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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 207,143 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. Rómulo Gallegos is the 2,259th most popular writer (down from 1,852nd in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Venezuela (down from 14th in 2019) and the most popular Venezuelan Writer.

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  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.71

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  • 5.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rómulo Gallegos ranks 2,259 out of 5,755Before him are Rahel Varnhagen, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, Andrei Voznesensky, Gaston Paris, and Vsevolod Garshin. After him are John Kennedy Toole, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Phan Bội Châu, Jean Raspail, Elisabeth of Schönau, and Paschasius Radbertus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Rómulo Gallegos ranks 76Before him are Antoine Pevsner, Josias Braun-Blanquet, Mikhail Borodin, Gerald Gardner, Jean Paulhan, and George Sarton. After him are Corrado Gini, Ferdinand von Bredow, Werner Krauss, Max Erwin von Scheubner-Richter, Philipp Frank, and Tanzan Ishibashi. Among people deceased in 1969, Rómulo Gallegos ranks 81Before him are Adolfo López Mateos, Coleman Hawkins, Carlos Marighella, Peter van Eyck, Max Weinreich, and Josef Blösche. After him are John Kennedy Toole, Constantin Ion Parhon, Eduardo Mondlane, Ivar Ballangrud, Willy Mairesse, and Aleksandras Stulginskis.

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In Venezuela

Among people born in Venezuela, Rómulo Gallegos ranks 20 out of 155Before him are Andrés Bello (1781), Marcos Pérez Jiménez (1914), Juan Vicente Gómez (1857), Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino (1942), José Antonio Abreu (1939), and Juan José Flores (1800). After him are Ramón José Velásquez (1916), Teresa Carreño (1853), Rafael de Nogales Méndez (1879), Johnny Cecotto (1956), Simón Rodríguez (1769), and Jesús Rafael Soto (1923).

Among WRITERS In Venezuela

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