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Sixto Durán Ballén

1921 - 2016

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Sixto Alfonso Durán-Ballén Cordovez (July 14, 1921 – November 15, 2016) was an Ecuadorian political figure and architect. He served as Mayor of Quito between 1970 and 1978. In 1951, he co-founded a political party, the Social Christian Party. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sixto Durán Ballén has received more than 173,005 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Sixto Durán Ballén is the 275th most popular architect (up from 301st in 2019), the 3,603rd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,284th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Architect.

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  • 170k

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  • 53.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Sixto Durán Ballén ranks 275 out of 518. Before him are Trdat, Bernardo Buontalenti, Salomon de Bray, Glenn Murcutt, Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, and Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer. After him are Lin Huiyin, Bogdan Bogdanović, Vlado Milunić, Marian Spychalski, Callinicus of Heliopolis, and Libéral Bruant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Sixto Durán Ballén ranks 176. Before him are Silvio Gazzaniga, Wadih El Safi, Reuven Feuerstein, Tadeusz Różewicz, Alphonse Massamba-Débat, and Guy Laroche. After him are Vasco Gonçalves, Erich Fried, Henri Colpi, Hossein Wahid Khorasani, Branko Mamula, and Sena Jurinac. Among people deceased in 2016, Sixto Durán Ballén ranks 181. Before him are Gregorio Conrado Álvarez, Hassan Al-Turabi, Peter Hans Kolvenbach, Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, and Lola Novaković. After him are Mahasweta Devi, Christina Grimmie, Fazil Iskander, Yūko Tsushima, Klim Churyumov, and Jacques Hamel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sixto Durán Ballén ranks 3,603 out of 20,380. Before him are Allen J. Bard (1933), Ben Hecht (1893), Bob Barker (1923), Robert Ford (1862), George Speck (1824), and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex (1981). After him are Jerry Buss (1933), Kathy Baker (1950), Geoffrey Lewis (1935), William L. Shirer (1904), Charles Evans Hughes (1862), and Kevin Sorbo (1958).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Sixto Durán Ballén ranks 15. Before him are William Le Baron Jenney (1832), Charles Eames (1907), Adrian Smith (1944), Nicholas Negroponte (1943), Cedric Gibbons (1893), and Kevin A. Lynch (1918). After him are Charles Jencks (1939), Thom Mayne (1944), Steven Holl (1947), Michael Graves (1934), Gordon Bunshaft (1909), and Frederick Law Olmsted (1822).

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