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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 statesman and military officer 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 8,922,281 page views. His biography is available in 148 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 140 in 2019). Simón Bolívar is the 144th most popular politician (up from 148th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 79.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 148

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Simón Bolívar ranks 144 out of 19,576. Before him are David Ben-Gurion, Benjamin Netanyahu, Bernie Sanders, Skanderbeg, Bayezid II, and Sun Yat-sen. After him are Al Gore, Augusto Pinochet, Hatshepsut, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, Pol Pot, and Abdul Hamid II.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1783, Simón Bolívar ranks 2. Before him is Stendhal. After him are Hortense de Beauharnais, Agustín de Iturbide, Washington Irving, Johann Heinrich von Thünen, N. F. S. Grundtvig, Hugh Glass, Vasily Zhukovsky, Friedrich Sertürner, Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia, and Archduke Rainer Joseph of Austria. Among people deceased in 1830, Simón Bolívar ranks 1. After 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, Thomas Lawrence, and Louis I, Grand Duke of Hesse.

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In Venezuela

Among people born in Venezuela, Simón Bolívar ranks 1 out of 183. After 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), Rafael Caldera (1916), Reynaldo Hahn (1874), Carlos Andrés Pérez (1922), and Rómulo Betancourt (1908).

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Among POLITICIANS In Venezuela

Among politicians born in Venezuela, Simón Bolívar ranks 1. After 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), Ramón José Velásquez (1916), Marcos Pérez Jiménez (1914), Juan Vicente Gómez (1857), and José Antonio Páez (1790).

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