WRITER

Rómulo Gallegos

1884 - 1969

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Rómulo Ángel del Monte Carmelo Gallegos Freire (2 August 1884 – 5 April 1969) was a Venezuelan novelist and politician. For a period of nine months during 1948, he governed as the first freely elected president in Venezuela's history. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rómulo Gallegos has received more than 225,468 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Rómulo Gallegos is the 2,192nd most popular writer (up from 2,252nd in 2019), the 19th most popular biography from Venezuela (up from 20th in 2019) and the most popular Venezuelan Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 230k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Doña Bárbara
Venezuelan writers, Venezuela, Escritores venezolanos
1933
Pobre negro
Venezuelan writers, Venezuela, Escritores venezolanos
1937
Cantaclaro
1934
Canaima
Fiction, Indians of South America, Venezuelan writers
1936
Doña Barbara
1929
La trepadora
Venezuelan writers, Venezuela, Escritores venezolanos
1925

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rómulo Gallegos ranks 2,192 out of 7,302. Before him are Samuel R. Delany, Álvaro Mutis, E. L. Doctorow, Samuil Marshak, Asclepiades of Samos, and Henning Jakob Henrik Lund. After him are Zygmunt Krasiński, Piotr Skarga, Elisabeth of Schönau, Theodore I, John Moschus, and Kaj Munk.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Rómulo Gallegos ranks 80. Before him are Werner Krauss, Claude Dornier, Anna Vyrubova, Helene Deutsch, Ferdinand von Bredow, and Corrado Gini. After him are Josias Braun-Blanquet, George Sarton, Philipp Frank, Tanzan Ishibashi, Axel Ljung, and Gerald Gardner. Among people deceased in 1969, Rómulo Gallegos ranks 78. Before him are Michael Lippert, Claude Dornier, John Kennedy Toole, He Long, C. N. Annadurai, and Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi. After him are Thelma Ritter, Domingo Tejera, Coleman Hawkins, Ivar Ballangrud, Josef Blösche, and Leonard Woolf.

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In Venezuela

Among people born in Venezuela, Rómulo Gallegos ranks 19 out of 183. Before him are Juan José Flores (1800), Ramón José Velásquez (1916), Marcos Pérez Jiménez (1914), Juan Vicente Gómez (1857), José Antonio Páez (1790), and Andrés Bello (1781). After him are Juan Vicente Pérez (1909), José Antonio Abreu (1939), Teresa Carreño (1853), Rafael Urdaneta (1788), Rafael de Nogales Méndez (1879), and Johnny Cecotto (1956).

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Among WRITERS In Venezuela

Among writers born in Venezuela, Rómulo Gallegos ranks 1. After him are Rafael de Nogales Méndez (1879), Arturo Uslar Pietri (1906), Rafael Cadenas (1930), Miguel Otero Silva (1908), Eugenio Montejo (1938), José Gil Fortoul (1861), Boris Izaguirre (1965), and Francisco Villarroel (1965).

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