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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 who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and became a highly influential voice of modern conservatism. Prior to his presidency, he was a Hollywood movie actor and union leader before serving as the 33rd governor of California from 1967 to 1975. Raised in a low-income family in small towns of northern Illinois, Reagan graduated from Eureka College in 1932 and worked as a radio sports commentator. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ronald Reagan has received more than 40,009,398 page views. His biography is available in 249 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 250 in 2019). Ronald Reagan is the 68th most popular politician (down from 37th in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from United States (down from 10th in 2019) and the 10th 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.

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  • 86.80

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  • 249

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 9.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ronald Reagan ranks 68 out of 15,710. Before him are Hurrem Sultan, Benjamin Franklin, Kim Il-sung, Nebuchadnezzar II, Lorenzo de' Medici, and Francisco Franco. After him are Ivan the Terrible, Richard I of England, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Nikita Khrushchev, Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Selim II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Ronald Reagan ranks 1. After him are Baba Vanga, Josef Mengele, Konstantin Chernenko, Naguib Mahfouz, Georges Pompidou, Juan Manuel Fangio, Emil Cioran, Nino Rota, Władysław Szpilman, Võ Nguyên Giáp, and William Golding. Among people deceased in 2004, Ronald Reagan ranks 1. After him are Marlon Brando, Yasser Arafat, Jacques Derrida, Ray Charles, Juliana of the Netherlands, Francis Crick, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Peter Ustinov, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Czesław Miłosz, and Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ronald Reagan ranks 23 out of 15,968. Before him are Neil Armstrong (1930), Steven Spielberg (1946), Ernest Hemingway (1899), Benjamin Franklin (1706), Mark Twain (1835), and Pocahontas (1595). After him are Bruce Lee (1940), Martin Scorsese (1942), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882), Walt Disney (1901), James K. Polk (1795), and Michael Jackson (1958).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Ronald Reagan ranks 10. Before him are Ulysses S. Grant (1822), Abraham Lincoln (1809), Martin Van Buren (1782), John F. Kennedy (1917), Hillary Clinton (1947), and Benjamin Franklin (1706). After him are Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882), James K. Polk (1795), George Washington (1732), Richard Nixon (1913), George W. Bush (1946), and Harry S. Truman (1884).

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