran, Juan Manuel Fangio, Võ Nguyên Giáp, Todor Zhivkov, and William Golding. Among people deceased in 2004, Ronald Reagan ranks 2. Before him is Yasser Arafat. After him are Marlon Brando, Ahmed Yassin, Jacques Derrida, Ray Charles, Juliana of the Netherlands, Francis Crick, Françoise Sagan, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Czesław Miłosz, and Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ronald Reagan ranks 32 out of 20,380. Before him are Elvis Presley (1935), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882), John F. Kennedy (1917), Neil Armstrong (1930), Benjamin Franklin (1706), and Eleanor Roosevelt (1884). After him are Pocahontas (1595), George Washington (1732), Ernest Hemingway (1899), Walt Disney (1901), Lee Harvey Oswald (1939), and H. P. Lovecraft (1890).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Ronald Reagan ranks 17. Before him are James K. Polk (1795), Joe Biden (1942), Franklin Pierce (1804), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882), John F. Kennedy (1917), and Benjamin Franklin (1706). After him are George Washington (1732), Harry S. Truman (1884), Bernie Sanders (1941), Al Gore (1948), Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890), and George W. Bush (1946).

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