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Simón Bolívar

1783 - 1830

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Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco (24 July 1783 – 17 December 1830) was a Venezuelan military and political leader who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire. He is known colloquially as El Libertador, or the Liberator of America. Simón Bolívar was born in Caracas in the Captaincy General of Venezuela into a wealthy family of American-born Spaniards (criollo) but lost both parents as a child. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Simón Bolívar has received more than 8,442,064 page views. His biography is available in 140 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 138 in 2019). Simón Bolívar is the 148th most popular politician (down from 138th in 2019), the most popular biography from Venezuela and the most popular Venezuelan Politician.

Simón Bolívar is most famous for leading the fight for independence in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia.

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  • 140

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  • 5.76

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  • 6.62

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Simón Bolívar ranks 148 out of 15,577Before him are Osman II, Vespasian, Joseph Goebbels, John Major, Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Oliver Cromwell. After him are Cardinal Richelieu, Lech Wałęsa, Maximilien Robespierre, Paul von Hindenburg, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and Alfred the Great.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1783, Simón Bolívar ranks 2Before him is Stendhal. After him are Hortense de Beauharnais, Washington Irving, Agustín de Iturbide, Hugh Glass, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, N. F. S. Grundtvig, Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria, Vasily Zhukovsky, and Friedrich Sertürner. Among people deceased in 1830, Simón Bolívar ranks 1After him are Joseph Fourier, Pope Pius VIII, George IV of the United Kingdom, Adam Weishaupt, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Benjamin Constant, Carlota Joaquina of Spain, Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, Antonio José de Sucre, Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Louis Henri, Prince of Condé.

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In Venezuela

Among people born in Venezuela, Simón Bolívar ranks 1 out of 155After him are Hugo Chávez (1954), Carlos the Jackal (1949), Nicolás Maduro (1962), Francisco de Miranda (1750), Antonio José de Sucre (1795), Baruj Benacerraf (1920), Carolina Herrera (1939), Reynaldo Hahn (1874), Rafael Caldera (1916), Carlos Andrés Pérez (1922), and Rómulo Betancourt (1908).

Among POLITICIANS In Venezuela

Among politicians born in Venezuela, Simón Bolívar ranks 1After him are Hugo Chávez (1954), Nicolás Maduro (1962), Antonio José de Sucre (1795), Carolina Herrera (1939), Rafael Caldera (1916), Carlos Andrés Pérez (1922), Rómulo Betancourt (1908), José Antonio Páez (1790), Andrés Bello (1781), Marcos Pérez Jiménez (1914), and Juan Vicente Gómez (1857).