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Ruy Barbosa

1849 - 1923

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Ruy Barbosa de Oliveira (5 November 1849 – 1 March 1923), also known as Rui Barbosa, was a Brazilian politician, writer, jurist, and diplomat. He was a prominent defender of civil liberties who called for the abolition of slavery in Brazil, Barbosa represented Brazil in the second Hague convention, argued for Brazil's participation in World War I on the side of the Allies, and personally ordered the destruction of all government records pertaining to slavery while he was Minister of Finance. He was forced into exile during the presidency of Floriano Peixoto, as his economic policies while he was finance minister paved the way for a disaster in the Brazilian economy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ruy Barbosa has received more than 109,266 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Ruy Barbosa is the 10,599th most popular politician (up from 10,639th in 2019), the 269th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 260th in 2019) and the 48th most popular Brazilian Politician.

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  • 20

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  • 2.14

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  • 3.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Ruy Barbosa ranks 10,599 out of 19,576. Before him are Isaac Komnenos, Malek Jahan Khanom, Fatmawati, Euthymides, Eberhard of Franconia, and Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe. After him are Nikki Haley, Zhang Gaoli, Ernest II, Duke of Swabia, Kaʻahumanu, Aryenis, and Ángel María Villar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1849, Ruy Barbosa ranks 57. Before him are Ida Straus, Benjamin Godard, Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Fritz Mauthner, Jean Richepin, and Mohammad Yaqub Khan. After him are William Ernest Henley, Károly Khuen-Héderváry, Edmund Barton, Luther Burbank, Nikolai Nebogatov, and Albert Heim. Among people deceased in 1923, Ruy Barbosa ranks 66. Before him are Louis Couperus, Fritz Mauthner, Armen Garo, Semyon Alapin, Ernst Ziller, and Mohammad Yaqub Khan. After him are Stojan Protić, Takeo Arishima, Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ, Alexander Lodygin, Princess Marie of Battenberg, and Horace Parnell Tuttle.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Ruy Barbosa ranks 269 out of 2,236. Before him are Max Cavalera (1969), Julinho (1929), Zé Maria (1949), Müller (1966), Douglas Costa (1990), and Nise da Silveira (1905). After him are Márcio Amoroso (1974), Michael Löwy (1938), Antônio Carlos Zago (1969), Tony Ramos (1948), Vinícius Júnior (2000), and Lampião (1897).

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Among POLITICIANS In Brazil

Among politicians born in Brazil, Ruy Barbosa ranks 48. Before him are Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves (1848), Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias (1803), Nilo Peçanha (1867), José Linhares (1886), Epitácio Pessoa (1865), and Arthur Bernardes (1875). After him are Carlos Luz (1894), Delfim Moreira (1868), Luís Carlos Prestes (1898), Jaime Lerner (1937), Alfredo Ovando Candía (1918), and Nereu Ramos (1888).

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