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Ronald Reagan

1911 - 2004

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Ronald Wilson Reagan ( RAY-gən; 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, his presidency constituted the Reagan era, and he is considered one of the most prominent conservative figures in American history. Reagan graduated from Eureka College in 1932 and began to work as a sports broadcaster in Iowa. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ronald Reagan has received more than 53,492,717 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

  • 53M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 81.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 251

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.36

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 9.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ronald Reagans by language

Over the past year Ronald Reagan has had the most page views in the with 4,949,125 views, followed by Russian (476,257), and Spanish (440,667). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Kurdish (Sorani) (1,388.89%), Classical Chinese (918.79%), and Northern Sami (287.04%)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ronald Reagan ranks 87 out of 19,576Before 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 1After 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 2Before 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 20,380Before 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).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Ronald Reagan ranks 17Before 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).